Xavier Harding

Xavier Harding is a technology editor at The New York Times T Brand Studio. Formerly, Harding was a writer on the content team at Mozilla, where he assisted on advocacy projects like Newsbeat, Privacy Not Included, and Misinfo Monday, and hosted the Dialogues and Debates interview series discussing topics like misinformation, contact tracing, and the role technology plays in addressing racial injustices.

Before Mozilla, Harding was a journalist covering consumer tech and the tech industry, with bylines in Popular Science, BuzzFeed, Lifehacker, Mic, Newsweek, Fortune, and Vox. He also spent time at The Markup, and in 2019 earned a Webby Award for his story on how one cinematographer properly lights the HBO show Insecure for Black faces—a story watched by millions.