Shannon Bond
Shannon Bond is a business correspondent at NPR, covering technology and how Silicon Valley's biggest companies are transforming how we live, work and communicate.
Bond joined NPR in September 2019. She previously spent 11 years as a reporter and editor at the Financial Times in New York and San Francisco. At the FT, she covered subjects ranging from the media, beverage and tobacco industries to the Occupy Wall Street protests, student debt, New York City politics and emerging markets. She also co-hosted the FT's award-winning podcast, Alphachat, about business and economics.
Bond has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School and a bachelor's degree in psychology and religion from Columbia University. She grew up in Washington, D.C., but is enjoying life as a transplant to the West Coast.
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The social network is under pressure from a growing group of its advertisers to do more to curb hate speech and other harmful content. -
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee demands the social network fact-check ads from political candidates, saying its hands-off policies "pose a threat to free and fair elections." -
People inside and outside Facebook are furious over the social network's refusal to curb President Trump's most inflammatory messages. The concerns reflect long-running frustrations with the company. -
Mark Zuckerberg is facing a backlash among Facebook employees over his refusal to act on President Trump's inflammatory posts. Staff says the crisis reflects new and old frustrations with the company.
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The ride-hailing company is seeing signs of recovery as cities, states and countries lift lockdown restrictions, but the pandemic has taken a steep toll. -
Mark Zuckerberg says the company will consider labeling some posts that break its rules, as Twitter has done with the president's inflammatory and false tweets. -
During an all-staff meeting, anonymous employees deride the racial justice protests and question the professional networking company's diversity initiatives. -
The social network is flagging publishers it says are under 'editorial control' of governments, as part of efforts to secure its platform against foreign influence campaigns. -
Some of the social network's earliest hires say CEO Mark Zuckerberg's inaction on the president's most inflammatory posts is a 'betrayal' of the company's ideals. -
Employees are publicly criticizing CEO Mark Zuckerberg and organizing a virtual walkout amid a growing internal backlash over the company's tolerance of the president's posts.
