Julia Black covers the nexus of tech, media, politics and culture for The Weekend section. She previously worked at Insider, where she focuses on in-depth investigations about the people and companies shaping our culture today.

She’s written broadly about AI, pronatalism in tech, and Silicon Valley's political move to the right. Before Insider, Julia worked at Vox Media, Esquire, and Bon Appétit.

In 2022, she broke the news that Elon Musk had secretly fathered twins with one of his employees. She later expanded on that reporting in a feature about Silicon Valley's shadowy "pronatalist" movement.