A data scientist shared on Substack how he was fired from Reuters after rebutting the media company's reporting on the Black Lives Matter movement.
As a director of data science, it was"his job" to sift through numbers and"figure out what they meant," Kriegman wrote. But when he examined the data surrounding"The data was unequivocal. It showed that, if anything, police were slightlyA protester waves a Black Lives Matter flag during the demonstration.
Fearing backlash because of"fervent and vocal support" for the movement within the company, Kriegman said he sat on his findings,"for months.""I continued to read Reuters’ reporting on the movement, and started to see how the company’s misguided worldview about policing and racism was distorting the way we were reporting news stories to the public," he wrote.
Kriegman said he noted"a pattern" where Reuters went from"ignoring facts that undermined the BLM narrative" to"just reporting lies." He accused the news organization"misinforming" readers on an issue which influenced public policies that
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