| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Nobody's interested in listening to the Voice of America | 2020-12-28 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343412410007228422 | 1343412410007228422 |
| You can make a lot of money giving people what they want! | 2020-12-27 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343289908769640448 | 1343289908769640448 |
| Fox News defamation defense (also Newsmax and OAN?) - | 2020-12-23 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341802648341639168 | 1341802648341639168 |
| Smartmatic and Dominion fight back; Fox and Newsmax are | 2020-12-22 | 87 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1341219674411868161 | 1341219674411868161 |
| Defamation targets suing to recover damages. | 2020-12-21 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341139706998706177 | 1341139706998706177 |
| Despite all efforts, it's still very easy to fake out | 2020-12-21 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341018013332455424 | 1341018013332455424 |
| Ethnic disinformation. | 2020-12-21 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340853413974687745 | 1340853413974687745 |
| The Fox lawyers must be getting a little worried about | 2020-12-20 | 263 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1340541695117561857 | 1340541695117561857 |
| The Chinese model to avoid upsetting the markets. | 2020-12-19 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340301489592397824 | 1340301489592397824 |
| Not as hard as you might think! | 2020-12-18 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1339786143160619008 | 1339786143160619008 |
| Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. | 2020-12-17 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339641218402197504 | 1339641218402197504 |
| What will CNN and MSNBC do now? | 2020-12-17 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339368274996281344 | 1339368274996281344 |
| Disinformation is a way of life and a booming business | 2020-12-16 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339356352490033153 | 1339356352490033153 |
| "virtues result from cultivating habits" | 2020-12-14 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338518234841055232 | 1338518234841055232 |
| Trumpists continue their war against objective reality | 2020-12-14 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338330926539948032 | 1338330926539948032 |
| Trump's management style in action - | 2020-12-11 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337449197562331139 | 1337449197562331139 |
| Celebrities! That's what reality-TV is all about. | 2020-12-10 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337114096722878464 | 1337114096722878464 |
| Biden's campaign did have an internet strategy. | 2020-12-06 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335670378249637888 | 1335670378249637888 |
| $300 million in ads booked - for two Senate runoffs? | 2020-12-05 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335116352390983682 | 1335116352390983682 |
| The journalist media can ignore Trump's tweets starting | 2020-12-05 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335045218370916352 | 1335045218370916352 |
| Nothing is true and everything is possible! | 2020-12-04 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334879563420061699 | 1334879563420061699 |
| It's true about how they FEEL, and that's good enough | 2020-12-04 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334667857280466945 | 1334667857280466945 |
| Will the doom loop never end? | 2020-12-03 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334628457150435328 | 1334628457150435328 |
| Trump aims to punish social media companies for opposing | 2020-12-02 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334020866959544321 | 1334020866959544321 |
| Release the kraken? | 2020-11-30 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333279958483881989 | 1333279958483881989 |
| The difference between entertainment and journalism. | 2020-11-30 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333278132133003264 | 1333278132133003264 |
| Social media have a moral dilemma - spreading simple | 2020-11-29 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333095405513371649 | 1333095405513371649 |
| Making up new stories | 2020-11-27 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1332360982358749185 | 1332360982358749185 |
| Social media - a business built on unsupported and | 2020-11-26 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331753848319295488 | 1331753848319295488 |
| An alternative platform to read stuff - that you've | 2020-11-24 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331082733880111104 | 1331082733880111104 |
| Social media have superspreaders too! | 2020-11-23 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1330987438685048832 | 1330987438685048832 |
| If Trump fades from view, will media have a profitability | 2020-11-22 | 100 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1330651637078081537 | 1330651637078081537 |
| In Trumpworld, it's all reality-TV all the time. | 2020-11-21 | 54 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1330013450836164608 | 1330013450836164608 |
| Why Republican senators are so spineless. The base | 2020-11-21 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1330012302372814850 | 1330012302372814850 |
| A novel approach from Fox opinion! | 2020-11-20 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329789993456332801 | 1329789993456332801 |
| For the Trump base - and Newsmax - and Louie Gohmert - | 2020-11-18 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329083966121381890 | 1329083966121381890 |
