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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 29/08/2026

Spending this beautiful weekend day with the pro-democracy protesters in Mt. Kisco, NY.

Protest signs at Mt Kisco, including one that says “ICE agents *much* more dangerous than undocumented immigrants.”

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 04/08/2026

Wow - @powells.bsky.social put us on a billboard!! Very exciting!

Powell’s Books huge billboard sign with Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer listed as speakers for 8/3

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 16/07/2026

Pinch me! On Courage hits the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list for a second week!

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 13/07/2026

Atlanta friends -- @fieldsmeyer.com and I will be at the Carter Center this week talking about On Courage. Come join us! www.cartercenter.org/events/on-co...

Atlanta Book Event -- The Carter Center. Ami Fields-Meyer and Julia Angwin. Wednesday July 15 6:00 pm. 453 John Lewis Freedom Parkway NE.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 09/07/2026

Holy shit! On Courage debuted at #12 on the @nytimes.com bestseller list! I am again verklempt.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 08/07/2026

On Courage book tour has begun!! Dates and locations below. I’ll also share links prior to each event, but wanted to list the whole schedule for anyone interested.

July 7 - Porter Square Books, Boston MA
July 8 - P&T Knitwear, New York City NY
July 9 - Politics and Prose, Washington DC
July 15 - The Carter Center, Atlanta GA

July 22 — The Onion HQ, Chicago IL
July 28 — The Hammer, Los Angeles CA
July 29 — Manny’s, San Francisco CA
July 30 — Local Economy, Oakland CA
Aug 3 — Powell’s Books, Portland OR

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 08/07/2026

It’s such a treat to be interviewed by someone who has closely read the book and engaged with it. And a delight to draw a crowd — I still remember one bookstore event for my first book where only one person showed up 😢 Thank you @portersqbooks.bsky.social!

Julia Angwin speaking at Porter Square Books, next to moderator Samantha Power.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 29/06/2026

“This is one of those books that will make you feel less alone in the world, and less alone in history. It will make you feel more equipped for whatever is coming next" -- @maddow.bsky.social Full segment here: www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 29/06/2026

“On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear” goes on sale tomorrow. Buy it for anyone who feels helpless and is asking “what can I do?” We have answers from dissidents from around the globe. Courage takes many forms - but we all have it within us.

A photo of the book cover for On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear by Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 27/06/2026

Lesson #2: You are the watchful eyes of history. In our series: How to Save the Free World, @fieldsmeyer.com and I are sharing the lessons we learned reporting on 100+ global dissidents. Follow along here and please pre-order On Courage!

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 12/06/2026

"Saying goodbye to Moxi, the AI-powered robot" ICU Nurse Atalia Lapkin tells @proofnews.bsky.social about her experience with the robot that was so high maintenance that it required a human handler. Eventually the robot was retired and the nurses wrote an obituary for it.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 09/06/2026

Reporting these on-the-ground stories of AI in the workplace is expensive and time-consuming. If you can afford to donate, @proofnews.bsky.social would be so grateful for your support. www.proofnews.org/donate/

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 09/06/2026

The Seattle hospital system ditched the robots last year. Washington State nurses published a candid obituary for the robot. "Far from being independent, the robots needed an escort between floors, so they never delivered meaningful time savings." www.wsna.org/news/2026/sa...

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 01/06/2026

On Courage books have arrived!!

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 20/05/2026

Just noticed that NYTimes published a letter to the editor from a Meta PR guy complaining about my piece about them. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/o...

To the Editor:
Re "Angry Users. Runaway Expenses. Meta Is Dying," by Julia Angwin (Opinion guest essay, May 11):
Since Facebook's early days, people have been eager to write the company's obituary.
In 2014, a set of Princeton researchers predicted that 80 percent of the platform's user base would disappear by 2017. They were wrong, and Julia Angwin is, too.
For well over a decade, Ms. Angwin has levied relentless criticism against Facebook or Meta, some of it in this newspaper. And now she offers a reductive hot take that fails to account for facts like the 4 percent year-over-year increase in the number of people who use Meta's services daily or Meta's 33 percent revenue growth in the same period.
Times readers deserve better.
David Ginsberg
Washington
The writer is the vice president for global communications and public affairs at Meta.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/05/2026

Indeed there will be! Notice anything cool about the description below?

Audio book listing for "On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear," noting 12 hours listening length and narrator Rachel Maddow.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 05/05/2026

This is what I get when I click on myspace.com. Is the site finally dead?

A website that is blank but just says "no healthy upstream."

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 10/04/2026

Best delivery ever!! Physical galleys!

Advance reader copies of On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 24/03/2026

Just got my hands on the first early copies of my forthcoming book with @fieldsmeyer.com -- On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear! AND this week Barnes & Noble is running a pre-oder sale March 24-26. Use code PREORDER25 for 25% off! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/on-courage...

