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NEW from me + @BrandyZadrozny:The Deepfake Peddling a Hunter Biden Dossierhttps://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-groundwork-hunter-biden-conspiracy-deluge-n1245387 Months before the NY Post story, a document passed arou

After a half-decade covering extremists and disinfo pipelines, this is the week the effects of this job really got to me.The anonymous people want me dead, the named are desperate

Tucker Carlson is devoting an entire segment to attacking my colleague, Brandy Zadrozny, for doing actual reporting, like using public records to confirm identities of people who create harassment campaigns.It's

Four years ago today, Pizzagate was born when Wikileaks dropped John Podesta's hacked emails.Users on 4chan and Reddit said if you replaced the words "pizza" with "little girl" in his

BREAKING: Facebook bans QAnon across its platformsFacebook "will remove Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts for representing QAnon" like any other militarized social movement, militia or terror group.https://www.nbcnews.

Just a story, no reason:I remember the first time I was prescribed steroids for a bad illness I had. I was 19. For a week, I felt superheroic, like I

New from me: The viral earpiece conspiracy theory was pushed by coordinated Facebook accounts at the same second this morning. Then Fox News picked it up. Then, the Trump campaign

"Proud Boys, stand back and stand by" is not disavowing white supremacists. The president was asked point blank to disavow white supremacists.Here's what he said: "Proud Boys, stand back and

The Biden earpiece conspiracy theory (which originated in a tweet from a single anonymous source to a NYPost reporter, and was instantly denied by the campaign) is everywhere on Facebook.

Interesting development:Q posted a laundry list of sex crimes by U.S. politicians yesterday in four long, separate posts. It was copied + pasted, 100% plagiarized.Where did that list first appear?The

NEW + exclusive: Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter sayshttps://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553 Pro-Trump Twitter accounts pos

I'm talking with @mathewi and @BrandyZadrozny about QAnon right now.Here's how I think we need to look at it in the next few months, and how we can best shine