Sarah Jeong is an American journalist specializing in information technology law and other technology-related topics.
11 Facts About Sarah Jeong
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Sarah Jeong is the author of The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book about online harassment.
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Sarah Jeong later told Willamette Week that the Internet helped her to counter religious dogmas of her upbringing such as creation science, saying, "it's how I unbrainwashed myself".
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Sarah Jeong received a green card while attending college and became a naturalized US citizen in 2017.
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Sarah Jeong is a former senior writer for The Verge and previously served as a contributing editor for Vice Media's Motherboard website, as well as writing articles for Forbes, The Guardian, and The New York Times.
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In 2015, Sarah Jeong covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes.
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In January 2016, Sarah Jeong posted a tweet caricaturing Bernie Sanders's supporters as Bernie Bros in response to online attacks against women and Black Lives Matter advocates.
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Sarah Jeong was a Yale University Poynter Fellow in Journalism in 2016.
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The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Sarah Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014.
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Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Sarah Jeong released an apology, saying that the tweets were meant to satirize online harassment toward her as a woman of color.
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Editors at The Verge defended Sarah Jeong, saying that the tweets had been disingenuously taken out of context and comparing the episode to the harassment of women during the Gamergate harassment campaign.