
How To Find A Company That Barely Even Exists
A $27.1 million shipment of fluorescent lamps. A bogus website. Elusive owners. A FinCEN Files detective story.

A Russian Billionaire With Close Ties To Putin Made Suspicious Payments To Nobu
The high-end sushi empire received $600,000 as part of a deal with Aras Agalarov, a friend of President Donald Trump's.

Documents Show Deutsche Bank’s Top Executives Were Warned It Had A Dirty Money Problem. Then A $10 Billion Scandal Broke.
When the $10 billion mirror trading scandal was exposed, little emerged about who its victims were or how much Deutsche’s executives knew. The FinCEN Files investigation shows how deep the rot went.

Deadly Terror Networks And Drug Cartels Use Huge Banks To Finance Their Crimes. These Secret Documents Show How The Banks Profit.
Thousands of secret “suspicious activity reports” offer a never-before-seen picture of corruption and complicity — and how the government lets it flourish.

Police Arrested More Than 11,000 People At Protests Across The US
BuzzFeed News reached out to 30 local police departments — including Minneapolis, New York City, and Los Angeles — seeking their official numbers. Here’s what we found.

"It's Only Going To Get Worse": Residents Of Nursing Homes, No Longer Being Inspected, Face New Perils
"It's going to result in horrific cases. If there was ever a time to promote more oversight, this is the day and age when we need it."

Florida's Nursing Homes Ask Gov. DeSantis To Shield Them From Coronavirus Lawsuits
“That they would make this request just floored me," said a former top ombudsman.

We Can Finally End The Myth Of The Lazy Millennial
All those headlines, all the jokes, all the misrepresentations about America's most deliciously hateable adults — they’re fake, people.

Donald Trump’s Campaign Is Cashing In On Impeachment
Seven of the reelection campaign’s top days for unique donors came with the launch of the impeachment inquiry.

Is Elizabeth Warren A Consensus Democratic Choice? This Data Suggests She Could Be.
We analyzed recently released ActBlue data to find out which combinations people gave to when they donated to multiple candidates.

The Best Day Of Joe Biden's Presidential Campaign Was The First One
And other things you can learn from new data on how many donors contributed to Democratic presidential campaigns each day this year.

These Are 50 Of The Biggest Fake News Hits On Facebook In 2018
A BuzzFeed News analysis found that 50 of the biggest fake stories of 2018 generated roughly 22 million total shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook.

Please Welcome China’s WeChat To The #Resistance
Negative articles and comments about Trump were censored on the Chinese internet as recently as this summer. But now the floodgates appear to be open.

These Doctors Are Illegally Prescribing Addiction Medications. But Should They Be Prosecuted?
Some prosecutors are cracking down on prescription fraud involving the common addiction treatment Suboxone. Critics say this will only fuel the epidemic.

Cocaine Deaths Are Rising At An Alarming Rate, And It’s Because Of Fentanyl
Cocaine deaths rose 52% between 2015 and 2016. A BuzzFeed News analysis shows the role of fentanyl in this staggering trend.

Here Are The Secret Records On Thousands Of New York Police Misconduct Cases
Officers' names. Disciplinary charges. Punishments. This huge trove of secret disciplinary records is available and searchable for the first time.

We Compared Several Years Of Oscars Best Picture Scripts To See If They Really Became More Diverse
BuzzFeed News analyzed the film scripts of all Best Picture nominees from 2017, 2015, and 1989 to find out just how diverse major speaking roles are.

These Are 50 Of The Biggest Fake News Hits On Facebook In 2017
Viral fake news generated more engagement on Facebook in 2017 than the previous year, according to a BuzzFeed News analysis.