TikTok
TikTok and the Romanian candidate
An election interference case in Europe sounds oddly familiar to America's story in 2016. How seriously should we take it?
Elections
Elections
What tech wants from Trump
Platforms and venture capitalists have a long wishlist for the president-elect — but can they survive the chaos of Trump 2.0?
Elections
America holds its breath
The polls are closing — and the fight over the election could just be beginning
X
X’s plan to interfere with the election
Elon Musk’s effort to deny Kamala Harris an election victory is already underway. Can it work?
Elections
The billionaires hedge their bets
The owners and CEOs of America’s biggest platforms are playing nice with Trump. And it could come back to haunt them
Elections
Trump’s dead cat bounce
What the latest lie to go mainstream on X tells us about what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn't
Elections
How Russians are changing up their election interference
A wave of new indictments tells us what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn’t
Elections
How influence campaigns stopped working
It turns out that social networks are less susceptible to 2016-style attacks — and no one likes AI slop
Deepfakes
Trump deepfakes a Swift endorsement
The Shitpost Election continues
Deepfakes
Welcome to the shitpost election
Forget what’s true and false. Did you hear about J.D. Vance and the couch?
AI
The e/accs inch closer to the White House
How billionaire donors, a new policy framework, and Trump’s VP pick promise to steamroll the AI safety movement
OpenAI
Inside OpenAI’s new plan for fighting deepfakes
The company has new strategies for shoring up our shared sense of reality. Will they matter in the election?
AI
The AI-generated propaganda is working
Nearly half of people found influence campaigns written by GPT-3 effective, a new study finds
OpenAI
OpenAI makes an election plan
Concerns over deepfakes are mounting — but there are reasons for optimism