Reporter covering technology @WSJ. Get in touch: meghan.bobrowsky@wsj.com or meghan.99 on Signal
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New: Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Facebook executive who wrote a scathing memoir about her time at the company last year, is now suing the company over its attempts to prevent her from promoting the book.
Story w/ @keachhagey
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American kids watched so much Peppa Pig during the pandemic that they developed British accents and started regularly using British words like “holiday” instead of “vacation,” confusing their parents. 🐷🐽
My first A-Hed for @WSJ with @Preetika_Rana:
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BREAKING: Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia.
While working at Twitter, he searched up users who criticized the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and shared that info with kingdom officials in exchange for $$$.
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Me liking every tweet about @evangershkovich getting freed
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Some ~personal news~:
I’m excited to be @WSJ’s newest technology reporter in San Francisco. I learned so much from my colleagues this summer and am looking forward to continuing to work alongside them.
I start Monday. 🥳🤩😇😎🤓
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New: Across Silicon Valley, AI researchers are putting in 80-100 hour workweeks to keep pace with technological progress.
Several compared it to war, and one executive even joked that the new work schedule is "0-0-2," midnight to midnight with two hours off.
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Saturday scoop: Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch has joined Meta, the startup confirmed.
W/ @keachhagey
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Scoop: Meta has poached three OpenAI researchers: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, according to people familiar with the matter.
An OpenAI spox confirmed the three have left the company.
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From filing: “With the sense of humor of a bot, Twitter claims that Musk is damaging the company with tweets like a Chuck Norris meme and a poop emoji. Twitter ignores that Musk is its second largest shareholder with a far greater economic stake than the entire Twitter board.”
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Personal news: I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted a new role at @WSJ covering Meta full-time.
I’ve covered the company on and off since joining WSJ’s tech bureau three years ago and am eager to dive in with all my attention.
Send tips and let’s grab coffee!
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The front page of @WSJ today:
Our colleague @evangershkovich has been detained for 100 days in Russia.
“He has committed no crime, only journalism.” #IStandWithEvan
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Everyone, please say hello to my new blue check mark!! I am officially a real reporter now ☺️
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reporter math is continuing to call people to avoid writing the article that you should really just write already
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After a busy fall semester, I'm excited to announce that I'll be returning to journalism full-time next Monday as a metro intern at the @sfchronicle! Looking forward to digging in and learning from some of the best in the business. 🤓🌁🗞️
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Today’s my first day as a full-time reporter for @WSJ! I’ll be covering social media and general tech news.
Send tips, pitches and SF recs to my recently reactivated email: meghan.bobrowsky@wsj.com. 📫🥳
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The metaverse is really making waves this week, apparently.
My grandpa just asked how the metaverse — or rather, the “mega something” — will affect him.
After explaining it to him, he said he is “not interested at this time.”
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Some ~personal~ news:
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be interning with The Wall Street Journal this summer after I graduate from @scrippscollege.
Looking forward to digging in and learning from some of the best in the business. 🥳🤩😇
I am so happy to announce our selections for the @WSJ summer 2021 intern class. We are looking forward to having their energy and skills in our newsroom and see the great journalism they produce. Congratulations! medium.com/wsj-internships/m…
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Is @OSHA_DOL doing its job during the pandemic? Nationwide, the agency’s cited just 1 facility in response to 6,000 complaints. And when a Florida man filed a complaint, he was told they weren’t doing #COVID inspections.
My investigation for @MiamiHerald: miamiherald.com/news/coronav…
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Elon Musk to take over Twitter
More here:
wsj.com/articles/twitter-and…
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Today’s my first day at @WSJ! I’ll be covering Tesla, Airbnb, Facebook + some other companies/general tech news.
Send hot tips and SF recs to meghan.bobrowsky@wsj.com. 😇🍵📫
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So I accidentally went to the opening night of a new play that Emilia Clarke’s in and had no idea. I thought she had been performing in it for weeks. That’s how good this woman is #teamdaenerys
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Today’s my one-year anniversary of being full-time at The Wall Street Journal. Very grateful to everyone who has mentored and helped me over the last year.
