Inside the Reluctant Fight to Ban Deepfake Ads
This is all great, but voters are probably going to encounter more digital fakes online than over broadcast. And for...
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Hasan Piker Won’t Tell You to Vote for Joe Biden
“If I'm young, I don't see anyone right now that is captivating me,” Piker told us.Pollsters and strategists like to...
Student Journalists Face Storm of Campus Protest Disinformation
One of the big topics of dissension was the issue of “outside agitators,” a narrative spread by both the Columbia...
Michael Cohen Can’t Stop Livestreaming on TikTok
“I give no credence to the ABC News opinion piece,” Cohen responded when I asked him about it.While the “Michael...
Team Biden Is Posting Through the Looming TikTok Ban
I mentioned this in our first newsletter, but Representative Jeff Jackson from North Carolina had to issue a full-out YouTube-style...
Donald Trump Is ‘Seriously Considering’ Jake Paul’s Fight Invite
Team Trump might also struggle to reach its usual base this year, meaning they’ll need to rely on alternatives. Earlier...
Election Deniers Aren’t Waiting for November
(And, as I reported earlier this year, generative AI already started rocking the elections following a robocall impersonating Joe Biden...
The Influencers with as Much Presidential Access as the Press
“The right has long had its own ecosystem, even before the internet,” Katie Harbath, former public policy director at Facebook,...
RFK Jr. Has Assembled His Anti-Vax Conspiracy Squad
AM: RFK Jr.’s campaign, as you wrote about, has been very aware of sort of appealing to online spaces. One...
A Topsy-Turvy Online Election | WIRED
Hey, everyone! Welcome to the first edition of the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter. I’m Makena Kelly, a senior politics writer...
