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Naomi Nix

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I am a senior technology correspondent for @TIME.com

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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New: How the fight to rein in AI is already dividing Washington: time.com/article/2026...
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The Fight to Rein In AI Is Dividing Washington
As pressure mounts for Congress to address the risks of artificial intelligence, lawmakers are finding little agreement on what action to take.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jacob Coxon's resignation set off a worldwide debate over whether to constrain AI, as some experts warn it could wipe out humanity. In our latest cover story, we break down what could happen next in the frontier AI labs, Washington and across the Pacific. by Billy Perrigo, Harry Booth & me.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So Meta may have settled with states yesterday for $18B but what happens next for teens on instagram, youth safety regulations, and the tech industry is unclear. The devil, as they say, is in the details: time.com/article/2026...
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3 Big Questions After Meta’s $18 Billion Teen Safety Settlement
The company agreed to pay nearly $18 billion and pledged to impose new safety controls on Facebook and Instagram.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
And if you want to help me, please send tips, questions and hot takes to naomi.nix@time.com or naominixwrites.66 on Signal.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Some news (personal? professional? both?): This week, I started a new role as a senior technology correspondent for @time.com magazine. I am thrilled to be joining such an important media outlet at a time when AI has become THE most fascinating – and often terrifying — story to watch.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
So if you are a current or former tech employee with information on how a company's product or practices is affecting young people, I want to hear from you. Reach out to naomi.nix.writes1@gmail.com or cell/signal on a non-company device: 571-882-3412.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
There are so many takeaways from the LA and New Mexico rulings but I'll highlight three. 1) The academic research, which has limited experimental designs, has been mixed on the connection between mental distress and social media. The companies own docs were crucial to the case.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New: I take you inside the Trump administration’s campaign against the Digital Services Act to fight what it considers to be Europe's censorship of speech online. (Side note: this was the last story I filed before WaPo's cuts): www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Inside the Trump administration’s campaign to counter content bans in Europe
The president has expanded efforts to fight what he sees as censorship overseas, using the State Department to target European governments.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
After almost four years at The Washington Post, my role was eliminated this week along with hundreds of other talented journalists. It’s a cliche to say but this job was a dream come true. Thanks to my brilliant reporter friends and talented editors who made the stories stronger and banter funnier.
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What’s it like to be a whistleblower? @naominix.bsky.social talks with tech whistleblowers, including @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social, about what life looks like after speaking truth to power. In our latest newsletter 👇 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/new-year-n...
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
New: Instagram pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back even after critics said it wasn’t safe, according to records recently reviewed by the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Leaked documents show Instagram’s plan to win back teens
Instagram has pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back to the app after its critics said the platform wasn’t safe for them, documents obtained by The Post show.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
New: After exposing the harms of Big Tech, many whistleblowers say they faced poorer job prospects and professional exile in Silicon Valley. They have no regrets. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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She blew the whistle at Meta. Then her career fell apart.
After exposing the harms of Big Tech, many whistleblowers say they faced poor job prospects and isolation in Silicon Valley. They have no regrets.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New: To compete with OpenAI's Pulse, Meta is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized, AI-powered information briefing www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Meta is building an AI-powered morning brief in push to compete with ChatGPT
Meta is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized, AI-powered briefing of information relevant to their daily lives.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New: TikTok posts on Israel-Gaza war are overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian but that doesn't mean they get more traction online. Analysis @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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TikTok posts on Israel-Gaza war are overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian
A new report finds 17 pro-Palestinian posts for every pro-Israeli one, but they tend to get the same amount of traction online.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Both Republicans and Democrats have long sought to "work the refs" at social media companies that decide which speech should stay up or be taken down. See this oldie but goodie on jawboning /w ‪@cqzakrz.bsky.social‬ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Ted Cruz, Joe Biden and other politicians ask social media companies to remove posts
The Supreme Court is set to decide whether government demands to remove social media posts violate the First Amendment.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A teen told Meta researchers his brother, then under 10, had been sexually propositioned through Meta's VR headsets multiple times. Their boss told them to delete the evidence, they said. That's one example in our new investigation about Meta's crack down on internal research.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
His custom cancer therapy is in an NIH freezer. He may not get it in time. How a metastatic cancer patient became collateral damage in federal workforce cuts www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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His custom cancer therapy is in an NIH freezer. He may not get it in time.
The purge of probationary federal workers included skilled lab personnel who would have finalized a customized cell immunotherapy for cancer patients.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New(ish): Meta agreed to pay $14.8B for a 49% stake in the artificial intelligence data firm Scale AI, per person familiar. We are confirming reports in NYT, Bloomberg and The Information. Deal could be announced as soon as today. /w @nitasha.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Meta takes $15 billion stake in Scale AI in bid to catch competitors
Meta agreed to pay $14.8 billion for a 49 percent stake in the AI data firm Scale AI, which will give the company access to talent and data services.
