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Ryan Mac

Technology Reporter, New York Times -cl A

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Recent appearances

  • Who Wants to Be A Trillionaire? w/ Ryan Mac | TPM Social Club

    June 19, 2026 · 📺 Talking Points Memo

    Josh and Joe are joined by NYT tech reporter Ryan Mac to discuss all things Elon Musk, the world's first trillionaire. Musk’s Next Move May Be a Megamerger of SpaceX and Tesla https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/bu... Chapters: (00:07:51:01) Who is Elon Musk? (00:09:22:28) Twitter & DOGE (00:14:14:29) What Does Elon Really Want? (00:23:26:03) Tesla (00:26:55:09) The Great Men (00:35:15:25) Space (00:41:31:00) Musk's Cult of Personality The TPM Social Club is hosted by TPM Publisher Joe Ragazzo and TPM Investigative Reporter Josh Kovenksy. The show is produced by Jackie Wilhelm. Photos courte…

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  • Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire | Decoder

    June 04, 2026 · 📺 Decoder with Nilay Patel

    Our guest today is Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and co-author of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which came out in 2024. We wanted to have Ryan on the show because we’re on the cusp of the SpaceX IPO, which promises to be one of the most consequential public offerings in history for a variety of reasons. Its biggest-ever size, of course, at nearly $2 trillion dollars. But also because all kinds of rules that keep our markets fair are being bent, if not outright broken, along the way. And, also because buried somewhere inside Space…

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  • How Elon Musk Engineered the World’s Biggest I.P.O.

    June 02, 2026 · 📺 New York Times Podcasts

    SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker, is set to go public and begin selling shares as soon as next week. Ryan Mac, who reports on business, explains the plan for the company’s expected record-shattering debut on the stock market, and how it is changing the rules for investing. Guest: Ryan Mac (https://www.nytimes.com/by/ryan-mac) , a New York Times reporter based in Los Angeles who covers corporate accountability across the global technology industry. Background reading:  • Why sky-high I.P.O. pricing (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/bu...) isn’t great…

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  • Kate Conger and Ryan Mac: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

    September 27, 2024 · 📺 Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California

    Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time what they say is the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented takeover of Twitter and the $44 billion deal’s seismic political, social and financial fallout The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from X. the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a popular nexus of global politics, culture and media—where the retweet button could insta…

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  • Lawfare Daily: ‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

    September 19, 2024 · 📺 Lawfare

    On April 14, 2022, New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac woke up to a stunning four-word tweet from Elon Musk’s Twitter account: “I made an offer.” Having long covered the technology and social media beat, they read Musk’s terse post as the “unbelievable but inevitable culmination of two storylines we had pursued for a decade as journalists in Silicon Valley.” On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien spoke to Conger and Mac about the cloak-and-dagger corporate dealings that preceded the offer, as well as the drama that unfolded after the ink dried, whic…

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  • How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter | NYT Journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac on Media Confidential

    September 19, 2024 · 📺 Prospect Magazine

    Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber talk to New York Times tech journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac about their new book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter. They provide the inside story of Elon’s takeover of the social media giant and the chaos that subsequently unfolded. How might the story end? 🔗: To hear Alan and Lionel discuss this further, and to listen to our Sunday Q+A episodes, subscribe via your favourite podcast app: https://mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podc...

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  • Elon Musk's X is a financial 'disaster,' co-authors of new book 'Character Limit' say

    September 17, 2024 · 📺 CNBC Television

    New York Times technology reporters and co-authors of 'Character Limit' Kate Conger and Ryan Mac join CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" to discuss their new book examining Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, how the controversial figure has changed his stance politically over the past several years, and more.

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  • Twitter takeover: 1 year later, X struggles with misinformation, advertising and usage decline

    October 27, 2023 · 📺 ABC7 News Bay Area

    One year ago, billionaire Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now known today as "X." New York Times Tech Reporter Ryan Mac discusses just how well that year has been going with ABC7 News. https://abc7ne.ws/3tHwmqL #twitter #x #elonmusk #revenue #business #socialmedia #abc #abc7news

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  • In Lieu of Fun, Episode 579: Ryan Mac on Apple AirTag Stalking

    January 03, 2022 · 📺 #DogShirtTV

    Wherein we are joined by the New York Times's Ryan Mac to discuss his recent reporting on recent stories about misuse of Apple AirTags for stalking and other privacy violations.

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  • How Facebook Failed to Stop 'Stop the Steal,' According to Facebook (w/ Ryan Mac)

    April 29, 2021 · 📺 Matt Binder

    Ryan Mac of Buzzfeed News joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss an internal report from Facebook they lays out how the social media company failed to stop the "Stop the Steal" movement which led to the pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol on January 6. Read Ryan's piece: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/... Read the Facebook report: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/... Support the show:   / mattbinder  

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  • Ryan Mac, @RMac18senior, Tech Reporter @BuzzFeedNews explains the Twitter hack

    July 15, 2020 · 📺 Kasia Madera

    Ryan Mac, @RMac18senior, Tech Reporter @BuzzFeedNews explains the Twitter hack.

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  • What's in a face? | Make Me Smart #118 | Ryan Mac

    June 18, 2019 · 📺 Marketplace APM

    San Francisco banned government agencies from using facial recognition last month, citing civil liberty concerns. It’s a baby step in regulating technology that could make some aspects of life safer and more convenient, but comes with a host of unintended consequences for surveillance, profiling, discrimination and so on. ► SUBSCRIBE to our channel -    / marketplacevideos   But the recognition tech is already out there, in your face and accumulating data being used by the federal government and tech giants like Amazon. Today, BuzzFeed senior tech reporter Ryan Mac tells us what we should…

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