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global EIC of @wired . I do not post here often!

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Katie Drummond
3 years
The Pentagon wrote a 23-page report about a single meme it created, which took 22 days to make and was ultimately RTed 190 times.
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3 years
People in Pakistan are exceedingly wary of the COVID vaccine -- 49 percent say they won't get it -- in large part because of the CIA's fake vaccination campaigns in the country:
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Katie Drummond
4 years
We tried to obtain footage of Michael Reinoehl's killing. According to all 4 law enforcement agencies involved, not an iota of footage exists. No body cams, dash cams, Ring footage, security cameras, nothing. How convenient.
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Katie Drummond
3 months
VICE did stories nobody else would touch or tell as transparently, from around the world, and broke news like it was nobody’s business. And everybody was hilarious. On the best days it was the best place ever. On the other days it was a lot of trauma bonding.
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Katie Drummond
5 years
I have a new job. Very excited about it! Goodbye.
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Michael Calderone
5 years
Vice Media names @katiedrumm  SVP of Vice Digital
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Police desperately need help identifying a famous QAnon guy named Jake Angeli, from Arizona, who has a Wikipedia page and has been subject of dozens of articles in the last day, and are offering $1000 for any info:
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Katie Drummond
4 years
QAnon has gone global. Latest research shows that new QAnon groups are exploding online, and most are international. Followers around the world think the movement has only just begun... Fascinating reporting from @MackLamoureux
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Katie Drummond
3 years
A botched US drone strike killed 10 Afghan civilians, most of them children. We spoke to their family members, who said "life has turned to hell" since the tragic event:
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Katie Drummond
5 years
Ellen and science confirm: rich people only care about themselves.
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Katie Drummond
7 months
Neuralink did years of tests at UC Davis, a public university bound by open records laws. But images and videos of primates undergoing grisly procedures are nowhere to be found. A @WIRED investigation reveals how the material was kept under wraps:
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Katie Drummond
4 years
In case you haven't heard, Biden won!
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Katie Drummond
4 years
"I am press," I said. It didn't matter. What happened to @MichaelAdams317 and crew last night, in his own words:
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Katie Drummond
5 years
"The bad news, which went unstated, was that I had unknowingly stumbled into a nationwide web of deception that appeared to span eight cities and nearly 100 property listings."
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Katie Drummond
2 years
Two LAPD officers ignored a robbery in progress to catch a rare Pokemon creature. (They caught it and also got fired.)
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Katie Drummond
5 years
WOW! I just qualified for $125 thanks to MOTHERBOARD. Just click this link and get your money in NO TIME
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Katie Drummond
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Breaking my X hiatus yet again, this time to welcome @timmarchman to @WIRED where he is our new director of science, politics & security. An incredible journalist and our kind of nerd! To say I am excited about this is an UNDERSTATEMENT!
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Katie Drummond
4 years
Just saying...this is a killer beard, I love it, and I love Canada.
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Katie Drummond
9 months
Some personal news: I am so, so honored to be leading @WIRED — a publication I have revered for many years, and the place I learned to be a reporter. This is a world-class team and title, and we are going to absolutely kill it.
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Katie Drummond
4 years
New Taylor Swift album has too many songs. Albums should be 10 songs, max 12.
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Katie Drummond
3 months
One of the most spectacularly talented journalists I've ever encountered. The only reason Tess wasn't poached 1,000 years ago is because she's loyal and dedicated and squarely focused on the journalism at all times. And damn does she do tremendous journalism.
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Tess Owen
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After nearly 9 years at VICE News, I've just been notified that I'm getting laid off. I’m gutted by the decision to close down the website that I’ve called home for so long, since I started as an intern in 2015. 🧵
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Katie Drummond
2 years
US police departments have so much extra military gear that they're donating some of it to Ukraine -- whose annual defense budget is smaller than the NYPD's:
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Katie Drummond
3 years
This Convicted Planned Parenthood Bomber Was at the Capitol 'Fighting' for Trump
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Pornhub is purging all unverified content from its platform, meaning a significant portion of its videos just disappeared:
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Katie Drummond
5 years
This is a very good, very worthwhile read:
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Katie Drummond
4 years
Georgia is counting 5 million votes by hand because Trump refuses to accept reality, which is that he lost the election, and continues to behave like a petulant baby while our democracy hangs in the balance.
