Foreign funded influencer campaigns try to damage the GOP
When Donald Trump and his administrations were expected to make Russia and Iran happy, the influencer sphere on social media was glowing. Total salvation was...
Category : Media
No media organization or famous influencer has the attributes to get it right
Accuracy is not a vibe Would you get surgery from a comedian? From an activist? A manosphere pimp? A religious fanatic? Someone who has watched...
The talking heads have failed. Billions of hours of content watched had no positive effect.
A great many Americans are finally running into a hard reality: after ten years of nonstop “counter-establishment” content, very little of substance has changed inside...
When a German Tucker-style journalist with direct access to Putin got caught
Image: kremlin.ru For years, the German Hubert Seipel played the role of investigative journalist, populist influencer and amateur diplomat, scoring the first interview with Edward...
Viral copy&paste nonsense vs. real investigative reporting
On the unoriginality economy of Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson—and what Julie K. Brown’s Epstein reporting shows by contrast It was not Alex...
Candace Owens: A Barry Lyndon turncoat for the algorithmic age
Candace Owens is a Barry Lyndon-esque figure; having advanced through shifting attachments to different groups and their drama. Her only lasting loyalty is to herself....
Friends & Enemies (09/22/24) Stranger Pings
Jeff Nyquist and Alex Benesch catch up on the events of the past two weeks:...
Platforms like X, Rumble and Telegram are not profitable and it’s the users’ fault
The shares of the right-wing conservative video platform Rumble fell in value after the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Investors are cautious: Rumble...
Why Wikileaks could never really function the way people hoped
Commentary The self-marketing of Wikileaks was oh-so-simple: We have an anonymous electronic mailbox and everybody can send files to it. We will decide what to...
Assange cuts strange deal, walks free and will bore us in the podcasts
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is expected to officially plead guilty this week and then be allowed to go home. For a decade he...