The Wayfinder is a podcast and newsletter by a former counter-disinformation researcher that covers US election security, the dismantling of federal information defenses, and free speech politics. Readers get interviews with former public servants and long-form commentary arguing that the Trump administration has weakened democratic safeguards.
Website: https://www.thewayfinder.net
A weekly newsletter by Mark Scott on the intersection of technology, geopolitics and regulation, covering platform governance, disinformation, AI infrastructure and online political advertising. It combines original data work such as ad-spend dashboards with analysis of transatlantic digital policy.
Renée DiResta writes about online disinformation, foreign influence operations, platform moderation and the politics around counter-disinformation research. Issues combine first-hand accounts, document-based rebuttals and her own experiments, such as building an AI notewriter for Community Notes.
A personal newsletter by an ADHD-driven writer who tracks and analyses disinformation and Western rhetoric around Russia and Ukraine, with data-driven counts and historical conspiracy-theory deep dives. Readers get quantified analysis of propaganda patterns and context on how conspiracy narratives spread.
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