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When God Almighty says to invest in Trump
Trump Media's small-time investors are seeing its plunging stock price as a test of faith: "I know good and well it’s in Trump’s hands, and he’s got plans."
Drew Harwell
I'm a reporter for the Washington Post. Email me at [email protected].
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A kooky TikTok takeover plan
Steven Mnuchin's big idea: Rebuild the video app from scratch.
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Truth Social's civil war
A legal battle royale involving Trump Media's co-founders and ex-financier could threaten one of the former president's financial lifelines.
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America vs. TikTok
A chamber of Congress just used vague security concerns to approve the forced sale or ban of a speech platform used by 170 million nationwide.
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Caught by push alert
A basic staple of modern smartphones becomes an FBI secret weapon.
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X embraces the deepfake chaos
A lack of moderation and a flood of clout-chasing accounts has turned the platform into "4chan 2."
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The $12 billion everything machine
A government scramble to build the tiny electrical components that form the bedrock of modern life.
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Tracking Taylor Swift's jet
Her attorneys say the accounts are stalker tools. The student says the data is public and that "her team thinks they can control the world."
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An undercover investigation into the "shit that happened with Trump"
The men who made millions in insider trades related to a Truth Social deal - and the federal agents who tracked them down.
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My bot, my self
A new wave of selfie-generating chatbots, made in our own images, end up revealing how much humanity they leave behind.
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How the police get your prescription records
America's largest pharmacy chains are handing over customers’ most intimate medical records in the store. And it's completely legal.
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A Montana judge upended the ban-TikTok debate
The state's first-in-the-nation law, Republicans' model for banning the video app, "violates the Constitution in more ways than one."
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OpenAI, X and the perils of absolute power
The secretive cults of personality that run Silicon Valley's biggest stars.
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The viral bin Laden trend that wasn't
How a "small group of nobodies" on TikTok sparked the latest social media panic.
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Inside a $10 million OnlyFans farm
In Florida, I saw firsthand how the new business of sex is changing the web.
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What are these violent videos doing to us?
The "golden age of brutal voyeurism" is bringing the horrors of war back home.