Matt Giles
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This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
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WIRED is focused on reporting the forces shaping the most terrifying administration in a generation already plagued by terror wars, financial ruin, and a global pandemic. The best way to help us keep doing that today is to stay reading. We'll see what happens tomorrow.
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
WIRED is focused on reporting the forces shaping the most terrifying administration in a generation already plagued by terror wars, financial ruin, and a global pandemic. The best way to help us keep doing that today is to stay reading. We'll see what happens tomorrow.
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SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound
Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
www.wired.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound
Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
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ok what's next? let's just say after 10+ years in journalism this is the most excited and responsible i feel to contribute to something because i believe in it so much. beating out everyone else's coverage of ICE/tech/your privacy in this dystopia, @404media.co, its an honor to join your badass team
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
ok what's next? let's just say after 10+ years in journalism this is the most excited and responsible i feel to contribute to something because i believe in it so much. beating out everyone else's coverage of ICE/tech/your privacy in this dystopia, @404media.co, its an honor to join your badass team
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On one wall: A constantly updating dashboard with students' lesson completion rates and other metrics
On the other: A shop of toys (at 6x markup) they can buy with Alpha bucks, earned by hitting learning quotas
In the middle: 6 yos tapping silently away at laptops
www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
On the other: A shop of toys (at 6x markup) they can buy with Alpha bucks, earned by hitting learning quotas
In the middle: 6 yos tapping silently away at laptops
www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
On one wall: A constantly updating dashboard with students' lesson completion rates and other metrics
On the other: A shop of toys (at 6x markup) they can buy with Alpha bucks, earned by hitting learning quotas
In the middle: 6 yos tapping silently away at laptops
www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
On the other: A shop of toys (at 6x markup) they can buy with Alpha bucks, earned by hitting learning quotas
In the middle: 6 yos tapping silently away at laptops
www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
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🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/
AI of a Thousand Faces
What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/
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Words I never thought I’d read: “we’ve sold through the initial printing of your hardcovers.” More copies of Blazing Eye Sees All are being printed as we speak! Thanks to everyone who has supported this book!
Out today: Blazing Eye Sees All, my investigation into the wide spiritual world of the New Age. It is an unintentional story of extremism, feminism, climate change, deception, power, myth and the very nature of believing. I hope you read it.
bookshop.org/p/books/blaz...
bookshop.org/p/books/blaz...
Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
bookshop.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Words I never thought I’d read: “we’ve sold through the initial printing of your hardcovers.” More copies of Blazing Eye Sees All are being printed as we speak! Thanks to everyone who has supported this book!
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It’s the weekend. We have a new podcast. You know what to do.
Why was 18-year-old Sarah Zuber found dead 400 feet from her front door? And how is it possible, six years later, that no one knows what happened to her?
Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
October 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It’s the weekend. We have a new podcast. You know what to do.
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Why was 18-year-old Sarah Zuber found dead 400 feet from her front door? And how is it possible, six years later, that no one knows what happened to her?
Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
October 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Why was 18-year-old Sarah Zuber found dead 400 feet from her front door? And how is it possible, six years later, that no one knows what happened to her?
Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void:
I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.
www.wired.com/story/the-re...
I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.
www.wired.com/story/the-re...
The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.
www.wired.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void:
I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.
www.wired.com/story/the-re...
I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.
www.wired.com/story/the-re...
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Have I ever said that I think THE INSIDER is the greatest movie ever made? Well, for my In Review Online debut, I write about the movie's relevant understanding of journalism's capitulating limitations and how those themes are elevated by Mann's signatures.
inreviewonline.com/2025/09/30/w...
inreviewonline.com/2025/09/30/w...
Wool Over Our Eyes: The Enduring Relevance of Michael Mann's The Insider | In Review Online
A film criticism essay on The Insider (1999), directed by Michael Mann, for film review site In Review Online.
inreviewonline.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Have I ever said that I think THE INSIDER is the greatest movie ever made? Well, for my In Review Online debut, I write about the movie's relevant understanding of journalism's capitulating limitations and how those themes are elevated by Mann's signatures.
inreviewonline.com/2025/09/30/w...
inreviewonline.com/2025/09/30/w...
