Drew Harwell

Tech reporter @washingtonpost.com
Newsletter: drewharwell.com/stories
Signal: drewharwell.01

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2025-04-09 13:39:24

Very noticeably out of character for President Trump to urge people to "be cool"
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2025-04-03 14:19:52

Apple announced $500 billion in investment during Trump's term and its CEO gave $1 million to Trump's inauguration
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2025-03-26 23:10:55

Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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2025-03-26 23:10:55

2025-03-11 20:05:26

"Wow. That's beautiful. ... Everything's computer"
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2025-03-07 02:38:21

Some photos were "flagged for removal simply because their file included the word 'gay,' including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II" apnews.com/article/dei-...
War heroes and military firsts...

2025-02-28 18:35:40

The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
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2025-02-28 02:48:25

No more work-from-home, government workers, except for Kash Patel, who will run the FBI from Las Vegas www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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2025-02-27 15:18:40

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebol...

2025-02-26 15:28:18

Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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2025-02-25 15:21:06

A version of Microsoft Word with banner ads and surprise video pop-ups that doesn't let you *save files to your computer*. Just the thought of this is painful www.theverge.com/news/618278/...
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2025-02-23 19:39:29

Putting this on every self-eval now www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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2025-02-23 14:26:39

Elon Musk tweeted 222 times yesterday www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Feds must answer email on what...

2025-02-17 20:11:45

X is blocking links to @signal.org, now widely used to discuss / report on Washington.
Same technique (flagging as 'potentially harmful') that X has used to block / throttle Bluesky, Instagram, NYT, Reuters & Substack.
When Twitter derailed links to Hunter Biden story, Musk called it "tyranny."
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2025-02-13 15:34:23

The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was:
* first awarded under Trump
* paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom
* for researching *defenses* against deception
* not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years
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2025-02-13 02:26:46

The State Department has suddenly awoken to the incredible opportunity that is $400 million of expensive and impractical armored Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
State Dept. Plans $400 Million...

2025-02-08 19:26:11

Big ups to @signal.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social for allowing usernames instead of phone numbers last year (signal.org/blog/phone-n...).
Washington basically runs on Signal right now and that one change has made reporting and whistleblowing way more private and secure.
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2025-02-07 19:08:38

Young enough to do a little racism on social media, old enough to access the Treasury system routing $5 trillion in annual funds
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2025-01-20 00:18:37

Criticize DOGE all you want but it's making some popular cuts www.cbsnews.com/news/vivek-r...
Vivek Ramaswamy expected to de...

2025-01-19 19:18:24

I'm told TikTok's host (Oracle) and CDN (Akamai) brought it back online today because Trump assured them they'd not be subject to penalties - something he can't entirely promise.
Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble

2025-01-11 12:08:17

New: Mark Zuckerberg was warned he'd die in prison. Tim Cook said those who led the "shameful" insurrection "should be held to account." Google's founder said he was "deeply offended" by Trump's first win. Now all have fallen in line, giving $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund wapo.st/3PzjIC1
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2024-12-19 03:19:51

Everyone disrupted, affected, furloughed or unpaid during a government shutdown should be shown this tweet reminding them that Elon Musk said they'd be fine
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2024-12-10 18:49:51

This AI-generated image showing the New York Times office in flames offers a good reminder of what journalists and others are supporting when they keep using X
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2024-11-24 16:44:04

Me talking about Bluesky: The "echo chamber" criticism is undergirded by two common internet fallacies, that X reflects genuine mainstream discourse and that social media is only useful when users are confronted at all times with social and political conflict
Normal person: Hey man how's it going