ReAwaken America, Truth Social, Twitter after Musk: Inoculated Newsletter (10.11.2022)
So here's what happened in the past two weeks:
📰News of the week:
- Part Trump rally, part religious service, and much conspiracy theory thrown in: The Guardian reports on the ReAwaken America tour.
- Truth Social faces two federal investigations and an uncertain financial future. But it has still managed to outpace its rivals, according to The New York Times.
- Twitter Limits Content-Enforcement Work as US Election Looms, Bloomberg reports ($$$).
- How Musk’s takeover might change Twitter: extremists could flock back to the platform under the guise of ‘free speech’ — and researchers are gearing up to study their impact, nature reports.
🎁Bonus reads of the week:
Foreign bots meddle in US midterms, criticism of the Qatar World Cup is ‘Orientalist,’ and exploiting the data void - Coda Story
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📲Tweet of the week:
A haunted house, but it’s just a room full of wellness influencers fear-mongering about vaccines and marketing useless supplements.
— Dr. Jonathan N. Stea (@jonathanstea) October 28, 2022