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We spent a year investigating billionaires for
@washingtonpost.com
. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections â 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
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Drew Harwell
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This was a common frustration point for ICE public affairs, per the internal chat messages we obtained, given they were also trying to sloganeer the idea they were targeting the "Worst of the Worst." They scrambled to find ways to insinuate the detainees were bad people anyway
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emptywheel
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This declaration from WaPo journalist Hannah Natanson describing what the FBI took is utterly devastating.
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Caitlin Gilbert
8 days ago
Caller from AR asks about how to get âwhole foodsâ in food deserts and Means responds with: âJust to confirm your question is how can lower income Americans possibly not poison their kidsâ and âwell, maâam, I think American mothers donât want to be poisoning their kidsâ
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Washington Post Guild
14 days ago
The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcementâs search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natansonâs property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)
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Caitlin Gilbert
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Itâs such an honor to work in the same newsroom as
@hannahnatanson.bsky.social
, her incredible coverage of federal workers this year has been nothing short of inspiring. I stand with her 100%. Everyone should read her piece on the toll this work can take:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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I am The Postâs âfederal government whisperer.â Itâs been brutal.
One reporterâs effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources â and nearly broke her.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/24/trump-federal-government-workers/
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Dan Diamond
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I stand with
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, a terrific reporter whose excellent coverage speaks for itself.
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FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporterâs home
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Postâs most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/14/washington-post-reporter-search/
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Scott Clement
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đ¨đ¨đ¨đ¨đ¨FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporterâs home. The reporter covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Postâs most high-profile and sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.
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FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporterâs home
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Postâs most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/14/washington-post-reporter-search/
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More than a third of the Agriculture Departmentâs food inspectors left government last year. But ICE's employee counts are way up.
@merylkornfield.bsky.social
and I dove into the newly released federal workforce data â here's what it shows.
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Meghan Hoyer
23 days ago
Kids back to school today? It's a good time to check on how protected they are from measles. In a massive effort,
@caitlingilbert.bsky.social
@laurenweberhp.bsky.social
&
@moriartymaps.com
collected vaccination data from ~46,000 public + private schools in the US. You can search it here:
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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Caitlin Gilbert
28 days ago
EXCLUSIVE:
@laurenweberhp.bsky.social
& I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measlesâthat leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link:
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
https://wapo.st/49zDc43
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Andrew Ba Tran
28 days ago
The
@washingtonpost.com
still sharing our data and how we did the work while other newsrooms pull back. Check out the gathered data on Github
#opendata
#reproducibility
#transparency
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Ken Schwencke
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@nymag.com
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reporting that while Eleanor Holmes Norton has been showing steep signs of mental decline, she is suddenly loaning a large amount of money to her campaign â which only pays her campaign manager / treasurer / confidant and one adviser.
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Andrew Ba Tran
about 1 month ago
OU still sucks
#hookem
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Andrew Ba Tran
about 1 month ago
Love the methodology box behind this College Football Happiness Rankings story
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Meghan Hoyer
about 1 month ago
A sign of Donald Trump's attempts to dramatically expand presidential authority: he's used executive orders -- bypassing Congress and traditional legislative action -- more this year than he did in his entire first term. From
@ence.bsky.social
@emilydavies.bsky.social
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@cqzakrz.bsky.social
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Trump has signed more executive orders in 2025 than in his entire first term
One-third of Trumpâs executive orders have been explicitly challenged in court, a Post analysis of data from nonprofits CourtListener and JustSecurity found.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/16/trump-executive-orders-second-term/
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd
about 1 month ago
Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
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The Washington Post
about 1 month ago
For years, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has fended off rivals whoâve portrayed him as a âtrust fund babyâ by presenting himself as an advocate for the working class. Now, he is using that strategy for what could be his most ambitious political endeavor yet.
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Do Democrats need their own billionaire? JB Pritzker is betting on it.
