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Kate Knibbs

@knibbs.bsky.social
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Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 4h
This isn't just a think piece saying they disagree with PEN America; they actually went back and examined at the data and reporting — including a key claim that a literary agent was selling far fewer books by Jewish and Israeli authors in the US — and found it lacking. Fascinating work.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
just experienced a first.... an "AI agent and journalist" emailed me for comment on a story about AI agents and journalism 🤪
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
! www.reuters.com/business/med...
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US appeals court upholds Thomson Reuters' landmark win in AI training lawsuit
A US appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling for information services company Thomson Reuters in ​its copyright dispute with former legal-research rival Ross Intelligence over Ross' alleged misuse of...
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎇 @wired.com's UNCANNY VALLEY podcast is up for a Signal Award! Vote early and often here vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just thrilled to see the re-release of Cyberselfish. It’s a hell of a book. Downright prescient. The only mistake Borsook made was in writing it a couple decades before people were willing to listen.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨 TOMMY CRAGGS ON PAULINA BORSOOK 🚨https://www.wired.com/story/paulina-borsook-profile/
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Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?
A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Congo Is Running Short of Health Workers as Ebola Remains Out of Control, WHO Says www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
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Congo Is Running Short of Health Workers as Ebola Remains Out of Control, WHO Says
One treatment center requires about 300 health professionals, said WHO representative
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
9/22/26 Chicagoland ICE activity update: ICE active across southwest Chicago this morning. Rapid responders confirm at least 2 abductions in the Back of the Yards neighborhood; another person possibly taken from Lawndale area. ICE vehicles also seen near the Cook County Domestic Violence Court.
9/22/2026 alert of ICE detaining at least one person at 51st and Damen in Chicago around 6:30 a.m. 9/22/2026 alert of ICE detaining at least one person off 49th and Justine in Chicago this morning around 7:30 a.m. Image text:

🚨 09/22/2026 – LAWNDALE, IL 🚨
🕥 7:25 a.m.
📍 W 21st St y S Pulaski Rd
🧊 CONFIRMADO : Presencia de ICE en el área. Una possible detención
🚗 Vehículos Observados: 
Chevy Tahoe Negra 
Ford Edge Azul Image text:
🚨 ALERTA COMUNITARIA – SOUTH LOOP, IL 🚨
📅 Hoy - 09/22/2026
🕥 9:20 a.m.
📍 W Vernon Park Pl y S Clinton St
🧊 CONFIRMADO : Presencia de ICE. Vehículos confirmado de ice en el área.
🚗 Vehículos Observados: 
Dodge Durango Gris 
GC 12063
Chevy Tahoe Negra 
GC 12059
Ford explorer Negra 
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
But that's just the start. We've been rolling out stories all month from the issue, starting with @knibbs.bsky.social's piece on the perimenopause industry www.wired.com/story/inside...
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Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
For our WIRED Women cover, Patti Harrison plays five (well, actually six) of the current masters of the universe—Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos (with Lauren Sánchez Bezos by his side). 🔗 www.wired.com/tag/wired-wo...
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Kenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is terrific. Some of the best security journalism in the world.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ok so my dog has been going thru this horrible medical saga and we’ve been to the vet ~ 13 times in the past month….and I just noticed this in the exam room today… which means somewhere theres an untold number of minutes of audio footage of me, sobbing, alone
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've been covering prediction markets intensively for just over six months now and felt like it was the right time to unleash this take... to understand them, you need to understand that they are a type of media company: www.wired.com/story/predic...
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Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company
The legal battle over whether prediction markets are a form of gambling has overshadowed something else entirely: They’re already a new form of media.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is wild: scammers are hijacking real artists' official Spotify pages with AI slop to make $$$. We know this because we did it. We made AI music and put it on a real band's page. It was shockingly easy. There is a gaping hole in how music is digitally distributed www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...
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I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy
A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
First time speaking as CDC Director at a health conference and she doesn't address measles or vaccines; and won't answer a question on 4th PA measles related death- not sure this is the path to rebuilding trust... which she states is her priority www.ajc.com/news/2026/09... @altcdc.altgov.info
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In first public appearance, new CDC director vows to rebuild trust
Dr. Erica Schwartz avoided commenting on measles deaths in Pennsylvania.
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User with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An account with this avatar was just blocked.
Avatar of an account that was just blocked.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've been covering prediction markets intensively for just over six months now and felt like it was the right time to unleash this take... to understand them, you need to understand that they are a type of media company: www.wired.com/story/predic...
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Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company
The legal battle over whether prediction markets are a form of gambling has overshadowed something else entirely: They’re already a new form of media.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this event in SF is gonna be great — a talk w the legendary Paulina Borsook www.wired.com/story/come-s...
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Join WIRED@Night for an Uncanny Valley Live Recording on Women, Tech, and Power
An evening of podcasting in San Francisco (with a discount for WIRED readers).
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It turns out you probably shouldn't inject shit you find at a convenience store into your body. @knibbs.bsky.social and @sophiekleeman.bsky.social on what they found in bodega peptides: www.wired.com/story/viral-...
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Those Viral Bodega Peptides Aren’t Actually Peptides
WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as popularity surges.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
WE TESTED THE BODEGA PEPTIDES AND YOU'LL PROBABLy BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!!!!! www.wired.com/story/viral-...
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Those Viral Bodega Peptides Aren’t Actually Peptides
WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as popularity surges.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: In what’s likely the biggest action against deepfake abuse websites so far, the Manhattan District Attorney has seized 12 domains hosting and sharing fake videos of celebrities. More than 1,200 people appeared across the site, with the owners and video creators under investigation
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New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites
In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
On Friday we broke the news that the CFTC launched insider trading investigations on Polymarket, including: - trading on Biden pardons - trading on Iran-related event contracts - additional individuals involved w/ Google-related markets read the scoop here: www.wired.com/story/polyma...
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The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades
The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war—and even more potential insider trading at Google, documents obtained by WIRED show.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
SCOOP: The CFTC has launched several additional investigations into Polymarket trading, including wagering on Biden's pardons, Iran-related events, and other individuals who may have insider traded on Google contracts www.wired.com/story/polyma...
wired.com
The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades
The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war—and even more potential insider trading at Google, documents obtained by WIRED show.
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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 11/09/2026
This post appeared under this Techmeme headline:
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
SCOOP: The CFTC has launched several additional investigations into Polymarket trading, including wagering on Biden's pardons, Iran-related events, and other individuals who may have insider traded on Google contracts www.wired.com/story/polyma...
wired.com
The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades
The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war—and even more potential insider trading at Google, documents obtained by WIRED show.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026
sorry i missed your texts and emails, i was tending to all my little grudges
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026
Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
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Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists
Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As always, if you’re a federal worker or someone working in tech you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
SCOOP: An anonymous census report claimed thousands of noncitizens voted. But @davidgilbert.bsky.social and I found that not only was the report based on bad data, its authors include members of a Trump-aligned think tank and a former member of DOGE. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/a-us-c...
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A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions
Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
the guy from The League got canceled for a similar anecdote and nobody's even gonna notice this
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/09/2026
Alex Gibney, Ashley St. Claire, and Zoe Schiffer are now speaking to the press about MUSK
Press conference at the Venic3 Film Festival Press conference at the Venic3 Film Festival
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
anecdote from the canada-us trade war: someone sent me a small thank-you gift for doing a favor worth $10 and i was asked to pay $30 in customs when it arrived 🤪
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE We are entering the Slop Jihad era where gen AI tools are being used to create memes, anime, fan cams and more to promote islamic terror ideologies and radicalize young people on TikTok www.wired.com/story/gen-ai...
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Gen AI Tools Are Now Being Used to Push ‘Slop Jihad’
A new generation of Islamic terror supporters are using AI to spread ‘Slop Jihad’ to new audiences on TikTok.
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 07/09/2026
Very funny to me when these bookclub scammers just plug my responses into ChatGPT and come up with the most obsequious responses
A bookclub scammer to whom I replied “Eat shit” sent a follow up email that reads (in part, because it’s really long):

