Everyone is rightly horrified by Marjorie Taylor Greene, but no one is talking about is that she’s the first Congressperson whose worldview was created by being extremely online.
All of her conspiracies are par for the course across @facebook @twitter and @youtube.
All of her conspiracies are par for the course across @facebook @twitter and @youtube.
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1357386501794000900
She’s a mix of 8Chan, InfoWars, Breitbart, The Daily Wire and The Daily Stormer and leans on each at different times or all at the same time.
You literally cannot achieve this type of worldview without being on social networks and message boards all day long.
You literally cannot achieve this type of worldview without being on social networks and message boards all day long.
She’s now being asked questions about these ideas because she’s now in the real world, in government, where they are not (yet) mainstreamed and she’s struggling with it because she’s not posting on @facebook.
None of these things make sense to people who aren’t extremely online.
None of these things make sense to people who aren’t extremely online.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is the living embodiment of the recklessness and amorality of social networks.
@facebook @twitter and @YouTube allowed these truly damaging ideas to seed themselves and spread to increase engagement and ad dollars.
@facebook @twitter and @YouTube allowed these truly damaging ideas to seed themselves and spread to increase engagement and ad dollars.
This Congresswoman might hold on to her seat or she may not, but until there’s a framework for meaningful oversight and regulation, there are going to be millions more Marjorie Taylor Greenes out there looking to hold office.
And that’s not good for anyone.
And that’s not good for anyone.
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