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Investigative reporter @ Forbes, fmr BuzzFeed News. On leave writing a book on TikTok — not checking Forbes email, if you need me, ping here: [email protected] Prev. content policy @ Facebook, Spotify; founded the Plain View Project, lawyer.
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oh hell yes pizza balla for pope

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

stop saying DEI when you mean everyone-but-cis-straight-white-men challenge

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

WAIT -- who was doing the threatening?

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

NEW: Apple and Google reinstated TikTok to their app stores last week after receiving a letter from the DOJ. But sources tell Forbes it took two letters to convince them they wouldn’t be liable, because they found the first version not legally sufficient. www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

New: Clearview AI's CEO Hoan Ton-That has resigned. After he led the company through controversy and lawsuits, the company struggled to secure big federal contracts. Now, Clearview is focused on selling to the Trump border effort and the Pentagon. www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I do not want to be a cartoon. Does anyone want to be a cartoon?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I just took a great photo

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 197 comments

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

submitted 13 days ago • 256 comments

Philly now blasting Kendrick in the streets

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

well, this is terrifying

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story. wapo.st/3EF3aWN

submitted 14 days ago • 368 comments

lil on the nose there

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Parting shot as I sign off for the weekend. @archive.org is a starkly essential resource and one that was already under fire. Support them. They are real people with a weird warehouse in the East Bay and scanners and piles of media to not lose. #filmphotography #35mm #hp5 #ephemera

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

If SCOTUS actually takes this case, it is a 5 alarm fire — but it’s worth noting that people have been trying to overturn Sullivan for years and we have not yet seen 4 votes for certiorari.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Editorial integrity makes or breaks newsrooms. Good on WSJ.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

katherine long is extremely hardcore (at investigative journalism)

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

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submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Google docs just tried to convince me to replace "advantage" with "aadvantage" in a sentence. (And no, the sentence was not about airlines.)

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

The First Amendment would like a word

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

now that's how you write a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 81 comments

I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

submitted 17 days ago • 587 comments

wow

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This viral video claiming USAID has paid celebrities to visit Ukraine is nowhere to be found on E!News. And it is v similar in style to a Russian operation we’ve investigated that impersonates media outlets and often pushes anti-Ukraine narratives www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Audacious ideas

submitted 18 days ago • 304 comments

um, what?! about.usps.com/newsroom/ser...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

We still are trying to sort out how much China abused a backdoor in our wiretap systems (Trump fired the team investigating it) and now we've just opened up a massive new backdoor to the entire payment system of the United States What could go wrong?

submitted 18 days ago • 35 comments

but her emails!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

is Donald Trump really going to create a sovereign wealth fund, use it to buy TikTok, and thus create the US's first state-controlled media? idk, you'd better preorder my new book to find out www.everyscreenontheplanet.com

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

this is spectacular

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Wouldn’t have wanted to do this with anyone else. Tom is truly the GOAT ❤️

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The rise of the most effective attention-algorithm ever invented, and the superpower struggle to control it. EVERY SCREEN ON THE PLANET: THE WAR OVER TIKTOK by Emily Baker-White. In Stores 9.30.25. wwnorton.com/books/every-...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve spent the past year+ working on a book about TikTok. It’s out in September. Pre-order now!! www.everyscreenontheplanet.com

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

oh

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment