Shannon Bond
Shannon Bond is a business correspondent at NPR, covering technology and how Silicon Valley's biggest companies are transforming how we live, work and communicate.
Bond joined NPR in September 2019. She previously spent 11 years as a reporter and editor at the Financial Times in New York and San Francisco. At the FT, she covered subjects ranging from the media, beverage and tobacco industries to the Occupy Wall Street protests, student debt, New York City politics and emerging markets. She also co-hosted the FT's award-winning podcast, Alphachat, about business and economics.
Bond has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School and a bachelor's degree in psychology and religion from Columbia University. She grew up in Washington, D.C., but is enjoying life as a transplant to the West Coast.
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Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time since striking a deal to buy the social network for $44 billion. He did not say whether he was having second thoughts. -
Sheryl Sandberg's departure from Facebook is the end of an era for one of the tech world's most prominent women — and for the company, which is attempting a transformation to the so-called metaverse.
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Nina Jankowicz looks back at how exaggerations and falsehoods stoked so many doubts about the Disinformation Governance Board that DHS paused it after just three weeks. -
A disinformation expert looks back on how disinformation put on hold a new government board she was hired to lead to help coordinate the Biden administration's efforts to address false information.
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Tech industry groups are urging the Supreme Court to block a Texas law barring social media companies from removing posts or banning users based on political viewpoints -
Elon Musk has put the brakes on his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, saying the site has too many fake accounts. But is the world's richest man just hoping to negotiate a better deal?
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More people used Facebook in the first quarter than analysts expected, easing concerns about competition from TikTok. -
To ward off Elon Musk, Twitter's board will have to show it finally has a plan to address long-standing business problems. -
Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter in a $43 billion takeover, which the company's board is attempting to resist. What's at stake, and where is all this going? -
Elon Musk says Twitter should be an arena for free speech. What changes does he want to bring to the social network, and how are Twitter board members trying stop his takeover bid?
