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Pete Guest

@peterguest.bsky.social
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Journalist: As seen in Bloomberg, Wired, Businessweek, The Economist 1843, MIT Tech Review, The Atlantic, etc. Occasional photographer. Bona fides: www.peterguest.co

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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Belatedly, my latest project at Bloomberg: a narrative of how the Iranian authorities have steadily improved their ability to censor the internet. The latest turn of the wheel: a shift from blacklisting to whitelisting, pushing users onto a heavily-controlled local intranet. (With Patrick Sykes).
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How Iran Built Its System of Internet Censorship
After decades of battling VPNs and other workarounds, Tehran has built a system that keeps most citizens on a controlled national network while giving elites privileged access to the global internet.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/08/2026
Climate change is making “fire weather” more common, and more extreme
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The Age of Unstoppable Wildfires Has Reached Europe
Climate change means giant fires of the kind that ripped across France and Spain are becoming common, with potentially dire consequences for Europe’s economies.
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Aren't we all.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 24/07/2026
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
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The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 24/07/2026
NEW: We dug through the files released by DoJ to track how Epstein’s sex-trafficking network worked in practice. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... w/ @peterguest.bsky.social @jeffykao.bsky.social Christopher Cannon and @maxharlow.bsky.social
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The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Epstein's Shadow Network: My colleagues and I at Bloomberg examined thousands of flight records, emails, messages and documents to build a picture of the pedophile financier's recruitment and trafficking operation. origin.www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Brighton Carnival Against Fascism.
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 04/06/2026
The Iran war has delivered a shock to energy markets that’s driving Asian and European countries to move faster toward renewables. Read more: bloom.bg/4uVYNw6 📷: Carlotta Cardana
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
In Switzerland's Alpine heartlands a warming climate is destabilising the landscape, melting ice, thawing out permafrost and increasing the risk of catastrophic events, leaving some in the country to question whether life in the mountains is becoming unaffordable. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The Swiss Alps Reckon With the Threat of Collapsing Glaciers
“We don’t live in an easy landscape.” As climate change leads to collapsing glaciers and mudslides, some in Switzerland question whether the danger is worth it.
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Since the Enhanced Games is now kicking off, here's a piece I wrote for Bloomberg Weekend last year about its political and ideological underpinnings, and why shrugging it off as a gimmick might be underplaying how dangerous it is.
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The ‘Enhanced Games’ Is the Ultimate MAGA Athletic Competition
A sports startup that allows performance-enhancing drugs is brash, confrontational, and perhaps the perfect competition for the era of Trump.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 22/04/2026
New Bloomberg satellite data analysis reveals the scale of US-Israeli strike damage and the heightened stakes of a return to all-out-war. See More in the Big Take: bloom.bg/4tTQ508 📷️: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Within the fevered coverage of Russia's growing threat in Europe, it's easy to forget that places on the map are home to real communities. Bloomberg's Borderlands project tries to understand these complex places, and the tension that they're under. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Russia’s Threats Put Europe’s Borderlands on Edge
The Baltic countries are fortifying their frontier regions as a deterrent to Russian aggression. Close to the border, communities now have to reckon with the price of peace.
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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 07/12/2025
Information & AI Senior Editor @joannaskao.bsky.social selected @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social & @peterguest.bsky.social's story "Inside a Romance Scam Compound—and How People Get Tricked Into Being There,” published in @techreviewjp.bsky.social, as her #PulitzerStaffPicks. 👉 bit.ly/YIStories25
Inside a Romance Scam Compound- and How People Get Tricked Into Being There
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 03/12/2025
Eli Weinstein promised to reform — but after his release he took on an alias and started another Ponzi scheme.
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Freed by Trump, a $200 Million Fraudster Started a New Scam
Eli Weinstein promised to reform — but after his release he took on an alias and started another Ponzi scheme.
