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investigative data reporter @bloomberg @business | previously @brownInstitute @ajc @gpbnews @DJNF @GeorgiaNewsLab | email: xfan134 @bloomberg .net

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Every year, a lottery determines who gets an H-1B visa to work in the US. The game, it turns out, is rigged. Outsourcing and staffing firms are exploiting loopholes, crowding out US employers and immigrants who play it fair. We have exclusive data to show it for the 1st time 🧵
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I talked to 7 women, all Asian international students, who said Dybvig sexually harassed them. From flirty emails to unwanted kissing and touching, their stories span at least a decade. Many said it was an open secret among female Chinese students.
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Former students are alleging this year’s Nobel Prize winner in economics, Philip Dybvig, sexually harassed them
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Congress created H-1B in 1990 to help American businesses get the world's top talent. Instead, outsourcing and staffing firms flooded the system. They bring in lower-level workers and pay lower wages. They game the lottery to gain unfair advantages.
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One group of staffing firms entered each candidate as many as 15 times. The government flagged them in a damning report last year but didn't name the companies. We matched details in their data to reveal the owner behind them. @USCIS says it cannot sanction companies.
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We then identified 3000+ IT staffing firms, often called Body Shops or Desi Consultancies. Many cheated on a massive scale to submit multiple entries for the same candidates. The government called it fraud. Yet there's little consequence. Many kept winning new visas this year.
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Follow along this thread 🧵 Or read the full story, free for a limited time, using this gift link 🔗
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How Thousands of Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa Lottery

New data obtained by Bloomberg News show how certain firms got an inside track in the lottery, shortchanging the US economy.

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Say you're a regular American business that wants to hire a foreign graduate from a top US university. You would lose the candidate to lottery most (70%) of the time. That's what happened to Sandeep Maganti, a talented engineer from India who founded his own startup.
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We obtained data on H-1B lottery registrations, selections, and petitions for fiscal years 2021 through 2024 after bringing a lawsuit against @DHSgov @USCIS under the Freedom of Information Act. We're sharing this data freely with the public.
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GitHub - BloombergGraphics/2024-h1b-immigration-data: US H-1B Visa Lottery and Petition Data FY...

US H-1B Visa Lottery and Petition Data FY 2021 - FY 2024 - BloombergGraphics/2024-h1b-immigration-data

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An outsourcing firm, however, can draw from its vast workforce in India and put in 3X number of tickets. It doesn't care who gets selected as long as somebody gets selected. @USCIS rules require a "legitimate job offer" for each lottery entry, but don't require any proof.
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Experts say any lasting change will likely have to come from Congress. It's been thirty years since the US last overhauled its visa system, which has been overshadowed by fights over illegal immigration and border security. But the impact on US workers and economy is immense.
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This April, @USCIS changed lottery rules to remove the incentives for multi-reg. But that's only part of the problem. Staffing firms continue to flood the lottery with dubious entries. Even among their single-reg candidates, staffers fail to file a petition half of the time.
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We will keep reporting on the US immigration system and bring attention to much needed reforms. If you have a tip or a story to share, contact me at: xfan134 @bloomberg .net
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Shout out to my amazing reporting partner @zachmider , graphic colleagues @DeniseDSLu @mariepastora , and editors @jasongrotto @John_Voskuhl @YueQiu_ @amandacox Special thanks to @JasonLeopold and the Bloomberg legal team for helping fight the FOIA battle, a pivotal contribution!
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Honored and humbled to work among the best investigative journalists @business . Special thank-you to my amazing editor and mentor @jasongrotto .
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From the Yay, Us Dept. (II): We are honored to be a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist for our investigative reporting on America's deadly gun exports. Read one of the stories here: via @bbgvisualdata
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Elon Musk touted Community Notes as a "game changer" to fix misinfo on Twitter, yet it has a blind spot: everything divisive. The system is tossing out 96% of notes, often regardless of accuracy. We walk you through exactly when & how the system fails.
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How lucrative is Washington's revolving door? We tracked 77 senior Obama-Biden officials to find out: Their reported minimum assets jumped by a median of *270%*, in just four years. My latest investigation for @BrownInstitute @MuckRock @Forbes (1/14)
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As electricity prices surge through this summer, some of Texas's most efficient generators are holding back supply. An artificial shortage. Ercot, the grid operator, is paying them to do that.
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Our gun series just won the Renner Award from IRE! Honored to be part of the amazing @business investigations team.
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The Tom Renner Award goes to @business for "America, Global Gun Pusher," which revealed how the U.S. government profits from and promotes the sale of American guns around the world.
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JOB ALERT! Bloomberg is hiring for two senior software engineer/computational journalist positions. Note this is a newsroom job AND an engineering job. DM if interested.
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My first Sunday A1 for the @ajc
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Biden's visitor logs are missing some key names. My latest data investigation with @josh_wingrove via @business
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Who’s Visiting the White House? The Logs Include 300,000 Names and Are Still Incomplete

JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon, Senator Manchin among a list of more than 300,000 visitors, but records don't appear complete

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We mapped a total of $328M tax breaks given out by the Fulton authority since 2018. Nearly 3/4 of those were north of I-20 in places such as Buckhead and Midtown and rapidly gentrifying areas along the length of the Beltline. Check out our map in the story.
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Leaders of a controversial Fulton agency recently said its focus is development S of I-20. We took a look at the numbers, and it turns out the vast majority of its tax breaks go to projects N of I-20 in hot areas like Buckhead, Midtown and the Beltline. 🧵
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At least 51 senior Biden officials worked with Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple or Google. That number was 19 under Donald Trump. Investigation by me and @mtindera07 for @Forbes @BrownInstitute
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Read our story here (free link) Shout out to the amazing teamwork! @naurtorious @racheladhe @_samdodge @Jeremy_CF_Lin @alexcampbell @flynnmcroberts @jasongrotto
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Texas Moved to Protect its Fragile Grid. Then Prices Skyrocketed

As temperatures climb in Texas, so does demand for electricity — but a preventative measure against power grid failure caused energy prices to soar at peak hours.

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Lethal weapons — semiautomatic firearms designed to kill people en masse — has become one of America's fastest growing exports. Now there are deadly consequences across the world. We spent six months to find out how it happened, and why. 🎁 Link + 🧵
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How America Drives Gun Exports and Fuels Violence Around the World

No company has benefited more from the US government’s push to boost overseas sales than Sig Sauer Inc.

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The Community Notes algorithm needs consensus from "both sides," meaning it would not show a fact-checking note unless there's support across the "opinion spectrum," regardless of the accuracy of the note itself. Notes on critical issues like abortion often fail to pass.
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In today's Big Take, we reveal how power firms profited from the Covid crisis by playing a "game" against the grid. Normally, as businesses shut down and use less electricity, prices should drop. But a flawed system in 🇮🇹 cost consumers millions. 🆓 🔗:
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When Covid hit Italy, energy prices tanked. But power traders found a way to score a 600% price surge. Read the Big Take:
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My first for @Suntimes and the @BrownInstitute Documenting COVID-19 project. Great working with @Kyra_Senese and many thanks to our wonderful editors @derekkravitz and @davenewbart .
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Over the past year, as Cook County deaths have climbed toward 10,000, the virus has wreaked havoc in nearly every corner of the region.
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Under Musk, Community Notes is taking on a major role as traditional fact-checking gets slashed. But relying more heavily on the system means Twitter “would miss a lot of high-severity, highly controversial issues,” according to a former machine-learning engineer at Twitter.
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It's because of ECRS, a new reserve service that's supposed to help Texas avoid another catastrophe like the 2021 Winter Storm Uri. But it also keeps some of Texas's cheapest power offline, creating shortages that should not exist. Prices spiked, all summer.
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Kudos to my teammate @cynduja for her amazing data work in the Water Grab series.
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From the Yay, Us Dept.: We're thrilled that our Water Grab series is a 2024 Pulitzer finalist for explanatory reporting. Congrats to everyone! via @climate
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Honored to be part of this great investigation @ajc . It took months of data wrangling by me and @jpeebles , and incredible reporting by @wmariano @AlanJudd3000 AJC’s ‘Dangerous Dwellings’ series honored with national award
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AJC’s ‘Dangerous Dwellings’ series honored with national award

“Dangerous Dwellings,” the recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution series that revealed unsafe and unsanitary conditions in hundreds of apartment complexes across the Atlanta region, has been honored in...

