On January 8th, two days after the Donald Trump Insurrectionists assaulted Congress, Twitter finally suspended his account. It was a long overdue action to preventContinue Reading
The basic Trump YouTube message was that God wants you to go out on January 20 and save America. Citing potential for violence, YouTube bansContinue Reading
Is the Market for Lemons like the market for lemonade or even Don Lemon. Asymmetric information is everywhere, the example of the used-car salesman synonymousContinue Reading
“The hack is seen as so significant that a National Security Council meeting was held at the White House on Saturday over it, according toContinue Reading
OANN is Donald Trump’s new favorite teevee network, and that makes a ton of sense — because it’s basically Fox News on bath salts, chewingContinue Reading
Remember that there have been multiple WH attempts to reframe what is primarily a Russian election offensive in 2020 as also parallel to China andContinue Reading
Facebook has been waging war on climate science lately. The Guardian reported that over this weekend, hundreds of social justice, indigenous, and climate groups hadContinue Reading
So much for having things both ways. Disinformation flooding continues. x “Can Trump place Facebook ads that feature Nazi symbols? Yes… Can he spread lies aboutContinue Reading
Donald Trump is a geyser of misinformation, and normally Facebook is only too happy to funnel that fount of fucknuttery through a fire hose and hit AmericaContinue Reading
Facebook said it has removed 220 Facebook accounts, 95 Instagram accounts, 28 Pages and 106 groups that comprise the violent Boogaloo-affiliated network. An advertising boycottContinue Reading
It’s not Twitter, but it’s something. (As much as I’d like to see Trump’s Twitter account deleted, if he spent his tweetering time attempting toContinue Reading
The other half are also pretty dangerous… “A lot of disinformation is done through innuendo or done through illogical statements, and those are hard toContinue Reading
The redoubtable Gabriel Sherman has another dispatch from the Phantasmagorical Land of Cray-Cray. It seems Fox News is not nearly obsequious enough for Donald JohnContinue Reading
The President has adopted a serious tone; it is not political, and Mr. Trump is a wartime President. All the previous statements are being palmed-offContinue Reading
This is pretty chilling. x 2. On Friday, Politico published an article headlined “Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax.’” The DailyContinue Reading
How is it that everyone in America is skeptical of Russia’s intentions except the very people who for decades have had the most jaundiced viewContinue Reading
Beginning in the 1970s, the city of Lewiston, Maine, suffered a massive population drain from all the closed mills. Thousands of Somali war refugees settled in the state’s second-largest cityContinue Reading
Bullying works. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on a GOP charm offensive, and it seems to be working for the social media behemoth asContinue Reading
The Constitution and the emoluments clause are not phony, but dozens of websites pretending to be local newspaper sites are: Lansing State Journal “LANSINGContinue Reading
Page 16 and 649 words. That’s how The New York Times treated the recent news that a years-long State Department investigation concluded there was no systemic orContinue Reading
