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Digital Producer @TorontoStar. Prone to hyperbole. (He/him)
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Nov 4, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Looks like Elon Musk fired the entire curation team.

These were the folks who tackled misinfo, contextualized conversations via the 'Explore' page, and helped make Twitter an unmatched source for breaking news.

This will make Twitter noisier, more dangerous & less interesting Right before the elections, too... potentially disastrous
Mar 26, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
Since the Russian invasion, conservatives have employed the rhetoric of ethical oil, pitching the oilsands as a clean alternative to "dirty dictator oil."

I spoke to some experts about whether this decades-old argument holds any weight (it does not).

thestar.com/news/canada/20… The ethical oil argument is compelling and emotionally effective on a surface level.

But economists say Canada simply does not have the capacity to displace oil from non-democratic regimes.