watching cia recruitment videos and losing it at this part when the narrator says you can use your foreign language skills "to interpret evidence for the highest level of government" but the russian words on the screen are just 'pizza, mobile phone, guitar, car' lmaoooo
SCOOP: “Stop The Steal" organizer bragged about a phone call with “people from the White House” weeks before the insurrection.
In the same video, Ali Alexander also appeared to advocate for violence against lawmakers.
Yesterday my dad unexpectedly took his own life. He was the best. Worked in public education his whole life (was going to retire this year), fixed anything and everything, and always supported me. If anyone has grief advice or recommendations I’d really appreciate it. I miss him.
If you
#GoogleBernie
you'll find a man who has tirelessly fought for the working class, for women, for the LGBTQ+ community, and for civil rights.
For 40 years, Bernie has been fighting like hell with us and for us.
I spent the weekend inside Moms for Liberty’s summit with my colleague
@peltzmadeline
. We learned A LOT and are looking forward to exposing it all. Reporting coming soon
Okay the only good part of all of this is late last night I had a vague idea that this might happen and used my burner to take the
@KamalaHarrisVP
Twitter handle
Feeling very emotional about my last day on the Bernie campaign so instead of monologuing I’m going to keep it short and simple: Joe Biden DID try to cut Social Security and don’t let PolitiFact tell you otherwise
The examples used for 'we cover this!' are exactly what Bernie describes in his statement - "endless stories about the politics of passing Build Back Better, the role of the president, conflicts in the House and Senate, opposition of two senators, the size of the bill." Zoom in.
The Indiana school corporation where both of my parents work just had a school board meeting to propose a fall opening policy:
+no mask mandate
+honor system for temperature checks
+no six foot distancing in classrooms because the classes are packed
Teachers will die.
NEW from me: Meet the QAnon-affiliated insurrectionist running for Congress in Ohio.
J.R. Majewski has frequently bragged about his friendship with Rep. Jim Jordan and his role as a Trump surrogate. On January 6, he rushed the Capitol.
NEW: Mike Lindell's Facebook is full of insider info from January 6
•Photo w/ Flynn + Boebert at the rally before the insurrection
•Videos claiming he spent Jan 4 + 5 w/ Sidney Powell, Flynn, senators + even met w/ Brazilian President Bolsonaro's son
NEW from me: Meet the QAnon-affiliated insurrectionist running for Congress in Ohio.
J.R. Majewski has frequently bragged about his friendship with Rep. Jim Jordan and his role as a Trump surrogate. On January 6, he rushed the Capitol.
New from me: Facebook was either unprepared to follow through with their promise of removing violent QAnon groups, or had no intention of actually doing so after garnering positive PR.
Violent QAnon groups continue to grow on Facebook either way.
Now is the time to be open about the fact that my family has a pitbull chihuahua. You can see by the look in her eyes that she knows she shouldn’t exist. Man played God and created her.
New from me: Facebook was either unprepared to follow through with their promise of removing violent QAnon groups, or had no intention of actually doing so after garnering positive PR.
Violent QAnon groups continue to grow on Facebook either way.
NEW from me: A QAnon-affiliated January 6 insurrectionist is now organizing US anti-vax trucker convoys — Leigh Dundas promoted violence at the Capitol, spread election lies, and compared both Biden’s victory and public health measures to the Holocaust
"To cut a tree unnecessarily has long been an act of treason against our heritage and the loyalty, love, and effort of our predecessors who have preserved it for us." -Herman B Wells 🌳🌲
#EarthDay
NEW: TikTok is enabling predatory ADHD advertisers to target young users.
The ads seem to be capitalizing on the TikTok phenomenon of ADHD self-diagnosis, as they deceptively oversimplify a complex diagnosis in order to target vulnerable users
We are in Bloomington tonight where protesters are demanding justice after a number of racial incidents here over the weekend.
@FOX59
@CBS4Indy
Spoke with
@nytimes
about medical start-ups distributing misleading ads on TikTok to convince young users they have ADHD.
Companies wrongly oversimplify a complex diagnosis in order to sell users expedited diagnoses/stimulants, and TikTok is helping them
Would be hilarious if Indiana accidentally gets a Dem governor because Republicans are so pissed about Holcomb’s mask mandate that they’re advocating to vote him out
7/31/19 - Kamala: “You [Biden] made a decision for years to withhold resources to poor women to have access to reproductive healthcare and including women who were the victims of rape and incest.”
