The Internet Is Full of Predators. Omegle Lets You Meet Them.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Content warning: This story contains descriptions of child sexual abuse. The two girls at the sleepover huddled together on the bed, passing the cell phone around. They took turns glancing at the screen, fascinated and unsettled by what they…
Evan McMullin Put Democracy On the Ballot. Utah Voters Probably Won’t Care.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In mid-October, the actor Mark Hamill, a.k.a. Luke Skywalker, turned his star power on Evan McMullin, who is running a surprisingly competitive race for Senate in Utah. First came the tweet: “I like @EvanMcMullin SO much, it makes me…
Top GOP Secretary of State Candidates Hobnob with Extreme Conspiracy Theorists
Kristina Karamo, candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, Mark Finchem, candidate for Arizona Secretary of State and Jim Marchant, candidate for Nevada Secretary of State, attend an earlier conference on conspiracy theories and discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election at a hotel in West Palm Beach, Fla., in September. Jim Rassol/AP Fight disinformation: Sign…
Yes, Trump and the Republican Party Own the Attack on Paul and Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi holds a news conference about Trump’s second impeachment, Jan. 15, 2021.Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The suspect who allegedly targeted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and brutally beat her husband Paul with a hammer after breaking into their San Francisco home…
Elon Musk, Free Speech Absolutist, Is Silent About His Saudi Partners
Davide Bonaldo/AP illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Elon Musk is a self-declared “free-speech absolutist” who might let Donald Trump and various Nazis return to action on Twitter. “The bird is freed,” he triumphantly tweeted to his approximately 112 million followers when he officially took…
JFK Jr.’s Iconic Magazine Is Back From the Dead. You Can Thank QAnon.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Virtually every one of the 70 or so speakers at Michael Flynn’s ReAwaken America tour last weekend in Manheim, Pennsylvania, had something to sell, and Gene Ho was no exception. There was his book, TRUMPography: How…