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Tricia Crimmins is a 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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Instagram opted all users out of seeing political content—a day before the first presidential debate

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String of Palestinian college activists had Instagram accounts locked for supporting ‘dangerous’ people

Every social network besides TikTok failed GLAAD's social media safety test

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Every major social media site flunked GLAAD’s LGBTQ safety test

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People are already selling replicas of Mark Zuckerberg’s birthday shirt

Tiffanie Drayton is a geek culture and lifestyle reporter whose work covers everything from gender and race to anime and Xbox. Her work has appeared in Complex, Salon, Marie Claire, and elsewhere.

Tiffanie Drayton

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‘Dehumanizing and disturbing’: GLAAD report reveals Meta’s ‘ongoing failure’ to enforce policies prohibiting transphobic content

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

Mikael Thalen

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‘Practice run for November?’ Massive Facebook outage on Super Tuesday sparks claims of deep state sabotage

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

Katherine Huggins

Meta warns investors that Mark Zuckerberg's 'high-risk activities' could lead to his death

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Meta warns investors Mark Zuckerberg could accidentally kill himself—notes ‘high-risk’ hobbies could have ‘adverse impact’ on the company

Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

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Meta’s chief AI scientist slammed for saying authors should give books away for free—while selling his on Amazon for $20

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Massive new big tech lawsuit demands restitution for cost of ‘youth health crisis’ social media offloaded onto schools, teachers

Jacob Seitz is a freelance journalist originally from Columbus, Ohio, interested in the intersection of culture and politics.

Jacob Seitz

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Facebook approved ad calling for violence in Brazil even after riots broke out

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Meta’s stock meltdown is so bad even Jim Cramer is crying

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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EXCLUSIVE: Facebook is still flooded with ‘groomer’ slurs despite Meta’s pledge to crack down

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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).

Chris Stokel-Walker

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Marietje Schaak

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

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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