Given that there’s another No Kings protest this weekend, I’d like to point you to @davidgilbert.bsky.social’s wonderful @wired.com piece on the online origins of the movement.
www.wired.com/story/techno...
Social media platforms, collaborative online tools, and encrypted messaging are all helping to power a massive, decentralized resistance to the Trump administration.
[email protected] on how different segments of the right, from Fox News to Qanon conspiracists, are metabolizing the Epstein files: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
Excellent reporting here by @raphae.li about a hacker who breached an FBI server, apparently without knowing it was the FBI, and accessed the Epstein files. The hacker allegedly threatened to report the server's owner TO THE FBI bc of disgust over CSAM on the server, www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
If you're at an airport today, we'd LOVE to know what it's like interacting with ICE instead of TSA. You can DM me or find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82.
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Could not be more excited to start working with EJ
Documentarian Louis Theroux talked to @davidgilbert.bsky.social about his new Netflix manosphere doc and what a grift the whole thing is. I found this exchange—about why being a good person is bad for business—illuminating, if not surprising: www.wired.com/story/louis-...
"Most jarring is Bradley County Constable District 7 in Tennessee: a single officer received a base award of $107,525, followed by a $11,500 salary bump — and now a further modification appears to add $1,820,550 in new funding for that one cop."
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
NEW:
You may have heard about Trump's efforts to undermine trust in the elections with the SAVE America Act.
But here I highlight how this is just one part of a broader effort to manipulate the midterms, and how that could have long-lasting effects on US democracy
www.wired.com/story/this-i...
"Katie Drummond is leading Wired magazine through its best era." - @davekarpf.bsky.social
davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-the-wir...
NEW:
I spoke to Louis Theroux about his new Netflix documentary Into the Manosphere which is out today.
We spoke about Andrew Tate telling Louis he's no longer relevant, how the manosphere is a big grift, and what it's like being livestream while making a documentary
www.wired.com/story/louis-...
WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year’s midterm elections.
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by a special agent.
Cat’s out of the bag — I’m joining @wired.com as a senior writer starting April 6! Absolutely thrilled to be joining this incredible team (which I learned today will now feature not one, not two, but FIVE @dailydot.com alumni)!!!
