In June, a FEMA official infamous for claiming to have teleported to a Waffle House was reportedly ousted. He’s still employed by the government, though—and meeting with a Trump fixer.
Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024. Now, she’s fielding an offer from a county that’s become a hotbed of voting-related conspiracy theories.
True the Vote is working with a Detroit pastor to produce a new documentary called Trap, based on claims that have already been thrown out in court.
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.
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.
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.
The people of Venezuela have spent years learning resilience in the face of censorship, disinformation, and repression. They now rely on those tools more than ever.
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.