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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Feb 13, 2026

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14 min read

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability

Virginia Heffernan
Virginia Heffernan

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We’ve found the dog... but lost our privacy: how Ring’s Super Bowl ad went viral for the wrong reasons

Feb 13, 2026

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3 min read

We’ve found the dog... but lost our privacy: how Ring’s Super Bowl ad went viral for the wrong reasons

The smart doorbell company’s heartwarming story of helping find a lost pet was quickly called out by viewers as a chilling demonstration of high tech surveillance, writes Michaela Makusha

Michaela Makusha
Michaela Makusha

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A teenager was hounded until she died by the 'ordinary women' of Tattle Life. A ban is long overdue.

Feb 13, 2026

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6 min read

A teenager was hounded until she died by the 'ordinary women' of Tattle Life. A ban is long overdue.

The suicide of 16-year-old Princess Dickson came after incessant targeting on the anonymous influencer gossip forum. The commenters – mainly professional women – should be ashamed, writes Dr Jessica Taylor

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I confronted a tech boss about my sister’s suicide. I don’t know why I bothered

Feb 3, 2026

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6 min read

I confronted a tech boss about my sister’s suicide. I don’t know why I bothered

Aimee died at 21 after going on a notorious self-harm forum. But when I approached a tech CEO to talk about online safety at a Davos debate, I was threatened with removal, writes Adele Walton

Adele Walton
Adele Walton

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What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Jan 30, 2026

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13 min read

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next

Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr

Tech

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

Jan 27, 2026

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13 min read

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

EXCLUSIVE Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gaping vulnerability' as US president threatens Nato allies. By Carole Cadwalladr, Charlie Young and Max Colbert

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'A solid line-up of truth-tellers': Grok bot provides climate denial content to 'user' it believes to be anti-science

Dec 18, 2025

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9 min read

'A solid line-up of truth-tellers': Grok bot provides climate denial content to 'user' it believes to be anti-science

EXCLUSIVE: New Global Witness report shows Elon Musk's bot and ChatGPT giving inconsistent responses to differing 'personas' designed by researchers, with Grok providing false information and climate conspiracies in line with user's apparent beliefs

Tech

Cringe, actually. A young person's guide to how not to do politics on social media

Dec 12, 2025

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12 min read

Cringe, actually. A young person's guide to how not to do politics on social media

In the absence of any youth-friendly policies, British politicians, led by Keir Starmer, are doubling down on online comms – and it isn’t working. Nerve editorial assistant Anandita Abraham analyses some cover-your-eyes examples

Tech

Cory Doctorow on stage with the Nerve: ‘The web is five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four’

Nov 26, 2025

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26 min read

Cory Doctorow on stage with the Nerve: ‘The web is five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four’

In our first live event, the author shares with Nerve co-founder Carole Cadwalladr his strong opinions on Facebook, Peter Thiel, AI – and what we can do to combat the enshittification of the internet

Tech

AI boom? Or AI bust? Are even the broligarchs admitting AI is a bubble?

Nov 19, 2025

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14 min read

AI boom? Or AI bust? Are even the broligarchs admitting AI is a bubble?

Peter Thiel is panic-dumping stock. Sam Altman is getting twitchy in interviews. The world is waking up to a trillion dollar emperor with no clothes, writes Carole Cadwalladr

Tech

‘He’s so unafraid’: how New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani aced his TikTok game

Nov 4, 2025

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8 min read

‘He’s so unafraid’: how New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani aced his TikTok game

As New Yorkers went to vote, the unapologetically leftwing – and hugely popular – candidate was leading the polls. Mamdani's fearless, canny, often funny, social media posts played a key role in his campaign. Kat Tenbarge reports

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‘The platforms got worse because we let them’: Cory Doctorow on his fight to save the internet from enshittification

Oct 10, 2025

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15 min read

‘The platforms got worse because we let them’: Cory Doctorow on his fight to save the internet from enshittification

The author and cyber-activist argues that the tech giants have ruined life online. The only thing that can save the virtual world now, he tells Zoë Corbyn, is its users

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Bernard Manning rides again: how TikTok and Instagram are promoting  racist “jokes” to teens

Oct 7, 2025

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6 min read

Bernard Manning rides again: how TikTok and Instagram are promoting racist “jokes” to teens

Social media algorithms boosting slurs have been propelling racist comments into users’ feeds. One platform has deleted the videos after being approached by The Nerve

Chris Stokel-Walker
Chris Stokel-Walker

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‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection

Sep 30, 2025

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17 min read

‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government – including billionaire Larry Ellison – and an emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space

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