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Cyrus Farivar
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"suh-ROOS" / سیروس‌ 🕵️ 20+ year tech journalist, editor, author, comms 🐻 4th-gen Californian // Oakland, CA 📥 [email protected] 📱 +1-341-758-0888
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    Cyrus Farivar
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    Dec 2, 2025
    As of today, I’m looking for a new job. 🧐 - I’m an award-winning author and tech journalist with 20+ years of experience. 🕵️‍♂️ - I have written for Forbes, NBC, Ars Technica, The Economist, The New York Times, Wired, and many more. 📰 📻 - I’m here to make a difference. 👊🏽
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    Cyrus Farivar
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    Jul 31, 2018
    I cannot believe that this is a real headline.
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    The Washington Post
    @washingtonpost
    Jul 31, 2018
    Trump administration must stop giving psychotropic drugs to migrant children without consent, judge rules wapo.st/2LVfSDQ
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    Cyrus Farivar
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    Dec 1, 2020
    TIL: Slack — a company built entirely on a decades-old open source tech known as IRC, but with modern emojis and gifs — is worth 27.7 Instagrams.
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    Cyrus Farivar
    @cfarivar
    Dec 20, 2019
    A sitting member of the Washington state legislature has been formally accused of domestic terrorism. I genuinely don’t understand how this isn’t bigger news.
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    Joseph O'Sullivan
    @OlympiaJoe
    Dec 19, 2019
    NEW: Washington Rep. Matt Shea engaged in domestic terrorism against U.S., says state House inquiry (w/ @davidlgutman) seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… #waleg
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    Cyrus Farivar
    @cfarivar
    Jan 28, 2019
    PERSONAL NEWS NOW: Next month, I’m joining @NBCNews as an investigative tech reporter. I’m leaving @arstechnica after nearly 7 years. I’m grateful to @kenfisher for hiring me, and particularly to @dmkravets and @joemullin for teaching me the ropes of legal reporting.
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    Cyrus Farivar
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    Aug 2, 2018
    A friend in Berkeley has been making and passing these out.
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    Cyrus Farivar
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    Jul 1, 2021
    Replying to @willsommer
    “Titties and bad words and stuff” is a good summary of the Internet as a whole, tbh.
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    Cyrus Farivar
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    May 30, 2018
    YES.
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    Cyrus Farivar
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    Jul 17, 2019
    Oped: I have served in the Air Force and in Congress. People still tell me to ‘go back’ to China. (by @tedlieu)
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    Opinion | I have served in the Air Force and in Congress. People still tell me to ‘go back’ to...
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    Cyrus Farivar
    @cfarivar
    Aug 12, 2020
    If you read nothing else today, read Elon Musk’s discourse on the nature of truth itself. (h/t @tripp_martin)
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    Cyrus Farivar
    @cfarivar
    Jan 30, 2017
    Replying to @realDonaldTrump
    serious question. How do you feel about robots and automated manufacturing?
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    Cyrus Farivar
    @cfarivar
    Jun 18, 2018
    Also @elonmusk : what can you tell us about the Tesla Factory 2.0 tent facility currently under construction in Fremont? When will it be online? What will it produce? Why build a factory in a tent rather than conventional facility? Thanks.
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    Cyrus Farivar
    @cfarivar
    Mar 30, 2020
    Vint Cerf, the co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol, and essentially one of the inventors of the Internet, and possibly the nicest person ever, has contracted COVID-19.
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    Cyrus Farivar
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    Apr 16, 2019
    Since I began at @NBCNews about 2 mo ago, a substantial portion of my time has been taken up working on this story, with @oliviasolon. The result: "Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show"
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    Olivia Solon
    @oliviasolon
    Apr 16, 2019
    NBC has obtained thousands of pages of leaked internal documents show that Facebook wasn’t just spitballing about selling access to user data - the plans had buy-in among Zuck, Sandberg and were pitched to the board of directors nbcnews.com/tech/social-me…
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