From repurposed footage filmed years ago in different parts of the world, to AI images and videos of Maduro's arrest, social media platforms like X, Instagram and TikTok were flooded with disinformation within minutes of America's assault on #Venezuela www.wired.com/story/disinf...

This from my colleague @jasooooon.bsky.social on DEI, what it promised, what it actually delivered and where the future of DEI lies—and how all that impacts him—is an incredible read www.wired.com/story/dei-di...

EXCLUSIVE New research shows for first time the impact influencers have on politics. Key findings: • Creators are more impactful than traditional media • Apolitical influencers have more impact than political ones • Regular social media use pushes users to the right www.wired.com/story/the-mo...

UPDATE Nice of RFK and HHS to confirm my report from earlier that Harvey Risch—an epidemiologist that one expert described to me as "a total crank"—is now officially overseeing America's efforts to fight cancer www.wired.com/story/risch-...

“Having him on the panel charged with monitoring efforts to improve cancer treatment is a disaster for cancer patients, as he will inject conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and false claims about cancer into the panel’s reports,” @gorskon.bsky.social told me www.wired.com/story/risch-...

SCOOP Harvey Risch is a Yale epidemiologist who has speculated about links between "turbo cancer" and COVID vaccines, while working for a company whose customers use ivermectin as a cancer treatment Trump just appointed him to oversee the US national cancer program www.wired.com/story/risch-...

The data Big Tech holds about you is not safe: "All I need is an IP address and next thing you know I have names, addresses, emails, and cell numbers...I can access DMs, texts, call logs. That’s someone’s full life in my hands in the space of hours.” www.wired.com/story/doxers...

From the batch of pictures released from the Epstein files today by the House Democrats....

SCOOP I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback www.wired.com/story/doxers...

Elon, Elon, look over here. Look, I've written a whole book to back up your racist worldview....PLEASE, PLEASE give me a retweet....

One of the best things I've read about the AI bubble and how we should think about it from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Two more lawsuits filed against Roblox: —A 12yr old alleges she was groomed and sent explicit images to a group of adult predators —A 10yr-old alleges she was groomed and sexually assaulted after meeting the predator in real life My report on Roblox' failures: www.wired.com/story/he-hun...

Once again, just incredible work from @philinvestigates.com www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table” This is the kind of world-class, cutting-edge scientific excellence we knew was coming when RFK appointed Dr. Oz to oversee Medicare and Medicaid Scoop from @leahfeiger.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-...

For five years MAGA has obsessed over the J6 pipe bomber, believing their arrest would prove once and for all that antifa/the left/Democrats had planned the insurrection Now that CNN, MSNOW and NBC have reported the suspect says he's a Trump supporter who believed the 2020 election was stolen....

MS NOW Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.

That sound you hear is thousands of right-wingers launching ChatGPT to figure out how to spin this.....

I understand people got mad at Signalgate but here's Pete Hegseth on Twitter openly accepting solicitations for war crimes....from LibsofTikTok

In January, as a podcaster, Dan Bongino called the J6 pipe bomber case an "inside job" by the FBI. Today, as deputy director of the FBI, Bongino announced the arrest of the suspect without any mention of "inside job" w/ @dell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/fbi-sa...

Trump wants immigrants to self-deport. Even when they do want to leave, the administration is so incompetent, it can't even do that properly, as @telliotter.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/trump-...

You may have heard that DOGE is dead. Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government www.wired.com/story/what-i...

Manisha doing God's work here to show just how desperate Musk is to be seen as funny....

A must-read from @davidgilbert.bsky.social on Roblox and what’s going on with #FreeSchlep. www.wired.com/story/he-hun...

Schlep is a developer and YouTuber, who has spent years working to identify groomers and pedophiles who use Roblox as a hunting ground to identify vulnerable children. Then Roblox banned him www.wired.com/story/he-hun...

Yesterday on Truth Social, Trump shared a screenshot of a pro-Trump MAGA account on X asking if foreign-born citizens should be barred from holding elected office. The X account in question is being run from Africa www.wired.com/story/trump-...

