The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop
… The accounts driving the discourse are, in a sense, “genuine”—bespoke, engineered, and overseen directly by the in-house PR team, working from their smartphones. …
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A Crypto Scam Targeted a Gay OnlyFans Star. Then His X Feed Was Flooded With ‘MAGA Propaganda’
… The cleanup also led to the suspension and deletion of human-run alt accounts, including many used to privately curate niche porn, WIRED previously reported. “I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but it was convenient that they would do a hacking in the middle of a purge,” Bewley says, who believe… …
Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market
… After WIRED asked Telegram about Elliptic's findings regarding Xinbi Guarantee and a then-even-larger market known as Huione Guarantee, Telegram summarily purged the accounts of both. …
The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep
… The man in the glasses, she adds, “didn't seem to understand that it could be very off-putting to record someone first without asking.” This type of encounter is becoming more common, to judge by a proliferation of social media accounts in which content creators use smart glasses to record their pu… …
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
… In February, Emily’s account was officially banned after Instagram flagged it for “fraudulent” activity, though her Facebook account is still active. Sam says even if her account had not been banned, he probably would have stopped posting anyway. …
US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid
… California, Illinois, and New York have banned state employees from trading on confidential information in an effort to appease growing concerns about public corruption. …
Your iPhone Gets Stolen. Then the Hacking Begins
… While Apple and Google have improved their protections for stolen devices, a variety of more- and less-sophisticated thieves can still make money from stolen handsets: If a phone is unlocked or a thief has its passcode, they can potentially steal money from online bank accounts or crypto wallets; t… …
In a Big Reversal, Zohran Mamdani Tells NYC Agencies They Can Use TikTok
… Adams spokesperson Jonah Allon said then that the city’s Cyber Command office had decided that TikTok, which was owned by the Chinese-based company ByteDance, “posed a security threat to the city’s technical networks and directed its removal from city-owned devices.” The directive resulted in a num… …
This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes
…It has a hit tune—but most of the plays and attention are on unauthorized, robotic remixes that the band and its team suspect have been spun up with the help of…
Meet the Accidental Editor in Chief of Muslim Media
… Editor's note: In an emailed statement to WIRED Middle East, Meta shared a link to its policies around government-issued requests to restrict content and accounts, but did not comment on @muslim being banned in India. …