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covering politics + the 2024 election @WIRED • Signal: 585-412-2148 • FAQ, Instagram, TikTok, & Politics Lab newsletter linked below ⤵️

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Politics has never been stranger—or more online. That's why @WIRED is launching Politics Lab, a new weekly newsletter & podcast. I'll be writing the newsletter. The first issue is going out next week on Thursday 3/21! You can signup for it below ⤵️
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idk, i trust this guy
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SCOOP: The Biden-Harris campaign is rolling out official yard signs for Animal Crossing: New Horizons today. It's part of the campaign's broader initiative to meet voters where they are online.
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i live on a first floor apartment where my only window opens up to a bus stop, and this teenager just looked at me through the window and said "ew, there's someone over here just doing their work!" to their friend on the phone rip me
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lol well it’s official, my landlord is raising my bedstuy rent literally $700!!!!!!! nyc baby!!! crying!!!
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i want an entire oral history of how this tweet came to be
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we're taking fan art into our own hands
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i love this etsy creator who just makes plushies long and gives you the option to choose if you want it "scary" or not
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NEW: Twitter tells me that if Trump tried to circumvent this ban by using @POTUS , the platform would remove these new postings. If Trump made a new account, that account would face a permanent suspension "at first detection," according to Twitter's rules.
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being a reporter is so weird it's seriously just deciding to do homework for the rest of your life
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manchin showing murkowski that he just sent the longest text message i've ever seen
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In light of @AOC 's organizing thread and outlets calling @CaptMarkKelly victor in Arizona, I want to point out how strong the Kelly campaign's online presence was. Here's one piece I wrote!
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new england four loko
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NEW: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison donated $250,000 to a Lindsey Graham PAC hours after his company was chosen as TikTok's US tech partner. In August, Graham said he told Trump to let a US company buy TikTok. "If TikTok is saved, you can thank me."
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NEW: @AOC , Wyden, Rubio, Gallagher and Malinowski pen letter to Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick condemning the company's decision to ban a professional Hearthstone player for voicing support for the Hong Kong protests.
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if you're only going to give @AOC a minute to speak, you might as well let her run the DNC Twitch stream and put her in gamer headphones so she can provide commentary throughout it to rope in young voters
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It looks like folks on the World of Warcraft subreddit got an AI-scraping news site to put together a story on Glorbo, an entirely made up feature, lmao.
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The Truth Social Instagram keeps hinting at a Trump surprise for August 8th like he's Taylor Swift hyping up fans for a new record.
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i talked to the guy who got a vasectomy during today's earthquake
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have loved living in this community for the last 4 years. i’ll be absolutely devastated if i have to leave!!!
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love to go semi viral for getting dragged in my own home
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twitter releasing its algorithm would be the most insane day on this website. it would be random lawmakers, pundits, and meme accounts tweeting screenshots of random lines of code trying to decipher it like a holy text written in an ancient language.
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Bernie Sanders is pioneering virtual rallies amid the coronavirus outbreak with pre-recorded music sets + surrogate speeches. I wrote about why his campaign was so well-positioned to push forward online as COVID-19 disrupts our civil and political lives.
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the best way to test the youtube algorithm is accidentally falling asleep to beauty vloggers and waking up to this
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God, Dr. Oz is apparently using his former health-celeb site as his official campaign website. The idea makes sense, but now he has old tweets that look like this ⤵️
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What does your "poop" say about your health? Learn here: http://t.co/By1c8yH6q9
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Trump’s “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” was an NFT collection
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love to see all of the political wonks suddenly realizing how big of a deal all this internet campaigning stuff is on main tonight
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One of my fav parts of his digital execution were these Instagram Story highlights. They were videos of Kelly explaining his positions on issues like the environment. Clear cut and to the point in a place interested followers could easily find them.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland says JUSTICE FOR GREEN BUBBLES in Apple antitrust complaint !!!!
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“Live life, laugh, and let the haters hate because they’re always gonna hate,” -George Santos, Cameo, 2023
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man, this site is gonna be completely unusable before the new year
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NEW: Nextdoor has struggled to shed its reputation as a "snitch app," used by white and wealthy users to racially profile their neighbors. But the app's problems with race have only escalated with the recent rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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me logging onto twitter after a few days off work
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Meet the 26 year-old socialist trucker running for Congress on TikTok. @joshua4congress is making his local WA-10 race a national one by creating CONTENT.
