The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2025

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https://archive.ph/77LQj

Topping the list—as we predicted he would last year—is Donald Trump. The 79-year-old president of the United States quite literally rules by decrees posted to his social network, Truth Social. The US government, meanwhile, is run by a ramshackle crew of former conspiracy theory podcasters, TV hosts, vaccine skeptics, and entertainment moguls. A decade ago, the prevailing advice was to never read the YouTube comments. Today, the human embodiment of YouTube comments are setting federal policy.

Beyond members of the Trump administration (fair warning, there are quite a few on this year’s list), you’ll find some of the usual suspects: China’s state-backed hackers, chaos-making members of “the com” internet underworld, prolific online scammers, and of course, Elon Musk.

Each year, we round up the people who have an outsized role in making the internet era feel like life itself is a relentless, unavoidable comments section—and who cause real-world harm from their digital perch. Here is our list for 2025.

Read details at the link but here's a quick summary. Some are obvious, some are new and worth a quick look either on Wikipedia or Google's AI (e.g.'s, AI told me that beyond Tom Homan as Border Czar were Stephen Miller and Mike Banks; Wikipedia has thorough intro info on The Com).

Donald Trump
The Border Czars
DOGE
RFK Jr.
Elon Musk

The Com
China’s “Typhoons”
Chen Zhi
Alex Karp
Kash Patel

Even if no one is surprised at 2025 reviews, they're still useful here for the record.