Yes, We Still Have To Talk About Elon Musk’s Media Relations Response.
Twitter’s media relations team has been dissolved and replaced by a bot that sends out a poop emoji to inquiring journalists.
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Fake News, Faux Progress: The Last Time The Mainstream Media Fought Progress and Civil Rights
The media has been responsible for perpetuating a lot of regressive ideas by giving even passing mention of them, in a lot of cases. Even before the present day of Trump and Alternative Facts, in the 1950s and 1960s, there was plenty of complaining about the Civil Rights movement by mainstream news media.
Read MoreSidebar: Is Disinformation The Cornerstone of the American Right?
The Tea Party Super PAC that incited Trump voters to protest the ballot count is the same group that pushed crackpot theories about COVID19 this past summer.
Read MoreThinking Beyond The Gun: Lockdown Protests Distract From Meaningful Policy Debate
[Guest contributor Calley Wang writes about media narratives around the lockdown protests– and about what kinds of things we should
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