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Tiffany Kelly was the culture editor at Daily Dot. Previously, she worked at Ars Technica and Wired. Her writing has appeared in several other print and online publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Popular Mechanics, and GQ.

Tiffany Kelly

Tech

Twitter is removing free API access—and cutting off fun accounts in the process

How this obscure, blockchain-based site built a playground for QAnon to run rampant on

Matthew B. McGrath is an independent journalist and a Charles E. Scheidt Fellow for genocide and mass violence prevention at George Mason University focusing on media, narrative, and public discourse. He was previously an editor and contributor at Fox News Digital, an editor and reporter for The (Bergen) Record and NorthJersey.com, and other regional newspapers in New Jersey and New York where he was a member of award-winning teams covering breaking news.

Matthew B. McGrath

Why Amazon’s indefinite ban on facial recognition isn’t a real win for privacy rights

Motion blurred people walking in an intersection.

Will the U.S. finally get its act together on facial recognition laws?

EJ Dickson is a writer and editor who served as the Daily Dot’s IRL editor from January 2014 to July 2015. Her work has since appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mic, Bustle, Romper, and Men’s Health.

EJ Dickson

Is QuizUp the new Tinder?

Taylor Hatmaker has reported on the tech industry for nearly a decade, covering privacy and government. Most recently, she was the Debug editor of the Daily Dot. Prior to that, she was a staff writer and deputy editor at ReadWrite, a tech and business reporter for Yahoo News, and the senior editor of Tecca. Her editorial interests include censorship, digital activism, LGBTQ issues, and futurist consumer tech.

Taylor Hatmaker

In 2006, Harvard also conducted a Facebook study that went too far

Here’s what WSJ headlines look like in emoji

Aaron Sankin is a former Senior Staff Writer at the Daily Dot who covered the intersection of politics, technology, online privacy, Twitter bots, and the role of dank memes in popular culture. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He joined the Center for Investigative Reporting in 2016.