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Sep 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Strange idea to cast Alinejad, who lives in NYC, as the leader of the Iranian protests that are explicitly being done in the name of a local woman murdered by Iranian police. Alinejad is a US government employee who meets regularly with neocon politicians.
newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
Alinejad's influence is all via social media (and VoA), but Filkins makes no attempt to assess her social media presence/reach. She has 509k followers on Twitter, 425k on FB, and 8m on IG (which...). No sense in the article if she's just amplifying or actually inspiring people.
This happened during other MENA protests -- large English-speaking audiences confused with influence in the home country, social media virality confused with on the ground impact, Twitter appearing omniscient rather than a pinhole view. Gotta be careful.
newrepublic.com/article/112268…
Filkins quotes Alinejad, who gave herself a new first name meaning Messiah or Christ, as saying, “I’m leading this movement,” without assessing the truth of that statement or talking to anyone in Iran.
newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
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Bitcoin isn't a "neutral" tech: it's private money, facilitates illicit finance, challenges state sovereignty over the money supply, and basically acts as a paperclip maximizer to gobble up ever more of the world's otherwise productive electrical capacity. It's political.
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