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Hannah Murphy
@mshannahmurphy.bsky.social
Financial Times tech correspondent writing on social media - X, Meta, TikTok, Telegram - plus some AI, cyber and misinformation.
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Thrilled to be shortlisted for the Tech Commentator of the Year award in the 2025 UK Tech Awards!
September 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Meanwhile, over on twitter dot com
August 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
chat, is this real
August 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
AI optimisation/visibility is the new SEO…
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It’s not every day your best friend gets nominated for an Emmy for producing a beautiful show about young queer love - and you get to tag along to the awards ceremony. But yesterday was that day!

Very proud of Paddy. And if you haven’t already, go watch Heartstopper on Netflix 💕
March 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Delighted to have won a SABEW @sabew.bsky.social Best in Business award in the Technology division for @financialtimes.com coverage of Telegram & Pavel Durov!

Just beaming 🙌

You can read my interview with Pavel just months before his arrest here: on.ft.com/4ijv9dI
March 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For those interested, here’s what happens:
January 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
And now for some real journalism!

I took a break from reporting on tech billionaires and Trump to write about getting my lashes done by an AI-powered robot

While the era of fully automated beauty treatments still seems some way off, disruption is coming to the sector - on.ft.com/4jCLevZ
January 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In 8 days, Zuckerberg has:
- Promoted top Republican Joel Kaplan to be face of Meta
- Hired Dana White to board
- Killed 3rd party fact-checking
- Loosened hate speech policies
- Killed DEI initiatives
- Said on Joe Rogan that corporations are “culturally neutered” & need more “masculine energy”
January 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
this headline and paragraph are absolutely sending me
January 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This article where an NYT journalist ditches his news apps for Rumble, journeys down the rabbit hole, emails Rumble creators for comment and then ends up being doxxed by them - before the article had even published - is WILD

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 13, 2024 at 3:44 PM
can i hear a lil commotion for the jumper I wore for the FT San Francisco bureau’s Christmas dinner
December 9, 2024 at 6:38 PM
So Brendan Carr, Trump’s FCC chair pick, reposted this story with the caption - “Buh-bye”

Fwiw even avid free speech advocates argue that there is a First Amendment right to academic freedom, and therefore universities should not be penalised for misinformation research
November 27, 2024 at 3:05 PM
and so it begins on Bluesky…

Not MBS in my DMs!
November 26, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Is Zuckerberg regretting his decision to reduce the prominence of political content on Threads?

Data is stark showing Bluesky massively capitalising on the X-odus where Threads has failed to. Now, Threads swiftly rolling out Bluesky-like features

on.ft.com/3V7huNc

w/ @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 4:18 PM