What the so-called “Twitter Files” actually reveal.

“It isn’t Twitter’s fault that so much conservative discourse in the Trump era is so deeply, fundamentally dishonest.”

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/elon-musk-twitter-files-bari-weiss-matt-taibbi-shadowbanning.html

This is one of the best cut-through-the-noise pieces I have read in months. Seriously. It's that good.

#journalism #journalists #USpolitics

The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.

The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.

Slate

@jayrosen_nyu

I kind of wish everyone would stop using the word "woke" they way conservatives use it and go back to using it the way it's been used for the last 100 years.

Even if it's sarcastic it just keeps gluing the word to the new meaning. IDK it's probably too late.

Woke up this morning with my mind
Stayed on freedom
Woke up this morning with my mind
Stayed on freedom
Woke up this morning with my mind
Stayed on freedom
Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah.

@futurebird @jayrosen_nyu

“umm, what do you have against treating people with respect?” is a schematic response i have to such malevolent use.