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Pranav Dixit

Meta Correspondent at Business Insider

I am an award-winning journalist with more than a decade of experience in two major media markets – the United States and India. Until recently, I spent more than six years as the India-based technology correspondent for BuzzFeed News, a high-impact newsroom that published Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting, breaking news, essays, and features. I moved to the US in 2022 after spending a year at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow.

Publications

  • Al Jazeera
    3 articles
  • Vox
    3 articles
  • Engadget
    3 articles
  • Business Insider
    3 articles
  • Rotary Magazine
    1 article
  • The Information
    1 article
  • WIRED
    1 article

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  • We uncovered Meta's 'block lists.' It turns out a lot more companies have them, too.
    20 Mar—Business Insider
    Save Workers across industries report being unknowingly blacklisted by past employers, sometimes for years. Experts say block lists are legal but raise ethical concerns, as employees often have no way to appeal the decision. For companies, block lists help reduce risk of suboptimal rehires amid turnover in management ranks. Earlier this month, Business Insider revealed that Meta maintains secret "block" lists preventing some former employees from being rehired. Since then, a flood of emails...
  • Meta reveals how it plans to make money on Threads, its X competitor with 300 million users
    24 Jan—Business Insider
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