Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@BrendanNyhan Thanks Brendan, flattered to know you're reading (and sorry for the bummer) — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

it's just going to be gamergate every day on here from now on. and if you were around for the original you know it's not necessary to pretend it was really about ethics in gaming journalism — PolitiTweet.org

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Like I was saying https://t.co/67tpe9Aqk0 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AryehCW: I'm working on a replacement for Twitter. Five times per hour you'll either see a semi-funny joke, watch an act of cruelty aga… — PolitiTweet.org

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@__esteiner 🙏 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Of course there's a lot that got us from the 1990s cyber-revolution manifestos to what we see on Twitter today, and a lot more going on behind the curtain. If you'll forgive the crass plug, I tell that story and its implications for our future in my book: https://t.co/sQvIz14AVd — PolitiTweet.org

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There's been a movement for a few years now among many of big tech's most powerful VCs to mass block, even try to harass or ban, news reporters as a class. Journalism unwelcome in the new digital utopia. And that's the circle from which a certain new Twitter CEO comes. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a deep belief that the defining battle of our time is bw tech companies that want to liberate us and dying institutions like the newsmedia trying to halt that progress out of a desperate bid for survival. Only by destroying those institutions can big tech save humanity. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you remember the Clubhouse sagas of 2020, you saw how openly this is now discussed among some of the Valley's most powerful. "Why does the press have a right to investigate private companies? Let the market decide." https://t.co/m6LL8ZPRDd — PolitiTweet.org

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Still, few in the Valley wholly shared this view. At least until 2018, when a series of disruptions radicalized – there's no other word for it – elements of the tech world, particularly around the idea that the news media is incompatible with their mission to elevate humanity. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's the VCs of the 2000s and 2010s, especially Peter Thiel, who came up with a certain Elon Musk via PayPal, who argued that this was the technology industry's destiny https://t.co/WCGVfdw6VM — PolitiTweet.org

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The idea of rejecting institutions to build a purer society on the internet, in vogue in tech in the 90s, by the 2010s had become a mandate to abolish and remake those institutions in big tech's image https://t.co/GddbwHGCFK — PolitiTweet.org

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It comes out of a Valley utopianism has said since the 90s that all legacy institutions are ultimately barriers to progress, but that the enlightened minds of the tech world, guided by the pure science of engineering, will one day liberate us by smashing the old ways. — PolitiTweet.org

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People really need to understand how mainstream it has become in some tech VC circles to argue that journalism itself is dangerous as an idea and should be abolished, and that it will be up to the tech world to carry this out. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jscros: Over the past two days, Atlanta and Dekalb County cops began large scale raids on the protest encampments in Atlanta's South Ri… — PolitiTweet.org

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someone in the PLA has very badly misunderstood that famous quote about world war 4 being fought with sticks and stones https://t.co/EdXCT87fu7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AthertonKD: If you've got anyone in your life who wonders if content moderation on social media has Gone Too Far, I cannot recommend en… — PolitiTweet.org

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Good overview on how election misinformation fits into the larger movement to impose electoral authoritarianism in America, whose near-term success remains a significant possibility https://t.co/itpD1Aet8v — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @amandahess: This is a sad day for @nytimes. This company pledged $150 million in stock buybacks this year, but it’s offering staff what… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nickconfessore: Today, I'm joining nearly 1200 of my @nytimes colleagues in walking off the job. It is one of the saddest days of my y… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @amandahess: We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read lo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NYTimesGuild: Today we were ready to work for as long as it took to reach a fair deal, but management walked away from the table with f… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Always be reading @leedrutman. Horserace stuff matters but structural electoral rules matter 100x more https://t.co/pHQMwyOU0l https://t.co/Hlb8OeLJZr — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattZeitlin: the kanye tweets were not even close to incitement to violence by any kind of american legal standard and would easily fal… — PolitiTweet.org

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A big chapter in my book reveals how YouTube created a hyper-accelerated incubator for the far-right. Years of hard evidence for the platform's active role in at-scale radicalization. Now YouTube culture is American culture. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NYTimesGuild: After 20 months of negotiations, enough is enough: Today, more than 1,000 @NYTimesGuild members pledged to walk out if @n… — PolitiTweet.org

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Utterly fascinating @ChuBailiang @miwine obit on how Jiang Zemin made modern China as we know it https://t.co/koHMjoDDRt — PolitiTweet.org

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People who study authoritarianism have been warning for a few years that Xi Jinping was changing Communist Party rule in a way that would create more instability at home and more aggression abroad https://t.co/ijWgMInGQl — PolitiTweet.org

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Caveat: China's government is changing too. It's becoming more personalist as Xi Jinping elevates himself above the party. This tends to make autocracies more unpredictable, more heavy-handed, and less strategic in how they deal with internal dissent. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

So what does all that mean? If China's past experience is any lesson, the likeliest outcome – tho hardly certain – is some concessions to the protesters, then a waiting period, then as energy wanes the govt will slowly choke them off. — PolitiTweet.org