Morgan

@MHJohnston
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Vermonter by right, "nutmegger" by mortgage. Comms pro living in the NYC metro area, trying to connect it all.
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Big piece from Brandy Zadrozny and a whole lot of other people at NBC News about how the Russia disinformation pipeline works. The Nightly News segment on the topic runs tonight. https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/russian-disinformation-2024-election-storm-1516/index.html
How Russian disinformation is reaching the U.S. ahead of the 2024 election

Storm-1516, a Russian disinformation group, aims to influence the U.S. election through viral videos that rely on fake whistleblowers and fabricated photos and documents.

NBC News
@fraying their psyops=bad; our psyops=good.
@[email protected] @imh @jordan i broached the topic in a new thread recently and didn’t find the best link to reference. I really hope it wasn’t the inciting instance. (Checking my email for admonishment but nothing)

An amazing collection of photos for 2022. The themes of the year's top stories are clear.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/12/top-25-news-photos-2022/672359/

Top 25 News Photos of 2022

Powerful images from the past 12 eventful months

The Atlantic
@fraying an argument was posed elsewhere that deactivating your account entirely opens up the potential of misrepresentation when the username made available to others. What’s your take on that? I’ve got no desire to be counted as a DAU and have deleted my posts, revoked all integrations and pointed to my Mastodon… is that enough?

"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk decide..."

@adamdavidson

https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment

Mastodon’s Moment – The Markup

A conversation with Adam Davidson

@anildash Time to dust off my copy of Cluetrain Manifesto again.

For those that are still on Twitter, what brands/products are you still seeing in promoted Tweets?

Sports betting and "tactical" vests/sunglasses/holsters etc. seem to be the last advertisers standing

@LukeYoquinto it was one of those VHS tapes that floated from dorm room party to dorm room party my freshman year of college. Half those kids were actively trying to become Slosh.
@adrianco then Google will run it with minimal support for a few years and kill it?