Did Mailchimp Censor J.D. Vance?
Former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance, (R-Oh), at the East Palestine Fire Department in the aftermath of the Norfolk Southern train derailment Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio.Matt Freed/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Monday, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance accused the…
Alleged Fraudster Guo Wengui’s Social Media App Was a Big Security Risk, Ex-Employees Say
Mother Jones; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Early last year, around 30 engineers at the social media company Gettr received a WhatsApp audio message from Guo Wengui, a wealthy Chinese exile with deep ties to US right-wing politics. Guo, who has since…
Russia Revives Its Botnet to Hit Swing-State Democrats
Contributor/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Russian trolls and bots are coming back online ahead of the midterms—this time, amplifying right-wing vitriol on Gab, Parler, Gettr, and other minor social media platforms serving far-right audiences. Cybersecurity researchers have identified the reactivation of inflammatory accounts linked…
Meet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Let’s say you’re like me: a person between the ages of 18 and 50 with a uterus. Imagine you work a job that pays the bills, but you don’t have as much time off as you’d like,…
Experts Raise Warnings About Steve Bannon’s New Cryptocurrency
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last month, Steve Bannon, the former Trump campaign manager and White House strategist, announced his participation in a new venture: a cryptocurrency marketed to Joe Biden haters and Donald Trump devotees. He and…
Ransomware Attacks Are Hitting Small Business—Some of the Targets Are Even Military Subcontractors
US Department of EnergyGraeme Sloan/Sipa USA/Sipa/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On June 3—sandwiched between snippets of data from a US technology testing firm and a Brazilian maritime logistics company—internal information from an Albuquerque-based small business…