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today’s ps5 announcement simply reaffirms that every console should just look like the gamecube
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Biden: "These chips, these wafers, are batteries, broadband — it's all infrastructure. This is infrastructure."
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@missbabydeath it was so funny and i had to just sit there and pretend I didn't hear anything
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Biden sitting down with podcaster/YouTuber to discuss Russian sanctions. We’ve seen US leaders engage with influencers in the past, but this is one of the first done in such a “rapid response”-type messaging way, afaik!
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. @POTUS justifies severe sanctions on Putin: "You have two options. Start a third World War-- go to war with Russia physically, or two, make sure that a country that acts so contrary to international law ends up paying the price for having done it."
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NEWS: Riot Games announces that it doesn't want League of Legends casters discussions "sensitive" topics on air. The move comes after Blizzard caught fire for banning a professional Hearthstone player who supported the Hong Kong protests.
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SCOOP: Epic Games says it won't ban players for expressing their views on politics or human rights. Epic is taking shots at Blizzard after the company banned a professional Hearthstone player for expressing support of the Hong Kong protests.
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NEW: Here’s my exclusive first-look at the Biden-Harris campaign’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons island, BidenHQ. It features polling stations, ice cream, and absolutely zero malarkey.
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Peter Thiel associate and Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters is threatening to sue the @ArizonaMirror over critical coverage, invoking the Thiel-funded Hulk Hogan-Gawker lawsuit.
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Hey @ArizonaMirror and @DillonReedRose : preserve your documents! If I get any free time after winning my elections then you’re getting sued, and I’ll easily prove actual malice. Gawker found out the hard way and you will too.
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half of writing is just deciding to be confident enough to write
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Exclusive: Andrew Yang is launching what he calls the Data Dividend Project. The program is pushing companies like Facebook and Google to pay for the data users generate on their platforms.
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is twitter still working???? we’re getting married!!!!
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when does the hobby lobby decor line drop
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BREAKING: Facebook's Oversight Board upholds Facebook's ban on Trump.
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all i want is tabs in gdocs like there are in sheets. let me organize a whole story, all of the transcripts, notes, and outlines in one document pls pls pls is there better longform software out there that can do this for me?
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cartoon avatars signal a platform’s imminent demise. they are the most effective way of driving young people away.
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3D avatars are coming to Stories and DMs. 🎉 With this update, we’re bringing more face shapes, skin shades, new expressions and many more options to better express who you are. 💜
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sharing some advice i got from a reader last night
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NEW: Twitter has suspended @TeamTrump . Statement here:
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NEW: Facebook will allow influencers to partner with political campaigns for sponsored posts. There weren't any rules on this, because it wasn't really a thing until Michael Bloomberg started posting cringe. More here:
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AOC stream starts in 10 minutes. There are already 180,000 viewers.
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Marble Hornets, a Slenderman-inspired found footage YouTube series, turned 10 years old this week! Here, I speak with some of the creators and reminisce about Old Internet:
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me: staring at my computer screen knowing damn well it will only take me 20ish minutes to write something but convincing myself it's the most challenging task i've ever faced in my life
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I wrote about the Lincoln Project stealing content and becoming the FuckJerry of political memes. Also, how aggregation norms differ on the left and right.
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New! The Biden campaign is launching a new Instagram account, @ VoteJoe. Before it became an official campaign channel, it was a fan account started by a 15-year-old supporter from California. It had around 85k followers before they acquired it.
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Bernie is the second most popular Twitch stream right now. He might not beat out this big Rocket League Championship series tournament, but he's moving up!
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love to accidentally leave otter recording after an interview and it transcribes me talking to me cat
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Full statement here:
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SCOOP: Parler's parent-company, Parlement Technologies, has laid off a majority of its staff over the last few weeks. The sudden purge has thrown the future of one of the first alt-social networks into question.
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my facebook ads this morning are giving me a migraine
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It's my first day @WIRED covering politics and the 2024 election. Send me tips, talk to me. Signal: 585-412-2148 Email: makena underscore kelly @ wired dot com
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I’m joining WIRED to cover politics and the 2024 election! My first day is Nov. 27th, and I couldn’t be more excited to work with such a talented team. More on that team here:
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yea, babe im about ready to go, just need to grab my mask-bun-hat from amazon and i’m out the door
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good morning from the reddit support group for people fearing the collapse of global civilization
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NEW: White House releases a list of tech policy principles, focusing on antitrust, child safety, and "fundamental reforms" to Section 230.
