David Gilbert
@daithaigilbert
Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. Got a tip? DMs open. Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
I spent six months investigating the Constitutional Sheriffs and the threat they pose to the US elections. • Read: wired.com/story/constitu… • Listen: pod.link/1516843565/epi… • Watch: ⤵️
"The powerful punishing those who speak for the powerless, it is not a sign of strength, but of guilt". Let's stand tall, together.
After a minute of reflection upon hearing the news that the US imposed sanctions against her, the response of @FranceskAlbs needed no translation, reassuring that there is no stepping back in working for justice and freedom for all. ❤️✊
SCOOP Mentions of "false flag conspiracies" have exploded on X in the last few months according to data from @ISDglobal shared exclusively with WIRED wired.com/story/false-fl…

“Nothing that we do is going to satisfy the base. By putting wind in the Epstein sails from the beginning, we have created this problem for ourselves. An own goal Which we can’t undo.” @JakeLahut reports on the turmoil Epstein is causing in Trumpworld wired.com/story/trump-ep…
Derek's level of stupidity knows no bounds.....
Fake news, There was no probation act! I will give @IrishTimes & @Independent_ie 24 hrs to correct and apologise, or I'm coming for your money. 💰
Today Israel murdered every child in this photo. If these were Israeli kids we'd hear every western leader speak their names and every news channel tell us their story. They're Palestinians so have no names, no story and no value to western nations who "champion human rights".
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.” wired.com/story/the-fbis…
MAGA is pissed about the Epstein files, but it's also mad about lots of other Trump decisions—and that be a big problem “The potential is a death by thousands cuts scenario, where enough criticism hits from enough different angles,” @MattGertz says wired.com/story/jeffrey-…
"Activity on bleach-supporting social media groups is exploding, and influencers are reemerging in an effort to push President Donald Trump’s administration to approve bleach as a mainstream treatment." wired.com/story/chlorine… via @daithaigilbert @WIRED
"Pockets of Donald Trump’s most loyal base are increasingly angry at what they view as the administration’s failure to fulfill its promises"
MAGA is angry about Epstein. But it's also mad about a lot of other things: vaccines, deportations, chemtrails and more wired.com/story/jeffrey-…
MAGA is angry about Epstein. But it's also mad about a lot of other things: vaccines, deportations, chemtrails and more wired.com/story/jeffrey-…
The DOJ claimed it released 11 hours of “full raw” footage from a camera near Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. But @dmehro discovered the footage was modified, likely using Adobe software and came from at least two source clips wired.com/story/metadata…
The first poster for the tube which was rejected for "a well known political phrase referring to Irish unification." An aspiration permitted under the GFA.
Driving with MechaHitler in the passenger seat wired.com/story/elon-mus…
Someone put My Cousin Vinny dialogue over Skeletor and Evil-Lyn and its way too perfect
Musk may have left Washington, but DOGE is continuing its assault on the federal government unabated. More incredible reporting from the all stars of DOGE reporting @telliotter and @kellymakena wired.com/story/next-sta…
AND it can do MechaHitler....
AGI Highlander 🤖 Tonight Grok 4 breaks away from the pack on the ARC-AGI-2 leaderboard — an independent third-party assessment. • @ElonMusk: on academic tests, @Grok 4 is better than almost all PhDs in all fields • Over 2x better than the best from OpenAI, and improving fast.
“I think that we've probably received in excess of 100 explicit death threats on either email or X, [with] probably about one order of magnitude more calls for my incarceration,” @ADoricko, founder of cloud seeding company Rainmaker, told @mollytaft wired.com/story/texas-fl…
Extremists, right-wing influencers and GOP lawmakers spent the days after the tragic Texas floods pushing conspiracies about "weather weapons." On Sunday, a weather radar system was vandalized and one extremist group is taking credit with @mollytaft wired.com/story/texas-fl…
Free AI tools are fueling pro-Russia disinformation campaigns wired.com/story/pro-russ…
Day after day - scores murdered by these war criminals. Today a cafe bombed with over 30 dead mostly women and children. Yet still Western media and governments rush to give them cover.