Charlie Warzel

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Writer. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.

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2026-05-05 02:36:14 UTC

this 2-3 year reporting fellowship for the paper in Martha's Vineyard (comes with a furnished 2-bedroom guesthouse!) looks like it ruuuules [vineyardgazette.com/henry-beetle...](https://vineyardgazette.com/henry-beetle-hough-enterprise-fellowship-reporter )
[Henry Beetle Hough Enterprise ...](https://vineyardgazette.com/henry-beetle-hough-enterprise-fellowship-reporter )

2026-05-01 13:51:49 UTC

even if this is wrong, online view metrics are defined by each platform (and on X where his numbers are sometimes enormous, there’s no definition of what counts as a “view”) to the point that view counts are, at best random and suspect and, at worst, total bullshit.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qva6zago4agr25tkiu6rbyw6/post/3mkrewjtf4k2l

2026-03-27 18:24:00 UTC

very biased but i think this pod with [@goldman.blue@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:km4nm5dcf77fzviy7rsweqct ) — one of Twitter's early execs—speedrunning the history of the platform on the occasion of its 20th anniversary is a banger. a lot in here about how what made twitter special is also what has broken so many brains. Highly recommend!
[What Is Twitter’s Legacy, 20 Y...](https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/03/what-is-twitters-legacy-20-years-later/686570/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAXWGZlb2ujq49erYDh_VFTk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2026-03-26 20:54:08 UTC

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So [@matteowong.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:5tq7poynbdl3zaeazyfdtu67 ) & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while
[The AI Boom Wasn’t Built for t...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/ai-boom-polycrisis/686559/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAeB1EU9tGg8Uju7RCq6VZtk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2026-03-20 16:07:36 UTC

maybe im doing it wrong but i feel like the various crises of 2026 have revealed the limitations of this platform for me. twitter was always invaluable to me in chaotic times bc you had a lot of subj matter expert weirdos coming out of the woodwork. just dont feel like there's a much of that here rn

2026-02-14 17:21:32 UTC

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.
[This Is What It Looks Like Whe...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/internet-nihilism-crisis/686010/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAbJToRoflYhvObTrpUNn2p8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2026-02-13 17:18:52 UTC

ALERT: TODAY IS KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD DAY ON THE POD
Stu Mackenzie of King Gizzard joins me to talk about pulling their music of Spotify in protest, the AI song squatters that tried to take their place, and how to create art/music in this era and stay sane. So jazzed about this one!
[Spotify, AI, and the Future of...](https://youtu.be/UvGxnt_f-MA?si=omF5dlHrHTYysqhA )

2026-02-06 17:49:47 UTC

one of my favorite eps [@aidanwalker.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:xrz2r6zgcmdrjjgx3cqkybp4 ) walked me through the rise of Clavicular & the nihlist-by-default livestreamer culture. if you want to understand what we are up against here & what happens when making content becomes your only ideology this was v enlightening [youtu.be/E0juSVoIVuE?...](https://youtu.be/E0juSVoIVuE?si=kVu5pHLwJRdUnTFr )
[The Internet’s New Extremists ...](https://youtu.be/E0juSVoIVuE?si=kVu5pHLwJRdUnTFr )

2026-02-05 18:03:28 UTC

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

2025-12-16 16:58:58 UTC

lot of awful and insane stuff going on. but if you really want to have a brain bleed this holiday season don't lose sight of Stephen Miller's wife doing a video podcast with the FBI director and his gf about their love life
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2025-12-10 23:32:49 UTC

ah yes, everyone remembers that moment after 9/11 where everyone got cancelled and we started the extremely woke war on terror [www.piratewires.com/p/heather-co...](https://www.piratewires.com/p/heather-cox-richardson-divorce-2025-12 )
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2025-11-30 19:07:21 UTC

three years ago today ChatGPT launched. so i wrote about its legacy (for now). (turns out a whole hell
of a lot happened in just 3 years) [www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/chatgpt-third-anniversary/685084/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZATCTlA_V0khbv1MdNugQgYc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[The World Still Hasn’t Made Se...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/chatgpt-third-anniversary/685084/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZATCTlA_V0khbv1MdNugQgYc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-11-28 18:33:33 UTC

really good pod today with Eliot. his framework for our information hellscape works to erode and/or simulate democracy is worth your time!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2whlowi5jjjqrdrrj4lxh2lx/post/3m6pcna3wvc22

2025-11-26 04:00:59 UTC

the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
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2025-11-25 16:19:13 UTC

when its definitely not a hostage situation
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2025-11-24 16:32:59 UTC

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
[That MAGA Account Might Be a T...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAcCrBXkH5imrvoYRXquoAEY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-11-23 18:35:33 UTC

this is quite good and thorough [www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share )
[What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT U...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share )

2025-11-21 17:11:27 UTC

omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 [jmail.world](https://jmail.world/ )
[Jmail, logged in as jeevacatio...](https://jmail.world/ )

2025-11-14 18:04:33 UTC

Friends! Here is the first episode of a new podcast i'm hosting. I'm thinking of it as a way of trying to have more of the conversations I have w/ smart ppl about the internet/politics/broken attention economy in public. first guest is the great [@hankgreen.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/hankgreen.bsky.social ) [www.youtube.com/watch?v=A492...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4922CILwM4 )
[Hank Green: It’s Going to Get ...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4922CILwM4 )