| As with Q, the "real" Trump will eventually be replaced by | 2020-11-18 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328909096272023558 | 1328909096272023558 |
| As with most topics, legislators have uninformed opinions | 2020-11-17 | 41 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328836820210126849 | 1328836820210126849 |
| Confused on election night? It was planned that was | 2020-11-15 | 251 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328056435033325568 | 1328056435033325568 |
| Does Fox need Trump or Trump need Fox? | 2020-11-13 | 55 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1327119976650706948 | 1327119976650706948 |
| The anti-facters have a place to call home now. | 2020-11-09 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325923077121736704 | 1325923077121736704 |
| There's no getting around this fact: spreading | 2020-11-09 | 42 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325920053745741826 | 1325920053745741826 |
| Fox is not going to be 100% Trump propaganda. Time to | 2020-11-09 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325915294984937472 | 1325915294984937472 |
| The reality-based press overcame its failures to a | 2020-11-08 | 43 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1325534487539642373 | 1325534487539642373 |
| Leaving no stone unturned! | 2020-11-07 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324887511554912256 | 1324887511554912256 |
| There's a better show to watch now than the Trump show. | 2020-11-06 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324850281939496961 | 1324850281939496961 |
| Trump will live on in infamy, on social media. | 2020-11-06 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324840272895770624 | 1324840272895770624 |
| Can social media survive its own self-censorship? | 2020-11-06 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324573595830415360 | 1324573595830415360 |
| Facebook realizes it has to take a position. | 2020-11-06 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324565629014175746 | 1324565629014175746 |
| Even Fox News can't swallow Trump's lies. | 2020-11-06 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324564789499109376 | 1324564789499109376 |
| Who cares if it wasn't what they said. It was good | 2020-11-06 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324556342762201088 | 1324556342762201088 |
| Trumpists do not do "neutral". You are either 100% | 2020-11-05 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324471048197136384 | 1324471048197136384 |
| Organized disinformation. | 2020-11-05 | 107 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324392747600470016 | 1324392747600470016 |
| There's no appeasing Trumpists. The only way social | 2020-11-01 | 69 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322943773022695424 | 1322943773022695424 |
| How Trumpists make sure their base hears the same things | 2020-10-31 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322672123605786625 | 1322672123605786625 |
| Don't be fooled by election maps! | 2020-10-31 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322342795705683968 | 1322342795705683968 |
| The bright future of Fox - they're so much better at | 2020-10-29 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321857176822972421 | 1321857176822972421 |
| Ornamental masculinity - just right for the age of | 2020-10-29 | 176 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321848917705650176 | 1321848917705650176 |
| Facebook and Twitter too regulatory? Nobody's | 2020-10-29 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321639627376058368 | 1321639627376058368 |
| Social media algorithms are choices - by the media, not | 2020-10-26 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320765777524371457 | 1320765777524371457 |
| Is it possible to intervene with conspiracy theorists? | 2020-10-26 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320551760109289473 | 1320551760109289473 |
| Do all the loose nuts roll toward Trumpism? | 2020-10-25 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320465046657323008 | 1320465046657323008 |
| Polarization of media grows. | 2020-10-23 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319772029990498304 | 1319772029990498304 |
| What else matters if it FEELS right? Then there's no | 2020-10-23 | 60 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319441130920898561 | 1319441130920898561 |
| QAnon - we've been here before. | 2020-10-22 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319080754660298752 | 1319080754660298752 |
| "cut it up to make him look bad" | 2020-10-21 | 60 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1318785761706086405 | 1318785761706086405 |
| Coping with disinformation | 2020-10-19 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1318198199534772228 | 1318198199534772228 |
| Trump demands FCC action on social media. But what | 2020-10-17 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317321888385748995 | 1317321888385748995 |
| Youtube steps off the QAnon train. | 2020-10-16 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317195337971376128 | 1317195337971376128 |
| Once again - you can't be neutral about disinformation. | 2020-10-16 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1316939482566983680 | 1316939482566983680 |
| Divert and distract by getting the mainstream media to | 2020-10-15 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1316846162985459712 | 1316846162985459712 |
| Facebook takes another step to define what it's for. | 2020-10-15 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1316736424914214918 | 1316736424914214918 |
