Instacart’s Secret Price Tiers
We recruited over 400 people across the country to do something simple: shop for groceries on Instacart. What we found was anything but. Within a week of publicaiton, Reuters reported that the FTC launched an investigation Instacart’s pricing
The Lie So Dangerous Tesla Engineers Are Quitting
For nearly a decade Tesla promised self-driving cars. This summer, we got to see what that actually looked like. It wasn’t pretty. While Tesla failed to deliver on their promise, they sold early versions of the technology to hundreds of thousands of people, calling it “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving.”
Now a California lawsuit could hold Tesla accountable.
How Your Car Became an Insurance Spy
Is your car ratting you out to your insurance company? I investigated the shadowy data pipeline connecting automakers to insurers. I found car companies are harvesting personal, social, and biometric data from millions of drivers, then selling it to raise your premiums.
The Truth About the AI Gold Rush
AI executives promise to cure disease and usher in humanity’s golden age. But behind the rhetoric AI systems are breaking laws (discriminating in hiring, denying medical care, rejecting loans) and the industry has spent over $100 million lobbying to ensure nobody can stop them.
Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 Million Makeover
What’s behind Mark Zuckerberg’s sudden transformation from awkward tech CEO to gold chain-wearing jiu-jitsu enthusiast?
The timing tells the story. Behind the rebrand and his newfound friendship with Joe Rogan lies a cynical calculation: the government is preparing to break up Facebook’s empire, and Zuckerberg needs Trump to stop it.
How Wall Street Took Over Fire Departments
Private equity firms dominate America’s fire truck market. They bought in with one goal: double profits. Now communities everywhere are paying the price.
We Went to a Crypto Conference: We Left Terrified
After spending $130 million on the 2024 elections, crypto won every race it invested in. Now they’re getting the deregulation they paid for. The parallels to 2008 are impossible to ignore.
I went to a crypto conference and watched an industry celebrate its political victory while pushing for policies that could mean economic disaster for the rest of us.
The Texas Two Step: J&J’s Billion-Dollar Escape Plan
Johnson & Johnson knew their baby powder contained asbestos and caused cancer. They covered it up. A generation of women suffered, linking their ovarian cancer to J&J. But the $370 billion company could get away with it using a shady legal move: the Texas Two Step.