Just 5% Of U.S. Adults Say They Prefer To Get Their News From Print Media
Ah... So That's How QAnon Took Hold Last week, Greg Sargent penned an insightful column for the New Republic… but probably read by fewer...
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Howie Klein
Dec 24, 20234 min read
Big Picture: Who's Worse-- Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Orbán, Xi Or... Elon Musk?
Last week the Business Post published The X Files: Leaked documents reveal how staff were stripped of power to remove toxic content and I...
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Howie Klein
Oct 28, 20237 min read
Musk Bought Twitter A Year Ago-- I Think Most People Would Agree He Destroyed It
Destroying It Was His Goal From The Beginning I still use Twitter. It’s open on my desktop all day. I’ve never referred to it as “X” and...
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Howie Klein
Jul 10, 20236 min read
Twitter Is Moribund-- Is Threads The Solution?
Matt Robison is a former congressional staffer who does a podcast, Beyond Politics, with former Congressman Paul Hodes (D-NH). I saw this...
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Noah
Jul 10, 20233 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Welcome To Twitter Meta Tok!
by Noah Watching humans fly around from one social media app to another like bees that have ingested just the right amount of pesticide...
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Howie Klein
Jun 4, 20234 min read
Do You Feel Guilty Posting On Twitter?
I’m still using Twitter, although I also post at Spoutible (https://spoutible.com/DownWithTyranny), Post (https://post.news/@/downwithtyr...
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Howie Klein
Apr 1, 20238 min read
Starting Today, Twitter Isn’t Really Free Anymore
I started a Spoutible account this week and I’m liking how it feels. I also post at post.news and I tried Mastodon for a while (but got...
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Howie Klein
Mar 26, 20233 min read
It Would Be A Big Mistake For Democrats To Join The GOP In Banning TikTok
I don't know anyone who uses TikTok as an organizing tool more successfully than Virginia progressive Jessica Anderson. So I asked her to...
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Noah
Jan 30, 20234 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Zuckerberg, et al. Step Up Their Quest For Chaos!
by Noah Yeah, what could possibly go wrong, which is precisely why social media billionaires like the total assclown depicted in the...
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Thomas Neuburger
Jan 10, 20234 min read
Where Does the State End and 'Industry' Begin? (Twitter Files 11 & 12)
A stunning picture of the depths of Twitter's penetration by the intelligence community.
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Howie Klein
Nov 7, 20224 min read
Are Conservative Voters Dumb Enough To Fall For Russian Social Media Propaganda Again?
You Bet They Are! This morning, Bess Levin devoted her Vanity Fair column to a long list of the worst 2022 candidates— and there were so...
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Howie Klein
Jul 26, 20214 min read
Can Governments Cope With The Emergence Of Alternative Centers Of Power? Big Tech? Cryptocurrencies?
No More BitCoin? No More TikTok? Robert Manning is a think tank kind of guy-- currently at the Atlantic Council-- but worked at the State...
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Howie Klein
Jul 25, 20216 min read
Roger McNamee Has Some Free Advice For Biden-- Let's Hope He Listens
Roger McNamee is an old friend who I know because of his two bands, Flying Other Brothers and, more recently, Moonalice. He once...
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Howie Klein
May 6, 20213 min read
Will Another 6 Months Of Banishment From Facebook Really Hurt Señor Trumpanzee?
Bess Levin this morning at Vanity Fair: "'What Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our...
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Howie Klein
Mar 25, 20214 min read
Digital Heresthetics
-by Haydar Khan In my previous essay, I introduced the concept of heresthetics, the art of shaping the world via the “strategy value of...
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Howie Klein
Jan 25, 20217 min read
Were Twitter And Other Social Media Monopolies Right To Shut Down Trump's Accounts? Who's Next?
Twitter seems much calmer and saner without Trump, doesn't it? And the country seems calmer without him asserting all that self-serving...
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Howie Klein
Nov 25, 20205 min read
Should People Who Use Facebook Be Allowed To Vote In Real Elections?
I spend an awful lot of time on Twitter and find "it" a good source of information. Not Twitter per se, but certain people I follow who...
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