Yes it is. This is what the ecosystem incentivizes.

1) States a theoretical thesis and vision for the future — signaling function which attracts ideologically like-minded employees
2) Plants a stake as intellectual leader + power player in the Valley.
3) At least one media cycle. A meme if they’re lucky/good.

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

A very very small number of these converts can become highly effective spokespeople for vaccine advocacy. But it’s rare. Particularly because the anti-vaccine movement viciously attacks people who publicly admit to realizing it’s all built on lies and grift.

In the meantime they’ve created an environment where babies too young to be vaccinated and immunocompromised people bear the risk they’ve caused on their behalf.

Freeloaders. Don’t shy away from it.

The term here is “freeloaders” — ‘moderate’ antivaxxers have long expected others to uphold the social contract and vaccinate while they do what quack doctor Bob Sears advocated in his parenting book as “hiding in the herd”. Then when too many weaken herd immunity & their kid may get sick they 💉

The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

Never give up, kids

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

A woodpecker has fallen in love with the tree in our driveway and now it both wakes me up and is making me wonder if the tree is infested or sick. Arborist time?

Try reading my post a few more times to see why this is irrelevant to the point I was making.

TikTok has the best attribution data at the moment and they said financial.

You’re not highlighting the sentences that dispute your opinion some of which appear literally just before in the same screenshot. This is a waste of time. You can just keep believing the left has some magical immunity to influence and no one is trying.

I’m sorry you seem to be illiterate — TikTok has the best attribution data atm and they make this point. Ive studied IO for 12 years and written dozens of reports on state actors and scammers alike. Financially motivated is much more common, and the left is not immune. 🤷🏻‍♀️ bye.

The NYT article points out this is overwhelmingly likely to be financially motivated scam content.

Scammers and spammers in Pakistan ran manipulative campaigns targeting BLM during the 2020 protests. 🤷🏻‍♀️Financial motivation doesn’t care about the politics.

You can Google this you know. Iran has run influence operations targeting the left for years. China and Russia run division strategies. Being defensive about it is pointless.

Buckley Carson’s consulting service will offer Tucker Carlson’s discernment and JD Vance’s people skills

They’re made by overseas scammers and sometimes state propagandists. The left is absolutely targeted by these groups.

“Going to”

Related…

These are going to come for the left too. They financially motivated — Macedonian teenager type stuff for the AI era. Scammers profiting off of easily enraged people. MAGA may be more susceptible to ragebait but worth understanding what’s going to happen in 2026 and 2028.

A good, short thread highlighting:

1. The lack of basic editorial standards and checking at The Free Press.

2. An accompanying lack of commitment to publishing counterveiling views, even as an alternative to correcting errors.

Thanks! I hadn’t. Found him on Insta.

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I am not army and BTS’ pop stuff isn’t my thing but the new video is worth it. Especially if you’ve seen Oldboy.

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The choreographer for that new BTS 2.0 video is 🔥. So clean. Nick Joseph: www.instagram.com/reel/DWy2SSw...

FIRE has anti-jawboning legislation and so does Ted Cruz. Cruz is probably looking for a way to blame this on the BiDeN cENSorHshiP ReGimE but if he could get past that and see what’s actually happening maybe Congress could do something here.

Regarding the second element, "a federal court cannot redress injury that results from the i 5 of g n of some third party not before the court." Murthy v. Missouri, 603 U.S. 43, 57 (2024). In other words, Plaintiffs must show that the injuries are "likely traceable to government- coerced enforcement of Facebook's [and Apple's] policies rather than to Facebook's [and Apple's] independent judgment." Id. at 68 (citations omitted). The Court finds that Plaintiffs have shown that their injuries are likely traceable to government-coerced enforcement for the following reasons. First, Facebook had previously reviewed the Chicagoland group, and Apple had previously reviewed Eyes Up. In both cases, Facebook and Apple had determined that the content met their requirements. Second, Facebook and Apple changed their positions and removed the content immediately after Defendants contacted them about it. And third, Defendants made public statements taking credit for the fact that Facebook and Apple had removed the content. 4 Case: 1:26-cv-01532 Document #: 34 Filed: 04/17/26 Page 5 of 8 PageID #:412 Regarding the third element, and as alleged, Defendants' actions can be reasonably understood to convey a threat of adverse government action against Facebook and Apple in order to suppress Plaintiffs' speech.? Plaintiffs' speech remains suppressed the Chicagoland Facebook group is still disabled and Eyes Up is still unavailable on the App Store. As such, Defendants' purported coercion is having "continuing, present adverse effects." O'Shea v. Littleton, 414 U.S. 488, 496 (1974). The requested injunction to stop Defendant's coercion thus redresses Plaintiff's injuries because it will allow Facebook and Apple to reach their own decisions regarding Plaintiff's speech rather than be pressured by Defendants. See Backpage.com, LLC v. Dart, 807 F.3d 229, 238 (7th Cir. 2015) (where defendant pressured Visa and MasterCard to prohibit credit card use for the purchase of ads on plaintiff's websit…

Judge finds this meets the Murthy standard. Guess what didn’t?

The “Censorship Industrial Complex” was all projection. Someone tell Michael Shellenberger lol. Someone tell Jacob Siegel! 😂

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

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Oh my!
Is this an opening para or is this an opening paragraph?

This alone should end any normal human cabinet secretary.

Renee DiResta’s challenge to the Free Press, and the way it institutionally responded to her is a positively divine example of the motte-and-bailey strategy of reactionary propaganda. 1/