Also a reminder that I’m now covering TikTok, Snap and other social media companies, so pls send tips! DMs are open
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My investigation into @OSHA_DOL’s response to the pandemic ran on the front page of @MiamiHerald‘s Sunday edition today!
Super excited about my first A1 byline and hoping the story leads to change. miamiherald.com/news/coronav…
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In other @WSJ news, today is my 2-year anniversary at the Journal.
In year 2, I got some scoops, led WSJ’s first ever oral history project, spent a lot of time in the metaverse, starred in a few TikToks and won my first @SABEW w/ @JeffHorwitz @sal19.
Looking forward to year 3!
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After a summer of investigations at @MiamiHerald, I’m excited to say I’ll be joining the @CalMatters College Journalism Network this fall as a contributor to the higher ed data and investigations team! Looking forward to digging in and reporting on more California colleges. 🤗🥳
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New: Reddit sued Anthropic this morning for using the site's data without a licensing agreement, per a filing in Superior Court.
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On today’s front page of @sfchronicle (my first solo A1 byline!):
Vaccine access codes meant for underserved groups are getting shared by text among healthy, privileged Bay Area residents
sfchronicle.com/health/artic…
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Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder whose company was once valued at $9 billion+, has reported to prison.
Video: WSJ
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Day 1 ✔️
Excited to be here and looking forward to the rest of the summer! Send tips to mbobrowsky@miamiherald.com. 📬
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Yesterday was me and @Kellen_Browning’s three-year anniversary. True to form, here’s what he made for me.
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Some quick math: Twitter currently has ~423,700 verified users. If 10% of them paid $8 a month, the company would generate an additional $4.1 million in revenue a year. For reference, co made $4.5 billion in ad revenue last year.
wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-h…
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My grandpa, who always read my articles even if he didn’t understand them (such as the one below), passed away this week at age 90. Rest in peace
The metaverse is really making waves this week, apparently.
My grandpa just asked how the metaverse — or rather, the “mega something” — will affect him.
After explaining it to him, he said he is “not interested at this time.”
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Excited to have my first front page story in @WSJ today!
ICYMI, American kids watched so much #PeppaPig during the pandemic that they developed British accents and started using British words like “biscuits” instead of “cookies.”
W/ @Preetika_Rana
wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a…
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It's probably about time to announce that my summer investigative internship with the @MiamiHerald has ended. I'm very grateful for the opportunity I had to come to Florida, work (virtually) alongside talented reporters and help tell #COVID19 stories.
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The Oakland Coliseum set out to vaccinate the diverse community it's in.
But so far, 41% of vaccines have gone to white people and just 4% have gone to Black people.
My latest for @sfchronicle:
sfchronicle.com/health/artic…
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Everyday I wake up and cook myself a lil egg in a lil egg pan and make my lil phone calls and write my lil articles (today’s egg —>)
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Today’s my first day as a metro intern at @sfchronicle, which means I have a new fancy email for people to send tips to! 📬⬇️
meghan.bobrowsky@sfchronicle.com
Will also accept Bay Area coffee/boba recs and recs for covid safe things to do while I’m here. 🤗
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Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? We peeked into the extravagant life Jeffrey Epstein's madam led up until her arrest Thursday morning w/@benbwieder @jkbjournalist @1Dfisher for @MiamiHerald
miamiherald.com/news/state/f…
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Excited to have my first solo-byline story on the front page of @WSJ today.
It’s about a 21-year-old who dropped out of college to pursue social media fame full-time and millions of others just like him.
THREAD:
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Excited to announce I’ll be interning at @sacbee_news this summer, covering breaking news and school funding!
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My first byline for @MiamiHerald!
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My first article for @WSJ:
TikTok will now allow users to make videos up to three minutes long — up from a previous max of 60 seconds — to compete with other social media platforms.
wsj.com/articles/tiktok-embr…
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Nothing says college journalism more than spending all night making the newspaper and then getting up at 6:30 a.m. to deliver it
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More great @tiktok_us content from @sacbee_news. This one’s a modern version of a commercial the newspaper made in the 1980s.
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Photos from our 3-mile run here in San Francisco in honor of our colleague Evan Gershkovich (@evangershkovich).
