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We're recapitulating the core failure of the Trump era - what I would call the democracy externality. No one wants to pay the cost of opposition. Since 2015 and especially since January 6, people have treated Trump as someone else's problem. And the harms to liberal democracy continue to accumulate.
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Jan 7
I did not anticipate how quickly people would move to comply with Trump. Makes it much easier for an aspiring authoritarian when so many potential obstacles are removed preemptively - billionaires bend the knee, Meta changes its policies, Wray resigns, Barr resigns, DOJ drops the cases against Trump
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Jan 7
✔️ Money to the Trump inaugural
✔️ Dinner at Mar-a-Lago
✔️ Getting rid of fact-checking
✔️ Putting UFC's Dana White (a key Trump ally) on Meta's board

Hard not to see these moves as an effort to avoid being politically targeted by an illiberal president.
January 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Lotta people named Casey energy today 💕
January 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."
January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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For the College Football Playoff’s final four coaches, more than a title is on the line.

Whoever wins the national championship is about to become the new Face of the Sport.

🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/604...
January 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM