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David Gilbert
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Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. Got a tip? DMs open. Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
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NEW: Wired’s editor Katie Drummond said it added 200k new paid subs last year. She told me: “If you still don’t understand why Wired covers politics, you are either willfully ignorant or a complete idiot.”
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@will2risecrew Hi Robert, wondering if you could DM me please as I have a question to ask. Thanks
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I asked @POTUS about the FBI reportedly seizing election records in Arizona. He said they must have done that because it was a “rigged” election. I pointed out to him that his own AG said there was not measurable voter fraud to overturn that election
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@TateTheTalisman @louistheroux I'm not pushing the documentary. I mentioned his name because it came up during my interview with Louis.
Why did you decline taking part in the documentary?
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@daithaigilbert @louistheroux Stop saying Andrew’s name to push the documentary he declined for a reason.
Jesus.
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NEW:
I spoke to @louistheroux about his new documentary "Into theManosphere" 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 having the camera turned on himself
wired.com/story/louis-th…
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It's almost as if they were doing it to try and get people to stop talking about something else 🤔
Chris Murphy 🟧@ChrisMurphyCT
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Strongly recommend following the BBC’s @Shayan86, who’s doing a daily debunking rundown of war-related fakery.
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"It’s highly profitable to be a dick on the Internet."
I spoke to @louistheroux about his Netflix documentary Into The Manosphere, were he spends time with @sneako @HSTIKKYTOKKY4 @MyronGainesX and @Waller7J
wired.com/story/louis-th…
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Grok is making disinformation on X so much worse—
....it's now even backing it's own lies by creating AI images
wired.com/story/fake-ai-…
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SCOOP:
In 2021, they helped organize Trump's January 6 rally.
In the last year, Event Strategies has raked in federal contracts worth $26M, many of them with no other bidders
w/ @zoeschiffer @leahfeiger @hudsongiles
wired.com/story/they-hel…
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NEW
At 2.30am on Saturday morning Donald Trump announced he had decided to attack Iran
Two hours later, he shared a link suggesting Iran rigged the 2020 election
Here's why
wired.com/story/heres-wh…
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Within minutes of Trump announcing the launch of Operation Epic Fury, X was flooded with disinformation.
Almost all of the accounts sharing fake videos of the attack on Iran featured blue checkmarks, meaning X is profiting from this.
wired.com/story/x-is-dro…
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This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed.


WIRED@WIRED
A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED. wired.com/story/a-white-…
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Say @elonmusk?
Have you been monetizing @johnnymaga while he's also working at the White House?
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This interaction with Gregory Bovino on X was beyond strange.
It all started when Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tweeted that "Gregory Bovino has to go." Bovino—the erstwhile roving warlord atop Donald Trump's Border Patrol junta—had other ideas. And those ideas involved armed federal agents. And pie.
"Nah, gubner, too busy leading agents to arrest illegal aliens," Bovino responded. "Besides, Chicago may need another double digit drop in a whole smorgasbord of violent crime, compliments of the Green Machine. Perhaps we could meet for a sugar-free slice of heirloom apple pie -on me!"
Bovino's threat to launch a renewed Border Patrol occupation of Chicago, apparently as retribution for a politician criticizing him, was certainly news. And journalist Amanda Moore—who has spent months covering Bovino and federal law enforcement for Mother Jones and other outlets—quickly pointed that out.
What happened next was bizarre—and a bit creepy.
“Perhaps you could make the pie for us,” Bovino tweeted at Moore.
Then it got even weirder.
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"For a bunch of ‘free thinkers,’ they're the most easily led people you can imagine," - @rothschildmd
wired.com/story/maga-is-…
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NEW:
MAGA supporters are very angry about the lack of arrests over Epstein—to the point one Trump supporter went to Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and can of fuel.
But rather than blaming Trump, they's blaming figures like Bannon, Bondi and Kash Patel
wired.com/story/maga-is-…
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DHS now has a $1 billion tab with Palantir
Another incredible scoop from @kellymakena
wired.com/story/departme…
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