Telegram messages aren't e2e encrypted. It is also a "cloud messenger," meaning that all messages live on Telegram's servers rather than the user's device. With one query, the Russian Telegram team can get every message the French president has ever sent or received to his

I have been told to stop stealing muffins from the bakery. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to keep my lucrative muffin stand in business. Everyone is fine with this.

The new DOJ charging documents raise a curious question: DOJ charges two lower-level employees of a Russian front company, but despite providing chapter and verse about the complicity of the two "Founders" of that company, the Founders are not charged. My Suspicion (based on my

Keep an eye on Rocco. He has been digging into how the internet is gamed to amplify content... ever since he caught Vice doing it.

Argentine news outlets are reporting on a rumor that a person who paid 85,000 dollars to look like an elf (known as "Elfo") has access to scandalous material collected by one of Javier Milei's legislators. This has led to headlines like "The elf who keeps Milei's darkest secrets"

Girl, again.

Oh boy, the Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts just revealed as the secret special guest at Reboot Conference in SF!

How the internet’s most popular pro-Trump pundits ended up as paid mouthpieces for Russian propaganda nbcnews.com/tech/internet/… New from me and Ryan J. Reilly

I’m really proud of the hawk tuah girl, getting this much mileage out of being funny one time is normally a male dominated field

One of the things people still don't get is that there is a lot of money that gets thrown into astroturfing RW media. Rod Dreher was paid six figures to write a blog no one read for over a decade because of one guy.

Telegram quietly updates FAQ, removing: "All Telegram chats and group chats are private amongst their participants. We do not process any requests related to them."

Generative AI can now build housing.

My friend showed me this form you get when landing in Singapore “Warning: death for drug traffickers” 😬

How was it being part of the global government affairs team when, according to Mudge, Indian and Chinese agents were on the Twitter payroll? cyberscoop.com/twitter-whistl…

"A representative for RT responded to a request to comment with a series of text messages including “Hahahaha!” and “We gotta earn our Kremlin paycheck somehow.” nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

What about Heina Chen, who controls the bank accounts?

Where is Ali Mohamed today? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Moham…