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Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

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‘That light, queasy feeling’: Apple’s New Vision Pro is turning heads—and churching stomachs

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TikTok appears to be automatically banning people with dwarfism because it thinks they’re underage

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

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‘Again, I’m Singaporean!’: Tom Cotton grills TikTok CEO over membership in Chinese Communist Party—despite not being from China

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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‘I’m sorry for everything’: Senator pushes Zuckerberg to apologize to victims’ families for Facebook’s role in child exploitation

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After forcing him to buy Twitter, voiding $56 billion Tesla payout, Musk is done with the state of Delaware

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

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‘Sci-Fi Horror’: No one is pleased at Musk’s announcement he put a Neuralink chip in a human

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Should you be worried your data is in the ‘Mother of all Breaches?’

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‘It’s a bit of a facade’: MrBeast skeptical of big payout after Elon Musk prompted him to share videos directly to X

Samantha Barrett is a FOIA intern at the Daily Dot. She is currently a student at the University of Maryland where she studies journalism and government and politics.

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Police struggle to justify use of Fusus, a community surveillance tool they foisted on citizens

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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‘I constantly have to look up what those symbols mean’: User points out iPhone offers accessible laundry instructions

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X reinstates prominent left-leaning journalists, posters after outcry

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EpsteinGPT—built to parse new unredacted documents—earns creator warning from OpenAI

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‘Are you on it?’ Artists realize their works were included in AI data sets after filing in suit against Midjourney goes viral

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