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Tatum Hunter @tatumhunter.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
As the Trump administration posts through its mass deportation push, viral images from protests and raids are amping up outrage on both sides. W @drewharwell.com and @naominix.bsky.social
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
New: A tighter job market for tech and lower corporate tolerance for employee activism have stifled the once boisterous worker-led movements in Silicon Valley on everything from AI safety to the Israel-Gaza war. /w @nitasha.bsky.social & Trisha Thadani www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Big Tech takes a harder line against worker activism, political dissent
A tighter labor market and lower corporate tolerance have stifled employee input on controversies over company policy, AI safety and the Israel-Gaza war.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 05/05/2025
Pulitzer winner @anntelnaes.bsky.social "resigned in early January after a top editor rejected one of her cartoons — a depiction of Post owner Jeff Bezos, along with other business moguls, bowing before a statue of Trump, offering up bags of money" www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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The Post wins Pulitzers for Trump rally shooting stories, editorial cartoons
The Washington Post was recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and political cartoons by Ann Telnaes.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 05/05/2025
the coverage was led by our climate team's @bradydennis.bsky.social, brianna sacks and @byscottdance.com on the ground in NC, w/ assists from @samueloakford.bsky.social in visual forensics and my tech colleagues @gerritd.bsky.social & @jeremybmerrill.com et al www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
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In North Carolina, there was before Helene. This is the after.
“A hundred years from now, they will be talking about this flood,” said one resident in Western North Carolina, where the extent of the disaster is only beginning to emerge.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 05/05/2025
not a big Prize Guy but proud to have played a role on the @washingtonpost.com team that was named a Pulitzer finalist in National Reporting today for our coverage of Hurricane Helene, including the social media-fueled storm of lies that followed in its wake www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...
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How a conspiracy-fueled group got a foothold in this hurricane-battered town
Over the course of 11 days, a supermarket parking lot became a snapshot of the chaos that can unfold in some corners of post-disaster America.
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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A belated thank you to everyone who is putting up with Media Tour Faiz this week. I assure you regular programming will resume soon. But as a special treat, you may now see the cover of the Italian edition, which is out now!!
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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 23/04/2025
This post appeared under this Techmeme headline:
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
You may have seen a lot of headlines this morning about Meta's @oversightboard.bsky.social latest rulings but there was one officials there clearly didn't want you to read
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/04/2025
Exclusive: Following President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on China, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about the potential impact of the tariffs on iPhone prices.
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How Tim Cook helped Apple out of Trump’s tariff storm — for now
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook spoke to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week about the potential impact of the tariffs on iPhone prices.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A few takeaways from Zuck so far: -FTC lawyer Daniel Matheson has really pressed Zuck on the main goal of Facebook, using his own words and company documents. He argues that Facebook has always been about connecting friends and family. -Zuck says the goal is also to entertain and inform.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
FTC's first witness is Mark Zuckerberg
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We'll be continuously updating our coverage of today's hearing of FTC's landmark antitrust case. Opening arguments largely followed their legal briefs www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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FTC says Meta bought up its rivals instead of competing with them
Opening arguments are expected from the FTC and social media giant Meta as the first big antitrust trial of Trump’s second term gets underway in Judge James E. Boasberg’s courtroom.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
On Sunday, we published an exclusive story about the extraordinary lengths Meta was willing to take to censor content in order to convince the CCP to allow Facebook to enter China. They were ultimately, unsuccessful. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Zuckerberg’s Meta considered sharing user data with China, whistleblower alleges
Meta went to extreme lengths, including developing a censorship system, in a failed attempt to bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a whistleblower complaint.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/02/2025
Elon Musk’s DOGE Service has dismantled government agencies, stripped down the federal workforce and gained access to sensitive government data — all in an attempt, he says, to “restore democracy.” Here are the major legal questions about the group’s actions.
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Is what DOGE doing even legal?
An overview of the key legal questions about the actions of the group overseen by Elon Musk.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Using my “personal liberties” to repost this
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Cat Zakrzewski @cqzakrz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Jeff Bezos announced that the Washington Post opinion page will no longer publish viewpoints opposing personal liberties and free markets. In light of this news, I want to emphasize that there is a strong firewall between opinion and news at our publication.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New: Meta is one of several tech companies that have made chronic layoffs routine. This is fundamentally changing the way workers see their jobs, which may offer a preview of what's to come for the federal government's workforce, if Elon has his way: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Tech layoffs reveal the unintended consequences of mass job cuts
After years of layoffs and cutbacks, tech workers have lost trust in their employers. Federal employees may face the same fate after cuts from the White House.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
New: Beijing is increasingly likely to take a hard-line approach, letting TikTok’s U.S. operations die rather than approving a sale as it holds out for a “grand deal” with the Trump administration via Elizabeth Dwoskin, me, and @drewharwell.com
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
As I listened to Mark Zuckerberg's all hands yesterday, I was struck by how different his rhetoric was compared to his Joe Rogan interview. We'll have to see how he balances appealing to increasingly disparate audiences from bro podcasters to Meta workers. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Zuckerberg reassures Meta staff about company values after dramatic policy shifts
In a town hall, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company remains committed to diversity and free expression after unwinding DEI programs
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 31/01/2025
i've always thought community notes was a clever idea but this is spoken like someone who doesn't use X www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Zuckerberg largely defended the changes as part of Meta’s identity, arguing that it has long cherished free expression. The Meta CEO also said the company’s social media networks should not limit “mainstream” speech or topics that are being debated in Congress. And he argued that implementing a crowdsourced fact-checking model similar to X’s community notes program would yield better results.
