Ryan Mac
Ryan Mac is a senior technology reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in San Francisco. He reports on the intersection of money, technology and power.
Contact this reporter at ryan.mac@buzzfeed.com
Mark Zuckerberg Sent An Apology Letter About Myanmar. These NGOs Called It “Grossly Insufficient.”
Facebook’s CEO is expected to testify in front of US senators on Tuesday. At least one may ask about his company’s role in spreading hate speech in a country that’s been beset by ethnic conflict.
Ryan Mac
• One month ago
Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.
Ryan Mac
• One month ago
The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Said He Wanted To Create “The NSA’s Wet Dream”
Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who helped found Cambridge Analytica, recently came clean about his role in creating the controversial data mining outfit. BuzzFeed News has obtained communications that show what he was thinking when he went about creating a similar company to Cambridge Analytica and why being “evil pays more.”
Ryan Mac
• One month ago
These Men Helped Create Cambridge Analytica. Here Is Their New, Very Similar Startup.
Chris Wylie, a data scientist whose work was at the center of a massive Facebook controversy, said publicly that he helped create “Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.” Two of his associates who also helped build that tool have been quietly building another company to analyze and influence human behavior.
Ryan Mac
• 2 months ago
Want To Make Millions? Copy Someone’s Cryptocurrency Project.
Copying other companies' work and intellectual property can generate big paydays for hucksters in the cryptocurrency world. One company has maintained a $2.3 billion valuation despite widespread allegations of plagiarism.
Ryan Mac
• 2 months ago
Twitter Is Still Allowing Scammers To Hijack Verified Accounts To Take People’s Money
Unlike past versions of Twitter cryptocurrency phishing, @TronFoundationl is different: It has a verification badge, the blue check mark that Twitter uses to delineate famous or important accounts from imposters.
Charlie Warzel
• 2 months ago