Politics has never been stranger – or more online. Each week on WIRED Politics Lab, our reporters guide you through the exciting, challenging and sometimes entertaining vortex of internet extremism, conspiracies, and disinformation. Expect in-depth analysis and conversations based on facts and research. Plus, we’ll give you information you can actually use to lift the fog of disinformation we find ourselves in today.
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Get Wired: Animal Activists, Part 2: Ventilation Shutdown
In Part II of this two-part series, WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg joins WIRED host Lauren Goode to talk about Direct Action Everywhere (DxE)’s quest to use everyday tech to expose a controversial practice in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Get Wired: Animal Activists, Part 1: The Slaughterhouse
In Part I of this two part story on Get WIRED, we take a look at Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), an animal activist group that performs sting operations using high-tech methods such as full VR camera rigs to expose the oftentimes overlooked cruel practices of factory farming.
Get Wired: Bill Gates on Covid-19, TikTok, and Antitrust
A conversation between WIRED Editor Steven Levy and Bill Gates--co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Get Wired: The Rise of Virtual Beings
On the latest episode of the Get WIRED podcast, we attend a Virtual Beings Summit and contemplate what it means to be human. WIRED staff writer Emma Grey Ellis reports on how virtual beings are taking over our timelines—sometimes, without our even noticing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Get Wired: The Racist History of Surveillance Tech
Facial recognition tech has been critiqued for being inaccurate for a while now. But its problems became pretty clear last month, when the New York Times reported a story about a Black man named Robert Williams who was identified incorrectly as a suspect in a crime. In this episode, WIRED Senior Staff Writer Sidney Fussell, who covers surveillance technology, traces racialized surveillance tech to its origins, as far back as slavery and early prison designs...
Get Wired: Citizen and the Bizarre World of Live-Streamed Crime
The idea behind the Citizen app is that its users upload videos of the things that are going on in the neighborhood in real time — anything from as a gas leak to something potentially a lot more violent...
Get Wired Teaser: "Citizen and the Bizarre World of Live-Streamed Crime"
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