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Claire Goforth is a lawyer and investigative editor. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, and more. She regularly appears on radio and in podcasts. Email for booking info.

Claire Goforth

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If Kiwi Farms had a billion users: Inside the trans hate groups that run rampant on Facebook

Chris Stokel-Walker is a U.K.-based journalist and the author of TikTok Boom (2021) and YouTubers (2019).

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‘AI cannot be an excuse’: What happens when Meta’s chatbot brands a college professor a terrorist?

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‘They want to say the most incendiary things’: LGBTQ hate explodes online amid ‘Don’t Say Gay.’ It only took a handful of users

Connor Bulgrin is a freelance journalist based in Ohio. He covers corporate power and markets. He was previously an editorial intern for the American Prospect and is currently a research associate for the American Economic Liberties Project.

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Meta’s new plan to battle fraudulent reviews could still leave businesses languishing

Tricia Crimmins is a former Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election. She can be found on Twitter at @TriciaCrimmins.

Tricia Crimmins

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‘Non-monogamous relationships have been marginalized for too long’: Polyamory org asks Facebook to expand ‘relationship status’ feature

AJ Dellinger is a seasoned technology writer whose work has appeared in Digital Trends, International Business Times, and Newsweek. In 2018, he joined Gizmodo as the nights and weekend editor.

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Is abortion content absent from your Facebook feed? You aren’t alone

Lauren Castro is a reporter based in Austin, Texas.

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‘Mean girls will always be mean girls’: TikToker claims her former high school bully has a Facebook group dedicated to reporting her account

Audra Schroeder&#8217;s work has previously appeared in the Austin Chronicle, the Dallas Observer, NPR, ESPN, Bitch, and the Village Voice.

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‘Devious licks’ and ‘slap a teacher’ trends were reportedly part of Meta’s anti-TikTok campaign

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After Facebook bans, trucker convoys protesting COVID restrictions flood far-right channels with plans to dox opponents

Brooke Sjoberg is a freelance writer who graduated with her Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020.

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‘I feel totally helpless’: Woman says ‘online hitmen’ are taking down her small business in viral TikTok

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Christians are terrified of the metaverse

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Facebook said he was the worst kind of conspiracy spreader—why is he still pushing QAnon on it?

Samira Sadeque is a New York-based journalist reporting on immigration and mental health, and will sometimes write about memes and dinosaurs too. Her work also appears in Reuters, NPR, and NBC among other publications. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School, and her work has been nominated for SAJA awards.

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Denise Bradley is exposing anti-Black content in ‘white lives matter’ groups on Facebook

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Facebook slammed for giving far-right preferential treatment after blacklist of ‘dangerous individuals and groups’ leaks

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