David Gilbert

The state of Georgia banned the use of QR codes for elections, based in part on the assertions of a man who’s boosted false claims about Israel and 9/11. Now no one knows how ballots will be counted.

From claims of an Israeli false flag to efforts to sell ivermectin, influencers and grifters are using lessons learned from Covid-19 to push their baseless conspiracy theories.

Elements of the right and the left are united in the baseless belief that two attempts on Donald Trump's life were staged.

The Trump administration has effectively forced out more than two dozen experienced lawyers from the DOJ's Voting Section, the part of the agency responsible for upholding the Voting Rights Act.

There were around 30 attorneys in the DOJ’s Voting Section on the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Three months later, all but two were gone. Now the election deniers are in control.

The word “staged” exploded on social media following the attack, as both right and left-wing influencers and anonymous accounts spread unfounded conspiracy theories.

Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.

A seemingly endless torrent of criticism directed toward Trump from former MAGA allies suggests the president is losing support from his base.

The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.

Group has released over a dozen videos mocking President Trump and the US.

Since the beginning of the Iran war, the group Explosive Media has released over a dozen viral videos mocking Trump and the US.

Pam Bondi's DOJ left election deniers frothing for more. Potential candidates for the attorney general job could give them what they want.

The acting head of the DOJ’s voting section told a judge last week that the agency had not touched the nonpublic voter roll data it has collected. That wasn’t true.

The militia movement in the US is undergoing a rebrand that trades counterprotests for expensive weapons, manly sweatshirts, and highly curated Instagram grids.

WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year’s midterm elections.

With the release of his Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere, the director talked to WIRED about why so many young men are drawn to toxic influencers.

X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.

The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.

Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social about Iran echoed a conspiracy theory that has been circulating online for years.

WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

Trump supporters are angry at the lack of arrests after the latest Epstein file dump but have targeted their ire at Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and Steve Bannon rather than the president.