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Brian Reed

@brihreed.bsky.social
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Host of Question Everything from KCRW and Placement Theory: lnk.to/khCBOC Co-founder of Placement Theory Host of S-Town; Co-Host of The Trojan Horse Affair (Serial/New York Times); formerly senior producer at This American Life Signal: brihreed.45

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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You've heard the creepy stories of cops using Flock surveillance cameras to spy on people in their personal lives. One cop in Florida allegedly tracked his estranged wife more than 700 times. Another reportedly used the cameras to see if his ex had visited an abortion clinic.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered." That's what Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said to more than 40 fellow attorneys general from around the country as he was trying to convince them to a deal he'd brokered with Meta in the massive child harm lawsuits.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The only think piece I'm wanting to read on Nikole Hannah Jones’ searing article is "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas."
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is now becoming a standard disinformation tactic in the AI age.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What would have happened if Connecticut had just stood its ground, refused to settle like everyone else, and kept the anti-trust suit alive?
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Journalism, truth, and facts are still very threatening to people in power. Clearly.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For months my team has been embroiled in a bizarre whodunnit for the AI age, involving local news, federal prison, and Mindy Kaling.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Recently, our team at "Question Everything" came across a strange local news outlet in Florida. It was called the South Florida Standard.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Interviewing the Tennessee attorney general about the multi-state Meta settlement tomorrow, which he was a lead negotiator on. Lemme know any questions you have for him.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Back from vacation with a studio upgrade.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’ve heard many people interview Jonathan Haidt, the person behind the movement to curb the presence of social media in children’s lives: David Remnick, Bill Maher, Katie Couric, Steven Bartlett. But recently, I heard someone question Haidt in a way that stood above the others.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Meta is officially a "public nuisance" -- that's the legal term -- in the state of New Mexico. In the ruling he issued last week in New Mexico's lawsuit against the company, Judge Bryan Biedscheid compared Meta to a factory.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We've been calling teens in New Mexico to ask what they think of the new rules a judge just ordered limiting their time on Instagram and Facebook, no push notifications during school, no like counts...and we've yet to find one who's on social media! Maybe this is a moot ruling?
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This historic decision dropped yesterday. Question Everything had two reporters at the trial in Santa Fe, taking in the testimony and evidence the judge heard to come to this ruling. We've run two stories, and I think it's most in-depth reporting on this case. Links below🎧 ⬇️
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"There's no situation in real life other than in the minds of people who want to get rich where it's okay to algorithmically introduce children to strangers and allow them to talk in secret."
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is really nice - and a testament to Question Everything's team. And, yes, to Ira ; )
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Got to feature some great investigative reporting from @emilyglazer.bsky.social and colleagues @wsj.com about whether the men playing a huge part in our current media capture and consolidation are legit friends — and why that matters. (Plus some $$ scoops too.) 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...
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Is A Billionaire Bromance Capturing Our Media?
Podcast Episode · Question Everything · July 30 · 34m
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My reporting on Russia's newfangled disinfo tactics for the LLM age is on the World this week.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just gonna put this here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No, Florida Man Matt Gaetz, sunscreen does not cause cancer. But that lie is spreading online after he platformed anti-vaccine epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher on his show.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Watched Wanda Sykes' May special on @netflix.com last night, and she has a few jabs at Lindsey Graham in there. Prescient.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Did you know investigators in New Mexico ran a sting operation with a fake teenager that caught Meta allowing children to be targeted by sexual predators?
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Have you paid attention to the case New Mexico has brought against Meta? It's...chilling.
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Nada Name @nadaname.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
That was a super interesting listen. An important reminder about how important journalism is both big and small scale.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Or...a neither thing?
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Elon Musk is very focused on pronatalism. He’s criticized the decline in birth rates, calling it the world’s biggest “crisis”. And he's taking it upon himself to do something about it.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Did you hear us on On The Media this week? So cool to be featured there.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
If you have checked it out yet -- here's the uncut video of my live interview with Ashley St. Clair about Grok, sexualized deepfakes, Elon Musk, and her recent MAGA past.
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WATCH: Ashley St. Clair Called Me Slimy. Here’s the Interview.
