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Jonathan Howard (@joho.bsky.social)
I love vaccines, animals, and my wife, who set up this profile. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-them-infected/
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To Deny The Role of Social Media In Propagating Misinformation is a Form of Germ Theory Denial, Not For Pathogens, But For Ideas
MAHA disinformation agents clearly understand the power of social media, and anyone who genuinely wishes to oppose them moving forward needs to as ...
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To Deny The Role of Social Media In Propagating Misinformation is a Form of Germ Theory Denial, Not For Pathogens, But For Ideas
MAHA disinformation agents clearly understand the power of social media, and anyone who genuinely wishes to oppose them moving forward needs to as ...
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Good. [www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...](
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a prison term for conspiring to remain in power after losing the ...
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Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a prison term for conspiring to remain in power after losing the ...
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By me: a brief history of foreign agitators pretending to be Americans over the last decade, with most out to make a buck monetizing the culture war 💸(politics matter less than you think), and what X’s new feature shows… [open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...](
On the Internet No One Knows You’re a “MAGA patriot” in Lagos
On X's new location feature...
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On the Internet No One Knows You’re a “MAGA patriot” in Lagos
On X's new location feature...
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The reason this is happening is a combination of 1) incentives and 2) supply meeting demand. There is no more consistent result in studies of monetized propaganda than that the MAGA right is a particularly receptive niche. RE:
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Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social)
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of t...
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I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right. Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
A must read. Click through. RE:
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Mina Kimes (@minakimes.bsky.social)
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. h...
What Rand Paul is doing is what Jim Jordan did to Stanford Internet Observatory. Under the pretext of “oversight“ he can make sweeping requests —w/the intent to harass & chill. The universities can fight. But most are afraid of broader attacks so they quickly comply. [www.wired.com/story/senato...](
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Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, an...
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Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, an...
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Someone check on Bill Ackman RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ? TRUMP: I would. I really would.
A crackpot with control over the infrastructure trying to force reality to bend to his fringe beliefs. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibuuqsyu66z7c4n3fye6b4h7pimx2drxyub27m5z4mcrsvyadet3a
The lunatics are running the asylum. Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiddzgiylwvu5y5b6fbmsssjnjsr4ewheemxcjjxo2gzrgxdyf5cdq