Notices tagged with twitter, page 11

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 03:08:04 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
● NEWS ● #France24 #Sarpsborg ☞ Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, Norwegian #police wrote on #Twitter that they had received reports of "multiple people that have been stabbed in multiple locations in Sarpsborg." https://www.france24.com/en/20200715-woman-dies-as-three-are-stabbed-in-multiple-attacks-in-norway-suspect-arrested
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1. Woman dies after knifeman stabs three in Norway; suspect arrested
  
  from France 24
  
  Norwegian police said Wednesday they had arrested one person after multiple women were stabbed, one of whom reportedly succumbed to her wounds, in the city of Sarpsborg south of Oslo.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 01:40:48 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #HollywoodReporter #Twitter ☞ Twitter Accounts of Elon Musk, Kanye West, Joe Biden [Cr]acked in Apparent Bitcoin Scam https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/twitter-accounts-elon-musk-kanye-west-joe-biden-hacked-apparent-bitcoin-scam-1303364
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1. Twitter Accounts of Elon Musk, Kanye West, Joe Biden Hacked in Apparent Bitcoin Scam
  
  from The Hollywood Reporter
  
  The compromised accounts all tweeted the same message, offering to "give back to the community" to people who sent Bitcoin to a specific wallet address.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 01:40:39 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #TheVerge #Twitter ☞ Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Apple, and others [cr]acked in unprecedented Twitter attack https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-gates-twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-compromised
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1. Twitter’s massive attack: What we know after Apple, Biden, Obama, Musk, and others tweeted a bitcoin scam
  
  from The Verge
  
  Update: the worst Twitter breach in the company’s history.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 01:40:30 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #Variety #Twitter ☞ Twitter Accounts of Kanye West, Apple, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, Elon Musk and More [Cr]acked by Bitcoin Scammers https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/twitter-accounts-hacked-kanye-west-apple-jeff-bezos-elon-musk-1234707675/
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1. Twitter Accounts of Kanye West, Apple, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, Elon Musk and More Hacked by Bitcoin Scammers
  
  By Todd Spangler from Variety
  
  UPDATED: On Wednesday evening, the Twitter Support account said that the hacking of several high-profile accounts was a “coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.”
  
  The account added that the investigation will continue, and “Internally, we’ve taken significant steps to limit access to internal systems and tools while our investigation is ongoing.”
  
  Multiple high-profile accounts on Twitter were hijacked by a coordinated group of cryptocurrency scammers Wednesday, including those of Kanye West, Apple, Barack Obama, Mike Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Uber, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Gates.
  
  The hackers’ tweets have since been deleted from the affected accounts. A Twitter spokesperson directed an inquiry to updates from the Twitter Support account, which posted a message at 5:45 p.m. ET saying, “We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. We will update everyone shortly.”
  
  The Twitter Support team subsequently said, “You may be unable to tweet or reset your password while we review and address this incident.” Twitter had disabled verified accounts from tweeting temporarily.
  
  The scams involved promises that users would double their money if they sent cash in the form of Bitcoin to a specific account. The hacked tweet from Bloomberg’s personal account, for example, said, “I am giving back to the community” and asked users to send $1,000 in Bitcoin to receive $2,000 back.
  
  According to CNBC, the hackers’ message that was tweeted via Gates’ account read: “Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time. I am doubling all payments sent to my BTC address for the next 30 minutes. You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.”
  
  The hacked tweet from the @Apple account was notable because it has not sent any tweets in the nearly nine years since it was created on the platform.
  
  Almost 300 people had been duped by the scam after the bogus tweets were posted, the New York Times reported. A Bitcoin account that was linked to from the hacked tweets had received more $100,000 at the current exchange rate, according to Blockchain.com, although observers have noted that scammers sometimes seed their own accounts to appear legitimate.
  
  “Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened,” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted. “We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened.”
  
  Other Twitter accounts targeted in the coordinated attack included Kim Kardashian West, Wiz Khalifa, Warren Buffett, YouTube creator MrBeast, Wendy’s and Cash App (a mobile payment service developed Dorsey-led Square), as well as @bitcoin, @coindesk, @coinbase and @binance, TechCrunch reported.
  
  Twitter has suffered hacking attacks before, but nothing on the scope of the July 15 barrage of hijackings. In August 2019, Dorsey’s own Twitter account was compromised with the hackers tweeting racial slurs and a bomb threat before the account was secured.
  
