Posted on

Mary W. Maxwell, Trump’s Lawsuit against Twitter Is a Masterpiece. It Will Save Us!

Mary W. Maxwell, Trump’s Lawsuit against Twitter Is a Masterpiece. It Will Save Us! This lawsuit is superb. It is brilliant. It will solve the problem of Free Speech. Thank you, Twitter, for making such an egregious error in shutting down the communication of a sitting president of the United States. Thank you, Jack Dorsey, …

Continue reading “Mary W. Maxwell, Trump’s Lawsuit against Twitter Is a Masterpiece. It Will Save Us!”

Posted on

Stephen E. Arnold: Cheap, Convenient, and Much Too Easy: Fabricated Twitter Trends

Cheap, Convenient, and Much Too Easy: Fabricated Twitter Trends Here is some news out of Turkey that perked our ears. News EPFL reports, “Mass Scale Manipulation of Twitter Trends Discovered.” Is Turkey an outlier when it comes to digital baloney? Perhaps a little, for now, but this problem recently uncovered by researchers appears to occur …

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Cheap, Convenient, and Much Too Easy: Fabricated Twitter Trends”

Posted on

Stephen E. Arnold: Historical Revisionism: Twitter and Wikipedia

I wish I could recall the name of the slow talking wild-eyed professor who lectured about Mr. Stalin’s desire to have the history of the Soviet Union modified. The tendency was evident early in his career. Ioseb Besarionis dz? Jughashvili became Stalin, so fiddling with received wisdom verified by Ivory Tower types should come as …

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Historical Revisionism: Twitter and Wikipedia”