About Brian Merchant
Born 2000. Brian Merchant is an American journalist, writer and editor.
Brian Merchant is an American technology journalist and author. His work often focuses on social and environmental issues relating to technology and tech companies.
While at Vice, he co-founded Terraform, a speculative fiction section of Motherboard.
In January 2023, he became the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times.
In February 2025, Merchant began working full time reporting for his Substack newsletter Blood in the Machine.
Books The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone (Little, Brown, 2017) Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech (Little, Brown, 2023)
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American writer and technology journalist
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