Perhaps relevant today, a framework for understanding how many election rumors mislead.

Couldn’t get a more clear example of Wilhoit’s theory of conservatism: “There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

I've had this headline rattling around in my brain since January and I finally wrote it. Been hearing too many people in the startup world buying into the neoractionary nonsense that maybe a little light fascism is good for silicon valley. It's not. It's very, very bad.

Who Goes MAGA? With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such a path. It felt like it could use a modern updating, however. Update: Just after I…

Drawing on some of my work from the past year at the Center for an Informed Public, I published a piece in Lawfare with my colleague Stephen Prochaska.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

This is an extraordinary and courageous piece of writing that wrestles with one of the great challenges of this moment: How do you decide whether to remain a part of broken institutions to try to fix them from within?

whenever i hear mark zuckerberg says the research meta is funding says social media isn’t bad for people, i think of tobacco execs saying smoking isn’t bad for your health

let’s be clear that personalisation amounts to determining a person’s future based on recurring patterns of the past. if you belong to a groups that society has not been kind to in the past (black & brown, LGBTQI, poor, disabled, etc), AI personalisation ensures your future encodes past injustice

WA Sen. Maria Cantwell is leading a #bipartisan push to give Congress more authority in setting #tariffs. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

1/ 🏳️‍⚧️ Today is #TransDayOfVisibility so let’s talk about the disparate impact of AI on this community. From security checkpoint systems that use a binary definition of gender to biased facial recognition technologies, AI is failing transgender and nonbinary people in critical ways.

Just so we’re all clear, the Supreme Court *expressly ruled* that the president cannot fire FTC commissioners without cause in 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor. Trump’s action here is brazenly illegal under any interpretation of the law as it stands. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I can't believe we're gonna relitigate humphrey's executor. what's next. marbury v. madison? www.theverge.com/news/632267/...

Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was *founded* to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.

A really powerful thread 🧵

BREAKING NEWS 🚨: Who supplied information to X users during the Trump assassination attempts? Our latest report dives deep into this and discovers that the news supply on X is becoming oligarchical, where few prominent accounts dominate the news supply and shape the discourse in key events.

A quick read from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social on the pet eating rumors in Springfield. Do rumors cause violence? The answer Knopf provides and Mike summarizes here makes perfect sense to me ad a political scientist where rumors have potential but not sufficient to cause violence on their own.

The false narrative of "non-citizen voters" is a major theme of election rumors (and outright misinformation) in 2024. There's a whole cottage industry of creators generating "non citizen voters" content and the Heritage Foundation is getting in on the action: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/u...

Claims that "strange" anomalies and/or patterns in voter registration data indicate fraud are often unfounded, and reflect misconceptions about data or election law. Read my recent piece w/ @katestarbird.bsky.social here! ⤵️ www.cip.uw.edu/2024/05/14/w...