Spencer Young

Spencer Young is a former blogger who reported on meta-humans in her blog, Spyn Zone. After her phone was enhanced with dark matter during the Enlightenment, she used its powers to "create" news in an effort to make herself famous before being stopped and arrested by the Flash. Spencer's crimes brought meta-tech to Team Flash's attention.

Early Career
Spencer Young worked as a junior reporter at Central City Picture News alongside Iris West. However, she eventually grew frustrated with CCPN's standards for journalism and resigned, wanting to make a name for herself. Spencer created a blog called Spyn Zone, which reported on meta-humans, similar to Iris' blog on the Flash.

Gaining meta-tech
During The Enlightenment, Spencer, ignoring the danger, began live streaming the chaos from her cell phone and attempted to get a closer look at the falling debris. She noticed the Flash and another speedster take out the largest piece of the S.T.A.R. Labs satellite. The second speedster then saved her from being hit by debris, allowing Spencer to identify her savior as female. Spencer tried to ask for a selfie with the mysterious speedster, but she had already run off. Spencer then noticed that her phone was hit with dark matter-laced debris, turning it into meta-tech.

News spree
Spencer then wished to cash in on the newest meta in town using her new tech, deciding to set a bomb off in a baseball game. She managed to get her story and left the scene.

Since Iris wanted to protect that meta-human, she met Spencer at CC Jitters to dissuade her from reporting on meta-humans, since she is aware of someone targeting them, especially Flash and XS.

Later, not deterred by Iris's comment, she continued forcing XS into stories she could make, managing to get Flash to run to Las Vegas to have XS put out the fire at Central City Picture News.

Iris and Barry assigned their future daughter Nora to spy on Spencer, but Nora quickly became distracted and instead flirted with her.

She then manipulated Flash and XS to a stadium in order to have XS kill him. However, her plan failed this time, as Iris turned up and tranquilized XS. Spencer tried to flee but was caught by the Flash, who cuffed her and confiscated her phone. Spencer was then incarcerated at Iron Heights Prison.

Personality
A savvy and aspiring blogger, Spencer Young is eager to report on the latest meta-human news in Central City. However, as noted by Iris West, Spencer is negligent when it comes to journalism ethics and doesn't care for the real story; she only desires fame and will take any road to get it.

Upon discovering the abilities of her meta-tech phone, Spencer grew increasingly power-hungry, greedy, reckless and amoral; using her phone's powers for personal gain, Spencer began to hypnotize innocent people into causing disasters just so she could be the first to report on the city's new female speedster, XS, without regard for the lives she endangered in the process. Spencer went as far as to try and force XS to murder The Flash, all for the sake of becoming famous.

Spencer's attention-grabbing nature is also connected to her social interactions, as she is very bubbly, perky and flirtatious, particularly with her fans.

Powers

 * Abilities via phone:
 * Hypnotism: Through her phone, Spencer could hypnotize people with her written articles, which forced the concerned individual when they saw and read it to carry out whatever action she desired.

Former equipment

 * Spencer Young's phone: Spencer used a phone to record events for her blog. During the Enlightenment, the phone was hit by falling debris saturated with dark matter, transforming it into meta-tech. Spencer used the phone's powers of written hypnosis to "create" stories for her blog. After Spencer was arrested, The Flash confiscated her phone.

Behind the scenes

 * Spencer's powers and abilities are similar to the mainstream villain Spin. Known only as Mr. Auerbach, Spin could control people by using televised reports.
 * Spencer's lack of ethics in her goal to be a famous reporter, including using powers of manipulation and murder, is similar to the Smallville character Linda Lake.