Twitter Made Me Do the Unthinkable: Defend Tulsi Gabbard
Mary Altaffer/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Daily Beast yesterday published an article that immediately electrified liberal Twitter. The headline: “Accused Russian Agent Gave to One Politician: Tulsi Gabbard.” A lot of accounts with blue waves and Ukrainian flags in their…
How a Hard-Right European Group Tried to Manipulate Kenyan Political Discourse on Twitter
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Historically, colonial impulses were initially carried out with the backing of big, imperial nation-states. But private groups are also players. Erik Prince of Blackwater fame proposed taking over American operations in Afghanistan with his…
Glenn Youngkin Set Up a Tip Line to Snitch on Teachers. It’s Only Gotten Weirder Since.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during a news conference about an executive order establishing K through 12 lab schools at the Capitol Thursday Jan. 27, 2022, in Richmond, Va.Steve Helber/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It’s only been a week since Gov.…
Twitter’s New Privacy Policy Is Making It Harder to Spread Warnings About Online Fascists
Stephanie Keith/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Tuesday, Twitter rolled out an update to its privacy policy that bans people from posting certain “images or videos of private individuals without their consent.” Many journalists and researchers immediately lambasted the new so-called “private…
Jack Dorsey Tried to Be Cool, But the Company He Built Is Deeply Conventional
Victor Boyko/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. A conversation with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey can be incredibly disorienting. Not because he’s particularly clever or thought-provoking, but because he sounds like he should be. He takes long pauses before he speaks. He furrows…
Is Elon Musk Really Making Investing Decisions via Twitter Poll?
Jae C. Hong/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Just what is the world’s richest man up to? Who, after all, makes investment decisions by Twitter poll? Elon Musk, it would seem. Tesla’s founder, worth $318.4 billion on Sunday (it changes by billions…