Career
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., [8] [9] [10] and American rapper Riff Raff in 2014. [11] In 2016, Mac reported on Peter Thiel, who had been secretly funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker (Bollea v. Gawker). [12] Alongside reporter Matt Drange, Mac was a 2017 Gerald Loeb Award finalist in the 'Breaking News Category' for their coverage of Gawker. [13]
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". [14] Both these claims by Musk were found to be false. [14] In one of Musk's emails to Buzzfeed News , he referred to Mac as a "f**king asshole". [14] These emails were later referenced during Unsworth's $190 million defamation suit against Musk. [15]
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. [16]
In September 2024, Mac and co-author Kate Conger released Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter , [17] which covers Musk's poorly executed $44-billion-dollar acquisition of Twitter. [5]
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