Naomi Nix

Washington, D.C.

Staff writer focusing on social media

Education: Princeton University, BA in sociology

Naomi Nix is a staff writer for The Washington Post, covering Meta and other social media companies. Before joining The Post in 2022, she was a reporter for Bloomberg News and the Chicago Tribune. Nix's work focuses on how social media platforms influence American democracy and global politics.
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A firehose of antisemitic disinformation from China is pointing at two Republican legislators

China is increasingly targeting down-ballot races in America, spreading divisive and antisemitic claims about politicians on the social media platform X.

October 10, 2024

Meta ‘Supreme Court’ expands with European center to handle TikTok, YouTube cases

The Oversight Board, which is funded by Meta, is spinning off a new appeals center to handle content disputes from European social media users users.

October 8, 2024
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January on Capitol Hill.

Meta unveils AI video models, as tech giants race to produce Hollywood-style clips

Meta says Movie Gen will enable users to create videos, edit existing clips, and create a video with a person’s image.

October 4, 2024

Inside the bro-ification of Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg has remade his image from a dorky, democracy-destroying CEO into a cool, athletic AI visionary in the eyes of Silicon Valley tech founders.

October 4, 2024

Meta’s answer to ChatGPT is AI that sounds like John Cena or Judi Dench

Meta is adding celebrity voices to it conversational chatbot, part of a bet that users will connect with AI tools that surprise, delight and entertain.

September 25, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg speaks about Meta AI during the Meta Connect conference on Wednesday.

FTC report assails social networks’ privacy, safety practices

The Federal Trade Commission said social media and streaming companies including YouTube, Amazon and Facebook fail to adequately protect consumer privacy.

September 19, 2024
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, left, and Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya are sworn in during a House hearing last year.

Instagram’s latest child safety effort: ‘Teen accounts’

Instagram is introducing Teen Accounts, which aim to streamline previous attempts to give parents oversight into what their younger teens are doing online.

September 17, 2024
For its Instagram social media platform, Meta is setting up new rules it says will curb excessive use and give parents more insight into what children under 16 are experiencing on the site.

Job rate for women in tech has hardly budged since 2005, EEOC finds

The share of women in the high tech industry has barely budged over the last two decades even as the jobs have exploded, according to a new analysis.

September 11, 2024
Women hold less than a quarter of high-tech jobs, while making up almost half of the U.S. workforce as a whole, according to a new government analysis.

Meta content court rules ‘from the river to the sea’ isn’t hate speech

Meta’s Oversight Board ruled the phrase “from the river to the sea” isn’t necessarily hate speech, a decision likely to fuel debate over Israel-Gaza war content.

September 4, 2024
Pro-Palestinian supporters picket outside Barnard College in New York on Tuesday.

Harris and Trump gear up for grassroots campaigning this week

Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.

August 25, 2024