Noam Cohen

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Noam Cohen is an American journalist. He was a technology columnist and author of the "Link by Link" column for The New York Times from 2007 to 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.noamcohen.com/biography/|title=Biography|website=Noam Cohen|language=en-US|access-date=January 22, 2018}} He is the author of the 2017 nonfiction book The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball, about the politics of Silicon Valley.{{Cite web

|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6d40694a-c92d-11e7-8536-d321d0d897a3

|title=Book review: The-Know-It-Alls by Noam Cohen — hostile view of free speech

|website=Financial Times

| access-date=December 30, 2017

}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.recode.net/2017/12/18/16787624/noam-cohen-know-it-alls-book-silicon-valley-libertarianism-democracy-kara-swisher-decode-podcast|title=Is Silicon Valley threatening democracy?|work=Recode|access-date=December 30, 2017}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/noam-cohen/the-know-it-alls/|title=THE KNOW-IT-ALLS by Noam Cohen {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en-us}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/business/review-two-contrasting-views-of-silicon-valleys-influence.html|title=Review: Two Contrasting Views of Silicon Valley's Influence|last=Knee|first=Jonathan A.|date=November 10, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 30, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} His work has also appeared in Wired magazine.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/author/noam-cohen/|title=Noam Cohen |magazine=Wired|access-date=December 30, 2017}} He is a Wikipedia editor.{{Cite news |last=Cohen |first=Noam |date=28 October 2021 |title=VIPs expect special treatment. At Wikipedia, don't even ask. |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-john-eastman-editing/2021/10/28/f2d61bea-35fd-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html |quote=(I am a Wikipedia editor).}}{{srlink|Wikipedia:Noam Cohen}}, a collection of articles which Cohen has written about Wikipedia and its community.

Cohen was a history major in college.{{cite news |last=Recode |first=Staff |url=https://www.vox.com/2017/12/24/16808262/transcript-author-noam-cohen-silicon-valley-book-recode-decode-political-social-libertarian |title=Full transcript: Author Noam Cohen calls social media a 'wrecking ball' on Recode Decode |work=Recode |publisher=Vox Media |date=December 24, 2017 |accessdate=November 15, 2019 }} He lives in Brooklyn, New York.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/author/noam-cohen/ |title=Noam Cohen |magazine=Wired |publisher=Condé Nast |accessdate=November 15, 2019 }}