As I invested way too much time yesterday writing about Trump’s budding jihad against Twitter, I’ve decided that, tonight, I’d like to focus elsewhere. So, as much as I’d like to write about our president’s toothless retaliatory attack against the social media company that had the audacity to fact-check him, and his growing fondness for […]
Tag Archives: Jack Dorsey
Two tweets from October 25 perfectly illustrate the difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, call to violence, COVID-19, election integrity, Facebook, Joe Biden, Lincoln Project, Mark Zuckerberg, Mourning in America, pandemic, public health, social media, Twitter 72 Comments
For those who wondered what it would take for Twitter to finally take action against Donald Trump, we now know the answer… an unfounded accusation of murder
A few days ago, for some inexplicable reason, Donald Trump — in the middle of a pandemic that has now claimed the lives of over 100,000 American citizens — decided to imply that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was somehow involved in the death of a young woman who worked in his Florida office while he […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged #JusticeForCaroline, conspiracy theories, cruelty, decency, Eugene McCarthy, fact check, Florida, Free Speech, Joe Scarborough, Joseph Welch, Kayleigh McEnany, Lori Klausutis, MSNBC, murder, Twitter, Twitter-enabled, vote by mail, voter fraud 22 Comments
Carole Cadwalladr on how Facebook broke democracy
Today, in front of an audience at the Time 100 Summit in New York City, Donald Trump advisor Jared Kushner downplayed Russian interference in the 2016 campaign as “a couple of Facebook ads.” The truth, of course, as we just had confirmed by the Mueller report, is that the Russian disinformation campaign was significant, aggressive […]
Posted in Media, Uncategorized Also tagged Brexit, Cambridge Analytica, Carole Cadwalladr, disinformation, election interference, European Union, Facebook, Jared Kushner, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, racism, Russia, Sergey Brin, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, social media, TED, threats to Democracy, Time 100 Summit, Twitter 48 Comments