Sheera Frenkel

Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks. Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

When I was 23, the house I lived in burned to the ground. I was asleep, and got out with nothing but my pjs and my roommate’s dog. When you lose your house it is not about the sofa or tv. It’s the concert t-shirt you bought with your best friend, and the last letter your grandfather wrote you.

As a reporter who covered the Facebook apology tour circa 2016, and spent HOURS on the phone with FB flak and executives earnestly telling me Zuckerberg was torn up over Russian election interference and was making it a top priority to fix misinfo on FB, this week’s developments are 🙃

Our look at how the sprint for A.I.-backed weapons is the new nuclear arms race. Joined forces with @paulmozur.bsky.social in Taiwan and Adam Satariano in London for this global story. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/t...

Nothing like a week of this.

A week in paradise, aka Zihuatanejo

I need advice. I have a slot to buy tickets for the 2028 summer Olympics. I have two daughters I want to bring who will both be under 10. They don’t follow any sport particularly closely, I just want them to experience badass female athletes. Which event should I buy tickets for?

Anthropic just won its preliminary injunction against the Trump admin. Judge writes that, “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government.”

Tahini as a salad dressing. Tahini as a dipping sauce for crudite. Tahini as a lubricant on bread in any sandwich. I 100% support all of these decisions. But I won’t be talked Tahini in my coffee.

Honored to be in the company of these women.

No, YOU spent over hour elbow-deep in trash, looking for the retainer your kid accidentally threw away in a school trash can. At the end of a workday. That started at 6am.

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You can hear me on the Daily today, talking about the robot wars future we are all hurtling into. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/p...