Lauren Kirchner

I guess we are going to have to find a way to copyright ourselves so that we have the right to demand automatic takedowns of bots that steal our identities…

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!

Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

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Join me (and some of the scientific experts at Consumer Reports) on Reddit in a half hour, where we will be discussing the findings of our latest infant formula investigation - Ask Us Anything! www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

When I go out drinking with the other reporters and we start designing the outlet we’d make if someone handed us a check, the two recurring things on the wishlist are more court reporters and a revival of the Arts and Culture section

With our app, you can do deep searches across entities that show up in the data. Here's a way to search for everyone who mentioned these Elon Musk-connected companies in their disclosure forms:

xAI OR "X Corp" OR Twitter OR Tesla OR Neuralink OR "Boring Co"

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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

Just found a piss-poor rewrite of this article by an "AI" "reporter" so I'm going to re-up it again.

Because while LLMs can write as poorly as the best of us, only we humans can get the info in the first place.

We Tested 41 Baby Formulas for Lead and Arsenic - Consumer Reports CR tested over 40 baby formulas for heavy metals as well as lead, arsenic, BPA, and other potentially harmful contaminants. Here's what you should know.

And here was last year's story about our first round of testing, and some historical context! www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...

We Tested 49 More Baby Formulas for Lead and Arsenic - Consumer Reports Our most recent round of baby formula tests detected contaminants at potentially concerning levels in 26 of the 49 baby formulas we evaluated.

Read more in our new story, out today: www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...

It's been a year since the FDA promised to increase oversight over the infant formula industry. “So far, there has been a lot of sound and fury associated with this initiative in the form of declarative press statements, but it hasn’t translated into any meaningful action,” says CR's Brian Ronholm.

Over 10,000 Women Now Allege That Toxic Chemicals in Hair Relaxers Gave Them Cancer - Consumer Reports Three women tell their stories about their experiences using relaxers, and what their diagnoses have meant for their and their families' lives.

Here's my piece profiling three women (of more than 10,000) who have joined a lawsuit alleging that their use of hair relaxers gave them cancer: www.consumerreports.org/health/hair-...

Dangerous Chemicals Were Detected in 100% of the Braiding Hair We Tested - Consumer Reports CR tested 10 of the most popular synthetic braiding hair products for heavy metals and VOCs. We found carcinogens and more in 100 percent of the samples.

Here's Leigh-Ann Jackson's groundbreaking investigation into harmful chemicals in synthetic braiding hair: www.consumerreports.org/health/wigs-...

So honored that @consumerreports’ “Beauty Justice” series is an ASME finalist! asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...

New York Daily News, Decimated Plus, more news for your Wednesday morning.

"I think the Daily News could very well be a successful newspaper," the unit chair of the Daily News Union told Hell Gate. "It was in the past, and could be again, if they were owned by somebody that actually cared about the newspaper and the journalists."

Goddammit

this is crazy! thank you for sharing it for the greater good -

honestly a little embarrassed I let the pitch get as far as it did, but I’m fine with that if this helps any other tiny pubs avoid getting scammed.

sometimes kids are metal as hell

One of my kids asked if the stars we see are still there, because they know light takes time to travel so we are seeing the past, and so what if the stars are all gone and we are already alone in the universe

Check out @projectsaltbox.bsky.social, a volunteer effort to collect public data on DHS acquisitions of warehouses for ICE -

this rules

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

guys we're gonna win
(we = reporters)

WaPo: We laid off a third of staff
NYT: We sent a dog on a cruise

Cincinnati enquirer headline about how Ohio depends on immigrants for growth

Love and support you always, Cincinnati Enquirer (support local media), but esp today

This is a Midwest daily paper. About as middle of the road as you can get

& they understand that this is an objective, straight news headline, in the context of a planned Trump/GOP onslaught in Springfield, etc

In today's paper, @richiefife.bsky.social call's Alden Capital's NYDN Font Gate "another visible marker of a paper steadily abandoning its identity, its readers, and its responsibility to this city."

Everybody's saying it

If I had even a fraction of Bezos's money I would fund so much unprofitable shit and let it absolutely rip.

Federal Data Is Disappearing The Trump administration has disrupted data collection on everything from homeland security, maternal mortality, hunger, drug use, education, disaster preparation and the economy.

I think about this a lot www.notus.org/trump-white-...

A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals contaminate the supply.

"At least 20 states do not test private wells for PFAS outside of areas where problems are already suspected...." and "While utilities can rely on centralized treatment facilities, restoring safe water for well owners must be done household by household." apnews.com/article/pfas...