Brandon Roberts
@bxroberts
Investigative journalist. News Apps Developer @ProPublica Occasional AI/ML researcher. Using data+code to hold power to account. Signal: brandonrobertz.01
Job alert ‼️ We're looking for someone to join us for a two-year fellowship, helping us responsibly leverage AI in our tip/lead/scoop gathering process. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/job…
New: On March 15, President Donald Trump's administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they'd been taken away. These are their stories. propub.li/45grLMt
DOGE's VA Ai Disaster; L.A. Vs ICE w/ Brandon Roberts, Memo Torres | @bxroberts • @el_tragon_de_LA • @LATACO | Majority Report youtube.com/live/PElj1_ALi…
NEW story: @KristiNoem secretly took a cut of political donations and then failed to disclose it
Our latest: Why some potentially contaminated drugs are still allowed into the U.S., despite FDA knowledge of issues like filthy labs and falsified records. We dug into the data and identified 70 hospitalizations and nine deaths related to these drugs.
New: A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public. propub.li/444q42S
IMPACT: Senators Demand Transparency on Canceled VA Contracts propublica.org/article/doge-a… @bxroberts @VernalColeman
The code is open source: github.com/slavingia/va
THREAD: An ex-DOGE engineer with no government or medical experience used AI to identify which Veterans Affairs contracts to kill, labeling them as “MUNCHABLE.” @VernalColeman @ericuman and I got the code. Here’s what it tells us 1/
More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sank the Market propublica.org/article/us-off… @RobertFaturechi @pratheekrebala @bxroberts