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David Pierce @davidpierce.xyz · 03/06/2026

Today’s Vergecast: The grift and glory of the Enhanced Games. How far can we push the limits of the human body? At the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, a few dozen athletes tried to find out, and The Verge’s Victoria Song was there... www.theverge.com/podcast/942734/ver…

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Today’s Vergecast: The grift and glory of the Enhanced Games.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/04/2026

We just set up shop over on surf.social, a new platform that combines Bluesky posts with podcasts, YouTube, RSS, and more — rolling it all into custom feeds. You can find us here: verge.surf.social vergecast.surf.social decoder.surf.social versionhistory.surf.social

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Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader

Score one for the fediverse.

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Travis Larchuk @larchuk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Vergecast is expanding! We're doing awesome things! We need another producer so we can do these things! YOU COULD BE THAT PRODUCER!

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Producer, The Vergecast, The Verge

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

We are strict about the background policy because I want our readers to know where information comes from and who is accountable for it, and I have zero interest in pretending we have magical insight into anyone’s thinking. Read more here: www.theverge.com/press-room/2...

This list could go on and on — the clear pattern is that tech companies have uniformly adopted a strategy of obfuscating information behind background. It’s also easy to see why companies like to abuse background: they can provide their point of view to the media without being accountable for it. Instead, journalists have to act like they magically know things, and readers have to guess who is trustworthy and who is not.

This is bad, so we’re going to reset these expectations as loudly as possible.

From now on, the default for communications professionals and people speaking to The Verge in an official capacity will be “on the record.”
We will still honor some requests to be on background, but at our discretion and only for specific reasons that we can articulate to readers.

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Earlier this month, a study went viral — a social listening firm said it had traced "inauthentic" social media activity that helped to spread narratives that Taylor Swift was using Nazi symbolism. Then all hell broke loose. I tried to get to the bottom of it: www.theverge.com/report/84572...

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A vague study on Nazi bots created chaos in the Taylor Swift fan universe

A sloppy report has triggered a new wave of viral discourse.

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