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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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Oh god, the €330k bike shed has triggered this clown and he's back talking about being president and completely making shit up about the powers Ireland's president actually holds...

Oh god, the €330k bike shed has triggered this clown and he's back talking about being president and completely making shit up about the powers Ireland's president actually holds...
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AND David Gilbert wrote the politics lab newsletter this week, and led with a scoop about a new social media app for election deniers that is....concerning! wired.com/story/election…

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The DOJ yesterday announced the seizure of domains linked to the Russian disinfo campaign #Doppelganger. The 277-page indictment shows how Russia used racism, conspiracies and gamers to sway the US election for Trump Welcome to Project 'Good Old USA' wired.com/story/project-…

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The reporting in this thread is absolutely some of the best work anyone has done anywhere in recent years on these topics. Just really, really brilliant...

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A lot of the internet is absolutely horrible, but every so often, it can be amazing— as nolen explains here: (h/t Charles Arthur) youtube.com/watch?v=OI4DbE…

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Great piece from Tori Elliott about how Musk is very quickly running out of options in Brazil — despite his performative attacks against Morales on this platform wired.com/story/x-starli…

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The Tim Pool/Tenet Media story is obviously fascinating. But... An FBI affidavit unsealed this week says the Russians are maintaining an active list of 2,800 influencers, 600 of whom are in the US The FBI has not released the list Who else is on it? wired.com/story/project-…

The  Tim Pool/Tenet Media story is obviously fascinating.

But...

An FBI affidavit unsealed this week says the Russians are maintaining an active list of 2,800 influencers, 600 of whom are in the US

The FBI has not released the list 

Who else is on it?

wired.com/story/project-…
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Fake personas, a fabricated investor - with aims of pushing content to Western audiences to sew division and boost Kremlin interests. That's what a DOJ indictment this week alleges. Tori and I dug into indictment 👇 logicallyfacts.com/en/article/ins…