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What X’s Chinese bot takedown tells us about the counter-disinformation infrastructure we dismantled On Monday I wrote about Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers’ extraordinary effort to leak documents from the State Department’s now-dismantl…
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The paperback of Invisible Rulers is out today, with a brand new chapter about how powerful elites in government now spin rumors into reality, justifying power grabs, dismantling agencies, and gutting budgets.
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Trump is expected to revive his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, using selectively declassified intelligence as “receipts.”
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On September 15, 2024, JD Vance sat across from Dana Bash on CNN and defended the claim that Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Happy Independence Day...weekend!
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A demonstrably false claim about a ballot drop in the Los Angeles mayoral race went wildly viral on X this month, contributing to the perception that the race was rigged.
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Spencer Pratt is a man who understands spectacle.
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On May 13, 2026, the Trump Justice Department announced that it had settled pandemic contrarian Alex Berenson’s First Amendment lawsuit, Berenson v.
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I prefer to keep drama off main in this newsletter, so I would rather not have to publish a post like this.
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TL;DR: In just three days, two social media “censorship” decisions, two major jury verdicts on platform design harms, and a cautious Meta Oversight Board advisory opinion highlighted the limits of framing every platform issue as related to speech—while sp…
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On February 13, Cenk Uygur—founder of The Young Turks and progressive media and political fixture—posted to his 800,000 followers: “I no longer believe official 9/11 story.”
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Earlier this month, Doha Debates released a two-hour conversation between me, Glenn Greenwald, and Siva Vaidhyanathan framed around the question: “Who has the power to define the truth?”
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Today, Edelman launched its 2026 Trust Barometer, a survey that examines attitudes about trust across 28 countries and 33,000 respondents.
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Two weeks ago I wrote about the fusion of the rumor mill and the propaganda machine—how online claims get picked up by political elites who lend them credibility and turn them into political reality, whether they’re true or not.
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Last week, a mob on X falsely accused a college student of mass murder.