NYT Reporter and author of NYT Bestseller AN UGLY TRUTH, with @ceciliakang. Raising two kids and a cat in Oakland. Tell me a story: [email protected]

Oakland, CA
Joined February 2009
Everything has been hacked. We just don't know about it yet.
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A statement from The New York Times. nytco.com/press/statement-on…
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I’ll add, since a few people emailed this to me, look at the date in the original NYT article. They were quoting police who ON THAT DATE said they had not determined if the case was a homicide.
I know this topic is emotionally fraught and I don't think any outlet — especially ours — should be free from criticism, but this is just poor criticism against colleagues who are working diligently to understand what is happening in real time. xitter.cf/lessin/status/17218905…
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Fellowship applications are open for the @nytimes Visual Investigations team -- come work with me for a year! This one-year fellowship meant for early-career journalists. Pay is $79k. nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.co…
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How Years of Israeli Failures on Hamas Led to a Devastating Attack. Israeli officials completely underestimated the magnitude of Hamas attacks shattering the country’s once invincible sense of security. @ronenbergman @MarkMazzettiNYT @Abihabib nytimes.com/2023/10/29/world…
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It sounds like Musk is saying that international groups, like the UN or Red Cross, can use Starlink get online from Gaza. Unclear if those groups have terminals, or if Israel will try and stop them.
Replying to @DrLoupis
No terminals from Gaza have attempted to communicate with our constellation. SpaceX will support communication links with internationally recognized aid organizations.
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This image has gone viral in pro-Isreal circles, claiming to show a fake Palestinian corpse caught texting on his phone. Let's go through the image verification process step-by-step, using Google's reverse image search. Where does the photo come from and what's the context?
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Israeli and U.S. intelligence officials believe that a projectile captured on videos shortly before the Ahli Arab Hospital explosion was a Palestinian rocket. @nytimes Visual Investigations found that this object was launched from Israel, and likely unrelated to the deadly blast.
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Roshdi Sarraj, a Palestinian journalist who worked for Radio France, was killed today in an Israeli bombing of the Tel Al Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, the network said: radiofrance.fr/franceinter/g…. One of his last tweets, from five days ago, below:
A lack of media coverage from Gaza .. due to the killing more than 12 journalists, the bombing, and the blackout of electricity and the Internet. However, we are still trying to withstand and continue coverage so the world can see the israili crimes in Gaza.
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Well-known grifter Shaun King claimed to have helped release two hostages from Hamas. Some Israeli conspiracy theorists believed King's dubious claim and decided that it means the two women were Hamas collaborators and traitors. The family says they've never heard of King.
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Wow, this new report claims that Israel’s intel agency (the Shin Bet) met at 4am on Oct 7, and deployed a team to the Gaza border ahead of what they believed would be a cross-border attack. The Israeli army did nothing.
חשיפה: השיחה שנערכה בין ראשי הביטחון בשבת בארבע בבוקר, הסתיימה בהערכה שעומד להיות יום קרב בשבת, שעלול לכלול חדירה של כוח מחבלים שינסה לפשוט ולהשתלט על ישוב, על מנת לחטוף. שב"כ הוריד צוות טקילה לשטח, צה"ל- לא עשה דבר. האוגדה אפילו לא עדכנה את החיילים בבסיס, את המוצבים והיישובים.
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Meta hired actors during the Hollywood strike to train AI with their expressions & movements, paying as little as $300 to use the data “in perpetuity.” Nuanced story from @eileenguo illustrating how the AI industry profits from precarious labor conditions. technologyreview.com/2023/10…
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A lot of journalists are working overtime to try and determine what caused the explosion at Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Soon, we will have more clarity. I'm worried that it won't matter, and that each side has already chosen their narrative.
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This misleading tweet has gained more than 1M views. The Facebook page claiming to be an official IDF page is FAKE. It has been removed from Facebook.
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This is why verification matters. This person/account is not an Al Jazeera journalist.
This Post is from a suspended account. Learn more
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We spoke to over a dozen people whose friends and family were kidnapped on Oct. 7. What we discovered is that Hamas is using a deliberate tactic to terrify the families- hijacking’s their social media to send videos and photos. Story with @tminsberg nytimes.com/2023/10/17/techn…
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Last week I interviewed Keren Schem, whose daughter, Mia, was kidnapped from the Nova music festival. Today, Hamas released a video showing Mia in Gaza. It’s the first time Keren has been able to confirm her daughter is alive since Oct 7. nytimes.com/2023/10/16/world…
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