Mia Sato is a reporter at The Verge covering tech companies, platforms, and users. Since joining The Verge in 2021, she’s reported on the war in Ukraine and the spread of propaganda on TikTok; Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter; and how tech platforms and digital publishers are using artificial intelligence tools.

Sato has written about tech platforms and communities since 2019. Before joining Vox Media she was a reporter at MIT Technology Review, where she covered the intersection of technology and the coronavirus pandemic. Prior to that she served as the audience engagement editor at The Markup. As a freelance reporter, she’s written about the subversive Hmong radio shows hosted on conference call software, online knitting activism, and the teens running businesses in Instagram comment sections. Her work has appeared in outlets like The New Republic, The Appeal, and Chicago Magazine. She is based in Brooklyn.

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Twitter would like you to share that tweet instead of screenshotting it

All Twitter users in the US will start to see crowdsourced fact checks on tweets

Facebook adds ‘show more’ and ‘show less’ controls to adjust what you see on your Feed

Russia fines TikTok $51,000 for content violating anti-LGBTQ laws

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TikTok removed 113 million videos in three months

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