Elizabeth Dwoskin

EXCLUSIVE: Sharing my investigation into how Israel’s secretive 8200 intelligence unit built “AI factories” for war. Years before October 7, commanders debated whether “the man was replaced by the machine.” 🧵 washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

With not too much prompting, 8 leading chatbots helped users plan violent attacks, including providing maps for school shootings and detailed plans for a synagogue bombing. The only one that blocked these requests was Claude. counterhate.com/research/kille…

@SykesCharlie Original scoop was our story in the @washingtonpost. We worked on this for months. TechCrunch wrote it up, which we appreciate

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/dog…

@mehdirhasan Thanks Mehdi. The complaint didn’t mention Elon specifically but our reporting points to his belief that he needed to get into the data pipes because he felt the federal bureaucracy would stymie him otherwise.

Now we know why Musk gets so angry and upset when anyone suggests a future Democratic administration/Congress should investigate him for any alleged crimes committed during the DOGE period.

For all the talk of how Anthropic won the public’s heart, the company is arguing in a court right now that these examples from recent days show how it will lose billions from the Pentagon fight: -a fintech company that paused negotiations on a 50 million contract -a pharma company that shortened a contract to 10 months -a university system that switched away from Anthropic

When his colleagues refused to help him upload the data, citing legal concerns, he told them that he would receive a “presidential pardon” if the behavior was deemed illegal.

@lizzadwoskin @jacobbogage Gift 🎁 link wapo.st/4bAFCQZ

Call it Yelp for the seeker set. American influencers are playing a modern role — online interpreter, explainer for a country newly searching for meaning but uninterested in the old gatekeepers. GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4llq2w7

Incredible read: 60 New Yorkers on how much they made last year. Midtown coffee cart guy made as much as a NYT Bestselling Author with 800k IG followers. Both made 1/3 as much as a server at a midtown power lunch spot & less than a traveling lice lady. archive.is/ezKAu

“We are clear about the institutional failures that allowed Hadden to exploit the system, abuse patients, and avoid detection for as long as he did,” @Columbia President Claire Shipman said.

SCOOP: In 2021, they helped organize Trump's January 6 rally. In the last year, Event Strategies has raked in federal contracts worth $26M, many of them with no other bidders w/ @zoeschiffer @leahfeiger @hudsongiles wired.com/story/they-hel…

Exclusive: Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job, via @MerylKornfield @lizzadwoskin and Lisa Rein washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

🚨 SSA IG is investigating a whistleblower complaint that alleges a former DOGE member took Social Security data with him to a government contractor. Story w/ @lizzadwoskin @FedGirlWaPo washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

SCOOP: Last year we reported extensively on Elon Musk’s desire to break into the data pipes of government to bypass the federal bureaucracy. That approach had major consequences — one of which we reveal today: A DOGE bro allegedly made off with volumes upon volumes of highly sensitive Social Security data - the agency’s “crown jewels” - which he downloaded on a thumb drive and brought over to his new job. Me, @MerylKornfield @FedGirlWaPo report on this unprecedented breach: washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

NEW: Google’s chief scientist Jeff Dean, along with dozens of other engineers working on frontier models at OpenAI and Google, have joined Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Pentagon. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

And it’s official: Anthropic is out. Looks like the 11th hour negotiations this week didn’t work.

A rather scary read... and a repeat of what we saw in Gaza. "As planning for a potential strike in Iran was underway, Maven, powered by Claude, suggested hundreds of targets, issued precise location coordinates, and prioritized those targets according to importance, said two of the people. The pairing of Maven and Claude has created a tool that is speeding the pace of the campaign, reducing Iran’s ability to counterstrike and turning weeks-long battle planning into real-time operations, said one of the people. The AI tools also evaluate a strike after it is initiated, the person said." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us literally *right now* to make planting season wired.com/story/trumps-w…

Florida Republican operatives, including the Miami GOP secretary and a TPUSA chapter president, participated in an racist and antisemitic group chat called "Gooning in Agartha." floridianpress.com/2026/03/miami-…

🚨 EXCLUSIVE — Tucker Carlson claims that a sect of Judaism called Chabad is ultimately behind the military strikes on Iran. This might be Tucker's most absurd claim to date. And it's yet another shot at Trump. Why? Well, @jaredkushner & @IvankaTrump have belonged to Chabad in DC, and Kushner helped lead the U.S. negotiations before the strike began last week. As for Tucker's rant about Chabad — which he helpfully spelled for his viewers — it is beyond preposterous. It's also dangerous — Chabad buildings and events have repeatedly been targeted by terrorists. For example, the horrific massacre last December at Bondi Beach in Australia, where 15 were murdered, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, was a Chabad event. Tucker explained in tonight's monologue that the "real" reason for the strikes on Iran — meaning why Israel, in his telling, is forcing the U.S. to help topple the Mullahs — is to launch a "holy war" for the purpose of destroying the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem, in order to rebuild the Third Temple at the same site. And who does Tucker claim is behind this insidious plot — and thus the military campaign he called "evil"? Chabad. As anyone active in Jewish life knows, Chabad focuses on outreach to its own local Jewish community, particularly to more secular Jews who don't feel connected to a standing synagogue. But because Chabad is not known to almost anyone outside of the Jewish community, it makes for an easy target of dark conspiracy theories. That's why Candace Owens has made Chabad into a villain in her increasingly unhinged rants. But here is why this theory is as crazy as it is dangerous. Chabad is a loosely-knit collection of synagogues (and related community/educational centers), each run by a Rabbi and his wife, who stay in a given community or neighborhood typically for life. Far from being structured like, say, the Catholic Church, each Chabad House raises its own funds. Tucker's "logic" for his outrageous allegations is that Chabad wants to bring about the building of the Third Temple, known in Hebrew as the beit hamikdash. But... how does Chabad actually to bring about the building of the beit hamikdash? Through acts of kindness. Truly by doing good deeds in order to "merit" God rebuilding the Jewish holy site. In fact, Jews have for prayed for the rebuilding of the beit hamikdash — every single day — since shortly after the destruction of the Second Temple almost two thousand years ago. It is literally part of Jews' daily prayers. But it has nothing to do with tearing down an Islamic holy site, let alone starting a holy war. It's a prayer asking God to return us to the elevated state of spirituality that existed during the time of the Temple, and more importantly, for Him to send "Moshiac," or the Messiah. That Tucker would turn ancient Jewish prayers into some kind of sinister plot that is responsible for a very real and ongoing military campaign should be shocking. Sadly, though, it's not. But that doesn't mean that it isn't dangerous. Real people and actual families go to Chabad synagogues, and little kids across the U.S. and in other countries attend Chabad schools and preschools. It takes just one person already on the fringes to use this kind of rhetoric as justification for violence. That's not speculation. It has happened again and again — just in recent years. Yet Tucker is so blinded by his desire to take a swipe at Jared and Ivanka — because he knows he can't attack Trump directly — that he simply doesn't care.

The most details I've seen yet on exactly how the military uses Claude. Really great reporting by @TaraCopp, @lizzadwoskin and @iduncan