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17 Jul, 8 tweets, 3 min read
You should be terrified at the prospect of regulating “misinformation.”

The last year or so has been a crash course in how bad the powers-that-be can determine what is or isn’t misinformation.

Below, I’ve got a🧵 of 🧵’s compiling some of the most egregious examples⤵️
The best place to start is with the origin of the most consequential event in our lifetimes: the Covid pandemic.

You’ll remember that the very thought that it could’ve come from a local biolab run by a secretive autocratic regime was dismissed as a bigoted conspiracy theory.
We had supposed misinformation around a viable treatment, too.

The supposed war on misinformation led the world to write off hydroxychloroquine, a treatment we now know helps save lives.

How many died as a result?
Now it’s important to remember that the left has their pet conspiracy theories that don’t seem to ever get flagged as misinformation, somehow.

Like the idea that Donald Trump might’ve been a Manchurian candidate installed by Putin.
Speaking of Russia, who can forget the supposed “Russian bounties” conspiracy theory, pushed by the entire corporate press and countless democrats, that recently fell to pieces?

For some reason, this was never described as “misinformation”
My favorite missed misinformation might be the Steele dossier, though.

Despite how dubious the suggestions were, we had countless Dems and the corporate press run with the narrative on the grounds that Orange Man Bad.
We’ll close with another “misinformation” that wasn’t. Perhaps the most consequential given it’s impact on the election was the Hunter Biden laptop story.

You may remember that the Biden campaign, the corporate press and Big Tech all pledged it was disinformation.

It wasn’t.
Big Tech, the corporate press and the Democratic Party have utterly failed, time and again, in deterring what is or isn’t misinformation.

If, after all these errors, you still want to empower their fishing trips and hypocrisy, I just don’t know what to tell you.

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15 Jul
Any follow up on this, @brianstelter?
Or perhaps you, @JaneMayerNYer?
Will @MSNBC and @JoyAnnReid revisit this claim?
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This is hard to read, but I beg you not to turn away. It’s a vivid, haunting story about life in Xinjiang under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party.

And it recounts an evil worse than is easier to imagine. theatlantic.com/the-uyghur-chr…
I know there’s been a brouhaha about The Atlantic lately but, at it’s best, it’s the most important source of reporting and conversation in the United States dating back to the days of Abraham Lincoln.

This piece honors that legacy.
We live in a time where it’s hard for anyone to think in more than seven second increments. But the evolving - and escalating - horror taking place right now in China is hard to overstate, and should be impossible to ignore.
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10 Jul
I don’t want to wade into the ‘who can Twitter ban’ discourse but I will just say that Fuentes is what happens when a little man goes through his youth without ever getting punched in the face.
Every man should have an intuitive sense of how punchable their personality is and my hot take on DC is that it’s biggest problem is the percentage of men for whom that isn’t true.
Gonna start a DC masculinity cult where dudes go to the gym and actually lift weights, love their neighbors as themselves and don’t ever think about wearing sunglasses like Fuentes has here.
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8 Jul
🧵THREAD🧵

The downfall of Michael Avenatti was obvious many miles away. Well, to everyone except the mainstream media.

With the news of Avenatti’s sentencing, I thought it was time to go down memory lane for some of the best Avenatti takes. ⤵️
We need to start this with some of the all-time greats.

Perhaps my favorite comes from @ChrisCillizza.
Now I say perhaps because these two takes from @JoyAnnReid should be etched into stone for the rest of human history.
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6 Jul
It really does confuse me that “just sue the government whenever it violates your rights” as a conservative alternative to passing better laws didn’t die with the decade (and counting) of harassment Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop have experienced. google.com/amp/s/www.chri…
Good lawyers have been enormously important to the conservative movement, esp in beating back the excesses of progressivism. But a legal approach is fundamental insufficient as the only tool of public policy.
People will frame this as legislating morality, anti-small government, whatever. But, at its root, it’s a recognition that legislatures need to legislate, and that task can be done for reasons both good and ill. We shouldn’t ignore an entire branch of government.
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2 Jul
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Vilifying people in their obituaries is, simply put, a bad, inhumane development. There’s also a lot of hypocrisy in how it’s done.

If you don’t believe me, look at how yesterday’s passing of former Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compares to Cuban butcher Fidel Castro.⤵️.
I’ll be honest. I think a lot of these don’t need much of an introduction; I trust all of you can read.

Here’s @AP. Notice anything different between the obits of a former military leader and a brutal tyrant?

Can you tell which is which?
@NPR found the space to take a dig at Rumsfeld in the headline of his obit.

For some reason, they couldn’t do the same for Fidel Castro.
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