Adam Satariano
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Adam Satariano
@satariano
@nytimes Europe tech correspondent. DMs open. Message me for private Signal/WhatsApp/phone/fax.
- NEW: Elon Musk is the dominant figure in satellite internet, giving him growing geopolitical sway. No company or country comes close to matching what he built with Starlink. From Ukraine to Taiwan, the way he is wielding that power is now raising alarms.
- 🚨NEW: We got more than 75,000 internal documents about Nokia’s work for Russia’s largest wireless network. Takeaway: When Nokia halted business in Russia and condemned the war, left unsaid was its role in surveillance there. W/ @paulmozur & @Aaron_Krolik
- Who is Mykhailo Fedorov? The Ukraine minister led the name-and-shame campaign to pressure the biggest companies to leave Russia; helped create a volunteer hacker army; and set up a $60m crypto fund for the military. We spoke for 45 minutes this week.
- I spent the past two weeks covering an emotional trial asking if social media contributed to a 14-year-old's suicide. Yesterday, a coroner ruled it did, perhaps the first time the internet has been legally blamed for influencing a death in this way.
- NEW: As Russia attacks Ukraine, authorities in Moscow are intensifying a censorship campaign at home against the world’s biggest tech companies.
- BIG moment. DOJ will accuse Google of illegally maintaining its monopoly over search through several exclusive business contracts and agreements that lock out competition, including paying billions to Apple to be the default iPhone search engine.
- NEW: The global supply chain for digital surveillance tech is growing thanks to Russian companies building tools to track people online and on phones. One tool logs metadata for calls on encrypted apps like Signal & WhatsApp. w/@Aaron_Krolik & @paulmozur
- For months, @CadeMetz and I have been chipping away at a story about people in the U.S. and Europe whose lives have been affected by government decisions made by algorithms. It included stops in Philadelphia, Rotterdam and Bristol. We're excited to share:
- NEW: Facebook offloaded responsibility for policing its most toxic content to a web of outsourcing firms. No company has been more crucial than Accenture. Here is our investigation into the secretive corporate relationship.
- Disinformation research is more important than ever. But it involves a lot of false starts and dead ends. There is a risk of overhyping and sensationalizing. @benimmo, one of the most respected in the field, let me tag along with him for a few days.
- NEW: Amazon warehouse workers in France, angered by safety conditions as they filled orders of trivial items like nail polish and DVDs, have sparked the most high-profile labor battle the company has faced since the virus outbreak. w/ @LizAldermanNYT
- NEW: Inside a pro-Huawei information campaign. Uncovered in Belgium, the effort shows how underhanded social media tricks are being used to achieve corporate goals. nytimes.com/2021/01/29/tec…
- Talked to people about the good old days of Russia's internet. The web was freewheeling, people felt it would help bring openness and modernization. Any remnants of that are gone after the past week. w/ @VALERIEinNYT on Russia’s digital isolation.
