Labeling is censorship. Fact-checking is censorship. Since the EU fined X, transparency & data access are censorship too. Anything that moderately inconveniences a right-wing populist is censorship — even as MAGA increasingly realizes that X is riddled with scams. [open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...](
Transparency is Censorship
The EU fined X for transparency violations. Guess what happened next.
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I wrote about why this is now leading to letters from Congress [www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...](
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The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia
The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
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Jim Swift (@jimswift.bsky.social)
Somebody send the wambulance to the Media Research Center.
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The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia
The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
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This is an extremely strange article that treats political/activist rhetoric (“civilizational collapse,” “the end is near”) as if it were the scientific claim set, and then declares “vindication” bc some change has been abandoned & public interest in various alternative energy forms has shifted. RE:
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The Free Press (@bariweiss.skystack.xyz)
Revenge of the Climate Realists • For years, those who questioned the calamity of climate change were treated like pariahs. Now, their day of vin...
This is like…the opposite of ASMR? She started whispering about the cockroach and I had to stop. It is actually egregiously awful, I don’t understand how this went out. RE:
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Asher Langton (@asherlangton.bsky.social)
Some people (understandably) have doubts that this is really Nuzzi's voice. The sample I downloaded seems to pick up in the middle of the sample yo...
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Joel Calahan (@joelcalahan.com)
rofl
"You can stick to the path of observable reality" -> quote tweets Pizzagate Jack. Let's be clear: when it serves their interests & destroys the lives of their enemies, they lie. When the leopards are eating their faces and destroying their movement, they plead for the restoration of shared reality. RE:
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Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social)
“Currently”
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Remember when that app Rednote was a thing for a hot second? Anyone stay on it?
New from me! I interviewed Jimmy Wales about his new book, The Seven Rules of Trust — we talked topics ranging from how institutions can build trust today, to how to handle govt pressure, to Elon, Grokipedia, and the war on reliable sources. [www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...](
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Lawfare Daily: Wikipedia, Ref-Working, and the Battle Over Reality
What happens when reliable sources become a battleground for power?
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In this companion piece I have to painstakingly explain how Matt Taibbi 1) gets our research backwards in an incomprehensible way 2) points to emails chains we weren’t on as evidence of things we did 3) imputes plans between tech & govt that happened 6mo before our election project existed, to us RE:
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James Ball (@jamesrball.com)
And here is a supplementary companion piece on my Substack in which I include Matt Taibbi's 1800+ word response to questions in full, in the intere...