| It's slowly dawning - you can't be neutral about | 2020-10-14 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1316444939903889409 | 1316444939903889409 |
| Microsoft tries to take down distributed botnet. | 2020-10-14 | 85 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1316444171209601024 | 1316444171209601024 |
| If, once exposed, there are no consequences, others will | 2020-10-13 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1315859199302094848 | 1315859199302094848 |
| How media strike back at successful women. | 2020-10-12 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1315528983358836738 | 1315528983358836738 |
| Facebook discriminates against Trump supporters again. | 2020-10-09 | 95 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314659823242289153 | 1314659823242289153 |
| Relentless persecution of Trumpists! | 2020-10-09 | 70 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314614247452622848 | 1314614247452622848 |
| Talk radio - the largest reactionary single-issue voter | 2020-10-09 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314546578741370886 | 1314546578741370886 |
| What can social media do about domestic terrorism? | 2020-10-09 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314404416938602497 | 1314404416938602497 |
| Social media are an essential tool for domestic terrorists. | 2020-10-09 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314401609007333377 | 1314401609007333377 |
| Only paid political ads? | 2020-10-08 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314330128537645057 | 1314330128537645057 |
| Too many channels - a fire started by cable TV and | 2020-10-08 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314328856308772864 | 1314328856308772864 |
| Facebook wants no part of the melee. | 2020-10-08 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314048566940246016 | 1314048566940246016 |
| 50 years of PBS | 2020-10-05 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1313208344744620032 | 1313208344744620032 |
The table above has these entries:
========== Nobody's interested in listening to the Voice of America to find out what Trump thinks. The have their own government propaganda organs for that. They listen to VOA know the truth that will make them free. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/24/biden-undo-trump-damage-voa-media/ #PS1media ===== impress 59 time 2020-12-28 04:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343412410007228422 ========== You can make a lot of money giving people what they want! https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/12/27/fox-news-viewers-switch-to-newsmax/ Just ask any drug dealer! #PS1media ===== impress 45 time 2020-12-27 20:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343289908769640448 ========== Fox News defamation defense (also Newsmax and OAN?) - they are NOT in the news business, they are in the entertainment business! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/23/fox-news-lou-dobbs-smartmatic/ "given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer arrives with an appropriate amount of skepticism" #PS1media ===== impress 49 time 2020-12-23 17:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341802648341639168 ========== Smartmatic and Dominion fight back; Fox and Newsmax are nervously trying to dodge the bullet. That leaves OAN and Powell, who was admonished personally. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-technology-elections-826071eb5b52ec8aea6b0028da78c61c #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 87 time 2020-12-22 03:11 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341219674411868161 ========== Defamation targets suing to recover damages. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/media/smartmatic-lawsuit-fox-news-newsmax-oan.html People with assets who repeat Trump fantasies forget that he has presidential immunity and they don't. If the targets of right-wing defamation start suing for damages, it could crimp the hose. #PS1media ===== impress 43 time 2020-12-21 21:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341139706998706177 ========== Despite all efforts, it's still very easy to fake out social media. https://apnews.com/article/media-social-media-chuck-grassley-chris-murphy-a43992f3fc8c3f4ff198a838f748a0a9 #PS1media ===== impress 34 time 2020-12-21 13:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341018013332455424 ========== Ethnic disinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/opinion/fake-news-disinformation-immigrants.html #PS1media ===== impress 39 time 2020-12-21 02:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340853413974687745 ========== The Fox lawyers must be getting a little worried about potential liability exposure for libel. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/12/19/lou-dobbs-debunk-fact-check-smartmatic/ Newsmax and OAN must be counting on Trump to protect them. Or else they have no assets worth seizing. #PS1media ===== engage 3 engage-rate 1% impress 263 time 2020-12-20 06:17 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340541695117561857 ========== The Chinese model to avoid upsetting the markets. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/technology/china-coronavirus-censorship.html Much like the Trump model, but much more effective. It's the model China proposes for the rest of the world. #PS1media ===== impress 42 time 2020-12-19 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340301489592397824 ========== Not as hard as you might think! