Doug MacMillan

@dmac1 · Washington, D.C. · joined 28 Aug 2008

Corporate accountability reporter @washingtonpost. Formerly @WSJ @Bloomberg @BW. Same thing we do every night, Pinky 🐭 douglas.macmillan@washpost.com

34 962Followers

3 909Following

5 683Posts total

173.3KViews on collected posts

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Doug MacMillan@dmac120 Aug

These cops misused your service for years and went undetected by their departments, who never did audits. They only took action after journalists read the audit logs and flagged the suspicious use to the departments. Which part of catching these cops is Flock taking credit for? 15.8K views · 466 likes · 61 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Doug MacMillan@dmac119 Aug

@dmac1 I have access to medical records. I would be fired if I opened an electronic medical record I did not have a legitimate patient-care-related reason to open. 776 views · 29 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Doug MacMillan@dmac119 Aug

Gift link to full story with @aaronjschaffer @drewharwell here: https://t.co/ljlfxmmfqv 3.2K views · 95 likes · 12 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Doug MacMillan@dmac119 Aug

Other departments took swift action, too. Indianapolis police chief Tanya Terry suspended an officer without pay after my outreach. She acknowledged her agency wasn't doing regular audits prior to this incident. (Grace Hollars/IndyStar/USA Today/Reuters) https://t.co/2hblXN3GHY

3.1K views · 87 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Doug MacMillan@dmac119 Aug

Researcher extraordinaire @aaronjschaffer attempted to find personal connections between these officers and the license plates they searched, using social media profiles, court records and other publicly available information. 3.4K views · 84 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Doug MacMillan@dmac119 Aug

I contacted the subjects of the searches, the officers and their police departments to share what we found. One day after I reached out to the wife of an officer in Haines City, the officer confessed to his supervisor and was arrested. The arrest affidavit mentions my outreach: h

3.2K views · 98 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Doug MacMillan@dmac119 Aug

We got data from @HIBFlocked, which aggregates Flock "audit logs" that were released through public records requests. The data showed many officers had run hundreds or thousands of searches on a single plate. https://t.co/ASjtrkOWdr

3.8K views · 97 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Doug MacMillan@dmac119 Aug

Police departments are not regularly auditing how their officers use Flock, a powerful surveillance network -- so we did it for them. Three cops are now being investigated and one was arrested as a result of our inquiries. Here's how we did it... 🧵 https://t.co/rq0Kn9KnBz

118.6K views · 1.2K likes · 341 reposts · 35 replies Open on X →

Doug MacMillan@dmac116 Jul

DHS Inspector General is hiring a contractor to inspect ICE detention facilities, noting recent expansion "has stressed the system" leading to overcrowding, more detainee deaths and hiring of contractors "with little-to-no experience" https://t.co/JFbwVai0c7 h/t @aaronjschaffer 503 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Doug MacMillan@dmac111 Jul

ICE detention charges up to 2X what you'd pay at Walmart for the same products https://t.co/yWN4GLmoZI

516 views · 8 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Doug MacMillan@dmac117 Jun

ICE's largest contractor asked the Trump administration to remove protections for immigrant detainees who work for as little as $1 a day. In ICE's new national detention standards, they got their wish. https://t.co/X1Jj8pKrVg

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20.4K views · 54 likes · 48 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

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10 Beiträge aus den letzten 90 Tagen, verglichen mit der Größenklasse 10K–100K Follower. wird weit über das eigene Publikum hinaus gezeigt, und es reagiert.

Medianaufrufe3 188dieses Konto924Median für 10K–100K

Reichweite, %9.12%dieses Konto3.62%Median für 10K–100K

Interaktion, %2.92%dieses Konto1.52%Median für 10K–100K

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Reichweite (Aufrufe ÷ Follower)	9.12%	3.62%	2.52×
Interaktionsrate	2.92%	1.52%	1.92×

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Engagement rate per post

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2.33%11 Jul

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes71.7%2 197 in total

Reposts16.0%492 in total

Replies2.2%68 in total

Quotes1.1%35 in total

Bookmarks8.9%274 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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