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Our analysis shows 2,000 MW on June 20 were sidelined even though they were capable of providing energy more cheaply than market prices at the time. Two dozen market participants and Texas grid experts say those increased costs will eventually be felt by consumers.
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Bloomberg's Power Plays won a Phil Meyer Award!
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We celebrated our 2023 Phil Meyer Award winners last night! 🎉 Congratulations @themarkup , @business , @LHreports , @WIRED , @VersBeton & @openrotterdam . See their investigations here: @ddfonline
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Both Republicans and Democrats claim to hate the "swamp" yet members of both parties benefit from it. Using 77 sets of before-and-after financial disclosures, we found a pattern of self-enrichment, conflicts of interests, and lax ethics rules. (2/14)
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Revolving-door riches: How Obama-Biden officials cashed in during the Trump years

How lucrative is the swamp? A first-of-its-kind analysis shows 77 officials who served under Obama and Biden boosted their assets by an estimated 270% from 2017 to 2021.

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Do you know we pay power companies millions every month to NOT generate energy? Yep, and in fact, wind farms regularly overstate their output by 20% and charge consumers millions more, under a 'curtailment' scheme in the UK. Follow the 🧵, free story link at the end.
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Just in time for the Olympics
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#China ’s nationalism isn’t getting weird or anything. Tonight I go to have some BBQ in #Beijing and all of the waiting staff are wearing these T-shirts in an area with foreign embassies. “Chinese people won’t be pushed around... #USA has no right to speak down to Chinese people”.
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BREAKING: Ercot's market monitor just came out with their own estimate of how much ECRS is costing consumers: $8 BILLION DOLLARS!
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Texas Monitor Says New Grid Rules Raised Costs by $8 Billion

The latest effort by the operator of Texas’s electricity grid to ensure reliability has created an artificial scarcity of supply and likely raised wholesale costs by about $8 billion, according to a...

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great story, beautiful data presentation by @annjychoi @DeniseDSLu
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🧵Con men scammed an elderly widow out of her life savings. The big banks ( @Chase , @WellsFargo & more) watched it happen. We took a look at financial frauds exploding across the country, and what the banks are doing about it. Gift link: from @business
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We analyzed 961 financial disclosures of political appointees and nominees in the Biden administration and found at least 27 senior officials who had worked for a Biden nonprofit.
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Biden Has Brought More People Into Government From His Nonprofits Than Trump Did From His Business
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This election, eight candidates poured >$10 MILLION personal cash into their 2022 midterm campaigns — only one came up a winner. Story by me & @bill_allison for @business .
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It Was A Brutal Election Year for Self-Funding Candidates

Eight candidates poured more than $10 million of personal funds into their 2022 midterm campaigns — only one came up a winner.

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NEW: NRA-Style Politics Transformed Canada’s Gun Culture — and Shootings Rose 869% A third of guns used in Canadian crimes and then traced by authorities were legally imported from the US. We investigated how it all happened. Free 🎁 Link:
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A big thank-you to my amazing editors @derekkravitz @DanAlexander21 , my master’s advisor @cocteau , and @Forbes @BrownInstitute @MuckRock for making this project possible. Check out our 77 sets of before-and-after financial disclosures here: (14/14)
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MuckRock

MuckRock is a collaborative news site that gives you the tools to hold the government accountable.

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@realDonaldTrump Thank ME for the great tweets all day. Tremendous INTELLIGANCE! Make Mar-a-Lago Great Again!
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Glad to have contributed to this story. Good work guys!
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I've got another piece with my contribution from @GeorgiaNewsLab on @gpbnews to share! In Georgia, election officials are stuggling to process an overwhelming number of absentee ballot applications and are facing the loss of polling locations. #gapol
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My recent reporting on the Intrepid Museum.
30 Dollars for 30 Years? Intrepid Museum Negotiates New Lease - Columbia News Service

FacebookTweet The USS Intrepid museum has a choice berth on the Hudson River, with easy access to Midtown Manhattan. The rent? A dollar a year. That’s too cheap, say local officials seeking a much...

