Ryan Mac
Ryan Mac is a senior tech reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in San Francisco.
Contact this reporter at ryan.mac@buzzfeed.com
Mark Zuckerberg Promised A Clear History Tool Almost A Year Ago. Where Is It?
Last May, Facebook promised to create a “Clear History” function it said would give users more control over their data. Nine months later it's nowhere to be found and sources say it's a key example of the company's “reactionary” way of dealing with privacy concerns.
Ryan Mac
• 20 hours ago
Roger Stone Posted A Photo Of The Judge Presiding Over His Case Next To Crosshairs
Stone deleted the post and published a statement saying, "any inference that this was meant to somehow threaten the Judge or disrespect court is categorically false."
Ryan Mac
• 4 days ago
This Man Threw Away A Napkin Last Month. Police Used It To Charge Him With A 1993 Murder.
A Minnesota man was charged with murder after police used a discarded napkin, which he used to wipe his face while eating a hot dog, to tie him to a nearly 26-year-old cold case.
Ryan Mac
• 4 days ago
Twitter Just Removed A Tweet From An Account Linked To Iran’s Supreme Leader, Raising Enforcement Questions
Twitter has previously used a newsworthiness standard to defend its refusal to apply abuse and harassment rules to President Donald Trump’s account.
Ryan Mac
• 7 days ago
Pro-Trump Activists Are Boosting A Twitter App Used By Banned Personalities And It Appears To Have Already Stalled
“Twitter was successful because of conservatives. Because of Donald Trump tweeting. Because of people like me and Charlie (Kirk) tweeting.”
Mark Di Stefano
• 10 days ago
Amazon Recorded Video Of A Seller's Face For Identification Purposes
“We will record a 5-second video of your face. ... To proceed, enable access to your webcam.”
Leticia Miranda
• 16 days ago
George Soros Said The Biggest Threat To The World Is China’s Development Of AI
“It will subordinate the fate of the individual to the interests of the one-party state in ways unprecedented in history.”
Ryan Mac
• 29 days ago
Google's Board Is Being Sued For Allegedly Silencing Misconduct Claims Against Former Executives
Lawyers say an internal investigation by Google claimed to find bondage videos on former company executive Andy Rubin’s computer. “You won’t believe what’s in these [shareholder] minutes.”
Davey Alba
• One month ago
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos And His Wife, MacKenzie, Are Getting A Divorce
The National Enquirer says its plans to publish salacious details of Jeff Bezos' alleged involvement with a former TV anchor.
Leticia Miranda
• One month ago
Apple Blames Business Slowdown On Chinese Trade Tensions And Fewer iPhone Upgrades
The company also blamed weakened iPhone sales on customers taking advantage of a $30 battery replacement program.
Ryan Mac
• One month ago
Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Has “Altered Its DNA” As He Reflects On His 2018 Goal To Fix The Company
You might think Facebook had a bad year in 2018. But CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a year-end post that at least progress was made.
Ryan Mac
• One month ago
Literally Just A Big List Of Facebook’s 2018 Scandals
Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn’t, and 2018 has only presented more problems.
Ryan Mac
• 2 months ago
25 Things BuzzFeed News Tried And Loved In 2018
Some of these things may change your life.
Katie Notopoulos
• 2 months ago
Russia’s “Propaganda War” On US Social Media Is Ongoing, New Reports Say
Outside researchers provide the deepest look yet at Russian efforts to influence American politics in reports released by the Senate Intelligence Committee Monday.
Emma Loop
• 2 months ago
Jack Dorsey Reportedly Took A Government-Organized Hot Air Balloon Ride In Myanmar
Through a spokesperson, the Twitter and Square CEO said he was unaware multiple government agencies were reportedly involved in organizing the flight.
Ryan Mac
• 2 months ago
Facebook Says A Bug May Have Exposed The Unposted Photos Of Millions Of Users
“We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t, we don’t deserve it."
Ryan Mac
• 2 months ago
These Confidential Charts Show Why Facebook Bought WhatsApp
The company was obsessively tracking WhatsApp and saw not just a rising competitor but a potential Facebook killer.
Charlie Warzel
• 2 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg's Biggest Problem: Internal Tensions At Facebook Are Boiling Over
“It’s the bunker mentality. These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They’re getting tired, getting cranky — the only survival strategy is to quit or fully buy in.”
Charlie Warzel
• 2 months ago
This Document Is Some Of The Research Facebook Commissioned On George Soros
Definers’ research for Facebook on billionaire George Soros has never been published before. You can read one of those documents here.
Ryan Mac
• 2 months ago
Sheryl Sandberg Emailed Staff To Conduct Research On Billionaire George Soros
While Facebook maintains that Sandberg was not directly involved in a public relations firm's opposition research on Soros, it now acknowledges that she did in fact request research on the billionaire.
Ryan Mac
• 2 months ago