Cecilia Kang
National Technology Correspondent, The New York Times - Spring '25 Fellow
Cecilia Kang is an award-winning Technology Correspondent at The New York Times, with an expertise in the intersection of technology and public policy. She is also the co-author of "An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination,” a New York Times bestseller that exposes the social media giant's role in spreading misinformation, fomenting violence, and undermining democracy. Cecilia has over 20 years of experience in journalism, covering U.S. and international technology, economics, and business news.
Cecilia’s reporting focus is on the global race to dominate artificial intelligence and the vast lobbying campaign by tech giants to stave off regulations. She is a policy expert and translates complex issues to broad audiences with narrative storytelling and clear explanatory writing. She has broken news that led to regulatory investigations into Apple, Google, and Amazon, and interviewed top executives such as Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, and Reed Hastings of Netflix. She was part of a team at The New York Times that won the Gerald Loeb and George Polk awards for their coverage of Facebook, and were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Cecilia appears regularly on national television, radio and the New York Times podcasts The Daily and Hard Fork, as a commentator on technology and entertainment. She is passionate about exposing the impacts and implications of technology on society, politics, and culture.
Cecilia's discussion group is titled AI: Democracy and the Race for Global Domination.