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Katie Drummond
4 years
I can’t believe @ashleyfeinberg is 29.
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Katie Drummond
4 years
All I want is to have three wines at the bar, one cigarette outside the bar, and then go home. God grant me this wish, thank you.
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Katie Drummond
4 years
Scoop! A well-connected GOP strategist is helping Kanye West get on the ballot in Wisconsin. From @cam_joseph
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Katie Drummond
2 years
"This isn’t about me and it’s not about my clinics. I’m 71 years old. I could have retired already. I’m fighting for the safety and protection and health of everyone who loves someone who may need an abortion."
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Katie Drummond
4 years
Damn USPS found 13 undelivered ballots and then delivered them. What an absolute scandal.
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Chinese officials are using the mob attack in the U.S. Capitol to justify the crackdown on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement:
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Katie Drummond
5 years
SCOOP ALERT: Twitter has started researching whether white supremacists belong on Twitter. via @motherboard
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Katie Drummond
4 years
Two Black filmmakers were hired to film a Trump rally. They ended up being used in an attack ad without their consent:
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Katie Drummond
5 years
Finally someone who lasted for less time than me as editorial director of those great websites!!!
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Katie Drummond
6 months
Working with the @VICENews and VICE World News (RIP) teams, across digital and TV and audio, was truly a privilege. A deeper bench of talent then I can begin to describe. If you're hiring and see VICE News on a resume, trust me, you want that brilliant person on your team.
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Katie Drummond
5 years
“Honestly, we did not think this would go all across the internet.” >> The Wayfair walkout in the words of one employee. Read!
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Katie Drummond
4 years
Surprise, surprise: Trump campaign is "laundering" campaign finance money to the tune of $170M...
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Katie Drummond
2 years
In the immediate aftermath of one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in history, CNN went to that guy who whipped his dick out at work.
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Trump Fails to Ascend as God Emperor, Leaving Diehard Fans Adrift
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Katie Drummond
4 years
New (again!) on the Breonna Taylor case. Previously unreleased body cam footage raises questions about the integrity of the crime scene AND ensuing investigation:
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Honolulu police used $150,000 in COVID relief funds to [checks notes...] buy a robotic dog to patrol a homeless encampment. Congratulations to all involved!
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Katie Drummond
3 months
There's a lot of BAD on the internet. @wired has a new series celebrating the GOOD -- called -- THE LAST GOOD PLACE. Here's @megreenwell with a celebration of Vertex, her personal online brain-smoother:
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Katie Drummond
3 years
CONFIRMED: The social media genius behind Andrew Yang's genius social media is -- Andrew Yang himself:
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Katie Drummond
6 months
I am very excited to welcome @WilliamTurton and @LeahFeiger to @WIRED where they'll both do brilliant things helping us cover the almighty intersection of tech and politics next year.
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Katie Drummond
2 years
Motherboard has obtained portions of Tucker Carlson's @FoxNews interview with Kanye West that weren't aired. They include disturbing antisemitic comments and a digression about "fake children" he claims were planted at his house:
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Guilty
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Katie Drummond
2 years
"Sandberg served as Facebook Chief Operating Officer and was directly responsible for some of the worst behavior we've seen from any technology company in history."