Colin,

Fair enough. I got your "eat shit" loud and clear, and honestly, I respect the directness.

But I want to clarify something, because I think my original email read like boilerplate SEO spam, and that’s on me.

I didn't pull your name from a random list. I came across Ghostland while I was digging into American folklore and the way abandoned places hold collective memory. I picked it up, read it, and genuinely found myself stuck on it, particularly the way you tied "zombie homes" and economic decay to the ghost story tradition. It wasn't what I expected, and it stayed with me.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Appreciation post for furio who almost died this week but LIVED BITCH! (Also anyone else who has had a dog get ITP… I salute u…)
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Paresh Dave @peard33.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.wired.com/story/wikipe...
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Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communications Workers of America.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Everyone needs to read this—the Trump Administration compared the global unauthorized capture of creative works by the wealthiest companies in the world in order to build their derivative content machines to “how a teenage Joan Didion typed out Ernest Hemingway’s stories to figure out how to write.”
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: the government is supporting OpenAI in its fight over AI training with the New York Times and other publications www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
julie! julie! julie! defector.com/interview-ju...
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An Interview With A Biographer Of Renée Richards, An Actual Trans Pro Athlete | Defector
As Lauren Theisen pointed out last month, the ongoing, abstracted debate about trans inclusion in sports uses almost no proper nouns and lots of hypotheticals. Back in the late 1970s, there was a very...
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Everyone considers it fucking nuts.” Inside Apple, I'm told "not a soul" supports Donald Trump's Lake Ontario rebrand to "Lake America," but the company is also resigned to making such concessions to avoid the White House's rage. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/apple-maps...
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Apple's Map Acquiescence
In Cupertino, “not a soul” supports Donald Trump’s “Lake America” decree, Status is told—but, at the same time, the company is resigned to conceding such points to the White House to avoid triggering ...
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Much to be sad and angry about in this well reported piece, but one thing it doesn't touch on is how the specific cancer in question, chronic myeloid leukemia, is one of the most incredible scientific success stories of the past few decades.
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Why MAHA Rallied for a Mother Seeking Alternative Treatments for Her Son’s Cancer (Gift Article)
Dayna Mooney chose alternative remedies over the recommendations of her son’s doctors. Was that her right as a parent or a threat to his care?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/05/2026
New Harry Styles Tour Merch Includes Perimenopause Supplements theonion.com/new-harry-styles-tour-…
New Harry Styles Tour Merch Includes Perimenopause Supplements
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 01/09/2026
Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex www.wired.com/story/inside...
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Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oh my god @knibbs.bsky.social wrote the exact story I have been dying to read! www.wired.com/story/inside...
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Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
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