The Illinois governor has tapped his wealth to climb the political ladder, moving toward a White House run while presenting himself as a champion for everyday people.
https://wapo.st/3MAwiCM
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The Washington Post
about 2 months ago
While previous administrations have included the ultrarich, the wealth held by this group is larger than even the first Trump administration, previously the wealthiest in U.S. history. Hereâs who they are.
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Meet the Trump administrationâs 12 billionaires
At a net worth of $390 billion, itâs the wealthiest White House in modern history.
https://wapo.st/48yrztY
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Drew Harwell
about 2 months ago
Love this
@jeremybmerrill.com
@fox.computer
piece mapping TikTok's brain, especially the tool they made to find a content theme's diametric opposite. People who like the "Fallout" games, for instance, aren't very interested in videos about having hair
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Michael Beckel
about 2 months ago
Fact: Individual donors can give nearly 3,000% more to the national political parties today than they could during the 2010 election cycle when Citizens United helped usher in the super PAC era. Limit then: $69,900 per cycle Limit today: $2.1 million per cycle
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Laura Meckler
about 2 months ago
NEW: Our look at one of the most important players in the school choice debate: Jeff Yass, the billionaire funding campaigns across the country and in his home state of PA. Got a chance to talk with him at length and he had lots of provocative things to say 1/x
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Meet the billionaire pushing taxpayer-funded school vouchers
How one of the richest people on the planet presses his pet issue: school choice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/05/jeff-yass-school-choice-trump/
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if you found this piece insightful, you'll want to read these (all đ!) - how we got here:
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- how Americans feel about it:
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- how Soros changed American criminal justice:
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... and our latest, how a billionaire is changing American schools:
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âThe more they attack, the more I give," billionaire Jeff Yass told
@laurameckler.bsky.social
Our latest piece on the political influence of billionaires dives into Yass's influence on school vouchers, TikTok, and basically every election in Pennsylvania.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Meghan Hoyer
2 months ago
This is fine.gif The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history â and so is billionairesâ influence in politics. From
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@bethreinhard.bsky.social
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& Naftali Bendavid: Read more:
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OlĂşfáşšĚmi O. TĂĄĂwò
2 months ago
it would indeed seem that elites are capturing much of our politics
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The Washington Post
2 months ago
In the past decade, billionaires have been more empowered than ever before to spend money to influence American elections. Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
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The top 20 billionaires influencing American politics
The group has spent nearly $5 billion on elections since 2015.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/top-20-billionaires-american-elections/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Federica Cocco
2 months ago
Chart of the decade, from a new blockbuster reportage on how billionaires took over American politics
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Scott Clement
2 months ago
And a "who's who" of the top 20 billionaires influencing American politics from
@ence.bsky.social
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@erxclau.me
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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OpenSecrets.org
2 months ago
Our data, analyzed by
@washingtonpost.com
, shows giving from the 100 wealthiest Americans has risen 140x since 2000. In 2024 they accounted for 7.5% of federal election spending - $1 of every $13.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
@bethreinhard.bsky.social
@ence.bsky.social
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How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionairesâ involvement in politics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/billionaires-politics-money-influence/
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for
@washingtonpost.com
. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections â 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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Will Oremus
2 months ago
You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it.
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Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing
The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/18/saudi-prince-trump-visit-white-house/
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Emily Guskin
2 months ago
Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined
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Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined
See how Tesla CEO Elon Muskâs new payment package compares with other occupations in the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/musk-package-tesla-trillion/
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Ben Brasch
3 months ago
If you care about D.C. or journalism or local control, read this. | Behind the scenes of the D.C. mayorâs battle to keep Trump at bay
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Behind the scenes of the D.C. mayorâs battle to keep Trump at bay
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has worked behind the scenes to appease President Trump more often than has been publicly known since his reelection.
