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Election 2024
A Russian Disinfo Campaign Is Using Comment Sections to Seed Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theories
David Gilbert
Dollars Incensed
Profiteers Are Exploiting US Election Conspiracies and Hate to Make Millions
Meriem Mahdhi and Claire Wilmot
WIRED Politics Lab
Stacey Abrams Has Some Ideas on How to Stop Elon Musk and the Far Right in Georgia
Leah Feiger
Golden Goose
Even Under Trump, California (Yes, That Hellscape) Will Keep Moving the World Forward
James Fallows
WIRED Exclusive
The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President
Zach Dorfman
Election 2024
Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
Jake Lahut
Election 2024
A Running List of the Tech CEOs Donald Trump Claims Are Calling Him to Suck Up
Makena Kelly
Election 2024
Donald Trump Vows to Let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘Go Wild on Health’ If Elected
Vittoria Elliott
Election 2024
US Intel Says Insider Threats Are 'Likely' During the Election
Tess Owen and Dell Cameron
Cybercriminals Pose a Greater Threat of Disruptive US Election Hacks Than Russia or China
Lily Hay Newman and Dell Cameron
WIRED Politics Lab
Meet the Far-Right Constitutional Sheriffs Ready to Assert Control if Trump Loses
Leah Feiger
Southern Border
Judges and Border Police Targeted by Anti-Government Extremists, Doxed as ‘Traitors’
Dell Cameron and Tess Owen
Election 2024
‘Take Back the States’: The Far-Right Sheriffs Ready to Disrupt the Election
David Gilbert
2024 Election
Microsoft Warns Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting the US Election From All Directions
Lily Hay Newman
Election 2024
Online Talk About ‘Civil War’ Could Inspire Real-World Violence, DHS Warns Cops
Tess Owen
election 2024
Russian Propaganda Unit Appears to Be Behind Spread of False Tim Walz Sexual Abuse Claims
David Gilbert
WIRED Politics Lab
JD Vance Takes a Hard Stance on Drugs. What Does His Adviser's Past Mean for His Campaign?
Leah Feiger
election 2024
DHS Warns Law Enforcement Election Deniers May Attempt to Bomb Drop Boxes
Dell Cameron and Tess Owen
WIRED Politics Lab
Why It Matters That JD Vance's Financial Adviser Posted About Drug Use on Reddit for Years
Makena Kelly
Election 2024
JD Vance Adviser Posted on Reddit for Years About Use of Cocaine, ‘Gas Station Heroin,’ Other Drugs
Makena Kelly
extreme weather
Right-Wing Influencers Claim ‘They’ Defeated Physics, Geoengineered Hurricane Milton
Tess Owen
Project 2025
Tucker Carlson Promotes the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 in Elon Musk Interview
Vittoria Elliott
election 2024
Elon Musk Spoke at a Trump Rally, Referenced ‘Dark MAGA,’ and Urged Supporters to Vote
Vittoria Elliott and Tess Owen
Election 2024
Trump Supporters Are Boosting a Clip of a Voting Machine Being Hacked. It's Not What It Seems
Tess Owen and David Gilbert
AI Spy
License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars
Matt Burgess and Dhruv Mehrotra
WIRED Politics Lab
VP Debate Night: Vance Sanitized Trumpism, Walz Called Himself a Knucklehead
Leah Feiger
The Big Interview
Trae Stephens Has Built AI Weapons and Worked for Donald Trump. As He Sees It, Jesus Would Approve
Steven Levy
Election 2024
Teens Say Trump’s Former Personal Aide and Project 2025 Higher-Up Made Them Uncomfortable in Chats
Vittoria Elliott
election 2024
Anti-Immigrant Election Deniers Have Turned Their Online Following Into an Army of Activists
David Gilbert
Stage Right
Laura Loomer Is MAGA at Its Most Extreme—and She’s Closer to Donald Trump Than Ever
David Gilbert
case history
Suspected Trump Gunman Was Once Charged With Possession of a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Leah Feiger and Tim Marchman
Browser History
He Worked for a Law Firm Consulting on an Anti-Trans Supreme Court Case. Then We Asked About These Racist Posts
David Gilbert
election 2024
What to Expect in the Trump-Harris Presidential Debate and How to Watch It
David Gilbert
Influencer Operations
What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Said in Those Tenet Media Videos
Tim Marchman and Dhruv Mehrotra
X Is Working With a GOP Consulting Firm
Vittoria Elliott
Radio Free America
Right-Wing Influencer Network Tenet Media Allegedly Spread Russian Disinformation
Andrew Couts and Tim Marchman
revisionist history
Trump’s New Silicon Valley Supporters Really Want You to Forget He Called Nazis ‘Fine People’
David Gilbert
Bipartisan Phish
A Single Iranian Hacker Group Targeted Both Presidential Campaigns, Google Says
Andy Greenberg