Twitter now pays creators a portion of its advertising revenue. This is, apparently, a subsidy, cash flow, to the far Right. That is what multiple outlets have claimed. The Washington Post writes, “Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme.” The New Republic reports, “Musk’s explanation comes after a stream of Twitter’s verified users—often far-right and conspiratorial ones—received thousands of dollars for helping bring eyeballs to embedded ads within Twitter’s interface.” Deadline: “Twitter’s New $5M Revenue Sharing Program Gives Payouts To Far-Right Influencers.” This is, of course, a terrible horror, that people who the progressive liberals think are to the right of them gain…
Author: Tim Worstall
Rapper 50 Cent pointed out this week that zero bail is a policy that doesn’t work, on the simple grounds that those who have – allegedly – just committed a crime are put straight back on the streets with no cost to what they have – allegedly – just done. As 50 Cent said in an Instagram post, “LA is finished watch how bad it gets out there,” now that Los Angeles has moved to a no-cash bail system. As we noted when there were celebrity donations to bail costs in Minnesota: “No one should be working to increase divisiveness, and…
It might be sad to say this, but GLAAD has just come out as fascist. In the true sense, that is, not just in the modern one of “not-progressive.” They now insist that anyone who disagrees with them must be banned on social media. Or at least, people who disagree with GLAAD must not be allowed to speak freely on social media and must be censored. Yes, this is fascism; it’s the suppression of anyone who opposes the current groupthink. Specifically, GLAAD (which stands for Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) states that anyone who says things that they, GLAAD,…
In a new article, Teen Vogue tells its young, impressionable readers that the Supreme Court should be expanded. The current one isn’t giving the answers that progressives desire; therefore, the Court should be packed with four more justices who would provide those desired woke answers. The specific cause today is abortion: “With a horrifying post-Roe v. Wade reality playing out across the country and scandal after scandal plaguing the Court itself, it’s clear that these justices cannot be trusted to protect the freedom and well-being of the American people. Something must change to protect our rights and restore faith in our democracy…
Former President Barack Obama is concerned that we used to have just one set of facts we discussed. Social media has changed this; we now all have facts that we disagree about. Yep, it’s great. “Everybody sharing the same basic set of facts and then drawing conclusions from it. You did not have big chunks of the population receiving and entirely different reality. That started before social media, social media turned it into a science. “ Well, yes, back in the day of the Fairness Doctrine, three networks and liberals and progressives firmly in control of the newspaper pages, there was indeed…
Moms for Liberty is, as we’re told, a far-right group. This must be true because the famously unbiased American press and media are telling us this. Like at the Daily Dot, headlined, “Dirty Delete: Moms group weaponizes parental rage to push its far-right agenda.” Do you see the way this goes? Parents are upset, and it’s the far-right that capitalizes on this? Instead of the more accurate description of Moms for Liberty being the parents who are upset? “Moms for Liberty channeled anger about COVID-19 restrictions to become a right-wing political juggernaut,” according to the article. “The far-right group was founded…
The Verge tells us that Spotify must do something to Joe Rogan because RFK said something bad in a piece headlined, “Spotify does nothing as Joe Rogan peddles vaccine misinformation.” The background isn’t quite that: It’s Robert F. Kennedy doing the peddling, and he has announced his candidacy in the next Presidential election. “That adds a troubling new dynamic to this story, particularly in the context of the Motherboard story that started this, which touched on Spotify’s contortions to allow Rogan’s misinformation to remain on the platform,” according to the piece. That Kennedy is, to put this mildly, less than fully…
“Parents’ rights, protecting kids, whatever other rhetoric is being used…” is how Pen America sees your job in raising your children and how you wish to raise your own children. That’s just rhetoric. So is protecting children – just emotional language. Well, thanks to Pen America and NowThis News for bringing this to our attention. The issue they’re about is books in schools, of course. The exciting part of this video – after that jaw-dropping insistence that we shouldn’t raise our kids our way – comes around 2:50. “….putting constraints, and that’s not in reality about protecting kids, that’s about controlling…
Fast Company commits a cardinal journalistic sin – it lies. This is not one of those things where we disagree with someone. We are not talking about a difference of opinion, we are talking about the misrepresentation of objective facts. You know, those facts that fact-checkers tell us are so important. The story is about recent changes to Florida laws concerning education. We know that many people don’t like them, but many do like them. That’s just opinions. Clearly, Fast Company does not like the laws but makes its arguments with falsehoods and actual lies: Two major bills that passed the Florida…
The real lesson of this Bud Light and Target swimsuit issue is the joy of free-market capitalism. Yes, to some, not supporting trans issues is a betrayal of human rights; to others, the idea of tuck tailoring on children’s bathing suits is the outrage. The joy, though, is that we’ve already got the system of working this out – that free market capitalism. Bud Light’s sales are now down 22.8% after its Dylan Mulvaney campaign. That’s not a one-week issue; that’s some two months after the issue first arose. Worse for Anheuser-Busch, the other brands the company owns are also seeing smaller…