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Okay, some of these are too good.

Quick 🧵 of the wackiest @elonmusk potentially buying Twitter takes vs. what those folks had to say when Twitter booted President Trump. ⤵️
From Twitter is a private company “to which the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply” to “this is what oligarchy looks like” in the twinkling of an eye.
Live by the tweets, die by the tweets, @mmpadellan.
We sure went quickly from Twitter can do “whatever it wants to” because “that is its freedom of expression” to living in “the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany,” @jeffjarvis.
My personal favorite: Schrodinger’s private corporation. When it does something @maxboot likes, it can’t be questioned.

But when it goes against Boot? Cue political outrage.
I…don’t really have anything to add to this from @David_Leavitt

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Sep 28
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The FCC is trying to bring back net neutrality. In 2017, the media & Dems declared that repealing the rules would destroy the internet. Instead things got better. Me for @FreeBeacon

Do you remember the takes? I do. Follow along⤵️
freebeacon.com/media/as-the-f…
You really can’t overstate how ridiculous the coverage was. This was @CNN’s homepage when the rules were rolled back. Image
And it wasn’t just CNN. Here’s @NBCNews who said it would sever the internet lifeline for lgbt people. Image
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Sep 14
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There’s media bias, and then there’s a press actively pushing government propaganda because the president told them to.

Today we saw perhaps the most egregious recent example of the latter. Follow along ⤵️
@FreeBeacon
freebeacon.com/media/biden-im…
Yesterday the White House sent out a memo to heads of major media organizations telling them to more aggressively defend the president as he faces impeachment.
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Rather than be insulted that the president would presume to use the American press as his mouthpiece, the media largely obliged.

Just look at this from @CNN.
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Aug 30
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Before the fires were put out in Maui the media had already blamed the disaster on their pet issue: climate change.

I want to walk through some of the coverage b/c the way it’s bad is emblematic of how the media (wrongly) covers climate. @FreeBeacon
freebeacon.com/media/hawaii-w…
Maybe the clearest example comes from @nytimes.

In explaining how lush Hawaii had become the site of a disaster, they declared it was “as straightforward as it is sobering” - climate change.

It wasn’t. It was messy, and multicausal, and complicated. As disasters often are.
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Similar theme here from @TheAtlantic. Perhaps it is a warning - about the role of human error and corporate failure and bad local policies.

But it isn’t a warning about how climate change is “accelerating” at all. Image
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Jun 21
The media has gotten to the bottom of who the real victim is in the charges against Hunter Biden: Hunter Biden himself.

Me for @FreeBeacon. A few real gems 🧵ed below.

freebeacon.com/media/republic…
There was a lot of “this isn’t a big deal because it’s happened before!” takes. This from @USATODAY is my second favorite. Image
And that’s because @AP likening Hunter’s travails to the misadventures of Teddy Roosevelt’s young children has to take the top spot. ImageImage
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Jun 20
It has been 82 days since @ddale8, @CNN’s presidential fact checker, has fact-checked Joe Biden, the president.

In the interim, he has fact checked Republicans 29 times, and former President Trump 18 times.

What gives? @FreeBeacon freebeacon.com/media/daniel-d…
I know that there’s been some Trump news in the interim, but not all of those 29 checks seem mission critical. ImageImage
Especially because there is a sitting president who is saying things that aren’t true - even other mainstream outlets are pointing it out. ImageImage
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Jun 1
When Donald Trump walked slowly down some wet stairs the entire mainstream press lost its mind. ImageImageImageImage
Have we tracked down an explanation of Biden’s fall yet @washingtonpost? Image
As always. @JRubinBlogger Image
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