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(I'm also largely staying off of social media and not really posting these days so I can focus on other work. But maybe someday I'll be back.)
Steve Reilly
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Steve Reilly
@BySteveReilly
Senior Investigative Data Journalist @CBSNews. Vice President @PressClubDC. @Vassar & @Cambridge_Uni alum. Pulitzer finalist. Runner. Signal: 571-317-1533
- Johnny Cash spent decades trying to warn us about this.Ring recalls 350,000 video doorbells after nearly two dozen of them catch fire. nytimes.com/2020/11/11/bus…
- We researched some of the biggest Facebook groups promoting the Canadian trucker protest before they were shut down yesterday, and noticed something was a bit off. The only individual admin running some of the most active groups was one woman in Missouri. Or so it seemed.🧵⤵️
- Really kind gesture by Eric Trump to publicly recognize @Fahrenthold's courtesy and professionalism.
- Replying to @BySteveReilly.@twiceanya, @benjaminopowers and I looked into the role disinformation, social media and suspicious online activity are playing in the events unfolding on the streets of Ottawa. Here's our latest for @gridnews: grid.news/story/misinfor…
- Replying to @BySteveReillyI called the woman on her publicly listed number, and she said her account had been hacked. The stolen account was administering a collection Facebook groups started between Jan. 26 and Jan. 28 that had amassed more than 300,000 followers that had 7,500 posts.
- Replying to @BySteveReillyThe woman's years-old Facebook account had no real history of political activity until January 2022, when it suddenly posted a fundraiser for Donald Trump. Below the post was a comment from the woman's daughter: "I like how you hacked my moms shit but you won't answer my dm."
- NEW: Our research early this week into who was behind a huge network of Facebook groups supporting the Freedom Convoy led us to a hacked account in Missouri. Next it led us to Bangladesh — and ended with the deactivation of some of the largest active groups. Follow along:🧵⬇️
- In a Dec. 5, 2019 interview, Trump told Bob Woodward: “I have built a nuclear—a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before…” Woodward wrote that he confirmed this with sources who were surprised Trump had disclosed it. (Rage, p. 185)
- Replying to @WillManidisforbes 30 under 30 under investigation
- Many of the statements on student loan forgiveness you'll read today will be written by Congressional staffers whose student loans were repaid by taxpayers under 2 U.S.C. § 4536 — which established a program specifically to repay student loans for House employees.
- Tomorrow was supposed to be my last day at The Messenger. Today, my colleagues and I found out @TheMesssenger was being shut down when we read about it in the New York Times. I'm breaking my Twitter hiatus because I want to share a few things.
- Replying to @BySteveReillyWe're continuing to follow this story at @gridnews. Please follow my colleagues @twiceanya & @benjaminopowers and feel free to shoot us an email or DM if you have tips or leads for us to follow.