Watch the full, uncut video of my conversation with Ashley St. Clair about being the victim of deepfakes, her ex, Elon Musk, and her MAGA past in this interview she asked me not to run.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
One of the many interesting things Ashley St. Clair told me about Elon Musk: that he changed noticeably after she became pregnant with his child. "He became angrier." She says he also wanted to have a "legion" of children with her and asked her to have a C-section to make the baby's head bigger.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I cannot understand why these guys are so afraid of questions. As Don Draper once said, "That's what the money's for!"
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Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri)
Why story’s like Congresswoman’s Cammack’s explain why women fear pregnancy in red states @V Spehar
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Here's the full, uncut video of my interview with Ashley St. Clair: open.substack.com/pub/question...
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WATCH: Ashley St. Clair Called Me Slimy. Here’s the Interview.
Watch the full, uncut video of my conversation with Ashley St. Clair about being the victim of deepfakes, her ex, Elon Musk, and her MAGA past in this interview she asked me not to run.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Last week, I interviewed former MAGA influencer and the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, Ashley St. Clair, in front of an audience. Backstage afterwards, Ashley laid into me over the questions I asked. She demanded that we not release the interview publicly and to speak to our lawyers.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Savage.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Where's the petition? I'll sign. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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Opinion | Sonny Rollins Changed New York. There’s a Fitting Way to Honor Him.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This line in the iconic overnight ode to the Knicks in @nytimes.com is about my daughter's best friend. (Proof attached.) Humbling to brush against history and have it memorialized in the hometown paper.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
After 16 years in power, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán was recently voted out in a stunning landslide. Suddenly, democracy-loving Americans are looking to Hungary for inspiration, instead of as a cautionary tale. How did Hungarians do this?
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
love joshua henry's look...and speech...and his hug with caissie levy backstage after both their wins.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Nice acknowledgement from Caissie Levy (best actress in a musical!) of her kids' babysitters for helping her do her job.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I've seen Ragtime, Giant, and Salesman. After some years away, I feel like I'm finally back in a decent theater groove this year.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This "dream job" is to work with me! We're hiring at Question Everything. We need a top-notch narrative audio reporter. Please apply, we'll be closing applications soon.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
From Status. CBS News denies these assertions. So either three acclaimed career journalists are lying, or the news organization that produces the most watched program in TV journalism, 60 Minutes ,is lying. A journalistic nightmare.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sitting at a restaurant near Greenwich. Banker dude next to me is telling the story of how Peter Thiel bankrolled Hulk Hogan to sue Gawker into ruin. He’s relishing it. Says he worked on the deal to buy Gawker out of bankruptcy. “For pennies on the dollar!” he guffaws.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Woman next to me at the bar paying for an IPA with exact cash and drinking it through a straw while talking on the phone about the lawsuit she’s trying to win. She’s happy.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The Pulitzer Prize Board is still fending off a lawsuit from Trump… meanwhile the judges in the case are getting promotions from the president. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...
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‘Kick Him Off The Bench.’ A Judge in Trump’s Pulitzer Case Gets a Prize
Podcast Episode · Question Everything · May 28 · 40m
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In reference to his son: "He's a person who I've known for a long time". This is exactly waht my mother-in-law, who has severe dementia and lives with me, says about family members every day. This is not Trump being self-absorbed. This is cognitive impairment.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A standard fact-checking process would have caught this. Remarkable that a book about truth wouldn't bring on a fact-checker; then again that's usually on the author to cover out of pocket. Really publishers should bear the responsibility of providing fact-checking.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
After listening to @brihreed.bsky.social's podcast about how propaganda pushers are learning to use AI to delude AI, including Claude who they consider the best of the bunch, I'm a primary source guy: www.bbc.com/news/busines...
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Janet Yellen sworn in as US Federal Reserve chair
Janet Yellen is formally sworn in as chair of the US Federal Reserve, beginning a four-year term as head of the world's most influential central bank.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This Musk/OpenAI outcome is disappointing. I wish we got a jury ruling on the central question of the case — did Altman & co pull a fast one in converting a nonprofit to a for profit? The public has a big interest in the answer to that question.
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