John A. Jenkins

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Crash and Burn: Hindenburg Makes it Happen

FOIAengine: EARLY WARNINGS ABOUT ACTIVIST SHORT SELLERS Hindenburg Research takes its name from an infamous event that happened 86 years ago when a German airship crashed and burned in New...

Big Bet on Brain Implants: Elon Musk, Cyborgs, and...

FOIAengine REVEALS QUESTIONS ABOUT NEURALINK Elon Musk, no stranger to controversy, took the stage a little over three months ago to double down on a big bet.  In a livestream...

Clash of the Titans: Elon Musk Battles a FOIA...

FOIAengine REVEALS A GROWING LEGAL FEUD Sometimes FOIAengine sends us in an unexpected direction as we scan for trends and early warnings.  That’s what happened this week.  Scrolling through dozens of recent Freedom of...

FOIAengine: Requests Pointed to SBF’s Shaky World Long Before...

Jacob Silverman is a cryptocurrency savant and Jeopardy champion with 35,000 Twitter followers and stories to tell.  A few years ago, the 38-year-old recalled his days as a “boomerang child” during the Great...

In the Wall Street Journal’s Crosshairs: Upside Foods, Tailor...

FOIAengine Reveals the Questions Reporters Ask Freedom of Information Act requests to the federal government can be an important early warning of bad publicity or litigation to come.  PoliScio Analytics’ competitive-intelligence database...

FOIA Requests Presaged Huge Problems for Baby-Formula Maker Abbott...

A New Database Compiles Millions of FOIA Records to Analyze Trends Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT), the giant U.S.-based medical device and health care company, revealed on February 17 that it faces...