On Truth Social, the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES just posted this 100% real, absolutely-not-AI-generated video of himself playing football with the "really smart and cool" Ronaldo in the Oval Office....

It is hard to overstate just how fringe QAnon was when Marjorie Taylor Greene began posting videos about it (it wasn't even called QAnon yet). Now, eight years later, her anger at Trump over Epstein can be linked directly to her QAnon beliefs... www.wired.com/story/how-do...

Young Mormons Built an App to Help Men Quit Gooning "At a certain point, you enter what I can really only describe as a trance state. I plan a session for when I have no responsibilities and devote that time to my own enjoyment" — Josh, a gooner from Arizona www.wired.com/story/young-...

Gen Alpha is already tired of AI slop and brainrot, and they are pining for memes that mean something....so is the Great Meme Reset coming? @waterslicer.bsky.social finds out www.wired.com/story/the-gr...

Two weeks ago Stewart Rhodes relaunched the Oath Keepers with a crowdfunding campaign aiming to raise $75K. By last week, it had only received 16 donations Over the last 5 days, despite promotion on Alex Jones' Infowars, it's received only 3 more donations www.wired.com/story/stewar...

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Fuentes—rightly—sees Trump's comments last night about his interview with Tucker Carlson as a tacit endorsement of his hate-filled America First ideology, which continues to gain traction within the GOP. Read about how he plans to take conquer America here: www.wired.com/story/nick-f...

"Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system." authoritarian-stack.info

MAGA: "Release the Epstein files" Trump: "No" Congress: "Here are 20,000 documents with deeply troubling messages from Epstein about Trump." MAGA: "It's a hoax" www.wired.com/story/maga-w...

THE OATH KEEPERS ARE BACK!!!!!! But my investigation suggests that no one seems to care....not even former members www.wired.com/story/stewar...

This headline/article is inaccurate because Rhodes DOES NOT HAVE A PARDON. Trump commuted his sentence to time served but his conviction still stand. He is still a felon. Rhodes has been lobbying the White House for a full pardon, but hasn't been successful. www.wired.com/story/stewar...

The actual FBI using a Nazi-filled social media platform run by a far-right emboldening transphobe to debunk an unpublished story from a right-wing conspiracy theorist who recently platformed one of America's biggest antisemites.....perfectly sums up 2025

In 2017, Epstein portrayed himself as a middleman, capable of pasing messages from Trump to Bill Gates Great scoop from @timmarchman.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/jeffre...

"Republicans have a Nazi problem" I spoke to @vox.com's Today Explained about Nick Fuentes and the growing influence he is having on the GOP Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/4jcM...

Stewart Rhodes relaunched the anti-government Oath Keepers militia almost two weeks ago. Former members tell me they've no intention of rejoining and a crowdfunding campaign to raise $75k has so far received only 16 donations www.wired.com/story/stewar...

Thankfully Fox News is making sure its readers are being informed about ALL the big news stories of the day (particularly the bombshell Michelle Obama Grand Canyon outfit news) They are definitely not ignoring any big breaking story that looks bad for Trump.....definitely not

Jake stood up for his colleagues this week....Now he needs a little help. Please help if you can.

Jake was an incredible colleague to work with, producing incredible scoops and always happy to help out and share his expertise with everyone else in the newsroom. I'm obviously sad to see him go but equally looking forward to what he does next.

🚨On Halloween, ‘concerned citizens’ in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, shot fireworks at a hotel housing asylum seekers and encouraged residents to commit suicide during a protest, showing the ugly face of anti-migrant hate.⬇️

The Zuckerbergs set up an unlicensed school at their massive compound in Palo Alto. Then, as @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports, their neighbours revolted. (Note: this article is free for all to read because it's based on FOIA documents. Consider a subscription) www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

What shocked me most about the death threats sent to teachers in Arizona in recent days was that they didn't come from extremists on fringe platforms, these were sent from seemingly regular people on Facebook. Here's a sample of what they sent: www.wired.com/story/arizon...