Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already
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Election Workers Are Already Burned Out—and on High Alert
“They’re exhausted,” Tammy Patrick, CEO of the National Association of Election Officials, which has a membership of 1,800 officials across
Continue readingUS Navy Veteran Who Feds Say Rammed FBI Headquarters Had QAnon-Linked Online Presence
A former Navy submarine technician was arrested after law enforcement says he drove an SUV into the FBI headquarters near
Continue readingRFK Jr. Has Assembled His Anti-Vax Conspiracy Squad
AM: RFK Jr.’s campaign, as you wrote about, has been very aware of sort of appealing to online spaces. One
Continue readingOnline Conspiracies About the Baltimore Bridge Collapse Are Out of Control
Conspiracists and far-right extremists are blaming just about everything and everyone for Tuesday morning’s Baltimore bridge collapse. A non-exhaustive list
Continue readingThe Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe
Political violence is returning to the UK, bursting out of the morass of conspiracy and extremism online. There is at
Continue readingMeta Kills a Crucial Transparency Tool At the Worst Possible Time
Earlier this month, Meta announced that it would be shutting down CrowdTangle, the social media monitoring and transparency tool that
Continue readingToday’s Supreme Court Hearing Addresses a Far-Right Bogeyman
Today, the US Supreme Court will hear a case that will determine whether the government can communicate with social media
Continue readingRobert F. Kennedy Jr. Targets a Generation of Politically Disaffected, Extremely Online Men
In his continued quest to become either the president of the United States or else a very interesting footnote to
Continue readingAn AI-Altered Hitler Speech Is Going Viral On X
AI-altered video clips of Adolf Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech at the beginning of World War II have recently gone viral.
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