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Babe, wake up. It's 1 p.m, first of all, and second of all...
HUSH SEASON 2 TRAILER JUST DROPPED.
HUSH SEASON 2 TRAILER JUST DROPPED.
‘Hush’: Season 2 trailer
Season two of "Hush" covers the case of Sarah Zuber, who died 400 feet from her front door in 2019. Despite living in a small community, police have been unable to figure out what happened to her.
www.opb.org
September 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Babe, wake up. It's 1 p.m, first of all, and second of all...
HUSH SEASON 2 TRAILER JUST DROPPED.
HUSH SEASON 2 TRAILER JUST DROPPED.
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NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism --- so as to align with "current administration priorities."
read @mollytaft.com:
read @mollytaft.com:
Combating Domestic Violent Extremism Is No Longer a FEMA Priority
Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with "current administration priorities."
www.wired.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism --- so as to align with "current administration priorities."
read @mollytaft.com:
read @mollytaft.com:
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Today, we're launching a new, improved subscription to give our fans more of the @wired.com they love. It includes:
- Five exclusive, subscriber-only newsletters
- Livestreams to connect with our journalists
- A new commenting experience + more
It's been a remarkable year so far. A look back: 🧵
- Five exclusive, subscriber-only newsletters
- Livestreams to connect with our journalists
- A new commenting experience + more
It's been a remarkable year so far. A look back: 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Today, we're launching a new, improved subscription to give our fans more of the @wired.com they love. It includes:
- Five exclusive, subscriber-only newsletters
- Livestreams to connect with our journalists
- A new commenting experience + more
It's been a remarkable year so far. A look back: 🧵
- Five exclusive, subscriber-only newsletters
- Livestreams to connect with our journalists
- A new commenting experience + more
It's been a remarkable year so far. A look back: 🧵
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Friday was my last day at WIRED. Today I started a new job at Bloomberg on a dream desk with @suryamattu.com and @jeffykao.bsky.social.
Got a tip? A dataset? Something we should look at? Find me on Signal at dmehro.89
In no particular order, here’s some stuff I’d like to continue to dig in to:
Got a tip? A dataset? Something we should look at? Find me on Signal at dmehro.89
In no particular order, here’s some stuff I’d like to continue to dig in to:
July 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Friday was my last day at WIRED. Today I started a new job at Bloomberg on a dream desk with @suryamattu.com and @jeffykao.bsky.social.
Got a tip? A dataset? Something we should look at? Find me on Signal at dmehro.89
In no particular order, here’s some stuff I’d like to continue to dig in to:
Got a tip? A dataset? Something we should look at? Find me on Signal at dmehro.89
In no particular order, here’s some stuff I’d like to continue to dig in to:
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Scoop! We got the agreement between ICE and Medicaid to share sensitive data with ICE agents. @leahfeiger.bsky.social @makenakelly.bsky.social @hudsongiles.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...
ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data
A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.
www.wired.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Scoop! We got the agreement between ICE and Medicaid to share sensitive data with ICE agents. @leahfeiger.bsky.social @makenakelly.bsky.social @hudsongiles.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...
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I'm blown away by this review in The American Scholar. It likens THEY POISONED THE WORLD to Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING, which ignited the modern environmental movement, and goes on to call my book a "masterly exposé" & "critical reading for us all."
#PFAS theamericanscholar.org/sticking-wit...
#PFAS theamericanscholar.org/sticking-wit...
June 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm blown away by this review in The American Scholar. It likens THEY POISONED THE WORLD to Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING, which ignited the modern environmental movement, and goes on to call my book a "masterly exposé" & "critical reading for us all."
#PFAS theamericanscholar.org/sticking-wit...
#PFAS theamericanscholar.org/sticking-wit...
