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Lauren Etter

Business Crime

The War Inside 7-Eleven

The company has been battling its store owners for years, using tactics that include planting hidden cameras and and tailing franchisees in unmarked vehicles. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities.

Lauren Etter, Michael Smith Businessweek Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Tech

How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda

Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.

Lauren Etter, Vernon Silver, Sarah Frier Bloomberg Business Dec 2017 10min Permalink

Politics Tech World Media

What Happens When the Government Uses Facebook as a Weapon?

A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”

Lauren Etter Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2017 15min Permalink

Business World

Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Send Cash

How Western Union does business in 2017.

Drake Bennett, Lauren Etter Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2017 20min Permalink