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Maybe his attention is elsewhere. Dorsey is a bit of a mystic. He once likened social networks to colonies of aspen trees (“if one of them dies, they all suffer”). He fasts rigorously and attends meditation retreats. In early April, he set up a fund to fight COVID-19, seeded with $1 billion, just over a quarter of his fortune. On Tuesday, he gave another $10 million to needy families touched by the pandemic. … [Read more...] about Op-Ed: Trump can’t executive-order it away: Twitter itself called him a liar

By using his megaphone not to call the country to unity and resolve, but to dilute the urgent calls of public health experts, Trump not only helps undermine trust in the government, but he also makes people more reluctant to follow the advice of those who, unlike him, and the authors of most conspiracy theories involving face masks, have devoted their lives to learning how to stop diseases. … [Read more...] about Trump’s reluctance to wear a face mask sends a fatal message

The executive order challenges the scope of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which grants social networks and other sites immunity from liability for the content that is posted on their sites. While it's unclear what the internet would look like without Section 230, legal experts have suggested it could lead to a future where either websites don't allow any user generated content for fear of being sued, or allow a very limited range of it. … [Read more...] about Trump’s dangerous move against Twitter

From the car, I called Steve, who is white, to come to the door to calm things. At first he didn’t understand the urgency, but I told him that if he didn’t come to the door there was a chance I would be killed. As I expected, the situation deescalated when he came outside and identified me as the homeowner. I was allowed to go in the house. The officer who followed me home believed I might have stolen the car. To this day, I joke to Steve that while he always knew he was with a gay dude, that was the night he learned he was dating a black man. … [Read more...] about Column: George Floyd, Central Park and the familiar terror they inspire

The reputations of both the deceased young woman and Scarborough have been smeared by this patently false claim. Scarborough was in Washington when the young woman died in Florida. These false and malicious claims, which appeared in six tweets by the President this month, should have been flagged at the time Trump made the Twitter posts instead of the belated apology issued by Twitter on Tuesday. Klausutis' widower, T.J. Klausutis, wrote to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and asked him to remove Trump's tweets. Twitter told CNN that it would not be removing the tweets. … [Read more...] about Trump’s new executive order is as phony as his Twitter feed