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The disease is making an aggressivecomeback in a nation in deep economiccrisis, overwhelming a broken healthcare system. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-12

Tuberculosis Batters Venezuela

Cynthia Nixon, best known for “Sex andthe City,” said she would challenge Gov.Andrew M. Cuomo. PAGE A22

NEW YORK A22-25

Actress to Run for GovernorNative American women are running foroffice in record numbers, and fighting anarray of special interests. PAGE A14

NATIONAL A14-21

Taking On Government

The bankruptcy filing voided nondisclo-sure pacts for anyone “who suffered orwitnessed any form of sexual miscon-duct by Harvey Weinstein.” PAGE B2

BUSINESS DAY B1-11

Chapter 11 for Weinstein Co.

Because of a single word in a new law,franchises may face capital gains taxeswhen they exchange players. PAGE B12

Tricky Trades? Blame Congress

Michelle Goldberg PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

As Facebook grapples with abacklash over its role in spreadingdisinformation, an internal dis-pute over how to handle the threatand the public outcry is resultingin the departure of a senior execu-tive.

The impending exit of that exec-utive — Alex Stamos, Facebook’schief information security officer— reflects heightened leadershiptension at the top of the social net-work. Much of the internal dis-agreement is rooted in how muchFacebook should publicly shareabout how nation states misusedthe platform and debate over or-ganizational changes in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections,according to current and formeremployees briefed on the matter.

Mr. Stamos, who plans to leaveFacebook by August, had advocat-ed more disclosure around Rus-sian interference of the platformand some restructuring to betteraddress the issues, but was metwith resistance by colleagues,said the current and former em-ployees. In December, Mr. Sta-mos’s day-to-day responsibilitieswere reassigned to others, theysaid.

Mr. Stamos said he would leave

SECURITY OFFICERTO EXIT FACEBOOKAS OUTCRY GROWS

FIGHT OVER DISCLOSURE

An Internal Dispute OverHandling the Threat

of Disinformation

This article is by Nicole Perlroth,Sheera Frenkel and Scott Shane.

Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chiefinformation security officer.

STEVE MARCUS/REUTERS

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WASHINGTON — Sitting in ahotel bar, Alexander Nix, whoruns the political data firm Cam-bridge Analytica, had a few ideasfor a prospective client looking forhelp in a foreign election. The firmcould send an attractive woman toseduce a rival candidate and se-cretly videotape the encounter,Mr. Nix said, or send someoneposing as a wealthy land develop-er to pass a bribe.

“We have a long history ofworking behind the scenes,” Mr.Nix said.

The prospective client, though,was actually a reporter fromChannel 4 News in Britain, andthe encounter was secretly filmedas part of a monthslong investiga-tion into Cambridge Analytica, thedata firm with ties to PresidentTrump’s 2016 campaign.

The results of Channel 4’s workwere broadcast in Britain on Mon-day, days after reports in The NewYork Times and The Observer ofLondon that the firm had har-vested the data from more than 50million Facebook profiles in its bidto develop techniques for predict-ing the behavior of individualAmerican voters.

The weekend’s reports aboutthe data misuse have promptedcalls from lawmakers in Britainand the United States for renewedscrutiny of Facebook, and at leasttwo American state prosecutorshave said they are looking into themisuse of data by Cambridge Ana-lytica.

Now, the Channel 4 broadcastappears likely to cast an evenharsher spotlight on the company,which was founded by Stephen K.Bannon and Robert Mercer, awealthy Republican donor whohas put at least $15 million intoCambridge Analytica.

The firm’s so-called psycho-graphic modeling techniques,which were built in part with thedata harvested from Facebook,underpinned its work for theTrump campaign in 2016, thoughmany have questioned their effec-tiveness.

Less noticed has been the workthat Cambridge Analytica and itsparent company, the SCL Group,has done outside the UnitedStates. The operations of the two

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Political FirmLaid Out a ListOf Dirty Tricks

Secret Recordings ofthe Chief Executive

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG

VIA AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is on a choreographed tour, seen via official images, to counter the global news media. Page A12.Syria’s War, Through Assad’s Eyes

For years, the Civilian Com-plaint Review Board, a New YorkCity agency that investigates abu-sive police behavior, has docu-mented every instance it believesit has caught an officer lying. Thecases rarely present much of amystery: Often they involve offi-cers who deny throwing a punchor who downplay the force usedduring an arrest — only to havetheir accounts undermined byvideo recordings.

But the civilian board has nopower to mete out discipline insuch cases; it refers them to thePolice Department for further in-vestigation and possible action.

In case after case, the Police De-partment reaches the same find-

ing: There is not enough evidenceto determine whether the policeofficer made a false statement,The New York Times found.

The board has been notified ofonly two cases — out of the 81 ithas been able to track since 2010— in which the Police Depart-ment’s Internal Affairs Bureauupheld the board’s accusation thatthe officer had made a false state-ment. In the other 79 cases, thePolice Department found nowrongdoing or found the officerguilty of lesser misconduct, suchas failing to properly fill out amemo book, according to informa-tion provided by the board and adocument obtained by The Times.

The department isn’t requiredto tell the board if it takes action.So while the board has been ableto learn the outcome of the 81cases, there are dozens of otherfalse-statement cases whose re-sults the board does not know.

“There didn’t appear to be anydisciplinary consequences forcases where it seemed black andwhite that the officer was nottelling the truth,” said RichardEmery, who was the civilianboard’s chairman from 2014 to2016.