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We analyzed millions of crime reports and code-enforcement records across metro Atlanta. Here's what we found: a predatory system of affordable housing where tens of thousands of low-income metro Atlanta residents live in apartments that are unsafe, unhealthy and unlivable.
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EXCLUSIVE: A new investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reveals a predatory system of affordable housing in which tens of thousands of low-income metro Atlanta residents live in apartments that are unsafe, unsanitary or, often, both:
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Introducing The Foreign Ministers. We visualized 200 years of world diplomacy through 1,100 top diplomats from the world’s 13 former and current great powers. Explore at:
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@SariArhoHavren It's a little unfair to brush all mainland Chinese as unsympathetic, when they don't have the freedom to discuss the issue or speak out for themselves.
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Honored to be a data reporter on this important @ajc investigation. Check out our findings here:
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@PhillyInquirer @ajc In "Dangerous Dwellings," @ajc 's searing exposé gave voice to thousands of residents – mostly people of color – stuck living in horrific conditions at hundreds of persistently dangerous apartment complexes in Atlanta. #IREAwards (2/2)
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At Least 8000 absentee ballots were rejected because they came in late, but some voters say they were never notified. The latest from @GeorgiaNewsLab
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Experts say our data shows what the revolving door is all about — government insiders selling their connections at a high rate. "It does not matter if they take on the name lobbyist, consultant, attorney or strategic advisor." says @jeffhauser . (6/14)
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Reach me at (706) 438-2031 or email xfan134 @bloomberg .net
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Between his tenure as a four-star general and the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin joined the boards of @RaytheonTech , Nucor Corp. and Tenet Healthcare. In 2018, he and his wife purchased a $2.6 million home, now part of their roughly $7 million fortune. (4/14)
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Many of these were short stints through a legal/consulting firm. But others were high-ranking tech execs. For example, Radha Iyengar Plumb, now chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense, was Facebook’s Head of Policy Analysis until 2020 and then at Google until 2021.
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US dealership wages surged 38% over the pandemic, one of the largest across thousands of employment categories tracked by the BLS. The good times, however, might not last long. Story by me & @msasso for @business
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Federal law requires each new nominee to report all sources of income above $5,000 in the preceding two years. Three tech companies rose to the top as the most frequently listed: Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.
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Join our team!
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Hey everybody, we are hiring an investigative data reporter & want to hear from folks who use data to do impactful, accountability driven journalism. Join a growing data depart and I-team with big ambitions! Hit me up if you're interested,
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A great gift from @gpbnews today – Thank you!
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@realDonaldTrump Politicians ONLY talk, NO action! The American CARNAGE must stop, RIGHT NOW!
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One trader we interviewed claimed that exaggerating forecasts was justified because so many firms are doing it. Those that don’t, he said, would be at a disadvantage. But UK regulations explicitly prohibit generators from “obtaining an excessive benefit” when they are curtailed.
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Part 2 of our #DangerousDwellings investigation: landlord enjoys luxury lifestyle in Beverly Hills while his Atlanta tenants suffer.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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1 Beverly Hills landlord. 7 Atlanta-area Apartment complexes. 11 homicides. Meet the owner of some of metro Atlanta’s most dangerous apartments #DangerousDwellings
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@sonamvashi Hi Sonam, at last year's event I learned so much from your experience as a freelancer! I don't see anything negative about not belonging to a big corporation. Quite the opposite!
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So despite all the flak he received, Trump was actually following a familiar model. The main difference was that the people he knew, from decades in the real estate business, didn’t have much government experience. After all, he didn’t either.
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Some Big Tech veterans now serve inside government agencies that may directly impact policies affecting their former employers. Biden’s FDA chief, Robert Califf, worked as Google's Head of Medical Strategy after his previous stint as FDA chief in the Obama administration.
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Following our report, the UK regulator announced an investigation.
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UK Regulator Probes Wind Power Overstatement

The UK energy regulator Ofgem is investigating the behavior of wind farms that have been overstating how much power they will produce.

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Eric Fan
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Do you know we pay power companies millions every month to NOT generate energy? Yep, and in fact, wind farms regularly overstate their output by 20% and charge consumers millions more, under a 'curtailment' scheme in the UK. Follow the 🧵, free story link at the end.
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Introducing the inaugural issue of the Emory Journal of Asian Studies, a new academic journal published by me and @michaelbcerny at Emory University. Please visit !
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Every appointee in the Biden administration had to sign an ethics pledge, which includes a two-year “revolving door ban” that bars them from participating in matters related to their former employers. But no words on what happens after two years.
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Latest from me with @mtindera07 : Biden's campaign pledged not to accept fossil fuel money, but dozens of his top appointees are invested in it. Thanks to our editors @derekkravitz @DanAlexander21 and @BrownInstitute @Forbes for the great collaboration!
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Fabiola Dominguez worked 12-hour shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes seven days a week, and DACA gave her a chance at the American Dream. This is the story of an ICU nurse, young mother of three, and Mexican immigrant during the pandemic.
“DACA is my lifeline”

Fabiola Dominguez worked 12-hour shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic, and DACA gave her a chance at the American Dream.

