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The Algorithmic Reich— MAGA’s War On Reality
The Banality of Disinformation— Trump Seems To Be Using Orwell As A Manual The real news of the second Trump term is bad news— sometimes...
Howie Klein
Apr 117 min read
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Mondaire Jones Comes Out As The Self-Serving, Backstabbing Hypocrite Of The 2024 Election Cycle
Happiest Man In Congress Today: Mike Lawler (R-NY) Blue America backed Mondaire Jones when he ran for Congress in 2020 and we always felt...
Howie Klein
Jun 5, 20249 min read
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The Evils Of A.I.— Will It Be Used To Elect Trump And Other Republicans?
On Thursday, Cade Metz, reporting for the NY Times, and Vittoria Elliott, reporting for Wired, looked at how OpenAI had identified and...
Howie Klein
Jun 1, 20247 min read
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Life Really IS Worse For MAGAts Than For Normal People— A Chicken Or Egg Kind Of Scenario
Distinguishing Realty From Anti-Reality— Too Much Fox News Will Wreck Your Life It’s lazy and stupid to say that all MAGAts are lazy and...
Howie Klein
May 26, 202411 min read
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Disinformation-- It's What Fascism Thrives On
Yesterday, Bill, the DWT art director told me he had signed up for the Bluesky Social beta waiting list and that he’s letting is twitter...
Howie Klein
Nov 6, 20226 min read
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The Republican Party Has Been Bolsonarofied
Brazil’s presidential election has been marred with a flood of hate speech and a certain kind of “misinformation” being perpetrated by...
Howie Klein
Oct 26, 20226 min read
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Imagine Waking Up To Find Out That The Whole Putin Wing Of The GOP Are Just Crisis Actors!
Reporting for the NY Times yesterday, Robert Draper wrote that former Trump advisors are connecting Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine...
Howie Klein
Apr 12, 20226 min read
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Apparently There Is No Way To Protect Our Society From Toxic, Malevolent Misinformation & Propaganda
In authoritarian states, people have no choice when it comes to news sources. The state is the news source. Russians have virtually no...
Howie Klein
Apr 10, 20226 min read
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How Do You Know Who To Believe And Who's Playing You?
Last night at the low energy/poorly attended, Trump-headlined rally for Georgia losers, Señor Trumpanzee praised his authoritarian role...
Howie Klein
Mar 27, 20228 min read
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Guest Post: How Can We Be So Sure That Most Trump Voters Are Morons?
Darren Sherkat, teaches sociology at Southern Illinois University, which is the subject I majored in at Stony Brook. We think along...
Howie Klein
Jan 24, 20225 min read
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Politically-Motivated Misinformation, Take II; Meet The Low-Conscientiousness Conservatives
Like Trump, A Born Loser, Chaos Is Their Goal Hopefully you read the Nature report on misinformation a couple days ago. If not, you...
Howie Klein
Jan 15, 20225 min read
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Mississippi, Misinformation... Trumpism
Mississippi is the poorest state in the Union and the second least educated, after West Virginia. Also, the second least healthy. after...
Howie Klein
Jan 14, 20226 min read
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The Misinformation & Disinformation Being Pumped Into The Body Politic Will Have An Impact
Yesterday, Monmouth released a new poll with data they described by noting that "Three in ten Americans now believe the nation’s system...
Howie Klein
Nov 16, 20215 min read
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Which Is Worse-- Facebook Or Amazon?
I wrote a note to Fiji Water when I woke up this morning informing them that Amazon is selling cartons of 1.5 liter Fiji bottles filled...
Howie Klein
Oct 11, 20218 min read
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