Hi! I'm Sam Biddle, a writer and currently senior technology reporter at The Intercept, where I cover privacy threats, surveillance, defense, and other topics. Previously I was a senior writer at Gawker, editor at Valleywag, and a senior reporter at Gizmodo. I've also contributed to The Awl, GQ, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and Vice. I’ve written a few science fiction short stories, one of which was published in the 2022 anthology Terraform. I have appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, VH1, Spike, Bloomberg, NPR, BBC News, the Longform podcast, and many other TV/radio programs.

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My past reporting has spanned a wide variety of charming subjects: Doomsday preppers turning on each other, ex-Delta Force operators hunting sex workers online, the love letters of Osama bin Laden, why brands are not your friends, ISIS Twitter drama, a mysterious startup no one can explain, privatized spy agencies, drone strike ethics, 21st century police abuse in Bahrain, why you won’t survive a nuclear war, how Palantir helps the Five Eyes global spy machine, the NSA’s bitcoin surveillance operations, and Facebook’s secret censorship rules.

email me: sam.biddle at theintercept.com or sambiddle at protonmail.com