Eva Dou

Technology Policy Reporter
Eva Dou is a Washington-based reporter covering technology policy for the Washington Post. A Detroit native who studied journalism at the University of Missouri, she reported on business and politics in Asia for a decade. She is the author of the forthcoming book House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company.
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Helene’s aftermath opens new chance — and controversy — for Musk’s Starlink

Politics and technology play into the question of whether billionaire’s satellite internet should get a boost in flood-ravaged North Carolina.

October 12, 2024
A Starlink internet kit being donated by the Christian Rangers, a faith-based aid organization, to a remote community after Helene caused floods that washed out a main road in Bee Log in Burnsville, N.C.

Russia’s illicit Starlink terminals help power its advance in Ukraine

Ukraine’s outgunned and outmanned army had one major advantage over its enemy: internet through Starlink terminals. Now the Russians have it, too.

October 12, 2024

Biden’s Big Tech antitrust cases march ahead

Here’s where the FTC and Justice Department lawsuits against Google, Amazon, Meta and Apple stand now.

October 9, 2024
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill in September 2023.

Justice Dept. sees Google breakup as a possible remedy in antitrust case

A Washington court is mulling remedies after a landmark decision that Google’s search engine is an illegal monopoly.

October 8, 2024

North Carolina floods threaten mines key to global electronics industry

The facilities in Spruce Pine, now isolated and imperiled by Helene’s floods, are a vital node in the supply chain of smartphones, computers and other electronics.

October 1, 2024
An aerial view of Spruce Pine after floodwaters receded, revealing the damage.

Pagers attack brings to life long-feared supply chain threat

The deadly detonation of thousands of Hezbollah pagers shows the power and stealth of sophisticated supply chain attacks.

September 19, 2024
Lebanese soldiers prepare to detonate a walkie-talkie that was found at the parking of the American University Hospital, in Beirut on Wednesday. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

TikTok faces skeptical judges in court fight over looming national ban

Even as both the Harris and Trump presidential campaigns have leaned heavily into TikTok to reach younger voters, the weeks are ticking down before the wildly popular app is banned in the United States under a new law that has drawn bipartisan backing.

September 16, 2024
TikTok's headquarters in Culver City, Calif.

News publishers in spotlight at Google’s latest monopoly trial

Federal prosecutors are seeking a divestment of Google’s multibillion-dollar online advertising business, saying its monopoly power harms advertisers and publishers.

September 9, 2024
A staffer with the Paul, Weiss legal firm wheels boxes of documents into the Albert V. Bryan US Courthouse at the start of a Department of Justice antitrust trial against Google over its advertisng business in Alexandria, Va. on Monday.

Google is a monopoly and judges want to fix that. Outcomes are hard to predict.

The business outcomes of the AT&T and Microsoft cases bode poorly for the internet giant if a judge calls for stern measures up to and including a breakup.

September 7, 2024
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, right, testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in 2018. Activist Ian Madrigal, back, dressed as the Monopoly Man, Rich Uncle Pennybags from the classic board game Monopoly, to protest the company’s economic power.

Google’s punishment for illegal search monopoly to be determined next summer

Federal judge Amit P. Mehta sets the courtroom schedule for the remedy phase of the Justice Department’s landmark case against the internet giant, having ruled last month that it illegally acts as a monopoly in internet search.

September 6, 2024