Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki), Jul 16, 2021: "It should not come as any surprise that we are in regular touch with social media platforms ... We are regularly making sure social media platforms are aware of the latest narratives dangerous to public health
Biden Covid coordinator, @ashishkjha, Aug. 16, 2022: "Much harder than I thought" to overcome Covid "misinformation."
All I new before listening to @scotthortonshow’s recent deep dive was that these were probably some religious weirdos, but also the @FBI assuredly screwed up & maybe accidentally started the fire.
Curiously, when I tried posting the tweet above w/ the link to the podcast, @Twitter wouldn’t let me post it. Trying again here: podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/sco…
@Twitter Glad it worked as a reply. Weird. Anyway, everyone should give it a listen. It’s long, but also captivating.
CNN’s @eliehonig decries “activist” ruling ordering Biden to stop censoring Americans: “One of the most aggressive, far-reaching rulings you’ll ever see. [He’s] purporting to micromanage the day-to-day intersection btwn … the entire Executive Branch [& social media companies]”
.@WalterIsaacson: "Judge Doughty’s decision goes too far ... the decision will be refined somewhat, because government has to have the right to have its own free speech, to push back when they see things on social media they think are dangerous.”
MSNBC's @ryanjreilly argues the FBI isn't policing social media enough: "It’s not as though the FBI has been going in & saying, 'Hey, take down this post.' ... The FBI’s not very good at monitoring social media. Look what happened on Jan 6th. There are all of these warning signs"
MSNBC legal analyst @cchristian_LA on SCOTUS outlawing racial discrimination in college admissions: "I fear what will happen. Will there by many lawyers who look like Charles and I in the future? Or doctors? Or accountants? It is a problem. It is not preferential treatment."
@cchristian_LA MSNBC legal analyst @CFColemanJr: "What you’re doing is you are limiting people’s access to the American Dream, and that is something that we have not really been honest about in our discussion ... Now we’re going to see that segregation become wider and wider."
@cchristian_LA @CFColemanJr Christian: "Clarence Thomas, you know, he has criticized Affirmative Action. That’s how — that’s one of the reasons why he graduated from Yale and we know that’s one of the reasons why he’s on the Supreme Court."
1) The Emancipation Proclamation was designed to help Lincoln win the Civil War, not end slavery (it specifically "excepted" Union states & southern states then under Union control)
2) The Emancipation Proclamation, which came two years into the war, was designed to deter Britain from coming to the aid of the Confederacy, as they had been considering (the ploy worked)
3) "[The Emancipation Proclamation] was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their independence, into a war against States fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery, by making some… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Thread: Quick update on how @Google is waging the information wars on behalf of progressives.
@Google As my publishing colleagues already know, @Google effectively controls the entire online advertising industry. Unless you’re big enough to sell ads directly to advertisers — and almost no publishers are — you need Google’s blessing in order to earn any money through online ads.
When someone wants to advertise online, they typically use an exchange like AdWords (now called Google Ads), where they choose the amount they’re willing to spend per thousand impressions (CPM), the type of sites they want their ads to appear, etc.
Sen. @ChuckGrassley: “The foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe & Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversation[s], 17 such recordings. According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between him & Hunter Biden [and]… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Cont’d: “These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case that he got into a tight spot. The 1023 also indicates that then-vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burisma employing Hunter Biden. Based on the facts… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Cont’d: “Special Counsel Jack Smith has used a recording against former President Trump. Well, what is U.S. Attorney Weiss doing with respect to these alleged Joe & Hunter Biden recordings that are apparently relevant to the high-stakes bribery scheme? Getting a full and complete… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…