How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral ^21.6%

ProPublica - By Justin Elliott - 7/2/2026, 9:00 AM

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Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First Refining, that had secretly gotten investment from Donald Trump Jr. We discovered a saga involving the Trump administration’s tariff policy, sanctioned Russian oil and an Indian billionaire family’s private zoo. At the center of... more