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BuzzFeed News / Jeremy Singer-Vine, et al. / Sep 20, 2020
“In the FinCEN Files, these narrative elements alone came to more than 8,000 pages — or about 3 million words. We tried writing computer programs to automatically extract this crucial information, but we quickly discovered that it was not possible. So with no other choice, we did it the old-fashioned way: We read every last page.”
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