Jeff Horwitz wins a 2024 Loeb Award

Jeff Horwitz, OPC Foundation Fred Weigold Scholar Award winner in 2009, and his colleague Katherine Blunt at the Wall Street Journal won a 2024 Loeb Award in the beat reporting category for a story entitled “The Dark Side of Meta’s Algorithms.”  The series of articles described how Instagram and Facebook connected networks of pedophiles and served them disturbing content, and how parent Meta Platforms not only failed to stop this harmful activity but added to the risks.