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Davey Alba is a technical reporter for the New Yok Times.

Early life and education
Davey Alba was born in Manilla, Phillipines, and attended De La Salle University there. She came to the United States 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 BuzzFeedNews 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 and "was used by a corrupt government to punish oppponents, sometimes with death." She, also, 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 for 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.