Joseph Menn
@joemenn
Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
There are a couple of odd things about the time Musk branded me a “contemptible liar” and some sites wrote stories about it. The first is that what provoked it was a single paragraph low down in a story about something else. The second is that Bloomberg later published the exact thing I described.
As long as I’m being a media critic, the below is an argument one has to make, even a defining stance?
When covering propaganda or conspiracy theories, do NOT devote the top of your story to amplifying the likes of Laura Loomer. Lead with what is true. Thanks.
Gosh I wonder why so many bananas conspiracy theories get spread about Soros. (Washington Post chart today on 2026 election spending.)
NYT is really quibbling here, true decimation would have knocked out 3 of 30, not 33.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me; Also the President really shouldn’t be a close second.
Do you ever wonder how Trump’s first choice for Attorney General would have handled the Epstein files?
Cybersecurity is moving so quickly now. Check out the malware-sniffing dogs at #RSAC
Nice to get this endorsement in EFF leader Cindy Cohn’s great new book, even though it involves the most painful moment of my career.
Just the executive chairman of defense tech company Anduril trying to buy Wired, cool cool cool.