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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"The government of Israel has engaged in systematic crimes against humanity, war crimes & genocide, including indiscriminate & deliberate attacks against the civilians of Gaza which killed more than 59,000 adults & children" - The International Association of Genocide Scholars
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NEW: Roughly 42M people—the majority of them white American citizens—will lose access to vital food stamp benefits from Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are using the crisis to push racist disinformation about immigrants and Black people https://t.co/ssip1qoKtu
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SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.
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NEW: DisinfoNation, a new YouTube series presented by....me Episode one, which discusses how conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirks' assassination emerged, evolved and persisted, features the amazing @BostonJoan and Nina Jankowicz https://t.co/FymkxGsQH5
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Musk's obsession with meddling with UK politics continues. I wrote about why he's so interested in this side of the Atlantic here:
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Musk posted nonstop at the beginning of the year about British politics, until his focus was consumed by DOGE. Now he’s back.
When Tolkien wrote about the hobbits, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don’t realize the horrors that take place far away. They were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor.
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If you are hearing about Nick Fuentes for the first time today because of his appearance on the Tucker Carlson Show, you can get up to speed on who he is and how he plans to conquer America by reading this piece I wrote last month https://t.co/jJZCtGcN6S
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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.
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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? https://t.co/uuQKzM6ShT
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Musk posted nonstop at the beginning of the year about British politics, until his focus was consumed by DOGE. Now he’s back.
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For the last few months I've been going through public documents, permits, and satellite images to track the largest data centers in the US. Today I published the first story about what I've learned. 🧵
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"Everyone's a groyper now" — this was #NickFuentes 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. https://t.co/jJZCtGcfhk
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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.
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whoa hitler stuff in the young republican chats?? no way.
A leaked group chat run by New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax featured support of race realism, Zyklon B and oven jokes, defense of Richard Spencer, and slurs. Participants included white nationalist James Allsup & Proud Boy Shane Trejo. https://t.co/k869UNCoAF
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An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from Matt Burgess and @a_greenberg revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time https://t.co/MEF6vG7m0X
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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 unencry...
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
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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" https://t.co/1EJ3IKyQ9d
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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.
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It's all about content @kellymakena looks at how far-right influencers are now a key component of the Trump administration's march toward a possible civil war.... https://t.co/drmNUz0ksz
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The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.
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BREAKING: "Just landed." Rutgers professor Mark Bray, who the far-right demonized as #DrAntifa, confirmed to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain.. https://t.co/C7DnP5T52F
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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.
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“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 https://t.co/C7DnP5T52F
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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.
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‼️On today's @MSignorile Show‼️ @mjs_DC of @Slate
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NEW Last month 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 https://t.co/1EJ3IKyijF
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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.
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Fear And Loathing In....Boyle At a conspiracy conference in a tiny town in north west Ireland, the main star of the show was Charlie Kirk https://t.co/bQ9cDyI4qJ
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The increasingly tight links between far-right groups in the US and Europe were on full display at the Rebels Across the Pond conference in Ireland. The star of the show? Charlie Kirk.
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Trump has withdrawn EJ Antoni's nomination to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This comes after WIRED first reported on an old Twitter account of Antoni's that showed how thoroughly red-pilled he was.. https://t.co/hWMPhMM3WR
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A WIRED review of a now deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein.
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#NickFuentes relaunched his YouTube channel last night after the company said it would allow some banned accounts back on the platform Fuentes' account was just nuked Read my piece on how, even without YouTube, Fuentes is more popular than ever https://t.co/jJZCtGcN6S
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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.
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I though he wanted to be President of Ireland and would do anything to protect his country.....was he talking about the US?
$100million to fight at the White House along with 100 U.S “Golden Visas” for myself and family and friends I look very forward to entertaining the fighting world once again. A pleasure I never take for granted!
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