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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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Elon Musk Has Turned His Eye to the UK Musk posted nonstop at the beginning of the year about British politics until his focus was consumed by DOGE. Now he's back.

How Musk boosted Tommy Robinson:

—Reinstated his Twitter
—Retweeted/replied to dozens of Robinson's posts
—Boosted calls for him to be freed from jail
—Spoke at Robinson's far-right rally in London
—Paid $$$ for his legal defense in terrorism case

Elon ❤️ Tommy

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

17.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 144    🔁 59    💬 9    📌 5
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Elon Musk Has Turned His Eye to the UK Musk posted nonstop at the beginning of the year about British politics until his focus was consumed by DOGE. Now he's back.

NEW:

Elon Musk loves sending ❤️s on X. He sends them to people who say his cars are great. Or to his mom when she praises him.

This week he sent one to a UK far-right Islamophobic activist whose legal defense Musk is paying for.

So what is Musk up to?

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

17.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 82    🔁 28    💬 6    📌 3
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Nick Fuentes’ Plan to Conquer America For years, influencer Nick Fuentes was too extreme even for MAGA. Now he's working his way into the mainstream—and has a plan for his secret followers to seize the levers of power.

"Everyone's a groyper now" — this was Nick Fuentes response to the Young Republican chat leak.

Those in the chat may not know Fuentes personally, but their worldviews align perfectly. This was always Fuentes' plan.

www.wired.com/story/nick-f...

15.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 202    🔁 75    💬 7    📌 3
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The Great Dumbening Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time

"Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is basically a sentient Facebook page"

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social nails it once again in the latest @garbageday.email newsletter

www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...

14.10.2025 10:16 — 👍 65    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 1
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Happy 100th Birthday Margaret Thatcher.

14.10.2025 09:08 — 👍 160    🔁 54    💬 14    📌 6
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Once again, @willsommer.bsky.social asks (and answers) the really BIG questions you were too afraid to ask

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-is-go...

14.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 42    🔁 10    💬 6    📌 0
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @agreenberg.bsky.social revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time

www.wired.com/story/satell...

14.10.2025 09:23 — 👍 131    🔁 68    💬 5    📌 9
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044: Who the Hell is Laura Loomer? feat. Will Sommer Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · 10/13/2025 · 2h 46m

OUT NOW: Our deep dive into the life and career of Laura Loomer with @willsommer.bsky.social.

“Who the Hell is Laura Loomer?” is available on all the podcast apps!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

13.10.2025 12:06 — 👍 135    🔁 31    💬 14    📌 10

I laid out the details of the extraordinary corruption case against Benjamin Netanyahu a few months ago in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. It seems like it’s helped him bond with Trump.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

13.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 86    🔁 47    💬 3    📌 4

"Cigars and champagne, who the hell cares about that.....come oooon"

Trump is currently openly trying to interfere in a foreign nation's legal process by advocating for Netanyahu to get a full pardon

13.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 44    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 2

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

13.10.2025 11:37 — 👍 1611    🔁 717    💬 93    📌 59
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The ‘Womanosphere’ Is Reshaping the Conservative Dating Landscape From a religious OnlyFans creator to influencers quibbling over the appropriation of trad wife culture, right-wing personalities are jockeying for a larger stake in the dating zeitgeist.

The ‘Womanosphere’ Is Reshaping the Conservative Dating Landscape

www.wired.com/story/the-wo...

13.10.2025 11:18 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’ A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

UPDATE:

After WIRED reported on the spike in people joining the 'Leucovorin for Autism' group on Facebook, Meta deleted the group.

A source confirmed to me that the decision was taken to delete the group for "promoting prescription drugs"

www.wired.com/story/chaos-...

13.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 277    🔁 86    💬 15    📌 6
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Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

It's all about content

@makenakelly.bsky.social looks at how far-right influencers are now a key component of the Trump administration's march toward a possible civil war....

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

10.10.2025 13:53 — 👍 31    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 2
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He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

10.10.2025 08:12 — 👍 1679    🔁 430    💬 29    📌 39
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He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

How Mark Bray, author of the book on antifa, was targeted with death threats:

— Trump signs EO designating antifa as terrorists
— DHS memo warns about "antifa-aligned" individuals
— Far-right trolls target Bray on X
— TPUSA treasurer launches petition against Bray

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

09.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 258    🔁 146    💬 8    📌 6
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He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

09.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 822    🔁 387    💬 16    📌 26
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Trumpworld's Least Favorite Cabinet Secretaries “Worst, Bondi,” they begin. “2.) Bondi. 3.) Bondi. 4.) Bondi. 5.) HegsethRFKTulsiNoem.”

"Worst, Bondi,” they begin. “2/ Bondi. 3/ Bondi. 4/ Bondi. 5/ HegsethRFKTulsiNoem.”

Another must-read from @jakelahut.writes.news on the inner workings of the White House and who admin officials thinkg might be first on the chopping block...

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

08.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’ A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

New, from @davidgilbert.bsky.social in @wired.com: Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’ www.wired.com/story/chaos-... Sounds familiar @noupside.bsky.social?

08.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 26    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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‼️On today's @MSignorile Show‼️

@mjsdc.bsky.social of @slate.com
@davidgilbert.bsky.social of @wired.com
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social of @salon.com

🔊Listen Here: Signorile.com

📞Join the Conversation: 866-997-4748

07.10.2025 18:44 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’ A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

“You may think this is crazy….get him in church. Get him listening to Christian music. Even just Christian kid songs.….they can feel Gods presence and the comfort of the Holy Spirit.”

Just one suggestion from a member of the Leucovorin for Autism group

www.wired.com/story/chaos-...

07.10.2025 17:52 — 👍 50    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 5
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Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’ A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

There are now a shocking *60,000* people in a Facebook group dedicated to an unproven autism treatment being pushed by the Trump administration.

That's just one of many disturbing details in this must-read from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

07.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 76    🔁 38    💬 5    📌 3

This is one of those *what exactly have I been doing with the last ten years of my life* moments. We made real progress, then came a monster backlash, and now the people whose grift is exploiting terrified parents are running the country.

07.10.2025 16:12 — 👍 29    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr’s Autism ‘Cure’ A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

NEW:

Last month Trump and RFK Jr announced the FDA was was recommending a new drug to treat autism — leucovorin

But they failed to provide any more information. So parents flocked to a Facebook group, that quickly filled with chaos, confusion and conspiracies

www.wired.com/story/chaos-...

07.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 174    🔁 54    💬 5    📌 3

Update to this story:

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) Chief Mark Keel said the investigation is ongoing but "at this time, there is no evidence to indicate the fire was intentionally set. SLED Agents have preliminarily found there is no evidence to support a pre-fire explosion"

07.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 2
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I see the possible arson attack at a judge's home over the weekend (that nearly killed members of her family) has not impacted Matt Walsh's incendiary rhetoric about judges....

06.10.2025 15:12 — 👍 141    🔁 36    💬 6    📌 4

Curtis appears to have had a change of heart and edited his blog post which no longer says he's planning to flee the country......which is great news for every other country...

06.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 29    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software—as they have with open source in the past—they risk introducing critical security failures along the way.

NEW: Security researchers warn that the rise of vibe coding can lead to dangerous insecurities in the software supply chain. @lhn.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/vibe-c...

06.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 46    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 1

Thanks Dean

06.10.2025 09:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

06.10.2025 09:53 — 👍 2040    🔁 1237    💬 74    📌 140

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