David Gilbert
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Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. Got a tip? DMs open. Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
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I spent six months investigating the Constitutional Sheriffs and the threat they pose to the US elections. • Read: . • Listen: • Watch: ⤵️
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Derek's level of stupidity knows no bounds. .
Fake news, There was no probation act!.I will give @IrishTimes & @Independent_ie 24 hrs to correct and apologise, or I'm coming for your money. 💰
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RT @dlLambo: Today Israel murdered every child in this photo. If these were Israeli kids we'd hear every western leader speak their names….
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RT @WIRED: NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stit….
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MAGA is pissed about the Epstein files, but it's also mad about lots of other Trump decisions—and that be a big problem. “The potential is a death by thousands cuts scenario, where enough criticism hits from enough different angles,” @MattGertz says.
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RT @doritmi: "Activity on bleach-supporting social media groups is exploding, and influencers are reemerging in an effort to push President….
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RT @brianstelter: "Pockets of Donald Trump’s most loyal base are increasingly angry at what they view as the administration’s failure to fu….
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MAGA is angry about Epstein. But it's also mad about a lot of other things: vaccines, deportations, chemtrails and more .
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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 discovered the footage was modified, likely using Adobe software and came from at least two source clips.
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RT @FranceskAlbs: "The powerful punishing those who speak for the powerless, it is not a sign of strength, but of guilt". Let's stand tall….
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RT @dlLambo: The first poster for the tube which was rejected for "a well known political phrase referring to Irish unification.". An aspir….
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RT @Todd_Spence: Someone put My Cousin Vinny dialogue over Skeletor and Evil-Lyn and its way too perfect
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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 and @kellymakena .
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AND it can do MechaHitler. .
AGI Highlander 🤖.Tonight Grok 4 breaks away from the pack on the ARC-AGI-2 leaderboard — an independent third-party assessment. • @ElonMusk: on academic tests, @Grok 4 is better than almost all PhDs in all fields.• Over 2x better than the best from OpenAI, and improving fast.
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“I think that we've probably received in excess of 100 explicit death threats on either email or X, [with] probably about one order of magnitude more calls for my incarceration,” @ADoricko, founder of cloud seeding company Rainmaker, told @mollytaft .
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Extremists, right-wing influencers and GOP lawmakers spent the days after the tragic Texas floods pushing conspiracies about "weather weapons.". On Sunday, a weather radar system was vandalized and one extremist group is taking credit. with @mollytaft .
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Free AI tools are fueling pro-Russia disinformation campaigns.
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RT @KNEECAPCEOL: Day after day - scores murdered by these war criminals. Today a cafe bombed with over 30 dead mostly women and children.….
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My colleagues @dmehro and Dell Cameron obtained records of 911 calls from ICE detention centers and what they found was horrifying.
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