Six Great Reads: The Story of Virginia Giuffre, The Truth About Chat, and Peter Thiel’s Search for the Antichrist |

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  • 1. ‘Prince Andrew thought it was his birthright to have sex with me’: Virginia Giuffre speaks out about her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

    A photo of Virginia Roberts Giuffre as a teenager, around the time she met Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Photo: Courtesy of Virginia Roberts Giuffre

    “Then one hot day a few weeks before my seventeenth birthday, I was walking toward the Mar-a-Lago spa, on my way to work, when a car behind me slowed down. Inside was a British socialite named Ghislaine Maxwell…”

    Our exclusive extract from Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir paints a devastating picture of the abuse she suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. (Prince Andrew has always denied the allegations.)

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  • 2. “Americans equate democracy with second-generation wealth”: A Chinese journalist on the United States under Trump

    Wang Jian, also known as Qi, is a Chinese-American YouTuber. Photograph: Faith Ninevagy/The Guardian

    The long read posted a funny and revealing picture of how a Chinese YouTube journalist covered the chaos of life under Trump. Wang Jian shared his fascinating outsider’s perspective with writer Lauren Hilgers.

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  • 3. ‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: The philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Bellico’s rapists

    Feminist philosopher Manon Garcia, who attended Dominique Bellico’s trial, talks to Zoe Williams about her new book. Photograph: Natalia Kepesh/The Guardian

    French feminist philosopher Manon Garcia attended Dominique Bellico’s trial for several weeks and has written about Giselle Bellico’s rapists in a new book. Her conclusion was stark: “There’s something about what it means to be a man [that makes them] “She is absolutely convinced they have done nothing wrong,” she told Zoe Williams.

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  • 4. “Our World is Flammable”: Kathryn Bigelow on Artificial Intelligence, Andy Warhol, and Nuclear Armageddon

    “Our world is flammable.”… Kathryn Bigelow. Photography: Alexi Lubomirski/Netflix

    Danny Lee wrote: “Bigelow has long since carved out her own niche in cinema. She is unique and self-taught, one of the few filmmakers to have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. She also remains among the most controversial directors, but only a fool would dispute her talent as a filmmaker: a gift for movement, tension, and liberation.”

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  • 5. Peter Thiel’s informal lectures on the Antichrist reveal more about him than Armageddon

    Tech billionaire Peter Thiel hosted a series of informal lectures on the Antichrist and Armageddon. Illustration: Guardian Design/Images via Getty Images

    Technology reporters Johanna Bhuiyan, Dara Kerr, and Nick Robbins-Earley uncovered a very strange story about right-wing tech billionaire (and J.D. Vance supporter) Peter Thiel. The founder of PayPal gave a series of informal lectures in San Francisco warning of the threat of the Antichrist and impending Armageddon. In this exploration of what Thiel said, Adrian Dobb concludes that “the image of Thiel that emerges in these lectures is of someone desperately trying to break away from his power.”

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  • 6. ‘I realized I was in bed ChatGPT’: How ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps weirder

    Why are you, Robot Romeo? … Illustration: Photography by The Guardian/Getty Images

    Where people used to be fooled by poorly focused images and borrowed chat lines, they now have to beware of computer-generated magic. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase, it’s another thing to build a completely fake persona…

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