Ryan Mac

Ryan Mac attended Stanford University from 2007 to 2011. Initially a pre-med student, Mac began writing stories for the Stanford Daily at the end of his freshman year. As a staff writer, Mac often published about new musical releases and music festivals for the Daily's arts section.{{Cite web |title=Alumni Spotlight: Ryan Mac '11 – Stanford Daily Alumni |url=https://alumni.stanforddaily.com/alumni-spotlight-ryan-mac-11/ |access-date=September 22, 2024 |website=The Stanford Daily}}

Throughout college, Mac served as a reporting intern at the Half Moon Bay Review, New York Times, Bay Citizen, OC Register, and Bloomberg L.P.{{Cite web|title=Ryan Mac|url=https://muckrack.com/rmac18/bio |access-date=September 24, 2024 |website=Muckrack}}

From 2011 to 2017, Mac worked as a staff writer for Forbes, compiling their annual list of billionaires before transitioning into covering tech startups and companies. Mac also continued to cover music, interviewing top-earning DJs such as Calvin Harris, Steve Aoki, and Avicii.,{{Cite web |title=Calvin Harris: From Supermarkets To Superstardom |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyGGqI2NvHo |access-date=September 22, 2024 |website=Youtube}}{{Cite web |title=Steve Aoki On Being The World's Hardest-Working DJ |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKcZ86ADZc0&t=2s |access-date=September 22, 2024 |website=Youtube}}{{Cite web |title=Technology, Music And The Rise of Avicii |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug2kHAtoAsM |access-date=September 22, 2024 |website=Youtube}} and American rapper Riff Raff in 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/video/3729059801001/jody-highrollin-with-riff-raff-in-las-vegas/|title=Jody Highrollin' With Riff Raff In Las Vegas}} In 2016, Mac reported on Peter Thiel, who had been secretly funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker (Bollea v. Gawker).{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/|title=This Silicon Valley Billionaire Has Been Secretly Funding Hulk Hogan's Lawsuits Against Gawker}} Alongside reporter Matt Drange, Mac was a 2017 Gerald Loeb Award finalist in the 'Breaking News Category' for their coverage of Gawker.{{Cite web |title=Finalists vie for nation's top honor given to journalists in business, financial reporting|url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/finalists-vie-for-nation-s-top-honor-given-to-journalists-in-business-finance|access-date=September 24, 2024}}

From 2017 to 2021, Mac worked as a senior technology reporter for Buzzfeed News. In 2018, Mac reported on Elon Musk and Vernon Unsworth, a British cave diver who played an instrumental role in the Tham Luang cave rescue. Mac released a series of email correspondences that revealed Musk had accused Unsworth of being a "child rapist" who had "married a child".{{Cite web |date=September 4, 2018 |title=In A New Email, Elon Musk Accused A Cave Rescuer Of Being A "Child Rapist" And Said He "Hopes" There's A Lawsuit |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-thai-cave-rescuer-accusations-buzzfeed-email |access-date=September 22, 2024 |website=BuzzFeed News}} Both these claims by Musk were found to be false. In one of Musk's emails to Buzzfeed News, he referred to Mac as a "f**king asshole". These emails were later referenced during Unsworth's $190 million defamation suit against Musk.{{Cite web |title=Elon Musk did not defame British cave explorer, jury finds |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/06/elon-musk-vernon-unsworth-trial-verdict |access-date=September 22, 2024 |website=The Guardian}}

Mac was one of ten journalists whose accounts were suspended on X (formerly Twitter) by Elon Musk on December 15, 2022. Mac's Twitter account was unsuspended by Musk 2 days later.{{Cite web |date=December 15, 2022 |title=Twitter Suspends Journalist Accounts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/technology/twitter-suspends-journalist-accounts-elon-musk.html |access-date=September 22, 2024 |website=New York Times}}

In September 2024, Mac and co-author Kate Conger released Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter,{{Cite web |title=CHARACTER LIMIT | Kirkus Reviews |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kate-conger/character-limit/ |access-date=September 22, 2024 |via=kirkusreviews.com}} which covers Musk's poorly executed $44-billion-dollar acquisition of Twitter.

Ryan Mac is an avid supporter of Arsenal Football Club.{{Cite web |title=PODCAST! Character Limit |url=https://www.patreon.com/posts/podcast-limit-113659007 |access-date=October 10, 2024 |website=Patreon}}

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