The Times has examined howlying remains a persistent prob-lem within the Police Department,which, with its 36,650 officers, isby far the nation’s largest munici-pal force. A monthslong investiga-tion uncovered a number of cases

Caught in Lie,Then GettingAway With ItBy JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN

BLUE LIES

Promotions, Not Punishments

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WASHINGTON — The leaderof an ill-fated team of Americansoldiers in Niger last fall warnedbefore the mission that his troopsdid not have the equipment or in-telligence necessary to carry out akill-or-capture raid against a localmilitant, according to preliminaryfindings of a continuing DefenseDepartment investigation.

In a departure from normallines of authority, the report con-

cludes, the Oct. 4 mission was notapproved by senior military offi-cials up the chain of command inWest Africa and Germany. In-stead, it was ordered by a juniorofficer, according to two DefenseDepartment officials. Four Ameri-can soldiers and five Nigerienswere killed when the unit was am-bushed.

The two officials said DefenseSecretary Jim Mattis and Gen. Jo-seph F. Dunford Jr., the JointChiefs of Staff chairman, are trou-bled that low-level officers are be-ing blamed for the botched mis-sion instead of senior command-ers who should be aware whenAmerican troops are undertakinga high-risk raid.

The mission began as a routinepatrol before Operational Detach-ment-Alpha Team 3212 was re-directed to the operation againstthe militant, Doundoun Cheffou,who has been linked to the Islamic

G.I.s in Niger Were Ill Equipped, Leader WarnedThis article is by Helene Cooper,

Thomas Gibbons-Neff and EricSchmitt.

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Breakdown in Chain ofCommand Is Cited

SAN FRANCISCO — Arizonaofficials saw opportunity whenUber and other companies begantesting driverless cars a few yearsago. Promising to keep oversightlight, they invited the companiesto test their robotic vehicles on thestate’s roads.

Then on Sunday night, an au-tonomous car operated by Uber —and with an emergency backupdriver behind the wheel — struckand killed a woman on a street inTempe, Ariz. It was believed to bethe first pedestrian death associ-ated with self-driving technology.The company quickly suspendedtesting in Tempe as well as othercities: Pittsburgh, San Franciscoand Toronto.

The accident was a reminderthat self-driving technology is stillin the experimental stage, andgovernments are still trying to fig-ure out how to regulate it.

Uber, Waymo and a long list oftech companies and automakershave begun to expand testing of

their self-driving vehicles in citiesaround the country. The compa-nies say the cars will be safer thanregular cars simply because theytake easily distracted humans outof the driving equation. But thetechnology is still only about adecade old, and just now startingto experience the unpredictablesituations that drivers can face.

It was not yet clear if theepisode in Arizona will lead othercompanies or state regulators toslow the rollout of self-driving ve-hicles on public roads.

Much of the testing of autono-mous cars has taken place in apiecemeal regulatory envi-ronment. Some states, like Ari-zona, have taken a lenient ap-proach to regulation. Arizona offi-cials wanted to lure companiesworking on self-driving technol-ogy out of neighboring California,where regulators had been less re-ceptive.

But regulators in California and

Woman’s Death in Arizona CastsA Pall on Driverless Car Testing

By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI

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WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Kevin Roose explores how Facebook’s seem-ingly harmless data sharing went from a feature to a bug. PAGE A18

The comedian Hannah Gadsby calls outLouis C.K. and targets a culture enablingabuse. Doesn’t sound funny, Jason Zino-man says, but she is that, too. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Very Serious. Humorous, Too.A New York Times photographer’s favor-ite images from the Paralympics includereflections of biathletes. PAGES B14-15

SPORTSTUESDAY B12-18

Pictures of PerseveranceA $1.4 billion federal program may helpscientists find new links between dis-eases, genes and lifestyles. But bigchallenges lie ahead. PAGE D1

SCIENCE TIMES D1-8

A ‘Biobank’ of Patient Data

A blast triggered by a tripwire suggestsa higher level of sophistication in awave of Texas bomb attacks. PAGE A21

4th Bombing Alarms AustinOnly 58.1 percent of weekday trainsarrived on time in January, down from64.1 percent a year earlier. PAGE A22

Subway Gets a Flunking Grade

POMIGLIANO D’ARCO, Italy— After leading the anti-establish-ment Five Star Movement to astunning result in Italy’s nationalelections, Luigi Di Maio returnedtriumphantly to his small home-town near Naples.

Thousands of adoring support-ers chanted “Pres-i-dent” and“Lu-i-gi” and gave their local boy abouquet of yellow flowers. But noone was more ecstatic at his suc-cess than his mother, Paola Espos-ito, who said she was “very, veryproud.”

And to think, she added, he wasliving at home “until five years

ago.”Now Mr. Di Maio, 31, a college

dropout and a former soccer sta-dium usher, may be first in line tobecome Italy’s next prime min-ister after the Five Star Move-ment won the most votes in theMarch 4 election.

His improbable ascent is ameasure of Italy’s suddenly tur-bulent politics. But it also reflectsthe youthful, new-kid-on-the-block appeal of the Five Star

Movement, as well as what criticssay is one of its most glaringshortcomings — a lack of real-world experience.

Among his credentials, Gigi, asMr. Di Maio is often called, was thetreasurer of his elementary schoolclass and the president of his highschool student body before he be-came vice president of the lowerhouse of Parliament at 26, sweptalong on the coattails of his web-based party.

Five Star won the support of athird of Italian voters in thismonth’s election, by far the mostof any political party. That was notenough to grant it a governing ma-

Poised to Lead Italy With Brio, if Not ExperienceBy JASON HOROWITZ

Luigi Di Maio, third from right, who leads the Five Star Movement, is “one of us,” a supporter said.GIANNI CIPRIANO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Charismatic Enigma,31, Seeks a Coalition

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