Washington Post Investigative Data Reporter
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Andrew Ba Tran retweeted
New Interview: I talked to the journalist Jasper Nathaniel about what he witnessed in the West Bank when the WaPo’s Heidi Levine & multiple Palestinians were attacked by Israeli settlers, as well as what’s been happening there before the Israeli election. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/b…
The James Talarico in Ohio false rumor. The Jack Smith Hawks/Hawkeyes fiasco. Coordinated campaigns based on spurious OSINT connections. Are we seeing more of this because AI is giving sycophantic validation to every crockpot theory that’s put in a prompt?
Andrew Ba Tran retweeted
This post from September now has a new community note stating:
"It was in fact not a lie."
This is DISGUSTING and FAKE. A complete LIE.
Shame on the Washington Post — they’re worse than Iranian state media.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Weeks later, the Pentagon raised its public count of Iran-ops deaths to 21 from ~18, adding two noncombat cases. Including one other brings Middle East total since Feb. 28 to 22, matching WaPo's cited 22-23 range.
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“Not the first time we’ve done that” mm hmm…
Secret Service Director Sean Curran tells @NorahODonnell on 60 Minutes that he wishes the decision to use a decoy plane for President Trump at the NATO summit hadn't been reported.
"Look, that's not the first time we've done that," Curran says.
Watch more of the interview with Curran and Deputy Director Matthew Quinn. Sunday on 60 Minutes.
Andrew Ba Tran retweeted
The @WashingtonPost was first to publish details about ICE's plans to retrofit warehouses into immigrant detention centers.
Exclusive reporting by @dmac1 and @jocwapo drove conversation in city halls, county councils and legislatures in more than a dozen states, and was cited by several state attorneys general in lawsuits against the federal government, which has since acknowledged missteps and scaled back its plans.
washingtonpost.com/impact
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In May, The @WashingtonPost reported on the case of a Honduran woman whose 3-year-old son, Orlin, was killed after she was deported.
@mariasacchetti’s reporting examined inconsistencies in ICE’s narrative and the lack of safeguards for children of those removed from the country.
Days after that report, DHS granted Wendy Hernandez Reyes extraordinary humanitarian parole that allowed her to return to the U.S. to bury her son.
washingtonpost.com/impact
Andrew Ba Tran retweeted
Imagine being a high level government official cheering on the bombing of a country and the killing of individuals over a Signal chat, and then seeing:
"Jeff Goldberg left the group."
The chat has finally been officially released to me by ODNI in response to my #FOIA request.
Andrew Ba Tran retweeted
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks.
Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die.
Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. propublica.org/article/calif…
Andrew Ba Tran retweeted
In the summer of 2024, an employee at Meta had a daring idea to save the company billions of dollars on its A.I. data centers: Claim they were 'experimental' to tap a lucrative tax credit meant to inspire companies to tackle novel challenges.
Gift link to investigation by @JesseDrucker, @elitanjourno, @MikeIsaac, and me:
nytimes.com/2026/09/30/techn…
Andrew Ba Tran retweeted
The story is the part you see.
This is the journalism behind it.
Our new campaign 'Relentless' reveals the evidence, effort and determination that drives The @WashingtonPost’s journalism – starting with our investigation into the misuse of Flock Safety’s nationwide network of license plate readers.
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#wp #since1877
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Two months after his mom was detained by ICE, Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, died by suicide.
“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” Samuel wrote. “I can’t handle anymore injustices in this world.”
When the family broke the news to his mother, still in detention, agents wouldn't let each other hug.
latimes.com/politics/story/2…
heartbreaking story by @andreamcastillo
Andrew Ba Tran retweeted
In May, I reported that the Trump administration was withholding information from investigators about the data that DOGE had access to, and today, GAO confirms that agencies refused to hand over records.
My story: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
GAO report: gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108192…
How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case thecut.com/article/cornell-d…
Andrew Ba Tran retweeted
America.gov adventures: right now, it's 50/50 whether or not the chatbot will answer questions about Trump's criminal convictions
Andrew Ba Tran retweeted
people have said it before but the whole shortform video / youtube / podcast content industry is so extractive of actual newsroom labor, and as far as I can tell very few of those studios have hard news operations, reporters / checkers / researchers...
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Exclusive: Our new investigation uncovers the horrifying ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre. motherjones.com/media/2026/0…
The perils of bad joins between datasets
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle.
"The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/po…
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The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting.
The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells.
propublica.org/article/army-…
