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The Coup Starts in Your Feed

How Malicious AI Swarms Could Steal the Midterms

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Elon Musk’s $2 Trillion IPO is a Weapon, Not an Investment

What Wall Street Won’t Tell You About the SpaceX Initial Public Offering.

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Gil Duran — The Nerd Reich (04/21/2026)

How to Purge Palantir

And how I got permanently banned from X.

Artificial Intelligence • Human Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Violence

Ken Klippenstein

Death by A.I.

New "Autonomous Warfare Center" will automate targeted killings.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology

Will Robinson — Will Robinson's Newsletter

AI’s Promise Is Real. So Is the Threat No One’s Talking About.

Beyond deepfakes, bad actors are learning to manipulate search itself - shaping what AI sees, what it surfaces, and ultimately what people believe.

Artificial Intelligence • Environment • Global • Health • Technology

Molly Taft — Wired

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

Artificial Intelligence • Executive Power • Surveillance • Technology

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz — The New Yorker

Sam Altman May Control Our Future - Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Social Media • Technology

Matt Shumer — Fortune

Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided

We’re past the point where this is an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is already here. It just hasn’t knocked on your door yet. It’s about to.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Technology • Threat Management

Dario Amodei — darioamodei.com

The Adolescence of Technology

Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Social Media • Technology

Ben Quinn — The Guardian

Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star

The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology

Juan Sebastian Pinto — Ziggurat

My Final Message Before I'm on an FBI Watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times

ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home. It's time to learn where it comes from, how it works, who enables it, and how to fight back.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Elections • Financial • Technology

Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims — Popular Information

The AI industry’s $100 million play to influence the 2026 elections

LTF has already secured more than $100 million, including $50 million from venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and another $50 million from OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman.

Artificial Intelligence • Disinformation • Social Media • Technology

Robert Booth — The Guardian

Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation

Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years

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Rowan Philp — Global Investigative Journalism Network

Maria Ressa Calls for ‘Radical Collaboration’ to Combat Misinformation and Preserve Press Freedom

“Everything we knew as an industry has been destroyed. So we don’t stand still. This is a time for radical collaboration.”

Cyber Security • Disinformation • Press Freedom • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology

Ari Paul — FAIR (9/19/2025)

As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media

This TikTok deal is not just about money. It’s about control of the political narrative.

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Fascism • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Dell Cameron — Wired

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

Culture • Digital Rights • Technology

Brett Wilkins — Common Dreams

Hollywood Union Says AI-Generated Tilly Norwood ‘Not an Actor’

The synthetic performer, says SAG-AFTRA, is “a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers—without permission or compensation.”

Democracy • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom • Technology

Anne Applebaum — The Atlantic

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

Disinformation • Executive Power • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Media • Technology

Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson — Columbia Journalism Review

The White House Is Its Own Media Outlet

The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News.

Cyber Security • Disinformation • Social Media • Technology

Sam Biddle — The Intercept

US Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda

The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.

Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Russia • Social Media • Technology

Riley Stuart and Anna-Maria Tesfaye — The New York Times (Gift)

Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance

The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.

Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Surveillance • Technology

Craig Aaron — Pressing Issues

What Bob McChesney Taught Me

“If you act like change for the better is impossible, you guarantee it will be impossible.”

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Technology

Will Robinson — Will Robinson's Newsletter

The Right Built a Media Empire. Rob Stein Warned Us.

A for-profit disinformation ecosystem — from Fox News to Breitbart to localized digital outlets — now aggregates 40–50 million loyal consumers, shaping narratives and fueling authoritarian populism.

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Ron Williams

The Resistance Will Be Reported (Updated November 12, 2025)

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

Democracy • Digital Rights • Executive Power • Fascism • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

Jeff Jarvis — Medium

Whither Colbert? Whither Democracy

Mass media are dead: corrupted, complicit, malign, worthless

Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Global • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Article 19

Spain: Huawei must not be allowed access to wiretap data in the EU

"Beyond immediate censorship and surveillance fears, Spain risks normalising Huawei tools and technologies in ways that are detrimental to human rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU and around the world."

Corruption • Cryptocurrency • Executive Power • Financial • Global • Legal • Regulations • Technology

Jacob Silverman — The Nation

Does Trump’s Biggest Crypto Backer Really Exist?

The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader.

Democracy • Disinformation • Social Media • Technology

David Gilbert — Wired

A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using AI to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’

Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated.

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Safety • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Anna Desmarais — euronews

Denmark Fights Back Against Deepfakes

Denmark will give people copyright over their own likenesses as a way to fight back against generated “deepfake” videos, as countries around the world grapple with the rapid rise of AI.

Digital Rights • Disinformation • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Gary Marcus — Marcus on AI

1984, but with LLM’s

“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” — 1984, George Orwell

Corruption • Cryptocurrency • Democracy • Europe • Technology

Peter Geoghegan — Democracy for Sale

The US Right Is Coming for the UK—With Crypto in Hand

Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel and how authoritarian tech fantasies are becoming political reality

Cyber Security • Human Rights • Safety • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Laura Bates — The Guardian

Online brothels, sex robots, simulated rape: AI is ushering in a new age of violence against women

When social media first exploded, we missed our chance to protect women and girls. Now history is repeating itself

Cyber Security • Legal • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Jason Koebler, Joseph Cox — 404 Media

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network

Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

Disinformation • Global • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Scot Nakagawa — The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

Digital Authoritarianism

Lessons from Duterte's Philippines for the United States.

