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In response to BuzzFeed News’s statement that it will now primarily refer to QAnon as a “collective delusion” instead of a “conspiracy theory,” the Gizmodo Copy Desk is making the decision to call QAnon “the future of the GOP.”
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"... An upperclassman who had been researching terrorist groups online." - Washington Post
Sep 4
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A drone over Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square dropped hundreds of bags of weed on Thursday, setting off a mad scramble by…
Sep 3
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The National Security Agency’s program to hoover up details on billions of domestic phone calls and text messages in…
Sep 3
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The Federal Communications Commission hasn’t begun deliberations on whether it will follow through on President…
Sep 1
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Did you fly a jetpack over Los Angeles at approximately 3,000 feet on Sunday? Some kind of tiny helicopter? Maybe a…
Sep 1
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The U.S. won’t contribute to an international effort to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that…
Aug 31
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The FBI warned in a November 2019 bulletin that smart video doorbells, such as Amazon’s Ring or Google’s Nest Hello…
Aug 31
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Scandal boy Scott Pruitt’s tenure as Environmental Protection Agency administrator may now be long over, but the…
Aug 28
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Absolutely no one thought Donald Trump and his re-election campaign would learn their lesson after a plague rally in…
Aug 27
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The uncool bidders for extremely cool video app TikTok now reportedly include, uh, Walmart.
Aug 26
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday that he wasn’t present in the room when other members of the White House…
Aug 26
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Facebook received reports in advance about the Kenosha Guard, a self-proclaimed militia that urged gun owners to…
Aug 26
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Data analytics company Palantir—the firm co-founded by venture capitalist Peter Thiel most notorious for its work…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene—the far-right conspiracy theorist who has Donald Trump’s blessing as a Republican nominee for…
Aug 24
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Apple has quietly acquired VR startup Spaces, according to a Monday report by Protocol, though it’s not entirely…
Aug 24
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Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Border Patrol considered accepting sections of privately constructed…
Aug 22
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In 2016, a heavily armed North Carolina man barged into a Washington, DC-area pizza joint, intending to investigate…
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Content and moderation decisions by tech companies are increasingly the focus of unending kicking and screaming—to…
Aug 21
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Anyone remember the 2005 sci-fi movie Stealth? As far as I can remember, it involves a secret, artificially…
Aug 14
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Donald Trump—who once demanded that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden be executed for…