ABOUT BEN GOGGIN
Benjamin Goggin is the deputy technology editor at NBC News, where he edits and writes investigations into technology, platforms, child safety online, and AI. His work focuses on accountability journalism that drives real-world change.
Reporting and editing from Ben and his team have driven federal investigations, forced platform policy changes, and prompted executives to answer for failures.
After Ben revealed Wickr Me's child exploitation problem in 2022, Amazon Web Services shuttered the app. His team's investigation into illegal drone jammers prompted the FCC to open an inquiry into their online sale. After his team documented Tesla's self-driving failures at railroad crossings, federal inspectors cited the issue for the first time. Ben's reporting on child safety failures at Discord led the platform to ban teen dating servers and tighten its AI policies. His investigation into child sexual abuse material on X prompted the company to launch an internal investigation and enforce policies. After his team exposed verified pro-Nazi accounts flourishing on X, Hyundai paused its advertising on the platform. And his reporting on carbon monoxide deaths in Airbnb rentals forced CEO Brian Chesky to address the issue on NBC Nightly News. After Ben's team was first to investigate and report allegations against Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, Roiland was removed from the show and several other projects.
Previously, Ben founded Business Insider's digital culture desk, building an international team that broke national stories on creator misconduct, platform accountability, and online harm — including an investigation that led top influencer David Dobrik to step down as CEO of his tech company Dispo.
Ben won the AAJA Excellence Award in 2023 for his Wickr investigation. He was a finalist for The Drum's Editor of the Year in 2020. His reporting on the viral "litter boxes in schools" hoax was a finalist for both the LA Press Club's A-Mark Prize for Reporting on Misinformation and the Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting, and received honorable mention from NYU's American Journalism Online Awards for Best Debunking of Fake News. His Facebook suicidality algorithm investigation has been cited in the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics and the Journal of Dispute Resolution.