The Doctor in Your Feed Isn’t Real
The people cashing in on fake doctors, and the platforms that pay them to keep posting.
The AI Reckoning
Part 4: AI Won't Kill You. The People Building It Might.
The System Is Built for the Grift
How one AI influencer exposed the machine that pays people to lie to you.
The AI Reckoning
Part 3: The AI Agents That Hacked Their Way Out of The Lab
"Hook, Hold, Harvest, Hide"
The four words that summed up Meta's case, a $17 billion settlement, and what all of it means for your teenager.
The $400 Million Illusion: Why the TikTok Settlement Won't Protect Your Kids
It looks like the government cracked down. It mostly just collected a check.
The Epistemic Glitch: Why We Fight Over Images We Can No Longer Verify
The panic over Ariana Grande's weight is a dress rehearsal. The real performance, waged over political images we can't confirm are real, is still to come.
The Ad Was Fake. The Reach Was Real.
A synthetic attack ad cost a couple hundred dollars to run and reached six million people. Here’s how that happens — and how to see it coming.
I Use AI. Here’s Why That’s Exactly the Point.
How an independent media critic uses the machine to expose the machine.
Social Proof & Conformity Bias
Why we look to the crowd — and why the crowd is not what it seems
The Government Manufactured a Crime to Justify Watching You
How a botched contract at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool became a surveillance operation, built on video no one could verify.
Seen Everywhere, Checked Nowhere
What a viral World Cup story reveals about the modern information ecosystem.