HuffPost • 9th September 2021 Scoop: Trump Insiders Are Quietly Paying Teen Memers To Post Partisan Sponcon Documents show that meme accounts rife with disinformation have also become shadowy advertising tools for some notable Republicans.
The Damage Report • 4th September 2021 Interview: The Young Turks I joined John Iadarola on The Damage Report to discuss my article on a new and dangerous deepfake porn tool.
HuffPost • 20th August 2021 ‘I Feel Used’: OnlyFans Made Millions Off Sex Workers’ Labor. Then It Hung Them Out To Dry. A sudden policy change that will ban “sexually explicit” material from OnlyFans threatens to upend the lives of those who made the platform successful.
HuffPost • 10th August 2021 A Powerful New Deepfake Porn Tool Has Digitally Undressed Thousands Of Women The AI-generated nudes, which look horrifyingly realistic, are sweeping the web.
The Damage Report • 7th August 2021 Interview: The Young Turks I joined John Iadarola on The Damage Report to discuss my feature on couples driven to divorce by anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
HuffPost • 24th July 2021 A Vaccine Or This Marriage: Conspiracy Theories Are Tearing Couples Apart "He said if I take the vaccine I could pack my bags and leave his kids here."
HuffPost • 20th July 2021 Female Twitch Streamers Spend Their Lives Online. Predators Are Watching. For women who earn a living on Twitch, being the target of coordinated, multiplatform sexual harassment campaigns comes with the job.
The Young Turks • 13th June 2021 Interview: The Young Turks I joined John Iadarola on The Damage Report to discuss my feature on the Facetune epidemic.
HuffPost • 20th May 2021 Self-Loathing And Surgeries: Inside The Facetune Epidemic The massively popular photo-editing app Facetune is driving a generation of young women to extreme and obsessive lengths to look flawless online.
HuffPost • 15th April 2021 Interview: HuffPost Video I talked to the HuffPost Video team about QAnon's cult-like hold over countless Americans.
Apple Podcasts • 1st April 2021 Interview: Under the Influence I joined journalist Jo Piazza on her podcast, "Under the Influence," to discuss my reporting on QAnon-supporting influencers. (31:50)
HuffPost • 26th March 2021 The Hidden Hand Of Facial Recognition In The Capitol Insurrection Manhunt The highly controversial tool isn’t just for the feds anymore. Online sleuths are quietly using it to hunt for rioters — like the man they’ve dubbed #NaziGrayHat.
HuffPost • 10th March 2021 Interview: Between The Lines I talked to HuffPost's "Between The Lines" team about the rise of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, and the role that Big Tech plays in propagating them.
HuffPost • 5th March 2021 Revealed: The Star-Spangled Trumper Who Attacked Capitol Police With A Fire Extinguisher Robert Scott Palmer assaulted federal officers on Jan. 6 — and he’s still at large. Meet one of the online sleuths working to change that.
HuffPost • 26th February 2021 Revealed: Meet The Trump Fanatic Who Tasered A Cop At The Capitol Insurrection Danny “DJ” Rodriguez brawled with cops, tried to smash out a Capitol window, and assaulted a police officer on Jan. 6. He’s still at large.
The Young Turks • 25th February 2021 Interview: The Young Turks I joined John Iadarola on The Damage Report to discuss my feature story on the children of QAnon believers.
HuffPost • 11th February 2021 ‘I Miss My Mom’: Children Of QAnon Believers Are Desperately Trying To Deradicalize Their Parents Here’s what it’s like to lose the person who raised you to a far-right cult.
HuffPost • 20th January 2021 ‘It’s Over’: Devastated QAnon Believers Grapple With Joe Biden’s Inauguration A look inside QAnon’s virtual inauguration watch party, which went horribly wrong.
HuffPost • 15th January 2021 Feeling Betrayed, Far-Right Extremists Have A New Message For Trump: 'Get Out Of Our Way' As a now twice-impeached Trump backs down from his “Stop the Steal” hoax, the supporters he radicalized are denouncing him in droves — and vowing to carry on the fight without him.
HuffPost • 13th January 2021 Online Police Communities Are Rife With Conspiracies And Support For The Capitol Riot Unable to grasp how Trump supporters could turn against cops, many officers are blaming the deadly violence on antifa.
