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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 07/12/2025

I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...

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Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities

They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Hello! I'll be in San Diego later this week...Folks at NeurIPS, what should I be learning about/let's catch up in person/best events? My DMs are open. mshannahmurphy.04 on Signal.

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Thrilled to be shortlisted for the Tech Commentator of the Year award in the 2025 UK Tech Awards!

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

“There’s a lot of big men on campus” Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent effort to direct the most dramatic reorganisation of Meta’s senior leadership in the group’s 20-year history on.ft.com/3Jx6Yfz

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Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave

[FREE TO READ] Longtime acolytes are sidelined as Big Tech chief directs biggest leadership reorganisation in two decades

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave

[FREE TO READ] Longtime acolytes are sidelined as Big Tech chief directs biggest leadership reorganisation in two decades

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Meta inflated a crucial advertising metric by nearly 20 per cent and deliberately bypassed privacy rules on Apple iPhones in a bid to boost revenues, a former staff member has told an employment tribunal www.ft.com/content/be6a...

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Meta inflated ad performance and bypassed Apple’s privacy rules, tribunal hears

Former product manager alleges social media platform misled marketers in push for revenues

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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Meta inflated ad performance and bypassed Apple’s privacy rules, tribunal hears

Former product manager alleges social media platform misled marketers in push for revenues

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Zuckerberg's aim is to create a start-up-like unit focused on developing superintelligence that is unencumbered by the bureaucracy of his $1.8tn company -but supported by its well-capitalised business But investors, and even insiders, have little insight into its vision and budget. Will he succeed?

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Financial Times

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Inside the Linda - Elon breakup -Musk felt Yaccarino wasn't transparent about the company’s status with advertisers & put a gloss on reality -He wanted her to more quickly restore X to financial health -Post-DOGE, he started making unilateral decisions that blindsided her www.ft.com/content/833c...

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Linda Yaccarino: Elon Musk’s X deputy who ‘tried to ride the tiger’

Inside the former social media CEO’s tumultuous partnership with the world’s richest man

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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Linda Yaccarino: Elon Musk’s X deputy who ‘tried to ride the tiger’

Inside the former social media CEO’s tumultuous partnership with the world’s richest man

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

After months of reporting (and even my own attempt at a jiu jitsu class), my FT Magazine cover story on Mark Zuckerberg’s metamorphosis to red-blooded “Maga Mark” is out! Is this political expediency, a midlife crisis or who Zuck has been all along? on.ft.com/4nsoktx

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How Mark Zuckerberg unleashed his inner brawler

[FREE TO READ] The boss’s transformation shocked liberals at Meta, but his closest allies say this is who he was all along

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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How Mark Zuckerberg unleashed his inner brawler

[FREE TO READ] The boss’s transformation shocked liberals at Meta, but his closest allies say this is who he was all along

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/06/2025

Steve Bannon is urging Trump to cancel all of Musk's contracts, launch investigations into him, and deport him.

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

For perspective, Perplexity is valued at $15B and Anthropic at $61B. So, for xAI to be valued at $113B is just...

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

FT SCOOP: Elon Musk’s xAI is launching a $300mn share sale that values the group at $113bn - validating the pricetag struck when xAI bought X in March It comes as the world’s richest man returns from Doge to his business empire and the AI race on.ft.com/4dGFY85

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Elon Musk’s xAI seeks $113bn valuation in $300mn share sale

Deal to allow investors to buy into group following March takeover of X

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

SCOOP: Telegram had a bumper 2024, booking over half a billion dollars in profit after a lossmaking 2023 The app has told investors that the French investigation could be a barrier to an IPO but that it could be resolved this year, as it launches a $1.5bn bond offering www.ft.com/content/a8b4...

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Telegram jumps to $540mn profit despite founder facing legal peril

Messaging app’s finances are booming even as chief Pavel Durov fights French case over alleged content failings

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · 15/05/2025

I started reading this thinking it was about users who *asked* about race and South Africa getting bogus responses. But no, Grok is - ASTONISHINGLY - providing responses on the topic to users who have asked entirely unrelated questions. WILD. By @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social and Cristina Criddle

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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot shared ‘white genocide’ tropes on X

Grok answered users’ queries on completely unrelated matters with responses about South African race relations

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

About a month ago, Tesla board members reached out to executive search firms to formally find a new CEO to replace Elon Musk, per WSJ They also told him to spend more time at the company & he said he would. unclear if the succession planning is ongoing or not 👀 www.wsj.com/business/aut...?

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Exclusive | Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk

With profits and the stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at the company.

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Advertising groups and tech start-ups are racing to find ways to help brands boost their likelihood of surfacing in results from AI chatbots, marking a new era of 'SEO' FT story w Cristina Criddle: on.ft.com/4iAVZxr

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Brands target AI chatbots as users switch from Google search

[FREE TO READ] Ad agencies adopt new strategies to ensure clients appear in results produced by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

It’s not every day your best friend gets nominated for an Emmy for producing a beautiful show about young queer love - and you get to tag along to the awards ceremony. But yesterday was that day! Very proud of Paddy. And if you haven’t already, go watch Heartstopper on Netflix 💕

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Delighted to have won a SABEW @sabew.bsky.social Best in Business award in the Technology division for @financialtimes.com coverage of Telegram & Pavel Durov! Just beaming 🙌 You can read my interview with Pavel just months before his arrest here: on.ft.com/4ijv9dI

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

“In the 2010s, there was a sense that Silicon Valley was different, had a rarefied culture. Now you’re just like any other union-busting top-down conglomerate.” Our FT analysis on the slow death of left-wing activism in the Valley, as Big Tech quells dissent and staff fear layoffs on.ft.com/3XfJy29

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Tech titans stand with Donald Trump to kill off activism in Silicon Valley

[FREE TO READ] Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg

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Barbara Moens @bmoens.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Big tech is growing confident in their efforts to challenge EU regulations, believing new backing from the Donald Trump administration will allow them to fight what they see as hostile rules on AI and market dominance. With @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social & Michael Acton www.ft.com/content/3e75...

