It's the same lies, misinformation, & conspiratorial BS about the election & polls you can read here on Twitter, except delivered by the sitting POTUS from the White House podium.
But I'm watching him undermine democracy on TV, as I have for 5 years.
@POTUS@WhiteHouse This feels like a 70-something great uncle who has spent days watching Fox News & reading lies on Facebook & Twitter from radicalized friends & children, rambling on the phone about conspiracies & corruption, deep in denial about the election returns – except he's the President
@POTUS@WhiteHouse So far there is no hard news in these remarks – other than the world seeing an aging narcissist deep in denial about a public rejection, desperate to create an alternative reality that will explain what has happened, claiming litigation will shake things up as cases get tossed.
I'm split-screening again today, watching election results while I participate in the #FWD50 conference on digital government. (I'm hosting a channel for @fwd50conf this afternoon.)
Watching @bethnoveck talk with @acroll now about historic lows in trust:
Thanks to @acroll for asking my question! Transparency DOES breed trust in open source software: it's mission-critical if, say, the US government is deploying tools to be used by dissidents & human rights activists globally:
@POTUS@WhiteHouse I will talk about how this administration's record of lies, data deletion, censorship & attacks on science has utterly eviscerated the mission defined in the Federal Data Strategy:
As this letter outlines, the path @DCPSChancellor has chosen for reopening @dcpublicschools is deeply flawed, both in process & outcomes. @MayorBowser & @CouncilOfDC members, please read this.
Scrap the custodial CARES model. Work with our principals to build something better.
Dear @mayorbowser:
How did @colbycollege open safely? Universal masks, outdoor classes, & bi-weekly testing.
Testing symptomatic folks won’t be enough: Test students & staff before opening, & weekly.
Ventilate, test air, open data.
Don’t gag principals. washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
WOW. @HuffPost@highline has published one of the best features on the disappearance of data in the Trump administration & its impact: highline.huffingtonpost.com/article/disapp… Bravo. Deep, detailed breakdown of the tragic degradation of one of the USA’s precious public resources: self-knowledge.
March 2017: “The ways that the Trump administration could mess with government data remains the same: budget cuts that could reduce quality, frequency of release or even collection, & alteration or miscommunication of research or statistical information.” sunlightfoundation.com/2017/03/10/the…
2020: “The erosion of data across the federal government is particularly insidious because it’s relatively invisible to the public at large. Often, the only people who know the value of these sets of numbers are those who work with them daily.”
5 questions journalists need to answer covering Trump:
Can what appears to have happened be confirmed?
If so, was it unprecedented?
Is this recent act of governance normal by the usual standards?
Is what happened a threat to transparency — or democracy? politico.com/magazine/story…
1) Can what appears to have happened be confirmed?