https://wapo.st/43thCLr
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Meghan Hoyer
3 months ago
So so excited to welcome the very talented
@chrishacker.me
to
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!! Chris is our team's newest hire, joining us as a computational journalist embedded on the national desk. đ
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Molly Knight
3 months ago
SANDWICH GUY AVOIDS TOASTER
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Dave Jamieson
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đ¨đ¨đ¨ The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
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Tony Tassell
3 months ago
quite a chart from WashPost
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Spanberger ran up wild margins in the DC/Richmond suburbs, flipped 6 Trump counties, and cut her losses in the rest of the state â some SWVA counties moved 15-20 points to her compared to 2021 gov's race. My first election results for
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Drew Harwell
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Dems in Array
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The Washington Post
3 months ago
President Trump has sought to portray Zohran Mamdani as the face of an extremist opposition, while Mamdaniâs vow to resist Trump has helped unify Democrats against a common foe.
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Trump and Mamdani, best of enemies, canât stop talking about each other
The rivals see political benefit to the attacks, which could also define New York for the remainder of President Donald Trumpâs term in office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/03/mamdani-trump-mayor-newyork/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Dan Vock
3 months ago
Most Americans think Trump has gone too far in asserting executive power. Numbers for Guard deployment are some of the worst for Trump. Via
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Travis M Andrews
3 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing?
@jeremybmerrill.com
and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.
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Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover
Nearly nine months into Trumpâs oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst theyâve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/10/31/kennedy-center-sales/
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Meghan Hoyer
3 months ago
The great
@dtkeating.bsky.social
is retiring after 25+ years as a data reporter at the Post. He published his last story today, and true to form, it was a banger. With reporting from
@arianaec.bsky.social
,
@lmelgar.bsky.social
& Jahi Chikwendiu:
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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The mysterious rise of cancer among young adults in the Corn Belt
Communities across the Corn Belt are confronting a rise in cancers among young adults â and few clear explanations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/10/27/young-cancer-iowa/
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The Washington Post
3 months ago
The largest U.S. law firms have been far less likely to challenge President Trumpâs policies than they were during his first term, and smaller firms are carrying much more of the burden of high-stakes legal challenges, according to a Post analysis.
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Nationâs biggest law firms back off from challenging Trump policies
The pace generated by more than 390 lawsuits challenging Trump administration actions has lawyers from many firms working around-the-clock.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/26/smaller-law-firms-struggle-trump-administration-initiatives/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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John Woodrow Cox
3 months ago
My latest, on a man who supported the war in Afghanistan, came to the U.S. legally, applied for asylum, had two kids, became a bookkeeper, bought an American flag bumper sticker. Then ICE arrested him. If he's deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.
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He supported the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Now he may be deported to the Taliban.
He supported Americaâs war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.
https://wapo.st/49aGaw2
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jamelle
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weâll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what theyâre saying and wants to accomplish real things.
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Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/magazine/zohran-mamdani-mayor-new-york.html
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Emily Giambalvo
4 months ago
How Americaâs favorite sports bet is fueling sportsbook profits Parlays are becoming more popular, accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Post analysis of betting data. Bettors lose billions a year on these bets.
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Americans canât stop betting parlays. Sportbooks are cashing in.
As betting booms, parlays are accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Washington Post analysis of state data.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2025/parlay-popularity-odds-sportsbooks/
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Scott Clement
4 months ago
This story is fantastic, important and difficult to execute -- proud of my colleagues
@caitlingilbert.bsky.social
@richardsima.bsky.social
, Leslie Shapiro,
@asteckelberg.bsky.social
@ence.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...
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How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2025/tiktok-addiction-algorithm-scrolling-mental-health/
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Three different people at my bus stop this morning were reading this column... and one guy had a printout of Sietsema's latest piece on appetizers in DC. Impact!
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Caitlin Gilbert
4 months ago
đ¤łEXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users. Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/
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Leslie Shapiro
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Hereâs how TikTok âpower usersâ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.
https://wapo.st/4obueib
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