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.
Staff
Biography
Nathan Halverson 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
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
The Secrets of the Drought
All this recent rain won’t stop California from sinking
The powerful storm that pounded California recently seemed like the break the state so desperately needed. But it wasn’t enough. In fact, there is probably no storm capable of washing away California’s water woes, scientists say.
Climate Change
California’s still sinking. Trump’s NASA cut would complicate things
The president-elect is gearing up to cut NASA’s environmental monitoring, which includes the data that’s been used to monitor California’s sinking.
Climate Change
Trump’s climate change denial benefits Russia
The Russian government is expected to benefit from record crop harvests in the coming decades as global warming begins transforming once frigid fields into temperate farmland, according to a recent United Nations report.