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The Washington Post

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A 1,100-user TikTok watch-history analysis and investigations into surveillance, platforms and AI have defined The Washington Post’s recent tech coverage.

Who they are

The Washington Post appears in this coverage as a Bezos-owned news organization whose reporting supplies investigations, internal documents, data analysis and product testing on the technology industry’s effects on public institutions and society. Jeff Bezos acquired the paper in 2013, a relationship that also places the outlet in stories involving Amazon and requests for records concerning Project Kuiper.

The recent arc

After a comparatively active late 2024 and late 2025, recent coverage has centered on reporting that probes the power of major platforms and their political consequences. The Post reported that Andy Jassy discussed Amazon’s plans with Donald Trump, documented Google’s decision to retain Israeli government YouTube ads despite complaints, and reported Instagram’s efforts to win back teenagers. Its October 2025 TikTok analysis drew on six months of watch histories from 1,100 users to examine how the service increases viewing even among its heaviest users.

The outlet has also broadened that scrutiny to generative AI and the business conditions confronting publishers. Its June 2025 comparison of GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4 and Copilot found Claude strongest overall, while related coverage identifies The Post among publishers whose organic search traffic has fallen sharply amid changes associated with Google’s AI tools. Earlier reporting in this arc included the exclusive account of New Orleans police’s secret facial-recognition-camera use and reporting from internal State Department cables on U.S. advocacy for Starlink.

The tension

The central tension is between technology companies’ expanding control over information, attention and public infrastructure and the ability of journalists, regulators and the public to inspect that control. That runs from TikTok recommendation behavior and Meta’s teen strategy to Google’s distribution power and police facial recognition; it is sharpened by Amazon’s suit seeking to limit Washington-state records disclosure to The Post about a Bezos-linked Project Kuiper facility.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, The Post’s distinctive role in the technology-news ecosystem will rest less on covering launches alone than on producing evidence about systems that are otherwise difficult to observe: algorithms, internal corporate choices, government records and surveillance practices. The Google traffic relationship also leaves an unresolved complication: the same platform shifts the paper covers may constrain the referral channel through which publishers reach readers.

The Washington Post has appeared in 101 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2023Q3 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Facebook, Twitter, Trump, Amazon.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-04-26
Fortune 8 related

Survey of 1,050 Australian teens: ~60% said they retained access to social media accounts after ban; two-thirds say platforms took no action to remove accounts

If teenagers have a will, they will find a way. … Evelyn, a 14-year-old in New South Wales, told The Washington Post in December 2025 …

2023-07-12
Washington Post

Travelers can say no to a TSA facial recognition scan, but some TSA agents tell travelers the scan is required or that refusing will cause a significant delay

Let's ask two questions about airports' use of facial recognition: Is it truly voluntary?  And is it worth it? Twitter: @evan_greer , @pettypropolis , @ajlamesa , and @greta Twitter: @evan_greer : “Op...

2021-01-17
Washington Post

Iran blames legal and illegal crypto mining for massive blackouts in the country, shuts down a large, licensed Chinese-Iranian mining operation

Massive blackouts and smog have hit cities across Iran.  It's a toxic mix as the country, already under economic duress and suffocating U.S. sanctions … Tweets: @caleb_scharf Tweets: Caleb Scharf / @c...

2020-03-23
CNN

After banning ads for medical face masks over a week ago, ads served by Google for masks have shown alongside COVID-19 news on sites like CNN, NYT, CNBC, WaPo

New York (CNN Business)Some of the country's biggest news organizations are showing ads for face masks on their websites. Tweets: @slpng_giants , @chelseaclinton , @tonyromm , @hshaban , and @donie Se...

2019-12-30
Washington Post

Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention drugs after activists said they could have caused a public-health crisis

The ads, first reported by The Washington Post, threatened to create a public health crisis, LGBT groups had said. Tweets: @tonyromm , @tonyromm , and @gbbranstetter Tweets: Tony Romm / @tonyromm : SC...

2019-07-08
Washington Post 16 related

FBI and ICE have access to 641M photos including driver's license photos from 21 states for facial recognition searches, internal docs and GAO report show

A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning millions of Americans' faces without their knowledge or consent.

2018-11-28
Washington Post 3 related

Facebook and Twitter revoke most of babysitter rating service Predictim's access to user data following report on how it scans social media to generate ratings

Facebook and Twitter are taking action against an automated babysitter-rating system reported on last week by The Washington Post …

2017-12-05
TechCrunch 44 related

Facebook launches Messenger Kids, a standalone messaging app that lets kids under 13 chat with friends and family approved by their parents, on iOS in the US

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Brett Williams / Mashable : Facebook Messenger went down worldwide Chris Smith / BGR : The Messenger Kids app is a brilliantly devious Facebook scheme Jeffrey Esposito / ...

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TEXXR tracks 11 tech news articles mentioning The Washington Post, dating back to November 2015. The biggest stories include Sources: Facebook's Notify app for news alerts to launch next week with dozens of media... and Sources: WSJ plans to join the new paid tier of Apple News to be announced on Monday,.... Frequently covered alongside Amazon and Jeff Bezos.

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