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how is a lowly reporter supposed to afford subscriptions to all of the publications she needs to read, someone solve this
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Andrew Yang wants to regulate loot boxes! And a lot of other things. This tech policy proposal is a lot... but I went through the trouble to explain it all just for you, dear reader.
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NEW: Biden’s infrastructure package includes $100 billion to connect every American to high speed broadband within the decade.
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NEW: Sources tell me Parler's parent-company, Parlement Technologies, has been trying to offload the social media platform long before the Ye deal. A prospective buyer described the asking price as wildly inflated, was stunned by the site's low DAUs.
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I drove >800 miles across Iowa last week to really get a feel for what it's like to live without meaningful access to high-speed broadband. Peoples are coming up with their own creative solutions to ensure their neighbors have access. Here's the story:
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“The president will take action to ensure that Big Tech does not stifle free speech and that the rights of all Americans to speak, tweet, and post are protected.” What is going on???
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The Lincoln Project has started crediting memes on Twitter and Instagram.
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Ahead of Super Tuesday, the Pete Buttigieg campaign is deploying an army of volunteers to knock your digital door on Twitter. More here:
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Buttigieg calling himself a "Microsoft Word guy" is weird because I would argue that Word is least hot word processor, in this essay I will
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thinking about joe biden saying "inshallah" during that one trump debate
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Tonight, Biden is holding a virtual roundtable with young people. It's a complete 180 from his campaign's first flubby Zoom call. Aside from a couple audio issues (quickly resolved), it looks like the campaign's latest investments in its digital + video ops have really paid off.
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Thousands of refugees fled Afghanistan for the US after the fall of Kabul in August. From a dizzying resettlement system, to an acute nationwide housing crisis, many are still struggling to make this country home.
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omg there's an actual fireplace
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New! I wrote about how Ed Markey stans are leveraging the mechanics of fandom to keep him in the Senate. This campaign is more about building an online community, the Markeyverse, than it is about posting viral memes.
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@loudmouthjulia in my home, too. kfjlsdjfkldsjkf
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NEW: It appears as though Trump tweeted from the @POTUS account. These tweets have now since been deleted/removed. Waiting to hear from Twitter:
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NEW: Twitter tells me that if Trump tried to circumvent this ban by using @POTUS , the platform would remove these new postings. If Trump made a new account, that account would face a permanent suspension "at first detection," according to Twitter's rules.
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Dark Brandon may be dead, but the White House's Thursday Twitter thread dragging Republicans over PPP loans shows that his spirit lives on. Anyways, I wrote about how Joe Brandon, and the Dems, are getting more comfortable clowning on the GOP online ⤵️
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Facebook's Giphy acquisition is sounding the antitrust alarms in Congress. Statements from @SenAmyKlobuchar , @HawleyMO , and a @SenWarren spokesperson here:
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this is me working at the verge dot com
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NEW: @SenGillibrand rolls out her plan to establish a Data Protection Agency. The DPA would be in charge of enforcing any new federal privacy framework.
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A group of 75 progressive groups warn Biden against throwing out Section 230
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TWITTER responds to @POTUS usage here:
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The stream of this "fireside chat" is basically on every platform. You can find it on Facebook, Periscope, Twitch, etc. Biden's team tried to recast the Zoom call on Facebook, but it only lasted for around 4ish minutes.
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im screaming. google featured a hoax article that claims Minecraft is being shut down in 2020
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would like to see the Pence Fly and the Bernie Bird debate
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a man showed me his coinbase account unprovoked this weekend... new york is healing etc etc
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i'm only half-kidding really. last night it was so obvious that the party isn't all that interested in engaging with young people, and if that's what your convention is going to be, there's so so so much room to do digital-first events with popular politicians and influencers
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markey stans remixed the iconic ad enough times that the campaign RESHOT IT
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Some things never change.
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a new class of twitter user emerges to take on the blue checks, the dialectic presses on
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Twitter has just launched NFT profile photos. They’re hexagon-shaped
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The Biden-Harris team just launched their own Twitch channel and it's a livestream of the back of their train.
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