Drew Harwell is a reporter for The Washington Post covering artificial intelligence and the algorithms changing our lives. He was a member of an international reporting team that won a George Polk Award in 2021. He joined The Post in 2014 after working for the Tampa Bay Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Experts are divided over whether the disappearance of phone data from around the time of the insurrection is a sign of incompetence or an intentional coverup.
Trump's social media supporters moved quickly to defend the former president and themselves after Thursday night's televised hearing of the Jan. 6 committee.
The case, filed in 2008, became a hallmark of #MeToo activism after some of the women revealed they had been pressured to cater to their bosses’ sexual demands to get promoted or stay employed.
The project, announced after the Uvalde school shooting, led most of the Taser maker’s ethics advisers to resign: “You cannot address these horrific national tragedies … by throwing a Taser on a drone.”
Teen girls and young women who met Uvalde gunman Salvador Ramos online said he sometimes threatened to rape or kill. But some said their reports were ignored, that the threats were too vague, or that his kind of angry misogyny was just “how online is.”
The educational tools used by students during the pandemic also shared their information with advertisers and data brokers that could track them around the Web, an international investigation found.
The episode shows how little has changed in the three years since a live-streamed rampage at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, showed how mass shooters can harness leading social platforms to make their carnage go viral.