Misinfo Disinfo
The more you know…they are running government inefficiently for paranoia around fraud. Can we ever get past this online bubble? DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none - Nextgov/FCW
What are we doing here, folks? All these years hearing about campus censorship of conservatives, never in that time have we had a a conservative thrown in jail like Khalil because of their beliefs. This is thought police. (https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34)
When people ask me if they should stay on X, or why they should move off of it, I’m leaning towards just sending this infographic looking at Elon’s - and the right’s - outsized influence on the platform. You can read more about that study here.
And I think it goes deeper than that. Part of my general shift away from algorithm-based platforms is how they are relatively easily gamed. This study on the #IStandwithPutin hashtag puts that into perspective how the algo is manipulated for politics, marketing, anything you can think of. It cheats the idea of a genuine “exchange of ideas” by building an appearance of popular consensus, even if it’s not true.
I appreciate the clarity and structure of this editorial.
Laying out what we are dealing with when it comes to dealing with the disinformation sphere that is driving right-wing populism explicitly..NOT conservatism.