Early reader copies of On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 13/03/2026

Grammarly’s A.I. version of me suggested replacing the first sentence of a news article with an anecdotal opening describing a fictional person named Laura. The bot offered an imagined story about Laura and a button allowing the user to paste that fiction straight into the article.

Even worse was the suggestion by Grammarly’s A.I. version of me to replace the first sentence of the news article with an anecdotal opening describing a fictional person named Laura whose privacy had been violated.

“Laura, a patient searching for relief from a chronic condition, clicks through her hospital’s website to schedule an appointment. In just a few moments, her most private medical details — her reason for visiting, her doctor’s name and even the treatment she seeks — are quietly sent to Facebook, without her knowledge,” the bot suggested with a button allowing the user to paste that excerpt straight into the article.

Replacing a factual sentence with an imagined story about a person who doesn’t exist is not only bad editing. It’s a deception that could end my career as a journalist (or the career of any journalist who took that terrible advice).

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 13/03/2026

Small update from my attorneys -- you don't need to do anything to be added to the class action. Anyone who was included as an expert in Grammarly Pro will automatically be a member of the class once it is certified by the court. Updates on the case will be posted here prf-law.com/current-case...

Update on Angwin v. Superhuman Litigation
Since Julia Angwin filed a class action lawsuit over Grammarly’s Expert Review tool on March 11, 2026, Angwin v. Superhuman Platform, Inc., No. 26 Civ. 02005-JGK (S.D.N.Y.), Julia and her counsel at Peter Romer-Friedman Law PLLC have heard from many people who are rightly concerned that their names and identities were used by Grammarly or may have been used for commercial purposes without their consent. We appreciate all the interest and enthusiasm that this case has generated. We want to underscore that the case was filed as a class action lawsuit so that Julia and her lawyers can seek relief for all of the people in the United States whose names or identities used by Grammarly’s Expert Review tool (the Class Members), and in this litigation we plan to ask the Court to certify a nationwide class that includes all of those Class Members. Typically, when a court certifies a class action under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the class members do not need to do anything to remain in the class, but they are allowed to “opt out” of the class if they don’t want to be a part of it.In the discovery process in this litigation, we will ask Grammarly’s owner, Superhuman, to identify all the people who were included in its Expert Review Tool so that, at the appropriate time, those people can be notified that they are members of the Class.
Anyone who thinks they may be a class member of the proposed Class can contact Peter Romer-Friedman Law at info@prf-law.com to make sure we have your contact information, and we are happy to answer any questions that you may have about the case. At this time, however, you do not need to take any action to join the Angwin case to be included as a member of the proposed Class. (At the same time, we recommend against entering into any agreement with Grammarly, as Grammarly might claim that by doing so you’ve waived your rights in this case).

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 10/03/2026

Grammarly is really cutting a wide swath -- from journalist @craigsilverman.bsky.social to cybersecurity expert @schneier.com to Microsoft chief privacy officer @julie-brill.bsky.social!

Screen shot from Grammarly listing "expert suggestions" from Julia Angwin, Craig Silverman, Bruce Schneier and Julie Brill

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 04/02/2026

I was so in awe on my first day at the Washington Post as an intern. It is so hard to get my head around its senseless destruction. The only silver lining is watching the donations roll in for the Washington Post staffers. Solidarity is the only way out. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

Screenshot of the Washington Post Guild GoFundMe page with generous donations listed.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 27/01/2026

Fun inbox this a.m. - as usual the haters are bad at spelling.

Email from Donnie T to Julia Angwin: best weapon against ICE is not a phone libtard, it’s getting rid of all the ILIEGALS [sic] that were let in to crash the country down while you munch on a rug. Silly cow.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 31/10/2025

Just a gentle reminder that the panic about phones melting our brains could well be a convenient way to justify rules that could be used to prevent us from using our phones to film state violence. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

David Brin’s “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?” was so prescient. Published in 1999, Brin foretold the exact dilemma posed by the prevalence of powerful cameras available to everyone. If we restrict the cameras to government control, he argued, we will live in a police state. If we allow everyone to have cameras, we will at least be able to counter-surveil the government and maintain an equilibrium of power.

For everyone wringing their hands about banning kids from using smartphones, I suggest reading this book and imagining what our lives would be like right now if we didn’t have the ability to film federal agents as they unleash weapons on our unarmed neighbors who have committed no crimes.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 03/09/2025

I’m thrilled to announce that @fieldsmeyer.com and I are writing a book about how to challenge authoritarianism. “On Courage: To be a Dissident in America’s Age of Fear,” is scheduled to be published by Harper Collins next summer.

Publishers Marketplace announcement: Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT contributing Opinion writer Julia Angwin and former White House senior policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer’s ON COURAGE: TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AMERICA"S AGE OF FEAR, a guide to confronting fear, taking risk, and being courageous in our new age of authoritarianism, which expands on The New Yorker essay, “So You Want to Be a Dissident?: A Practical Guide to Courage in Trump's Age of Fear,” through new interviews with dissidents, opposition leaders, theorists, and movement strategists across the world, to Peter Hubbard at Mariner, for publication in summer 2026, by Laurie Liss at Sterling Lord Literistic (world English).

