Dara Kerr
@darakerr.bsky.social
Tech Reporter @us.theguardian.com. Tips: dara.kerr@theguardian.com or darakerr.01 on Signal
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Musk is still talking at the Tesla shareholder meeting and he just criticized "the parasitic load of being a public company" which has "grown over time."
This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Musk is still talking at the Tesla shareholder meeting and he just criticized "the parasitic load of being a public company" which has "grown over time."
This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
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Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fascinating to see the ties tighten between Trump and tech CEOs -- and how they influence policy, like sending troops to SF.
"It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said @issueonereform.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said @issueonereform.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says tech chiefs convinced him to call off troop ‘surge’ to San Francisco
President specifically lauds Nvidia and Salesforce CEOs and says they told him ‘the future of San Francisco is great’
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Fascinating to see the ties tighten between Trump and tech CEOs -- and how they influence policy, like sending troops to SF.
"It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said @issueonereform.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said @issueonereform.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
glad to see silicon valley is financing the destruction of the white house 😑
list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir
Work under way to demolish entire East Wing as president upped cost of new structure from $200m to $300m
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
glad to see silicon valley is financing the destruction of the white house 😑
list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
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New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
"As unnerving and disheartening as SF’s overt misery and drug-use and mental instability can be, that’s not the same thing as crime. Reported SF crime, which was already low, is down nearly a third...
Subjectively, you may not feel safe in San Francisco. Objectively, you’ve rarely been safer."
Subjectively, you may not feel safe in San Francisco. Objectively, you’ve rarely been safer."
Marc Benioff exposed himself as craven and hollow.
He's got company.
From @esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2025/10/marc...
He's got company.
From @esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2025/10/marc...
Marc Benioff exposed himself as craven and hollow. He has company.
Salesforce CEO's inane call for siccing the National Guard on San Francisco is met with performative inanity
missionlocal.org
October 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"As unnerving and disheartening as SF’s overt misery and drug-use and mental instability can be, that’s not the same thing as crime. Reported SF crime, which was already low, is down nearly a third...
Subjectively, you may not feel safe in San Francisco. Objectively, you’ve rarely been safer."
Subjectively, you may not feel safe in San Francisco. Objectively, you’ve rarely been safer."
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Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.
He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.
The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.
The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
motherjones.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.
He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.
The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.
The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
Lots of attention on this Marc Benioff article, which is excellent and full of jaw-dropping quotes.
It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.
www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...
It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.
www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Lots of attention on this Marc Benioff article, which is excellent and full of jaw-dropping quotes.
It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.
www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...
It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.
www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...
We got the audio from Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures and... my brain hurts.
But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With @jmbooyah.bsky.social & Nick Robins-Early)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With @jmbooyah.bsky.social & Nick Robins-Early)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We got the audio from Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures and... my brain hurts.
But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With @jmbooyah.bsky.social & Nick Robins-Early)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With @jmbooyah.bsky.social & Nick Robins-Early)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Paramount just paid $150 million for this
October 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Paramount just paid $150 million for this
Seems Sora is primed to spread misinformation. The app had no problem generating war scenes and mass shootings.
One video, created with only the prompt “Charlottesville rally”, showed a Black protester in a gas mask and helmet yelling: “You will not replace us”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
One video, created with only the prompt “Charlottesville rally”, showed a Black protester in a gas mask and helmet yelling: “You will not replace us”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’
Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Seems Sora is primed to spread misinformation. The app had no problem generating war scenes and mass shootings.
One video, created with only the prompt “Charlottesville rally”, showed a Black protester in a gas mask and helmet yelling: “You will not replace us”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
One video, created with only the prompt “Charlottesville rally”, showed a Black protester in a gas mask and helmet yelling: “You will not replace us”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Evergreen
bad week
October 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Evergreen
This is a classic tactic Uber and Lyft have used when threatened by things like minimum wage laws for drivers --overlaying their apps and websites with company messaging.
Shocking to see the federal government doing it now
Shocking to see the federal government doing it now
October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is a classic tactic Uber and Lyft have used when threatened by things like minimum wage laws for drivers --overlaying their apps and websites with company messaging.
Shocking to see the federal government doing it now
Shocking to see the federal government doing it now
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Bari Weiss, an opinion writer, running CBS News? A real newsroom? With real reporters covering real beats?
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/washington...
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/washington...
October 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Bari Weiss, an opinion writer, running CBS News? A real newsroom? With real reporters covering real beats?
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/washington...
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/washington...
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The White House is pinning the shutdown on Democrats, in a message blasted to agencies that's raising ethical questions. HUD & VA blame the "Radical Left"/"radical liberals."
"It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me.
w/ @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social & @stphnfwlr.com
"It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me.
w/ @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social & @stphnfwlr.com
Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown
Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.
www.npr.org
September 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The White House is pinning the shutdown on Democrats, in a message blasted to agencies that's raising ethical questions. HUD & VA blame the "Radical Left"/"radical liberals."
"It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me.
w/ @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social & @stphnfwlr.com
"It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me.
w/ @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social & @stphnfwlr.com
this thread!
Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:
September 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
this thread!
YouTube is helping to pay for Trump's new Mar-a-lago style White House ballroom, according to these court filings
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5m to settle lawsuit over account suspension
Platform suspended the US president’s YouTube channel in 2021 after the January 6 Capitol riot
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
YouTube is helping to pay for Trump's new Mar-a-lago style White House ballroom, according to these court filings
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Trump's 20-step plan for Gaza includes this:
September 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Trump's 20-step plan for Gaza includes this:
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Last time he randomly attacked a CEO of a private company it was Intel and three days later they announced they were giving the US govt 10% of the company
September 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Last time he randomly attacked a CEO of a private company it was Intel and three days later they announced they were giving the US govt 10% of the company
incredible reporting 🙌
NEW: Jeffery Epstein's emails, obtained by Bloomberg news, shine a freshlight on how the disgraced financier's elite network supported him as investigators closed in.
🎁 LINK: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
🎁 LINK: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Jeffrey Epstein Leaned on His Elite Network for Help as Investigators Closed In
A cache of 18,000 messages shows the elite support the disgraced financier got in his “hour of terror.”
www.bloomberg.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
incredible reporting 🙌
busy week in the white house
September 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
busy week in the white house
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Internet sleuths on Twitter think they've identified the ICE facility shooter but they have the wrong guy, as often happens. The poor guy has even changed his bio to read "not the ICE shooter."
As he replies "wrong guy," some of the accounts continue to harass him because he's a "pathetic leftist."
As he replies "wrong guy," some of the accounts continue to harass him because he's a "pathetic leftist."
September 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Internet sleuths on Twitter think they've identified the ICE facility shooter but they have the wrong guy, as often happens. The poor guy has even changed his bio to read "not the ICE shooter."
As he replies "wrong guy," some of the accounts continue to harass him because he's a "pathetic leftist."
As he replies "wrong guy," some of the accounts continue to harass him because he's a "pathetic leftist."