I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.
He just resigned.
Katherine Long
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Katherine Long
@ByKLong
Reporter at the @WSJ, via @businessinsider @seattletimes.
[email protected]
Send me tips on Signal from a non-work device: longka.38
Seattle, WA
Joined March 2016
- Replying to @ByKLongI sent these receipts, and dozens more, to @BillAckman earlier today, hopping they would help him do the research he said he had no time to do before blasting us here.
- We found that Oxman lifted at least 15 passages from Wikipedia in her dissertation, and that she borrowed from other scholars, encyclopedias, and technical documents, without any citation, in other academic papers.My wife, @NeriOxman, was just contacted by Business Insider claiming that they have identified other plagiarism in her work including 15 examples in her dissertation where she did not cite Wikipedia as a source. Business Insider told us that they are publishing their story
- Replying to @emanuelmaibergI believe I can say this since I briefly worked as a dishwasher Dishwashers have the right to, nay perhaps should be, as neurotic, antisocial and weird as possible You’re in a steamy windowless cave bombarded by masticated bits of flesh and veg for hours at a time
- A lot of folks have zeroed in on this sentence in our reporting: "Reached by text, Lil Wayne made a sexually explicit overture to a reporter and did not respond to questions." I'm going to share the text he sent, but first some backstory...
Last year we discovered a COVID relief fund meant for struggling arts venues had given $200M+ to wealthy musicians. But we didn't know HOW they spent it — until now. We got the literal receipts, with @TheNewsHam and @ByKLong reviewing thousands of pages of accounting docs - My take on the scam article is that my friend was called by people running the same scam. (Callers said they were the DEA, said someone sent drugs into US under her name, stolen identity etc.) She figured out it was a scam by googling “dea calls identity theft is it a scam?”
- Celebrity musicians got $200+ million in COVID relief grant money meant for struggling arts groups. Here's how they spent it. 1. @chrisbrown spent $80,000 on his 33rd birthday party, including nude models ($2,100), an LED dance floor ($3,650), and bottle service
- Replying to @ByKLongThis is a good time to note that I started at the Wall Street Journal last week! If you work with or around DOGE, I'd love to speak with you. My email address is [email protected] and I'm on Signal at longka.38. Use a non-work device to contact me.
- These are our corporate parents. Paying investors nearly $850 million weeks before they lay off 8% of my colleagues. This isn't an unprofitable industry. It's a pillaged industry.
thinking of this story as my friends again figure out how to cope with 13 weeks’ severance in one of the worst environments for media in a long, long time. ft.com/content/457195… - Quick career update: Today was my last day at Business Insider. I'll be starting at the Wall Street Journal later this month. See you all at my new byline soon!
- Replying to @BillAckman and @NeriOxmanWikipedia is considered common knowledge and doesn’t require citations.Readers added contextWikipedia is not considered common knowledge, all text is copyrighted under a rather restrictive license GFDL and the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license and there are instructions on how to cite or else you are committing plagiarism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…
- Replying to @ByKLongI followed up. He said I'd reached the "wrong Dwayne." (Remember, we found this email address in exhibits to a lawsuit, showing his manager had been using it to send him business documents.) I sent this exchange to Lil Wayne's publicists. They didn't respond.
