Alex Engler
@alexengler.bsky.social
Executive Director of Penn Center on Media, Tech & Democracy | "If you can keep it" | Alum: DemTech at White House NSC & AI Policy at OSTP; Brookings; Urban Institute; Taught at UChicago & Georgetown
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Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah
Do you mean you think this is the most effective political path for Dems, or the most necessary policy approach to stop (small d) democratic backsliding? I’m entirely convinced of the latter, so curious about the argument for the former.
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Do you mean you think this is the most effective political path for Dems, or the most necessary policy approach to stop (small d) democratic backsliding? I’m entirely convinced of the latter, so curious about the argument for the former.
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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3. While big oil, big tobacco, etc. serve as well-known cautionary tales, social media research poses novel challenges for independent researchers—perhaps most notably, access to the study system itself.
It's like trying to study climate change if Exxon-Mobile owned all the world's thermometers.
It's like trying to study climate change if Exxon-Mobile owned all the world's thermometers.
October 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
3. While big oil, big tobacco, etc. serve as well-known cautionary tales, social media research poses novel challenges for independent researchers—perhaps most notably, access to the study system itself.
It's like trying to study climate change if Exxon-Mobile owned all the world's thermometers.
It's like trying to study climate change if Exxon-Mobile owned all the world's thermometers.