  Twitter shares, after closing up 3.75% Wednesday, dropped more than 3% in after-hours trading in the wake of the attack.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 01:39:24 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
● NEWS ● #BBC #Twitter ☞ Major US Twitter accounts [cr]acked in Bitcoin scam https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53425822
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1. Major US Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam
  
  from BBC News
  
  Twitter says a hacking attack on employees was to blame for one of its biggest ever security lapses.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 01:39:14 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
● NEWS ● #VOANews #Twitter ☞ High-Profile Twitter Accounts Swept Up in Wave of Apparent [Cr]acking https://www.voanews.com/economy-business/high-profile-twitter-accounts-swept-wave-apparent-hacking
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1. High-Profile Twitter Accounts Swept Up in Wave of Apparent Hacking
  
  from Voice of America
  
  Multiple high-profile Twitter accounts were hijacked on Wednesday, with some of the platform's top voices - including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former U.S. President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk, among many others - used to solicit digital currency. Hours after the first wave of hacks, the cause of the breach had not yet been made public.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 01:38:58 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #TheHill #Twitter ☞ Twitter accounts of Obama, Biden, Musk and others compromised https://thehill.com/policy/technology/507542-twitter-accounts-of-bill-gates-elon-musk-seemingly-hacked-to-promote
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1. Twitter accounts of Obama, Biden, Musk and others compromised
  
  from TheHill
  
  Several prominent Twitter accounts were compromised Wednesday to post what is seemingly a bitcoin scam.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-2020 19:11:51 EDT lnxw48a1

https://nu.federati.net/url/272873 [www theverge com]
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#Corpocentric #socnet #Twitter appears to have been cracked.
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1. Twitter shut off the ability for many people to tweet after massive hack
  
  from The Verge
  
  Twitter temporarily shuts down for some users.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-2020 14:20:31 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
Twisting words, lying about the cited articles, declaring people dead (who are still alive!) are just some among the many reasons to quit #Twitter and not bother with that noise machine http://techrights.org/2020/07/15/twitter-in-2020/
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1. Twitter in 2020 is Where Information Comes to Die or to be Corrupted
  
  from Techrights
  
  Twisting words, lying about the cited articles, declaring people dead (who are still alive!) are just some among the many reasons to quit Twitter and not bother with that noise machine (except maybe in a write-only fashion, copying from elsewhere and never receiving (mis)information from tweets)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-2020 12:13:36 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
#Twitter in 2020 is Where Information Comes to Die or to be Corrupted http://techrights.org/2020/07/15/twitter-in-2020/ #socialcontrolmedia #misinformation #distortion #trollfest
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1. Twitter in 2020 is Where Information Comes to Die or to be Corrupted
  
  from Techrights
  
  Twisting words, lying about the cited articles, declaring people dead (who are still alive!) are just some among the many reasons to quit Twitter and not bother with that noise machine (except maybe in a write-only fashion, copying from elsewhere and never receiving (mis)information from tweets)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2020 06:01:43 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #BryanLunduke #Censorship ☞ #Twitter Wages War On... Grandfathers? https://lunduke.com/posts/2020-07-03/
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  Twitter Wages War On... Grandfathers?
  
  Yesterday, Twitter announced (via Tweet) the following: “We’re starting with a set of words we want to move away from using in favor of more inclusive language, such as:” With this image attached: Some of these words we have seen debate around before. The “Whitelist” / “Blacklist” terminology, for example, has been brought up as potentially concerning to some groups. And “Master” / “Slave” is another set of terms that, while in common engineering usage (including railroads, photography, etc.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2020 05:50:55 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #JacobinMag #Censorship ☞ Care About Free Speech? Take on the Power of #Facebook and #Twitter . https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/facebook-twitter-mark-zuckerberg-trump-free-speech/
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1. Care About Free Speech? Take on the Power of Facebook and Twitter.
  
  It is incredibly important to protect free speech and, by extension, the internet as a space to cultivate and share ideas and viewpoints that may fall outside the mainstream. That means curbing the power of billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2020 20:18:03 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
#twitter sucks so badly that functionality long implemented by #freesw #socialcontrolmedia frameworks, e.g. notifications for "replies only", is not possible. Same for chronologically-sorted search results. Twitter is >technically< inferior.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2020 01:42:45 EDT lnxw48a1

Remember when #Twitter first started restricting API access, promoting useless and easily duplicated uses like Klout over uses that provided improved user interfaces?