Evan has been unjustly detained in a Russian prison for almost 1 full year now with no end in sight.
He deserves to come home. #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan
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Scoop: Snap is scrapping development on its Pixy flying selfie camera project less than 4 months after launching it.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel shared the news in a regular companywide Q&A known as “Ask Evan” and said it’s part of broader reprioritization.wsj.com/articles/snap-scraps…
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Update: I'll be covering tech for the @WSJ this summer. Excited to get started and work with some amazing journalists.
Also books written by tech reporters seem to be the best... so send some recs! (Most recently finished @reeveswiedeman's book on WeWork)
Some ~personal~ news:
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be interning with The Wall Street Journal this summer after I graduate from @scrippscollege.
Looking forward to digging in and learning from some of the best in the business. 🥳🤩😇
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My profile for the WSJ's weekend paper about Yann LeCun, who has been in the news quite a bit this week!
wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecun-a…
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A dozen spreadsheets later, my story about endlessly rising taxes in Philadelphia’s suburbs made A1 above the fold in today’s paper: philly.com/philly/news/prope…
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If the metaverse is the future of the internet, the future so far appears to be…
largely empty, legless and riddled with glitches and bad behavior by users.
Internal docs show Meta is struggling to retain users + more. Story with @JeffHorwitz @sal19
on.wsj.com/3s4x2SV
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A first for me!
Two separate stories on today’s front page of @sfchronicle
Read both here:
sfchronicle.com/politics/art…
sfchronicle.com/local/articl…
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Lorenzo Mitchell dropped out of college to pursue social media fame and fortune. After two years, he’s made less than $70.
He’s one of millions of people who are risking it all in the hopes of becoming famous one day.
Latest for @WSJ:
wsj.com/articles/a-shot-at-s…
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Web5?? Did we just skip web4
this will likely be our most important contribution to the internet. proud of the team. #web5
(RIP web3 VCs 🤫)
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Love seeing everyone’s Spotify Wrapped. I am embarrassed by mine and will not be posting it. Thank you for respecting my privacy at this time
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I’ve been waiting for the right moment to share some personal news. But it doesn’t seem like that’s gonna be anytime soon so here goes:
I’m very excited to say I’ll be returning to @mcclatchy this summer to intern at the @MiamiHerald, covering local government and politics!🐊🌟
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Yesterday, I wrapped up my metro internship with the @sfchronicle! I’m sad to go but grateful for everything I learned from all the reporters and editors there this spring.
Here’s a few of the stories I got to work on:
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I’m still struggling to wrap my head around the fact that you’re really gone, Karan. You meant so much to me and so many other people.
Here’s you on one of the happiest nights of your life — the first time you saw TLC perform in person.
I hope you’re at peace now. ❤️
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My story on @TheFlaBar opening an investigation into state Rep. @Mike_Grieco’s recent actions ran on the front page of @MiamiHerald today. 😎🤓🙃
ICYMI, here’s the link: miamiherald.com/news/politic…
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for reference, Snapchat’s subscription service, called Snapchat+, has 2 million+ subscribers
scoop: as of mid-January, Twitter only had around 180k paid subscribers in the US, less than .2% of its monetizable monthly active users. with around 290k paying subscribers globally, this would imply just ~$28m in annual revenue — 1% of Twitter's total theinformation.com/articles/…
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I sent my grandpa one of my articles via email and this is how he responded ... I think he just discovered how journalism works.
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On the front page of today’s @MiamiHerald: How 52 residents of a Miami Springs nursing home died of #COVID19
English story: miamiherald.com/news/coronav…
Spanish story in @elnuevoherald: elnuevoherald.com/noticias/s…
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Our new story on the latest inside Meta's new superintelligence division:
-TBD employees sit in an area that needs separate badge access
-TBD employees' names aren't visible on the internal org chart
-some new recruits have already left
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Excited to say I am the proud new owner of this vintage @MiamiHerald lunch box that @Kellen_Browning miraculously found online. I will be using it to carry food from the kitchen to my office (read: bedroom) from now on
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NEW: We viewed an internal Meta doc from August that says Instagram Reels are not even close to competing with TikTok, 2 years after the product widely launched.