“I don’t like being wrong about things, but I do think you want to be able to admit when a different system is working better,” he said. “Community notes is going to be a superior system for helping to add context to all the discussions that are going on in a less biased way than the current system that we have.”
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
ICYMI: In Trump’s first term, Meta quietly introduced a slew of Republican-friendly changes behind the scenes. But led by Republican policy executive Joel Kaplan, the company is done playing both sides — and is going all-in on MAGA. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Trump pivot
In Trump’s first term, Meta quietly introduced a slew of Republican-friendly changes. But led by Joel Kaplan, the company is done playing both sides and is going all-in on MAGA.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 30/01/2025
"A signal that Meta is willing to do whatever it takes to appease this administration" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @naominix.bsky.social @cqzakrz.bsky.social
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Meta will pay $25 million to settle Trump lawsuit alleging censorship
Brought by Trump in 2021, the lawsuit alleged Meta improperly suspended his social media accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 22/01/2025
From @willoremus.com and @naominix.bsky.social. Good coverage of @newsguard.bsky.social's situation, as well as the broader assault on the important work in this area that has been ongoing for some time now.
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This company rates news sites’ credibility. The right wants it stopped.
NewsGuard, which prizes its nonpartisan criteria, has become a prime target of the GOP’s battle against disinformation watchdogs.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 18/12/2024
Supreme Court is a go on TikTok review. Jan. 10., nine days before the banhammer was set to drop. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... @amarimow.bsky.social
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Supreme Court to hear challenge to banning TikTok in the United States
The justices will quickly take up the constitutionality of a federal law that would shutter TikTok next month unless the company divests from Chinese ownership.
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Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
What is going on with Apple AI, truly. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Two images of Chris generated by Apple's new "Image Playground" A.I. feature. 

One shows his head exceedingly round with an unnaturally large smile surrounded by plants and a disco ball. It's creepy. 

The other image is an Andrew Wyeth-style (maybe?) portrait of Chris, again looking very unnatural with a cheesy grin, wearing overalls and standing in front of a light green farm land.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dines with Trump following months of exhibiting a more conciliatory tone towards the president elect. A company spokesperson says Zuckerberg "was grateful for the invitation." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump selects retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg as special envoy on Ukraine and Russia
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
NEW: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating Meta, the company disclosed, in a probe that seems to involve financial data and ads. The agency could sue, but final decision hasnt been made. w/ @naominix.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Meta discloses federal probe into its use of financial data for ads
The social-networking giant said in a securities filing that it is under investigation by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
"The New York Times has obtained recordings of more than 400 of those meetings, over 400 hours of conversations, along with additional documents and training materials. It is a trove that provides an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at how misinformation is used to manufacture a movement."
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Inside the Movement Behind Trump’s Election Lies
For years, Republican activists have huddled in video meetings to talk about remaking democracy and plan for the election. The New York Times has obtained the recordings.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
"As a target of vicious and persistent online sexual harassment, Harris has a perspective that is unique in presidential politics... Now, some activists hope that as president, Harris would be uniquely positioned to bring attention to a long-ignored issue." - @naominix.bsky.social
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For years, Harris fought online abuse against women. Now she is a target.
Vice President Kamala Harris has long backed initiatives to fight online abuse against women. Now, activists hope she will do it in the White House.
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Vaishnavi @vaishnavi.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
As Arturo Béjar prepares to testify in front of the Senate, I talked to @washingtonpost.com and @naominix.bsky.social about the dangers of indiscriminately building products targeting youth markets without accounting for their rights - safety, privacy, expression.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 10/06/2023
New paper about participatory disinformation around the 2020 US election, improvisation, and online influencers. Teaser: maybe you’ve read the recent articles about the multi-dimensional harassment my colleagues and I have been receiving… here’s some of the research inspiring that harassment.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
I spoke to more than 24 current and former Meta workers about the morale crisis boiling inside the Silicon Valley giant. Despite a rosy Q1, workers say their CEO has long way to go to win back their trust. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2…
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