The Biden campaign is facing its first major cheapfake scandal this week. Doctored clips of Biden at the G7 Summit and a Hollywood fundraiser have spread across platforms like X, claiming to show Biden wandering off, mumbling unintelligibly, or, uh,
Author: Makena Kelly
A Billionaire Has a Plan to Save the Internet—Buying TikTok Is the Next Step
Hey, everyone. I’m back! Big thanks to my colleagues Vittoria Elliott and Dhruv Mehrotra for taking over for the past two weeks. Hopefully you all enjoyed hearing from them. For this week, I spoke with billionaire Frank McCourt. He’s spearheading
Trump Campaign Claims $34.8 Million Windfall After Guilty Verdict
Donald Trump’s campaign claimed on Friday that it had raised more than $34 million immediately following the Thursday evening announcement of his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The massive fundraising haul comes the morning after a jury
You Can Get Paid to Talk to Friends About Voting
In Tonya Williams’ Mississippi family, they all vote. But last year, Williams’ uncle mentioned offhandedly that he hadn’t voted in an election for several years. Shocked, she helped him make a plan. “We don’t miss elections. We will go. If
Election Deniers Aren’t Waiting for November
Since 2020, Donald Trump and his devotees have sown doubt over election results and spread dozens of election conspiracies. Some of these election deniers have become elected officials themselves, serving as governors and US senators. Others, like Mike Lindell, have
The Biden Campaign Fills Out Its Digital Team Ahead of Super Tuesday
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is staffing up on digital, with four key hires ahead of the Super Tuesday primary elections. On Sunday, the campaign named Ryan Thompson as chief mobilization officer and Kate Conway as creative director. Cat Stern