NBC News • 24th May 2022 Desperate parents plead with Big Tech to crack down on price gouging amid formula shortage As sellers jack up prices by as much as 300 percent, parents say platforms are doing little or nothing to intervene.
iHeart Radio • 24th May 2022 Interview: The Daily Dive on iHeart Radio I went on The Daily Dive podcast to discuss my reporting into the lack of effective regulation surrounding celebrity-endorsed NFTs.
NBC News • 22nd May 2022 Celebrity-endorsed NFTs leave investors 'financially crippled' Largely free from oversight and accountability, NFT-shilling stars are selling their fans wild get-rich-quick fantasies. The reality can be devastating.
BBC • 16th May 2022 Interview: The BBC I was interviewed for the first episode of The Future Will Be Synthesized, a BBC documentary series on deepfakes and synthetic media.
HuffPost • 17th February 2022 Exclusive: Google Has Made Millions Advertising Phony Government Handouts Paid Google ads urging people to apply for fake payments were viewed more than 100 million times in five months — and stayed up until HuffPost reached out.
Synthetic Futures • 16th February 2022 Panel: Synthetic Futures I was a panelist in a Synthetic Futures event discussing automated image abuse and how to fight deepfakes’ use in non-consensual porn.
CNN • 30th October 2021 Interview: Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN I talked to CNN correspondent Donie O'Sullivan about my research into anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
HuffPost • 9th September 2021 Scoop: Trump Insiders Are Quietly Paying Teen Memers To Post Partisan Sponcon Documents show that meme accounts rife with disinformation have also become shadowy advertising tools for some notable Republicans.
The Damage Report • 4th September 2021 Interview: The Young Turks I joined John Iadarola on The Damage Report to discuss my article on a new and dangerous deepfake porn tool.
HuffPost • 20th August 2021 ‘I Feel Used’: OnlyFans Made Millions Off Sex Workers’ Labor. Then It Hung Them Out To Dry. A sudden policy change that will ban “sexually explicit” material from OnlyFans threatens to upend the lives of those who made the platform successful.
HuffPost • 10th August 2021 A Powerful New Deepfake Porn Tool Has Digitally Undressed Thousands Of Women The AI-generated nudes, which look horrifyingly realistic, are sweeping the web.
The Damage Report • 7th August 2021 Interview: The Young Turks I joined John Iadarola on The Damage Report to discuss my feature on couples driven to divorce by anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
HuffPost • 24th July 2021 A Vaccine Or This Marriage: Conspiracy Theories Are Tearing Couples Apart "He said if I take the vaccine I could pack my bags and leave his kids here."
HuffPost • 20th July 2021 Female Twitch Streamers Spend Their Lives Online. Predators Are Watching. For women who earn a living on Twitch, being the target of coordinated, multiplatform sexual harassment campaigns comes with the job.
The Young Turks • 13th June 2021 Interview: The Young Turks I joined John Iadarola on The Damage Report to discuss my feature on the Facetune epidemic.
HuffPost • 20th May 2021 Self-Loathing And Surgeries: Inside The Facetune Epidemic The massively popular photo-editing app Facetune is driving a generation of young women to extreme and obsessive lengths to look flawless online.
HuffPost • 15th April 2021 Interview: HuffPost Video I talked to the HuffPost Video team about QAnon's cult-like hold over countless Americans.
Apple Podcasts • 1st April 2021 Interview: Under The Influence I joined journalist Jo Piazza on her podcast, "Under the Influence," to discuss my reporting on QAnon-supporting influencers. (31:50)
HuffPost • 26th March 2021 The Hidden Hand Of Facial Recognition In The Capitol Insurrection Manhunt The highly controversial tool isn’t just for the feds anymore. Online sleuths are quietly using it to hunt for rioters — like the man they’ve dubbed #NaziGrayHat.
HuffPost • 10th March 2021 Interview: Between The Lines I talked to HuffPost's "Between The Lines" team about the rise of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, and the role that Big Tech plays in propagating them.
