User:Mwinog2777/Davey Alba

Davey Alba is a New York Times technical reporter covering online disinformation.

Early life and education
Davey Alba was born in Manilla, Phillipines, and attended De La Salle University, earning a degree in communication arts. Her father is an academic, mother an economic consultant and her sister is VP of a multi-national investment bank. She came to the United States at age 23 in 2010. She studied at Columbia University and received a masters in technical writing.

Career
Alba's first job out of training was at Popular Mechanics; she was technical editor and got to test gadgets and phones. She worked as a technical writer at BuzzFeed News, Wired and Gizmodo before joining the New York Times as a technology reporter 2019. Her areas of coverage at the Times have included disinformation and the power of Big Tech companies to spread it.

In 2018, working at BuzzFeed, she reported how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte used fake news. For the BuzzFeed article on Duterte, Alba won two 2019 awards. She was awarded the Livingston Award for International Reporting, documenting how Facebook ignored fake news, fueled the Filipino drug war, and adversely impacted a vulnerable community by enabling Duterte to manipulate public opinion and win election. After Duterte won, the machinery of manipulating opinion became a state-sponsored one to punish oppponents, sometimes with death." She won the Mirror Award for Best Story for Journalism in Peril.

After reporting on videos supportive of President Trump's recommendation for the use disinfectants in the treatment Covid-19, Davey was the target of "weaponized harassment." Davey reports that she was targeted as a reporter who is an immigrant, a woman and a person of color.