Emily Burns

San Francisco

Executive Producer at KGO-TV (San Francisco, CA)

Executive producer @abc7newsbayarea. Fan of law, politics, and books. Formerly @10news, @kpbs.

Articles

How is AI Transforming Defensive Cybersecurity?

2 months ago | cloudsecurityalliance.org | Cloud Bytes Webinars |Emily Burns

Originally published by Abnormal Security. Written by Emily Burns. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has reshaped nearly every industry, but its impact on cybersecurity is particularly transformative. While AI opens doors to unparalleled efficiencies and innovation, it also gives rise to a new generation of cyberthreats that are faster, smarter, and more adaptable than ever.
The Culmination of Decades of Censorship and Propaganda

Dec 5, 2024 | brownstone.org | Emily Burns

I have a vivid memory of when I realized that virtually every piece of information I heard from “mainstream media” was a lie. It was in May of 2020. I was driving back to Boston from our place in New Hampshire. Listening to NPR as I had in virtually every car ride since I was a child, I heard them discussing coronavirus cases and mortality.
Debate Night: How Kamala Harris Won My Heart and My Vote

Sep 18, 2024 | miamistudent.net | Emily Burns

Like many Americans, I spend my weeknights chatting with friends and family, rewatching my favorite movies and mentally preparing myself for the laborious task of waking up early the next morning. But on Tuesday, Sept. 10, my eyes were glued to my computer screen. Not because I was tuned in to the latest episode of Love Island, but because I was watching the 2024 Presidential Debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
What to Do After an Account Takeover

Feb 5, 2024 | cloudsecurityalliance.org | Cloud Bytes Webinars |Emily Burns

Originally published by Abnormal Security. Written by Emily Burns. Account takeovers are a shockingly common and consistently damaging attack that occurs when a malicious actor gains access to an organization’s sensitive data through a compromised account. These attacks are often financially devastating. In fact, IBM reports that the average breach caused by stolen credentials costs organizations upwards of $4.62M.
Water, Water Everywhere, but Every Drop Unique: Challenges in the Science to Understand the Role of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Management of Drinking Water Supplies

Dec 28, 2023 | agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Susan T Glassmeyer |Emily Burns |Michael J. Focazio |Edward T. Furlong

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) defines “contaminant” as any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water. Thus, by this definition, anything other than the water molecule itself (H2O), is considered a contaminant. “Contaminants of emerging concern” (CECs) is a term that covers a wide variety of chemicals and microorganisms that are, typically, currently unregulated under the SDWA.
The Politics of Disdain

Nov 3, 2023 | brownstone.org | Emily Burns |Aaron Kheriaty

I am pleased to publish here a brief excerpt from an article originally published in City Journal with my colleague Emily Burns, a research analyst, writer, and member of our censorship working group at Brownstone Institute. Several commentators have claimed recently that the era of “hyperpolitics”—described by Ryan Zickgraf in Compact as the sense that “Suddenly, politics was Everything Everywhere All At Once”—is ending.
The Politics of Disdain

Oct 20, 2023 | hotair.com | Emily Burns

Elite censorship and targeting of political opponents have created a self-justifying feedback loop. Don’t like a policy? Claim that the policy harms a given constituency, say that the policy’s supporters are attacking said constituency, and then claim that the attackers’ ideas don’t merit consideration—or even that the attackers deserve retaliatory or liberationist violence. This rhetorical approach has made the elite intellectually lazy, since they feel no need to engage ideas on their merits.
The Politics of Disdain

Oct 20, 2023 | city-journal.org | Emily Burns |Aaron Kheriaty

Several commentators have claimed recently that the era of “hyperpolitics”—described by Ryan Zickgraf in Compact as the sense that “Suddenly, politics was Everything Everywhere All At Once”—is ending. Having consumed all the emotional oxygen in the room, the phenomenon, “driven by charismatic influencers and digital demagogues—not established institutions,” has finally burned itself out, leaving the American body politic exhausted.
The Politics of Disdain

Oct 20, 2023 | eppc.org | Aaron Kheriaty |Emily Burns |Rachel Morrison |Carl R. Trueman

Published October 20, 2023City JournalSeveral commentators have claimed recently that the era of “hyperpolitics”—described by Ryan Zickgraf in Compact as the sense that “Suddenly, politics was Everything Everywhere All At Once”—is ending. Having consumed all the emotional oxygen in the room, the phenomenon, “driven by charismatic influencers and digital demagogues—not established institutions,” has finally burned itself out, leaving the American body politic exhausted.
The Costs and Casualties of Government’s Information Total War

Oct 9, 2023 | newswars.com | Emily Burns

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,”This phrase, misattributed to Voltaire, has largely come to dominate—and confuse—our understanding of the importance of free speech in a free society. That misunderstanding seems to be at the heart of the very lukewarm response elicited by the exposure of “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history” unearthed through discovery in Missouri v. Biden now before the Supreme Court.