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Lauren Feiner

Lauren Feiner

Senior Policy Reporter

Lauren Feiner is the senior policy reporter at The Verge, where she covers the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill from Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she spent five years at CNBC, where she covered the Google search antitrust trial, industry lobbying, tech Supreme Court cases, and many efforts to enact new privacy, antitrust, and content moderation laws.

When she's not writing about Congress, she's probably catching up on her many podcasts on 2x speed.

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Harris promises not to ban fracking as president.

In her first interview since becoming the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash that her “values have not changed,” even though when she ran for the nomination in 2019, she said she was in favor of a ban. Fracking, of course, is a lightning rod issue in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania.


A regular reminder that Kamala Harris’ brother-in-law is Uber’s chief lawyer.

Tony West, who also served in the Department of Justice during the Obama administration, just spoke at the DNC. Of course, he wasn’t there to talk tech, but rather, to speak to Harris’ character.


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A third content creator takes the stage at the DNC.

Olivia Julianna was the latest influencer to get speaking time at the convention, in a nod to young voters and the new ways they consume media. Over the past two nights, the DNC said that “partner-created content” has received 85 million views.