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Populists and the far-right see cultural institutions as a way to embed their narratives into public life; in Lithuania, artists are taking a stand. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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A Political Crisis Pits Lithuanian Artists Against the Populists
Sodas 2123 used to be a boarding school for delinquent children before it was left to ruin and squatters. Five years ago, it was taken over by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 30/09/2025
European officials believe that Russia is escalating its hybrid campaign against Europe. Its latest tactic includes seeding a humanitarian crisis in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Read more: bloom.bg/4npsMIN 📷️: Picture Alliance
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
1.🧵We are thrilled to announce New Lines has won the Online News Award in the topical reporting on climate change category for our collaboration with @thegeckoproject.org. “Dust Money,” looks at Indonesia's green transition and labor abuses around nickel mining awards.journalists.org/winners/2025/
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2025 Online Journalism Awards
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Last night, Dust Money won in its category at the Online Journalism Awards, after winning a Webby earlier in the year. This is Diana, a Bajau community leader in Sulawesi, who gave us the name for the project. The judges said nice things here: awards.journalists.org/entries/dust...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11/09/2025
Exclusive: A cache of 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox obtained by Bloomberg News offers a raw look into the world of the disgraced financier and sex offender — and reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s secrets
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Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets
A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Dust Money, the Gecko Project x New Lines project that used a road trip through the mines, smelters and communities of Sulawesi to chart the human and environmental impacts of the nickel business, is a finalist in the Online Journalism Awards. awards.journalists.org/entries/dust...
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Dust Money - Online Journalism Awards
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Ukraine has faced three years of attacks on its energy grid by Russia. And yet, it's mostly kept the lights on, building under fire a new kind of electricity network, one that's more resilient -- and more sustainable -- than what was there before. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Ukraine Rebuilds Its Energy Grid With Lessons From the Frontline
Ukraine has rebuilt an energy grid that’s more resilient — and greener — than what it had before Russia’s invasion.
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Officially, one of the best things on the internet. Dust Money, the @thegeckoproject.org / @newlinesmag.bsky.social collaboration is an honoree in multimedia storytelling in this year's Webbys. newlinesmag.com/reportage/du...
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Dust Money
Indonesia is in the middle of a rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. The country’s government wants to dominate the market, making nickel a national project. Years into the boo...
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
2. 🧵 Our joint investigation with @thegeckoproject.org on Indonesia’s nickel production received a webby honoree nomination for Best Multimedia Storytelling. newlinesmag.com/reportage/du...
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Dust Money
Indonesia is in the middle of a rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. The country’s government wants to dominate the market, making nickel a national project. Years into the boo...
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Very sad to hear that Gwen Robinson passed away in Bangkok. A true legend among foreign correspondents, a relentless journalist with a deep love of the craft and her colleagues. Like a lot of journalists in Asia, I owe Gwen a huge debt for opening doors and backing my craziest reporting ideas.
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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Survivors have spoken to us to reveal how criminal syndicates use Big Tech to recruit and trap people into operating “pig butchering” scams—and what life is like once you're been ensnared. Fantastic new story this morning. www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1...
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Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there
Survivors reveal how criminal syndicates use Big Tech to recruit and trap people into operating “pig butchering” scams—and then use the same platforms to steal billions of dollars from targets all ove...
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Off-white Christmas.
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The Gecko Project @thegeckoproject.org · 10/12/2024
New film from our recent investigation: We travelled 2,000km through Indonesia’s nickel frontiers investigating how a green, battery-powered future is being achieved through increasingly authoritarian means. Published with @newlinesmag.bsky.social.
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The dark side of Indonesia’s green metals obsession | Dust Money
YouTube video by The Gecko Project
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Devastating longread from @thegeckoproject.org & @newlinesmag.bsky.social on the landscapes & communities of Sulawesi entrained in rapacious forest-stripping, village-gobbling, sea-smothering nickel extraction, pollution from coal-fired smelters, dangerous industry conditions & social conflict
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Dust Money
Indonesia is in the middle of a massive rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. Years into the boom, the costs of its obsession with the mineral are mounting.
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Amanda Silverman @asilverman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I was totally fascinated by @peterguest.bsky.social’s reporting here, about how Ukraine’s neighbors fear what happened there—and have been inspired to quickly reshape their own civilian tech, like scooters, drones, med tech + way more @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...
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How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe
Startups in Latvia and other nearby countries see the mobilization of Ukraine as a warning and as inspiration. They are now changing consumer products—from scooters to recreational drones—for use on t...
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Compiler @compiler.news · 05/12/2024
Journalist @peterguest.bsky.social offers an inside look at what @proton.me CEO Andy Yen calls a constant "cat-and-mouse" game between his company and internet censors around the world. "It’s about whether or not we can innovate and develop faster than they can.” www.compiler.news/proton-vpn-v...
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This VPN is the resistance tool of choice for millions
Outmaneuvering internet firewalls isn't easy, but Proton VPN is waging a digital war for an open internet.
