David Gilbert

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.

While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.

Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”

Former election clerk Tina Peters is a hero to conspiracy theorists, and even received an empty “pardon” from the president. Colorado's governor has held firm against commuting her sentence—so far.

Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

Within minutes of the shooting, the Trump administration and right-wing influencers began disparaged the man shot by a federal immigration officer on Saturday in Minneapolis.

Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.

In a world where ICE agents are shooting US citizens on the street, the need for militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys to support far-right interests has evaporated.

Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.