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NEW INVESTIGATION:
Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ @natlungfy @A_W_Gordon @DeniseDSLu
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Leon Yin retweeted
Our year-long investigation into Stake's advertising empire uncovered influencers' higher win rates and the house money they gamble with. Those wins get clipped and scattered across the internet, showcasing an impossible fantasy
It's also today's @business Big Take
NEW @BW feature on Stake: the world's largest crypto casino. Our year-long piece dives into Stake employing superstar influencers such as Drake and Adin Ross to livestream gambling.
By @cecianasta, @oliviasolon and myself. bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
To do this we needed to audit each streamer's gameplay. We used an LLM to capture balance, bet and game played every 4s of stream. We manually verified each streamer's balance over time and calculated their spins to wins. Read more in our methodology: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Watch the short documentary about Stake's use of influencers to promote gambling on the casino:
youtube.com/watch?v=SQMIA_9q…
Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-…
Read our methodology and see our data on Github
Massive effort by @daveyalba @ashleyrcarman @byJuliaLove @acookiecrumbles @rachaeldottle @elena___mejia @YueQiu_ @sarahfrier
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Leon Yin retweeted
For years, a teenager terrorized the US with a chilling weapon: his voice. His swatting calls sent armed police racing to hundreds of schools, fearing they were about to face a mass shooter
This is the story of the private investigator who took him down
wired.com/school-swatting-to…
Leon Yin retweeted
Journalists covering extremist movements should be aware of how these groups strategically use & manipulate media coverage, @wphillips49 writes for @datasociety. Read more (including recommendations for countering these movements) here: datasociety.net/library/oxyg…
ICYMI: read Bloomberg's recent data-driven investigation into Uber and Lyft's driver lockouts in NYC. An unprecedented labor practice according to labor economists.
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NEW INVESTIGATION:
Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ @natlungfy @A_W_Gordon @DeniseDSLu
bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
Watch the mini-doc of this investigation on YouTube
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BONUS: @adrjeffries and @A_W_Gordon produced a short documentary based on our reporting on driver lockouts in NYC. Great to see drivers featured who spoke with @natlungfy for the piece, and to be reunited with my reporting partner. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=zJeUHAYV…
AI-detectors seem near-perfect on paper, yet falsely flag students with high confidence. We FOIA'd anonymized college applications essays to independently test popular tools. @jackiedavalos1 spoke with students and teachers about education in the AI-era.
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Edited by @sfiegerman with graphics by @DeniseDSLu. (Published while I was away, posting now!)
Leon Yin retweeted
BONUS: @adrjeffries and @A_W_Gordon produced a short documentary based on our reporting on driver lockouts in NYC. Great to see drivers featured who spoke with @natlungfy for the piece, and to be reunited with my reporting partner. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=zJeUHAYV…
Kudos to editors @DanaWollman + @sarahfrier! Special thanks to the 4 methodology reviewers. Great visuals by GFX & photo. Thanks to the annotators and the engineers who helped shoulder the workload. Deep gratitude to the 896 drivers who participated in the investigation.
BONUS: @adrjeffries and @A_W_Gordon produced a short documentary based on our reporting on driver lockouts in NYC. Great to see drivers featured who spoke with @natlungfy for the piece, and to be reunited with my reporting partner. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=zJeUHAYV…
Leon Yin retweeted
A new(ish) part of my job at Bloomberg involves overseeing tech data investigations. That means I get to work with incredible reporters, editors and graphics folks on stuff like this. Please read about how this NYC driver minimum wage law went awry:
NEW INVESTIGATION:
Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ @natlungfy @A_W_Gordon @DeniseDSLu
bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
Leon Yin retweeted
In order to get around minimum wage laws in New York, where drivers are supposed to be paid for time on the clock in between rides, Uber and Lyft are simply locking them out of the app so there's no record that they're on the roads at that time.
Incredible, infuriating story.
NEW INVESTIGATION:
Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ @natlungfy @A_W_Gordon @DeniseDSLu
bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…