Accountability
Conflict beef from Nicaragua feeds US market amid pandemic
Nicaraguan beef, raised on lands violently stolen from Indigenous communities, is making its way into American grocery stores.
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Biography
Nathan Halverson (he/him) is an Emmy Award-winning producer for Reveal, covering business and finance with a current emphasis on the global food system. Before joining Reveal, Halverson worked on projects for FRONTLINE, the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and PBS NewsHour. He was the principal reporter on Reveal's story about the Chinese government’s involvement in the takeover of America’s largest pork company, Smithfield Foods Inc. He was awarded a 2014 McGraw Fellowship by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and he received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Minnesota. He has won a New York Times Chairman’s Award and has received reporting honors from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, California Newspaper Publishers Association, San Francisco Peninsula Press Club and Associated Press News Executives Council. Halverson is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, office.
Articles
In/Vulnerable
‘A restaurant is a living, breathing part of the community.’
Billy Chiu manages Grant Place Restaurant. In this comic illustrated by Thi Bui, he talks about how COVID-19 has impacted business.
Accountability
Harpooned by Facebook
As the pandemic sends more people online for entertainment, we look at how companies such as Facebook turn information about their users into profits.
Accountability
Harpooned by Facebook
As smart devices become a bigger part of our lives, we look at how Facebook and other companies profit from information about their users.
Accountability
Facebook’s fraud policies raised red flags. It still hasn’t changed them
The company allows game developers to run high chargeback rates – a term for when people must ask credit card companies for help getting refunds.
FTC should investigate Facebook’s child gaming practices, advocates say
Unsealed court records show the social media giant deployed a business model that knowingly duped children out of money.
Accountability
When did Zuckerberg learn about Facebook’s targeting of children? Senators want to know
A group of internet privacy and child health advocates also want Facebook to shut down Messenger Kids, a new service aimed at children under age 13.
Accountability
Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money
Unsealed internal documents show the company orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children and their parents out of money.
Cybersecurity
Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents following our legal action
Facebook’s own employees worried they were bamboozling children who racked up hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of dollars in game charges, documents show.
The Secrets of the Drought
Water wars
Next to the air we breathe, it’s the planet’s most precious resource: fresh water. And it’s disappearing. In this episode of Reveal, we look at what’s