Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

At the risk of contributing to the existence of bean dad discourse (ugh), it really does illustrate how this website’s incentives drive user behavior, and not just on silly trivial topics like this one. https://t.co/UG7W9EFh3r — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @MicahZenko: This is more shocking in clear intent and criminality than any of the Nixon Tapes. Undeniable seditious conspiracy. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I read the bean dad thing and thought yeah this is bad, but then I read the viral outrage takes demanding he be sent to prison and his child forcibly orphaned by the state and I thought, what is the point of this ridiculous website — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

If it seems outlandish that a handful of play-acting opportunists exploiting social division and systemic distrust for short-term gain could really bring down democracy from within, I am here to inform you that this is precisely how modern authoritarianization works. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Perhaps inevitably, the attempt to terminate one election is becoming a more permanent effort. I see little reason to rule out, given time and polarization, it eventually succeeding. Democracy might be a thing we tell our kids about. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias Lots on how, when people have access to more info, they use it primarily to find validation of their identities and biases. We like learning too, but it’s rarely our highest cognitive priority — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I think a lot of people watched elements of the right cynically exploit terror attacks to further us-versus-them culture war and took away the lesson "now it's our turn" — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

As someone who spent years writing over + over about the dangers of overhyping terror attacks or blaming them on entire demographic groups, I'm not sure the lesson is that liberals should repeat those same excesses if it means getting to discredit social groups that they dislike — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

A lot of foreign policy progressives were unhappy with Biden's SecDef pick; progressives outside of FP were more receptive. But both are greeting this as good news. Familiar and trusted names, seen as representing aspects of Obama FP that they liked, not the parts they didn't. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @DGisSERIOUS: https://t.co/Wjyje5h8EL — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@haalandgoal @mattyglesias :( — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias Silicon Valley has kind of a parallel arc. Apricots –> WW2-era aircraft and radar –> Cold War aerospace –> semiconductors –> computers –> software –> free-to-use websites that turn viral outrage into 11-figure advertising revenues — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

One of the Blackwater contractors continued shooting civilians in the crowd even as his colleagues shouted over and over for ceasefire. One had to pull a gun on him to force him to stop. One of the people he shot was a mother clutching her infant. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Rushing through federal executions while pardoning war criminals convicted of massacring unarmed Iraqi civilians in a public square — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

This will get attention (rightly) for debunking notions of college indoctrination, but it’s also a super-interesting lens into how people’s attitudes change: from peer effects, not authority figures. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@evanchill @DavidKenner It’s fully gibberish end-to-end and I loved it — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@evanchill Probably my biggest complaint was that all the reports about the dialogue being inaudible turned out to be, lamentably, incorrect — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@evanchill For me it’s when they reveal that the future (??) is going to destroy the entire world, and Elizabeth Debicki helpfully points out that this will endanger her son, thus explaining Character Motivation — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

So, so many DC-based China-watchers insisted for months that China’s claims of containing the virus were a lie. When the WHO backed it up, they said the WHO was controlled by Beijing and couldn’t be trusted. https://t.co/NCyPc7HNA4 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias I was a little discouraged by all the reporters who retweeted the public health guy who – nine months after he told people not to wear masks or quarantine – insisted his field is above scrutiny or second-guessing from journalists. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@FootyMadPDX lol — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@zackbeauchamp I got a fancier word for it but …. yes. Richard Wrangham features — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

My informal rule is to treat any tweet with more than 2K retweets as factually suspect — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Whatever your politics, there's a good chance that anything you learned about the covid relief bill on this website is false. Which is increasingly true of any topic on here, the viral outrage website — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@BrandyZadrozny I miss it so much I sometimes watch commercial airliner cockpit gopro videos — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @mattyglesias: I guess it would be unprofessional to actually put this in the article, so I’ll say it here — Sarah’s work over the years… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Not saying this will work or is a good idea, but pretty striking to see Twitter implicitly acknowledge that social platforms change human behavior and have a responsibility to correct for social harms. Huge gap with Facebook/YouTube, which still cling to “neutral vessel” defense. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@NarangVipin @PrincetonUPress Woo! — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @ebruenig: After a 17 year hiatus (including a 3-year-quest to obtain lethal drugs), Trump's admin has resumed federal executions. I wen… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @maxstrasser: This is an exceptional piece of writing. https://t.co/rJzfPBBUlA — PolitiTweet.org