This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss storage, RSS, and a big reporting project.
JOSEPH: In an earlier BTB I mentioned the pain of obtaining cryptocurrency in 2026. Well, that was in service for the article we published this week called ‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World. This has been a long time coming. As you can read in the piece, it took weeks, eventually more than a month really, to get the people to sell me the software and for us to test it.
I wanted to talk about my opinion on the ethics around a story like this. This is not a science. Many journalists have a different view on all sorts of different techniques or conduct. But these are my thoughts.