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Issie Lapowsky

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A 2024 WIRED profile of Jake Sullivan marks a shift from platform-governance reporting toward US-China technology strategy.

Who they are

Issie Lapowsky is a technology journalist whose appearances in this coverage cluster around the political and institutional consequences of digital platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Congress, online speech, misinformation, and antitrust. The corpus explicitly identifies Lapowsky as the author of WIRED’s profile of White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and a Rest of World feature on Tiger Global’s role in the pandemic-era startup boom.

The recent arc

Coverage was most concentrated in 2021Q1, amid the broader platform-accountability period that includes Facebook’s removal of access for NYU’s Ad Observatory researchers. Since then, the record has become intermittent and more thematic, moving through Pinterest’s California civil-rights probe and Google Jigsaw and YouTube’s anti-misinformation ad test in 2022, then legal questions around online speech in Counterman v. Colorado and the Texas and Florida social-media-law arguments at the Supreme Court.

The tension

The central thread is the collision between technology companies’ control over information systems and public demands for accountability. Facebook’s data, content-moderation, and research-access disputes, Google and YouTube’s misinformation work, congressional scrutiny, and the Supreme Court’s concern for platforms’ First Amendment rights all place Lapowsky’s coverage near the contested boundary between private platform governance and state power.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, Lapowsky’s coverage will remain useful for connecting platform policy to a broader technology-power agenda: not only speech and safety rules, but also industrial capital and US-China competition, as reflected in the Sullivan profile and the Tiger Global feature. The corpus does not establish a steady recent publishing cadence, but its latest themes suggest that the locus of tech accountability is widening beyond individual platforms.

Issie Lapowsky has appeared in 104 articles since 2015-04. Coverage peaked in 2021Q3 with 10 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Facebook, @issielapowsky, Twitter, Google.

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Coverage Timeline

2024-02-27
Bloomberg 36 related

During oral arguments, SCOTUS justices seemed reluctant to strike down Texas' and Florida's social media laws, but raised concerns about companies' 1A rights

Update Tim Wu / New York Times : Big Tech's Latest Power Grab: the Constitution Washington Post : A roundup of the oral arguments made in the Supreme Court for two cases involving Florida's and Texas'...

2023-04-18
Fast Company

A look at Counterman v. Colorado, a cyberstalking case SCOTUS is set to consider on April 19 that could have sweeping consequences for online speech writ large

being heard by SCOTUS on Wednesday — a case that could inadvertently strike down a bunch of important protections against online stalking https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... Issie Lapowsky / @issielapows...

2022-08-25
Protocol 2 related

Pinterest confirms it is facing a probe by California's Civil Rights Department, which has contacted Ifeoma Ozoma and other former staff as possible witnesses

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol :

2021-09-18
Protocol

Twitch's “hate raid” lawsuit raises questions about when tech platforms should unmask their own anonymous users and sue them for violating their speech policies

It isn't hard to figure out who the bad guys are in Twitch's latest lawsuit against two of its users. Tweets: @issielapowsky and @protocol Tweets: Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : NEW: Why Twitch's l...

2021-09-04
Protocol 8 related

Following Texas' abortion law, tech companies could face suits over providing on-demand rides to clinics, subpoenas requesting user data, and more

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol :

2021-05-07
Protocol 7 related

Q&A: Facebook Oversight Board director Thomas Hughes on upholding Trump's ban, why the Board isn't a PR stunt, Facebook refusing to answer its questions, more

Nicholas Suzar who “loved” a comparison between Trump & Hitler —Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a member of George Soros' Open Society Initiative —Jamal Greene who fantasized about Trump being shot 🤔 Dan P...

2021-04-22
Bloomberg 6 related

During Senate hearing, Spotify and Match said Apple abuses its power over app developers, leveraging its user base; Spotify said the goal is to hurt rivals

Bloomberg : Tweets: @amyklobuchar , @econliberties , @samsabin923 , @alistairmbarr , @sentinelcentral , @annaedge4 , @issielapowsky , @tweabr , @jason_kint , @jason_kint , @pwnallthethings , @pwnallt...

2021-02-09
Protocol

A CA bill aims to let workers under NDA gags speak out about any discrimination, not just sexual harassment; ex-Pinterest employee Ifeoma Ozoma helped draft it

Emily Birnbaum / Protocol : Tweets: @equalrightsadv , @protocol , @protocol , @dgorganize , @issielapowsky , @birnbaum_e , @erikashimizu , and @birnbaum_e Tweets: EqualRightsAdvocates / @equalrightsa...

2020-03-12
Protocol

A Washington, DC judge struck down a key 2018 Trump admin H-1B visa requirement on Tuesday that IT companies deemed onerous and caused a spike in visa denials

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol , @issielapowsky , and @protocol . Thanks: @emilydreyfuss Tweets: @protocol : A judge ruled that onerous requirements the White House placed on H-1B visa...

2020-02-10
protocol

Checkr, a background check engine for Uber, Lyft, and others, has faced ~80 lawsuits since 2015 for erroneous checks that severely disrupted gig worker incomes

Issie Lapowsky / protocol : Tweets: @issielapowsky , @justinbrookman , @issielapowsky , @demianbulwa , @gbrotman , @gigworkersrise , @issielapowsky , and @issielapowsky Tweets: Issie Lapowsky / @issi...

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