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Global investigative reporter @Reuters Previously worked at Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer. Fishes with flies.

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Steve Stecklow’s Biography

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I am a full-time, global investigative reporter with Reuters.

Projects I've worked on include a series of investigations of Elon Musk and Tesla, a probe into Facebook’s failure to combat hate speech in Myanmar, a series on the risks of cryptocurrencies, a series on U.S. college admissions fraud, a series on how Iran's Supreme Leader secretly controls a multi-billion-dollar corporate empire, a series on the use of Western and Chinese technology by repressive regimes to crack down on dissidents,…

Steve Stecklow’s Journalist Portfolio

Tesla's secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

Tesla's secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide "rosy" projections of…

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Hatebook: Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar

Hatebook: Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar

Reuters found more than 1,000 examples of posts, comments and pornographic images attacking the Rohingya and …

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Reuters Investigates - Assets of the Ayatollah

Reuters Investigates - Assets of the Ayatollah

Reuters investigates Setad, the $95 billion economic empire behind Iran's Supreme Leader.

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Amazon copied products and rigged search results, documents show

Amazon copied products and rigged search results, documents show

Amazon.com Inc has been repeatedly accused of knocking off products it sells on its website and of exploiting…

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Cheat Sheet: The gaming of standardized tests & college admissions

Cheat Sheet: The gaming of standardized tests & college admissions

Reuters is investigating the standardized testing giants and an underground industry that helps kids cheat th…

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Crypto Casino: Inside the booming, risky world of cryptocurrencies

Crypto Casino: Inside the booming, risky world of cryptocurrencies

A four-part investigation of cryptocurrencies highlighting the extreme risks for ordinary investors.

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Articles

California county sues Meta over scam ads

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By Jeff Horwitz Verified, Steve Stecklow Verified, Edwina Gibbs
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May 11 (Reuters) - California's Santa Clara County has sued Meta Platforms, alleging it has profited from Facebook and Instagram ads promoting scams in violation of California's false advertising and unfair business practices laws.
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AI chatbot diagnoses no substitute for physicians' advice | New Straits Times

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By Steve Stecklow Verified
| New Straits Times Verified
ARTIFICIAL intelligence is shaking up industries from software and law to entertainment and education. And as physicians like Dr Cem Aksoy are learning, it's posing special challenges in medicine as patients tap AI for advice. Dr Aksoy, a medical resident at a hospital in Ankara, Turkiye, says an 18-year-old patient and his family recently panicked after the young man was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour on his left leg. They turned to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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Doctors have question as more AI-powered apps claim to offer medical guidance

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By Steve Stecklow Verified
| The Japan Times Verified
Artificial intelligence is shaking up industries from software and law to entertainment and education. And as physicians like Dr. Cem Aksoy are learning, it’s posing special challenges in medicine as patients tap the technology for advice. Aksoy, a medical resident at a hospital in Ankara, Turkey, says an 18-year-old patient and his family recently panicked after the young man was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on his left leg. They turned to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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Pulitzer Prize

2024 - National Reporting

Shared with Reuters colleagues for an investigative series on Elon Musk's companies that included my stories on how Tesla has victimized its own customers.

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George Polk Award

2024 - Business Reporting

Stecklow shared the George Polk Award with Reuters colleagues "for penetrating reports on nefarious practices at companies owned by multi-billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk." They included how electric automaker Tesla hid dangerous defects in steering and suspension parts, rigged in-dash driving-range estimates in its cars, invaded drivers’ privacy by sharing sensitive images recorded by their vehicles and made insurance customers wait months for claim payouts. Stecklow previously shared or won the George Polk Award in 1997, 1996 and 1987.

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Gerald Loeb Award

2024 - Beat reporting

Shared with other Reuters colleagues for the "Musk Industrial Complex," a series on Elon Musk's companies.

Pulitzer Prize

2019 - International Reporting

Stecklow shared the Pulitzer with other Reuters colleagues for a series of stories called Myanmar Burning. His contribution was "Hatebook," an investigation into how Facebook had failed to stop hate speech in Myanmar.

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Pulitzer Prize

2007 - Public Service

Stecklow shared the Pulitzer Prize for public service with three Wall Street Journal colleagues for a series of stories on backdated stock options. The stories won several other awards, including the $25,000 Ursula and Gilbert Farfel prize for investigative reporting from the Scripps Howard Foundation.

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Pulitzer Prize

2017 - Finalist -- National Reporting

Stecklow and several Reuters colleagues were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for uncovering a U.S. college admissions process corrupted by systematic cheating on standardized tests in Asia and the complicity of American officials eager to cash in on full-tuition foreign students.

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Pulitzer Prize

2020 - Finalist -- International reporting

Stecklow and several Reuters colleagues were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for a series on the Hong Kong protests. His contribution was "Blocked in China," which documented how, under pressure from the Chinese government, the financial information provider that distributes Reuters news to investors had blocked more than 200 stories on the mainland that could paint Beijing in a negative light.

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Pulitzer Prize

2003 - Finalist - International Reporting

Stecklow and a Journal colleague, Alix Freedman, were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for a series on corruption in the United Nations oil-for-food program. The stories also won a prize from the United Nations Correspondents Association.

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Gerald R. Loeb Award, etc.

2014

Shared six journalism prizes with two Reuters colleagues -- Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati -- for "Assets of the Ayatollah," a three-part series on Iran’s Supreme Leader. It won the Gerald R. Loeb Award for explanatory reporting, the Overseas Press Club Award for best business reporting from abroad, the European Press Prize and the Daniel Pearl Award for investigative reporting, the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism and the SABEW Best in Business Award for international investigative reporting. The series documented how Iran’s top religious cleric controlled a secretive, multibillion-dollar business empire that was built on the seizure of properties belonging to ordinary Iranians.

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