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Silicon Valley fights EU tech rules with backing from Donald Trump

US groups such as Meta emboldened in effort to water down regulations on AI and market dominance

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

And now for some real journalism! I took a break from reporting on tech billionaires and Trump to write about getting my lashes done by an AI-powered robot While the era of fully automated beauty treatments still seems some way off, disruption is coming to the sector - on.ft.com/4jCLevZ

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 30/01/2025

Fun piece by @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social on robot beauticians! Struggling to believe they're going to be cheaper than humans any time soon, mind, esp as one machine appears to need two human minders www.ft.com/content/f98d...

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Scoop: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is exploring buying a property in Washington DC, as part of a push to work more closely with the Trump administration He joins a growing group of tech titans - Elon Musk, David Sacks - seeking bases close to the White House www.ft.com/content/9310...

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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg explores purchase of Washington DC property

Billionaire founder of social media group seeks to work more closely with Trump administration

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg explores purchase of Washington DC property

Billionaire founder of social media group seeks to work more closely with Trump administration

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

where all the tiktok refugee starter packs at

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

In 8 days, Zuckerberg has: - Promoted top Republican Joel Kaplan to be face of Meta - Hired Dana White to board - Killed 3rd party fact-checking - Loosened hate speech policies - Killed DEI initiatives - Said on Joe Rogan that corporations are “culturally neutered” & need more “masculine energy”

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

JUST IN: Meta has just ended its major diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, effective immediately — including for hiring, training and picking suppliers www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...

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Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs

The company cut its DEI programs as it pushes to make inroads with the Trump administration days after it ended its fact-checking programs.

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I cannot recommend enough that you read this op-ed written by Peter Thiel in the FT today (free to read!) for a direct look inside the mind and grievances of the libertarian tech billionaires who have helped Trump to power - and what they want next www.ft.com/content/a46c...

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A time for truth and reconciliation

Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

It's happening: "Musk has been examining possible candidates to replace Farage as leader of the party, including Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe, and has probed what mechanisms there are to replace him, according to people briefed on his thinking." www.ft.com/content/dd4b...

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Musk examines how to oust Starmer as UK prime minister before next election

Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/01/2025

“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product” How Elon falls for the clickbait served up by his own 'For You' algo feeds. Great piece by my colleagues, worth sticking around for the mind-boggling final line: on.ft.com/3C0o9CA

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How a handful of X accounts took Elon Musk ‘down the rabbit hole’ on UK politics

[FREE TO READ] Tech billionaire’s posts about grooming gangs scandal have elevated issue

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Farage on Musk *literally this morning* on the Kuenssberg show: “I tell you what he (Musk) gives us (Reform UK). Huge numbers of young people, he makes us look cool"

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

this headline and paragraph are absolutely sending me

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This article where an NYT journalist ditches his news apps for Rumble, journeys down the rabbit hole, emails Rumble creators for comment and then ends up being doxxed by them - before the article had even published - is WILD www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

ICYMI Zuckerberg - who earlier this year said he wanted Meta to be politically “neutral” and reduced the prominence of political content across its apps - has had the company donate $1mn to Trump's inauguration fund It's the first time Meta has donated to an inauguration fund on.ft.com/4fexOD6

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Meta donates $1mn to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund

First-time contribution shows social media platform and its chief are trying to mend relations with president-elect

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hello to followers old & new (just got an unexpected influx!) I'm a tech reporter for the Financial Times covering social media platforms (Meta and X) & the billionaires that run them (Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk) If you've worked for them & want to speak, mshannahmurphy.04 on Signal /dms open

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

can i hear a lil commotion for the jumper I wore for the FT San Francisco bureau’s Christmas dinner

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

BREAKING: A US appeals court has upheld a law requiring TikTok’s owner ByteDance sell the platform or face a US ban next year - dealing a major blow to the Chinese company behind the video app. on.ft.com/3Vsv2TQ

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US court upholds law that could ban TikTok

[FREE TO READ] Further appeal expected for bipartisan measure targeting ByteDance-owned video app over security concerns

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

SCOOP: Marc Andreessen, one of the world’s most powerful VCs, is playing a central role in recruiting for Elon Musk’s DOGE department While he has no formal role, he's helping identify and interview potential candidates, per sources w/ @georgehammond.bsky.social on.ft.com/3ZBatXM

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Marc Andreessen helps to recruit staff for Elon Musk’s US cost-cutting body

[FREE TO READ] Venture capitalist has role in interviewing and identifying candidates for new Department for Government Efficiency

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

someone in my friend's building got a kayak out to prepare during the (now 'cancelled') Bay Area tsunami warning

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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 05/12/2024

tired: earthquake twitter wired: tsunami bluesky

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Marc Andreessen helps to recruit staff for Elon Musk’s US cost-cutting body

[FREE TO READ] Venture capitalist has role in interviewing and identifying candidates for new Department for Government Efficiency

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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A rightwards shift for Meta? Meta has conceded it was "overdid it" with certain content moderation in the past - in an apparent overture to Donald Trump It comes as Zuckerberg is seeking an “active role” in shaping tech policy debates with the incoming administration on.ft.com/41dIgaz

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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg seeks ‘active role’ in Donald Trump’s tech policies

[FREE TO READ] Policy chief Nick Clegg says social media company ‘overdid it’ on content moderation, as it seeks to placate president-elect

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/12/2024

Recently joined BlueSky? Here's a starter pack of FT journalists to follow go.bsky.app/GhSgfrR

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