#How Trump changed Democrats and other commentary

#How Trump changed Democrats and other commentary

“#How Trump changed Democrats and other commentary” Polling whiz: How Don Changed Democrats Democrats spent the last four years agonizing over how they lost to Donald Trump and how to rejigger their appeal to win again, notes FiveThirtyEight’s Perry Bacon, Jr. “We now have a pretty detailed picture of where the Democratic Party landed”: Post-Trump,…

Read More
#Amazon removing QAnon merchandise following Capitol riot

#Amazon removing QAnon merchandise following Capitol riot

“#Amazon removing QAnon merchandise following Capitol riot” Amazon said this week that it is working to take down merchandise associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory following last week’s storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters. The e-tail giant attributed the move to its policies that prohibit offensive items and inappropriate content. Amazon had attracted…

Read More
#Rep. Ilhan Omar gets into smackdown with Georgia GOP women

#Rep. Ilhan Omar gets into smackdown with Georgia GOP women

“#Rep. Ilhan Omar gets into smackdown with Georgia GOP women” Georgia’s Senate runoff race has spawned a vicious social-media insult-fest pitting Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar against two Peach State Republican women — revealing worsening partisan bad blood in Congress. GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler threw the first punch on Twitter Friday, after Omar defended Georgia Senate…

Read More
#Newly elected QAnon supporter is drowning in Twitter warnings

#Newly elected QAnon supporter is drowning in Twitter warnings

“#Newly elected QAnon supporter is drowning in Twitter warnings” Republican Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene has had 19 tweets labeled by Twitter as election misinformation in just one day. Image: Dustin Chambers/Getty Images Nineteen — that’s how many of Republican Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter posts were slapped with an election misinformation warning label by the…

Read More
#QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on Twitter, archives show

#QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on Twitter, archives show

“#QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on Twitter, archives show” Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to interviews with current and former Twitter executives and archives of tweets from suspended accounts. Researchers said in August that the archives showed Russian accounts had…

Read More
#QAnon conspiracy bots are taking over Twitter

#QAnon conspiracy bots are taking over Twitter

“#QAnon conspiracy bots are taking over Twitter” Americans who seek political insight and information on Twitter should know how much of what they are seeing is the result of automated propaganda campaigns. Nearly four years after my collaborators and I revealed how automated Twitter accounts were distorting online election discussions in 2016, the situation appears…

Read More