2024-10-13
“What we're witnessing online during and in the aftermath of these hurricanes is a group of people desperate to protect the dark, fictitious world they've built.” @cwarzel https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
The Atlantic
The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself
The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.
2024-10-12
“What we're witnessing online during and in the aftermath of these hurricanes is a group of people desperate to protect the dark, fictitious world they've built.” @cwarzel https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
The Atlantic
The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself
The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.
2022-11-14
And yet culturally, and because of how people actually use Twitter, the lines between “comedy club” and “town square” and “room full of monetizable user data that drives advertising revenue” aren't always apparent. @AdrienneLaF https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
The Atlantic
Elon Musk is failing to convince people that Twitter is a town square, telling users what they can and can't say for a laugh and charging $8 for the privilege
2022-11-13
And yet culturally, and because of how people actually use Twitter, the lines between “comedy club” and “town square” and “room full of monetizable user data that drives advertising revenue” aren't always apparent. @AdrienneLaF https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
The Atlantic
Elon Musk is failing to convince people that Twitter is a town square, telling users what they can and can't say for a laugh and charging $8 for the privilege
Recently, comedy clubs have begun doing this thing that seemed, when I first encountered it, both wildly hypocritical and more than a little sad. Tweets: @theatlantic , @yappelbaum...