Genre Grapevine for Last Half of February 2025

For other news from February, see my previous grapevine. This report is available free to the public. If you like my writings on genre issues, consider backing my Patreon.

“Let’s hire an ISIS suicide bomber to blow him up in the street!”: Europe’s most wanted man plotted my murd...

A jury at the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, has just found six of my compatriots — citizens of Bulgaria — guilty of conspiring with the Kremlin to kidnap and possibly murder me and my colleague and friend, Roman Dobrokhotov.

US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

This initiative marks a significant escalation in the US government's monitoring of foreign nationals' behaviour and speech.

Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks

In January, Distributed Denial of Secrets published over 200 gigabytes of chat logs and recordings from paramilitary groups and militias, including American Patriots Three Percent (APIIII) and the Oath Keepers.

A few words about FiveThirtyEight

Silver Bulletin will begin publishing some new features soon — including Trump approval ratings. But the media just lost an extremely valuable resource.

An Uneasy Propaganda Alliance

Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral | TechCrunch

YC deleted a controversial demo video from one of its startups, which monitors factory workers with AI cameras.