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Avi Asher-Schapiro

57 articles – decelerating

Nearly 700,000 wallets gained on $TRUMP while more than 810,000 lost money, capping coverage that repeatedly scrutinizes technology’s consumer, labor and policy harms.

Who they are

Avi Asher-Schapiro appears in this corpus as a person associated with reporting and analysis at the intersection of technology, corporate conduct and public policy. The stories linked to the name range from platform governance and workplace conflict at Google to China-related technology issues, consumer protection and gig-economy labor practices.

The recent arc

Recent coverage shifted from a scattered 2023 focus on cultural and platform governance to sharper accountability stories in late 2024 and early 2025. The latest item cites Chainalysis data showing that fewer than 700,000 wallets recorded gains on $TRUMP while more than 810,000 lost money; just before that, Reuters reported that Trump’s transition team sought to roll back crash-reporting rules and liberalize autonomous-vehicle regulation opposed by Tesla and other automakers.

The late-2024 cluster also centers on companies’ leverage over consumers and workers: the US DOJ sued Adobe over subscription-plan disclosures, while Bloomberg examined Uber and Lyft lockouts affecting more than 800 New York City drivers. Earlier recent stories tracked political pressure on Indian streaming services backed by Amazon and Netflix, congressional inaction on child internet laws, and Elon Musk’s path to buying Twitter.

The tension

The recurring tension is between technology companies’ commercial or political power and the people or institutions attempting to constrain it. That appears in Adobe’s subscription practices, Uber and Lyft’s driver lockouts, Google’s labor-rights dispute, and pressure around China and India; government action is not presented as a simple counterweight, given both stalled child-safety legislation and proposed deregulation under Trump.

Why it matters

If this trajectory continues, the coverage will remain useful for reading tech policy as an enforcement-and-power question rather than a product story: consumer disclosures, labor systems, platform speech and transport safety can all turn on corporate design choices and government priorities. The corpus also suggests the outcomes are uncertain, because enforcement initiatives coexist with legislative inaction and potential regulatory rollback.

Avi Asher-Schapiro has appeared in 57 articles since 2017-05. Coverage peaked in 2024Q4 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Facebook, Google, China, Twitter.

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Velocity
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Coverage Timeline

2025-02-10
New York Times 6 related

Chainalysis: just under 700K wallets recorded gains on $TRUMP, 810K+ have lost money, and $6.6B has been secured in cashed-out profits, mostly by early buyers

TRUMP: Over $100 million in trading fees  —  THE PUBLIC: Over $2 billion in loses Dave Min / @daveminca : If only there was an agency to police our financial markets or protect consumers from financia...

2024-12-15
Reuters 13 related

Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation

#DOGE #musk  —  www.reuters.com/business/aut... @lorifontanes : just like pregnancy health outcomes & gun violence, data on #selfdriving #car crashes shouldn't be suppressed & is essential to #PublicH...

2024-10-21
Washington Post 1 related

A look at the Harris campaign's outreach to the tech sector, as it tries to convince companies that she'll chart her own course while avoiding policy specifics

they are not convincing independents with their current strategy Scott Kupor / @skupor : “Being more specific could test the party's cohesion. Replacing enforcement officials whom big donors don't lik...

2024-10-13
Bloomberg 11 related

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full and real union': La...

2024-06-18
The Verge 52 related

The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms

Amid a flurry of tech news yesterday … Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : US government sues Adobe for ‘deceptive’ business tactics and hiding steep subscription cancellation charges to ‘trap’ its custo...

2023-11-21
Washington Post

Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP

MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales … X: @aaschapiro , @gerryshih , @gerryshih , @anujbhuwania , @vakash...

2023-11-01
The Atlantic 1 related

Despite broad support by the US public and lawmakers for child internet laws, Congress has done nothing, even after holding 39 hearings on the topic since 2017

Americans are broadly united in support of laws to make the internet safer for kids.  So why doesn't Congress act? Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @justinhendrix , @superwuster , @evan_greer , @vi...

2023-09-01
Wall Street Journal 9 related

An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography details Musk's decision to buy Twitter and how his moods fluctuated wildly before the official closing

https://www.wsj.com/... David P / @the_dp@mastodon.social : “Musk's anti-woke sentiments were partly triggered by the decision of his oldest child, Xavier, then 16, to transition. ”  Hey, I'm transgen...

2023-05-14
Context 1 related

A look at the rise of Fusus, controversial police tech that merges public and private cameras with predictive policing, used in 60+ US cities across 12+ states

The spread of Fusus, a police technology platform that merges public and private cameras with predictive policing and other surveillance tools … Mastodon: @thomasapowell@fosstodon.org and @yo_bj@glamm...

2023-05-07
Wall Street Journal 5 related

Former staff say TikTok had a dashboard of users who watch LGBTQ content; TikTok claims to have deleted the dashboard in the US in 2022, but the data remains

raising alarm as the company faces scrutiny over ties to China LinkedIn: Xan Wolstenholme-Britt : The WSJ revealed that #TikTok tracked users who watched gay content on the app and created a database ...

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