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/12/17/dutch-trump-twitter-password-hack/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 45 time 2020-12-18 04:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339786143160619008 ========== Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384 Concentrations of power are bad in government, bad in business, bad in labor, bad in theology. Ambition must check ambition. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#liberty%20and%20equality #PS1media ===== impress 33 time 2020-12-17 18:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339641218402197504 ========== What will CNN and MSNBC do now? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/business/media/cnn-msnbc-cable-news-trump.html Not to mention Washington Post and New York Times. A lot of us would be glad to tune out as soon as we feel safe. #PS1media ===== impress 50 time 2020-12-17 00:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339368274996281344 ========== Disinformation is a way of life and a booming business that can make you rich and famous! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/from-voter-fraud-to-vaccine-lies-misinformation-peddlers-shift-gears.html The same suckers that swallow one lie will swallow another - look how Limbaugh, Jones, Bannon, Carlson, Hannity, Ruddy thrive. #PS1media ===== impress 35 time 2020-12-16 23:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339356352490033153 ========== "virtues result from cultivating habits" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/opinion/trump-voter-fraud-education.html Liberal arts and sciences intend to cultivate virtuous habits. The internet, like cable television before it, started off with virtuous intentions but soon fell into cultivating more profitable vices. #PS1media ===== impress 26 time 2020-12-14 16:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338518234841055232 ========== Trumpists continue their war against objective reality right up to the last minute. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/restoring-voice-of-america-post-trump/2020/12/11/d1088ba6-3bb7-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html #PS1media ===== impress 33 time 2020-12-14 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338330926539948032 ========== Trump's management style in action - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cable-news-newsmax-oan/2020/12/10/041d2958-3969-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html He's trying to use Newsmax and OAN to pressure Fox. If he succeeds, he'll dump them like like a dead possum. #PS1media ===== impress 33 time 2020-12-11 17:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337449197562331139 ========== Celebrities! That's what reality-TV is all about. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/10/rudy-giuliani-coronavirus-treatment-special-access/ #PS1media ===== impress 48 time 2020-12-10 19:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337114096722878464 ========== Biden's campaign did have an internet strategy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/technology/joe-biden-internet-election.html #PS1media ===== impress 49 time 2020-12-06 19:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335670378249637888 ========== $300 million in ads booked - for two Senate runoffs? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/us/politics/trump-georgia-senate-obama.html At this point does anybody read the printed propaganda or listen to the broadcast propaganda? #PS1media ===== impress 43 time 2020-12-05 06:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335116352390983682 ========== The journalist media can ignore Trump's tweets starting Jan 21. https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/he-who-must-not-be-named-as-often-ever-again/ The entertainment media will give him more coverage than he deserves. #PS1media ===== impress 35 time 2020-12-05 02:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335045218370916352 ========== Nothing is true and everything is possible! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/04/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-permitted-peter-pomerantsev-review-russia-oil-boom Putin's greatest contribution to American political life - turning it into reality-TV! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/03/telling-fact-fiction-end-trump-era/ He found so many willing collaborators in politics and media! #PS1media ===== impress 43 time 2020-12-04 15:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334879563420061699 ========== It's true about how they FEEL, and that's good enough for them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html #PS1media ===== impress 44 time 2020-12-04 01:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334667857280466945 ========== Will the doom loop never end? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/opinion/trump-media-culture-war.html It is true that everybody is losing. Except the media that profit from endless gloom and doom. #PS1media ===== impress 32 time 2020-12-03 22:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334628457150435328 ========== Trump aims to punish social media companies for opposing him. It's important enough to stop the entire defense funding bill. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/01/trump-repeal-section-230-ndaa/ What would Republicans have said if Obama had tried that? #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 43 time 2020-12-02 06:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334020866959544321 ========== Release the kraken? https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55090145 No surprise Powell is with QAnon now. The kraken released is the monster of massive disinformation distributed by broadcast and online, entertainment and propaganda media, for profit. