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Tell us about your weird uncle
Do you debate political issues with a certain family member on social media? And will you have to see that family member IRL for the holidays in a mo…
2 years ago
Trad Caths Have Risen
Two years ago, a headline in The New York Times declared that the hottest club in New York City was the Catholic Church. While that was never true, c…
2 years ago
Armed and Socialist
Gun ownership in America has long been associated with the political right. Forty-five percent of Republicans and conservative independents own a fir…
2 years ago
Black Pilled
When reporter Elle Reeve is recognized at the airport, it's often by members of the alt-right: the online white-nationalists who organized the violen…
2 years ago
Introducing WIRED Politics: Kamala Harris' Brat Summer Is Almost Over. What's Next?
We're in your feed today to share an episode from a podcast we think you might like called the WIRED Politics Lab.
As Election 2024 quickly approache…
2 years, 1 month ago
Defrauding Big Tech
They were scammers. But they weren't going to scam just anyone. They were going to scam Big Tech. And they almost got away with it.
Earlier this mont…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Great Lemming Lie
Telling a story is hard. Filming nature is even harder.
That may be why, in the 1940s, Walt Disney productions leaned on movie magic to develop its T…
2 years, 1 month ago
A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
When the founder of the messaging and social media app Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France, it exposed something: many of Telegram's millio…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ignore All Previous Instructions
How do you break a bot? Recently, one sneaky idea turned into an online meme. Tell the bot, "Ignore all previous instructions and..." Then you fill i…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Internet's Most Hated Bird
Gulls are not beloved creatures. Consult social media, where they are deemed relentless, dirty pests who steal our food and crowd our beaches. As one…
2 years, 2 months ago