Drew Harwell is a journalist at the Washington Post. He reports on how technology is reshaping modern life.
He has written about 24/7 streamers, ICE propagandists, OnlyFans millionaires, runaway princesses, AI obituaries, slop farmers, Jan. 6 influencers, X clippers, TikTok stars, MAGA investors, FaceApp dads, Trump defectors, riot hunters, doorbell voyeurs, robot coworkers and surveilled summer campers, among other topics.
His work has been honored by the Gerald Loeb (2022, 2024), George Polk (2021) and Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (2023, 2025) awards. He was a Livingston finalist in 2022.
He shares his reporting in this newsletter and on Instagram and TikTok.
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Democracy Now, Question Everything, Today Explained, MS NOW, Al Jazeera, Power User, It's Been a Minute, What Next, Nieman Storyboard, Chris Hayes, On the Media, Fresh Air, CBC News, 1A, ABC News, Marketplace, Alex Wagner
Recent work
Banality of evil, arrest merch, r/catbongos, destroy the flood, ICE's media machine, how DHS misleads, nonconsensual resurrection, billionaire takeover, digital warrior, face scanners, Trump's woke bot, IShowSpeed, poster in chief
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