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Philipp Markolin, PhD's avatar

The only shocking thing to me is a media class that is dependent on a system it does not understand.

Twitter has to be treated as a hostile information environment now more than ever, yet journalists and influencers are economically incentivized to look the other way, to spread rumors and disinformation for engagements.

The resulting noise pollution and epistemic crisis feedbacks in complex ways into conspiratorial worldviews, nihilism and fascism.

Some might appreciate my investigation into this, freely accessible here:

https://protagonistfuture.substack.com/p/asymmetric-power-in-the-information

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Ed P's avatar

Great piece. Thank you!

What a hearing! I’m so thankful that Republican’s insanity backfired so dramatically - maybe thats a good omen of things to come this Congress. What was supposed to document Twitter secretly helping Democrats with sneaky moderation actually served to document the opposite: Twitter bending its rules to keep Trump on its service and that Trump not Biden sought to influence Twitter’s moderation while President and silence critics.

And Twitter is now run by Musk, who seems to be flirting with QAnon and Nazi related imagery and memes. I fear the operational playbook that was run on 4chan 2015-2016 pushing fascism is now being pushed on Twitter.

Meanwhile Michael Flynn has just about come out of the closet as the source behind QAnon and similar online psychological warfare as has been well documented by Jim Stewartson. He is after all a Russia tool and psychological warfare specialist - his new book, which might be viewed as a fascist how-to guide for killing democracy and inciting violence shows this little gem:

https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1622355886755966976?s=61&t=SWbYuPn8YM0SaIohTpB--A

And yet, few seem to be registering this brazen continuing attack on US governance, the same one that upholds the world order. What in the world is going on?!

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