Ryan Mac 🙃

Hello to the new followers and folks here. I'm a tech reporter for the NYT. It's going to be an interesting time to report on tech, and more specifically Elon Musk as he extends his power into the White House. If you work or have worked for him and want to reach me, hit me up on Signal at rmac.18.

The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...

I went to the Tesla Diner and all I got was a robot smokin a cig

asking baby hitler about baby hitler

Greeting my colleagues

Kind of insane to have this much rich reporting and detail basically as it's happening ready to go in a book excerpt: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

OpenAI buying TBPN is like when WeWork bought that wave pool company

Elon promoted a positive review of the Tesla Diner where the writer admits he doesn’t even eat the food lmao

proud to work with @yjtorbati.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/i...

Elon Musk is making the big banks who want work on SpaceX's IPO subscribe to Grok. Some of those banks will now pay tens of millions in dollars annually for the chatbot. Business! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

how is kanye performing in stadiums again? and why is rolling stone doing "product recommendations" for it trying to help people find tickets? www.rollingstone.com/product-reco...

bdsm dump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/s...

Another case of a bad Clearview AI facial recognition match and shoddy police work leading to an innocent person being imprisoned in a state she had never even been to. Is this something we're just going to accept from time to time because of an unregulated tech? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

Heard from a few ex-Twitter folks today that they're starting to get severance payments more than 3 years after they were laid off following Elon Musk's acquisition. One said that after legal challenges, they're getting 10x what was originally offered by Musk (about 4 weeks of severance).