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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:

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.

BREAKING: An investigation into Uber & Lyft 's lockouts found that the companies are using dirty tricks to avoid compliance with NYC's fair pay rules. Drivers could be locked into years of low wages & lose up to $154 MILLION as a result. A must read 🔽 bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Bloomberg vetted >5,300 screenshots from 800+ Uber and Lyft drivers, spoke w/ 118 of them and learnt how pervasive, damaging NYC lockouts have been for them. W/ Leon Yin Aaron W. Gordon ಠ_ಠ Our interactive graphic shows how cos save 100s of mlns in future pay with lockouts:

Our methodology is inspired by Aaron and Dhruv Mehrotra’s Jalopnik piece on Uber and a Lyft fares and dana calacci 🦋 @dana.witchy.business’s Shipt calculator SMS bot that offers pay transparency to Target gig workers. jalopnik.com/uber-and-lyft-… dcalacci.net/papers/Calacci…

BONUS: Adrianne Jeffries and Aaron W. Gordon produced a short documentary based on our reporting on driver lockouts in NYC. Great to see drivers featured who spoke with Natalie Lung for the piece, and to be reunited with my reporting partner. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=zJeUHA…

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. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Journalists covering extremist movements should be aware of how these groups strategically use & manipulate media coverage, Whitney Phillips writes for Data & Society. Read more (including recommendations for countering these movements) here: datasociety.net/library/oxygen…

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-swattin…