Davey Alba

Davey Alba is a technology reporter who covers Big Tech for Bloomberg News, after previously reporting on online disinformation for The New York Times. in 2011. She studied at Columbia University and received a master's degree in science journalism.

Career Alba's first job out of training was at Popular Mechanics; she was technology editor and got to test gadgets and phones. She worked as a technology reporter at BuzzFeed News, Wired and Gizmodo before joining The New York Times as a technology reporter in 2019. In March, 2022, she joined Bloomberg News, covering Google and Big Tech. For the BuzzFeed News 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 After Duterte won, the Facebook machinery of manipulating opinion became a state-sponsored one

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

In September 2021, Alba interviewed incoming Wikimedia Foundation chief executive officer Maryana Iskander.