Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

RT @Popehat: That's cold. https://t.co/6Sj4VHzv3O — PolitiTweet.org

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@hitsville In fairness he has disassociated himself from them at various times in every possible combination. — PolitiTweet.org

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There are "some academics" who will keep humanity in thrall to racecraft forever if we let them. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JamesSurowiecki: Look at the data from the new Pew poll. A higher percentage of Democrats aged 18-29 are vaccinated than the percentage… — PolitiTweet.org

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@james_violette That's not "deeper" it's just a different argument. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sitting in a park in Paris, France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won't give Pfizer a chance That was just a dream some of us had — PolitiTweet.org

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I find this idea that every recording artist on Spotify is "associated with" every podcaster on Spotify to be very strange, but here we are. (Also, going back through bygone bandmates, the evidence that Crosby doesn't want to be associated with assholes is contestable.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@AnneHummert @jessesingal Wow really? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NAChristakis: Amazing and exciting: “Within a single day, activity-specific stimulation programs enabled these three individuals to sta… — PolitiTweet.org

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Elk Grove, CA — PolitiTweet.org

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If the world were to create a country for the stateless that anyone could exit their circumstances and join, where would be the best place for it? — PolitiTweet.org

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@kdrum See too the Lancet study suggesting trust in government is an explanatory factor but trust in science isn't — PolitiTweet.org

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@kdrum *what — PolitiTweet.org

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@kdrum That is my instinct too, and why it implies, to me, in the social media era, is that the fact of widespread mistrust in institutions and vaccine skepticism, rather than the amount of misinformation a popular broadcaster puts out, is the causal factor here. — PolitiTweet.org

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@OmariJHardy @JamesSurowiecki No, I am against journalists lying even if the consequences are positive. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki The respect is mutual, and I hope to state my larger thoughts soon in a more fleshed out way but I don't disagree that it would be good if the JRE did more to flag falsehoods and push back against statements made without evidence — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AmnaUncensored: An important piece from ⁦@conor64⁩ on the importance of context and intent: “recent acts of illiberal language policing… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki You are not paying close enough attention to what I'm saying if that's your takeaway. https://t.co/h4VAKQeRYJ — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki Regardless, to facilitate this real time conversation, I'm glad you've chosen to engage without fact checking, even at the risk of tweeting something inaccurate, as otherwise we couldn't have had this exchange at all, and the audience gets the limitations of the medium. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki Now you've moved from a factually inaccurate characterization of my position-which is bad but not quantifiably harmful-to an unfalsifiable claim about their "collective effect." My own assessment of their effect is different but this is a matter of opinion. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki Why? To demonstrate the utter lack of evidence that Rogan's program causes significant pandemic harms, as many are confidently asserting without evidence. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki about factual inaccuracy when we can pinpoint harm done. Indeed, I explicitly took the opposite position yesterday. Again, you could run such claims by a third party fact checker in the future... But you won't, understandably and for good reasons. What are those reasons? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki To be a bit more specific: my critique is that many are making specific and grandiose claims about harm Rogan does without evidence. (Eg causing hundreds of thousands to not get vaccinated.) Pointing out the unfounded certainty is not the same as saying we should only care — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki You wrote that I "act as if Rogan airing, and making, objectively false statements is only bad if you can quantify how much harm it does." That is false. my actual claims have been much narrower and I have explicitly rejected that position. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki As you regularly go through the fact checking process in your magazine work I'm sure you'll have no objections to that and won't find it an impediment to your airing ideas in this different medium. — PolitiTweet.org

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Part of the weirdness of this matter: everyone treating Spotify as if it is or has the power to be a gatekeeper of podcasts. (Even ones that 9 million people want to here!) But I'm glad for the acknowledgment that many want him gatekeeped. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki Indeed I have repeatedly agreed with you that it would be a good thing of Rogan were more accurate. It would also be a good thing if your characterizations of my positions were more accurate. If you'd like I could fact check your tweets about me before publication in the future. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki That isn't a claim I have made in that Tweet or any other. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here is a law against Covid misinformation to read up on: https://t.co/ddBHaeSPyw — PolitiTweet.org

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Here is a well-evidenced case study in health misinformation leading to deaths https://t.co/fYkNAHjSXE — PolitiTweet.org