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Brendan Nyhan

@brendannyhan
76 posts
2026-02-17
When you live under a personalist regime, you operate at the whim of the personalist ruler. It is, to say the least, bad for business, but no one (especially in Silicon Valley) seems to grasp this. The shakedown will eventually come for you. [image]
2026-02-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission

Elon Musk's SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled …

When you live under a personalist regime, you operate at the whim of the personalist ruler. It is, to say the least, bad for business, but no one (especially in Silicon Valley) seems to grasp this. The shakedown will eventually come for you. [image]
2026-02-17 View on X
Axios

A senior official says Pentagon is “close” to designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, requiring all US military contractors to sever ties with the company

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a …

2026-02-16
When you live under a personalist regime, you operate at the whim of the personalist ruler. It is, to say the least, bad for business, but no one (especially in Silicon Valley) seems to grasp this. The shakedown will eventually come for you. [image]
2026-02-16 View on X
Axios

A senior official says Pentagon is “close” to designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, requiring all US military contractors to sever ties with the company

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a …

2026-02-02
Corruption at a level that is unimaginable in any previous admin. People were mad that Hunter Biden sold some mediocre paintings. Now: “something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign govt official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company”
2026-02-02 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

2026-02-01
Corruption at a level that is unimaginable in any previous admin. People were mad that Hunter Biden sold some mediocre paintings. Now: “something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign govt official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company”
2026-02-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

2026-01-28
Speculative conspiracy claims are bad no matter who makes them www.platformer.news/social-media...  [image]
2026-01-28 View on X
Platformer

A critique of a large UK social media study that suggested measures like social media bans are unlikely to have an effect on teens' long term mental health

The “moral panic” framing misses how platforms actually harm kids.  PLUS: Newsom investigates TikTok over Trump, and the Clawdbot frenzy

2025-12-31
“This is what it feels like for the wave of compute to pass over you... You need to pick your own test... a problem you know well... one you're supposed to be an expert in.  You need to predict the result... Then, you need to watch the AI confound those predictions” zhengdongwang.com/2025/12/30/ 2... …
2025-12-31 View on X
Zhengdong Wang

A reflection on AI advances in the past decade and how scaling and time-horizon trends might point to far greater capabilities in the decade ahead

Zhengdong Wang : X: @zavaindar , @sparshagarwall , @justinbullock14 , @theamberyang , @firstadopter , @curl_justin , @pracheeac , @samuelalbanie , @sebkrier , @basavasagar18 , @zh...

2025-12-30
See also: social media.  In both cases, lots of people promising quick fixes with no tradeoffs.  [embedded post]
2025-12-30 View on X
Politico

A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing

www.politico.com/news/magazin... Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan : See also: social media.  In both cases, lots of people promising quick fixes with no tradeoffs.  [embedded post] Ma...

2025-10-24
A pardon “following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's own crypto company.” Unprecedented corruption.
2025-10-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have ...

A pardon “following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's own crypto company.” Unprecedented corruption.
2025-10-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality

The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

2025-10-23
A pardon “following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's own crypto company.” Unprecedented corruption.
2025-10-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

Pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company  —  President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao …

2025-06-17
They can't even grift without making the most basic errors.  Endless corruption.  [embedded post]
2025-06-17 View on X
Variety

The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile

The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone Jose...

2025-05-29
Stop credulously quoting executives talking their book
2025-05-29 View on X
Axios

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI may wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike US unemployment to 10%-20% in the next one to five years

Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:

2025-02-03
This is illegal.  These are crimes! [embedded post]
2025-02-03 View on X
Wired

A look at six engineers with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel ties, between 19 and 24 years old, playing key DOGE roles, as Musk seizes control of US infrastructure

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk's companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

2025-01-30
Just stuffing money into the President's pocket - happening right in front of us www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
2025-01-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 6 riot

The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended  —  President Trump has signed settlement papers …

2025-01-15
“after the company's own analyses found that these classifiers could reduce the reach of these hoaxes by more than 90 percent, Meta is shutting them off” [embedded post]
2025-01-15 View on X
Platformer

Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled its system for identifying and limiting viral hoaxes, and told content-ranking teams to stop penalizing misinformation

The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news.  Last week, it shut them down  —  I.

2025-01-14
Nothing to worry about, just another billionaire potentially stuffing $ in Trump's pocket just as he's about to take office www.wsj.com/tech/mark-zu... The going rate is the $40M Amazon/Bezos just gave for the Melania documentary.  [image]
2025-01-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Zuckerberg met Trump on January 10, in part to mediate a 2021 lawsuit Trump brought against Meta over his account suspension after the January 6 riot

Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @brendannyhan , @andisheh.com , and @fishecon . Forums: r/samharris Bluesky: Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan : Nothing to worry about, just another bi...

2025-01-07
✔️ Money to the Trump inaugural  —  ✔️ Dinner at Mar-a-Lago  —  ✔️ Getting rid of fact-checking  —  ✔️ Putting UFC's Dana White (a key Trump ally) on Meta's board  —  Hard not to see these moves as an effort to avoid being politically targeted by an illiberal president. …
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

2023-04-24
Inducing all of the 1M+ follower accounts to denounce your product is some god-level marketing genius https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-24 View on X
The Daily Beast

Twitter appears to have restored verification checkmarks to many accounts with 1M+ followers, saying they are subscribed to Blue; some deny they paid for Blue

But Some Celebrities Don't Want Them Todd Spangler / Variety : Twitter Restores Blue Check-Marks for Many Celebs, Including Several Dead Ones Stan Schroeder / Mashable : Celebs wer...

Inducing all of the 1M+ follower accounts to denounce your product is some god-level marketing genius https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-24 View on X
BBC

Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay

Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.