Ben Shapiro will be a CNN pundit soon. At the rate things are going, he might be doing that by the 2028 election cycle.

Rest in Power to Laura Sennett, a longtime photojournalist and antiracist activist with @onepeoplesproject.bsky.social who spend decades documenting, tracking, and countering the racist far-right. Knowing her was a blessing, and her memory will carry on with all of those she spent her life helping.

New on @indicator.media: At 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning, I discovered that my partner Mia has a hidden Tinder Platinum account. Except Mia is not actually my partner. She isn’t even a real person. The image I uploaded was created with Google AI. So, it turns out, was the Tinder profile.

WILD: how scammers are using realtime deepfake software to morph into other people on live video calls www.404media.co/hello-boss-i...

👀 👎 Looking at these dismal scores, it may seem that there is no new “news” in this year’s report. The fact that the SMSI’s findings tell the same story of platform failure year after year is, unfortunately, itself newsworthy. Please click thru to read our overview and best practice recommendations.

On this week's episode for Patreon subscribers, @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I look at The Daily Wire's business struggles as the right-wing media company struggles to maintain relevance in today's MAGA ecosystem. www.patreon.com/posts/103-gr...

your post was classified as a serious boo boo, adding four goofs to your account, which elevates your permanent record to a gold bungle. we're putting you in the no no zone for a week

On tomorrow's Patreon episode of Posting Through It, we're looking at The Daily Wire's crumbling content empire and sharing our thoughts on why the right-wing media org has been left in tatters under the second Trump Administration Sign up to listen to it tomorrow AM patreon.com/PostingThrou...

This is what state media looks like. “Meet the Free Speech Warrior” of an unabashedly anti-free speech administration

I don't drink but I will pay top dollar (ok, maybe like $40 max) to anyone who can get me one of these

Truth Social's place in the social media landscape has waxed and waned since it launched ~4 years ago. Our CEO Hank Teran spoke to CJR about its unique role as a tool for the Trump administration, putting it at the center of US policy.

Takes that aged like sewage. Congrats @eoinhiggins.bsky.social on successfully defending against the bullshit lawsuit Matt Taibbi filed against him for having had the nerve to criticize him

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"Do not make a mistake" is a ridiculous request to make in itself but event stupider to put in a prompt to a chatbot. Insane that one of AI's biggest investors/hype-guys is this fool who doesn't understand what these chatbots are programmed to do on the fundamental level

How much could a ballroom cost? A billion dollars? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Nonconsensual production of sexually explicit "deepfakes" with generative AI software is growing issue that disproportionately harms women (and sometimes even children). We looked at what occurred on a major hub for this abuse when three famous women made headlines. openmeasures.io/4chan-celebr...

Related to this: we'll have a special guest joining us for next week's main feed episode

There's a lot of talk about AI taking jobs -- but less about automation potentially, and quietly, deciding who never gets a shot in the first place. A wild story about one would-be doctor vs. the algorithm that may have screwed him:

A huge issue starts with allowing this framing “Next Generation Investing” Crypto, options, sports betting and prediction markets are all forms of GAMBLING and is leading to losses and is absolutely not “investing”

We fought. We won. Others can too. www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...

I would like to know whatever became of the ADL’s “Mamdani Monitor” project it said it was launching after Zohran won his election, meant to track how supposedly antisemitic this man is. Did they raise money for a blank sheet of paper?

Out now on all the podcast apps @peltzmadeline.bsky.social joins to talk to us about the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement and its freakish leader RFK Jr. It’s supporters are growing frustrated with the administration, and Madeline helps us understand why www.patreon.com/posts/156820...

Congrats to Dan and Jordan at the Knowledge Fight podcast for an insane run. It was a consistently informative and entertaining show that will outlast them as a critically minded archive of Infowars. Wishing them the best in whatever’s next.

US CENTCOM is denying another set of claims that Iran’s military hit a US warship in a missile attack. Read our report from last month about how state-backed and state-aligned actors have spread similar claims throughout the war, stirring confusion: openmeasures.io/iran-uss-abr...

