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4 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Facebook's incentive is to destabilize societies in favor of short-term financial gain.

Instagram, owned by FB, is even worse. #DeleteFacebook #DeleteInstagram
Just a quick followup on Instagram since it gets less coverage.

According to suppressed IG research:
✘ IG is geared toward lies about body image and lifestyle
✘ More than 40% of teen girls feel unattractive bc of it
✘ 13% of UK teens w/suicidal thoughts trace it to Instagram
✘ Because Instagram culture is built on lying, millions of teens & young adults have created anonymous IG accounts
✘ In a tragic irony, these "Finsta" or fake Instagram accounts are the only place on the site they feel comfortable telling the truth about themselves.
✘ Almost all the content from big "influencer" accounts on Instagram is filled w/undisclosed paid sponsorships
✘ In the radio industry, undisclosed content alteration is called "payola" and is illegal
✘ IG payola has become such a problem that the FTC is finally moving on it
Lots of IG users know the site is built on lies and claim to be unaffected by it. But this itself is a lie, one that they've told themselves.

Here's a good article about some of these issues: mashable.com/article/teen-g…

If you have kids, please protect them from Instagram. /end
PS: I do really hope you read that link. Please follow its author, @christianna_j, as well. I am glad to have recently found her work.

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6 Oct
Last post of a good thread below. If I may pick it up to continue a bit...

The question of why AT&T is willingly paying money to a Christian supremacist channel that routinely slanders people is one that's been asked a lot today. I'll try to answer that a bit in this thread.
According to court testimony of OANN's founder, Robert Herring Sr., the idea of starting his channel came from AT&T. There are a few interesting facts about ATT that are relevant to the motive question here.

The first is that ATT is a Republican company based on its giving.
Historically speaking, telecom companies in the U.S. have favored Republicans in their giving. ATT has been no exception.

This is plain to see in @OpenSecretsDC data opensecrets.org/party-totals-s… Image
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2 Oct
So it appears that @maggieNYT & @nytmike wrote a profile of John Eastman, Trump's coup lawyer, but didn't recount his long record of extremist activity.

Since they omitted this crucial information, here's a short thread of what's missing in this article nytimes.com/2021/10/02/us/…
@maggieNYT @nytmike Eastman is anything but a "little-known but respected conservative lawyer."

He has a decades-long history leading hate groups, especially those against LGBT people. He is the chairman of the "National Organization for Marriage," a highly funded group opposing marriage equality
@maggieNYT @nytmike Eastman has called homosexuality "barbarism" and said on video that he supported a Ugandan law that made homosexual acts a life-sentence offence.

rightwingwatch.org/post/nom-chair…
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22 Sep
Yesterday, I did a Twitter thread about "Missing White Woman Syndrome," the idea that media give more coverage to missing white women over other groups

I also invited readers to name others outside the demographic who they thought received nat'l coverage. Here's the follow-up…
First, here is the the thread, in case you missed it.

I must've triggered a lot of far-right Republicans with it.

Most sent brainless emotional responses, others sent me names of people. So I looked them up in Google searches of Fox and CNN's sites
Altogether, I received 46 different names of people that respondents believed had received national coverage. Overwhelmingly, as you'll see, the missing people did not receive much, if any coverage.
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21 Sep
1/n: White Republicans are so totally coddled from reality that most have never heard the term "Missing White Woman Syndrome" even as they have devoured endless Fox coverage of victims like Gabby Petito, Laci Peterson and Natalee Holloway.

But it's absolutely real.
If you're white, think about it in your own experience first. Can you name a single person who was reported missing that was not a white woman? I'm guessing most of you cannot. Non-white women and men of any race don't get this saturation level of coverage on cable and elsewhere.
There have been multiple studies of media coverage that show Missing White Woman Syndrome is real.

Here's one that found missing black women were much less likely to be covered scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewconten…
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15 Sep
Now that the #CARecall has collapsed and Larry Elder has lost overwhelmingly, let's talk about the history and future of CA Republicans (1/n)
First thing to remember is that like all Western states, California was historically Republican. This was true all the way through most of the 20th century. The only two presidents from CA were GOP, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
The future looks bleak for CA Republicans but it has been visible for decades, beginning in the 1990s when the state GOP ran ad campaigns trying to hit typical right wing fear campaigns of religion and immigration. They backfired though and actually drove voters away.
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14 Sep
Thread: Texas abortion vigilantism & Jim Crow

By now, ppl know that the TX abortion law was constructed to avoid lawsuit enforcement. But there's more to the story.

The law's tactics are the exact same that TX used a century ago under Jim Crow flux.community/stefanie-lindq…
The Texas abortion law bans enforcement by “any person, other than an officer or employee of a state or local governmental entity in this state.”

This is how black Texans were deprived of their right to vote a century ago.
Because of the 14th Amendment, Texas could not explicitly ban former slaves from voting. What it did instead in 1923 was to ban them from voting in party primaries. This was struck down by SCOTUS in 1927 in Nixon v. Herndon.
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