Technology reporter · Bloomberg News · New York
At Bloomberg News, I cover Big Tech and its power in all its forms, combining documents, sources and data analysis to show how decisions made inside tech companies affect people's lives and the democratic process.
Before joining Bloomberg in 2022, I was a reporter for The New York Times, where I covered online disinformation and its global harms. Earlier, I was a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News, where I wrote about artificial intelligence and tech's invasive effects on people and communities. And a few years ago, I worked as a reporter for WIRED in Silicon Valley.
I've coached reporters and editors on covering AI through the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series. My speaking engagements have included Oxford University, during the Blavatnik School of Government's "Challenges of Government" 2018 Conference, and the University of Florida, where I was the Science Journalist in Residence for Spring 2019.
I studied science writing at Columbia University, and grew up in Manila, Philippines. Today I live in Brooklyn, New York, with my two cats, Laser Beam and Vivienne.
Investigations and features from Bloomberg, The New York Times, BuzzFeed News and WIRED, plus earlier print work and interviews.
A reported feature on how the platform became the engine of a government's propaganda machine, and what that meant for the journalists and citizens caught in it.
A pair of data-driven investigations into the new conservative media landscape: how a high-reach network of YouTubers built a parallel media infrastructure that helped drive a historic rightward shift among young men in the 2024 election, and forged an "identity-driven" marketplace where consumerism and partisan politics have fused. Based on an audit of 1,300 hours of video and an analysis of host-read ads across nearly 1,000 YouTube episodes.
Winner, 2026 Los Angeles Press Club SoCal Journalism Award, news feature
Finalist, 2025 Online Journalism Awards
A computational audit of 53,000 posts showing how Musk used his ownership of X to become the platform's primary engine of anti-immigrant conspiracies, amplifying debunked voter-fraud theories to a 200-million-person audience ahead of the 2024 election, paired with on-the-ground reporting on how those narratives shaped the views of the people they targeted.
A data-driven investigation revealing how generative AI can discriminate against job seekers based on their names, with racial and gender biases that would fail federal benchmarks used to assess illegal hiring discrimination.
Part of Bloomberg's 2024 Online Journalism Award–winning entry for technology reporting
Drawing on court filings and testimony, an investigation into how police increasingly turn to Google's vast stores of user data as a shortcut for solving crimes.
How Google Maps routinely steered people searching for abortion clinics toward "crisis pregnancy centers," giving medical misinformation a platform during critical windows for care.
Winner of an Online Journalism Award and a Deadline Club Award; shortlisted for a Sigma Award; SABEW finalist
An investigation into a nationwide "pink slime" network of 1,300 sites, exposing how political operatives and corporate P.R. firms exploited the collapse of local news to plant pay-for-play propaganda disguised as independent community journalism.
Honorable mention at the 2020 SABEW Awards
Impact: A ZipRecruiter executive resigned after details of alleged sexual misconduct surfaced
Impact: Senators asked Homeland Security to "pause" its airport facial recognition program
Recognition for investigations into platforms, propaganda and the information ecosystem.
More than a decade of technology reporting across newsrooms in New York and Silicon Valley.
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