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ABC News

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$333.5M in reported bitcoin-ATM scam losses anchors ABC News’ recent coverage at the intersection of consumer harm, cyber risk, AI, and U.S. technology policy.

Who they are

ABC News appears in this coverage as a U.S. news publisher reporting on technology’s public-policy, security, and consumer consequences, while also featuring in the broader media ecosystem alongside outlets such as CNN, the New York Times, Bloomberg, CNET, and TechCrunch.

The recent arc

The latest coverage concentrates on technology-enabled threats and the state’s response: ABC News reported that the FBI put bitcoin-ATM scam losses at $333.5 million for January through November 2025, and then reported the State Department’s launch of a Bureau of Emerging Threats focused on cyberattacks and AI weaponization. That places its newest stories closer to public safety and national-security infrastructure than to product coverage.

The surrounding recent news cycle has also been shaped by Washington’s leverage over major platforms and hardware makers, including Trump’s proposed Apple tariff and repeated extensions of the TikTok ban deadline. Earlier high-attention coverage around the CrowdStrike-linked Windows outage and AT&T phone-record breach similarly kept operational resilience and data exposure central to the technology news agenda.

The tension

The coverage circles a tension between the reach of large technology platforms and the institutions trying to constrain their risks: U.S. policy bears on Apple and TikTok, cyber incidents affect essential businesses and consumers, and AI is framed as both a tool and a potential weapon. In media distribution, ABC News has also been linked to Facebook’s publisher partnerships, illustrating how news organizations must navigate dependence on the same platforms they cover.

Why it matters

If this trajectory continues, ABC News’ technology coverage will matter increasingly as a bridge between technical developments and their real-world governance consequences, from fraud prevention to cyber preparedness and AI security. The open question is whether policy institutions and platforms can reduce those harms without turning technology regulation and distribution into still more concentrated sources of power.

ABC News has appeared in 66 articles since 2007-09. Coverage peaked in 2025Q2 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Apple, Facebook, CNET, Twitter.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-03-24
ABC News 2 related

The US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries

Officials detailed the Bureau of Emerging Threats exclusively to ABC News.  —  Cyber attacks on the riseOne group of cyber experts …

2025-01-08
Associated Press 25 related

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police release details on prompts used to decide crucial details Elizabeth Urban / International Business Times : Cybertruck Attack on Trump Hotel Was Planned Using ChatGPT in Disturbing ‘Game Changer...

2024-07-13
TechCrunch 91 related

AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach where cybercriminals stole phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers

Item 1.05 Material Cybersecurity Incidents.  On April 19, 2024, AT&T Inc. … AT&T : AT&T Addresses Illegal Download of Customer Data CNN : Nearly all AT&T cell customers' call and text records exposed ...

2023-04-01
BuzzFeed News 17 related

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'If You Know Me I Ain't Paying' Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : News outlets respond to Twitter Blue coercion with a resounding 'meh.'Twitter is removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts to...

2023-03-20
ABC News 6 related

An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's GPT-4, how “people should be happy” that OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, misinformation, rivals, and more

“This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” he said.  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with ABC News, Mar. 15, 2023.

2021-10-05
CBS News 24 related

In a 60 Minutes interview, WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, misinformation, and more

or Congress can force it to be ABC News : Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back after hours-long shutdown Shannon Bond / NPR : Watch Live: Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an...

2019-08-01
Nieman Lab 9 related

After 6 months of fact-checking for Facebook, Full Fact published 96 fact-checks, was paid ~$171k, wants Facebook to share more data with fact-checkers

In December 2016, Facebook enlisted a handful of U.S.-based news organizations (ABC News, Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the AP) …

2019-01-26
New York Times 9 related

Amazon's Rekognition mistakes women as men 19% of the time, and darker-skinned women as men 31% of the time, more than similar services from IBM and Microsoft

Commercial AI System for Analyzing Faces. aies-conference.com : Actionable Auditing: Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products Abrar Al-Heeti / C...

2018-11-22
TechCrunch 33 related

Amazon emails an unknown number of customers disclosing a “technical error” that exposed emails and names, but provides few other details

but doesn't disclose details Lauren Feiner / CNBC : Amazon exposed customer names and emails in a ‘technical error’ Gareth Corfield / The Register : Technical foul: Amazon suffers data snafu days befo...

2018-07-27
The Wrap 31 related

Twitter CEO addresses claims about some Republican leaders not appearing in search auto-suggestions, points to a thread that offers explanation and vows changes

and what it isn't … There's a shadow of a doubt. Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller : Twitter Algorithm Buried Republicans For Something Totally Out Of Their Control Aroon Deep / MediaNama : Twitter deni...

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TEXXR tracks 1 tech news articles mentioning ABC News, dating back to June 2018. The biggest story is Facebook partners with seven news orgs, including ABC News, CNN, and Fox News, to roll....

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