Inside the Election Denial Groups Planning to Disrupt November
[ad_1] One of EagleAI’s key backers is former Trump adviser Cleta Mitchell, who in the past two years has become central to the push to spread election conspiracies on a…
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
[ad_1] Congress may be closer than ever to passing a comprehensive data privacy framework after key House and Senate committee leaders released a new proposal on Sunday. The bipartisan proposal,…
The Solar Eclipse Is the Super Bowl for Conspiracists
[ad_1] If that wasn’t enough, NASA is launching three satellites as part of its Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission. Unfortunately for NASA, Apep is also the name of…
The Influencers with as Much Presidential Access as the Press
[ad_1] “The right has long had its own ecosystem, even before the internet,” Katie Harbath, former public policy director at Facebook, told me on Wednesday. “The left continues to try…
US Navy Veteran Who Feds Say Rammed FBI Headquarters Had QAnon-Linked Online Presence
[ad_1] A former Navy submarine technician was arrested after law enforcement says he drove an SUV into the FBI headquarters near Atlanta on Monday afternoon. It is still unclear why…
RFK Jr. Has Assembled His Anti-Vax Conspiracy Squad
[ad_1] AM: RFK Jr.’s campaign, as you wrote about, has been very aware of sort of appealing to online spaces. One of those ways that you do that are these…
Antiabortion Disinformation Ads Ran Rampant on Facebook and Instagram
[ad_1] Ads containing abortion-related misinformation are allowed to run on Facebook and Instagram in countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, while legitimate health care providers struggle to get theirs…
The Real Reason Why Some Abortion Pill Patients Go to the ER
[ad_1] Today the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in a consequential case that threatens to curb access to medication abortion across the country. A central issue…
The Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe
[ad_1] Political violence is returning to the UK, bursting out of the morass of conspiracy and extremism online. There is at times a Blairish elusiveness to the way Khan talks—broadcastable…
Trump’s Truth Social Is Going Public
[ad_1] Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social, a shameless Twitter clone, is set to become a publicly traded company as soon as next week. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp.…