Zoë Schiffer

Zoë Schiffer is a technology journalist currently working as the managing editor for Platformer. She has previously written for The Verge and Vox, breaking major stories about labor issues in Silicon Valley. Schiffer is known for her deep reporting on company culture and the internal turmoil at major tech firms.\n\nShe is the author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter. Schiffer provides the definitive account of Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter (now X). Drawing on unprecedented access to employees and internal documents, she chronicles the mass firings, the policy shifts, and the culture of fear that gripped the company. Her work is a gripping corporate thriller that investigates the human cost of a billionaire’s whim.