Data Nerd Takes Down Fentanyl, Fake Comments & Gun Biz
Meet Kenneth Morales, ProPublica’s first ever David Burnham-TRAC data fellow, aka the human spreadsheet taking aim at America’s chaos. This New York State AG former senior data scientist has charmed his way through firearms industry dirt, pharmaceutical fraud, lead poisoning in schools, fake FCC comment armies, and opioid research at Johns Hopkins during fentanyl's ugly rise. Funded by David Sobel and Beth Critchley, Morales inherits investigative Jedi tricks from Burnham, who spent 50 years fishin’ out corruption with data spears. With federal data retreating faster than Wi-Fi in a subway tunnel, Morales will expose Washington like a human X-ray. All this, while promising his analyses can survive the brutal court of law – heard of that? Morale’s no rookie; he’s wielding data like a superhero’s lasso, at a time when social justice and algorithms have never made for slicker tag teams.
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Kenneth Morales about to expose the government with nothing but data and righteous fury. Justice 2.0: powered by spreadsheets, oak-aged cynicism, and fake FCC comment decoding. Hero of the fentanyl crisis, gone full data paparazzi.
Forget superheroes, we got one dude hunting corrupt gun fires and fake internet comments armed only with Excel and righteous indignation.
Kenneth Morales just became ProPublica’s data ninja — battling lead, opioids, fake FCC comments, and the pharma mafia. Take that, chaos!
Source: Propublica | Published: 10/13/2025 | Author: ProPublica
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