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Prashant Rao @prashantrao.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🟡 UK JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🟡 @semafor.com is hiring an early-career journalist in its London newsroom. Details here: boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs... Reach out if you've got questions!
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Newsroom Fellow (6-12 month Contract)
London
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Considering returning to Twitter for a day to see if anyone can explain Bitcoin to me.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
NEW: For the last few months, officials at Britain’s NCA have explained to me how they discovered and disrupted two massive Russian money laundering rings. The networks have moved billions each year and—unusually—have been caught swapping cash for crypto with drugs gangs 🧵 A wild thread...
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She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin
Western authorities say they’ve identified a network that found a new way to clean drug gangs’ dirty cash. WIRED gained exclusive access to the investigation.
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The Gecko Project @thegeckoproject.org · 04/12/2024
NEW: Our 2,000km roadtrip through hidden parts of the nickel supply chain found that Indonesia's government has rewritten environmental laws, militarised the industry and criminalised opposition to mining. Published with @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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Dust Money
Indonesia is in the middle of a massive rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. Years into the boom, the costs of its obsession with the mineral are mounting.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
NEW: Indonesia is the beating heart of nickel production for the world’s green transition. But an investigation by @newlinesmag.bsky.social and @thegeckoproject.org reveals the catastrophic environmental and human toll of the lucrative industry. newlinesmag.com/reportage/du...
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Dust Money
Indonesia is in the middle of a rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. The country’s government wants to dominate the market, making nickel a national project. Years into the boo...
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Dust Money The Indonesian government's obsession with nickel is turning vast areas of the country into a sacrifice zone, where landscapes are wrecked, communities are destroyed and human rights are rolled back. For @newlinesmag.bsky.social and @thegeckoproject.org newlinesmag.com/reportage/du...
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Dust Money
Indonesia is in the middle of a rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. The country’s government wants to dominate the market, making nickel a national project. Years into the boo...
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Ukraine's resistance against Russia has been a miracle of innovation and entrepreneurship, as civilian technologies are turned into weapons or used to build social resilience. Other countries on Russia's borders are trying to learn from Ukraine's example. www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...
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How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe
Startups in Latvia and other nearby countries see the mobilization of Ukraine as a warning and as inspiration. They are now changing consumer products—from scooters to recreational drones—for use on t...
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I am supportive of journalists revealing A) their biases and B) their blood-alcohol levels when reporting. Five stars.
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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Ukraine's neighbors have watched as startups and political leaders in Ukraine have worked to turn civilian technology into weapons and civil defense systems. Now they want to do the same. Our latest Big Story, from @peterguest.bsky.social, is up today. www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...
technologyreview.com
How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe
Startups in Latvia and other nearby countries see the mobilization of Ukraine as a warning and as inspiration. They are now changing consumer products—from scooters to recreational drones—for use on t...
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
A small group of western scientists are trying to build their own backchannel to China, to try to prevent an AI apocalypse. My first piece in the Economist's 1843 magazine. www.economist.com/1843/2024/11...
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Inside the AI back-channel between China and the West
Computer scientists are reaching out across the geopolitical divide to try to stop an apocalypse
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
At my first news job, on nightshifts on City Road, we would roll out of the office at 7am and drink next to bloodstained porters in pubs with sketchy licenses and sketchier claims to heritage; London at turn-shift, with the night people handing over to the day people.
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Earlier this year, I joined a team from @thegeckoproject.org on a 2,000km road trip through Indonesia’s nickel country. The story, publishing next week, shows the cost of the country’s rush to break into the EV supply chain— measured in broken landscapes and people squeezed to the margins.
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Alcantara Gorges, Sicily
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
One thing I miss about old Twitter was that it was a good place to post photos, without having to deal with the weirdness of Instagram. Going to try that here. So: Football by Mount Etna, October 2024.
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The Gecko Project @thegeckoproject.org · 27/11/2024
Indonesia’s new president brands himself as a successful businessman, with a $130m fortune and a vast landbank. But is he really so successful? We delved into the companies linked to him to find out. Read our investigation with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social: thegeckoproject.org/articles/pre...
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The President's new clothes
Unravelling the mystery of Prabowo Subianto’s business interests
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Floodwaters rising in Munich.
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Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
For Wired, I profiled London mayor Sadiq Khan—and the fictional Sadiq Khan who lives in the minds of conspiracy theorists, very online racists and Donald Trump. www.wired.com/story/mayor-...
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The Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe
It all started with an asthma attack. Now Sadiq Khan finds himself at the center of a global conspiracy.
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