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The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2024
From Elon Musk and Donald Trump to state-sponsored hackers and crypto scammers, this was the year the online agents of chaos gained ground.
From Elon Musk's completed remake of X in his own tech-bro image to Trump's disinformation-fueled campaign, to Russia's ongoing cyberattacks against Ukraine, to China's relentless onslaught of digital intrusions and crypto scammers' global spread, the online experience of 2024 was messy, hazardous, and Hobbesian. Once a technologist with ambiguous politics who occasionally pursued public arguments against scuba divers, Musk now uses his megaphone of 200-million-plus followers on X, the social media platform he fully controls, to broadcast an unrelenting stream of anti-regulation, anti-immigrant, anti-transgender, anti-press, anti-progressive talking points. Add to all of that a still-mysterious Israeli supply chain attack that hid lethal explosives in pagers and walkie-talkies in an effort to target Hezbollah operatives, which led to immediate distrust of all communications devices in the country, and Israel's government forces remain an internet apex predator by any definition.
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