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Taylor Lorenz is a technology journalist, the host of the Power User podcast, and the author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet. She joined Current Affairs’ Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson and Digital Editor John Ross (who was formerly a producer for the David Pakman Show) to discuss her recent bombshell article for Wired: an investigation into Chorus, Good Influence, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the dark money network secretly funding Democratic influencers.

After the shocking murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk on Wednesday afternoon, tributes and expressions of grief poured in from conservative politicians and activists, along with expressions of sympathy and denunciations of political violence from both sides of the aisle. Now, however, numerous government and elected officials are taking their protection of Kirk’s legacy a […]

Kirk set an example that is, in two ways, already being honored.

17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

“Good afternoon,” is how Magistrate Judge Heide Herrmann welcomed detainees into DC Superior Court room C-10 when it was their turn to stand in front of the bench on Monday. But at 8:37 p.m., it was hardly “afternoon” anymore. Nor was it a good day for most of the inmates. They had been brought over […]

Last week, organizers for the “European Conference of Health and Human Rights” announced a change: Their keynote speaker, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had withdrawn after Estonian politicians reportedly called Kennedy a “quack” and “cuckoo.” It was the end of an odd saga. A month earlier, organizers announced Kennedy was […]

Authorities said that the suspect, Tyler Robinson, indicated his involvement in Kirk's killing to a family friend who then turned him in.

Biko, who founded South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement when he was a medical student, died in a prison cell at the age of 30.

The UAE's president visited the Qatari emir on Wednesday, and Qatar’s leader attended funeral prayers for those killed in the strike.