Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Two big things the WHO withdrawal and social media order have in common: (1) Likely to produce the opposite of their stated goals. Weakens global health & compels social media to regulate speech more, not less. (2) Bullying independent orgs into backing Trump’s political line — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Every Trump critic on this website seems very keen to buy into Trump’s claims of Chinese control over the WHO for some reason But it’s the Rotary Club menace we really need to fear — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

The apparent origin of this conspiracy theory: a since-corrected Niall Ferguson column. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

FYI Trump's repeated claim that China continued allowing international flights out of Wuhan after it'd blocked domestic flights is false. He and media allies have used this to baselessly speculate that China deliberately allowed Covid19's spread. https://t.co/uUCdDLGELT https://t.co/9YL383m8EU — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

The WHO budget is not a Sino-American battleground. China is a relatively minor funder, ranked 16th behind Kuwait, Sweden, and Rotary International. https://t.co/Civ3TDur0Y — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Really striking that the UK’s response to the HK crisis is to open its doors to Hong Kongers, and the US’s response is to shut Hong Kongers out. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @TaylorLorenz: This tweet is false. There was a temporary glitch where view counts weren’t showing for any tags pre-upload. In search, u… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @KumaInternation: "When people ask me how long this will go on? How can we possibly endure it? I tell them about a conversation I had wi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sarahjeong: The weirdest thing about the current moment in which there is *bipartisan* ire against Section 230 is that we are living th… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @evanchill: The New York Times is investigating the arrest and death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. If you have photos or vid… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @noa_landau: Netanyahu says Palestinians in Jordan Valley won't get Israeli citizenship after annexation https://t.co/sAYY1T9wuV — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @lshultz82: This interview by @Max_Fisher is a hopeful read for the near-term future and how we get by. The answer: a lot of it is a c… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Of everything I’ve read on coping with life under Covid, nothing has shaped how I think like my afternoon with Velibor Božović. Velibor has been through this. He says the first winter changes everything. Really pleased to share the full conversation: https://t.co/dlcJ56naUt — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

One gargantuan problem with the theory that China will displace the USA: The US has been free to project power globally because it is in many ways an island nation, whereas China is surrounded by several major-power competitors. Four of its neighbors are nuclear powers. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ishaantharoor @MattZeitlin How so? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@ishaantharoor @MattZeitlin Fwiw this is also my sense. Constitutional monarchy renders electeds as mere bureaucrats rather than as embodiments of the state. And agree with Matt that UK media and political elites can be (but aren’t always) clubby in ways that surpass even DC standards. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @austinramzy: The police presence in Admiralty today feels like Beijing during the Arab Spring. There was a call for protest in Wangfuji… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @CarlosGphoto: The scene at the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct. https://t.co/ykxsfPn8PD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katrosenfield: I wrote for @ArcDigi about the Central Park incident, in which your attendance is required at the denunciation but it's… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Sometimes I wonder how many cycles of this we'll need to go through before we move beyond "is the day's online villain bad, because if so they deserve whatever they get" to "who do we want deciding the severity of the crime and the appropriate punishment." Not today, I guess. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Obviously doesn't apply here, but worth remembering that a significant proportion of internet villains reliably turn out to have been punished in error. They never get an apology or their lives put back. It's a problematic system for dispensing justice. https://t.co/TD7KFBGaFT — PolitiTweet.org

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Also don't love the day-two cycle where everyone who participated on day one pretends not to know the difference between "she deserves to be shamed" versus "having a formless social media collective decide whether your pet should be taken away is maybe not optimal for society" — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Central Park lady is bad. The dentist who killed Cecil the Lion was bad. Justine Sacco's tweet was bad. But every time I see a decentralized internet collective tear down the day's internet villain, often with ostensibly neutral journalists participating, it makes me nervous. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

On one level I guess you can give Facebook credit for at least looking. I think a lot of the big social media companies just don't want to know what their platform is doing to humanity, so they never produce research like this that can then get leaked. https://t.co/1BOPSwsKws — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I visited Facebook HQ around this time to ask about the growing instances of mass violence linked the platform. One executive after another looked me in the eye and said they had no reason to believe the platform itself drove bad behavior. https://t.co/drLWhIaTJF https://t.co/I8itZWYiVM — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @kevinroose: Facebook gets a lot of lazy criticism, so it's easy for people who work there to tune it all out as media noise. But how do… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @ChadBown: It might seem like a paradox that the leaders who have overseen the world’s worst death tolls reap the most political benefit… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

With approval rates soaring for the leaders overseeing the worst death tolls, I dug into the “rally around the flag effect” Turns out nearly everything in the conventional wisdom about why it happens, how it works, and what we should expect is wrong https://t.co/znkytYfhxg — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @shutupmikeginn: My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

This line from an article I did on the show when Bowie died is reeeeeally speaking to me today. That feeling of wanting so badly to do something normal and just "go hear a concert." https://t.co/fVVXhQKPg0 https://t.co/D9bwz5TtHt — PolitiTweet.org