Breaking my X hiatus yet again, this time to welcome Tim Marchman to WIRED where he is our new director of science, politics & security. An incredible journalist and our kind of nerd! To say I am excited about this is an UNDERSTATEMENT!

I had the great honour of speaking the immortal words 'May the deep dish bless you and keep you' on this week's episode of QAA Podcast where I spoke to Travis View and Daryl Carol Carl and Merle for 'Fear and Sheriffs in Las Vegas'

Give it a listen...

soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous…

Despite running for over seven years with millions of accounts on dozens of platforms, China's state-run disinformation campaign has been an utter failure.

I spoke to Elise Thomas and Clint Watts to try and figure out why.

wired.com/story/china-ba…

You may have recently seen headlines warning about the threat posed by China's disinformation campaign — which is now using AI.

But the reality is that AI or not, China has been historically terrible at influence operations like this

Here's why:

wired.com/story/china-ba…

Misinformation has created an alternative world for some Americans cnn.com/2024/04/28/pol…

I don't 'post on X' often, but dropping by to say that WIRED is hiring a Senior Reporter to cover China. More details at the link, please apply, please share:

condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeCar…

I know it's not really important, but I really want to know why this woman was dressed as if she was just out of bed?

This is just so deeply depressing....

🇮🇪 Irish and UK friends:

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How is this happening...

Want to come work at WIRED? We're hiring a reporter to cover China

Details here: condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeCar…

Influencers are becoming more important in the 2024 presidential election. Recently, the Trump campaign told WIRED that they were 'seriously' considering accepting Jake Paul's invite to his fight with Mike Tyson.

🎧 to the full #WIREDPoliticsLab pod: listen.wired.com/a7bNPtAg

Just to be very clear, George Soros is not funding students protesters at #ColumbiaUniversity or anywhere by buying them tents

wired.com/story/conspira…

Sean Feucht is so worried about the Gaza Solidarity protests at #ColumbiaUniversity that he's.....fundraising money for himself off of them

It’s WIRED Politics Lab day! Check out Makena Kelly’s newsletter below, and tune in to the pod to listen to me, Makena, and Tori Elliott talk about the possible TikTok ban and its impact on the election and political influencers -

open.spotify.com/episode/5517gK…

UT Austin published this video for Free Speech Week 6 mos ago.

Q: Why can members of the public come to campus at any time and engage in demonstrations

A: State law in Texas allows members of the public...to come onto campus and use our common outdoor areas for speech activity

US university protests is not the Israel story we should be talking about.

THIS is the Israel story everyone should be talking about

'Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded including some bound and stripped of their clothes.'

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

With McInnes showing up yesterday and now Feucht (a prominent Christian nationalist with close links to far-right extremists) talking about people 'taking planes, buses and trains' to his pro-Israel march at #ColumbiaUniversity today, it's definitely something to pay attention to

This guy was also outside the courthouse on the first morning of the Trump trial shouting the exact same thing. This has nothing to do with the 'Columbia protest'

Excited to share that my Scripps News Los Angeles Times piece on border vigilantes is a 2024 Headliner Awards winner:

Judges: 'This is a fine example of what journalism is supposed to do.' (!!!)

headlinerawards.org/2024-tv-radio/