Makena Kelly is a senior writer at WIRED. She focuses on the intersection of politics, power, and technology, exploring how these elements influence the internet and shape our political reality through her Politics Lab newsletter. Makena's work has been featured in Editor & Publisher (E&P) Magazine, Undark Magazine, and Ars Technica, among others.
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The city will allow agencies to return to TikTok, but with strict new device and security rules.
By: Makena Kelly, Vittoria Elliott
The DOGE engineer appeared on influencer Nick Shirley's podcast this week to talk corruption and government work—and how they collaborated on Shirley's recent ‘investigation.'
15 pts "The online right wasn't supportive and there wasn't anything that was going to change that," says one person familiar with the Republican influencer pipeline.
By: David Gilbert, Makena Kelly
The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.
Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.
By: Makena Kelly
15 pts It took just a few months of President Donald Trump's second term for Palantir employees to question their company's commitments to civil liberties. Last fall, Palantir seemed to become the technological backbone of Trump's immigration enforcement machinery, providing software identifying, tracking, and…
Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE's incursion into the agency.
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer is proposing a new jobs guarantee for workers displaced by artificial intelligence.
16 pts The game, developed by the group of anonymous artists known as Secret Handshake, is available online and in person in Washington, DC.
The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.
