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Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.

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Elon Musk announced SpaceX’s pivot from Mars to the Moon. People are unimpressed

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Reddit moderator removes space photo posted by NASA astronaut for being too blurry: “Hopefully this won’t happen again”

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“Go to TikTok, see for yourself”: NASA responded to Kim Kardashian’s claims that the moon landing was fake

Braden Bjella is a culture writer. His work can be found in Mixmag, Electronic Beats, Schon! magazine, and more.

Braden Bjella

“Hopefully this will make it better”: NASA will stream future launches on Netflix

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Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

Katherine Huggins

Screenshots from @dj_newmoon's Tiktok of the alleged fake shuttle from the Blue Origin space flight.

Blue Origin truthers refuse to believe Katy Perry actually went to space

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.

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Katy Perry went to space for 11 minutes. Then came the memes—21 of the best

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Gayle King’s ‘help me god’ face becomes the meme of the week

Monica Sager is based in Boston and focuses her reporting on politics and tech. She is a graduate of Clark University, with a master&#8217;s from both Clark University and Northwestern University. She was part of the team named a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigation as well as a winner of the George Polk award for their work uncovering Phillips Respironics wrongdoings with its breathing machines.

Monica Sager

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Jeff Bezos faceplants trying to greet fiancée after space flight

Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

Solar flares or sabotage: TikTok has theories about what happened with today’s massive cell phone outage

Sunny Kim studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. She&#8217;s a former editorial intern with the Daily Dot. Her work has appeared in the Daily Texan and Popular Mechanics.

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Astronomers’ research into moonmoons opens a world of memes

Phillip Tracy is a former technology staff writer at the Daily Dot. He&#8217;s an expert on smartphones, social media trends, and gadgets. He previously reported on IoT and telecom for RCR Wireless News and contributed to NewBay Media magazine. He now writes for Laptop magazine.

Phillip Tracy

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Chris Tognotti is a news and current events writer based out of Berkeley, California, and a co-host of the podcast Now We Know. While he specializes in domestic politics and opinion writing, he’s also savvy on sports, video games, and film.

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NASA probe “New Horizons” snaps farthest-ever photo from Earth

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Carly Lanning is a journalist who covers social media. Her work has been published by Psychology Today, NBC, Thrillist, and Ms. Magazine.

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