Billy Perrigo
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I'm Billy, a staff writer on TIME magazine's business and tech team. I focus on telling stories about how new technologies are interacting with older power structures to change politics and societies around the world.
My reporting often focuses on companies that struggle to balance their business priorities with keeping people safe.
I was shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism for my investigative reporting on Facebook in Africa and the traumatic working conditions faced by low-paid workers there.
That story led to an ongoing lawsuit against Facebook and its contractor Sama in Kenya.
In my reporting on AI, I try to distinguish between hype and reality in a field that promises to reshape our world for the better, but which also threatens to further concentrate power in the hands of the wealthiest.
I've reported on AI from above, in wide-ranging interviews with the field's most influential CEOs, and from below, in deep investigations into the hidden exploitative labor that AI often relies on.
My previous role at TIME was as a reporter on the international team. I covered news from around the globe, but focused closely on India.
Before I joined TIME in 2017, I graduated with a first-class degree in modern history from the University of Warwick. My dissertation was a study of how emerging communications technologies facilitated the rise of Hindu nationalism in postcolonial India. At the time, I was an investigative reporter and deputy news editor for my student newspaper, the Warwick Boar.
I'm open to TV, radio, podcast, and IRL public speaking invitations. Here's how to contact me.
I'm Billy, a staff writer on TIME magazine's business and tech team. I focus on telling stories about how new technologies are interacting with older power structures to change politics and societies around the world.
My reporting often focuses on companies that struggle to balance their business priorities with keeping people safe.
I was shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism for my investigative reporting on Facebook in Africa and the traumatic working conditions faced by low-paid workers there.
That story led to an ongoing lawsuit against Facebook and its contractor Sama in Kenya.
In my reporting on AI, I try to distinguish between hype and reality in a field that promises to reshape our world for the better, but which also threatens to further concentrate power in the hands of the wealthiest.
I've reported on AI from above, in wide-ranging interviews with the field's most influential CEOs, and from below, in deep investigations into the hidden exploitative labor that AI often relies on.
My previous role at TIME was as a reporter on the international team. I covered news from around the globe, but focused closely on India.
Before I joined TIME in 2017, I graduated with a first-class degree in modern history from the University of Warwick. My dissertation was a study of how emerging communications technologies facilitated the rise of Hindu nationalism in postcolonial India. At the time, I was an investigative reporter and deputy news editor for my student newspaper, the Warwick Boar.
I'm open to TV, radio, podcast, and IRL public speaking invitations. Here's how to contact me.