.
@JoeBiden
has served our country with dignity and we need him now more than ever. I will do everything in my power to help elect him the next President of the United States.
NEW: Internal documents reveal Moms for Liberty's sophisticated state legislative advocacy infrastructure that the group is strategically (and successfully) using to attack LGBTQ rights across the country
Did a deep dive on Moms for Liberty, a "parental rights" organization strategically harassing public schools across the country. The group frames itself as grassroots, but benefits from right-wing funding, media coverage, and political ties.
Now is the time to be open about the fact that my family has a pitbull chihuahua. You can see by the look in her eyes that she knows she shouldn’t exist. Man played God and created her.
Today is my first day back to work since my dad took his own life and I’m beyond grateful to be at an org that has been so accommodating and helpful. Media Matters rocks, okay back to bullying negligent tech companies and far-right figures bye
Sick, I see you forgot to mention the third co-director Bridget Ziegler (wife of Christian Ziegler, vice chairman of the Florida Republican Party) or the fact that they recommend reading from a John Birch Society supporter or their close relationship with multiple politicians
NEW: Former SNL cast member and conspiracy theorist Victoria Jackson is teaming up with Moms for Liberty to ban books
While she wouldn’t repeat “goddamn,” Jackson did belt the N-word multiple times throughout a “story time” performance
NEW from me: A network of TikTok accounts is teaching users how to make pipe bombs and other weapons — and TikTok's algorithm is actually amplifying this content
We need to recognize that this is symptomatic of a larger toxic business school culture.
My friend was assigned a project where students were made to find ways to get companies to hire more women. A group's final project was 'hire more women because you can pay them less'
Super psyched to announce that I've accepted a research position with Media Matters (
@mmfa
) and will be joining their incredible team in exposing conservative media misinformation.
Professionally bullying (fact-checking/correcting) Tucker Carlson is a childhood dream come true.
Also we're only presented with screenshots, the actual discussion from the three segments could have been about the cost, the president, Manchin/Sinema, drama, etc
reminder that over 40% of cops are domestic abusers (which is a conservative estimate because it only represents formally reported cases) oh and 100% are pigs
New from me: A QAnon conspiracy theory about West Coast wildfires is flooding Facebook despite the site’s pledge to remove misinformation.
This is yet another example of Facebook enabling the spread of misinformation by not implementing their own rules.
This is absurd. Abbie doesn't present her research as "sugar-coated with a glass of Coke" -- she is a researcher, she works with other researchers, AND she publishes her work.
Just another example of the bullshit women in the disinformation/extremism research field put up with.
What a wildly patronizing and misogynistic way to talk about me and my work. The
@guardian
would NEVER have described a male researcher/communicator like this.
Users on TikTok searching for “WGA” are met with a screen claiming that the phrase “may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines.” No videos return.
NEW from me: YouTube is ground zero for fraudulent election audit advocacy.
In some cases YouTube is monetizing (and subsequently profiting from) this extremist election misinformation.
Oh my god?? My niece’s first words were ‘Mike Bloomberg you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to buy this election. Drop out, billionaire.’ And she spoke in a thick Brooklyn accent??
New from me: Both right-wing and mainstream media are drawing a false equivalence between Rep. Ilhan Omar and QAnon candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene.
This lazy comparison dangerously normalizes QAnon and needlessly smears Omar.
Remember the Moms for Liberty chapter in Indiana that uncritically quoted Hitler?
Their candidates run the district's school board and just bought out the contract of their first Black superintendent. Community members say she was forced out.
UPDATE: 11 of the 14 QAnon TikTok hashtags have been banned following Media Matters’ reporting.
This includes the “SaveOurChildren” hashtag that actively circulated human trafficking misinformation.
New from me: Media Matters identified 14 active QAnon hashtags on TikTok with over 488 million combined views.
Most are slight variations of banned hashtags, modified to easily circumvent TikTok's rules.
Wrote about Patreon profiting from QAnon content, despite the fact that the violence-linked conspiracy theory appears to violate the platform’s terms of use
JUST IN: Rep. Jayapal says she has tested positive for Covid-19 after being sequestered during last week's siege on the US Capitol with Republican lawmakers who refused to wear masks.