project

Dying on Camera

Joint reporting project of MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego examining failures of US border surveillance technology and the deaths of people in the borderlands.

Current clusters

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MIT Technology Review asks CBP for the tower audit it could have run since 2015

Reporters covered nearly 600 of the 800 towers the government says are operating, and they had to assemble the map themselves from outside sources. Death records follow no shared protocol, so their count of more than 1,050 deaths nearby is a floor.

Publishers:technologyreview.com

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption78
Hype gap−18
Incentives58
Confidence62

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MIT Technology Review counted more than 1,050 deaths inside the range of CBP's surveillance towers

The investigation found deaths inside the advertised range of nearly two-thirds of the towers it analysed, and most of them were not in blind spots. In the New Mexico case it follows closely, landfill workers made the call to Border Patrol.

Publishers:technologyreview.com

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption82
Hype gap+18
Incentives55
Confidence62