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Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/ Got a tip? Get in touch • Email: david.gilbert@wired.com • Signal: @DavidGilbert.01

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An Inventor Is Injecting Bleach Into Cancerous Tumors—and Wants to Bring the Treatment to the US A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He’s now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US.

“It was fine after the injection, but I was woken up by severe pain [like] I had never experienced in my life. The pain lasted for 3-4 days”

This is how a cancer patient, who was convinced to inject highly-concentrated toxic bleach into her tumor, described the result

www.wired.com/story/danger...

25.07.2025 12:20 — 👍 110    🔁 25    💬 21    📌 8
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Trump's Truth Social feed this morning is just one giant ad for MyPillow

25.07.2025 11:50 — 👍 32    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 1
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From ‘MMS’ to ‘aerobic oxygen’, why drinking bleach has become a dangerous wellness trend Chlorine dioxide, sold as a “miracle” cure under names like MMS, is not medicine. It’s toxic, unregulated and can be fatal. Here’s what you need to know.

And if you want to get a sense of what this toxic bleach solution can do to your body by simply drinking it, read @adatomy.bsky.social's excellent account of the damage it can cause.

theconversation.com/from-mms-to-...

25.07.2025 09:27 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 1
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An Inventor Is Injecting Bleach Into Cancerous Tumors—and Wants to Bring the Treatment to the US A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He’s now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US.

Since #RFK was appointed, bleach promoters have become emboldened, believing he will ultimately approve chlorine dioxide for mainstream use.

One inventor, who wrote to RFK, now wants to be allowed inject cancer patients with the toxic bleach solution

www.wired.com/story/danger...

25.07.2025 09:19 — 👍 67    🔁 32    💬 4    📌 8
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An Inventor Is Injecting Bleach Into Cancerous Tumors—and Wants to Bring the Treatment to the US A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He's now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US.

NEW

For decades, pseudoscience grifters urged followers to drink toxic bleach solutions.

Now one inventor is going even further, injecting cancer patients with highly-concentrated doses of the bleach solution.

Next, he wants to bring it to the US

www.wired.com/story/danger...

24.07.2025 15:32 — 👍 84    🔁 30    💬 12    📌 13

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23.07.2025 17:27 — 👍 116    🔁 24    💬 14    📌 2
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business | WIRED Unlock a world of benefits, only for WIRED subscribers. | Best-in-class reporting that's too important to ignore - plus gear reviews, podcasts, and more

This thread could go on for ever, but all you need to know is that $2-a-month for all of this (plus the newsletters, Q&As and a tote bag) will be the best $2 you spend any month this year.

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23.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We Made Luigi Mangione’s 3D-Printed Gun—and Fired It In the wake of Luigi Mangione’s alleged killing of a health care CEO with a partially 3D-printed pistol, we built and tested the exact same model of weapon ourselves. And it was entirely legal.

And no list of WIRED's best would be complete without an @agreenberg.bsky.social story, and while there are so many to choose from, his story about recreating Luigi Mangione's 3D printed gun is just perfect

6/7

www.wired.com/story/luigi-...

23.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.

What I also love about WIRED is the fact that our writers are given the space to fully explore a story, like when Sam Apple met people in serious relationships with AI partners and then planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb

5/7

www.wired.com/story/couple...

23.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats Disinformation around a “weather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencers—leading to real-world consequences.

WIRED is one of the only outlets that consistently covers online extremism and disinformation

After the recent devastating Texas floods, we uncovered a link between an extremist group, an attack on a weather radar system and conspiracies about weather weapons

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www.wired.com/story/texas-...

23.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.

WIRED also owned another big story of this year, the Jeffrey Epstein case

It was WIRED who uncovered that the video released by the DOJ had been tampered with, simultaneously undermining the Trump's admin's claims and making conspiracy theorists heads explode

3/7
www.wired.com/story/metada...

23.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

Despite being small in number, WIRED's politics team has absolutely dominated the reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the federal government with DOGE.

Of all the stories we broke, introducing the world to Big Balls was probably the most satisfying

2/7

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23.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business | WIRED Unlock a world of benefits, only for WIRED subscribers. | Best-in-class reporting that's too important to ignore - plus gear reviews, podcasts, and more

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AND IT'S ONLY $2-A-MONTH? COME ON

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23.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 39    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 1
Condé Nast hiring Senior Writer, Science Frontiers - WIRED in London Area, United Kingdom | LinkedIn Posted 7:01:53 PM. WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

WIRED is hiring! We're looking for a senior writer to cover the frontiers of scientific advancement—breakthroughs in space tech, quantum science, nanotechnology, batteries, and more—and the people and companies behind them.

This role is based in our London office.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

23.07.2025 10:02 — 👍 273    🔁 184    💬 2    📌 7
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Everything Is a ‘False Flag’ Now Conspiracy theories about so-called false flag attacks have been around for decades. But as trust in media and public institutions craters, every single major news event is now being labeled as fake.