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NEW: Meet DOGE 2.0
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:
This Is DOGE 2.0
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.
www.wired.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
NEW: Meet DOGE 2.0
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:
One of my favorite pieces to fact check at @wired.com, involving polo, billionaires, scouring YouTube for old matches at the Campo Argentino del Polo & thousands of pages of court documents and trial transcripts. Plus, being able to work with @mattreynolds.bsky.social.
My final piece for @wired.com
A story of biotech and betrayal, based on thousands of court documents, depositions, testimony and interviews.
Featuring an Argentine polo star, a Texas oilman and an exiled Russian billionaire. Oh, and lots and lots of cloned horses.
www.wired.com/story/clonin...
A story of biotech and betrayal, based on thousands of court documents, depositions, testimony and interviews.
Featuring an Argentine polo star, a Texas oilman and an exiled Russian billionaire. Oh, and lots and lots of cloned horses.
www.wired.com/story/clonin...
Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized
A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player’s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal.
www.wired.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One of my favorite pieces to fact check at @wired.com, involving polo, billionaires, scouring YouTube for old matches at the Campo Argentino del Polo & thousands of pages of court documents and trial transcripts. Plus, being able to work with @mattreynolds.bsky.social.
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory board could stop recommending some routine childhood immunizations, leaving insurers to decide whether to still cover them. For now, most are remaining tight-lipped. www.wired.com/story/insure...
With RFK Jr. in Charge, Insurers Aren’t Saying If They’ll Cover Vaccines for Kids If Government Stops Recommending Them
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory board could stop recommending some routine childhood immunizations, leaving insurers to decide whether to still cover them. For now, most are remaining tight-lipped.
www.wired.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory board could stop recommending some routine childhood immunizations, leaving insurers to decide whether to still cover them. For now, most are remaining tight-lipped. www.wired.com/story/insure...
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June 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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“When the battle’s playing out on a hundred fronts at once, we have to remember that there’s no single court ruling, no existential moment, no single referendum on ‘transgender rights’ that’ll decide how this struggle will go.”
Jules Gill-Peterson in @wired.com+@them.us
www.wired.com/story/histor...
Jules Gill-Peterson in @wired.com+@them.us
www.wired.com/story/histor...
June 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“When the battle’s playing out on a hundred fronts at once, we have to remember that there’s no single court ruling, no existential moment, no single referendum on ‘transgender rights’ that’ll decide how this struggle will go.”
Jules Gill-Peterson in @wired.com+@them.us
www.wired.com/story/histor...
Jules Gill-Peterson in @wired.com+@them.us
www.wired.com/story/histor...
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It's hard to overstate how extremist a policy Remigration is:
1 - Mass deportation of all illegal migrants
2 - Deportation of legal migrants see as a burden on society
3 - Deportation of citizens who have not assimilated
The aim? To create white Christian ethnostates
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
1 - Mass deportation of all illegal migrants
2 - Deportation of legal migrants see as a burden on society
3 - Deportation of citizens who have not assimilated
The aim? To create white Christian ethnostates
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’ to Kick Immigrants Out of the Country
"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department...
www.wired.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It's hard to overstate how extremist a policy Remigration is:
1 - Mass deportation of all illegal migrants
2 - Deportation of legal migrants see as a burden on society
3 - Deportation of citizens who have not assimilated
The aim? To create white Christian ethnostates
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
1 - Mass deportation of all illegal migrants
2 - Deportation of legal migrants see as a burden on society
3 - Deportation of citizens who have not assimilated
The aim? To create white Christian ethnostates
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals.
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals.
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
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For 7 years, Akasha Song ran secret labs that produced tens of millions of doses of DMT—one of the world's most potent psychedelic substances—and made a fortune selling it on the dark web.
His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: www.wired.com/story/rise-f...
🧵👇
His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: www.wired.com/story/rise-f...
🧵👇
The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin
Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made millions of doses—and dollars—until the feds showed up.
www.wired.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
For 7 years, Akasha Song ran secret labs that produced tens of millions of doses of DMT—one of the world's most potent psychedelic substances—and made a fortune selling it on the dark web.
His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: www.wired.com/story/rise-f...
🧵👇
His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: www.wired.com/story/rise-f...
🧵👇