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BREAKING: Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a series of stories revealing how social-media behemoth Meta knowingly exposed users, including children, to harmful AI chatbots and made billions of dollars from fraudulent ads reut.rs/48GOvXD

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In the series, Reuters exposed the crucial role played by scams and edgy AI bots in the business model of the Facebook and Instagram owner reut.rs/4uswp3U

reut.rsMeta's Secrets of SuccessInternal Meta documents show that ads for frauds and banned products are generating billions of dollars in revenue a year for the social media giant, and that the company designed its AI chatbots to p...

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4 May

Reuters also won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for stories on US ‌President Donald Trump's campaign of political retribution reut.rs/4tcL8yI

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Reuters was a finalist in two other categories, including breaking news photography for images that vividly documented the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration across the US reut.rs/4wgYzkf

reut.rsA series of breaking news photos from Trump's immigration crackdownReuters was named a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography 'for coverage of wide-ranging immigration enforcement actions across the United States, a portfolio distinguished ...

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4 May

A project that used graphic-novel techniques to explore the scam compounds of Asia, where people were forced by criminal gangs to work in mass fraud operations, was a finalist in the category of illustrated reporting reut.rs/4emCVV7

reut.rsThey traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.A multibillion-dollar fraud industry has taken root across Southeast Asia, fueled partly by trafficking victims. In lawless zones along the Myanmar-Thai border, Chinese-run compounds force thousands t...