SCOOP

Mentions of "false flag conspiracies" have risen exponentially on X in the last few months according to data from @isdglobal.org and shared exclusively with WIRED

www.wired.com/story/false-...

22.07.2025 15:26 — 👍 169    🔁 30    💬 6    📌 5
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🧨 New @wired.com cover package dropped

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Bring On the MAGA Revolt Donald Trump’s own strategists and advisers aren’t sure the president’s base will survive Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost.

“Nothing that we do is going to satisfy the base. By putting wind in the Epstein sails from the beginning, we have created this problem for ourselves. An own goal Which we can’t undo.”

@jakelahut.writes.news reports on the turmoil Epstein is causing in Trumpworld

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

17.07.2025 10:53 — 👍 101    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 1
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It's Not Just Epstein. MAGA Is Angry About a Lot of Things Pockets of Donald Trump’s most loyal base are increasingly angry at what they view as the administration’s failure to fulfill its promises.

Highly recommend reading this @davidgilbert.bsky.social piece from @wired.com today that goes beyond Epstein into the broader discontent among the terminally online contingent of MAGA.

The. Rage. www.wired.com/story/jeffre...

15.07.2025 01:23 — 👍 33    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 2
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I’ve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry. After unmasking extremist groups, reporter Jordan Green got a first-hand look at how the ‘militant accelerationism’ movement operates.

To really understand the threat posed by militant accelerationism today, you need to read @byjordangreen.bsky.social's account of the personal price he's paid for his unrelenting reporting on this group

And why he fears under Trump 2.0, things will get worse

www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-na...

15.07.2025 14:11 — 👍 45    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 2
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It's Not Just Epstein. MAGA Is Angry About a Lot of Things Pockets of Donald Trump’s most loyal base are increasingly angry at what they view as the administration’s failure to fulfill its promises.

MAGA is pissed about the Epstein files, but it's also mad about a lot of other Trump decisions—and that could prove problematic

“The potential is a death by thousands cuts scenario, where enough criticism hits from enough different angles,” @mattgertz.bsky.social says

www.wired.com/story/jeffre...

15.07.2025 10:59 — 👍 49    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1
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It's Not Just Epstein. MAGA Is Angry About a Lot of Things Pockets of Donald Trump’s most loyal base are increasingly angry at what they view as the administration's failure to fulfill its promises.

MAGA is angry about Epstein.

But it's also mad about a lot of other things: vaccines, deportations, chemtrails,

www.wired.com/story/jeffre...

14.07.2025 18:20 — 👍 171    🔁 33    💬 14    📌 3
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Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats Disinformation around a “weather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencers—leading to real-world consequences.

On multiple fronts the normalization of lies and conspiracy theories in American politics will only grow more dangerous, including with climate-related terrorism 👉🏻

Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats www.wired.com/story/texas-...

11.07.2025 16:00 — 👍 147    🔁 49    💬 10    📌 6
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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.

The DOJ claimed it released 11 hours of “full raw” footage from a camera near Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead.

But @dmehro.bsky.social discovered the footage was modified, likely using Adobe software and came from at least two source clips

www.wired.com/story/metada...

11.07.2025 16:34 — 👍 89    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 4

You can't even build an anti-Catholic Wicker Man anymore, because of woke

10.07.2025 14:33 — 👍 145    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 0

It never ends, Casey has announced he's abandoning Ireland First and now we have the 1,342nd far-right party in Ireland in recent years....

11.07.2025 13:39 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Blighe asks Electoral Commission to examine process to replace him as Ireland First leader r Blighe was replaced as president of the group by Anthony Casey

As well as being incredibly funny, this whole situation shows that for all the bluster online, McGregor's bullshit, and the online support from Musk/Carlson/Bannon etc in the US, the Irish far-right, politically, are a complete joke

Long may it continue...

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

11.07.2025 10:23 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats Disinformation around a “weather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencers—leading to real-world consequences.

Oklahoma City PD arrested a man in connection with the attack on a weather radar system on Sunday night.

It has not yet confirmed if he had any connection to the extremist group Veterans on Patrol which continues to threat attacks on weather satellites and radar

www.wired.com/story/texas-...

10.07.2025 15:16 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 1
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Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Tesla EVs Get ready for a few hard right turns.

Driving with MechaHitler in the passenger seat

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

10.07.2025 14:01 — 👍 389    🔁 85    💬 38    📌 46
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This Is DOGE 2.0 Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.

Musk may have left Washington, but DOGE is continuing its assault on the federal government unabated.

More incredible reporting from the all stars of DOGE reporting @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/next-s...

10.07.2025 11:09 — 👍 119    🔁 37    💬 2    📌 0

I happen to know a lot about weather radar. They are spectacularly complex, designed for only one purpose: detecting and locating rain, snow, hail, etc. Transmission is in milliseconds and at a wavelength like your microwave oven.
I also remember when scientists were respected 😩😢

09.07.2025 16:20 — 👍 50    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 2

@davidgilbert is following 20 prominent accounts