Nice summary of the lawsuit filed by Twitter/X against Media Matters. X alleges that Media Matters created a finely tuned account intended to create pairings of ugly posts with advertisers – and says that this was so fine tuned that only Media Matters ever saw the pairings.
The media loves a good, emotional, click-bait story that pits generations against one another, and which is devoid of any historical accuracy or context. That’s just what click-bait content mills do.
Eventbrite founder and chairman makes a fool of himself on social media.
Every year, an activist/lobbying group issues a report saying people earning minimum wage cannot afford to rent an apartment anywhere in the country. They play a sleight-of-hand trick by obfuscating (and not revealing) that they are saying such individuals cannot rent an apartment priced at the 40th percentile. Stated another way, this report finds – every year – that people earning minimum wage can not rent apartments priced in the top 60 percent of the market – yet obviously, lower earners likely rent at the bottom of the market, not the top. Every year, the media morons run the same story, never understanding what this report says.
Are schools really banning books? And if they are banning or de-emphasizing some books, is it due to right-wing censorship? The story is far more complicated than that – as many alleged book bans did not happen, and if the books were removed, there were other explanations. Interesting thread.