Byron Tau
@ByronTau
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🧐 investigative reporter at the @ap in dc. author of 'means of control' https://t.co/tsw9T0jwEr. signal: byrontau.01
washington, d.c.
Joined September 2008
It's publication day for Means of Control. https://t.co/aire1PgBYq Here it is at every stage. From left to right: June 2021 book proposal, Jan 2022 outline and reporting plan, October 2022 first draft, Fall 2023 galley and then the finished book. On shelves today!
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A major new AP investigation reveals how the US government helped American tech companies like @Microsoft and @amazon build China's surveillance apparatus. Across five administrations. I documented the surveillance state itself in my book The Perfect Police State (back when I
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AP INVESTIGATION: For decades, the US government allowed and sometimes even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China — enacting a loophole-ridden export control regime that failed to accomplish its big goals. By @garanceburke, @dakekang and me. Link below.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The entire White House East Wing has been demolished as Trump moves forward with ballroom construction, AP photos show.
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D.C. police sued for detaining the man who runs the freedc20009 TikTok account for following members of the Ohio National Guard around while playing the Imperial March from Star Wars. https://t.co/nJb23y5xiJ
reason.com
Sam O'Hara went viral for playing "The Imperial March" behind groups of National Guard soldiers in D.C. He also says it led to him being illegally detained.
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INDECISION: Trump administration/DOJ seeks 3rd extension to respond to #SCOTUS petition on whether geofence search warrants (data on all cell phones in given area) violate 4th Amendment
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Embattled Trump Nominee Paul Ingrassia’s Mom Tried to Meet With Lawmakers Who Criticized Her Son - NOTUS — News of the United States
notus.org
Donna Gallo Ingrassia demanded meetings at the Capitol Hill office of Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia in late June to defend her son.
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Border Patrol is accused of getting a Texas homeowner's consent to search their house for unauthorized immigrants and then shooting and killing the family dog, despite being warned about the dog's presence in a locked bathroom. https://t.co/l2Lh9qzxBN
kfoxtv.com
An El Paso family is seeking justice after they said their dog was killed by Border Patrol agents, calling the act "senseless, cruel, and entirely avoidable."
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"The punches will be pulled"
The team at Colossus is breaking something in magazine journalism in a fascinating way. Let me try to articulate. Even just a few years ago, if you wanted to read a beautifully written, exhaustively reported and actually interesting piece on someone shaping a corner of the
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IU student newspaper say school fired their advisor after he refused to carry out an order to print a homecoming edition of the paper without any news stories. Student editors say it was attempted censorship by @IUMediaSchool Dean David Tolchinsky. https://t.co/WF1pk7oXvz
idsnews.com
Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.
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In another instance, the Vatican seems to have surveilled a reporter who wrote a critical book about Pope Benedict XVI in order to try to out his source, who they later arrested.
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One woman figured out that the former driving instructor her company hired for her when she was trying to get a UK license also worked as a surveillance broker and used the tool to stalk her.
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Incredible reporting from Lighthouse, Mother Jones, and an international consortium of journalists into how a single company in Indonesia is able to track people worldwide through a vulnerability in the mobile phone system. https://t.co/H2SMTHZd8G
motherjones.com
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict,” according to a Trump administration memo obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
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Our latest, with @ByronTau + @dakekang: Lawmakers and activists call for action after @AP reveals how U.S. tech firms enabled China’s surveillance state.
apnews.com
Lawmakers and activists are urging U.S. tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police.
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Those are F/A-18 Hornets flown by the Navy and Marine Corps
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Tens of thousands of people across China tagged as troublemakers are barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus. Most of this technology came from companies in the United States: https://t.co/P8GReAsQwN
apnews.com
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously...
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Fantastic and damning reporting, as always, by @dakekang, this time on American tech companies’ complicity in building China’s surveillance state: https://t.co/QhHcwhI6KP
apnews.com
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously...
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AP: “Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.” @dakekang
https://t.co/wxhyrsVgxw
apnews.com
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously...
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