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By overstating their output, wind farms directly increase the curtailment pay they receive from consumers. But they also make curtailment more likely in the first place. We analyzed 30 million market records and estimated that consumers overpaid £51M (65M in USD) since 2018.
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@mtindera07 @BrownInstitute @MuckRock @Forbes @DanAlexander21 @derekkravitz Thanks @mtindera07 !!
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Party, People, and Government. I collected some data from the Report on the Work of the Government (政府工作报告) 2010-2019.
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Big thank you to @columbia_news_
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Eric Fan
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Same. Can't even remember numbers in English. Still needs to recite and then translate from Chinese when someone asks for my phone number.
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Important story from @Kyra_Senese
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Across Chicago and its surrounding counties, more than 1,000 inmates are packed in jails as they await transfer to state prisons due to an ongoing fight over COVID-19 safety protocols between state and local law enforcement agencies.
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The Chinese national flag is not a communist symbol. Unfortunately some people are still obsessed with the Cold War.
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Some Chinese in America have a loyalty problem. I say to them, "Take your communist flags, your expensive cars, and especially your arrogance and leave this country."
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Got my @RedCross certificate for first aid/CPR/AED
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Chinese Communism is a Magic Mirror by China Opinion
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Eric Fan
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This pattern goes beyond Biden's cabinet. Consider Sameer Punyani, a mid-level DoD appointee who reported less than $15k in retirement savings in 2017. He then joined defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Now 4 years later, he returned with a portfolio of $293k-$970k. (5/14)
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Eric Fan
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Check out all 51 disclosures here:
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"While Georgia has diversified over the past 40 years, its representation doesn’t reflect those shifts." It was a pleasure working with @markniesse to visualize this story.
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“It’s an existential crisis for the Republican Party in the sense that the state is changing and they want to continue to be the dominant force in the Legislature." Redistricting of Georgia begins this week. #gapol
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Eric Fan
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Great podcast by @_ToddGillespie @GavinFinchBBG
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Todd Gillespie
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@GavinFinchBBG @ericfan_journo @jasongrotto @_samdodge @alexcampbell Check out the Big Take podcast breaking down what we found — listen on Spotify on the link below 🔗 With thanks to @sarahsholder and David Fox
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Eric Fan
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Open with a desktop browser for better effect!
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Similar measures in Singapore, China, Taiwan. It's about saving lives, not ideology.
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1/ I thought I'd write about my experience re-entering South Korea, where I reside, during this global pandemic. It wasn't a 5 minute job like in London Heathrow where I was out in no time. Instead, it took 24 hours. Here's what happened:
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I don't usually eat spicy but it's so good.
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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas left the Obama administration in 2016 to join WilmerHale, a powerful D.C law firm. When he rejoined the government last year, Mayorkas disclosed a $3.3 million partnership share, plus a payment of $1 million still due to him. (3/14)
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Vol. II of the EJAS is out. Check it out.
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Here’s how we did it: Since last year, we’ve collected public financial disclosures of more than 1,100 Biden appointees. Among them, we found 151 revolving-door officials who left the Obama admin after 2016, worked in the private sector & returned under Biden in 2021. (7/14)
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Frenzy across online job boards today despite employers having months to prepare. Read our day 1 roundup of the NYC Pay Transparency Law. Story by me & @bizboyle for @business
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Matthew Boyle
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Disappearing job listings at @GoldmanSachs . Missing salary information at @pfizer . And roles at @Citi that paid anywhere between nothing and $2 million a year. Day one of NYC's pay transparency law was kinda glitchy. via @thefuture w/ @fxy2014
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Bye bye Baidu
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Eric Fan
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This is a data visualization project by me, Chi Yuan Chiang, Hayun Chong and Victoria Li. We would like to thank Professor @aggggnessss for the guidance and advice she gave to this project.
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cutting Office Suite from a newsroom for cost saving...
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@nate_mcc @mcclatchy We had the Office Suite for several years. McClatchy did away with it recently as a cost-cutting measure, which has definitely impacted how we do our jobs
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"Robert Zeidman, a computer forensics expert and 63-year-old Trump voter from Nevada, was entitled to the $5 million payout."
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Exclusive: Election denier Mike Lindell offered $5 million to anyone who could prove him wrong. An arbitration panel just ruled he must pay.
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“If every side has a veto, it’s not a substitute for actual fact-checking,” @sayhar told us. Community Notes “is a really interesting idea and I’m rooting for it. But we shouldn’t expect it to solve all of our problems.”
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Check out all the disclosures here and tell us if you find anything interesting!
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@CareCarrasco @ajc Wow wonderful news! Congrats!!
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Hey I made a game
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