Sasha Patel

Platform Privacy & Digital Rights Writer | Formerly worked in trust & safety at a social media startup

I spent three years on the trust & safety side of a social platform, which meant fielding an endless stream of "wait, can people actually see that?" questions — about likes, bookmarks, saved posts, all of it. Most of the confusion wasn't paranoia; platform privacy settings genuinely change often enough that yesterday's correct answer can be wrong today.

Now I write about exactly that gap: what's actually private on the platforms you use, what changed and when, and how to build a personal archive that doesn't depend on a platform's data policy staying the same forever.

If you've ever wondered "wait, is that public?" about something you saved or liked, that's my beat.