Great news for monopolists: If you successfully swat away regulators for long enough, a new approach might come along and disrupt your monopoly status after nearly a decade of unfettered domination of your domain, thus rendering you not a monopoly despite enjoying all the benefits of one. On Tuesday, Judge James Boasberg ruled that Meta […]
No, Pro-Trump Hackers Didn’t Hack Zohran Mamdani’s Election Night Party
Did you see claims on Tuesday that Zohran Mamdani’s election night party was sabotaged by pro-Trump hackers? Someone who supports President Donald Trump was supposedly able to project a pro-MAGA message to the crowd before Mamdani spoke. But like so much of what goes viral on social media these days, it’s total nonsense. Mamdani was […]
That Trump Tweet About the World Series Being ‘Rigged’ Is Fake
Have you seen a tweet from President Donald Trump saying he’ll refuse to invite whoever wins the World Series to the White House? Trump appears to say that it’s because he believes the game is rigged, either by the mafia or the Democrats. But the tweet isn’t real. The post has gone viral across just […]
Border Patrol Responds Like a Petulant Child to Controversy Over Its Antisemitic Video
A spokesperson for U.S. Border Patrol has finally issued a statement about the antisemitic social media video that the agency posted in August, but was just deleted this week. And in typical Trumpian fashion, the statement is incredibly whiny. Border Patrol, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, first posted a 13-second […]
Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
A U.S. Border Patrol video featuring antisemitic lyrics went viral on X on Tuesday after far-right users discovered it had been posted to Facebook and Instagram. The video, which included the lyrics “Jew me” and “kike me,” was deleted from the platforms on Wednesday morning, though it’s not clear whether the offensive content was taken […]
Facebook Removes ICE-Tracking Group Under Pressure From Trump Regime
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that the U.S. Justice Department had succeeded in getting Facebook to remove a group on the platform that allowed people in Chicago to alert their neighbors when ICE was in the area. “Today following outreach from @thejusticedept Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox […]
If You Can Read This, You’re About to Get Scammed
Did you find this article by typing in the name of a website associated with Elon Musk? Did it sound like you could invest in SpaceX, Neuralink, or one of Musk’s AI ventures like Grok and xAI? It’s fake. It’s 100%, without a doubt, completely fake. I know you may not believe it, but please […]
No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck
How much would you have to get paid to spend any amount of time with Mark Zuckerberg? For some of the folks who have joined Meta’s AI team, millions of dollars simply is not enough. According to a new report from the Financial Times, the Meta AI lab is such a mess (and presumably, Zuck […]
The Viral Fall of Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot
Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot were unknown to most of the world just a few days ago. Now, they’ve lost their privacy, and possibly much more, thanks to a viral moment at a Coldplay concert that social media turned into a global spectacle. For anyone who has been on another planet for the past 72 […]
Meta Is Building Massive Gigawatt Data Centers as It Pours Billions Into AI
Meta’s AI spending spree continues. After reportedly offering tens (or in some cases, hundreds) of millions of dollars to lure away top researchers from competing artificial intelligence operations, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced via Threads that the company plans to build several multi-gigawatt superclusters to ramp up its compute power. Zuckerberg said the first of the […]