Many are just waking up to the Grok-nonconsensual images story as these pictures began flooding X over the holidays, but here’s our piece from Jan 2 featuring a victim, Julie Yukari, who was brave enough to speak on the record and on camera: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

🎅1️⃣1️⃣ China’s shadow navy trains to take Taiwan, by @allisonmartell.bsky.social, David Lague, @claretfarley.bsky.social and Minami Funakoshi www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

“Each writing exercise was designed to reinforce explicit instruction on different paper-writing skills” jumps out at me, because explicit instruction remains unfashionable in so many schools.

This bracing story connects witness accounts from Sudan and data on violence against healthcare workers worldwide. www.reuters.com/world/sudan-...

Hospital massacre caps a long series of attacks on healthcare in war-torn Sudan reut.rs/49EkUzg

A massacre that the WHO says killed almost 500 at a Sudan hospital last month is an example of increasingly targeted and brutal attacks on hospitals, clinics and medical workers during conflict worldwide, Reuters found. www.reuters.com/world/sudan-...

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

In 2019 Meta did causal research looking at the effects of randomly asking Facebook users to stop using the platform for a month. After the first week of the study, results showed that leaving the platform was good for people’s mental health. Meta then shut the project down.

Really ambitious, fascinating stuff here www.propublica.org/article/meth...

Our story about China's shadow navy is featured on the Reuters World News podcast today. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

Yesterday we published a visual investigation about civilian ships in China that are training to invade Taiwan. This thread is about how we did it. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA... #OSINT

It’s known that China is using ferries and other civilian vessels to prepare for an invasion of Taiwan. Reuters reporters wondered: Could we track vessels from the sky and learn more about China’s military strategy? The answer is yes. Here's how we did it: www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

New visual investigation: China's shadow navy trains to take Taiwan www.reuters.com/graphics/USA... #OSINT

A Reuters visual investigation shows China is developing concrete plans to invade Taiwan, a Taiwanese naval security expert said. The outcome of a Chinese attack could depend heavily on the response of the United States, the island’s most important ally reut.rs/4oJRPHe

New MMI piece: We look at the 3.5 million people in Canada who live in a home that is too small to meet their needs, and how a mismanaged push by governments and urban planners towards densification is at odds with the human right to housing. Read here: www.missingmiddleini...

Exclusive: Thousands of bodies vanished from a Syrian mass grave in a two-year coverup of Assad-era atrocities, Reuters found. The people were buried at a secret site in the desert reut.rs/42Iiuv7

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else reut.rs/3JYLkkp

Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including four journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters. Reuters statement: reut.rs/3HPt6kE

Witnesses said the second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike reut.rs/41pmNLb

This is an important investigative story that was possible in part because an LLM helped solve a very challenging document processing problem - ~20,000 pages of handwritten temperature logs. This is groundbreaking work by Disha Raychaudhuri, @claretfarley.bsky.social and others.

An amazing behind the scenes look at how we reported this story out. Methodology here: www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

The graphics on this are just top tier. Really appreciate the care and detail that the team put into this one: reut.rs/3J1dlam

Prison advocates say the hot conditions amount to unfair treatment and excessive punishment. Current and formerly incarcerated individuals told Reuters in a series of interviews that they dreaded summers. One person said the heat was so oppressive it felt like they were “breathing under water.”

Nearly half of state prisons across 29 states have partial or no air conditioning in housing units, according to an exclusive database created by Reuters using documents obtained through public records requests to all 50 states.

Prisons prioritize security over comfort. But concrete walls, steel doors, sealed windows, limited ventilation, lack of tree cover and outdated infrastructure converge to create dangerously hot conditions. Nearly 1.2 million people are housed in federal and state prisons across the nation.

MUST READ: A new Reuters report uncovers a critical & often overlooked intersection of climate change & correctional policy: The dangerous heat crisis within U.S. prisons. An exclusive analysis of indoor temperature logs revealed some facilities exceed 100°F: www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

New 📈✍️- we're hearing a lot about AI decimating graduate jobs. But the data paints a more complicated picture on what's behind the fall in entry-level roles With Delphine Strauss, @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & Sarah Lim on.ft.com/4f1wWmK

"Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them." reutersagency.com/media-centre...

“Iman al-Shaer, another relative who lives nearby, said the family hadn't eaten anything before the bombs came down. ‘The children slept without food,’ he said.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

An American toddler in foster care, a mom in ICE detention reut.rs/4lGklbf

FROM @reuters: Two-thirds of the lawyers in the DOJ unit that defends the government against the wave of lawsuits challenging President Trump's executive actions have quit since he was elected in November. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

US President Donald Trump was impressed by Liberian President Joseph Boakai's language skills during an African summit at the White House. Boakai was speaking in English — his country's official language reut.rs/3Id5O8i

The Ontario Science Centre 1 year later: The cost of a new site has escalated, its opening date has been pushed back, there is no sign of a temporary location, and the old building’s roof appears intact. #OnPoli By the superb Canadian Press team globalnews.ca/news/1125207...

Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, had insurance but couldn’t afford to refill his asthma inhaler after the cost jumped from $70 to more than $500. Five days after his pharmacy visit last year, Cole had a severe asthma attack and died. nbcnews.to/4mM9cGV

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Staff at FEMA were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, sources said. with @tedhesson.bsky.social and Nathan Layne: www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

Five years after George Floyd's murder sparked a global protest movement for racial justice & police reform, the nation has seen a drastic reversal of support among some for racial equity. But experts say we’ve been here before & advocates remain committed. My latest: www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa - www.reuters.com/world/africa...

I understand why people are theorizing that the Grok/South Africa thing was caused by a system prompt, but what it really reminds me of is Golden Gate Claude, which involved artificially amplifying some model features. I am so curious about how this happened. www.anthropic.com/news/golden-...

From @reuters.com: The FBI ordered agents on Monday to step up the amount of time they devote to immigration enforcement and to scale back investigating white-collar crime. Some offices will spend a third of their time doing immigration work, a huge shift. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Nice to see Toronto through a thoughtful visitor’s eye. See thread.

Read Reuters Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series about how Chinese fentanyl chemicals fueling America’s deadly opioid crisis are cheap and easy to get — and why authorities are failing to stop them: reut.rs/4m1LLZN

“But while flattery does come with risk, the more worrisome issue is that we are training large language models to deceive us.” www.platformer.news/meta-ai-chat...

“A $400 billion opportunity,”- striking details on Iran’s ambitions in Syria, and just how indebted the Assad regime was to Tehran, from documents found in the looted Iranian embassy in Damascus after its fall. By John Davison, @allisonmartell.bsky.social and @readelev.bsky.social

Our first investigation based on papers uncovered after the fall of Assad is out today, w/ John Davison and @allisonmartell.bsky.social

This adds helpful context to the NYT magazine piece about ADHD. I was surprised by how little space in the original article was spent on impulsivity, and on the value of medication in managing impulsivity. www.additudemag.com/adhd-article...

Caroline Soler, Ansolabehere, & @bfschaffner.bsky.social: “Shor’s claims about young white women and men of color supporting Trump are simply not supported by the best public data available.” tufts-pol.medium.com/have-young-v...

Scoop for @reuters.com: On Friday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“While she was pregnant, Musk had urged her to deliver the baby via caesarean section and told her he didn’t want the child to be circumcised. (Musk has posted on X that vaginal births limit brain size and that C-sections allow for larger brains.)” www.wsj.com/politics/elo...