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WIRED Podcasts

Welcome to the AI Election Year

Leah Feiger

Big Money

Trump Campaign Claims $34.8 Million Windfall After Guilty Verdict

Makena Kelly

GUILTY

Trump’s Online MAGA Army Calls Guilty Verdict a Declaration of War

Tess Owen

openai

Foreign Influence Campaigns Don’t Know How to Use AI Yet Either

Vittoria Elliott

WIRED Politics Lab

2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election

Vittoria Elliott

The WIRED AI Elections Project

Vittoria Elliott

AI Election Project Methodology and Submission Information

Vittoria Elliott

Log Off

Germany’s Far-Right Party Is Running Hateful Ads on Facebook and Instagram

Vittoria Elliott

Let's Talk

You Can Get Paid to Talk to Friends About Voting

Makena Kelly

WIRED Podcasts

Twitter Is Dead, Long Live the Portal

Leah Feiger

WIRED Politics Lab

Inside the Reluctant Fight to Ban Deepfake Ads

Makena Kelly

Fact Check

A Far-Right Indian News Site Posts Racist Conspiracies. US Tech Companies Keep Platforming It

Vittoria Elliott and David Gilbert

Ballot Bots

Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve

Nilesh Christopher and Varsha Bansal

WIRED Podcasts

How Twitch Streamers Could Shape the 2024 Elections

Leah Feiger

FROM RUSSIA

Russian Disinfo Campaign Blames Ukraine for Shooting of Slovakia’s Prime Minister

David Gilbert and Morgan Meaker

ELECTION 2024

RFK Jr. Is Priming His Audience for Election Denialism

Anna Merlan

WIRED Politics Lab

Hasan Piker Won’t Tell You to Vote for Joe Biden

Makena Kelly

testimony

The US Election Threats Are Clear. What to Do About Them Is Anything But

William Turton

The Unknown

Secrecy Concerns Mount Over Spy Powers Targeting US Data Centers

Dell Cameron

WIRED Podcasts

The Conspiracies Swarming Campus Protests

Leah Feiger, Makena Kelly, Vittoria Elliott, and David Gilbert