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2020 00:57:06 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
#Linux , #Twitter look remove ‘blacklist/whitelist’ from code http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/139678 "and even ‘dummy value’."

What next? Tell me, what?

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2020 08:18:12 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
While #twitter maintains account of #trump in place... https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/07/04/007227/twitter-engineers-replacing-racially-loaded-tech-terms-like-master-slave
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1. Twitter Engineers Replacing Racially Loaded Tech Terms Like 'Master,' 'Slave' - Slashdot
  
  For Regynald Augustin, a Black programmer at Twitter, the impetus for change arrived in an email last year with the phrase "automatic slave rekick." The words were just part of an engineering discussion about restarting a secondary process, but they prompted Augustin to start trying to change Twitte...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2020 08:08:50 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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The noise, hate and propaganda machine that's #twitter is again pushing to people false claims about high-profile being dying (Bezos and queen Liz)

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Ute Hauth (miradlo@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2020 17:03:52 EDT Ute Hauth

♲ @dokape@twitter.com: #Twitter 2020:
wenn dir auf einem Full-HD Monitor noch genau 1 Tweet angezeigt wird. 🙁

#Design #UI #GUI #Webdesign

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2020 05:22:22 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #TheNewEuropean #twitter #socialcontrolmedia #Censorship ☞ Katie Hopkins permanently suspended from Twitter for promoting hate speech https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/katie-hopkins-removed-from-twitter-1-6709523
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1. Katie Hopkins permanently suspended from Twitter for promoting hate speech
  
  from The New European
  
  Twitter has permanently suspended Katie Hopkins from its social media platform for breaking the rules on hate speech.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2020 05:08:59 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #NewStatesman #socialcontrolmedia ☞ What would happen if #Twitter and #Facebook switched off Trump? https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/06/what-would-happen-if-twitter-and-facebook-switched-trump
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1. What would happen if Twitter and Facebook switched off Trump?
  
