Julia Angwin
@juliaangwin.com
Investigative journalist. New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer. Founder, Proof News, The Markup. Priors: ProPublica, WSJ. Fellow at Harvard Shorenstein Center. Signal: Julia.368
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@alexreisner.bsky.social bringing the AI receipts - as always!
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@alexreisner.bsky.social bringing the AI receipts - as always!
Reposted by Julia Angwin
Just a gentle reminder that the panic about phones melting our brains could well be a convenient way to justify rules that could be used to prevent us from using our phones to film state violence.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just a gentle reminder that the panic about phones melting our brains could well be a convenient way to justify rules that could be used to prevent us from using our phones to film state violence.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Tomorrow! Next in our series w NYPL, D&S ED Janet Haven will talk to @cmcilwain.bsky.social, @juliaangwin.com & @catherinebracy.com about the power and potential of AI in the *public* interest. In-person spots are going fast; reserve yours or join the livestream! www.showclix.com/event/unders...
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Tomorrow! Next in our series w NYPL, D&S ED Janet Haven will talk to @cmcilwain.bsky.social, @juliaangwin.com & @catherinebracy.com about the power and potential of AI in the *public* interest. In-person spots are going fast; reserve yours or join the livestream! www.showclix.com/event/unders...
Come work with me! I'm hiring a data scientist to join me at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @shorensteinctr.bsky.social
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October 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Come work with me! I'm hiring a data scientist to join me at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @shorensteinctr.bsky.social
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Hey folks! A little bit of news from me. I'll be starting a new program at the @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @shorensteinctr.bsky.social in January focusing on how we can support and bolster the independent media that is so crucial to our democracy.
shorensteincenter.org/article/inde...
shorensteincenter.org/article/inde...
Announcing new program on independent media, Julia Angwin to join as inaugural director - The Shorenstein Center
shorensteincenter.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hey folks! A little bit of news from me. I'll be starting a new program at the @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @shorensteinctr.bsky.social in January focusing on how we can support and bolster the independent media that is so crucial to our democracy.
shorensteincenter.org/article/inde...
shorensteincenter.org/article/inde...
This is, unfortunately, the right question — will we let our freedom be stolen?
(Shameless plug: This is why I’m writing a book on how we can fight back. buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...)
(Shameless plug: This is why I’m writing a book on how we can fight back. buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...)
September 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is, unfortunately, the right question — will we let our freedom be stolen?
(Shameless plug: This is why I’m writing a book on how we can fight back. buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...)
(Shameless plug: This is why I’m writing a book on how we can fight back. buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...)
In an era of increasing government crackdowns on speech, can we afford to entrench Google as the gatekeeper to our information landscape?
My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link):
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My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link):
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Opinion | Google Wins, We Lose
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September 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In an era of increasing government crackdowns on speech, can we afford to entrench Google as the gatekeeper to our information landscape?
My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
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for iOS, it's Accessibility -> Display -> Color Filters flip them on and choose greyscale
I changed my phone to grayscale and I feel like I just quit meth. It's unbelievable how much less of a hold it has on me now. Highly recommend trying it!
September 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
for iOS, it's Accessibility -> Display -> Color Filters flip them on and choose greyscale
I changed my phone to grayscale and I feel like I just quit meth. It's unbelievable how much less of a hold it has on me now. Highly recommend trying it!
September 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I changed my phone to grayscale and I feel like I just quit meth. It's unbelievable how much less of a hold it has on me now. Highly recommend trying it!
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Some exciting news to share: I’m writing a book — with the great @juliaangwin.com for HarperCollins/Mariner. ON COURAGE is a deeply reported case for courage in our age of authoritarianism, weaving the stories and lessons of dissidents on five continents into a guide for Americans. See you in 2026.
September 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Some exciting news to share: I’m writing a book — with the great @juliaangwin.com for HarperCollins/Mariner. ON COURAGE is a deeply reported case for courage in our age of authoritarianism, weaving the stories and lessons of dissidents on five continents into a guide for Americans. See you in 2026.
I’m thrilled to announce that @fieldsmeyer.com and I are writing a book about how to challenge authoritarianism.
“On Courage: To be a Dissident in America’s Age of Fear,” is scheduled to be published by Harper Collins next summer.
“On Courage: To be a Dissident in America’s Age of Fear,” is scheduled to be published by Harper Collins next summer.
September 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I’m thrilled to announce that @fieldsmeyer.com and I are writing a book about how to challenge authoritarianism.
“On Courage: To be a Dissident in America’s Age of Fear,” is scheduled to be published by Harper Collins next summer.
“On Courage: To be a Dissident in America’s Age of Fear,” is scheduled to be published by Harper Collins next summer.
It's hard to restore competition in a market that has already been crushed -- and I suspect the judge's cautious ruling requiring the very least from Google is not going to give competitors enough of a reason to jump back in to create search products.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It's hard to restore competition in a market that has already been crushed -- and I suspect the judge's cautious ruling requiring the very least from Google is not going to give competitors enough of a reason to jump back in to create search products.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
If you need something hopeful and inspiring to listen to, I highly recommend this three-part @npr.org podcast series The Network about the women who transformed abortion support in South America - and how it changed the world.
www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
The Network: Saint-o-tec : Embedded
Part 1: In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregnant women at his hospital were dying from abortion complications. It wasn't a coincidence. Brazilian women had made a discovery...
