Julia Angwin

I knew I loved Denmark. First the coffee and cardamon buns. Now the ability to copyright myself to protect against deep fakes.

Screen shot from Grammarly listing "expert suggestions" from Julia Angwin, Craig Silverman, Bruce Schneier and Julie Brill

Grammarly is really cutting a wide swath -- from journalist @craigsilverman.bsky.social to cybersecurity expert @schneier.com to Microsoft chief privacy officer @julie-brill.bsky.social!

I guess we are going to have to find a way to copyright ourselves so that we have the right to demand automatic takedowns of bots that steal our identities…

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!

Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Perhaps it was a shock and awe strategy

This conversation with @bencollins.bsky.social about how to fight authoritarianism with fearless humor was a reminder that there is joy in the fight.

And Ben claims he only cursed 21 times during our 20 minute chat. lol.

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Had a brief cameo to discuss my research in this episode about the social media addiction trials! Really good listen for those interested in these cases in the US…

Thank you!! Bonkers is the perfect word to describe the discourse.

Very excited for all the hate I’m about to get for raising concerns about school phone bans and age verification laws.

Happens every time I talk about these third rail issues.

I have a lot of friends there so was hoping against hope…

But this moment must have consequences.

Screenshot of Washington Post subscription cancellation confirmation

Goodbye @washingtonpost.com

Screenshot of the Washington Post Guild GoFundMe page with generous donations listed.

I was so in awe on my first day at the Washington Post as an intern. It is so hard to get my head around its senseless destruction.

The only silver lining is watching the donations roll in for the Washington Post staffers. Solidarity is the only way out.

www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

Can Cell Phones Stop ICE? In the information war, the most powerful weapon is documentation from multiple angles.

I've been thinking a lot about the role of cell phones in a time like this. So I calledup @godin.bsky.social from @bellingcat.com and @juliaangwin.com to talk about it slate.com/podcasts/wha...

"Whether all is really lost
or not depends entirely on
whether or not I am lost."
-- Václav Havel

How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids? The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s deployment of immigration agents. Know of an incident? Please be in touch.

Might be nice to link to @thetrace.org’s tracker of ICE shootings, too www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

Email from Donnie T to Julia Angwin: best weapon against ICE is not a phone libtard, it’s getting rid of all the ILIEGALS [sic] that were let in to crash the country down while you munch on a rug. Silly cow.

Fun inbox this a.m. - as usual
the haters are bad at spelling.

Opinion | We Need a New Amendment: The Right to Bear Phones

The fight in Minnesota is the fight to bear witness to state violence.

The First Amendment grants us this right on paper, but it is being contested in the street. A state that controls the cameras is a police state.

My latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

Flashbangs burn hotter then lava.

They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.

*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.

Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:

www.propublica.org/article/flas...

Yeah, isn’t it weird to think we were apparently just in it for the color?

Omg you made me the best cocktail on Monday — with the best name ever: “Enthusiastic Consent.”

Opinion | I Killed Color on My Phone. The Result Shocked Me.

I went greyscale a few years ago. LOVE the freedom. Wisdom via @juliaangwin.com NYT

«  It may sound cheesy, but to be honest, I feel like turning off color on my phone made me more aware and more appreciative of the color and beauty in real life. »

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

“The audience has taken the wheel, and we’re all in the passenger seat now.” - @juliaangwin.com

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/audi...

Audiences will increasingly direct news coverage — for better and for worse "The audience has taken the wheel, and we're all in the passenger seat now."

My prediction for journalism in 2026: we are in a fully demand-driven news market now. Audiences drive coverage -- for better and for worse.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/audi...

Please do this!!! One founding document for the crypto movement that is worth reading is Assassination Politics: jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/AP.... Would be happy to provide any background that would be helpful from a veteran tech reporter..

Spotify wrapped but instead of Spotify it’s Google and they’re like here are the fifty top things we know about you and it’s extremely unsettling and then you realize wait why don’t we have a data privacy law in this country and it radicalizes you and you’re never using Google again and joining the fight to stop oligarchs from stealing and exploiting and enriching themselves on our personal information and you’re demanding data justice and digital reparations

Too long for the character limit but

What if we thought of journalism as community service?

@terryparrisjr.bsky.social is doing exactly that with his project to set up journalism practices in local libraries. This is exactly the experimentation we need to increase civic information and public accountability.

this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.

Authors -- you are entitled to a payment for the books of yours that Anthropic stole for its AI. It's about $1,500 per book. I just filed - you should too!
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?_gl=1*1ersia....

@alexreisner.bsky.social bringing the AI receipts - as always!