The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    The enormous amount of hate is not real

    By artappraiser on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 11:58am |

    See this whole thread. It makes it so clear that the enormous amount of hate, divisiveness and mistrust is not real, it is caused by a tiny minority. It is basically ginned up by a small number of teen trolls with a lot of time on their hands. The social media people are failing at the task of maintaining the benefits of freedom of speech. Someone has to fix the problem of being able to play the algorithms. It's not just a Putin problem, as anyone can do it. Until the situation is fixed, it is ever more important not to feed the trolls or to ridicule them. By taking them seriously, one is basically giving them the keys to the kingdom.

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    A few very busy bees

    These accounts entirely dedicated to sending death threats and pictures of nooses to recently laid off journalists are still live, 24 hours after our report citing examples.

    Is anybody doing any moderation of any kind at these companies? This is not hard!https://t.co/Mm1EqoNCeI

    — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 26, 2019

    by artappraiser on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 6:47pm


    by artappraiser on Wed, 01/30/2019 - 7:07pm

    Recurses, foiled again.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/30/2019 - 7:31pm

    Did someone say discovery?

    Nunes has an answer for that. The only reason the Special Counsel Office would be interested in Committee testimony is because they are scraping the barrel.

    *Nunes looks nervously at barrel.*


    by moat on Wed, 01/30/2019 - 8:38pm

    so I googled for more and turns out Devin is also fantasizing that when Barr gets in he will roll back in that other never-ending barrel of fun


    by artappraiser on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 1:16am

    it is "through the looking glass" stuff, playing all kinds of cards, including race

    thread https://t.co/xun6kgdVJp

    — Laura Rozen (@lrozen) January 31, 2019

    by artappraiser on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 5:01pm

    How it works, well explained in a twitter thread

    Fantastic explanatory thread on how online media are being weaponized by diverse malicious actors, with careful analysis of a particular case with a particular video, and the tools used, in all their subtlety. https://t.co/BxmJsX3KJ6

    — Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) February 2, 2019

    from the summary of the thread

    (26) If the purpose of the attacks are to make us hate each other and divide our minds into “Us” and “Them” tribes, how do we civilians protect our minds from this division? I submit to you, that our best hope to survive this modern bombardment is nothing short of ACTIVE UNITY.

    — Smarter Every Day (@smartereveryday) February 3, 2019

    by artappraiser on Sat, 02/02/2019 - 9:42pm

    Stolen identities (from small towns) used to make fake anti-globalist comments to FCC on net neutrality:

    Fake FCC Comments Linked to Ex-Trump Campaign Director's Org, Boosted By Roger Stone https://t.co/b31UepOqTR RT @iron_light pic.twitter.com/4mTBgd1Yx5

    — Shi (@ShiCooks) February 2, 2019

    by artappraiser on Sun, 02/03/2019 - 1:44am

    Thread with lots of graphs:


    by artappraiser on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 11:13am

    this one is just too much fun fake hate not to share (And I adore the troll's handle!)

     


    by artappraiser on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 3:30am


    by artappraiser on Fri, 03/08/2019 - 9:12am