Sarah Jeong

Features Editor

Sarah Jeong is a reporter at The Verge, who covers how law and tech affect speech and culture through platform bans, anti-hacking statutes, and intellectual property litigation in Silicon Valley. Her work also looks at how technology accelerates or deters the decline of American democracy. Originally trained as a lawyer, she has been working as a journalist for over a decade.

The Iranian women Trump ‘saved’ from execution are simultaneously real and AI-manipulated

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The South Korean president is doing quote-post diplomacy

Sarah JeongApr 17

How Iran out-shitposted the White House

The truth favored the Iranian regime. AI slop carried its message better.

Sarah JeongApr 11

Sarah JeongApr 1

The Pokémon patent battle is still evolving.

Back in November, the US Patent and Trademark Office decided to reexamine a highly controversial and confusing Nintendo patent related to summoning characters and making them fight. The patent examiner has since issued a non-final rejection of the patent, meaning that the patent isn’t yet KO’d and Nintendo can still choose to battle with new arguments.

If you’re a patents nerd craving an extremely in-depth breakdown, Games Fray has you covered. And for those of you who aren’t up on patents, The Verge’s Kallie Plagge wrote a great explainer about the Pokémon patent last year.

U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s “summon subcharacter and let it fight in 1 of 2 modes” patent as obvious: non-final ruling

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No Kings is taking back Americana

The right wing used to have a stranglehold on traditionally American iconography. Now the flag and the Constitution are symbols for the left.

Sarah JeongMar 31

Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch

Anyone else notice that ICE isn’t worried about getting doxed by Meta?

Sarah JeongMar 1

Sarah JeongFeb 5

Senators only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

Yesterday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) publicly sent the director of the CIA an unclassified letter referring to a classified letter he had previously sent him, describing it as one “in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities.”

Wyden is known to do this — as a legislator with a security clearance and a seat on the Senate intelligence committee, he is very careful not to disclose classified information — but when he sees something wild, he send up a vague signal flare that something is wrong. Spencer Ackerman recounts one of the previous times this happened, back in 2011: “It would take Edward Snowden, two years later, to reveal what Wyden was talking about.”

Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad

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