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The latest on Elon Musk's disastrous get out the vote effort: America PAC canvassers faced surveillance, late pay, and illness in the Arizona desert wired.com/story/elon-musks-a…
There's no outlet I'm more consistently jealous of than @404mediaco, so I'm thrilled to share that WIRED is now partnering with them.
We'll be copublishing two stories a month; the first is a killer investigation from @josephfcox that you can read here wired.com/story/inside-the-m…
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WIRED's election hub. Come for the incredible design, stay for the story about the Las Vegas preacher dressed up like a garbage man on Sunday wired.com/2024-us-election/
Harris closing argument: We’re all in this together
Trump closing argument: I will rain fire on my enemies
Musk closing argument: They killed a squirrel
The Elon Musk America PAC get-out-the-vote-debacle is even worse than it seemed. (And it already seemed pretty terrible.) wired.com/story/canvassers-e…
NEW: Elon Musk's America PAC is facing a class action lawsuit in California. Canvassers who signed up for its shambolic get-out-the-vote operation allegedly didn't get paid what they're due: wired.com/story/elon-musk-am…
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talked to the guy behind the halloween website responsible for confusing the city of dublin with an AI listing for a fake parade: wired.com/story/ai-halloween…
Elon Musk's America PAC has spent $9 million on presidential campaign canvassing. In Michigan, they flew people from out of state, drove them around in the back of a U-Haul, and threatened not to pay for their motel rooms if they didn't hit their quotas wired.com/story/elon-musk-am…
This might cost me billions in government contracts but just to be clear, WIRED endorses Kamala Harris.
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Tigran Gambaryan, the Binance exec and former IRS crypto tracer jailed in Nigeria for the last eight months until charges were dropped yesterday, just texted me that his plane has taken off from Abuja. He's on his way home.
Updating our story: wired.com/story/tigran-gamba…
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NEW:
For the last 6 months I have been investigating the #constitutionalsheriffs and their growing links to the election denial movement.
This is a warning that, 10 days out from the election, this group will to do anything to make sure Trump wins
wired.com/story/constitution…
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Truly insane story explaining why Kevin from the Office recorded himself calling for the overthrow of the president of Moldova
Accounts linked to Russia have reached new levels of aggression in Moldova, the head of a new center meant to combat disinformation tells WIRED. @MORGANMEAKER reports:
Story: wired.com/story/the-disinfor…
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US has charged two men with running Anonymous Sudan, hackers who disrupted ChatGPT, Microsoft, Israel's missile alert system among hundreds of targets. One faces a max life sentence for his attacks on hospitals with alleged intent to kill. That's a first. wired.com/story/anonymous-su…
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NEW: A key JD Vance adviser posted on Reddit for years about using cocaine, ‘gas station heroin,’ and other drugs.
He called Vance a "Trump boot licker" and instructed other users on how to transport drugs through TSA.
More here:
wired.com/story/jd-vance-adv…
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Most of the headline-grabbing copyright battles over the past few years have been over AI. But the Internet Archive is fighting its own war over copyright—and it's in grave danger. wired.com/story/internet-arc…
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A bit of news: I'll be joining Wired as a contributor for the next few months, covering extremism, disinfo, and politics. So excited to work with this amazing team.
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Louise is the absolute best, and I'm so fortunate to get the chance to work with her again at WIRED.
When I first joined @wired as a staff writer in 2017, I realized immediately that it was an incredibly special place run by the most thoughtful, kind, and brilliant journalists in the business. It's a dream come true to be returning to the magazine as senior business editor!!!
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For those who may not have been following….
Today is the 1st day of the “Network School,” a 3 month program led by Balaji Srinivasan in Malaysian duty-free zone Forest City
It’s an attempt at realizing the anarchocapitalist dream of “startup countries”
wired.com/story/network-scho…
