Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(HIGHLIGHTS2) By track number: 4⃣ The biggest earworm on the playlist—and one I think will be a total surprise to everyone. 6⃣ An extremely touching, scored animated short. I like to have one of these in each playlist if I can. 7⃣ The ultimate anthem for my favorite big city. — PolitiTweet.org

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(HIGHLIGHTS) By track number: 1⃣ The *spectacular* full version of a song you’ll know from IG. 2⃣ One of the most beautiful non-English songs you’ve ever heard. 3⃣ I listened to this song 47 times in a row on headphones while extremely high at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: If you missed yesterday’s historic House January 6 Committee hearing, the thread below is for you. And I hope you will RE… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mcnorski I am! Thanks! 😁 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @atrupar: Pete Buttigieg to Margaret Brennan when she suggests Democratic divisions killed paid family leave: "Hold on. But if even one… — PolitiTweet.org

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The insurrectionists are savvy enough, however, to understand the pacing, structure and duration of live interviews in ways that allow them to ensure their disinformation goes unchallenged or not fully challenged. It’s the very reason they still go on CNN, and CNN well knows it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Nor am I saying that Lake’s face and voice can never be on television or social media. What cannot be permitted is disinformation-filled “dialogue.” Fixed clips of Lake or other insurrectionists can be followed by several minutes of brutally honest reported condemning their lies. — PolitiTweet.org

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What you’ll never convince me of is the idea that the interviewers themselves want to conduct interviews of this sort or see any value in it. The world is so chock-full of news that urgently requires reporting that the idea of wasting time giving Kari Lake a platform is obscene. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s astonishing to me that more on-air talent doesn’t rebel. Clearly one of two things is happening: either the talent is complicit in setting up these interviews as well as conducting them, or producers are threatening the talent if they refuse to conduct interviews like this. — PolitiTweet.org

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Journalists have numberless methods of alluding to disinformation without giving those who spread it a live, dynamic, full-throated opportunity to repeat that disinformation and attempt to recruit new fanatics to their cause. We must stop pretending that such methods don’t exist. — PolitiTweet.org

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We have this problem in print also. Access journalists like Maggie Haberman return again and again to sources they know have a history of spreading dangerous disinformation. Why don’t they simply dismantle the disinformation? Because giving liars a wide platform ensures virality. — PolitiTweet.org

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And I’ve had enough of the claim that we need interviews like this so that viral disinformation can be challenged. All genuine news reporting regarding Kari Lake manages to decimate her dangerous disinformation without giving her the opportunity to spread it further in real time. — PolitiTweet.org

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By the same token, not every interview in which the interview subject spreads dangerous disinformation is unethical. We can all imagine situations in which the spreading of dangerous disinformation is a surprise to the interviewer. But no one can *possibly* make that claim here. — PolitiTweet.org

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Neither I nor anyone else would ever suggest that a politician should be avoided by interviewers simply because she has a different approach to illegal immigration. What I’m speaking of here is someone who’s universally known for systematically spreading dangerous disinformation. — PolitiTweet.org

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At what point do we finally get a candid interview with the CNN producer behind this deliberately viral Kari Lake moment so that s/he can be asked, “On what basis did you have prior reason to believe this interview would generate news reporting, rather than viral disinformation?” — PolitiTweet.org

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Kari Lake was brought on air to repeat dangerous lies she has told hundreds of times so that those lies would go viral. No one on CNN can honestly claim that they believed Lake would suddenly come on air and disassociate herself from her many months of insurrectionist misconduct. — PolitiTweet.org

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We need to keep discussing the journalistic ethics behind an interview like this. If you know an interview subject is going to spread dangerous disinformation and insurrectionist election lies, what precisely does a live interview add to print reportage of this gross misconduct? — PolitiTweet.org

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“Jews have to get their act together” —a former President of the United States* *also an anti-semitic PoS — PolitiTweet.org

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@fovillian_67 @CAGOPUnknown Correct It is amazing to me how ignorant some people are of things that literally happened a matter of months ago — PolitiTweet.org

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This image shows the current, undercount-inclusive U.S. death toll from COVID-19. According to the Commonwealth Fund, over the next 6 months the daily COVID-19 death toll in the United States is set to *quadruple* because too few people are getting the bivalent vaccine booster. https://t.co/Up56fC6Ody — PolitiTweet.org

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% of Americans who say they’ve had a “personal encounter” with a WEREWOLF: 4 % of Americans who’ve had a personal encounter with the COVID-19 BIVALENT BOOSTER VACCINE that the Commonwealth Fund says could save over 90,000 lives between now and March 2023: <4 (Hat tip @umairfan) https://t.co/0IFFGVuN4j — PolitiTweet.org

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% of Americans who say they’ve had a “personal encounter” with a WEREWOLF: 4 % of Americans who’ve had a personal encounter with the MODERNA BIVALENT BOOSTER VACCINE that The Commonwealth Fund says could save over 90,000 lives between now and March 2023: <4 (Hat tip: @umairfan) https://t.co/xrffdO3AB3 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MarkHamill: Just wanted everyone donating at https://t.co/R2AfzozRf2 for the benefit of Ukraine, that: https://t.co/bF6mQINeIm — PolitiTweet.org