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/media/newsmax-chris-ruddy-trump.html #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 37 time 2020-11-30 05:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333279958483881989 ========== The difference between entertainment and journalism. It's just another way to sell nutritional supplements to the gullible. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/media/newsmax-chris-ruddy-trump.html Maybe Trump will buy him out if he can find the money. #PS1media ===== impress 35 time 2020-11-30 05:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333278132133003264 ========== Social media have a moral dilemma - spreading simple inflammatory disinformation is MUCH more profitable than calmly spreading complicated objective facts. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-election-misinformation.html #PS1media ===== impress 27 time 2020-11-29 17:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333095405513371649 ========== Making up new stories https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-georgia-media-93dbd6e5c6adf8047b70946d16947e61 and paying for old ones https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/business/congress-settlement.html #PS1media ===== impress 42 time 2020-11-27 16:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332360982358749185 ========== Social media - a business built on unsupported and unchecked comments generating more of the same. It's exponential, like the virus. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/facebook-disinformation-boomers.html #PS1media ===== impress 44 time 2020-11-26 00:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331753848319295488 ========== An alternative platform to read stuff - that you've already read. Mixed with porn and scams. You can't use it against libs because they aren't there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/23/parler-conservatives-still-on-twitter It's subsidized by reactionary billionaires because there's no business model there. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 81 time 2020-11-24 03:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331082733880111104 ========== Social media have superspreaders too! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/technology/election-misinformation-facebook-twitter.html #PS1media ===== impress 59 time 2020-11-23 21:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1330987438685048832 ========== If Trump fades from view, will media have a profitability crisis? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/opinion/sunday/donald-trump-moving-on.html Maybe, but @politicalscrap1 would be happy to fade too. #PS1media ===== engage 24 engage-rate 24% expands 24 impress 100 time 2020-11-22 23:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1330651637078081537 ========== In Trumpworld, it's all reality-TV all the time. Nothing is real. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/technology/no-trumps-sister-did-not-publicly-back-him-he-was-duped-by-a-fake-account.html There's big money in controversial posts. Who cares if they're true? #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 54 time 2020-11-21 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1330013450836164608 ========== Why Republican senators are so spineless. The base is unforgiving and unrelenting. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/politics/Tucker-Carlson-trump.html Tucker Carlson was said to have his eye on 2024. That will be harder now. #PS1media ===== impress 81 time 2020-11-21 04:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1330012302372814850 ========== A novel approach from Fox opinion! "We're telling you this because it's true, and in the end, that's all that matters" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/20/tucker-carlson-sidney-powell-fraud/ Yet Carlson still supposes that there MIGHT be something significant somewhere to investigate - despite no evidence. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 36 time 2020-11-20 14:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329789993456332801 ========== For the Trump base - and Newsmax - and Louie Gohmert - it doesn't have to be true! If it sounds good, who cares if it really is true or even remotely plausible? As long as it wastes time and keeps the pot boiling. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/media/scytl-debunks-conspiracy-theory/index.html #PS1media ===== impress 49 time 2020-11-18 15:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329083966121381890 ========== As with Q, the "real" Trump will eventually be replaced by a more effective one. The tweet will go on! It's too valuable an asset. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/opinion/trump-tweets-election.html #PS1media ===== impress 49 time 2020-11-18 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328909096272023558 ========== As with most topics, legislators have uninformed opinions but no technical expertise. Lobbyists will have to provide draft legislation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/17/tech-hearing-dorsey-zuckerberg/ We need different competing platforms - some where fiction is as good as facts, and some not. