
Robert Mackey
Robert Mackey wrote about national and international news through the prism of social media for The Intercept. Before joining as a Senior Writer, he was a reporter and columnist for the New York Times, where he anchored the newspaper’s breaking news blog, The Lede, for five years, and wrote a news analysis column, Open Source, from 2014 to 2016. His work is focused on making sense of events through the close reading of firsthand accounts, photographs, and video posted on social networks by witnesses and participants.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Danish Reporter Says Ukrainian Intelligence Tried to Coerce Her Into Working as a Propagandist
Ukraine’s intelligence service asked a respected Danish journalist to prove she was not a pro-Russia propagandist by making pro-Ukraine propaganda.
Emboldened Right-Wing Activists Spread Lies About Rep. Katie Porter on Twitter
Video of Rep. Katie Porter calling out right-wing activists for falsely accusing LGBTQ+ Americans of being pedophiles was misleadingly edited to accuse her of condoning pedophilia.
How Jared Kushner Lost at the World Cup in Qatar
Fans from across the Arab world demonstrated support for Palestinians and disdain for Israelis, showing how little Kushner achieved as a peacemaker.
Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk
Elon Musk appears to have outsourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform’s right-wing extremists.