Anna Merlan
VICE
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Past articles by Anna:
It Looks Like George Santos Lied About Helping Kids Sick With a Rare Disease
Absolutely no one could have predicted this. → Read More
The Conspiracy-Verse Thinks "Fake UFOs" Are a Distraction From a Disastrous Train Derailment
Accidental environmental activism from a surprising source. → Read More
The COVID Truther Movement Has Found Its True Enemy—the COVID Truther Movement
When the pandemic began and a mass of COVID-“skeptical” self-proclaimed experts began appearing on the scene, they had a shared set of goals. Together, they opposed vaccine mandates, fearmongered about the vaccines themselves, promoted unproven or discredited treatments, and, in general, created a tidy little self-sustaining alternate universe. Their mutual support was important: They constantly… → Read More
An AI Chatbot Connects You With Pol Pot, Jeffrey Epstein, and Jesus in the Afterlife
“I think from an educational standpoint this would be really useful, particularly for young students,” the developer told Motherboard. → Read More
The Impossibly Nerdy Online Game That’s Fixing the Brains of Media Twitter
Diplomacy is a strategy game beloved by a small group of policy wonks and journalists. It’s also healing their Twitter-addled brains. → Read More
Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn’t Put on Air
Motherboard obtained footage of Ye making bigoted statements about Jewish people and bizarre claims about "fake children," as well as describing visions of "kinetic energy" cities sent to him by God. → Read More
Alex Jones Isn’t Testifying in Court, He’s Making Video Clips
Everything Jones has done in his Connecticut case is in the service of making more content. → Read More
Alex Jones Managed to Shill Products and Ask For Crypto Donations While Testifying In Court
Jones mumbled, digressed, yelled, and shilled his way through a heated, shambolic day of testimony. → Read More
Alex Jones Is Being Allowed to Make His Second Trial an On-Air Circus Too
In rants on Infowars and outside the courtroom, Jones continues to try to monetize his own downfall. → Read More
Alex Jones and Infowars Must Pay Sandy Hook Parents More Than $45 Million In Punitive Damages, Jury Finds
The jury already ordered him Thursday to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages. → Read More
A Copy of Alex Jones’ Cellphone Will Be Turned Over to the January 6 Committee ‘Immediately’
The phone data was accidentally given to a lawyer for the parents of children killed at Sandy Hook. → Read More
Alex Jones Found Out in Court That Sandy Hook Parents’ Attorneys Have a Copy of His Cellphone
“That is how I know you lied to me,” an attorney told Jones, mid-testimony. → Read More
Psychics and Tarot Readers Are Under Siege By Instagram Scammers and Online Fatigue
An already beleaguered workforce confronts a legion of impersonators and a platform they say isn’t doing enough to stop them. → Read More
Anti-Vaxxers Pivot to ‘Treating’ Long COVID
Massive doses of vitamin C, pyramid scheme prod and, of course, ivermectin are all on the menu. → Read More
These Women Say One Man Terrorized Them Online for Years. Then, They Decided to Band Together.
Harassed across the internet for more than a decade, a group of women found each other—and their alleged tormentor. → Read More
A PR Firm Is Paying TikTok Influencers to Promote Liberal Causes and Hype Democrats’ Middling Accomplishments
Vocal Media “recruits, trains, and pays influencers” to promote liberal causes on TikTok. It’s easy to see how less-benign actors could use their model. → Read More
In Secret Meeting, NYU Defends Potential Hiring of Researcher Accused of Sexual Misconduct
NYU leaders have gone to extraordinary lengths to defend a researcher accused of sexual misconduct, acting as a functional PR team for him to their own community. → Read More
The Ivermectin Guys’ Whole Thing Has Really Fallen Apart
Meanwhile, they’re still pretending the drug is viable as a treatment for COVID. → Read More
Now Marjorie Taylor Greene is Shilling Ivermectin on Instagram
Fresh off her partial Twitter ban, the Congresswoman is using another social media platform to spread bad information about COVID-19. → Read More
COVID-19 Is Bringing Back One of the Oldest and Strangest Fake Cures
Colloidal silver, one of the oldest faux cure-alls, has made an unsurprising comeback in the pandemic age. → Read More