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 41 time 2020-11-17 23:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328836820210126849 ========== Confused on election night? It was planned that was by Republican legislatures that refused to allow early counting of mail-in votes, and abetted by networks that found it more profitable to keep the world hanging for ask long as possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/is-election-night-broken-tv-news-stuck-to-old-routines-amid-voting-upheaval--and-confusion-followed/2020/11/14/9024f248-207b-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html #PS1media ===== engage 3 engage-rate 1% expands 2 impress 251 time 2020-11-15 19:25 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328056435033325568 ========== Does Fox need Trump or Trump need Fox? https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/media/fox-news-trump-future/index.html Or is Trump going to be too busy in court the next few years to run his own TV network? #PS1media ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 55 time 2020-11-13 05:23 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327119976650706948 ========== The anti-facters have a place to call home now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/15/parler-conservative-twitter-alternative/ They all keep their Twitter accounts though. #PS1media ===== impress 37 time 2020-11-09 22:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325923077121736704 ========== There's no getting around this fact: spreading disinformation is more profitable than spreading the truth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/09/facebook-twitter-election-misinformation-labels/ #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 42 replies 1 time 2020-11-09 21:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325920053745741826 ========== Fox is not going to be 100% Trump propaganda. Time to move on to One America News or RT. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-long-love-affair-between-fox-news-and-trump-may-be-over-heres-how-it-ended-last-week/2020/11/09/f4dddb5e-2095-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html #PS1media ===== impress 44 time 2020-11-09 21:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325915294984937472 ========== The reality-based press overcame its failures to a sufficient extent to defeat Trump. But failed to overcome Trumpism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/media-cover-trump-save-democracy/2020/11/08/e23fc35e-21c1-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 43 likes 1 time 2020-11-08 20:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325534487539642373 ========== Leaving no stone unturned! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/06/trump-text-messages-philadelphia/ Text messaging is the new frontier in disinformation. #PS1media ===== impress 68 time 2020-11-07 01:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324887511554912256 ========== There's a better show to watch now than the Trump show. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/06/trumps-lies-about-election-are-awful-his-spell-is-breaking/ #PS1media ===== impress 34 time 2020-11-06 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324850281939496961 ========== Trump will live on in infamy, on social media. The interesting question is whether Fox will still be interested, or will it transfer its affections to another more capable Trumpist? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/06/trump-twitter-megaphone/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 34 time 2020-11-06 22:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324840272895770624 ========== Can social media survive its own self-censorship? Will they just push one segment of the population onto another platform? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/technology/facebook-twitter-election.html #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 37 time 2020-11-06 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324573595830415360 ========== Facebook realizes it has to take a position. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/technology/facebook-election-misinformation.html #PS1media ===== impress 27 time 2020-11-06 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324565629014175746 ========== Even Fox News can't swallow Trump's lies. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/business/media/fox-news-trump-fraud-claims.html Fortunately, there's One America which is happy to echo anything he says. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 59 time 2020-11-06 04:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324564789499109376 ========== Who cares if it wasn't what they said. It was good enough for Trump supporters - according to a former Director of National Intelligence who, you might think, would have excellent sources of information. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-without-mask-taken-in-2019-b68fcc7c8979bbd2011e52d52e6af37d #PS1media ===== impress 43 time 2020-11-06 03:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324556342762201088 ========== Trumpists do not do "neutral". You are either 100% for them or 100% against them. Social media seem to be giving up the fantasy of staying "neutral". https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/05/facebook-trump-protests/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 49 time 2020-11-05 21:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324471048197136384 ========== Organized disinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/opinion/trump-twitter-biden-misinformation.html #PS1media ===== engage 25 engage-rate 23% expands 25 impress 107 time 2020-11-05 16:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324392747600470016 ========== There's no appeasing Trumpists. The only way social media can avoid criticism and perhaps Federal regulation is to do everything the Trumpists want, all the time. Fair play or even treatment is not their goal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/01/facebook-election-misinformation/ #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% expands 2 impress 69 time 2020-11-01 16:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322943773022695424 ========== How Trumpists make sure their base hears the same things over and over until they believe it. Russians aren't the main problem thought they try to help. