Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@dylanmatt @jbouie @nycsouthpaw "forces much older and more potent than liberalism" because a church that literally cannot fill its pews in wealthy nations is stronger than the combined might of oecd governments? — PolitiTweet.org

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@olivertraldi Maybe this is Depressed Person Identity Politics, but I found his kicker to be both insightful and deeply compelling on a a personal level https://t.co/fUOYki278i — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I had a snippy exchange with @olivertraldi a bit ago, so I want to go out of my way to praise his reflections on being part of IDW and the movements' strengths and flaws https://t.co/ryMmUGa86D — PolitiTweet.org

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7) Another is that conceptualizing our misinformation problem as simple lying or fabrication of news is a mistake. Social media platforms allow unscrupulous actors to reframe legitimate news articles, using their mediating role to twist what they mean without outright lying. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

6) Another is that, despite Facebook's efforts to address "fake news," there are still a significant number of Facebook pages with weak editorial standards and large audiences that have usurped news outlets' traditional gatekeeping roles. Bad news for our democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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5) One big takeaway from this are that support for Netanyahu specifically (and not just Israel in general) plays a larger-than-widely-understood role in conservative identity politics. — PolitiTweet.org

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4) So we had to add a note at the top of the piece clarifying that this was outdated, and linking out to my piece on the September election. Yet traffic is still flowing from Facebook to the April piece. My guess is people aren't reading much past the headline. https://t.co/nhkrejoODt — PolitiTweet.org

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3) Turns out the confusion wasn't necessarily innocent. Data from our social tracker shows that a huge group of pro-Trump and right-wing Facebook groups were sharing the story at once. They either didn't read the date on the story or didn't care. https://t.co/49LKfCPkDQ — PolitiTweet.org

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2) This morning, our social team noticed a surge in Facebook traffic to this post. Seems like people were confusing a post on the April Israeli election results with the September election! https://t.co/VjHfqSv9Gq — PolitiTweet.org

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1) A brief and revealing story about online misinformation and right-wing identity politics in 2019 America. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dylanmatt @MattZeitlin i'm surprised you tolerate me given how much i dislike him — PolitiTweet.org

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Confused by Israel’s election results? I got you covered. https://t.co/QXyi4dStfp — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @swin24: Objectively speaking Corey Lewandowski is the biggest liar I’ve ever interacted with in Trumpworld, & that is saying something.… — PolitiTweet.org

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1) The US never sank the entire Iranian navy 2) The US sank several Iranian ships in 1988, not 1987 3) Two American helicopter pilots died during the '88 operation, those are "consequences" 4) Today's Iran would obviously retaliate if the US tried to sink its entire fleet — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Important to remember that, though foreign policy is allegedly Bret Stephens' area of competence, he makes routine and gigantic errors there as well — PolitiTweet.org

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B e n g h a z i miss Benghazi acrostics — PolitiTweet.org

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Poll average from Ha'aretz shows 56 for the right-wing bloc, 55 for the center-left, and the remaining 9 to Lieberman's swing group https://t.co/ArhHGF1UWM — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Poll average from Ha'aretz shows 56 for the right-wing bloc, 55 for the center-left, and the remaining 9 to Lieberman's swing group — PolitiTweet.org

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If the exit polls are to be trusted — and that's a huge *if* in Israel — then Netanyahu is real trouble — PolitiTweet.org

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EXIT POLLS I WANT MY EXIT POLLS HURRY UP AND GIMME MY PROBABLY USELESS AND AT-BEST-KINDA-CLOSE EXIT POLLS — PolitiTweet.org

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@profmusgrave @jtlevy "American refugee admissions to Quebec suspended over concerns about erosion of French language and cultural values" — PolitiTweet.org

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Weird how critics of "cancel culture" don't talk about the contemporary celebrity who has suffered the greatest professional consequences for his views — Colin Kaepernick — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mirandayaver: I was raped my 2nd yr of grad school after followed home from a bar. I wasn’t looking at his penis. I was in shock. I wa… — PolitiTweet.org

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@cjane87 my team could actually be good this year, because i lucked into a few late round draft picks really working out (dak, marquise brown) so i'm kind of obsessed — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/YgGuSfNcgi — PolitiTweet.org

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@willwilkinson @jbouie oh shit that's a great idea — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenjySarlin @OsitaNwanevu @RyanJSuto @smsaideman as @MattBruenig pointed out on another thread, one of the only actual cancellations of big celebrities was way back before anyone talked about "cancel culture": the dixie chicks — PolitiTweet.org

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This Israeli election is a really big deal. Here’s why — and what might happen. https://t.co/xNiTY1hdbf — PolitiTweet.org

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Honest question: has anyone seen an attempt to define the concept of "cancel culture" in any systematic or rigorous way — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@OsitaNwanevu that guy seems nice — PolitiTweet.org