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27 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Don't really understand how lefties can be upset that @ProjectLincoln is starting a media company unless they

a)felt the same way about @PodSaveAmerica/@crookedmedia or Young Turks or...

b)changed their mind about need for a conservative but responsible alternative to Fox News?
Also, RIP my mentions, but the @ProjectLincoln podcast is quite good. If the PSA guys bring speechwriting/comms chops, the PL folks have insights from ad buyers/makers/strategists--it's interesting!
Frankly, I'm intrigued by what a post-election landscape holds for either @crookedmedia or @ProjectLincoln.

And, if people who didn't come from your political POV move toward your position, why get angry at them? Honestly, not the best strategy!
.@ProjectLincoln began to a) offer personal mea culpas b) get in Trump's head c) offer a permission structure for Republicans to leave/split the ticket.

They're not just after Trump, but all his enablers. And to recalibrate the Right away from racist conspiracies. Sounds ok!

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29 Oct
The dog ate his disinfo
I want 10,000 words or a @60Minutes episode on this
Just imagine Leslie Stahl calmly asking Tucker and his producer why they didn't just use the network's VPN
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28 Oct
One of the most interesting presentations I've ever heard was a Google News Lab thing where a Dalit journalist was challenging Google/tech to recognize this problem and their role in perpetuating it. It was like a brain lightbulb being flicked on.
He also noted how tech companies point to diversity that comes largely from Desi employees, but who are most/all of one caste, thereby perpetuating a different form of racism than the one white/American execs knew.
And he asked the folks in the room who were Indian/Indian American if they knew which cast they were in, they all did. And which caste, which i think was ~100% Brahmin. (Which represents giant regional biases w/in India as well as which work your ancestors were allowed to do)
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22 Oct
IMPORTANT: Facebook is turning up and down the traffic dials to news and opinion sites based on internal partisan concerns, raised by lobbyists working for Joel Kaplan (of Kavanaugh fame).

Every single publisher and journalist should be alarmed. motherjones.com/media/2020/10/…
This story reveals that: algorithmic changes were discussed with impacts to SPECIFIC publishers in mind.

Original goal, to dial down fighting on Facebook, chucked when it was found to hurt conservative sites. Algo reworked to punish progressive news orgs instead.
We dug in on reporting on it because we were one of the publishers —SHOWN IN A SLIDE DECK TO FB EXECUTIVES—to be ultimately harmed.

But who else?
And who's next?
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21 Oct
MEN WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU
I...wow theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/…
Did he say he'd eat a bat in like a "fuck you, COVID" way or a I love Ozzy Osbourne way?
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16 Oct
He went to zoo, stole a lemur, and then was arrested on an unrelated burglary charge while the lemur kicked it on a local playground?!??
I really want to know if this was a premeditated lemur theft or a theft on impulse.

Also...how do you catch a ring-tailed lemur? Those suckers are fast and ultra dexterous
Senior lemur
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16 Oct
1/ I am enraged. Excellent reporting from WSJ's @dseetharaman and @EmilyGlazer finds that Facebook engineers—with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR wsj.com/articles/how-m… Image
2/ Last year, @MonikaBauerlein and I wrote about how Facebook's changes to its algorithm hurt legit news orgs as it pumped right-wing disinfo machines. We used the impact on our traffic as an example: motherjones.com/politics/2019/…

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3/ We did NOT know that they were targeting us in particular.

We suspected, and has since been shown in this WSJ piece and elsewhere, that they made these changes b/c conservatives had worked the refs. ITS SO MUCH WORSE.
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