Inside the “gay tech mafia” that mixes social and professional lives, as 51 investors, entrepreneurs, and executives detail gay influence in Silicon Valley
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates. — No one can say exactly when, or if, gay men started running Silicon Valley.
Inside the “gay tech mafia” that mixes social and professional lives, as investors, entrepreneurs, and executives detail gay influence in Silicon Valley
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates. — No one can say exactly when, or if, gay men started running Silicon Valley.
Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots
it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impu...
Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident
known as swatting—for just $20...threats against hospitals, businesses...airports can cost up to $50 www.wired.com/story/purgat... @gate15.bsky.social Waldo Jaquith / @waldo.net : ...
Sources: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old Elon Musk-linked engineer, has admin privileges over Treasury Department code that controls Social Security payments and more
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It's also where, sources say …
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”
Search by Topic — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …
In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more
God! Martians! A “communist” Hitler! It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.
In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more
God! Martians! A “communist” Hitler! It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.
TTP data: US anti-government militia activity has grown on Facebook, with the platform even auto-generating some group pages, despite users flagging the issue
Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts … X: Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj : Important...
The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself
The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.
The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself
The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.
X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over; X took action on 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021
In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on Truth Social that show Taylor Swift and her fans vowing their support for his campaign; Swift hasn't endorsed Trump
Presidential nominee shares AI-generated images, contributing to spread of online election disinformation
ISD: hundreds of extremist TikTok accounts are openly sharing Hitler-related propaganda, including Holocaust denial videos, and trying to recruit new members
Not only is TikTok's algorithm promoting Neo-Nazi content, extremist organizations are also using the platform to recruit new members and encourage real-world action.
A look at Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's self-interested Trump support, including the “final straw”, a Biden proposal to tax unrealized capital gains at 25%
Venture capitalists Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen claim the tech industry, California, and the country are doomed if we don't embrace the former president.
Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot won't return results on any elections globally or historical US elections, and refuse to confirm that Biden won in 2020
With just six months to go before the US presidential election, Gemini and Copilot chatbots are incapable of saying that Joe Biden won in 2020 …
Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot won't return results on any elections globally or historical US elections, and refuse to confirm that Biden won in 2020
With just six months to go before the US presidential election, Gemini and Copilot chatbots are incapable of saying that Joe Biden won in 2020 …
Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more
but no one is looking at it. https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED Tori Elliott / @telliotter : There's a lot of talk about China's disinfo/propaganda efforts, but turns out... they're ...
Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more
but no one is looking at it. https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED Tori Elliott / @telliotter : There's a lot of talk about China's disinfo/propaganda efforts, but turns out... they're ...
Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more
but no one is looking at it. https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED Tori Elliott / @telliotter : There's a lot of talk about China's disinfo/propaganda efforts, but turns out... they're ...