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/30/trump-twitter-domestic-disinformation/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 53 time 2020-10-31 22:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322672123605786625 ========== Don't be fooled by election maps! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/opinion/election-results-maps.html #PS1media ===== impress 47 time 2020-10-31 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322342795705683968 ========== The bright future of Fox - they're so much better at offense than defense. Just like supermarket tabloids. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/rupert-murdoch-thinks-trump-is-going-to-lose--and-thats-not-a-bad-thing-for-fox-news/2020/10/28/9547fbdc-1192-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 42 time 2020-10-29 16:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321857176822972421 ========== Ornamental masculinity - just right for the age of reality-TV! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/opinion/trump-masculinity-femininity.html It's as thin as the gilt on Trump Tower! #PS1media ===== impress 176 time 2020-10-29 16:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321848917705650176 ========== Facebook and Twitter too regulatory? Nobody's regulating texting! https://mediaengagement.org/research/peer-to-peer-texting-and-the-2020-election/ #PS1media ===== impress 40 time 2020-10-29 02:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321639627376058368 ========== Social media algorithms are choices - by the media, not the users. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/26/facebook-algorithm-conservative-liberal-extremes/ #PS1media ===== impress 55 time 2020-10-26 16:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320765777524371457 ========== Is it possible to intervene with conspiracy theorists? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/opinion/qanon-conspiracy-theories-family.html #PS1media ===== impress 34 time 2020-10-26 02:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320551760109289473 ========== Do all the loose nuts roll toward Trumpism? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-influence-falun-gong.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yun Have they ever gotten anything from Trump for their efforts? #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 40 time 2020-10-25 20:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320465046657323008 ========== Polarization of media grows. https://medium.com/dfrlab/coverage-of-hunter-biden-story-illustrates-extremes-in-media-polarization-b784cdde5480 #PS1media ===== impress 121 time 2020-10-23 22:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319772029990498304 ========== What else matters if it FEELS right? Then there's no need to find out whether it's actually objectively true. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/22/cnn-destroys-coronavirus-research-showcased-tucker-carlsons-show/ You can see what kind of presidential candidate Tucker Carlson will make. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 60 time 2020-10-23 00:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319441130920898561 ========== QAnon - we've been here before. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/opinion/q-anon-conspiracy.html But Father Coughlin didn't have social media or cable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin #PS1media ===== impress 55 time 2020-10-22 00:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319080754660298752 ========== "cut it up to make him look bad" The Trump campaign and the RNC have plenty of expertise in the department, and if not, their allies abroad would be glad to help! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-60-minutes-leslie-stahl/2020/10/20/d7ef0554-132a-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 60 time 2020-10-21 05:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1318785761706086405 ========== Coping with disinformation https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-trump-campaign-disinformation/2020/10/18/99774228-0fdd-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html An old technique made new by technology. Biden's campaign has to catch up with the Trumpist social media machine, while fending off Putin's. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 36 time 2020-10-19 14:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1318198199534772228 ========== Trump demands FCC action on social media. But what action, exactly? Require them to treat lies the same as facts? The traditional solution would be new social media platforms dedicated exclusively to lies supporting minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/16/fcc-facebook-twitter-section-230/ #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 33 time 2020-10-17 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317321888385748995 ========== Youtube steps off the QAnon train. https://apnews.com/article/youtube-qanon-conspiracy-theories-ef03a889e68239de6692ce42666d97d8 #PS1media ===== impress 38 time 2020-10-16 20:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317195337971376128 ========== Once again - you can't be neutral about disinformation. You either are for it or against it. There is no middle ground. