The New Republic
The Radical Young Intellectuals Who Want to Take Over the American Right
20+ min · · They hate the establishment. They want to destroy the system. Meet the illiberal upstarts trying to remake conservatism. · Shared by 62, including Clive Thompson, Carly, David Austin Walsh, DeLong🖖, David Weigel, Steve Faktor, Alfie Kohn, Lydia Polgreen
The New York Times
America’s Anti-Democratic Movement
7 min · · It’s making progress. · Shared by 34, including Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵), Carly, Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org), David Leonhardt, Alfie Kohn, Joshua Benton, Jay Rosen
BBC News (World)
Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive
1 min · · Conspiracy theories about 5G have fuelled a market for "anti-5G" accessories. · Shared by 108, including Michael Schär, Andrea Kuszewski 🧠, Loubna Rais, Timothy Caulfield, Katharina Borchert, Esther Schindler, Nils Hitze, 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, John Koetsier, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Amber Mac, Walter Hickey, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Carly
The Atlantic
What’s Really Behind Global Vaccine Hesitancy
8 min · · Countries with low vaccination rates are suffering from more than just inequity. · Shared by 151, including Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Olga Khazan, Carly, Philanthropy News Digest
The Washington Post
Opinion | New covid variant. Same Republican denialism.
· What’s thousands of lives, next to a few political careers? · Shared by 14, including George J Huba PhD, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Carly
The New York Times
Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars
8 min · · Journalists and academics are developing a new language for truth. The results are not always clearer. · Shared by 60, including BenYT, Casey Newton, Bjorn Larsen, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Pippa Norris, Timothy Caulfield, Carly, luis antónio santos, Tactical Tech
World Economic Forum
COVID-19 has damaged trust in science. Here's how to repair it
3 min · · COVID-19 has created trust issues for science. The accuracy of scientific information is hard to maintain in the age of social media. To restore trust, scientists need to improve their communication · Shared by 10, including Carly
The Cut
The Unvaxxed Lefties Hiding in Plain Sight
8 min · · They insist they’re more sophisticated than your typical anti-vaxxer. Not that they’re telling anyone. · Shared by 28, including Alice Wong 王美華, Carly
The Atlantic
Deprogram your relatives this Thanksgiving
3 min · · Maybe you’ll change a heart or a mind. Or not! Either way, it’s something to do besides just eat · Shared by 14, including Gregg Gonsalves, Carly
The Guardian
Seven anti-vaccine doctors contract Covid after Florida summit
2 min · · Doctors tested positive or developed symptoms ‘within days’ of conference at which alternative treatments were discussed · Shared by 75, including Tom Raftery, Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, David Frum, Carly, William Gibson, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
MIT Technology Review
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
3 min · · The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world. · Shared by 852, including Antonio Vieira Santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Andrew Hutchinson, Mark Kaigwa, Harry Briggs, Mark Little, Karen K. Ho, @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Nicolas Babin, Gerd Leonhard, Tactical Tech, Deborah Blum, Abeba Birhane, Gabriele, Mathew Ingram, Jeff Atwood, Bill Johnston
The Atlantic
The Terrifying Future of the American Right
12+ min · · What I saw at the National Conservatism Conference · Shared by 144, including Brian Stelter, Pippa Norris, Claudia Sommer, Clive Thompson, Rene Ritchie, Jason Stanley, Barry C Smith, David Frum, Anne Applebaum, Andrew Sullivan, Brian Leiter https://universeodon.com/@BrianLeiter, Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵)
The Bulwark
Andrew Sullivan and the Narrative of the "MSM Narrative"
8 min · · The narrative on MSM narratives is false. · Shared by 40, including Anne Applebaum, Carly, Jay Rosen, Brian Stelter, Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵), Mathew Ingram, DeLong🖖, David Folkenflik
NBC News
Parents against critical race theory turn outrage toward school mental health programs
12+ min · · Conservative groups opposed to lessons on racism are now targeting social emotional learning, which they call a "Trojan Horse" for critical race theory. · Shared by 91, including Larry Ferlazzo, Matthias Lampe, Carly, Jake Jackson, Alfie Kohn, Judd Legum, Timothy Lomauro, Stephanie Moulton Sarkis PhD
The Daily Beast
The Sneaky, Disturbing World of White-Nationalist Wellness
9 min · · These personal care companies use varying levels of code to mask twisted agendas. · Shared by 11, including Carly
The Guardian
The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies
8 min · · Extreme right-wing views and the wellness community are not an obvious pairing, but ‘conspirituality’ is increasingly pervasive. How did it all become so toxic? By Eva Wiseman · Shared by 188, including Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, patrick h. lauke (redux) "Big Dog" #toryScum #cis, Timothy Caulfield, Fräulein Tessa, Tactical Tech, Carly, Bruce Lawson