Politics

The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient.

A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.

Brendan Carr wrote the Project 2025 chapter on the Federal Communications Commission. Now Donald Trump has tapped him to run the agency.

More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.

Mikki Willis, the maker of viral conspiracy film Plandemic, is seeking to leverage his relationship with Tulsi Gabbard to gain access to the new Donald Trump administration.

Donald Trump’s most extreme supporters may slam big business, the elites, and corporate greed, but they’re not too shy to push their own Black Friday deals.

Conspiracy theories about missing votes—which are not, in fact, missing—and something being “not right” are being spread widely on X in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.

Along with other foreign influence operations—including from Iran—Kremlin-backed campaigns to stoke division and fear have gone into overdrive.

The crypto industry is celebrating the return of Donald Trump to the White House in anticipation of an easier ride under his regime.

Emails obtained by WIRED show that technology from a company called EagleAI Network is helping election deniers target their neighbors.

A bug that WIRED discovered in True the Vote’s VoteAlert app revealed user information—and an election worker who wrote about carrying out an illegal voter-suppression scheme.

Unscrupulous online operators are spreading toxic lies to push bitcoin scams and sell MAGA shirts to Facebook users in the run-up to the US presidential election.

The opportunity for artificial intelligence to actually do some good has arrived—if it can be redirected toward where it’s needed most.

Our security and business editors join us to discuss how you can protect your personal information from data brokers, tech companies, scammers, and the government.

Kash Patel, who has pushed conspiracy theories and helped produce a single featuring the J6 Prison Choir, has proposed investigating the investigators of the failed insurrection.

Beyond the deepfakes and disinformation, the potential for AI to make politics more accessible and equitable cannot be ignored.