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Apr 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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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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Jun 23
🧵THREAD🧵

In case you missed it, I’ve been working on a series called “A COVID Autopsy” for the last couple of months, revisiting what the legacy media (and their frequently quoted “experts”) got wrong during the pandemic.

As you can imagine, there’s a lot. I started writing this years ago, got sidetracked by some life events (getting married, getting cancer, beating cancer, starting a new job) but finally finished it. I’ve linked to all six parts published at my newsletter (link to it is in my bio) in the thread below.

If you’re interested in how I think the response to COVID broke America, I hope you’ll give it a read, and share (with me in the comments, with others as you see fit) what you think.
Do you remember the start of COVID? Do you remember what the legacy media said back then, about the virus being no worse than the flu, and that masks didn’t work?

The tone changed … when President Trump suggested they were right. Part 1 is here: drewholden.substack.com/p/a-covid-auto…Image
Do you remember the lockdown protests? Before protesting for “social justice” got a pass, the legacy press suggested protesting should cause the forfeit of health care.

Wild times. Part 2, into that memoryhole, is here: drewholden.substack.com/p/a-covid-auto…Image
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Jun 10
🧵Thread🧵

A quick side by side of things legacy media outlets will describe as Nazi-adjacent when they’re about Trump vs. how these outlets talk about Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo, which an ex-gf of his confirmed to the NYT was deliberate.

Look ⤵️
Trump’s MSG rally? Nazi-related for @nytimes.

NYT, who broke the story that Platner told an ex-gf he had a Nazi tattoo, about his Nazi tattoo? Not Nazi. Just “new reporting…about his vulnerabilities.” Image
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(It is funny to me that so many of the photos in pieces about Platner for NYT show him holding up his arm in a way that the paper would surely tie to the Nazis if, say, @elonmusk had done it) Image
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Apr 28
🧵THREAD🧵

When I saw the news that the Southern Poverty Law Center funded the hate groups like the KKK & Unite the Right they relied on to claim that white supremacy, inspired by Trump, was on the rise, I just knew the legacy media helped make it possible.

Boy was I right ⤵️
First, what happened.

A federal grand jury charged the SPLC with fraud for using donations to pay hate groups like the KKK millions of dollars, fomenting their activity in the lead up to the Unite the Right rally and after to drive more donations to SPLC.

More details below:
You may remember how legacy media ran with the (contrived) claim after Unite the Right that Trump was spurring white supremacy.

The @nytimes wrote of the ~500 protestors whose transit was partially covered by SPLC: “Far-Right Groups Surge Into National View in Charlottesville.” Image
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Feb 5
I know it’s been a few days, but the entire legacy media ran with the claim that Don Lemon was arrested for doing journalism, when he was actually indicted because a grand jury found he violated worshippers’ freedom of expression.

Quick live🧵thread🧵, starting with @nytimes. ⤵️ Image
Same thing at @NBCNews.

Omitted from the headline is what the actual charges are: interfering with these churchgoers rights. Image
Predictably, @CNN has gone to bat for Lemon.

What’s at issue isn’t “reporting” of a “protest,” and claiming to the contrary is pretty obviously misleading. Image
Read 15 tweets
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Jan 22
🧵THREAD🧵

There’s another media hoax from Minnesota. Legacy outlets churned out headlines about a 5-year-old child used as “bait” by ICE.

The reality? The kid’s father, an illegal immigrant, abandoned him when he saw the agents. As even these outlets later concede.

Look ⤵️
Here’s how these hoaxes start. @washingtonpost alleges ICE used a 5-year-old kid as “bait” to arrest his father.

Not until five paragraphs into the piece do they acknowledge what really happened: the child’s father, an illegal immigrant, abandoned him when he saw ICE. Image
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But this allegation was everywhere. We saw the same thing from @AP.

Explosive claim in the headline: “used as ‘bait’” (from the school, no less)

Reality: six paragraphs down, father abandoned child. Image
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Read 15 tweets
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Jan 21
🧵Thread🧵

This is insane. Remember the story of an innocent family hit with tear gas by ICE amid violent protests in Minnesota, with their baby hospitalized?

Turns out, the parents went to the riot…and may have left the baby in the car.

Media-induced conspiracy theory ⤵️
The legacy media ran with this fake story.

Here’s @nytimes — the family was “trying to escape a clash” when “ICE agents gassed them.” Image
@nytimes Same from @CNN — “gassed after they were caught in clash” when in reality they took their baby to a violent protest.

Insane reporting. Image
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