NYT has a public api that can be used to track some so-called "stealth edits". Full text is not supported, but the API has endpoints that provide headlines, abstracts, lead paragraphs, and article word counts.
Everything should work. Headlines that do not appear to have changed are resulting in different MD5 hashes and being duplicated in database. I will fix that at some point.
- why are some articles/edits missing?
- The tracker uses the Archive endpoint, which is only updated three times per day (around 3:30PT, 11:30PT, and 19:30PT). Articles can be published and edited before the tracker sees them. If you do not like this, build your own. It takes like 15 minutes.
article info:
- article_id
- 74f91bbe-fa0e-50cb-86a8-a0e93cc3c0e1
- pub_date
- 2022-08-16 02:00:34
- section_name
- Business Day
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/business/economy/covid-pandemic-fraud.html
history:
version: 2022-08-16 11:45:04
Prosecutors Struggle to Catch Up to a Tidal Wave of Pandemic Fraud
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Investigators say there was so much fraud in federal Covid-relief programs that — even after two years of work and hundreds of prosecutions — they’re still just getting started.
In the midst of the pandemic the government gave unemployment benefits to the incarcerated, the imaginary and the dead. It sent money to “farms” that turned out to be front yards. It paid people who were on the government’s “Do Not Pay List.” It gave loans to 342 people who said their name was “N/A.”
word count: 2145
version: 2022-08-16 19:45:05
Prosecutors Struggle to Catch Up to a Tidal Wave of Pandemic Fraud
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Investigators say there was so much fraud in federal Covid-relief programs that — even after two years of work and hundreds of prosecutions — they’re still just getting started.
In the midst of the pandemic, the government gave unemployment benefits to the incarcerated, the imaginary and the dead. It sent money to “farms” that turned out to be front yards. It paid people who were on the government’s “Do Not Pay List.” It gave loans to 342 people who said their name was “N/A.”
word count: 2146
version: 2022-08-17 03:45:04
Prosecutors Struggle to Catch Up to a Tidal Wave of Pandemic Fraud
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Investigators say there was so much fraud in federal Covid-relief programs that — even after two years of work and hundreds of prosecutions — they’re still just getting started.
In the midst of the pandemic, the government gave unemployment benefits to the incarcerated, the imaginary and the dead. It sent money to “farms” that turned out to be front yards. It paid people who were on the government’s “Do Not Pay List.” It gave loans to 342 people who said their name was “N/A.”
word count: 2146
version: 2022-08-18 19:45:04
Prosecutors Struggle to Catch Up to a Tidal Wave of Pandemic Fraud
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Investigators say there was so much fraud in federal Covid-relief programs that — even after two years of work and hundreds of prosecutions — they’re still just getting started.
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word count: 2163
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.