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Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

Katherine Huggins

Screenshot from X user @AlexHortonTX of a Tweet from @DODResponse with a Community note and the same tweet without one.

Community Note fact-checking Pete Hegseth’s response to secret Yemen Signal chat disappears from X

Left: Photo of actress Edi Patterson from her Instagram; Right: Screenshot of Edi Patterson's Instagram post describing her mother's medical situation; Caption: Instagram caption from Edi Patterson "Let's see if they make this one immediately disappear from my grid too.

‘Righteous Gemstones’ star says Instagram deleted her posts calling out UnitedHealthcare for denying a claim

Nate Wolf is a reporter based in New York City. His work has appeared in the Chief, InsuranceNewsNet, and Deadspin.

Nate Wolf

Photo Illustration of a hand with a gavel about to strike the Meta and X logo in front of an American Flag.

Will Trump’s firings at the FTC make life easier for Big Tech?

Mars Ramos is a museum educator and freelance writer. She loves long walks in nature, doing yoga, and baking brownies.

Mars Ramos

A person explains while streaming content appears on a wall of screens behind them.

‘They sell these at Walmart. They sell these on Amazon’: Woman says she cut cable, Netflix, all her streaming services. Then she reveals what she got instead

Melody Heald is a culture writer. Her work can be found in Glitter Magazine, BUST Magazine, and more.

Melody Heald

Woman’s MacBook won’t turn on anymore. Will an Igloo fridge really save it?

A tweet from X user @LinusEkenstam that reads: "Grok needs a lot of red teaming, or it needs to be temporary turned off. It’s an international security concern." over a photo illustration of a pixelated hacker.

‘Turn it off’: Grok under fire after providing assassination advice, chemical weapons recipes

Tech

Dave Portnoy’s “Greed” memecoin launch, dump leaves crypto community fuming

Hope Talbot is a freelance journalist currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The Daily Express, Euronews, and Bristol24/7, to name a few.

Hope Talbot

Hacker finds Grok 3 backdoor day before launch—as Musk’s DOGE feeds government data to AI

WikiLeaks sparks Bitcoin bro panic with claim U.S. funded anti-cryptocurrency ‘propaganda’

Mustafa Gatollari has been an internet culture writer for over a decade. He has a passion for connecting what’s trending on social media to solid research—helping to separate clout-chasing claims from facts.

Mustafa Gatollari

‘Sadly not everyone got CarPlay for this in my town’: Man says car is tailing. Then he uses this little-known touchscreen feature to get him back

Roy Stephen is a N.Y.-based freelance journalist covering the gig economy. His work was previously featured on Inc. Magazine, the US Sun, and the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Roy Canivel

A hand holding a phone with the DoorDash app open with a heart-shaped cross out symbol covering the Doordash logo.

DoorDash drivers struggle to drum up support for repeat of last year’s Valentine’s Day strike

The NYC DOT logo over a photo of bike couriers and dollar signs.

‘Grubhub and Seamless be paying’: NYC’s e-bike swap for delivery drivers criticized as app subsidy

The OpenAI logo on a red tech background next to the DeepSeek logo on a blue tech background.

‘Hypocritical babies’: OpenAI’s myriad lawsuits flagged after accusing DeepSeek of intellectual property theft

Illustration showing an eye symbol with both the Chinese and United States flag in it. Surrounded by branching circuitry.

‘So what?’: Privacy warnings about DeepSeek fall on deaf ears

Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.