I'm in Brazil and Darren Beattie—white supremacist shitplomat—is not. I've been exploring why Brazil fights back against wannabe authoritarians like Beattie and Elon Musk, and how, against the odds, it wins. www.thewayfinder.net/p/brazil-bar...

No, @washingtonpost.com Editorial Board, I remember when conservatives **lied** that the board would be a Ministry of Truth, when its founding documents prove that it was set up to *protect* fundamental rights while responding to disinfo. Glad I cancelled my subscription months ago.

Have you tuned in to The Illegals: The Americans Rewatch Podcast yet? Find us on YouTube and Apple Pods — only on The Mayday Network! youtube.com/@themaydayne... @julieroginsky.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @ninajankowicz.com @michellekinney.com @olgalautman.bsky.social

Lately I've been incredibly frustrated trying to build audiences on platforms that aren't Bluesky. This piece is about the algorithm as your asshole boyfriend and the perverse incentives that drive creators today. www.thewayfinder.net/p/the-algori...

It's here!!!! ::cues theme music:: duggaduggadugga... www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0PI...

All this talk of advanced AI targeting and the U.S. still fired a Tomahawk at an elementary school where an outdoor playground has been visible on Google Maps since 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It's my birthday! Normally I would ask that you contribute to a charity in my honor but this year the charity is me 🙃 Times are hard for those of us who fight for our shared reality. Here are a bunch of ways that you can support my continued work to preserve it: [a short thread...]

The Illegals: The Americans Rewatch Podcast premieres Thursday, March 12 — a deep dive into one of the greatest TV dramas ever made and the real Russian spy history that inspired it. With historians, intelligence analysts, a former Soviet refugee, disinformation researchers, and cultural critics.

LFG www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

Excited to add cultural commentary to my CV 💅🏻 I’m watching one of my favorite shows with @julieroginsky.bsky.social @michellekinney.com @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @olgalautman.bsky.social and the gang Coming soon to your favorite podcast app 🎧 📺 youtu.be/iL0t303qfcA?...

This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.

This made-for-instagram video probably has about 20% of the the bsky version does. Political content is suppressed there; I have a hunch that words like “censorship” and “disinformation” are too. I’m so tired of spending hours on content that doesn’t even get shown to my followers 😩

Today I got mentioned in another Congressional hearing because: -Bill Huizenga thinks he’s clever (no) -Republicans like to lie about Biden era censorship to distract from the real censorship Trump is doing (see TrumpCensorship.com)

Remember when Russia would only call its war with Ukraine a “special military operation? Hmmmm.

OTD in 1940, as part of "protecting them from fascism", Stalin signed the order to murder 22,000 Polish officers in Katyn. Like our recent crimes, we blamed nazis. This is Stalin writing "approved" on their death warrant. Imagine crimes against humanity on this scale today..

The McCain Institute is proud to announce the 2026 cohort of its American Democracy and Technology Fellowship.

Sensible, bipartisan tech policy debates that are grounded in reality are all too rare in Washington these days. I’m delighted to be joining the inaugural class of the McCain Institute’s American Democracy and Technology Fellowship. www.mccaininstitute.org/resources/pr...

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran-- RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday? REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

After 4 years vilifying disinformation researchers for having the temerity to study information threats to democracy, Trump is suddenly raising the banner of “foreign election interference” to attempt to justify his unlawful actions at home & abroad. www.thewayfinder.net/p/magas-elec...

(AXIOS) - No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

MAGA started pretending to care about election interference, but dismantled the infrastructure that addressed it. We should see this about-face for what it is: a cynical weaponization of a critical national security issue in service of a power grab. www.thewayfinder.net/p/magas-elec...

TFW your predictions from your 2020 book were eerily accurate 😩 www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-lo...

