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The Internet That Tucker Carlson Built
On April 14, Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Tucker Carlson’s prime-time show that the Dutch government was opening “insect factories” to force people to eat bugs as “a compliance test” to see how pliable they’d be to state control. “Our politicians know that
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A Small Town Became the Center of a QAnon Storm. It’s Fighting Back
Bodegraven is the type of well-heeled Dutch town where young moms push their prams past smart restaurants, people say hello to each other as they pass in the street and packs of children roam around by bicycle. In March, the
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Spotted a UFO? There’s an App for That
The tech startup Enigma Labs wants to turn UFO sightings into data science. Previously, people who had seen strange lights darting around the sky could do no more than tell their friends—or call intelligence agencies. Soon, anyone with a smartphone
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Sandy Hook and the Troubling Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
Sandy Hook Hoax was a closed Facebook group; you needed an invitation to join. Its page was topped with the image of a child ghoul, her eyes ringed in black, a mud-encrusted finger pressed to her lips. Its nightly discussions
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Jacques Vallée Still Doesn’t Know What UFOs Are
On a white restaurant tablecloth in San Francisco, under the glow of a stained-glass dome ceiling with images of laurels, fleur-de-lis, and a ship, rested a portion of metal the size of a shallot. Around it, three men were having
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The Next Wave of Extremist Cults Will Make QAnon Look Tame
The world was supposed to breathe a collective sigh of relief in 2021—at least when it came to extremist, radicalized thinking. Donald Trump was out of office. QAnon, that cult-like movement operating under the belief that a secret pedophile cabal
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The Pentagon Has Set Up a UFO Office
Earlier this year, WIRED reported exclusively about a cold war between Taylor, the company that provides McDonald’s frequently broken ice cream machines, and Kytch, a startup whose device made it easier for franchisees to fix them. This week we dug
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Telegram Is Becoming a Cesspool of Anti-Semitic Content
In the past few months, Telegram has skyrocketed in popularity, hitting 550 million monthly active users in July 2021, which makes it the fifth-most-used messaging app in the world. And as a wave of government-mandated internet shutdowns washes over the
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Finally, a Fun Conspiracy Theory: Roy Kent on ‘Ted Lasso’ Is CGI
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Leave it to Apple to deepfake an entire person. Well, OK wait, let me explain. A while
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