I’ve written about my own struggles with the pandemic, the wildfires in the West, and my ability to eat an alarming quantity of cheap sandwiches. Many of the stories I’m proudest of moved outside the realm of technology. Sometimes the work is investigative ( revealing a massive smartphone-location data set).

Sometimes my stories are absurd ( the great poop-emoji feud of 2017). I charted the upside-down world of the pro-Trump media and one of its most dangerous personalities (Alex Jones). It’s led me to extensively document the first decade of Twitter’s failure to tackle its harassment problem. I care deeply how these forces shape and distort our culture and our politics, and how they reimagine our economies. Before the Times, I was a senior technology writer at BuzzFeed News, covering technology’s biggest platforms.įor the past 11 years I’ve dedicated my journalism to telling the story of how technology changes everything it touches. At the Times I was the lead writer of the paper’s Privacy Project and a co-author of “One Nation Tracked,” a seven-part investigative series, for which I was named a finalist for the 2020 Livingston Award for National Reporting. Previously, I was a writer at large for the New York Times Opinion page.

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