Eileen Guo

So many of my best stories have come from tips. I investigate sketchy technology, very broadly defined: privacy, tech entrepreneurs, surveillance, intersections w/ govt. Read 👇🏽 + then get in touch.

UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.

SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

Scoop: Trump appointed snr state dept official sought stafff's internal comms w/ journalists, European officials, + critics of Trump for a “Twitter files”-style dump to try + prove that the State Dept's Global Engagement Center censored conservatives. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1...

Thread on Border Patrol chief Bovino’s appearance in federal court over federal immigration raids in Chicago is wild 👇🏽

Side note: really impressed that the UVa student newspaper also publishes in Chinese and Spanish. More professional publications should do this to better serve their communities.

MIT Tech Review is editorially independent of the university, and TBH I don't give a lot of thought to technically being an MIT employee, but today I am SO proud to be working for an institution standing up for academic/general freedom. links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

I wrote about the removal of another ICE-tracking app from the tech platform it was based on, and what it says about the administration's efforts to re-categorize tracking ICE activity as violence against ICE. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...