Elizabeth
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Elizabeth
@elizabethmacdonald.bsky.social
· Apr 28
Fitting that the first day of my @carleton.ca mini course, How to Rig a Foreign Election, fell on Election Day. Appreciate that @npsia.bsky.social was able to host us and our guest speaker after the power went out in our building!
This was such a great event!
We are very excited to partner with @migsinstitute.bsky.social for Digital Defenders: Youth Building Resilience and Change, on Nov. 17th
This upcoming seminar will explore how youth respond to challenges of the digital age! 🧵
This upcoming seminar will explore how youth respond to challenges of the digital age! 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This was such a great event!
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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Nick Fuentes has long trafficked in racism and misogyny. Now, mainstream podcasters and platforms are helping him reinvent himself—muting his slurs while amplifying his reach. His sanitization shows how extremists are being normalized in U.S. politics and media.
Read more:
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The Sanitization of Antisemite Nick Fuentes
Nick Fuentes, a 27-year-old Holocaust denier and white nationalist, has long trafficked in racism, misogyny, and antisemitism. Yet mainstream podcasters and platforms are now offering him space to rei...
globalextremism.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Nick Fuentes has long trafficked in racism and misogyny. Now, mainstream podcasters and platforms are helping him reinvent himself—muting his slurs while amplifying his reach. His sanitization shows how extremists are being normalized in U.S. politics and media.
Read more:
Read more:
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On the one hand it continues to be disgusting that he demands fealty and terror from his cabinet but on the other hand I love how much he hates Vance lmao
Trump: "I want my cabinet to behave like [Xi Jinping's staff]. I'm demanding that....I've never seen men so scared in their lives...JD doesn't behave like that. JD butts into conversations."
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
On the one hand it continues to be disgusting that he demands fealty and terror from his cabinet but on the other hand I love how much he hates Vance lmao
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i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
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As Canada prepares for COP30, accurate climate information is more important than ever for effective climate action. The UN’s Global Initiative on Climate Change Information Integrity underscores that policy ambition cannot succeed without trustworthy information environments. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
As Canada prepares for COP30, accurate climate information is more important than ever for effective climate action. The UN’s Global Initiative on Climate Change Information Integrity underscores that policy ambition cannot succeed without trustworthy information environments. 🧵
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Say what you want, but these companies’ commitment to releasing half baked, insecure, or just plain dangerous products is something to behold.
AI browsers are here, and they're already being hacked
Hackers can target AI browsers with prompts hidden in websites.
www.nbcnews.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Say what you want, but these companies’ commitment to releasing half baked, insecure, or just plain dangerous products is something to behold.
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🎶 Get a taser and a cop for this wet amphi-bussy 🎵
October 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🎶 Get a taser and a cop for this wet amphi-bussy 🎵
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I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this
October 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this
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One of the great ironies of political theory is that the best way to do radical politics is to not scare the hoes, yet many radicals fetishize scaring the hoes because, well, otherwise they wouldn't be radicals!
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
One of the great ironies of political theory is that the best way to do radical politics is to not scare the hoes, yet many radicals fetishize scaring the hoes because, well, otherwise they wouldn't be radicals!
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At a major "anti-hate" conference a few years ago I was on a panel where I lightly suggested big tech companies were faking their concerns about hate/misinfo. It didn't go over too well.
But let the record show that once again I was right. They only care about money.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
But let the record show that once again I was right. They only care about money.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
YouTube reversing bans on creators flagged for COVID and election misinformation
YouTube will allow creators banned under its old COVID-19 and election misinformation policies to return, Alphabet said in a letter to Congress.
www.yahoo.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
At a major "anti-hate" conference a few years ago I was on a panel where I lightly suggested big tech companies were faking their concerns about hate/misinfo. It didn't go over too well.
But let the record show that once again I was right. They only care about money.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
But let the record show that once again I was right. They only care about money.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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once again, tapping the sign
in most cases trying to identify or analyze the political leanings of a shooter one way or the other is falling for the bit
in most cases trying to identify or analyze the political leanings of a shooter one way or the other is falling for the bit
the modal domestic terrorist over the next decade is going to be a terminally online 20-something who cooks their brain in irony-poisoned social media spaces and decides to kill a bunch of people as an elaborate shitpost
September 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
once again, tapping the sign
in most cases trying to identify or analyze the political leanings of a shooter one way or the other is falling for the bit
in most cases trying to identify or analyze the political leanings of a shooter one way or the other is falling for the bit
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I've said it before, but I think the current spree of memekillings is the product of an ideological transition. It's hard to parse because it's rapidly evolving. It's clearly derived from far right precursors, but it hasn't progressed to coherence yet.
I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social with the receipts, actually talking to the shooter's friends.
Surprise! Not the left, or even MAGA. Another white kid who spent countless hours online and "was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed … to rile people up.”
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
Surprise! Not the left, or even MAGA. Another white kid who spent countless hours online and "was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed … to rile people up.”
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
September 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I've said it before, but I think the current spree of memekillings is the product of an ideological transition. It's hard to parse because it's rapidly evolving. It's clearly derived from far right precursors, but it hasn't progressed to coherence yet.
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What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures?
Let us pierce the veil.
For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture.
Consider this an urgent warning:
newrepublic.com/article/2004...
