Thread by @jessesingal

1/ This dude said in his godawful Matthew Shepard episode of You're Wrong About that people who care about the actual truth of what happened in situations like that killing or Michael Brown's (regarding whether he had his hands up) are missing the point because concerns with the

2/ actual facts could distract people from Deeper Truths and/or provide succor to political conservatives. He is on record saying that whether we should fact-check or fight misinformation depends wholly on who benefits from a given claim. The high horse is unwarranted.

3/ Hobbes' argument is structured similarly to Jeet's. It turns out that yes, *technically* plenty of people in our tribe also spread misinformation but you see we've decided that that's not as bad for [reasons], so there shouldn't be a clampdown.

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1487505829071036416

4/ "Has Glenn Greenwald ever done anything to advance liberal interests or ideals?"

Good stuff

My bad for getting sucked back into this, let alone checking his feed -- I still need better internet

5/ There's more of this here with Gay's piece. There's this sense of these folks coming to some sort of careful, reasoned conclusion that Joe Rogan's misinformation is so bad it warrants action, and I feel like you just have to ignore SO MUCH to get there

nytimes.com/2022/02/03/opi…