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Election 2024
The Right Is Blaming Women and DEI for the Secret Service’s Failure in Trump Shooting
David Gilbert
Pennsylvania shooting
Far-Right Extremists Call for Violence and War After Trump Shooting
David Gilbert
car alarm
How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended up on Top of Google Search Results
David Gilbert
WIRED Politics Lab
How Influencers and Algorithms Are Creating Bespoke Realities for Everyone
David Gilbert
WIRED Health
The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to Hiring Thousands of New Doctors
João Medeiros
election 2024
Conspiracy Theorists Aren’t Even Bothering With Biden’s Debate Performance
David Gilbert
From Russia With AI
A Russian Propaganda Network Is Promoting an AI-Manipulated Biden Video
David Gilbert
talk therapy
Supreme Court Rules That US Government Can Continue Talking to Social Media Companies
Vittoria Elliott
WIRED Politics Lab
Big Tech Is Giving Campaigns Both the Venom and the Antidote for GenAI
Makena Kelly
RED PILL BLUE BILL
Alex Jones Is Now Trying to Divert Money to His Father’s Supplements Business
Anna Merlan
FDA’S BIG DAY
Supreme Court Upholds Access to Abortion Pill in Unanimous Vote
Kate Knibbs and Emily Mullin
WIRED Politics Lab
A Billionaire Has a Plan to Save the Internet—Buying TikTok Is the Next Step
Makena Kelly
WINNER WINNER
Google’s and Microsoft’s AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election
David Gilbert
Superspreader
A Former President’s Daughter Used X to Bombard South Africa With Conspiracy Theories
Vittoria Elliott
The WIRED AI Elections Project
Vittoria Elliott
AI Election Project Methodology and Submission Information
Vittoria Elliott
Fact Check
A Far-Right Indian News Site Posts Racist Conspiracies. US Tech Companies Keep Platforming It
Vittoria Elliott and David Gilbert
Ballot Bots
Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve
Nilesh Christopher and Varsha Bansal
FROM RUSSIA
Russian Disinfo Campaign Blames Ukraine for Shooting of Slovakia’s Prime Minister
David Gilbert and Morgan Meaker
WIRED Podcasts
The Conspiracies Swarming Campus Protests
Leah Feiger, Makena Kelly, Vittoria Elliott, and David Gilbert
WIRED Politics Lab
Student Journalists Face Storm of Campus Protest Disinformation
Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott
RED (Russia's Version)
A Russian Influence Campaign Is Exploiting College Campus Protests
David Gilbert
The Big Interview
Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AI
Steven Levy
DON'T CLICK
Celebrity Deepfake Porn Cases Will Be Investigated by Meta Oversight Board
Vittoria Elliott
WIRED Politics Lab
How Election Deniers Became Mainstream—and Are Weaponizing Tech
Leah Feiger, David Gilbert, and Vittoria Elliott