Did Elon Musk Unleash Racist Dog Whistles to Woo Tucker Carlson?
Clive Mason/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Elon Musk got on his own website on Saturday and started dog-whistle posting. In a series of reply tweets, he highlighted for his millions of followers thinly veiled racist tweets about Black people doing crime against white…
When Twitter Dies, I Hope This Genre of Story Dies Too
Mother Jones; Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.There was a story you probably missed last week about Nikki Haley. Or at least, I hope you missed it. The Republican presidential hopeful recently celebrated her daughter’s wedding, the New York Post…
Utah Is “Protecting” LGBTQ+ Kids by Letting Their Parents Read All Their Messages
Ulrich Baumgarten/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In March, Utah lawmakers passed a bill requiring parental consent for minors to join social media platforms—and enabling parents to read their children’s messages and posts. While this isn’t ideal for any teen, granting homophobic or…
Alleged Fraudster Guo Wengui’s Social Media App Was a Big Security Risk, Ex-Employees Say
Mother Jones; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Early last year, around 30 engineers at the social media company Gettr received a WhatsApp audio message from Guo Wengui, a wealthy Chinese exile with deep ties to US right-wing politics. Guo, who has since…
Twitter Strips the New York Times of Verification
Jonathan Raa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The New York Times boasts around 9.3 million global subscribers and 54.9 million followers on Twitter. But as of Sunday, America’s paper of record no longer has a verification check-mark on the increasingly tumultuous social media platform…
Republicans Swing and Miss on Hunter Biden and Twitter
Mother Jones; Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.House Republicans spent much of their first big oversight committee hearing Wednesday attacking Twitter for denying American voters the chance to look at Hunter Biden’s penis. The lawmakers’ pro-dick-pic position was probably inadvertent. But that is…