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Robert Friedman

@rfriedman305

Senior Editor, Investigations, at Bloomberg News

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The saddest story you will read today. And maybe the best. Olivia Carville goes deep on a social media sextortion scam targeting teenage boys, driving some to suicide. bloomberg.com/features/2024-… via Businessweek

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The billionaire and the boiler room. Follow the money. Zachary Mider and Zeke Faux finally figured out where some of the funding for the cash-advance industry is coming from. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Businessweek

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Hats off to my colleagues for winning the Data Journalism of the Year Award from the Wincott Foundation for their fabulous work on how Europe's biggest energy companies rigged the market.

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⁦Why are Customs agents expelling Chinese graduate students with valid visas?⁦ My colleague ⁦Sheridan Prasso⁩ documented more than 20 cases in recent months in what she describes as a new, secretive China Initiative. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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Latest from⭐️reporters Olivia Carville and Cecilia D'Anastasio about predators lurking on popular gaming platform Roblox. Proud to have worked with them on this disturbing Businessweek investigation. bloomberg.com/features/2024-… via Businessweek

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Bloomberg's Olivia Carville has been investigating child safety in the digital world for the past two years, reporting on how social media platforms are harming a generation of kids. We put all her stories in one place: bloomberg.com/features/socia… via Businessweek

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We've been writing about predatory lender Jonathan Braun for years. This happened yesterday: Jonathan Braun, the loan shark freed from prison by Trump, was arrested on charges of punching his wife and his 75-year-old father-in-law bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

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How did chips made by US companies get inside a Russian missile that killed a 6-year-old girl in Ukraine? Bloomberg's Stephanie Baker and Daryna Krasnolutska do the autopsy for Businessweek. Powerful. bloomberg.com/features/2024-… via Businessweek

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Proud of this investigation by Gavin Finch Kendall Taggart 🕵🏼‍♀️ David Kocieniewski The World Bank invested billions of dollars in private hospitals from Africa to Asia to improve healthcare. But stories of abuses have piled up bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg

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New crypto mining by Zeke Faux and Todd Gillespie Cantor Fitzgerald is the linchpin of the go-to digital currency of the criminal world. Its CEO is poised to become Commerce secretary bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg Politics

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👋👋👋Proud of @bw reporters Olivia Carville and Cecilia D'Anastasio for winning George Polk award for technology reporting for stories about how companies fail to protect children online. LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES 2024 GEORGE POLK AWARDS IN JOURNALISM prn.to/4gFr2Hr

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A French billionaire, an archipelago of rubber plantations and sex-for-work allegations. Kudos to Sheridan Prasso, Gaspard Sebag and Benoît Berthelot for this investigation. bloomberg.com/features/2025-… via Bloomberg

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Congrats to Olivia Carville and Cecilia D'Anastasio on winning the John Bartlow Martin Award for public interest magazine journalism for their Businessweek articles about online hazards for teens. 👋👋👋medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/bloo… via Northwestern Medill

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A former TV comedy writer. Thousands of fake jobs. And health-care plans that don't cover much of anything. This just out from Zachary Mider and Zeke Faux bloomberg.com/features/2025-… via Bloomberg