🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com) —how influencers, algorithms, &online crowds shape public opinion
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Renee DiResta
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Here at a live taping of Hard Fork getting ready to heckle @caseynewton.bsky.social and @kevinroose.com
It’s a choice to do this. During the Twitter files he was ✂️ emails in half; MSM never reported on that, while right wing media reported the lies. I think MSM didn’t know at the time. They weren’t paying attention. Taibbi’s profound lack of ethics has real impact.
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Matt Taibbi really likes snipping content to tell a totally false story! Here he is pretending Nithya Rahman’s not-concession speech tears & this passage had something to do w/gay and trans people.
This passage was ab her daughters. New low from a dishonest hack.
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Did someone forget to turn on the rigging machine for the top-of-ticket race or what?
Here’s what Taibbi wrote. Here’s what Nithya Raman said.
Matt Taibbi's defamation case against Rep Kamager-Dove has been tossed. He sued her because she asked why the Republicans, in yet another hearing about the CeNsoRshIp iNDusTriAl cOmPlex (which doesn't exist) kept inviting a "serial sexual harasser".
Here, relive and savor the moment:
And for good measure, since Matt Taibbi is a serial fabricator, is my blog post ab the time he cut an email in half to falsely claim that the Virality Project had 'demanded the censorship of true stories of vaccine side effects'
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If you'd like to read the filing, it's here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Grand juror: "Are you actually presenting any new actual facts …?"
Mecklenburg: "Are you going to be able to listen with an open mind?"
Grand juror: "I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit."
Pulling receipts: what a cropped email & sworn declaration reveal in the ongoing saga of a smear campaign
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 29 Motion to Dismiss; denying 25 Motion to Strike; DISMISSING 8 Amended Complaint without prejudice; that Plaintiff may file a second amended complaint within forty-five (45)...
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This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
Matt Taibbi really likes snipping content to tell a totally false story! Here he is pretending Nithya Rahman’s not-concession speech tears & this passage had something to do w/gay and trans people.
This passage was ab her daughters. New low from a dishonest hack.
www.racket.news/p/american-e...