Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Benjamin Ryan Profile picture
@benryanwriter
Apr 21, 2024 • 10 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Scrolly
🚨Cass Review Misinformation Update🚨

Mallory Moore @Chican3ry actually beat Alejandra Caraballo @Esqueer_ by 2 hours in tweeting false claims about the Cass Review before it came out.

But each of them shares responsibility for the subsequent misinformation storm.

See 🧵⬇️Image
⏰Mallory Moore tweeted her false claim that Cass Review did "disregard all but one" study at 11:36am ET April 9.
⏰Alejandra Caraballo tweeted her false claim that Cass "disregarded" all non-randomized controlled trials at 1:49pm ET.



Image
Image
Recall that Alejandra Caraballo tweeted the wrong systematic literature review. Instead of screenshotting the new lit reviews from the University of York that were published simultaneously with the Cass Review at 7:01pm ET April 9, she "leaked" an image of the 2020 NICE review.Image
🚫Mallory Moore's tweet got 200K views, and is responsible for the general false claim that the review "disregarded" almost all studies.
🚫Alejandra Caraballo's tweet has 841K (and counting) views, and is responsible for the specific false claim that Cass discarded all non-RCTs.Image
Image
So Mallory Moore @Chican3ry and Alejandra Caraballo @Esqueer_ were communally responsible for the two major false claims about the Cass Review that have circulated and that led an angry Dr. Cass to denounce them in interviews to the BBC and elsewhere.
To learn more about why the claims that Mallory Moore and Alejandra Caraballo made about the Cass Review were false, check out my essay:
benryan.substack.com/p/the-cass-rev…
Image
To learn about Erin Reed spreading false information about the Cass Review, check out all these threads:






To hear an angry and dismayed Dr. Hilary Cass take down the influencers who spread misinformation about the Cass Review and set the record straight about how the systematic literature reviews it was partly based on processed the available research, see: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…
Here is the tweet thread from Mallory Moore that got the misinformation ball rolling about the Cass Review on April 9:

After being called out by Dame Hilary Cass for spreading what Cass referred to as harmful misinformation, Mallory is incensed that the doctor referred to her as an influencer.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Benjamin Ryan

Benjamin Ryan Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @benryanwriter

Benjamin Ryan Profile picture
Jun 17
US FTC to Sue Transgender Health Nonprofit (WPATH) Over Youth Care Standards

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and ⁠four ⁠states are suing a nonprofit focused on ⁠transgender health for allegedly making misleading statements about the benefits of gender-affirming treatments ​for young people, a senior FTC official said on Wednesday.

The expected lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is ‌the latest move by the Trump administration ‌and Republican-led states to limit gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. Texas, Iowa, Nebraska and Alaska are planning to ⁠join the lawsuit.

The ⁠FTC and states are expected to say that the World Professional Association for ​Transgender Health, a group that issues recommendations for the care of transgender patients, misled doctors and families regarding the risks associated with some treatments. The FTC is to say the group overstated the link between gender-affirming care and preventing suicide by children and ​teens experiencing gender dysphoria, a condition marked by distress experienced when a person's gender identity doesn't align with ⁠their ⁠sex assigned at birth. The FTC ⁠is expected to ​allege the group sought to have more treatments covered by insurance so that its members could benefit financially.Image
usnews.com/news/top-news/…
Harvard Law School clinical instructor and trans activist Alejandra Caraballo lambastes the pending lawsuit. Image
Read 5 tweets
Benjamin Ryan Profile picture
May 17
New York Magazine reviewing work of writer facing plagiarism allegations, @BobbyAllyn reports for @NPR.

New York magazine is examining the past work of one of its writers who has been accused of plagiarism after publishing at least three stories with striking similarities to other published work.

@RossBarkan, who is a contract writer for the magazine, first attracted critical scrutiny when one of his stories earlier this week on the conservative influencer @BenShapiro appeared to copy another piece on Shapiro published days before in The Washington Post.

When this was pointed out on social media, the magazine updated Barkan's story to directly quote the Post writer, @drewharwell, whose opening paragraphs Barkan lifted nearly wholesale.

After this, NPR found at least two other instances in which Barkan apparently pulled partial paragraphs from other stories that appeared in the publications @theintercept and @CompactMag.Image
npr.org/2026/05/17/nx-…
Image
Read 5 tweets
Benjamin Ryan Profile picture
May 13
NYU professor @JonHaidt, who has stood at the forefront of the movement to challenge academia’s culture of suppressing the free exchange of ideas, is facing a campaign to cancel his graduation address. nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/…Image
NYU’s Student Government Assembly is urging the university to reconsider selecting Jonathan Haidt as commencement speaker, arguing his views on DEI, transgender identity and social justice are out of step with the values and diversity of the Class of 2026. The letter says students feel “disappointment, disgust, defeat, and embarrassment” over the choice of @JonHaidt and accuses NYU of prioritizing a narrow ideological narrative over students’ experiences.Image
Image
The NYU protesters have held up as exemplars a number of past speakers: Molly Shannon, Taylor Swift, and David Boies.
Read 6 tweets
Benjamin Ryan Profile picture
May 12
Progressive journalist David Roberts says: “It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.”Image
Progressive journalist Marisa Kabas says it’s not right to blame Bluesky. It’s all X’s fault. Image
The bird’s eye view:
Read 8 tweets
Benjamin Ryan Profile picture
May 4
Azeen Ghorayshi and Austin Mitchell were 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalists for their podcast The Protocol about youth gender medicine. Image
A must listen: nytimes.com/2025/06/02/pod…
Like clockwork, Harvard Law School clinical instructor and trans activist Alejandra Caraballo has expressed her rage that Azeen Ghorayshi was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Caraballo does not seem to understand that being a finalist in and of itself is a considerable honor. Image
Read 5 tweets
Benjamin Ryan Profile picture
Apr 28
Taylor Lorenz publishes effective advertorial

In @TaylorLorenz’s new Substack, she used Panagram to detect how many top Substackers are using AI to produce their articles, in an apparent effort to criticize their ethics.

Panagram sponsored Lorenz’s Substack, revealing that it is effectively an advertorial. She doesn’t make a note of this sponsorship until the very end of her article.

This comes after Lorenz was widely criticized for posting a free ad for The Bark Phone, which is parental-control software for a children’s smartphone. In the ad, Lorenz touted smartphones as good for kids because they help kids express themselves.Image
Image
Should a tech journalist such as @TaylorLorenz weave sponsorship of tech products into her reporting thanks to receiving payments from tech companies? That’s what Lorenz did here with Panagram:
usermag.co/p/how-much-of-…
@TaylorLorenz When magazines run advertorials, they typically change the layout to make abundantly clear that this is sponsored content. The disclaimer about it being sponsored content is typically at the top of the text, not buried at the very end, as Lorenz has done.
Read 7 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

Send Email!

:(