ProPublica

On YouTube · Independent nonprofit investigative newsroom (generalist channel; only its VA-specific work is curated here).

ProPublica’s VA reporting has repeatedly moved the needle, from its Reliving Agent Orange series, which gave exposed veterans a first-person platform, to its exposé of the flawed AI tool DOGE used to decide which VA contracts to kill. Only a small slice of its generalist channel is VA work, so the selections here are deliberately narrow and VA-specific.

Why we carry them. Its VA investigations document, with receipts, how decisions made far from the bedside land on veterans’ care — the core of the VA fight on camera.

Essential viewing

Inside the AI Tool Used by DOGE to Review Veterans Affairs Contracts

A DOGE software engineer with no health-care experience built an AI to pick VA contracts to kill; ProPublica shows the troubling flaws experts found in it.

Reliving Agent Orange: Blue Water Veteran Wilson McDuffie

Blue Water Navy veteran Wilson McDuffie tells his own Agent Orange story in ProPublica’s first-person Reliving Agent Orange series.

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