New York Times’s Sam Dolnick (who is also one of its owners and now deputy managing editor at the Times). Our discussion led to an offer for me to write a weekly column, which was exactly what I needed. My foray began more like a sonic boom. Out of the gate, as I noted earlier, I called Facebook, Twitter, and Google “digital arms dealers” and kept going with strongly worded pieces on the warping of Twitter by Trump, the glacial panic of Hollywood when it came to digital, the need for an Internet Bill of Rights, and I had one of the earliest pieces talking about the dangers of Chinese Communist
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