@sarahfrier.bsky.social
In charge of big tech coverage at Bloomberg Author of NO FILTER: The Inside Story of Instagram Email me at sfrier1 at Bloomberg dot net
people have been sending me the cover of this former Meta exec’s upcoming book…
06.08.2025 21:44 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0"several people are typing"
this has been the last 4 days in a nutshell
new podcast in which @sarahfrier.bsky.social and i puzzle through Trump's pulling Elon's pick for NASA, the, uh, ketamine question, and the black eye enjoy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
03.06.2025 22:06 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0What a week!
03.06.2025 22:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: Megan Twohey and I went deep on Elon Musk’s intense drug use as he rose to political power alongside Trump last year. He was using so much ketamine that he told people it was affecting his bladder. At SpaceX, he is getting warnings ahead of drug tests www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
30.05.2025 12:17 — 👍 880 🔁 304 💬 65 📌 57White House responds to our story: “The drugs that we’re concerned about are the drugs running across the southern border.” No comment on whether Musk’s been drug tested or if Trump was aware
30.05.2025 16:16 — 👍 118 🔁 35 💬 13 📌 8
Mark Zuckerberg has done everything he can to win over Trump, and it’s not clear how much he has to show for it. Read The Big Take
26.05.2025 21:05 — 👍 114 🔁 29 💬 17 📌 9
President Biden called Mark Zuckerberg "Little Twerp" and "Fuckerberg” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social @kurtwagner.bsky.social
27.05.2025 18:13 — 👍 173 🔁 30 💬 21 📌 17
🚨 New Businessweek Feature 🚨
What is behind Mark Zuckerberg's rightward swing toward President Trump?
I'd wager it's less about personal politics, and more about a finely tuned sense of self-preservation... w/ @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Thanks! Could be the AI-based content moderation running away with itself
24.05.2025 23:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A 50% tariff on Europe?! 🧀🍝🍷 How Trump uses pro-wrestling theatrics to run the economy. The latest ep of #EverybodysBusiness is out! @chafkin.bsky.social and I talk kayfabe w/ @kyla.bsky.social
Then @sarahfrier.bsky.social joins to talk AI & jobs 🤖
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New episode of everybody’s business! Featuring @kyla.bsky.social on WWEconomics and @sarahfrier.bsky.social on AI! Give us a shot and subscribe!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
23.05.2025 13:25 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: Why Apple Hasn’t Cracked AI — The inside story of Apple’s generative AI and Siri failures, setbacks that threaten everything from the iPhone's dominance to plans for future products. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
18.05.2025 21:04 — 👍 42 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
hey hey, me and @svaneksmith.bsky.social made a new podcast for @bloomberg.com. it's about business. its smart. its fun. we'll tell you stuff you don't know but should. it comes out each week and we NEED you to subscribe and tell your friends. link.podtrac.com/rzj316uq
16.05.2025 14:31 — 👍 43 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 2New podcast alert 🚨 I’m very excited to be hosting a new podcast with the great @chafkin.bsky.social for @businessweek.bsky.social @bloomberg.com Please give a listen and let us know what you think! 🎧 (banana pudding strongly encouraged but not required)
16.05.2025 14:12 — 👍 74 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 2
New: Political commentator Hasan Piker says he was briefly detained by US Customs and Border Protection, questioned about his views on Hamas and Trump. First reported by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
12.05.2025 20:37 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Scoop on the Google beat: Google has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots, starting with AI search startups like iAsk and Liner. This means that even if Google's share of the search market dwindles, it still stands to profit. bloom.bg/436FhkR
01.05.2025 19:11 — 👍 38 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 4
New from me: Here's a fun lil earnings scoop 🚨
There was an $8 billion increase in profit in Alphabet's latest report that was just nagging and nagging at me. The accounting didn't make sense. Finally got to the bottom of it: the boost came from unrealized gains from a 2015 investment in SpaceX.
And then @sarahfrier.bsky.social told the real story of how Trump came to the manosphere -- it wasn't Barron, it was a guy named John Shahidi, who found quite a niche for himself www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
22.04.2025 12:13 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1This is absolutely wild to see come out on record in federal court after reporting it in my book 5 years ago (Systrom has been silent on the acquisition and aftermath in that time). Details he is sharing took me months to report out and confirm.
22.04.2025 16:38 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW Businessweek feature: The US gives permission to pay people with disabilities below minimum wage. Biden tried to end program. Employers urging Trump preserve it say they've gotten private signals he will.
Based on 1000s of pages of records & 150 interviews: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Here’s a gift link to the book excerpt if you need a refresher: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
15.04.2025 20:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!!
15.04.2025 19:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
But it is crazy to see stuff I had from various sources get confirmed by internal documents/emails. Also!! This is new to me, and not in my book: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
15.04.2025 19:16 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Just saying, if you read No Filter, you would have known about Zuckerberg getting jealous of Instagram’s growth (& why the founders left) long before this FTC trial
15.04.2025 19:14 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 1
And hear Max, @danahull.bsky.social, @sarahfrier.bsky.social, @kurtwagner.bsky.social and others talking more Musk every week on Elon, Inc. open.spotify.com/episode/3Amn....
10.04.2025 15:04 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow. But by the time the ad ran about a month later, traffic from Google had fallen more than 70%, McBride said. Charleston Crafted, which features guides on do-it-yourself home improvement projects, had weathered algorithm changes and updates in the past; this time, it didn’t recover. McBride suspected people were getting more of their renovation advice from the artificial intelligence answers at the top of Google search. The now-ubiquitous AI-generated answers — and the way Google has changed its search algorithm to support them — have caused traffic to independent websites to plummet, according to Bloomberg interviews with 25 publishers and people who work with them. That’s disrupting a delicate symbiotic relationship that’s existed for years: if businesses create good content, Google sends them traffic.
NEW: Spoke to 25 small publishers about the kind of impact Google's AI changes to search has had on their businesses.
Things don't look good—not for the publishers, and not for the quality of information out on the open web, which ironically Google itself relies on.
Gift link: bloom.bg/43Jmzk3
Google says AI Overviews drive more traffic to a diverse mix of publishers. But it has never shared data to back up that claim.
@daveyalba & I spoke to 25 creators who painted a different picture. Several are out of business. One is on food stamps. Our latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I was one of the many interns who sat next to Dan Kraut at Bloomberg, who he took such care to shape into a real business journalist. I will never forget how kind and welcoming he was. Thank you, Dan, for all the lessons in reporting, managing, and life. www.louissuburbanchapel.com/daniel-j-kra...
28.03.2025 16:15 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 NEW: Google Search has ruled the web for >20 yrs. But in recent years, a chorus of discontent has been building among the web-going public. Google is drastically remaking search with gen AI just as people are complaining that the service is slowly degrading—and degrading the web.
bloom.bg/41W2wwl