In fact, ~ 1/3 of Reels are created on and reposted from another app: usually TikTok. wsj.com/articles/instagram-r…
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I recently went to ramen and they were trying to charge me $2 extra for the egg!!! in this economy??
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if you would like to read about something other than Twitter this evening, we published the Wall Street Journal’s first (?!) oral history this weekend, about TikTok’s rise over the past five years
with @sal19 @georgia_wells & @saraheneedleman
wsj.com/articles/tiktoks-str…
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The Justice Department is pursuing potential criminal charges against Elon Musk and Tesla over perks the company may have given the CEO since 2017.
Great reporting from @rfelliott @EmilyGlazer @KirstenGrind
wsj.com/tech/justice-departm…
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Mark Zuckerberg was personally upset by Meta's content moderation system after he posted a photo of himself post-surgery in 2023.
The post was slowed by Meta's algorithm & led to a full-scale review of algorithmic demotions.
Anecdote in day 2 story w/@AlexaCorse @JeffHorwitz
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Very cool that we got to accept our award from the New York Press Club in person tonight! Congrats to all the winners
cc @JoannaStern @jimcarltonsf @cmaiduc @AmyDMarcus @BenFoldy @cdriebusch @AAndriotis @Justinbaer @Rosieettenheim
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NEW: Twitter is killing off Fleets less than a year after it launched the Snapchat-like disappearing content feature, citing lack of user engagement.
My latest for @WSJ:
wsj.com/articles/twitters-sn…
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Powerful push alert from @WSJ this morning.
Today marks one year since our colleague Evan Gershkovich was picked up by Russian authorities and detained in a Russian prison unjustly.
Evan was just doing his job, not committing a crime. #FreeEvan #JournalismIsNotACrime
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I received a pitch today that included this sentence and am flattered that I “kind of know” what I’m talking about. 🙃🙃
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Adding to the unpaid internship discourse:
I’m getting great experience at the @sfchronicle but there’s no way I would’ve been able to accept the internship and relocate to the Bay if it wasn’t paid.
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the back of my head will forever be famous
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Silicon Valley Bank's former parent is suing the FDIC for withholding access to roughly $2 billion of its own deposits at the bank, which the FDIC says could be used to help cover the costs of bailing the bank out wsj.com/articles/silicon-val… via @WSJ
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Waymo's self-driving cars have gone from doing 10,000 rides per a week a year ago to now over 100,000, many in San Francisco.
They're gaining momentum and have plans to expand nationwide--and eventually globally.
Our story on how Waymo pulled ahead in the robotaxi race w/ @MilesKruppa (thumbnail not autopopulating for some reason)
Link: wsj.com/tech/waymo-san-franc…
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We have decided on Woody, short for Woodward, and will be buying him a friend named Bernstein.
Bought this lil dude today to keep me and @haleylerner company for the summer. Plz send name suggestions!!
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First front page byline at @sfchronicle! (Peep the bottom left corner)
Newsom opens stadium site; teachers get vaccination date
W/ @MusicSF @TrishaThadani sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
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More COVID-19 outbreaks are now occurring at restaurants (7%) than hospitals (3.9%), according to data from the state.
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thought i was just tired after covering all the elon twitter news yesterday, but nope. tested positive for covid 😐
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Elon Musk responded to Twitter’s lawsuit and request to expedite the trial, saying a “breakneck schedule” is not necessary and asking the court to schedule the trial for Feb. 2023.
from @saraheneedleman
wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-o…
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my grandpa watched inventing anna and is wondering if we also have a section of the newsroom for “old writers”
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I made my podcast debut at @WSJ this morning, discussing the implications of TikTok’s decision to implement longer videos into its platform.
Thanks @zoegthomas for having me on the tech news briefing!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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The next time you're craving something sweet and savory, how about a hot dog rice krispie treat? trib.al/pFX0YRd
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“There's this debate in journalism about whether you should major in journalism, go to journalism school, or not. I think I'm definitely on the side of ‘don't do that.'"
Great @Kellen_Browning profile by @pomonacollege and advice I strongly agree with. pomona.edu/news/2020/10/08-k…
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