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July 10, 2024
Paige Oamek
Elon Musk Idiotically Demands Laws for What’s Already Illegal
The X owner is pushing one of Donald Trump’s most bonkers election conspiracies.
June 4, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Elon Musk Begs Supreme Court to Take Up Trump Twitter Files Fight
The request could affect how evidence is collected in lawsuits.
May 14, 2024
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
Michael Cohen Exposes Trump’s Damning Reaction to FBI Raids
Michael Cohen revealed his former boss’s reaction while testifying in the hush-money trial.
May 10, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
New Hush-Money Evidence Shows Trump Basically Admitting to Crimes
Trump’s lawyers had tried to prevent this tweet from being entered into evidence.
May 2, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Elon Musk Vows to Reinstate Kanye West’s Hitler-Loving Muse
Elon Musk has decided now is the time to ramp up antisemitism on X.
April 26, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Why Did Elon Musk Just Kick Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Off X?
Mandla Mandela had just set off with a flotilla of aid for Gaza.
April 24, 2024
Andre Pagliarini
Elon Musk Is Now Meddling in Brazil’s Democracy, Too
X’s chief troll is inciting a “censorship” moral panic in Brazil, undermining the democratically elected government’s efforts to squash far-right extremism.
March 25, 2024
Tori Otten
Elon Musk Loses Pathetic Defamation Case Against Hate Speech Watchdog
A judge has absolutely destroyed Elon Musk over his transparent attempt to suppress free speech.
March 22, 2024
Heather Souvaine Horn
The Bleak Backdrop to the Kate Middleton Frenzy
Much like “covfefe” in 2017, the internet is converging on a story that feels safer than everything else that’s going on.
March 21, 2024
Greg Sargent
Elon Musk Pushes a Vile, Toxic Hate Video—and Exposes His Own Scam
The great replacement theory video that Musk pinned to the top of his feed is sick. And it shows that he’s turning X into a safe space for far-right propaganda.
February 26, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
One of Trump’s Election Fraud Lawyers Just Got Caught in a Big Lie
Kenneth Chesebro had a secret Twitter feed that undermines the core of his legal defense.
February 25, 2024
Sandeep Vaheesan, Tara Pincock
The Red States Fighting the Good Fight Against Big Tech
Conservative state governments have taken an antitrust battle to the Supreme Court’s doorstep—and you should root for them to win.
February 20, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Of Course Elon Musk’s Twitter Suspended Alexei Navalny’s Wife
Yulia Navalnaya saw her account on X (Twitter) disappear just 24 hours after creating it.
February 16, 2024
Ben Metzner
Twitter Files’ Matt Taibbi Says Elon Musk Sent Him Unhinged Messages
The former “Twitter Files” journalist has apparently fallen out of the good graces of billionaire Elon Musk.
February 12, 2024
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Elon Musk’s Unhinged Pro-MAGA Tweets Expose Tech Oligarchy’s Dark Side
A new class of tech barons hopes to create a flourishing information space for “red-pilled” far-right ideologies, and the billionaire Musk is their model leader.
February 2, 2024
Alex Shephard
The Messenger Didn’t Stand a Chance
Yes, the founders of The Messenger were clueless. But the news site was doomed to fail no matter who was in charge.
February 1, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
The GOP Has a Plan for “Online Safety.” It Involves Censoring LGBTQ Content.
Lawmakers and tech companies say they want to protect kids. For Marsha Blackburn, that means keeping them from learning about trans people.
January 9, 2024
Tori Otten
Gee, Guess What Twitter Just Did to Accounts Critical of Elon Musk?
Elon Musk is at it again.
January 4, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Twitter Is Helping Push the Most Dangerous Epstein Conspiracy Theory Yet
Conspiracy theorists are tying the Jeffrey Epstein documents to a school shooting.
December 18, 2023
Tori Otten
Elon Musk May Finally Face Consequences for Wrecking Twitter
X is under scrutiny in Europe as part of an investigation into toxic content.

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