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Katie Drummond
4 years
New: The key witness in the Breonna Taylor investigation changed his story two months after his initial interview with investigators. via @VICENews
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Katie Drummond
5 years
WE INTERVIEWED THE FIRST COUPLE WHO EVER DID HOUSE HUNTERS -- THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
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Katie Drummond
3 years
The US Navy has patents on tech it says will....uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...ENGINEER THE FABRIC OF REALITY
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Katie Drummond
8 months
Guess what? @WIRED is hiring a politics team just in time for all the fun we’re gonna have in 2024! Listings here. We’re moving fast, so apply if you’re interested:
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Katie Drummond
5 years
The Game of Thrones finale had not one...but TWO!!!...water bottles accidentally left in a scene.
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Proud Boys members are reacting to the rather awkward news that their founder was a “prolific” rat:
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Katie Drummond
4 years
Ugh the new Taylor Swift album is so good I just spent an hour researching PhD programs out of a desperate sense of inadequacy by comparison.
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Katie Drummond
3 years
A famed anti-sex trafficking group backed by celebrities and politicians tells bold, heroic stories about its work. Those stories are nowhere near the whole truth. A big one from @timmarchman and @annamerlan
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Katie Drummond
4 years
What Do You Call a Reporter Who Doesn't Report the News? Bob Woodward
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Katie Drummond
4 years
I don't know what I find more disturbing: Trump openly admitting months ago he knew COVID would be deadly, or the decision to withhold that information for a book.
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Katie Drummond
3 months
If I can be remotely useful to anyone in the VICE chaos right now - reference, drink, freelance connections, literally anything - DM or email me. You all deserve the best, and you didn’t get anything remotely close.
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Katie Drummond
5 years
A @motherboard reporter having his phone number mistakenly listed as Facebook customer support — by Google, no less — is a gift beyond my wildest editorial dreams.
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Last summer, Louisville police shot and killed David McAtee while breaking up a crowd near his restaurant. The PD have been pushing an "official" narrative since then. But here's what really happened:
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Osama bin Laden's son is a painter who loves U.S. western movies, rejects his father's ideologies, and is clearly processing...a lot!...in the artwork he shared with @VICEWorldNews
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Katie Drummond
5 years
Kendall Roy. Extremely hot.
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Katie Drummond
2 years
The #1 period tracker in the App Store will hand over user data to law enforcement without a warrant:
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Katie Drummond
5 years
Journalism is important for so many reasons. But anyone who truly knows me knows I’m really in it for the headlines:
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Katie Drummond
4 years
A woman who moved to the U.S. when she was three is at risk of ICE deportation, after she came forward about two unwanted gyno procedures. via @VICENews
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Katie Drummond
3 years
The newsrooms @VICENews and @VICE are dedicating today across all our platforms to coverage of systemic racism. That includes a ton of fascinating, revelatory, sometimes infuriating reporting from our teams here in the US and around the world. See it here:
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Katie Drummond
2 years
"You want me to die so you can get your slippers?" After six Amazon workers died in this weekend's tornadoes, others across the country say they're often pressured to work in dangerous weather:
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Israel is vowing to vaccinate "everyone" before the end of March -- except these 5 million people:
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Katie Drummond
5 years
Tonight my daughter forced me to give her a foot massage (with lotion!) and then told me to “go away.” How’s everyone else doing???
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Katie Drummond
5 years
SCOOP: Bernie Sanders says he'd consider decriminalizing sex work. From @msolis14
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Katie Drummond
3 years
Sure, sure: China gave anal COVID tests to US diplomats “in error”
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Katie Drummond
5 years
You didn’t provide a definitive account. @VICE did. The public service would have been to provide adequate credit.
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My *definitive* account of the In-N-Out burger that appeared on a random street in Queens. You're all very welcome for this act of public service:
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Katie Drummond
5 years
This week in SCAM ACADEMY: Hear from someone who makes $1,000 a week writing essays for lazy college kids.
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Katie Drummond
5 years
This is a CRAZY story from @motherboard >>> Flawed algorithms are grading millions of standardized tests, including the GREs.
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Katie Drummond
3 years
A Muslim prayer app with 10M downloads is selling user location data to a firm with links to ICE and the FBI:
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