Showing posts with label Social Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Media. Show all posts
Monday, May 15, 2023

Sad-Posting on Tik-Tok

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It's all bad for you, all of social media.  These platforms seem to be getting worse, though. Either that, or more scrutiny is revealing...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery on the Fall of MTV News

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This is so right on. She's awesome. Kennedy : After 36 years, Paramount Media Networks President Chris McCarthy announced that the netwo...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Uncool Blue Checks

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Since anyone can get the blue check now, for $8.00, they're not that glamorous any more. At the New York Times , " Are Blue Checks ...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Twitter's Transgender Ideology Problem

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From Amuse, " Twitter's Transgender Day of Rage ": Twitter suspended more than 5,000 conservative accounts for sharing evidenc...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

'Every Parent's Nightmare': TikTok Is a Venue for Child Sexual Exploitation

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At the Wall Street Journal , " Law-enforcement officials say platform has emerged as biggest danger zone; adults who watch videos of yo...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Ben Smith, Traffic

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At Amazon, Ben Smith, Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral .
Friday, February 3, 2023

He Just Doesn't Want to Murder You

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From Suzy Weiss, at the Free Press, " Scores of Facebook groups called ‘Are We Dating The Same Guy’ promise sisterhood and security. Bu...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

Note From San Francisco

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From Matt Taibbi, " On the way home after the holidays, notes on "cherry-picking" and a few other odds and ends ": Havin...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

In Response to the Twitter Files, Establishment Media Rushes to Defend the FBI

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It's Leighton Woodhouse, on Substack, " The Hunter Biden laptop story shows the extent to which the corporate media has become the ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Twitter Files 8: Twitter's Joint Propaganda Efforts With CENTCOM and the Pentagon

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At AoSHQ, " The new disclosures detail Twitter's active participation in CENTCOM/Pentagon propaganda efforts against Iran, China, R...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

The Obligatory Taylor Lorenz Suspended From Twitter Post

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Lorenz is headlining on Memeorandum .  She long ago blocked me, but it's not hard to find out what evils she's up to on the platform...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Andrew Marantz, Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation

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At Amazon, Andrew Marantz, Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation .
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The Lonely American (VIDEO)

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An outstanding segment, from Laura Ingraham:
Saturday, November 5, 2022

Joan Donavan, et al., Meme Wars

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At Amazon, Joan Donavan, Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America .
Friday, November 4, 2022

Twitter Turmoil Poses Risks to the Company’s Brand

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At the Wall Street Journal , " The social-media company is under a spotlight in the early days of Elon Musk’s ownership ": Twitter...
Sunday, October 9, 2022

Democrats Mad They Might Lose Power to Censor (VIDEO)

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It's Saagar Enjeti:
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door

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It's Germany, which obviously has good justification for suppressing online right-wing extremism. At the New York Times , " Battlin...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine

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See, Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World . 
Friday, July 8, 2022

Twitter Says It's Going to Sue Elon Musk for Trying to Back Out of Takeover Deal

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Folks see Musk as a free-speech savior, so it'd be a bummer if the deal doesn't go through. That said, frankly, Twitter's valuat...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Twitter Freaks Debate Deplatforming Libs of TikTok, Again, In Leaked Thread; Taylor Lorenz, Who Cries About Her Own Alleged 'Death Threats,' Mocks the Death Threats Libs of TikTok Receives

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At AoSHQ, " The Purplehair Nosering Genderfux of Twitter are at it again, reports Libs of TikTok on her blog ."