My newsletter on Monday (or maybe Tuesday) is going to be about MAGA’s sudden interest in election interference Subscribe for free to get it in your inbox ➡️ thewayfinder.net

I am blind with rage. How DARE these people yell “election interference” & “disinformation” when they made the lives of the researchers studying mis/disinfo HELL, to say nothing of the coordinated harassment of @ninajankowicz.com who warned all these fuckers about this very thing for years.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

Two regime change efforts in two months that appear to be at least partialy justified by 2020 election claims.

Our March 5th webinar with @ninajankowicz.com of the American Sunlight Project is about just this kind of #censorship and #disinformation. Register to learn more, including how to push back and protect our society! #DefendResearch www.defendresearch.org/events/webin...

In January, we launched TrumpCensorship.com, where we track the 200+ instances of Trump administration censorship. Academic research has been particularly hard hit, as I'll discuss w/ @defendresearch.bsky.social in a webinar next week. Register here: www.defendresearch.org/events/webin...

I continue to live rent free in the right-wing’s heads. (I forgive them, they seem to find it so hard to learn new things. We're now going on four years of their boring obsession with me.)

I think it's very bizarre that the Trump administration chose today, the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, for the State of the Union. While Ukrainians will be bedded down for another long night under attack, Trump will be gladhanding and self-congratulating.

When I rethought my newsletter this winter, one of the things I wanted to include was an advice column. I'm excited to share the first edition, which includes one question on Ukraine/Russian disinformation and one on stalking: www.thewayfinder.net/p/ask-nina-f...

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

Ossoff: "If you live in a major democracy, and the nation's spy chief is showing up at raids on sensitive election sites, something has gone wrong."

If you’re up early join me on CNBC around 545 ET for a convo on AI bot swarms 📺 ☀️

Every time Jim Jordan releases a report, he leaves personal info exposed: ✔️my home address ✔️the names of undergraduate researchers ✔️and most recently members EU civil society Tech companies get their employees' info shielded. Does that remind you of another, bigger non-redaction scandal? 👀

This is your periodic reminder that I have a "Dear Nina" advice column where you can ask me your disinfo/digital harms questions. Seeing your crazy uncle at a wedding? Yoga friend fall down a conspiracy funnel? Want to scrub your info from the internet? I'm your gal 💁🏻‍♀️ forms.gle/P6WbpFaqMrSv...

Nina Jankowicz has been vilified by Fox News, gotten a huge number of death threats, had deepfake sex videos made about her, and been forced to flee home. Years later, a stalker still files frivolous suits and institutions who could help are cowed. Chip in if you can to help defray her legal costs.

I know everyone has a lot bigger problems on their minds, but four years after I took a government job in my area of expertise, I continue to face astronomical legal bills because people lied about me. If you can help at all, I'd appreciate it. Thanks 💙 www.gofundme.com/f/nina-janko...

Just two counterdisinformation scholars, hanging in Sydney, loving Ukraine. I am already 50% less cute without you, @ninajankowicz.com.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

Come for the cockatoos, stay for the commentary on the social contract www.thewayfinder.net/p/the-govern...

Excited to see the incredible Singing Resistance movement from the Twin Cities is expanding, including to DC! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp3A... www.instagram.com/singingresis...

The 2026 DMRC Summer School is officially underway! With 72 delegates in attendance, today's sessions explored a diverse range of topics with the highlight being a keynote address by Nina Jankowicz, internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization.

As news of investigations into X break and a certain tech mogul has temper tantrums, remember that Musk lashing out at global internet regulators is nothing new. open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

Remember, whenever Trump does something like this: This is government by and for the trolls. He knows exactly what he's doing.

One time when Michael Shellenberger wrote some lies about me one of his followers said that he’d like to throw acid on my face. He’s clearly a very peace loving man. (He was given the chance to denounce the threat and did not.)

In a world of endless raw footage and self-proclaimed experts, how can you tell the difference between legit investigators with OSINT chops and click farmers or disinformers? I spoke to @eliothiggins.bsky.social & @capteurso.bsky.social for some tips: www.thewayfinder.net/p/they-kille...