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đź“– Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (http://invisiblerulers.com)
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @ Georgetown
🦹🏻‍♀️ Recurring Twitter Files supervillain
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Published: March 23, 2025 16:00
🙊New from me in the Atlantic: the U.S. government now runs on Twitter Files logic
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he pushed the Twitter Files—decontextualized emails that spun routine moderation decisions as censorship. They fed the audience a simple but…
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Published: March 21, 2025 06:55
Another view of “it’s not just a messaging problem — it’s an infrastructure problem”
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Published: March 20, 2025 18:49
After 10yrs of reading CHD lies I want to highlight that this isn’t “misinformation.” That term is inadequate for what the anti-vax mvmt- especially Children’s Health Defense- does to proselytize to its adherents.
It’s propaganda.
Tommey believes a 💉…
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Published: March 20, 2025 12:55
I’m sure they’ll get these complex processes sorted before they do the Epstein Files.
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Published: March 19, 2025 04:17
So what are the most interesting things in the Kennedy Files? Anything new?
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Published: March 18, 2025 23:25
The JFK Files were supposed to drop today so I popped over to X to see if they happened just in time to see this from the extremely qualified and very competent DNI.
Site is down.
Promises made, promises kept.
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Published: March 18, 2025 22:04
Parents should try out the AI chat apps before letting their kids anywhere near them. I personally would not let my kid use. In a recent podcast with @mmasnick.bsky.social we chatted ab my experience with extremely persistent manosphere Character.AI bots
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Published: March 18, 2025 20:31
Creators who use Descript - I want to sign up. Are there mutually beneficial referral codes? Do you have one I should use? 🙂
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Published: March 18, 2025 18:15
Amazed both that TikTok “airport theory” is a thing AND that the end of this article is like, “guidelines say you should get to an airport 2 hours before a domestic flight for a reason!”
Insanity all around.
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Published: March 18, 2025 14:34
In which we talk Abundance! I’m intrigued by the prospect, the vision, and the branding - “abundance” is a great policy meme. I found the book compelling. But I also wanted to ask: how? How do liberals operationalize this? How is “housing abundance”…
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Published: March 17, 2025 22:24
There are lessons from history. There are lessons from authoritarian takeovers elsewhere. The strategy isn’t that complex -maybe even obvious. But it requires mobilization. It requires shifting institutional mindset from “someone should…” hoping &…
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Published: March 17, 2025 20:02
The government is fully captured by conspiracy theorists who were appointed to power *because* of their disordered thinking and tight connections to similarly-addled X influencers.
“We are the media now” -> They are the government now.
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Published: March 17, 2025 17:31
In Invisible Rulers I wrote ab content that is a perfect fit not for *the human audience*, but for *the algorithmic intersection with the human audience* -- and creators who target that sweet spot bc of massive $$$ potential.
AI makes it a whole lot…
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Published: March 17, 2025 14:33
👀 Modi just joined Truth Social…
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Published: March 16, 2025 18:09
“Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome.”
Influencers make content to appeal to audiences and to algorithms.
Views on clickbait topics are higher. Feedback from both audience and analytics encourages them to make more.
Audience capture is…
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Published: March 16, 2025 17:33
“Teach the controversy” now moving from creationism to very recent history.
The things that Oklahoma wants to teach its students simply did not happen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/15/oklahoma-social-studies-2020-election/
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Published: March 16, 2025 15:30
Not exactly. The “new era” of govt censorship of research started 2 yrs ago. The censorship EO was originally written to target academic institutions that’d pointed out that the Big Lie was a lie and the 2020 election was free and fair.
What you’re seeing…
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Published: March 15, 2025 19:16
If you could design social media today, how would you go about it? How would you decide what to curate, to foster discussion? How would you create norms, find ways to bridge differences?
We discuss on Lawfare Daily! Bluesky users will recognize the…
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Published: March 15, 2025 15:21
Just a baffling collection of choices by an administration of supposed “China hawks” to cede ground absolutely everywhere, incoherently — possibly in response to having bought into their own conspiracy theories ab roles various agencies played in…