If politicians can text my cell phone asking for money I should be able to text them directly with policy suggestions.
August 23, 2024 at 5:03 PM
The DOGE team altered and deleted data - then suppressed the way the data can be viewed and compared in order to avoid public scrutiny www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
See How Elon Musk’s Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its Savings Claims (Gift Article)
The cost-cutting group removed hundreds of contracts from its “wall of receipts,” added back many of them, and inflated savings values.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The Trump they have created in their heads never existed, which is, I think, the defining point of the last 10 years. It gets to the terrible media environment and the terrible job the remaining legacy press outlets have done.
April 28, 2026 at 5:12 PM
infomocracy infomocracy INFOMOCRACY
July 30, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Infomocracy (2016)
August 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Infomocracy (2016)
new this am, with @nikkimcr.bsky.social
inside the pro-Harris effort to translate Project 2025 into Spanish and blitz five battleground states with it in the final couple weeks of this hellish presidential election
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
inside the pro-Harris effort to translate Project 2025 into Spanish and blitz five battleground states with it in the final couple weeks of this hellish presidential election
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Group Translating Project 2025 Into Spanish to Warn Old Latinos About Trump
Voto Latino is translating Project 2025 into Spanish in order to warn older Latinos of the dangers of a second Donald Trump administration.
www.rollingstone.com
October 20, 2024 at 5:06 PM
It’s so wild that the leading design principle of basically the entire internet is now about distracting people from the thing they were actually trying to do, to try and fool them into buying something or handing over their data.
October 12, 2023 at 10:44 AM
The richest man owns X.
The second and fourth richest men control Google.
The third richest man owns The Washington Post.
The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
The second and fourth richest men control Google.
The third richest man owns The Washington Post.
The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
August 31, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Law only works if people pretend it exists. When we take Trump's word for it that he has the authority to do something it *gives* him that authority.
It is important that journalists stop reporting what Trump or Musk says as law.
It is important that journalists stop reporting what Trump or Musk says as law.
February 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I write political science fiction torpublishinggroup.com/infomocracy/...
Infomocracy
Book One of the Centenal Cycle
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March 31, 2026 at 10:02 AM
I write political science fiction torpublishinggroup.com/infomocracy/...
proposal: we allow network TV to survive but only under federal regulations that require them to trigger a Planet Fitness "lunk" alarm any time somebody lies in an interview. the enforcement ladder for this begins at fines but ends in asset forfeiture
September 26, 2026 at 2:03 AM
These researchers studied 2022 campaign coverage that made the front pages of the New York Times and Washington Post. www.cjr.org/analysis/ele...
They wanted to know if it was different from 2016, which was mostly horse race and her emails. Here's their answer:
They wanted to know if it was different from 2016, which was mostly horse race and her emails. Here's their answer:
November 21, 2023 at 11:43 AM
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:28 PM
ffs #Infomocracy
"Authoritarian-curious"? WTF WaPo. What a white-gloved euphemism for fascism.
The increasingly authoritarian-curious Republican Party www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The increasingly authoritarian-curious Republican Party www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | The increasingly authoritarian-curious Republican Party
Multiple polls show the GOP wants a president who is less answerable to Congress and the courts. And, as notably, very few strongly object to that.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 9, 2024 at 10:45 AM
ffs #Infomocracy
June 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"Election denialism is not just another lie. It actually undoes the democratic system. It's not just a threat to journalism. It's a threat to democratic politics."
Jay Rosen & I discuss why Ronna is different: Election deniers threaten the system itself👇
newrepublic.com/article/1801...
Jay Rosen & I discuss why Ronna is different: Election deniers threaten the system itself👇
newrepublic.com/article/1801...
Why NBC Is Suddenly in Full Meltdown Over Ronna McDaniel Hiring Fiasco
The revolt among NBC personalities is extraordinary—and could force a real debate about all the ways the media enables Donald Trump and MAGA.
newrepublic.com
March 26, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Elon Musk said Grok 4 is “maximally truth-seeking.”
But if you ask Grok 4 questions about controversial topics, one of its first steps is to search for what Musk has said publicly about the topic, and then it shapes its response around that.
Yes, really:
techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/g...
But if you ask Grok 4 questions about controversial topics, one of its first steps is to search for what Musk has said publicly about the topic, and then it shapes its response around that.
Yes, really:
techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/g...
Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.
techcrunch.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Italy was a clear warning sign 25 years ago. Media consolidation is deadly to democracy.
90% of the UK newspaper market is controlled by three companies: DMG (Daily Mail et al), News UK (Murdoch), and Reach (the Mirror, Express). This also translates to a huge share (~40%) of online reach.
September 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
November 27, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Information is a public good #Infomocracy
New Future of News report warns there is “a realistic possibility” the UK will see the emergence of a “two-tier media environment” where a minority of the population is well-served by high-quality, paywalled news while the rest are left with low-quality free info
pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/fu...
pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/fu...
Warning of imminent, ‘irreparable’ fracture of news landscape without action
The Lords Communications and Digital Committee has laid out proposals it hopes can stave off a “fracturing” of the UK news landscape.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Information is a public good #Infomocracy
think about how much press coverage those truck convoys got but thousands of people in the streets in idk how many cities just isn't news???
@sulliview.bsky.social asked how local news covered it. They did the same shitty job as the national news did.
Reason #1 is the most likely: liberals doing stuff is just not that interesting. But Tea Party and MAGA rallies were just RWers doing stuff. Coverage was wall to wall for MONTHS.
Reason #1 is the most likely: liberals doing stuff is just not that interesting. But Tea Party and MAGA rallies were just RWers doing stuff. Coverage was wall to wall for MONTHS.
April 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Media is straight up refusing to cover any of the protests, and actively misreporting the basics of the law-breaking across the administration. Normal people who just casually pass by a few minutes of CNN in a week haven't heard *anything* about the worst attack on government since the Civil War.
These numbers suggest the media is failing to explain what's actually happening to the public.
March 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
January 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Infomocracy for environmental studies majors
my solution to gerrymandering US House districts is to reapportion representation to the 2456 HUC bioregional watershed subbasins. 1 representative per subbasin. its ya boi
June 8, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Infomocracy for environmental studies majors