Lol the “”disinformation industry”” is a fever dream of election denialists currently running the US govt, who have been running a propaganda campaign to discredit their critics for years. They’re taking it on the road to Europe now. Here’s why. Pay attention: [www.lawfaremedia.org/article/regu...](
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Regulation or Repression? How the Right Hijacked the DSA Debate
The conversion of a disinformation code from self-regulation to requirement sparks an international tiff. What’s really happening?
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Here’s an interesting paper. Because Notes data is public, you can see things like “Most Noted” visualized and updated regularly on some of the handy dashboards people have created. Some things just kind of jump out at you… [community-notes-leaderboard.com](
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Kate Starbird (@katestarbird.bsky.social)
More evidence that the online misinformation is politically assymetric — Republicans share more false content on X (as determined by diverse comm...
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I looked at this book to see how they covered a topic I know well: the "censorship" narrative. I have a chapter in my own 📖 that tried to discuss that issue w/detail, facts, & nuance. "In Covid's Wake" chose to talk up Bhattacharya's fantasies of being censored and hide the truth in the footnotes. RE:
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If Books Could Kill (@ifbookspod.bsky.social)
Episode 40: In Covid's Wake Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we hav...
Elon’s platform is egregiously broken. Also, btw, SIO flagged almost the exact same issue for Twitter a ~year after E bought it. Got on the phone, helped his team fix it. He still pushed his fucking Twitter Files lies. SIO doesn’t exist to do this work anymore. [www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...](
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Accounts peddling child abuse content flood some X hashtags as safety partner cuts ties
Thorn, a nonprofit that provides detection and moderation software related to child safety, said it canceled its contract with X after the platform...
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Accounts peddling child abuse content flood some X hashtags as safety partner cuts ties
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Obvious most likely explanation. Leadership should put out a one-sentence statement and skip the cEnSoRShIp drama cycle that they want. Give the VP a warm welcome with pictures of couches or Alf, or use the handy self-serve moderation tools at your disposal. 🤗 RE:
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Alexios Mantzarlis (@mantzarlis.com)
I am going to venture that the bot-like formulation of JD Vance’s seemingly genuine BlueSky handle triggered some automated warning of impostor a...
I'm going to be doing a livestreamed event tonight - "Truth in Turmoil" - discussing free speech in a divided nation. It'll be something of a debate with Jonathan Turley and Laura Clark Fey. 7pm ET. There will be fact-checkers! Livestream registration: [americanpublicsquare.org/event/truth-...](https://americanpublicsquare.org/event/truth-in-turmoil/ ) [Truth in Turmoil - American Pu...](https://americanpublicsquare.org/event/truth-in-turmoil/ )
It’s gone beyond not identifying it: when the agencies in the US government that are tasked with understanding and disrupting radicalism and even domestic terrorism acknowledge the truth of the matter, *their work is attacked.* Their capacity is cut. RE:
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Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social)
I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era. It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades...
Oppositionally-defiant low-information people riled up by grifter influencers, wellness and political, who made rejection of vaccines an article of right-wing identity during COVID — and who have since rejected efficacious medicine by association, and elected clowns who affirm their delusions. RE:
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The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com)
If ivermectin was good enough to be rejected by mainstream doctors as a cure for COVID, health-care skeptics seemed to reason, then surely it must ...
Good. More of this. More people who have been defamed need to bring these cases. More donors on the left need to support the heavy costs of these kinds of lawsuits. RE:
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The Associated Press (@apnews.com)
BREAKING: Jury finds MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company. https://bit.ly/43K0qSk
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Real people are suffering economically here in the US because a narcissist no-nothing and his team of sociopaths played Twitter Files with the federal government. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifn4xhmcvwybox3mmktzompurdzva7pqotagbeslzxwsiynddusbm https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibspipe5pyla3lzrxbgko2jfjb6wafmvfwctht6iizwegwegqkuhy