If you know of someone in Silicon Valley who is using their wealth or connections to cut the line and gain access to the COVID vaccine before the rules say they should, you should tell a reporter.
First tweet that sent Twitter into overdrive — 5,000 RTs
Second tweet with massive clarification “update” — 54 RTs
Politicians with huge followings sharing this false story.
As a reporter, there’s no worse feeling than getting a story wrong — I’ve been there — but if you tweet something incorrect and it goes mega-viral, you should delete it.
There are few people during this crisis that make me angrier than those who intellectually master all things COVID — “The latest study!” “Today’s numbers!” — and then live their lives in a way that perpetuates that very reality they fret about.
It’s like — spend less time smashing the RT button on the latest great Atlantic article and more time ... not going to an indoor restaurant.
It’s definitely a Real Type of person during Covid.
People who are borderline ~obsessed~ with Covid news coverage, but somehow create an internal narrative in which they themselves are not part of that world.
“Well, I’m just one of 330 million people,” the thinking goes.
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz put in another $25 million into a Joe Biden super PAC in the final three weeks of the presidential election.
Moskovitz donated a total of at least $47 million to Future Forward PAC — and that's just in the giving that is disclosed.
My story from last month on Dustin Moskovitz and the super PAC Future Forward.
I am speculating, but I would not be shocked if there's a lot more money from Moskovitz that has been donated to Future Forward's affiliated dark money group.
"San Francisco's only public hospital should not bear the name of a person responsible for endangering public health in our country and around the world — and yet it does."
@D4GordonMar This is basically turning into a community pop-off session on Zuckerberg, who gave $75 million to create the hospital in 2015.
"I've been a nurse since you were children," one person says of Zuck.
Another called him a "rich, amoral egotist who runs an extraction corporation."