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/15/facebook-twitter-hunter-biden/ #PS1media ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% expands 2 impress 29 time 2020-10-16 03:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1316939482566983680 ========== Divert and distract by getting the mainstream media to publicize nonsense! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/15/trumps-fake-new-biden-scandal-has-deeper-purpose-bannon-revealed-it/ It's just not working like it used to. Even Facebook isn't helping. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 40 time 2020-10-15 20:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1316846162985459712 ========== Facebook takes another step to define what it's for. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/technology/facebook-bans-anti-vaccination-ads.html #PS1media ===== impress 37 time 2020-10-15 13:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1316736424914214918 ========== It's slowly dawning - you can't be neutral about propaganda. To treat false information equally with true is to promote false information. It's not possible to not take sides. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/technology/facebook-bans-holocaust-denial-content.html #PS1media ===== impress 32 time 2020-10-14 18:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1316444939903889409 ========== Microsoft tries to take down distributed botnet. Trickbot is a distributed computing solution available for sale to anybody. https://apnews.com/article/technology-malware-elections-crime-cybercrime-913ee5d56affa97fc5d9c639c4a284ab #PS1media ===== engage 3 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 85 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2020-10-14 18:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1316444171209601024 ========== If, once exposed, there are no consequences, others will try it https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/08/facebook-bans-media-consultancy-running-troll-farm-pro-trump-youth-group/ #PS1media ===== impress 46 time 2020-10-13 03:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1315859199302094848 ========== How media strike back at successful women. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/07/kamala-harris-sexist-racist-attacks-spread-online/ #PS1media ===== impress 51 time 2020-10-12 05:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1315528983358836738 ========== Facebook discriminates against Trump supporters again. Fake accounts for Rally Forge or Turning Point USA or Turning Point Action - like Trump's businesses they have many shells. https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-business-arizona-d568f23c03faa70a753928433b283f3a Also Twitter discriminates against Iranian-hijacked accounts. #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 95 replies 1 time 2020-10-09 20:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314659823242289153 ========== Relentless persecution of Trumpists! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/09/with-election-day-looming-twitter-imposes-new-limits-us-politicians-ordinary-users-too/ Social media will no longer be neutral about spreading lies. But that discriminates against Republicans, whose minority rule is built on lies. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1media ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 70 time 2020-10-09 17:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314614247452622848 ========== Talk radio - the largest reactionary single-issue voter bloc. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/talk-radio-conservatives-trumpism.html In mortal fear of the Fairness Doctrine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine #PS1media ===== impress 73 time 2020-10-09 12:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314546578741370886 ========== What can social media do about domestic terrorism? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/opinion/facebook-gretchen-whitmer.html They have to take sides. To not take sides is to side with terrorists. #PS1media ===== impress 70 time 2020-10-09 03:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314404416938602497 ========== Social media are an essential tool for domestic terrorists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/08/michigan-plot-kidnapping-boogaloo-socialmedia/ #PS1media ===== impress 64 time 2020-10-09 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314401609007333377 ========== Only paid political ads? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/technology/facebook-political-ads-ban.html Just as much damage likely from unpaid posts to and from various conspiracy groups. What's to be done about that? #PS1media ===== impress 35 time 2020-10-08 22:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314330128537645057 ========== Too many channels - a fire started by cable TV and abandonment of the Fairness Doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine and fanned into firestorm by internet social media. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/technology/Trump-conspiracy-theories.html #PS1media ===== impress 37 time 2020-10-08 22:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314328856308772864 ========== Facebook wants no part of the melee. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/07/facebook-political-ads/ #PS1media ===== impress 32 time 2020-10-08 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314048566940246016 ========== 50 years of PBS https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/04/50-years-pbs-programming-content-americans-all-classes-political-views/ #PS1media ===== impress 28 time 2020-10-05 20:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1313208344744620032