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ProPublica's Big Story ... WED. FEB 24, 2021
Peter Burgess
Sheryl Sandberg and top Facebook execs silenced an enemy of Turkey to prevent a hit to the company’s business ProPublica's Big Story Unsubscribe 8:55 AM (30 minutes ago) to me ProPublica The Big Story WED. FEB 24, 2021 Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business Amid a 2018 Turkish military campaign, Facebook ultimately sided with Turkey’s demand to block the page of a mostly Kurdish militia. “I am fine with this,” Sandberg wrote. by Jack Gillum and Justin Elliott VIEW STORY MORE FROM OUR NEWSROOM Lawyers Who Were Ineligible to Handle Serious Criminal Charges Were Given Thousands of These Cases Anyway In the only state with no public defenders, people charged with murder and other serious crimes can get assigned attorneys who are legally ineligible to take on their cases. The state claims it was unaware. by Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica “Power Companies Get Exactly What They Want”: How Texas Repeatedly Failed to Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather Texas regulators and lawmakers knew about the grid’s vulnerabilities for years, but time and again they furthered the interests of large electricity providers. by Jeremy Schwartz, Kiah Collier and Vianna Davila Why We Can’t Make Vaccine Doses Any Faster President Biden has promised enough doses for all American adults by this summer. There’s not much even the Defense Production Act can do to deliver doses before then. by Isaac Arnsdorf and Ryan Gabrielson Dying on the Waitlist In Los Angeles County and around the country, doctors have had to decide who gets a lifesaving COVID-19 treatment and who doesn’t. by David Armstrong and Marshall Allen The IRS Cashed Her Check. Then the Late Notices Started Coming. A mountainous backlog of paperwork at the IRS continues to wreak havoc on America’s tax collection system — which especially hurts lower-income filers. by Lydia DePillis “I Don’t Trust the People Above Me”: Riot Squad Cops Open Up About Disastrous Response to Capitol Insurrection Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress. by Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan People Over 75 Are First in Line to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19. The Average Black Person Here Doesn’t Live That Long. Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccinations for people 75 and up can leave out Black Americans, who tend to die younger than their white counterparts. In majority-Black Shelby County, this gap raises questions of how to make the vaccine rollout equitable. by Wendi C. Thomas and Hannah Grabenstein, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism This email was sent to peterbnyc@gmail.com. Update your email preferences or unsubscribe to stop receiving this newsletter. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. ProPublica • 155 Ave of the Americas, 13th Floor • New York, NY 10013