If you wondered where the eating dogs/cats/pets racist conspiracy theory came from, it'a all here: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How an anti-immigrant rumor spread from a random Facebook post to leadership of the Republican Party and the biggest influencers on social media so quickly.
“I’ve read about this kind of thing happening to others. I never imagined it would happen to me.” I meet a doctor denounced by a patient for alleged anti-war comments, & others in Russia caught up in a wave of denunciations. rb.gy/h0ugy1 Producer Ben Tavener
More Russians have been reporting each other since Ukraine invasion - what are the implications?
As soon as the CIA shuts down on of Russia's covert disinfo operations in the U.S. run by RT, the Russians already have a bunch more popping up. Yet in the U.S., there's largely been a collective shrug.
Amazing @robyndixon.bsky.social profile of Margarita Simonyan, the queen of the Kremlin's propaganda wars: "What do you think — that I get orders from the CIA? Where else would I get my orders from if I head a Russian state media outlet funded by the state?" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
While the Kremlin has denied U.S. accusations of information operations, Simonyan proudly admits that her work is at the behest of the Russian government.
This is hilarious. Russian state TV tries to prove North Korea, Putin's ally, is "normal" and misportrayed. You know, like Russia.
Olga Skabeeva set out to prove that life in North Korea is perfectly normal. The result? Quite the opposite. Despite calling Kim Jong Un "the light of the nation," Skabeeva was followed and sternly told what not to say and what not to film in Pyongyang. youtu.be/cxAScMYgyJs
Please appreciate this sweetie who woke me up from a bad dream and purred me to sleep again last night like the good girl that she is
I am shocked — simply SHOCKED — to learn that one of the Twitter Files nonsense-peddlers spent his free time writing things like, "I want white identity politics to grow like wildfire," and, "Holy shit, Hitler actually had some decent points." Exceptional reporting by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social.
Frame Game, the pseudonym of an alt-right internet personality, hid his face while pushing racist conspiracy theories. Inadvertent slips revealed details about his identity.
We don't talk enough about what a problem this is. The proliferation of actual micro-news sites has basically stopped and collapsed. But ideologically-driven hatchetjob sites which exist just to spread anti-vaccine hokum and right-wing conspiracy theories are popping up daily.
This is the clearest analysis I’ve seen of the fundamental problem with Community Notes in crisis situations: The overwhelming majority of impressions on tweets happen in the first 1-3 hours after posting, but it takes an average of 10 hours and 44 minutes for Community Notes to publicly show up.
I took a look at how Community Notes is doing at handling the deluge of misinformation related to the current Israel/Hamas war. TLDR: Community Notes has managed to label some popular false posts, but is falling short in multiple ways. conspirator0.substack.com/p/community-...
X's community fact checking system has thus far been inadequate in multiple ways at addressing the flood of online misinformation regarding the Israel-Hamas war
Wow - hourly sign ups to Bluesky hit almost 2000 *PER HOUR* overnight for a few hours! Twexit is gaining momentum! twexit.nl/statistics
X, formerly known as Twitter, removed the gold “verified” badge from the New York Times’ account amid ongoing complaints about the news organization from owner Elon Musk. The badge was the only symbol distinguishing the account from impostors amid two major global conflicts in Israel and Ukraine.
The gold badge was the only symbol distinguishing the Times’ 55-million-follower account from impostors amid two major global conflicts.