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’s new double-check verification disappears, Elon Musk says he ‘killed it’

Twitter rolls back gray ‘official’ checks that popped up on high-profile accounts

Burning a Frida Kahlo drawing to sell NFTs is a bad idea

Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted

Patreon’s long-awaited video hosting feature is finally rolling out to creators

Roblox and Parsons School of Design are creating a digital fashion course

Snapchat is cutting payments for Spotlight content again

Snapchat rolls out more advanced video editing tools with Director Mode

Facebook and Instagram are making it easier for brands to file IP takedowns

TikTok is increasingly becoming a news source

is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools.

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OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

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