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Reporter @nytimes.com. I cover the ~internet~ and report on digital influence operations, AI, far-right politics and lots more
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Struggling to explain the high price of eggs under Trump, right wing influencers are claiming that bird flu is a fake plandemic to inflate egg prices in a bid to harm Trump’s economic record

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Elon is turning on his beloved Community Notes because it's not supporting his anti-Ukraine propaganda. somehow "government and legacy media" are now gaming this system (how???)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

i'm just a canadian but i thought americans had some kinda problem with kings?

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

can anyone around 40 tell me whether the common cold hits a lot harder at this age or whether i'm just being a baby? just have cold symptoms but in a real state atm

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

this is a wild twist because for years the right-wing ecosystem claimed Biden's only interest in helping Ukraine was pilfering its mineral resources, and now Trump has turned that conspiracy theory into an actual policy and the right-wing doesn't care ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

a huge reported piece in NYT Magazine just dropped on the Murdochs 🔥🔥🔥https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/magazine/rupert-murdoch-succession-family-trust-fight.html

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Gannet is hiring an "AI assisted reporter" who is supposed to use AI to write stories and augment AI-generated articles with real interviews

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

so what is happening is policy-by-conspiracy-theory. the tactics that powered fringe conspiracy theorists for years in the darkest corners of the right-wing internet are now being used by the White House to justify policies and fire people. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/n...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

here's a piece we worked on over the past few days about USAID and the misinformation, Russian-linked propaganda and right-wing disinfo that's fueling the effort to dismantle it www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Ye is back on X supporting Nazis. elon banned Kanye from X in 2022 after he tweeted a swastika inside the Star of David. i really doubt Ye will be banned this time.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

after studying the right-wing media for a few years now, i think the best explanation for Trump's sustained enthusiastic support is the constant wall-to-wall myth-making and make-believe that they engage in, to an audience who shuns any media that doesn't participate

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

seems like a bigger deal to MAGA that government agencies bought subscriptions to American news outlets than that whole thing about Russia secretly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to right-wing podcasters, hmmmm

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

apropos of nothing i find it amusing that the former EDITOR IN CHIEF of VICE now works at Andreessen Horowitz

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

there's 11M views on this completely incorrect tweet. the poster did an idiotic keyword search for "new york times" instead of using the available filters to cases where NYT was the recipient

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

need reiterate the permanence of this belief. in social media comments, facebook posts, memes and podcast eps, in livestreams and everywhere else, they will say the government paid for positive coverage in the "liberal media." it's an exhausting new fact birthed from virtually nothing.

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

this appears to be based entirely on subscriptions for Politico Pro that many govt agencies pay for. but it doesn't matter, this is now fact for roughly half the country for eternity and will be used to do whatever they want.

submitted 16 days ago • 422 comments

The Heritage Foundation said tariffs were "never a good idea" during the Biden Administration and called them a "tax on Americans." During the Trump Administration they're a "notable success."

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

"we need to limit the reach of the federal government!"

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

this person has 400 followers on X but his completely inaccurate tweet gets more than 4 million views. he later admits he was wrong but keeps the tweet online.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Silo season 2 is not just bad but offensively bad. like they took characters I loved and dragged them into implausibly stupid decisions, and took characters i hated and gave them all the dialogue

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

who wants to tell them?

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I love my son ofc but he’s also a walking bioweapon and keeps sidelining me with medieval illnesses like Hand Foot and Mouth Disease and now also Norovirus

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment