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Tony Romm
Washington, D.C.
Tony Romm is a technology policy reporter at The Washington Post, where he covers the ways that tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google navigate the corridors of government -- and the regulations that sometimes result. Romm has covered the beat for more than eight years. He has previously served as a senior technology reporter for Politico and a senior editor for policy and politics at Recode, a tech business news site owned by Vox Media.
The operatives unloaded on the special counsel via fake accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and beyond.
- Dec 17, 2018
New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation’s scale and sweep
The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
- Dec 17, 2018
Facebook on Friday revealed that a major software bug may have allowed third-party apps to wrongly access 6.8 million users' photos, including images that people began uploading to the site but ultimately chose not to post publicly.
- Dec 14, 2018
YouTube removed 7.8 million videos and 1.6 million channels in the third quarter of this year, mostly for spreading spam or posting or inappropriate adult content, the company said in a report Thursday.
- Dec 13, 2018
Speaking with The Washington Post after his first testimony to Congress, Pichai said that new AI tools — the backbone of such innovations as driverless cars and disease-detecting algorithms — require companies to set ethical guardrails and think through how the technology can be abused.
- Dec 12, 2018
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai on Tuesday stressed in his high-profile appearance on behalf of the tech giant that it operates “without political bias.”
- Dec 11, 2018
YouTube has become a convenient online library for racists, anti-Semites and proponents of other extremist ideas.
- Dec 10, 2018
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai's first-ever testimony to Congress on Tuesday is shaping up to be a major test of his skills in managing the company’s reputation at a time when several of Silicon Valley’s biggest names are in crisis — and when many of Google’s employees are in revolt.
- Dec 10, 2018
Google revealed Monday that its soon-to-be shuttered social network suffered from another security lapse, a software bug that could have allowed third-party apps and developers to gain access to 52 million users' personal information without their permission.
- Dec 10, 2018
In a pair of predawn tweets, the president said Google was silencing conservative media. The company said its searches aren't politically biased.
- Aug 28, 2018