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 16/06/2025

It seems I have an impersonator on here. Please do not follow, and report if you feel inclined. The writing has an AI flavor to it.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 30/04/2025

A centralized database will be "ill-equipped to correct errors, allow for extenuating circumstances, or bring facts up to date," warned Vance Packard. "The notion of the possibility of redemption is likely to be incomprehensible to a computer."

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 30/04/2025

On the front page of the New York Times on January 7, 1968 -- you will see a story about the Johnson Administration's attempt to create exactly this type of master database. The article warns of the privacy perils of putting all this data in one place: timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

Picture of the front page of the New York Times on January 7, 1968. At the bottom of the page, below news of the escalating Vietnam war and Senator Eugene McCarthy’s presidential ambitions, is an article titled "Data Bank: Peril or Aid?"

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 16/02/2025

Ooh, I like this idea. Reminds me of a great piece by BuzzFeed using statistics to reveal the likelihood of tennis match fixing. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/heid...

BuzzFeed news began its investigation after devising an algorithm to analyze gambling on professional tennis matches over the past seven years. It identified 15 players who regularly lost matches in which heavily lopsided betting appeared to substantially shift the odds - a red flag for possible match-fixing.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 24/01/2025

Oof, I need to do better on adding alt text to my images. Posting this to hold myself accountable. In my very slight defense, my score is better in past 90 days.

Bluesky alt text score of 54.17% for my posts on Bluesky.

83.33% score for using alt text on my Bluesky posts during the past 90 days.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 19/01/2025

I’m getting a different error message.

Screenshot of TikTok with message: TikTok is temporarily unavailable. We’re working hard to resolve this issue. Thank you for your patience.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 18/01/2025

🙌🏼 @taylorlorenz.bsky.social bringing receipts on the political dimensions of the TikTok ban. It’s not coincidental that the most left-leaning social media platform will be shut down and/or likely handed over to a more conservative owner.

Pew Research chart of news influencer political affiliations by social media platform, with TikTok being the only place where left leaning influencers are more prevalent than right leaning.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 13/12/2024

“Decent and Dignified Journalism” — 1896 advertising poster for The New York Times

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 19/11/2024

Why did I only discover Signal's stickers today?! And specifically, this flame dog sticker, which is really working for me at the moment.

A colorful "sticker" showing a cartoon dog yelling with flames behind him. Sounds creepier than it is.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 09/11/2024

The silver lining of 80 degree weather in November is that it extended the Concord grape season so I could make a final grape pie of the season. 🍇 Thanks for the grapes @merbroussard.bsky.social

Photo of my Concord grape pie straight out of the oven.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 30/10/2024

There were differences between the models – OpenAI’s ChatGPT returned more accurate responses than the other models in both languages, and Google’s Gemini did slightly better in Spanish but was pretty inaccurate overall.

Inaccuracy rates for leading AI models in English and Spanish.
Claude - 40% in English, 52% in Spanish
Gemini - 52% in English, 48% in Spanish
GPT 4 - 28% in English, 32% in Spanish
Llama - 48% in English, 64% in Spanish
Mixtral - 48% in English, 64% in Spanish

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 23/10/2024

Very excited to see my NYT Opinion piece on the front page of the New York Times International edition. Print always and forever hits different- especially the front page.

Front page of the international edition of the New York Times with my Opinion piece in the first column.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 01/10/2024

New forms of creepy emerging every day.

Email from Zoom that says "Hi, you are receiving this email as you were mentioned in a recent meeting."

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 30/09/2024

It was super fun to eulogize software. I decided that the occasion called for remixing Shakespeare. Text here:

A remix of Shakespeare’s Marc Antony speech at Julius Caesar’s funeral, but with references to Brutus changed to Zuck.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 16/09/2024

Proud to have been so early to Bluesky! Am really enjoying it here even though I dutifully post on all the other joyless platforms.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 25/06/2024

NYC folks - remember to vote today.

Picture of Julia Angwin with an I Voted sticker on her t-shirt.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 12/04/2024

New Yorkers interested in AI *or* just interested in visiting an awesome French “villa” bookstore in NYC - come join this discussion on Monday. villa-albertine.org/events/can-j...

Picture of Albertine Villa bookstore in NYC with beautiful wooden shelves and a ceiling painted with a blue and gold depiction of the solar system.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 08/04/2024

Seeing the eclipse from the plane was amazing. I couldn’t get a pic through the glasses but this is what the sky looked like as we were nearing totality.

Bottom half of photo is clouds, topped with a strip of sunlight and top half is darkening sky.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 08/04/2024

Excited that I will be flying through the totality. Appreciate United giving us all glasses and a “solar eclipse cookie.”

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