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Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

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MAGA’s new semantic defense of leaked Yemen Signal convo strains credulity

Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

Anna Good

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‘Accidentally added to a war chat’ — 27 memes roasting the SignalGate leak

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‘Deliberate, intentional’: Deluded Trump fans swear admin wanted top-secret Yemen Signal chat to leak

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Why do people think Donald Trump is demanding smooth quarters?

David Covucci was the senior politics and technology editor at the Daily Dot, covering the nexus between Washington and Silicon Valley. His work has appeared in Vice, the Huffington Post, Jezebel, Gothamist, and other publications.

David Covucci

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Trump officials old calls to jail leakers roasted after their Yemen Signal group exposed

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Trump rages over ‘distorted’ portrait in Colorado—that his supporters paid for

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Katherine Huggins

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‘Really is the best AI’: Left-wingers warm up to Grok as it shares brutal anti-Trump, Musk replies

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Hope Talbot

Screenshot of a tweet from @WilliamYang120: "I, along with more than 1000 colleagues at @VOANews, were forced to put on leave indefinitely yesterday. While we have been bracing for this to happen, the suddenness of this development was still shocking to all of us." with the reply from @chenweihua: "Good to know many who made a living by badmouthing and smearing China are likely to be jobless.". Background: the header image from @VOAnews's X profile of Washington D.C.

Trump’s defunding of VOA praised by Chinese state media

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Amanda Moore

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump White House lawyer wasn’t actually an attorney when firm said he represented Andrew Tate

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Donald Trump’s ‘everything’s computer’ quote immediately becomes a meme

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Leslie Bibb’s face from ‘The White Lotus’ spawns the ‘Coming out as a Trump voter’ meme

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‘Because at 7 it’s marginal right’: how a Trump quote became a viral meme

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Trump blown away after looking inside a Tesla: ‘Everything’s computer’

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