This is…scary. A civil society group that researches disinformation being threatened with prosecution. It’s so hard to contemplate let alone process what is coming

Hate has no place in our country. These racist text messages targeting Black New Yorkers, including children and teens, are despicable.   Any New Yorker who gets these texts should contact us: ag.ny.gov/file-complaint…

🚨This is an invaluable resource for many a journalist and researcher - utterly non partisan but a source for transparency about money in politics now under financial threat

The contraction of local news has created a vacuum that has been filled by national media (which is more polarizing) and social media (polarizing and & more hospitable to falsehoods). This election is partly explained by the transformation in how voters get information. 🧵

Kids in schools are now telling each other: “YOUR BODY, MY CHOICE”

which is not to say there is affirmative evidence, but i would not be so fast to class the two concerns together and it alarms me we can't even have this discussion because of the spectre of 2020

misinformation works and that's why we don't fight it anymore

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We’re not a serious country

Where did Trump voters get their news? 📰 Yes, there's social and partisan sites, but there is another influential strategy that isn't getting enough attention: Manipulated, pay-to-play and all out fake news sites I've been covering a mix of those for years. Here's a primer 🧵

scoop: The Guardian has raised $2.4 million in the last 2 days, continuing a donation streak that began after the LA Times and The Washington Post pulled their endorsements. It's a sign that some outlets are tapping a surge of enthusiasm for adversarial journalism post-election.

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies issued a somewhat muted response to the racist troll messages that Black voters got nationwide. Researchers say they think they know how these people were targeted: motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

coincidentally anti-disinfo efforts were discontinued after 2020

fwiw i keep talking about how we used to combat disinfo because it WORKED. in real-time - we'd watch disinfo collapse within the hour. this isn't all literacy, it's intentionally removing this guardeail

i know! by having a visible and thorough resource to explain policy and to address social media discourse about policy *at the time it is happening*

It really is astonishing that Adrian basically created an English idiom. Face eating leopards is beyond an internet joke by now. It’s just a saying.

My piece in politico points to the biggest change in our political world: how information flows. Latinos and young people, who shift led right, disproportionately get news from social media. (Local news collapse also shapes the new reality)

Religion.

we used to have this

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