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Misinformation isn't a general condition resulting from social media: it's an expression of a deliberate political strategy pursued by the populist radical right. 🧵 Paper out now in The International Journal of Press/Politics. with Juliana Chueri doi.org/10.1177/194016…

‘Does fact-checking work?’ could mean: 1. Do people in experiments update in desirable directions when presented with corrective information? 2. Does a specific institutionalised fact-checking system on a social media platform produce net positive consequences?

genuinely impressed by how badly the Biden admin handled this

Volg deze man voor de broodnodige nuancering over de gevaren van misinformatie en desinformatie

This is possibly the most astonishing thing I've read from the last week. DOGE re-writing air traffic control. DOGE gutting USAID & raiding its SCIF. DOGE hoovering up OPM. All of it madness. But this one is worse.

“Kendrick made white conservatives mad” ok but so did teletubbies. it’s not hard

Dit is waar

Americans are so polarized that a change in the party of the president inverts perceptions of the state of democracy.

Because -- and I cannot emphasize this enough -- Elon Musk is an absolute tweaked-out moron incapable of the most basic internet research, he claimed the news agency Reuters (not the same thing as its parent, Thomson Reuters, which does plenty of other, non-media stuff) received

Per the Economist, Elon Musk has failed to cut any spending, now at $30 billion / day (was $26 /day last year). DOGE is just a werid mixture a scapegoat ritual mixed with institutional vandalism by overgrown teenagers economist.com/finance-and-ec…

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: The gender gap continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung very sharply left.

Deze partner van grootste Amerikaanse techinvesteerder gaat hier even full force Handmaid's Tale

This is a direct transfer of wealth from the U.S. treasury to David Sacks and other crypto barons. The railroad and coal tycoons of the 19th century could never have dreamed of this level of heist

Here's the United States director of national intelligence on national TV pushing proven falsehoods and talking points that could have come straight from the Kremlin. I'll address them here: -Elections were not "canceled," they are postponed under martial law, as set out in

If you thought “The Department of Government Efficiency” sounded like an Orwellian twist on a Kafkaesque nightmare — wait til you see this.

This is a commercial. I produced them for 40 years for the biggest ad agencies in the world. It's choreographed drone photography, cinematographer, music and slick editing. Probably actors too, look at their clothes. This cost a LOT of money

We hear a lot about how social media algorithms maximise engagement but not enough about how alarmist, attention-seeking, catastrophising, and evidence-free discourse about social media among the commentariat and chattering classes does the same.

Take a good look Zelensky: This is how you properly dress when meeting our president x.com/3YearLetterman…

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we

there it is