Let us pierce the veil.
For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture.
Consider this an urgent warning:
newrepublic.com/article/2004...
What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?
The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.
newrepublic.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures?
Let us pierce the veil.
For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture.
Consider this an urgent warning:
newrepublic.com/article/2004...
Let us pierce the veil.
For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture.
Consider this an urgent warning:
newrepublic.com/article/2004...
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During GamerGate, when women were targeted with threats of violence and death, everyone from the local cops to Democratic congressmen insisted “it’s just the internet. There’s nothing we can do.”
Now come to find out that when you accurately quote a white man… well then they can do something.
Now come to find out that when you accurately quote a white man… well then they can do something.
Mike Johnson on free speech: "If I'm an employer or I'm a government agency and I have somebody in my employ who is online celebrating the heinous murder of an innocent person, a young husband and father, I can make the decision that they don't deserve to work for me ... I think that's appropriate."
September 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
During GamerGate, when women were targeted with threats of violence and death, everyone from the local cops to Democratic congressmen insisted “it’s just the internet. There’s nothing we can do.”
Now come to find out that when you accurately quote a white man… well then they can do something.
Now come to find out that when you accurately quote a white man… well then they can do something.
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We are rapidly declining across big democratic markers in the U.S. Media are threatened & jailed doing their job. Civilians are targeted by police & online users for their peaceful free speech. Corporate & academic entities bend the knee to our head autocrat. Truth is a fight. Hate is everywhere.
September 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We are rapidly declining across big democratic markers in the U.S. Media are threatened & jailed doing their job. Civilians are targeted by police & online users for their peaceful free speech. Corporate & academic entities bend the knee to our head autocrat. Truth is a fight. Hate is everywhere.
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New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims
New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say
www.science.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
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i can understand why right-wing grifters who want abhorrent ideas to spread or influencers whose bread is buttered by the “creator economy” would be hostile to crackdowns on social media and algorithmic amplification of harmful and sensationalist content, but that doesn’t mean we stop those efforts
August 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
i can understand why right-wing grifters who want abhorrent ideas to spread or influencers whose bread is buttered by the “creator economy” would be hostile to crackdowns on social media and algorithmic amplification of harmful and sensationalist content, but that doesn’t mean we stop those efforts
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Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
August 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
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There are good reasons why intel might be marked for domestic eyes only.
But this is *so* clearly the politicization of intelligence that can and should be shared with Ukraine's allies, precisely *because* they are Ukraine's allies.
But this is *so* clearly the politicization of intelligence that can and should be shared with Ukraine's allies, precisely *because* they are Ukraine's allies.
New: DNI Tulsi Gabbard barred the U.S. intelligence community from sharing information on Russia-Ukraine negotiations with "Five Eyes" partners — some former officials say it could cause a “chilling effect” while others say it’s standard practice. www.cbsnews.com/news/gabbard...
Gabbard barred sharing intelligence on Russia-Ukraine negotiations with "Five Eyes" partners
A July 20 memo ordered U.S. intelligence agencies not to share information about Russia-Ukraine talks with Five Eyes partners U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
www.cbsnews.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
There are good reasons why intel might be marked for domestic eyes only.
But this is *so* clearly the politicization of intelligence that can and should be shared with Ukraine's allies, precisely *because* they are Ukraine's allies.
But this is *so* clearly the politicization of intelligence that can and should be shared with Ukraine's allies, precisely *because* they are Ukraine's allies.
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cyberlibertarian narratives are deeply entrenched, were explicitly designed in the 90s/00s to benefit tech companies, and have the added benefit of aligning with recent right-wing free speech bullshit.
a lot of that context is obscured today. we need to keep that US influence out of our countries.
a lot of that context is obscured today. we need to keep that US influence out of our countries.
August 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
cyberlibertarian narratives are deeply entrenched, were explicitly designed in the 90s/00s to benefit tech companies, and have the added benefit of aligning with recent right-wing free speech bullshit.
a lot of that context is obscured today. we need to keep that US influence out of our countries.
a lot of that context is obscured today. we need to keep that US influence out of our countries.
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"In July, New York Times reporters witnessed other Adams supporters handing out red envelopes with cash at three separate campaign events."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
Red Envelopes With Cash Are Changing Hands at Adams Campaign Rallies
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"In July, New York Times reporters witnessed other Adams supporters handing out red envelopes with cash at three separate campaign events."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
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I replace Jam’s food tray and bowls every morning when she wakes up and every morning when I put the tray down but haven’t gotten the food out yet she stares at the bowl with a look of disappointment and betrayal
August 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I replace Jam’s food tray and bowls every morning when she wakes up and every morning when I put the tray down but haven’t gotten the food out yet she stares at the bowl with a look of disappointment and betrayal
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In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.
Sex toys are being hurled on the court at WNBA games. A cryptocurrency group says they're behind it – and planning for more.
The group says the acts are "pranks" intended to draw attention to their crypto meme coin and not meant to disrespect women athletes.
The group says the acts are "pranks" intended to draw attention to their crypto meme coin and not meant to disrespect women athletes.
Crypto group claims responsibility for hurling sex toys at WNBA games
A spokesman for the cryptocurrency meme coin creators told USA TODAY Sports they launched sex toys as a lighthearted joke.
bit.ly
August 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.