Everything has been hacked. We just don't know about it yet.
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Sheera Frenkel
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NYT Reporter and author of NYT Bestseller AN UGLY TRUTH, with . Raising two kids and a cat in Oakland. Tell me a story: sheera.frenkel@nytimes.com
Oakland, CAJoined February 2009
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TUES at 9 AM PT w/ and #KQEDYouthTakeover guest host Rajvi Khanjan Shroff:
We'll speak w/ Riju Parakh, & about how to become cybersecure.
❓ What are your questions about how to keep yourself safe online?
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Highly recommend reading & fantastic new book exposing how Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership structured Facebook’s platforms to solely focus on growing the number of users & the time spent on their services, which I reviewed for below!
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Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, effective immediately. This is an earth-shaking moment in cable news.
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Please, someone do the analysis of how many people with blue checks have “founder” in their bio and/or proclaim they are Tesla fans .
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Terrible day.
helped free people from prison, changed laws, got sexual harassers fired, and more. As it did so, it won a Pulitzer, Pulitzer finalist honors 3 times, 3 Polk Awards, a National Magazine Award, etc.
Happy to help editors find great journalists.
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i'm obviously sad, but i'm immensely proud of the work i did here — even the stuff that seemed stupid! i had such freedom & it was indescribably fun!
if anyone in this industry is hiring (lol) or wants me to write or edit, my email is davidmackau@gmail.com!
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what a ride!!! 8.5 years!!!
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In case it isn’t obvious, I’m looking for a new job after 10 years!
Please hire me! I’m very good at reporting the news, particularly investigation and finding people. I’ve produced definitive coverage on online extremism. Also, I write viral stories about the royal family.
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Breaking News: BuzzFeed is shutting down its news division, BuzzFeed News, as part of an effort to cut the company’s work force by 15%, the chief executive said. nyti.ms/41nXMOh
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It’s a sad day for BF alum, but a opportunity for any editors out there looking to hire!
You can’t do better than the crew at BuzzFeed News.
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hey editors: hire BFN alums. they're the best damn reporters in the industry.
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Beige pans for people who cook beige food?
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The tech industry has gone from "move fast and break things" to "move fast and break things OR DIE" nytimes.com/2023/04/07/tec
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NEWS: A little scoop building off of ’s great reporting: can confirm Clarence Thomas’ mom definitely still lives in the house Harlan Crow bought. At least as of 2 weeks ago when interviewed her there for Slow Burn season 8
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So, 21yo shared classified material on a small Discord server for months and was ultimately identified by a group of journalists who *checks notes* spent hours staring at kitchen countertops.
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A breakthrough in our investigation came when the team identified a Steam profile in Airman Teixeira's name that led to an Instagram profile with photos of the exact location where leaked docs were photographed — a kitchen countertop in his childhood home. nytimes.com/live/2023/04/1
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NEW: Billionaire Harlan Crow bought property from Clarence Thomas in undisclosed real estate deal.
Crow netted two vacant lots and the house where Thomas’ elderly mother was living. It’s unclear if he paid fair market value.
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NEW:
Harlan Crow paid Thomas for property.
The law explicitly requires disclosure of property sales.
Thomas didn't disclose anything.
Here's Thomas' signature on the undisclosed deal.
propublica.org/article/claren
By @JustinElliott @js_kaplan & @Amierjeski
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Layoffs and absentee leadership, along with concerns that Mark Zuckerberg is making a bad bet on the future, have devastated employee morale at Meta, current and former employees tell and .
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Want a symbol of Big Tech being corporate America conventional?
Facebook hired a consulting firm to conduct "workplace reviews."
nytimes.com/2023/04/12/tec
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My three-year-old fell fell skiing today and when I caught up with her she was lying like this and giggling. I would have been so broken if my limbs were this contorted.
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A YouTuber's irreverent Discord server is the center of a crisis over leaked Pentagon docs.
“It was just spread onto the nicheiest, nerdiest parts of the internet,” said the YouTuber, wow_mao. He was surprised by the sudden attention.
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For real. Searching for the word substack on Twitter returns “newsletter”.🤪
What’s next to be hardcoded? Search for Elon returns “the most amazing funniest guy ever”? 🤷♀️
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Elon’s pettiness is boundless.
Searching Twitter for the word “substack” now returns search results for the word “newsletter.”
Elon is as big an asshole as I’ve ever come across in my life.
And I’m a Trump biographer.
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He wrote in the email, which was viewed by The New York Times, that it was an “absolutely fatal error in this moment to worry about things that can be fixed later." and on the thinking inside Google and Microsoft amid the AI boom:
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Coolio, the rapper best known for his hit “Gangsta’s Paradise,” died from the effects of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner.
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This is interesting — the Pentagon is trying to get Twitter to remove posts that contain classified documents about the war in Ukraine
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Attention budding foreign correspondents! The Richard Beeston Bursary is well worth applying for - in memory of a treasured colleague and legendary correspondent ⬇️
richardbeestonbursary.com
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“I just got hired by The Wall Street Journal. I’m the Moscow correspondent. I’m in the bureau. I did the thing.” -
’s profile of Evan, the first American reporter jailed on spying charges since the end of the Cold War:
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The profile has written on Sam Altman is masterful, and has so many gems like this. nytimes.com/2023/03/31/tec
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“Why is he working on something that won’t make him richer? One answer is that lots of people do that once they have enough money, which Sam probably does. The other is that he likes power.”
so many gold coins in this Sam Altman profile from
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oh my god. i swear to you this is real. the algorithm source code literally has a carve out just for elon’s posts
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NEW: Twitter hasn’t paid thousands of dollars in charitable donations that employees made in 2022, around the time of the acquisition. The money was taken out of employee paychecks but never reached the organizations. Benevity, the third-party platform that is used to facilitate… Show more
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Scoop: won’t pay for verification
— It will not enroll in Twitter’s “Verification for Organization” program either
— It also won’t reimburse staff who chose to pay for Twitter Blue either
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For the last three months, & I have been trying to get to the bottom of exactly why a man in Georgia was jailed for stealing purses in Louisiana, a state he'd never been to. It started with facial recognition and snowballed from there. nytimes.com/2023/03/31/tec
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Bye blue check! Thanks for helping people find me when scammers were trying to create fake accounts in my name. Sorry to see it go this way.
If you need to find me, my email is in my bio. That's going to be the best way to reach me.
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CEO of Meredith Kopit Levien's 2022 paycheck: $7.6 million (over $20,800 per day 🙀)
Years without a contract: two
Amount of patience we have left: zero
Sign our letter to tell New York Times execs that enough is enough. bit.ly/twoyearsnyt
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