My latest for @wired.com

“A delivery driver posted a TikTok alleging she had been sexually assaulted by a customer. The deepfakes that followed unearthed a growing digital blackface problem.” My latest for @wired.com

You may have heard of the "DoorDash girl"—a driver who alleged a customer exposed himself and filmed it. Afterwards, many Black content creators saw AI-generated versions of themselves defending the customer on TikTok, though they'd said nothing about it: www.wired.com/story/the-vi...

ngl I kind of think Sam Altman should be tried criminally? is that … feasible?

Palantir is in the news a lot lately. However, the public discourse about the company often misconstrues it as a data broker, a data miner, a single centralized database, etc. But what does Palantir actually do? I wrote a piece to firmly & clearly answer that question: www.wired.com/story/palant...

SCOOP: The CBP asking tech companies to pitch digital forensics tools that are designed to process and analyze text messages, pictures, videos, and contacts from seized phones, laptops, and other devices at the United States border, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

One of the most underreported aspects of life for Black undocumented migrants can be summed up in one statistic: They’re deported at a rate four times more often than their numbers would suggest. capitalbnews.org/black-migran...

Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation. And hope to gobble up some land near you. Read @kieraevebutler.bsky.social's latest.

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion 🔗 www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

💡NEW at @dropsitenews.com: The Massacre of Nine Children of the Al-Najjar Family “I turned on my camera and began recording. I didn’t know yet that the fire was burning the bodies of my neighbors’ children.” Dispatch by Donya Abu Sitta www.dropsitenews.com/p/massacre-a...

Hi! I am currently investigating nonprofit newsrooms that have lost funding over their Palestine coverage for @prismreports.org -- please email me at [email protected] if you have any tips. I guarantee anonymity.

second, I wrote about the myriad digital platforms immigrant advocates have been coding and launching to notify their neighbors of ICE raids, with a special focus on @joshua.stealingheather.com's new ICEBlock app: slate.com/technology/2...

It is too horribly perfect that Musk's Grok is spewing racist inanities while fueled by huge methane generators that are menacing the health of Memphis's Black communities.

“We don’t know when, if ever, they will be able to reunite with their family.” Thousands of kids are stuck in immigration facilities—with no end in sight.

Ray Levy Uyeda wrote an extensive piece about Musk's supercomputer last month for @prismreports.org! It's definitely worth a read.

NEW: ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find Targets 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-plans-ce...

⚡️NEW at @dropsitenews.com: The State Department Relied on Columbia University’s Mischaracterization of Protests to Arrest Mohsen Mahdawi Story by Meghnad Bose www.dropsitenews.com/p/mohsen-mah...

The Trumpian move is to don the Totenkopf, to embrace and supercharge this monstrous and grossly unequal death tableau. Khalil, meanwhile, continues to show us what it means to fight for the living. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/04/11/m...

NEW: while researching another story I stumbled across a group of AI slop farms on YouTube, churning out heartwarming fake stories about people in the Trump universe. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI

Bluesky has been a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. But while there’s less hate, there’s also fewer lolz.

The new director of Medicare and Medicaid services was peddling vitamins to teenagers on TikTok Shop just a few months ago. I wish I was joking

In Africa’s migration economy, women’s labor fuels households abroad while their own needs are sidelined at home. Naila Aroni asks: what does freedom look like when care itself becomes a form of exile? africasacountry.com/2025/04/the-...

With today's news about Eric Adams running for re-election as an independent, throwing all sorts of wacky chaos into this year's race, we wanted to highlight a story about the mayor's effect on national discourse you may have missed from last week. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-n...

@radhikaraj.bsky.social and @matene.bsky.social from @zdnet.bsky.social interviewed Project Liberty President @tomicah.bsky.social about our plan for decentralizing TikTok. Read the full article: www.zdnet.com/article/the-... #tiktokban

🚨 Trump's attacks on DEI and 🇵🇸 activists aren't separate—they’re two sides of the same backlash. Read why Trump's crackdown is part of a long history of White resistance to movements for racial and social justice, and what it means for democracy mondoweiss.net/2025/03/how-...

SCOOP: WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.

The FCC received 125 complaints about Kendrick Lamar’s concert, according to public records obtained by WIRED, with many focusing on the lack of white performers.

Western companies' one-size-fits-all AI strategies don't serve many of the world's populations. These African researchers are working to change that. My latest for @zdnet.bsky.social: www.zdnet.com/article/ai-f...

Many people are turning to AI chatbots for personal needs, whether companionship or emotional support. However, new OpenAI research suggests heavy ChatGPT use might make you feel lonelier. www.zdnet.com/article/open...

new @wired.com guide, especially as crossing into the US gets more dangerous for your digital privacy. steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.

NEW: An investigation into how New York City's law enforcement officials pushed a narrative that a mysterious and deadly Venezuelan gang was running amok, despite little evidence to back it up, and helped the Trump admin invoke the Alien Enemies Act. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-n...

US President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 people including Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the US, according to a Federal Register notice.

personally I find it fascinating that everything Columbia students know about what’s happening is communicated through Wall Street Journal articles. The university only sends us meaningless word salad emails. They haven’t actually told us they caved to the Nazis

Amid growing concerns over Chinese AI models like DeepSeek, new research suggests that fears may be overblown. In fact, some popular US-based AI chatbots might be collecting even more of your personal information. My latest for @zdnet.bsky.social: www.zdnet.com/article/worr...

Someone tell Netanyahu and company to devour feculence. #severance

wrote about the common denominator in all the stories of CBP arresting, deporting, and in one case allegedly torturing legal immigrants at airports: mass surveillance www.theverge.com/policy/63284...

“Nickel Boys should win the Oscar for Best Picture, but it’s a shame the Academy didn’t recognize exactly how this film allows us to see something new.” My latest for @defector.bsky.social

the family of Sam Nordquist, whose violent murder was publicized Friday (with little other details of his life), is $5k away from their goal to cover expenses related to bringing him home from out of state and a funeral. (ty for link @berlantbro-more.bsky.social)

Qué buena lectura. A mí "Dahomey" me encantó, no sólo porque habla de identidad y restitución en Benín, sino también por el debate que muestra de los estudiantes universitarios y todas las cosas que ellos dicen. Gracias @africasacountry.bsky.social. 🫶🏾

shall i do a thread about the whole package of reported stories and essays we ran last summer about exactly this?

For @zdnet.bsky.social, I wrote about the rise of RedNote. www.zdnet.com/article/no-r...