On Monday's ep, @peltzmadeline.bsky.social joins for a discussion about weed killer chemicals, snorting coke off toilet seats, and raccoon weenies. (We're talking about the MAHA movement.) Madeline also talks golf strategy and the crush she has on Mrs. Met www.patreon.com/posts/102-ma...

On Monday's ep, @peltzmadeline.bsky.social joins for a discussion about weed killer chemicals, snorting coke off toilet seats, and raccoon weenies. (We're talking about the MAHA movement.) Madeline also talks golf strategy and the crush she has on Mrs. Met www.patreon.com/posts/102-ma...

... it's another week. you already know what it is.

Seems like the kind of thing that could settle a lot of questions

Candace Owens says that the Daily Wire laid off more than half of its staff today:

wrote about how platforms and the loss of diverse critical writing are a big part of why online music discovery and the discussion thereof are so fucked

We analyzed user requests for explicit AI "deepfakes" of three female celebrities in posts from 4chan's "Adult Requests" over the last year. Notably, user requests for nonconsensual images of all three women often spiked when the women were making headlines.

Everyone will learn a lot more about MAHA but this is why we don't typically let guests access the show notes before we record @peltzmadeline.bsky.social:

This week’s Posting Through It episode for Patreon subscribers covers the attempt on Trump’s life at last weekend’s WHCD. We review what we know about the suspect, conspiracy theories alleging it was all “staged,” and MAGA’s relatively muted response to it. www.patreon.com/posts/156819...

(the world i tirelessly advocate for does exactly what it's designed to do) this is unfair to me

Male supremacy IS the red thread linking not just all fascist movements but vast swathes of men across political parties, race, class, religion & sexuality. Male supremacy is rubbed in our faces daily, but istg most Americans just cannot see it: they may see racism & class war, but misogyny? Nope.

i wish we still had public intellectuals because the american experiment/project is clearly in profound crisis and we need someone with deep knowledge and some vision to articulate a revival that is even more ambitious and radical than a list of structural reforms. it’s now a philosophical problem

"Trump is very savvy in terms in terms of finding things that create anxiety, fear and anger... and exploiting those things to accrue power for himself, to accrue wealth for himself, to dominate. He's like a shark." Please check out my interview with PBS News here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKzf...

Wow To be clear here: 1. U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros has vehemently denied politics played any role in the case 2. The judge ordered the feds to produce unredacted transcripts of how the law was explained to the grand jury 3. They chose to drop the last remaining felony charge rather than do so

The datasets we collect can provide insights into broader trends across platforms, but they can also function as an archive when accounts go offline. We shared our records of Cole Tomas Allen's since-removed Bluesky account with MSNOW, which are cited in this article www.ms.now/news/cole-al...

Talked to @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social for this piece about the suspect in the WHCD shooting www.ms.now/news/cole-al...

I just want to point out that this question could also be directed at the news media, which saw the Republican Party call for what would be, if their plans went through, the largest forcible movement of human beings since the Holocaust and debated its merits as a plan to bring down housing costs.

"America is a big country, with a lot of irate and insane people who own a lot of guns. The miracle is that there is actually so little political violence in relation to the wide availability of the means." open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/the-shooting-that-wasnt

lol, same loser playbook they ran with tiktok

On this week's premium feed episode, we're talking about an uncharacteristically eventful White House Correspondents' Dinner. Out Thursday. www.patreon.com/posts/101-ni...

important to realize that even their audience isn't buying this stuff

Senior researcher Jared Holt spoke to NPR about what he saw (and didn’t see) in our archive data of the Bluesky account reportedly used by the the suspect in the WHCD shooting www.npr.org/2026/04/27/n...

Some news: Bari Weiss axed the CBS News London bureau chief believing her to be biased against Israel and overly sympathetic to Palestinians, a move she’s been plotting since her first day on the job. The scoop in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

Spoke to NPR about what we do and don’t know about the suspect in the WHCD shooting www.npr.org/2026/04/27/n...

New: President Trump lied on TV about the origins of Unite the Right, feeding his base a narrative that "Southern Law" did it. But the white supremacists who planned UtR still talk about their involvement and the facts aren't up for debate. Me: michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/white-supr...