  In the last week of May, Donald Trump threatened to have protestors taking part in the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Minneapolis shot, and made false claims about the processes used in US elections. He did so, not in the public space of a press conference, but on privately owned websites – Twitter and Facebook – which have content policies to guard against inciting violence and promoting misinformation. Twitter labelled Trump’s statements with warnings that they violated the site’s community standards, and turned off the retweet function for them. Facebook decided to leave the posts untouched, although it did suspend an account that posts verbatim copies of the president’s writings for “glorifying violence”. Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout in protest. Other prominent detractors include the leaders of three civil rights groups in the US, more than 140 Facebook-funded scientists, and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.  Jack Dorsey famously declared Twitter to be “the free speech wing of the free speech party”; while Mark Zuckerberg has always maintained that Facebook is a platform, rather than a publisher. Both approaches allow social media companies to take a laissez-faire attitude to their users’ content while profiting from the attention it brings. But social media companies are now coming under pressure to perform a greater regulatory role. “This puts them in a tremendous conundrum,” says Joshua Tucker, professor of politics and co-director of the Center for Social Media and Politics at NYU. The American left is demanding more regulation, but if the platforms are seen as more heavy-handed with right-wing content, the right cries anti-Conservative bias. “Taking away the Twitter account of the president of the United States – there is no way that that would not be seen as an incredibly partisan move, even if he absolutely deserved it,” says Tucker.   The president has made it clear that he would try to legislate against a platform that edited or deleted him. Trump’s immediate response to Twitter’s flagging of his inflammatory posts was to call for a legal review of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which absolves any “interactive computer service” of responsibility for the content its users post. Trump’s executive order argues that if a social network flags or otherwise edits content, it becomes a publisher, as culpable for what appears on its platform as any newspaper or TV network. The executive order has described as unconstitutional and based on a misreading of the current law. FCC commissioner Geoffrey Starks has indicated that the organisation will not succumb to pressure from the president. Others have pointed out that it is ironic in that if Section 230 was amended, much stricter editing of posts would be inevitable, and the Tweeter-in-chief’s posts would be far less likely to see the light of day.  Some Democrats believe that for Twitter to confiscate Trump’s favourite toy would strike Trump a grievous blow. “Removing the posts hits him where it hurts,” asserts a recent New York Times op-ed written by a member of the publication’s editorial board. But social media is not the real world, and media outlets across the world would amplify Trump’s statements, tweeted or not – and the more bizarre and offensive, the better.  But others opposed to Trump say the idea of removing him or his posts would be couterproductive. Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who broke the Edward Snowden leaks and who has covered social media and free speech issues for years, describes the idea as “the most inane rationale. He is the President of the United States and that isn’t going to change if you kick him off Twitter. "He's always going to have a massive megaphone, and I would personally rather have him vent on Twitter... because what he thinks is important to know, even when you wish it weren't the case.”  Facebook and Twitter, have pointed out that it’s in the public interest to know whether any president plans on deploying physical force against protesters.  In the past, depriving provocateurs of a platform has had the effect of making their ideas appear more powerful, and giving weight to their arguments for “free speech”. As a lawyer, Greenwald represented the free speech rights of such groups, and found that they actively welcomed censorship: "they knew that nothing would more effectively strengthen their cause.” A full-scale battle with social platforms would strengthen Trump’s pitch to his base as an anti-establishment figure.  And while Trump would survive and even prosper if deleted, others – particularly marginalised groups – would suffer as a result of more proactive moderation. In 2014, the debate over freedom of speech issue focused on whether an ISIS video showing the beheading of James Foley should be removed from social media or not. The goalposts have shifted dramatically in six years. A debate over graphic depictions of violence or hate speech has been replaced by woolly terms such as “harm”, “misinformation” or even “divisive”, used to designate speech that exists outside a tightly cordoned passage of acceptable discourse.  The loudest voices for more aggressive controls over online speech come not from the authoritarian right, but from those who would otherwise define themselves as liberal or progressive. While the fight for “free speech” has been disingenuously subverted by the right in recent years, freedom of expression has always been a fundamental left-wing ideal. “This is where the whole left/right paradigm drives me up the wall,” says activist and spoken word poet, Courtney Stoddart. “Because you have ‘liberals’ calling for traditionally fascistic practices like censorship.” In the US, the free speech and liberal censorship movements have arrived at the same conclusion: Joe Biden has confirmed that if elected, he too would immediately revoke Section 230, dramatically curtailing freedom of expression on social platforms. “The question becomes, at this abstract level – do you want to hand over to giant, powerful corporations, the right to regulate political speech?” says Joshua Tucker. By admonishing social media giants and insisting that they “do more”, we’re emboldening them to take matters into their own hands. “When it comes to the left-wing or liberal censorship sentiment, there’s this extremely inconsistent belief system,” says Greenwald. Liberals will denounce Facebook and its ilk as “terrible institutions” – “but on the other hand, they somehow convinced themselves that the same evil institutions are going to exercise censorship power for benevolent or magnanimous ends.”  Counterintuitively, the people arguing for stricter controls over Trump’s speech might end up giving his administration more control over what speech is allowed to remain on social media platforms. Discretionary content removal on Twitter and Facebook is already becoming a proxy for government censorship; both companies work with bodies closely affiliated with the US political establishment to decide what content to act on. In 2017, it came to light that Facebook was co-operating with 95 per cent of the Israeli government’s requests to remove pro-Palestinian content, as well as unrelated content removal requests from the US government.  In the UK, at a recent Online Harms parliamentary committee, MPs lambasted representatives from Facebook and Twitter for not removing President Trump’s incendiary posts, but also appeared to suggest that social platforms should remove any critique of the government’s coronavirus lockdown measures. Conservative MP Philip Davies angrily confronted the Google representative present: “If I uploaded something onto YouTube which basically argued that all of this lockdown is ridiculous, we shouldn't be having a lockdown at all, what would happen?” The accusation of offence or misinformation is clearly one that some in government see as useful.      The notion of acceptable speech is in constant flux. “The definition of what could be considered outside the norms of decency changes over time,” says Tucker. “Take things like gay marriage, or marijuana legalisation, or trans rights.” Republican state legislators argued in 2017 that Black Lives Matter should be classed as a “hate group” in the US, partly because of its “hatred for the police”. If they had had their way, there’s a good chance that Facebook and Twitter would have blacklisted the group in line with US government guidance and that today, #BLM posts would be more likely to be removed. A Cornell University study found that the posts of black Americans are already more likely to be classified as hate speech than posts by white users.   “It's very important to think,” says Tucker, “if you are a progressive – what level of progressive voices could potentially be silenced by these kinds of decisions?”  The views Trump espouses on social media are often vile. But to be provoked by them is part of the Trump media strategy, and to participate with Trump’s fight with (and on) social media is to be drawn into a culture war he feels comfortable fighting. Ultimately, social media is nothing more than a distraction from the horror of Trump’s power in the real world.

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