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Mason Pelt

(He/Him)
Dallas
As seen in: Medium, Business Insider, HuffPost, Markets Insider, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, Substack, VentureBeat, Business 2 Community, HackerNoon and
Covers:  Covers power, leadership, and authoritarian behavior in politics, corporations, and daily life, digital privacy and surveillance, plus public health education.

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Mason Pelt is a writer whose work explores the critical intersection of narrative, power, and digital surveillance. His published commentary has appeared in Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, and Splice Today, among others. His digital publishing has slowed as he is currently writing a book that examines authoritarian behavior across history and corporate life.

His unconventional journey to writing includes extensive experience in video and photo production, and work as a VFX artist on award-winn…

Mason Pelt’s Journalist Portfolio

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Do police body cameras protect the public? - SiliconANGLE

Do police body cameras protect the public? - SiliconANGLE

The published recently that the number of cops indicted for murder so far this year is greater than it's been…

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Google search is bad and getting worse. Here's how search is evolving in the era of AI.

Google search is bad and getting worse. Here's how search is evolving in the era of AI.

Mason Pelt writes about marketing and technology and has studied the evolution of search. He says Google sear…

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What to do about Facebook's stranglehold on news

What to do about Facebook's stranglehold on news

Facebook and, to a lesser extent, Google, have entirely too much control over the news most people see. Good …

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"Let's Go Crazy" over YouTube Copyrights take-downs - SiliconANGLE

"Let's Go Crazy" over YouTube Copyrights take-downs - SiliconANGLE

YouTube, LLC and other online video sharing services have long used automated systems to detect and enforce c…

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Advertising Scams With MrBeast and Cory Doctorow - Mason Pelt

Advertising Scams With MrBeast and Cory Doctorow - Mason Pelt

Every digital advertising platform wants more revenue and less expense. Policing ad quality is an expense, wh…

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Andrew Tate And The Woke Mind Virus - Mason Pelt

Andrew Tate And The Woke Mind Virus - Mason Pelt

Andrew Tate, and the woke mind virus sounds like a children's mystery book title. So let's investigate how wo…

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Articles

Machiavellian People Are Just Saboteurs According To The CIA

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By Mason Pelt
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I recently wrote that highly Machiavellian people tend to gravitate towards startups, and the chaos they create becomes progressively more horrible for productivity the larger the organization. My main premises, that Machiavellian people, called high Mach, are hard to work with, and why they make it in startups fall between self-evident and well-supported. I didn’t cover exactly why the ambiguity and overall confusion of the high Mach individuals are devastating.
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DOGE, The High Mach Startup Founder's Approach To Government

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By Mason Pelt, Mason PeltDoge
| Substack
Even if you agree with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in principle, anytime an organization fires someone, only to rehire them days later things are not going smoothly. This has happened now with DOGE thousands of times, because of judges ruling that firings were illegal. But even if you think the judiciary is meddlesome, consider the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) staff who were fired by DOGE were offered jobs back without any judicial order.
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Being Broke Is Changing Ethics In Journalism

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By Mason Pelt
| Medium
By Mason Pelt Jonathan Snowden wrote an incredibly thoughtful article about ethics in MMA media, and journalism more broadly. What Snowden points out is just how arbitrary the lines of ethics often are in reporting. I have another point. Originally published at https://www.masonpelt.com on May 31, 2023.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Depends how you consider it. I started out freelancing in production for a few local broadcast stations. Later I worked for SiliconANGLE.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No, I haven't but I did watch California Typewriter.

How is social media changing news?

Yes, in part it's creating a weird microcosm where whatever gets the most engagement gets the most follow up coverage. With the exception Jeffrey Epstein's death...
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