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August 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
If you need something hopeful and inspiring to listen to, I highly recommend this three-part @npr.org podcast series The Network about the women who transformed abortion support in South America - and how it changed the world.
www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
"What’s currently needed is not the death-defying heroism of the French Resistance; rather, what we must avoid is the cowardice of the Vichy collaborators."
A moving history & meditation by my former WSJ colleague @paulthedogman.bsky.social
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A moving history & meditation by my former WSJ colleague @paulthedogman.bsky.social
momentmag.com/jewish-respo...
The Jewish Response to ICE: Lessons from an Occupied French Village
Providing support to ICE detainees and family members waiting to see them is just one way American Jews can step up.
momentmag.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"What’s currently needed is not the death-defying heroism of the French Resistance; rather, what we must avoid is the cowardice of the Vichy collaborators."
A moving history & meditation by my former WSJ colleague @paulthedogman.bsky.social
momentmag.com/jewish-respo...
A moving history & meditation by my former WSJ colleague @paulthedogman.bsky.social
momentmag.com/jewish-respo...
@keyachatterjee.bsky.social has been planning for DC’s federal takeover. She founded FreeDC in January, in part, to prepare for possible martial law.
“When you have an authoritarian, it matters very much if you can organize in the capital,” she said in April.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
“When you have an authoritarian, it matters very much if you can organize in the capital,” she said in April.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
So You Want to Be a Dissident?
A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.
www.newyorker.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
@keyachatterjee.bsky.social has been planning for DC’s federal takeover. She founded FreeDC in January, in part, to prepare for possible martial law.
“When you have an authoritarian, it matters very much if you can organize in the capital,” she said in April.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
“When you have an authoritarian, it matters very much if you can organize in the capital,” she said in April.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
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"The F.T.C. move is an attempt to tilt the media landscape in favor of the government in ways that are simply un-American. If we want a media that is willing to stand up to government, we need to fight for the right to boycott, not just for ourselves but also for advertisers."
Boycotts can be an powerful tool for political change. They helped end apartheid and even helped pushed Elon Musk out of govt.
So the Trump Admin is trying back-door efforts to curtail the ability to boycott. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
So the Trump Admin is trying back-door efforts to curtail the ability to boycott. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
Opinion | Trump Moves to Silence a New Target
www.nytimes.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"The F.T.C. move is an attempt to tilt the media landscape in favor of the government in ways that are simply un-American. If we want a media that is willing to stand up to government, we need to fight for the right to boycott, not just for ourselves but also for advertisers."
Boycotts can be an powerful tool for political change. They helped end apartheid and even helped pushed Elon Musk out of govt.
So the Trump Admin is trying back-door efforts to curtail the ability to boycott. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
So the Trump Admin is trying back-door efforts to curtail the ability to boycott. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
Opinion | Trump Moves to Silence a New Target
www.nytimes.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Boycotts can be an powerful tool for political change. They helped end apartheid and even helped pushed Elon Musk out of govt.
So the Trump Admin is trying back-door efforts to curtail the ability to boycott. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
So the Trump Admin is trying back-door efforts to curtail the ability to boycott. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
Probably not the most important thing about her crucial article, but the way that @nhannahjones.bsky.social responds to commenters is a master class on how journalists can (and imho should) engage with audiences.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Probably not the most important thing about her crucial article, but the way that @nhannahjones.bsky.social responds to commenters is a master class on how journalists can (and imho should) engage with audiences.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
June 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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New Jersey folks — come on by this weekend for a chat about how to save democracy! 👇🏻
Award-winning investigative journalist @juliaangwin.com Julia Angwin on reversing America's slide into authoritarian government.
In Teaneck we begin at 10:30 am & join Julia's talk at 11.
Or register directly with the American Ethical Union for the Zoom link: aeu.org/2025/05/cour...
In Teaneck we begin at 10:30 am & join Julia's talk at 11.
Or register directly with the American Ethical Union for the Zoom link: aeu.org/2025/05/cour...
June 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New Jersey folks — come on by this weekend for a chat about how to save democracy! 👇🏻
Phew, the impersonator is gone. Thanks to those who reported! And thanks to Bluesky team for fast work 🙏🏻
It seems I have an impersonator on here. Please do not follow, and report if you feel inclined. The writing has an AI flavor to it.
June 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Phew, the impersonator is gone. Thanks to those who reported! And thanks to Bluesky team for fast work 🙏🏻
It seems I have an impersonator on here. Please do not follow, and report if you feel inclined. The writing has an AI flavor to it.
June 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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I bring you a tiny bit of good news — courts are finally reining in Big Tech in significant ways.
We could actually be on the cusp of a totally transformed tech landscape - after 30 years of total lack of constraints.
My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
We could actually be on the cusp of a totally transformed tech landscape - after 30 years of total lack of constraints.
My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
Opinion | Big Tech Is Finally Losing
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I bring you a tiny bit of good news — courts are finally reining in Big Tech in significant ways.
We could actually be on the cusp of a totally transformed tech landscape - after 30 years of total lack of constraints.
My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
We could actually be on the cusp of a totally transformed tech landscape - after 30 years of total lack of constraints.
My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
Gentle reminder: Authoritarians regularly kill off oligarchs who seem to be getting too much power.
June 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Gentle reminder: Authoritarians regularly kill off oligarchs who seem to be getting too much power.