Adi Robertson

Things are getting weird.

They’re warning the company “may have run afoul of the law.”

Porn is increasingly age-gated. Social media is next.

Age verification was already risky — now it’s downright dangerous.

And what does it look like?

Brendan Carr’s contempt for the First Amendment is going strong.

Where’s all that free speech absolutism now?

More than I expected, actually!

The Verge and other outlets have periodically called Elon Musk’s DOGE “fake” or “not real,” because its status in the government is bizarrely ambiguous. As discovered by Bluesky user iucouno and verified by us, Google’s AI search apparently ingested this and concluded... well, something pretty weird. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-10-at-1.28.48%E2%80%AFPM.png?quality=90&strip=all]

The Supreme Court declined to block the law earlier this month.