Facebook "has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal." wsj.com/articles/faceb…
Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened to allow a Trump post calling for violence to remain up wsj.com/articles/faceb…
every day more convinced that the Xi Solution to social media is the right one. just get rid of it, all of it
to be slightly less glib, bring back onerous regulations of corporate communication companies, and break up Facebook specifically
Facebook knows that Instagram causes mental health problems among teen girls but has done basically nothing about it wsj.com/amp/articles/f…

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13 Sep
the horse paste is old hat (probably thanks to media attention) so the crackpots need a new quack remedy
just watching this happen in real time theweek.com/politics/10046…
looking forward to another news cycle of anti-anti-Betadine discourse so the contrarians can get their weekly subscription bump
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13 Sep
this argument has a pretty gigantic hole in it
forcing someone to get vaccinated could quite literally *save their life or that of their friends and family.* it is just dishonest to class this with redlining or whatever
dishonest and also clumsily mistaken on the facts! that's the Evopsych Promise
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9 Sep
look at this hack fraud lol
oh for sure man. "Whether vaccine mandates are ok depends on if illness is easily transmitted" is a principle that hinges entirely on what level of government is implementing the mandate
conservatives gotta work themselves into a frenzy to get some more judicial rule-by-decree so they can stop Biden from saving their own voters' lives
Read 6 tweets
9 Sep
substack contrarians pretending that pandemic controls are somehow a violation of civil rights is a new low even for them
even the most dog-brained glibertarians generally admit that the state can coerce people to prevent them from harming others. but that's too much from our freshly-minted McMegans
weeks ago these guys were pretending that an anti-vaccine crank was a legit expert being censored by a devious Big Tech/Big Pharma conspiracy theweek.com/politics/10046…
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8 Sep
listen up blue checks: the guy who boosted ivermectin as a potential miracle cure based on the word of an antivaxxer fraud has a condescending lecture about media ethics
well now, let's be careful about our facts and #media #ethics. it was actually a pie filled with horse semen
the target was Michael Wines, then the NYT Moscow bureau chief exiledonline.com/feature-new-yo…
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8 Sep
not sure why they would call this a "progressive" party though, seems more like a classic SDP set of positions
at any rate the coalition of Canada-style Liberals, Blue Dog ""Labor,"" and socdems pulling in 52 percent is depressingly plausible
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