"It's just some people online" was the phrase that I got from the CDC after presenting as a pro-vax parent activist 10 yrs ago on how we were trying to build a counter-movement online but had no resources. This is an analysis we published in Wired, that later became the cover of The Economist. 1/2 RE:
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social)
I started studying the anti-vaccine movement more than fifteen years ago along with one of my colleagues, Dr. Kacey Ernst. It was clear to us even ...
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Katherine Boyle is a Silicon Valley caricature at this point. I have a boy who's very good at math, not so good at illusory authority, and I parent him on how to work within the confines of that system but damn lol. "It's ok to be a dick if you're good at math" is not where I've taken it. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifnn7bdb2wyk5hpzxy67ati3ye5t2q5hzbg3satkcmgucwlq3l6fy
Truth Social now has its own custom Perplexity AI search that is having some real struggles with cognitive dissonance. It knows the facts — the election wasn’t stolen! Vaccines don’t cause autism! But it ALSO seems to have had its sources constrained to right wing crank media 🫠 Poor bot… 1/2 https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreidqkupe3e4ol3ytmz7mka72myxazms6ls4tqonfzotcosexa4q2sq https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiffuqvhkpcdalheh6t6wazp3vq2lnjxuypjgvyhzoe2bpjfmweyye https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifwpf4lnwm22nkmeeermdu5y5ve33jmft6lx5xzlcepxipq2y3vhy
“Tucker in the grocery store” content incoming lol https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreig5ldus7j7q23vt7zuzo2mjmyet27euklxzayyofowjgpii3ktu2u
Marc Andreesen,🥚, picked a fight with *the Pope* over a pretty basic call to exercise discernment when building AI. Marc truly believes that any constraint on anything he does is fundamentally illegitimate. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibic6a7zeatp4xrtlyxopbrsqwosxk6busd65au5yxjonw65zt7ku
Augustiner Stammhaus in Munich for dinner tonight. A room covered in seashells. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifivxrtol5hmska3yktpo5s7npe2jq7oktinjogsxju6muszsugxm https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiaf2oyersc6y56jdamoz22ebhzlwpuff62jdnqiub5kho5pqr2fh4
The Father Coughlin story is interesting because of parallels to the modern era. Wildly popular charismatic figure (30M listeners at peak when US had ~120M ppl). Private broadcasters tried to fact-check, pre-clear speeches, ban him while fans protested the censorship. FDR tried to stay out of it. RE:
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Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social)
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Wrote a book about this as it was happening! - political influencers are the new propagandists - influencers + algorithms + online crowds shape public opinion - the right is a hell of a lot better at it than the left For more evolving online trends, a substack: [agentsofinfluence.substack.com](
Agents of Influence | Renee DiResta | Substack
A place for quick takes - video and text - on social media rumors, influence operations, tech policy, and other extremely online things. Click to r...
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Reuters (@reuters.com)
In Trump 2.0, MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream reut.rs/3LO6yCi https://reut.rs/3LO6yCi
Ask Joe Rogan how he feels now about having had bullshit artist Mike Benz aka Frame Game on to just spout “something something CIA” fantasies for hours. Who’s paying Frame Game? Same people as are paying John Solomon, and War Room. [www.motherjones.com/politics/202...](
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The New Yorker (@newyorker.com)
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of t...
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Inside the Hidden Conservative Network Bankrolling an “Ecosystem” of Right-Wing News – Mother Jones
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lol “Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works”, NYC fusion voting edition Musk just retweets whatever paranoid crank shit he sees at this point. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiae4trlgahqpi7slp3qf7btxlqkizuqori7t2fym7ndmdeakt3pai