Amanda Unvarnished

Why are you so obsessed?

Since the earliest days of the country, the “New Covenant” of Jewish Americans has promoted a national vision of moral leadership.

Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths by Hilda Bastian (absolutelymaybe.plos.org)

The first myth to dispense with: That there’s almost no research on quote tweets! I added to this misconception with my December…

The Anti-Twitter Files: January 6th Committee Report Shows How Twitter Leaned Over Backwards To Protect Trump & Conservatives by Mike Masnick (techdirt.com)

For all the talk of the “Twitter Files,” as we’ve detailed, they’ve mostly been, at best, misleading, and frequently actively wrong. One of the big reveals, we were told, was that the Files were going to expose the political machinations of how Twitter banned former President Trump. And, indeed, Bari Weiss’s “Part Five” of the […]

The Santos meltdown continues

David Ben Moshe, born David Bonett, first applied for citizenship in 2018 and spent years fighting against the unyielding world of Israeli bureaucracy

Third-Party Twitter Apps Stop Working in What Appears to Be a Widespread Outage by Rob Pegoraro (PCMag)

The company's silence leaves users and developers guessing: glitch or deliberate cutoff?

In “Social Quitting,” my latest Locus Magazine column, I advance a theory to explain the precipitous vibe shift in how many of us view the once-dominant social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter…

Iszac Henig told his own story in the New York Times. A conservative columnist wants to erase his story and replace it with her own.
by Evan Urquhart
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The fine art of cherry picking is one all propagandists carefully hone, and transphobes are among the most dedicated pra...