Corporate accountability reporter @washingtonpost. Formerly @WSJ @Bloomberg @BW. Same thing we do every night, Pinky 🐭 douglas.macmillan@washpost.com
Dec 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
After seeing video of a 97 yo woman freezing to death while banging on the locked doors of her upscale assisted living home, I needed to understand why no one came to help. What @PostRowland and I found is troubling: A $34B industry rampant with neglect wapo.st/3RpQTbC
The woman is Mary Jo Staub. She paid over $7k/month for a Colorado facility advertising "24/7 on-site care." In our story you can watch a video about her death by @joysharonyi but I warn you: You cannot unsee her haunting look of despair. To me, it says: "How could this happen?"
Dec 23, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
The public offering of Trump's media business is being led by a Shanghai investment firm the SEC has investigated for fraud. We looked at the origins of Arc Capital and some of the strange businesses it has created or financed in recent years. w/ @jocwapowashingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
In a filing, Arc-backed startup Nova Smart Solutions claimed to be developing an "autonomous flight algorithm" for drones. In the same filing, it said the company had no employees sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
Dec 17, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The Mormon church has a secretive $100 billion investment fund that may be violating U.S. tax laws. Here's some things we learned from a whistleblower's 74-page letter to the IRS washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The church has a lot more money than everyone thought. It’s bigger than Harvard’s endowment and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put together.
Oct 8, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Google discovered a software bug that exposed private data on hundreds of thousands of users, and decided not to inform the public. Here’s our story: on.wsj.com/2ON4dsq
Several questions are still unanswered...
How many people did this impact?
Google investigators ran tests over 2 weeks and found up to 496,951 users could be affected. However, that was just 2 weeks. The bug went unfixed for over 2 years. Over the full period, the actual number of affected users could be much higher.
Here’s how it works…
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Billions of messages arrive in Yahoo Mail and AOL Mail every day. Yahoo’s parent company Oath scans them all, ignoring personal messages and looking for commercial templates it recognizes
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Jul 2, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Google has been trying to make Gmail a platform for outside developers to build email apps and add-ons. In doing so, it’s given hundreds of companies the ability to read people’s email wsj.com/articles/techs…
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Email apps perform useful tasks, like Boomerang for scheduling emails and Streak for managing sales prospects. Earny scans your receipts looking for products you overpaid for /2
