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Smell Tests
How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.
Gia Chaudry
Good News
How
Democracy Now!
Became the Blueprint for Indie Media
Kate Knibbs
Critical Harm
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
Maxwell Zeff
Latest
Seeing Red
MAGA Media Seems to Have Hit Its Breaking Point Over Iran
Makena Kelly
Life Goals
Politicians Are Spending More Money on Security as They Increasingly Become Targets
Maddy Varner
Inner Loop
The Next Attorney General Will Probably Be an Election Denier
David Gilbert
Coin Toss
Border Patrol Agents Sold Challenge Coins With
Charlotte’s Web
Characters in Riot Gear
Maddy Varner
Midterm Season
The DOJ Misled a Judge About How It’s Using Voter Roll Data
David Gilbert
Fraud Talk
Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine Is Helping Out on Viral Fraud Videos Now
Makena Kelly
and
Vittoria Elliott
Backchannel
John Perry Barlow, JFK Jr., and a Night of Grief I Can’t Forget
Steven Levy
Bounce Back
A Year After DOGE Cuts, GSA Now Plans to Hire Hundreds of Employees
Leah Feiger
and
Zoë Schiffer
Money Talks
Trump’s Economy Has Come for Sugar Babies
Jason Parham
Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley
: Iran’s Threats on US Tech, Trump’s Plans for Midterms, and Polymarket’s Pop-up Flop
Brian Barrett
,
Zoë Schiffer
,
Leah Feiger
,
Makena Kelly
, and
Kate Knibbs
Meat Market
I Took RFK Jr.’s Advice and Ate Nothing but High-Protein Foods for a Week
Miles Klee
Inner Loop
The New Era of Militia Influencers
David Gilbert
Revenge Fantasy
Woke Isn't Back
Miles Klee
Back Online
In a Big Reversal, Zohran Mamdani Tells NYC Agencies They Can Use TikTok
Makena Kelly
Frozen Out
Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life
Brendan I. Koerner
Election season
This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms
David Gilbert
Target Practice
The IRS Wants Smarter Audits. Palantir Could Help Decide Who Gets Flagged
Caroline Haskins
Big help
ICE Agents Frustrate Airport Workers as Shutdown Drags On
Aarian Marshall
Mysteries
Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use
Molly Taft
Inner Loop
That Ex-CIA Agent in All Your Feeds Is After a Pardon From Donald Trump
Makena Kelly
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