Economy • Environment • Health • Science • Technology

Science News Staff — Science

Trump’s proposed budget would mean ‘disastrous’ cuts to science

Key research budgets would shrink by one-third to one-half in 2026 spending plan

Digital Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Surveillance • Technology

SARAH GREVY GOTFREDSEN — Columbia Journalism Review

Entry: Denied

The “intolerable risk to press freedom” posed by device searches at the border.

Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity • Technology

John Nichols — The Nation

Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died

Bob, with his remarkable intellect and even more remarkable capacity for communicating his vision of a media that served citizens rather than corporations, was always the driving force. His research and his insatiable curiosity helped him to see the future more clearly than any scholar of his generation...

Democracy • Elections • Technology

MacKenzie Sigalos — CNBC

Crypto super PACs pump cash into Florida as GOP faces risk of thinning House majority

Fresh off its victories in the 2024 election cycle, the crypto industry is going big in Florida.

Disinformation • Social Media • Technology

MAX UFBERG — Fast Company

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on her company’s ascendant year and what she’s planning next

Yet Bluesky isn’t just a repository for social media’s disaffected. It’s also the best example of how “federation”—a buzzy Silicon Valley term that describes a structure wherein multiple independent groups collaborate to share information—can build a more equitable and independent social media experience.

Disinformation • Social Media • Technology

KAYLA GOGARTY — Media Matters

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this content is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

Cyber Security • Disinformation • Technology • Threat Management

Steve Benen — Maddow Blog

Hegseth halts cyber operations against Russia, adding to an ugly pattern

Late last week, a publication called The Record, which focuses on news related to cybersecurity, published a report that seemed hard to believe. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the outlet reported, “ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.”

Democracy • Economy • Executive Power • Financial • Technology

JULES EVANS — Ecstatic Integration

Peter Thiel is betting on the apocalypse

An emerging alliance between Tech, the Pentagon and the Christian Right

Democracy • Economy • Regulations • Technology

CAROLINE HASKINS AND VITTORIA ELLIOTT — Wired

‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’

Trey Goff, the chief of staff of the startup nation known as Próspera, tells WIRED that he and other Próspera representatives working under an advocacy group called the Freedom Cities Coalition have been meeting with the Trump administration about the idea in recent weeks. He claims the administration has been very receptive. In 2023, Trump floated the idea of creating 10 freedom cities. Now, Goff says that Próspera’s vision is to create “not just 10, but as many as the market can handle.”

Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Safety • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Stephanie Kirchgaessner — The Guardian

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

Democracy • Legal • Regulations • Technology • Threat Management

ARI PAUL — FAIR

FCC’s Knives Are Out for First Amendment

Brendan Carr, newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, is waging a war on the news media, perhaps the most dangerous front in de jure President Donald Trump and de facto President Elon Musk’s quest to destroy freedom of the press and the First Amendment.

Cyber Security • Legal • Surveillance • Technology

Paresh Dave, Dell Cameron, Alexa O'Brien — Wired

DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government

A federal law enforcement source warns that monitoring could theoretically be used to gather political intelligence on federal employees, while the administration looks for more palatable reasons to terminate them later; similar to how law enforcement may obtain evidence that's inadmissible in the course of a criminal investigation, but then search for another evidentiary basis to file charges.

Digital Rights • Executive Power • Human Rights • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity • Technology • Threat Management

Clayton Weimers — Reporters Without Borders

One month of Trump: Press freedom under siege

The newly-elected president, his administration, and his political allies have conducted a rapid series of attacks on press freedom that amount to a monumental assault on freedom of information.

Cyber Security • Democracy • Economy • Financial • Technology

Dave Troy — The Washington Spectator

The Wide Angle: Elon Musk and the American Endgame

...Congress is baffled as to why Musk is doing all of this, and what he possibly wants from access to sensitive data including US Treasury records on social security numbers, bank routing and account numbers, healthcare data, and Department of Energy information on nuclear weapons. He has given free rein to a group of 20-ish boys — tech enthusiasts with no training or relevant experience — so they can “improve” things and harvest information.

Disinformation • Fascism • Human Rights • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Global Project Against Hate and Extremism — globalextremism.org

Amid Meta Policy Changes, Neo-Nazis Monetize Hate on Instagram

In this new more permissive online environment, an investigation by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) has discovered neo-Nazi activity flourishing on Instagram, including degrading hate speech, antisemitic conspiracism, and even Nazi symbols being used to sell merchandise.

Democracy • Executive Power • Technology

Barbara McQuade — THE CONTRARIAN

Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies

Certainly, people can debate policy issues and the virtues of candidates, but fact-checking is another matter. There is such a thing as truth.