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Julia Angwin

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Investigative journalist. New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer. Founder, Proof News, The Markup. Priors: ProPublica, WSJ. Fellow at Harvard Shorenstein Center. Signal: Julia.368 Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 7d

Yes you are correct. It is because of their marketplace power that they are vulnerable to government coercion.

This is another reason we must be very very careful about monopolies.

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 8d

This is, unfortunately, the right question — will we let our freedom be stolen?

(Shameless plug: This is why I’m writing a book on how we can fight back. buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...)

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8d

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 12d

And in my slightly nerdier newsletter take, I suggest that we need to think of Google search more as infrastructure than as a product.

That will let us build the robust marketplace we want on top of its data.

buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...

It’s Time to Start Thinking of Google Search as Infrastructure, not a Product

Hi friends – It’s hard to imagine now, but back in 1998, there were so many search engines on the market that I couldn’t be bothered to meet with the Google...

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 12d

In an era of increasing government crackdowns on speech, can we afford to entrench Google as the gatekeeper to our information landscape?

My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link):

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

Opinion | Google Wins, We Lose

www.nytimes.com

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 23d

Right?!!

Reposted by Julia Angwin

winston the third @winston.cc · 23d

for iOS, it's Accessibility -> Display -> Color Filters flip them on and choose greyscale

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 23d

I changed my phone to grayscale and I feel like I just quit meth. It's unbelievable how much less of a hold it has on me now. Highly recommend trying it!

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 23d

I changed my phone to grayscale and I feel like I just quit meth. It's unbelievable how much less of a hold it has on me now. Highly recommend trying it!

Reposted by Julia Angwin

Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · Sep 3

Some exciting news to share: I’m writing a book — with the great @juliaangwin.com for HarperCollins/Mariner. ON COURAGE is a deeply reported case for courage in our age of authoritarianism, weaving the stories and lessons of dissidents on five continents into a guide for Americans. See you in 2026.

Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT contributing Opinion writer Julia Angwin and former White House senior policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer's ON COURAGE: TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AMERICA'S AGE OF FEAR, a guide to confronting fear, taking risk, and being courageous in our new age of authoritarianism, which expands on The New Yorker essay, “So You Want to Be a Dissident?: A Practical Guide to Courage in Trump's Age of Fear,” through new interviews with dissidents, opposition leaders, theorists, and movement strategists across the world, to Peter Hubbard at Mariner, for publication in summer 2026, by Laurie Liss at Sterling Lord Literistic (world English).

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Sep 3

I agree - it would be great to do all of it. But we are just two people writing furiously at the moment. Hoping to do more of that once manuscript is in.

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Sep 3

I'll keep you updated on book release etc. when its ready next year. For now, I'm heads down reporting and writing.

So if I haven't replied to your email, I'm sorry but this is why. ⌨️💨

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Sep 3

Because even as today's authoritarianism is more techno-powered than ever, this is still a tale as old as time.

People have been fighting for their rights, for their dignity, for each other, for a long time.

And it’s time that we study at their feet.

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Sep 3

But the project feels urgent. We are in a country that is losing its grip on democracy. This book is not an argument about why and how our democracy is backsliding.

This book is about what we do next - as individuals, as communities, and as a nation.

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Sep 3

Now we are expanding our reporting into a book that will come out next summer. In book time, this is a very fast turnaround!

Ami and I have been interviewing and writing furiously for months now. We will be chained to our desks for a few more months as we crank out a manuscript.

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Sep 3

The book grew out of an essay we wrote in the New Yorker earlier this year “So you want to be a dissident?” In it, we extracted lessons on how to fight autocrats from dissidents we interviewed from around the world. (unpaywalled link)

archive.is/Bhnj3

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Sep 3

I’m thrilled to announce that @fieldsmeyer.com and I are writing a book about how to challenge authoritarianism.

“On Courage: To be a Dissident in America’s Age of Fear,” is scheduled to be published by Harper Collins next summer.

Publishers Marketplace announcement: Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT contributing Opinion writer Julia Angwin and former White House senior policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer’s ON COURAGE: TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AMERICA"S AGE OF FEAR, a guide to confronting fear, taking risk, and being courageous in our new age of authoritarianism, which expands on The New Yorker essay, “So You Want to Be a Dissident?: A Practical Guide to Courage in Trump's Age of Fear,” through new interviews with dissidents, opposition leaders, theorists, and movement strategists across the world, to Peter Hubbard at Mariner, for publication in summer 2026, by Laurie Liss at Sterling Lord Literistic (world English).

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Sep 2

It reminds me of the 'open access' conditions on the AOL Time Warner merger which were supposed to open up Time Warner's pipes to other Internet providers.

Without additional structural market support, the plan didn't work. TW made it very hard for competitors and eventually ground them down.

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Sep 2

The judge *did* offer competitors limited access to Google's search index, which I previously argued is crucial.

But without any other changes to the marketplace -- no access to Chrome, no ban on Google's billions of dollars to Apple, it's unlikely to be enough.

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/o...

Opinion | Breaking Up Google Isn’t Nearly Enough (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Sep 2

It's hard to restore competition in a market that has already been crushed -- and I suspect the judge's cautious ruling requiring the very least from Google is not going to give competitors enough of a reason to jump back in to create search products.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly

www.nytimes.com

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Aug 24

If you need something hopeful and inspiring to listen to, I highly recommend this three-part @npr.org podcast series The Network about the women who transformed abortion support in South America - and how it changed the world.

www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...

The Network: Saint-o-tec : Embedded

Part 1: In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregnant women at his hospital were dying from abortion complications. It wasn't a coincidence. Brazilian women had made a discovery...

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Aug 21

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Aug 12

"What’s currently needed is not the death-defying heroism of the French Resistance; rather, what we must avoid is the cowardice of the Vichy collaborators."

A moving history & meditation by my former WSJ colleague @paulthedogman.bsky.social

momentmag.com/jewish-respo...

The Jewish Response to ICE: Lessons from an Occupied French Village

Providing support to ICE detainees and family members waiting to see them is just one way American Jews can step up.

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Aug 12

@keyachatterjee.bsky.social has been planning for DC’s federal takeover. She founded FreeDC in January, in part, to prepare for possible martial law.

“When you have an authoritarian, it matters very much if you can organize in the capital,” she said in April.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

So You Want to Be a Dissident?

A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.

www.newyorker.com

Reposted by Julia Angwin

Dave Tuffs @davetuffs.bsky.social · Jul 30

"The F.T.C. move is an attempt to tilt the media landscape in favor of the government in ways that are simply un-American. If we want a media that is willing to stand up to government, we need to fight for the right to boycott, not just for ourselves but also for advertisers."

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Jul 30

Boycotts can be an powerful tool for political change. They helped end apartheid and even helped pushed Elon Musk out of govt.

So the Trump Admin is trying back-door efforts to curtail the ability to boycott. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Opinion | Trump Moves to Silence a New Target

www.nytimes.com

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Jul 30

Boycotts can be an powerful tool for political change. They helped end apartheid and even helped pushed Elon Musk out of govt.

So the Trump Admin is trying back-door efforts to curtail the ability to boycott. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Opinion | Trump Moves to Silence a New Target

www.nytimes.com

Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Jul 22

Congratulations! What a dream team 🎊