2025-11-11 04:26:15 UTC

Now I'm a dummy but it really feels to me like there has to be an entire relatively broad-based winning politics based around being in opposition to *just this one sliver* of what the Trump administration is doing right here [www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html )
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2025-11-10 18:59:37 UTC

i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*

2025-10-20 22:47:05 UTC

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
[AI’s Invasive Species](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/ai-slop-winning/684630/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAUeYdBRhieDEJ7qk7UuRID4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-09-18 14:01:37 UTC

grateful to share some of my internet brain damage with Jon and talk about extremely online mass shooters, how the press is struggling to cover the assassination, and why we seem determined to have our important conversations on platforms that aren’t built for them
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2025-09-12 23:34:46 UTC

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous
[Something Is Very Wrong Online](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/charlie-kirk-assassination-online-reaction/684201/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0ZY_8qLLAueznc8lg3WkEto&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-09-12 14:37:36 UTC

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)
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[The Mass Shooters Are Performi...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/minneapolis-church-shooting-influencers/684083/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0Swi3ILB0vy509-f__ebQ7g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
#note1c8g…sl2s

2025-09-10 03:07:31 UTC

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
[You Really Need to See Epstein...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/jeffrey-epstein-birthday-book-conspiracy-theories/684157/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0fGBEa0cMmXQ9jazwm3ufrc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-09-08 16:39:10 UTC

My theory is that the arrival of traffic measuring metrics supercharged distrust in media. Yeah, there's clickbait, but I think the real issue is that audiences actually get really tired of being given the thing they signal that they want. Even when its not a race to the bottom, it hurts trust
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2025-08-22 02:09:54 UTC

i'm a broken record on this stuff but the cracker barrel thing is a great example of something that a few weirdos care about. but the way the internet works is that LOTS of people find it funny when weirdos get worked up, which recruits new weirdos/enrages the old weirdos & now this is a thing

2025-08-20 19:56:02 UTC

this product does not exist
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#note1uc4…cr9f

2025-08-05 17:56:48 UTC

i play golf & you get randomly paired up a lot and the few “MAGA” folks i’ve been paired up with are *extremely confrontational* about their politics - they have a compulsion to bring it up immediately - they wear the gear, etc. it is a totalizing lifestyle. they’re looking for a fight
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#note19g7…kdcu

2025-07-30 03:25:06 UTC

What Time Does The Tsunami Start
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2025-07-30 00:17:42 UTC

I wrote about the Sydney Sweeney jeans discourse and broken informations systems that make talking to each other impossible (in fact it's not even the goal). Context collapse is just how people (and brands!) communicate now. [www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ads/683704/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0Rqh-RBCXaXmzfBoTU_lwXk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[The Internet Loves Sydney Swee...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ads/683704/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0Rqh-RBCXaXmzfBoTU_lwXk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-07-24 17:55:48 UTC

Seems normal and fine [www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/chatgpt-ai-self-mutilation-satanism/683649/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0cxSx11Lntx4lJmT0kSHB7A&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
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2025-07-22 22:33:18 UTC

what this makes me think about - with regard to right now - is how so much of the information about Trump and Epstein that’s resonated in recent weeks is old stuff, widely and publicly reported. but a lot of it didn’t break through to lots of ppl in their information environments
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#note1f72…xp2f

2025-07-22 20:36:52 UTC

You can tell a lot about how Trump feels about his own power and influence by the way he’s posting. In that context, I wrote about Trump's addled social media crashout over the weekend and how it's different from a few months ago when he had more juice [www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/trump-weird-posts-truth-social-epstein/683627/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0U2ssgAGiDCTjPxTa0bhwJM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[Trump’s Social-Media Habit Is ...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/trump-weird-posts-truth-social-epstein/683627/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0U2ssgAGiDCTjPxTa0bhwJM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-07-21 17:47:16 UTC

feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future
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2025-07-08 23:12:21 UTC

"Musk and xAI did not respond to a request for comment; while Grok was palling around with neo-Nazis, Musk was posting on X about the video game Diablo and Jeffrey Epstein."
[Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling fo...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0aqqdSsaHDgZB8kcsy7aDBI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-06-11 15:38:49 UTC

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone
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2025-06-05 18:22:02 UTC

a pretty great admission by Musk that, despite being a mega donor and shadow president for a month there, he's completely unaware of the dynamics of american politics. he was merely audience captured by the only people who could stand him anymore and now he's gonna alienate them too
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2025-05-23 18:58:46 UTC

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it
[What Are People Still Doing on...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/stop-using-x/682931/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0ZFAJnC47hGETLAEy8bNA0Q&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-05-23 18:29:06 UTC

Lots of nostalgia for the golden age of magazines/expense accounts/travel and decadence. But whenever I take a spin through the Atlantic's archives, I yearn for the days of magazine writing where people were literally like, here is simply a piece of food/geography that exists
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2025-05-02 14:25:34 UTC

The Twitter Files was a glimpse of the future of right-wing political warfare, and its success offered a template for providing red meat to an audience with an insatiable appetite for grievance. Now, it seems we might get a Twitter Files for U.S. govt [www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/state-department-beattie-twitter-files/682667/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0ZECydNKq6-Cd30tzms9z50&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
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2025-04-21 16:51:36 UTC

i feel like its slightly disqualifying to start a substack by saying the media isn't meeting the moment but that you didn't realize that until...like a month ago?!
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2025-04-16 03:24:31 UTC

i can't believe this is real but it is
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2025-03-27 17:53:03 UTC

deepfaking stuff that didn't happen has long been the concern but the bigger issue has always been fakery that's on the margins — not creating stuff out of thin air, but generating fakery around stuff that really happened in a way where it's not clear which thing is real and which thing is fake
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#note1jg5…my08

2025-03-17 01:55:11 UTC

pretty good representation of the mask off era here
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