Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)
(09-17-2025, 01:12 AM)Boredfrom wrote:
Echoes wrote:I know it's slim and laughable to ask but is their anyway for the roommate to sue the press for their attacks, bigotry and lies? I really wish their were better laws and regulations in play to punish press spreading hate and disinformation.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/suspect-in-charlie-kirk-shooting-charged-with-aggravated-murder.1299657/page-10#post-145262154

Confused 
What attacks, lies and bigotry?
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News: lil bro had a trans girlfriend and shot kirk because he said bad things

Echos: is this hate and disinformation?  is this?
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(09-17-2025, 01:12 AM)Boredfrom wrote:
Echoes wrote:I know it's slim and laughable to ask but is their anyway for the roommate to sue the press for their attacks, bigotry and lies? I really wish their were better laws and regulations in play to punish press spreading hate and disinformation.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/suspect-in-charlie-kirk-shooting-charged-with-aggravated-murder.1299657/page-10#post-145262154
This is literally how Trump thinks suing the press works.

(09-17-2025, 01:23 AM)DavidCroquet wrote:
Scuffed wrote:Hasan did a good breakdown as to why what Canadace is saying is stupid and how it's dangerous to believe it. He says be critical of Israel because of the genocide and the apartheid not lies like what Candace is spewing. It's so valuable to have an influential person push back on her nonsense. I wonder if liberal media will touch it or do the old "don't platform it" crap and pretend it doesn't exist. Sometimes shit needs to be addressed and debunked especially when you have 250k watching it. She is so unbelievable shrewd in the right wing sphere. I don't even know how the GoP is going to handle this tbh.

We have to watch this and talk about it, extensively! To protect ourselves! (plz notice me hasan-senpai)
Scuffed, https://www.resetera.com/threads/facebook-bans-qanon-across-its-platforms.301535/page-2#post-47781809 wrote:It's never too late to deplatform hate imo. This will be effective especially when other companies follow suit. Sure there will be the anti-semitic clap back because it's Zuckerberg but overall this will damage them greatly. Milo and Alex Jones are nothings now so this shit works.

BUT, I'm glad I bothered because:
Scuffed, https://www.resetera.com/threads/human-shitstain-alex-jones-begs-parkland-survivor-to-help-remove-second-strike-on-youtube-channel.26099/page-3#post-4999612 wrote:I was into Alex Jones at one point just for the lulz but then he became all Trump all the time and him always talking about these shooting being fake just makes him really fucking terrible imo.
Scuffed, https://www.resetera.com/threads/spotify-is-hosting-alex-jones-podcast-now.59194/page-6#post-11005278 wrote:I love Spotify no way I would cancel over this. Alex Jones needs to get off Trumps nuts and go back to traditional cts imo.
Scuffed, https://www.resetera.com/threads/kanye-west-launches-white-lives-matter-line-for-yeezys-up2-says-in-alex-jones-interview-hitler-had-value.639399/page-90#post-97400287 wrote:A long time ago I used to listen to Alex Jones. It was back when he was mainly attacking Bush and was very much critical of Republicans and the Iraq/Afghanistan war It was of course around the 9/11 inside job stuff. I never bought in but he was more just an entertaining conspiracy show like Coast to Coast am and shit like that. Of course he became a Trumper and changed completely and I haven't listened to him in maybe 10 years.

Back then though Jones used to push back hard on Jewish conspiracies and made fun of people that said the Jews did everything because he argued that it was powerful people of all nationalities that controlled things. Many nazi types in his audience and other more anti-semitic radio hosts would attack him saying that Jones's wife and children are Jewish so he was controlled by them.
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Nepenthe wrote:To be fair, this is how the country has largely operated for most of its history. Like, John Brown didn't become canonized in our collective canon of heroes for a reason, nor do we talk about the numerous Black political prisoners that are still behind bars in inhumane conditions on bullshit charges since the civil rights era.

Hell, let me tell you how much Black History was pushed by this country not to actually educate people about Black radicalism and its history, but to focus on a few select figures with which to propagandize about assimilation because white people were ultimately terrified of revolution (which is why King was killed; he started talking about fighting capitalism and not just fighting for voting rights.) Hell, you don't even learn about folks like Kwame Ture, Marcus Garvey, or Patrice Lamumba until college unless you're lucky, at which point most people are not invested in Black people's collective welfare and political history to give a shit looking it up themselves, as is by design.

Remember, most people learned about Greenwood from Watchmen.

Shit is dire and I need you all to reckon with the fact that anti-Blackness and Black oppression underneath the bootheel of capitalism is just, like, the oil of this country's engine, and not an exclusive mark of Trumpism.

thank god anti-blackness and black oppression is under the bootheel of capitalism..getting crushed.  step on that shit...then the squished product is the oil that... fills the country's engine?   I dunno, that sentence made blood come out of my ears.
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goes from Alex Jones anti-semitism to pro-hamas anti semitism. The pipeline is real y'all.
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(09-17-2025, 01:53 AM)Propagandhim wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-orders-slavery-era-photo-removed-from-national-parks-and-museums.1299402/
Nepenthe wrote:Like, John Brown didn't become canonized in our collective canon of heroes for a reason
The mass murder of innocents in hopes of starting a race war? And also being a certified crazy person? (Maybe the part where he lied to everybody to get them to participate in his insanity?)

I think it was William Lloyd Garrison who on meeting Brown once when he came to Boston to solicit funds from abolitionists immediately said he was insane and going to get people killed for his ego. Frederick Douglass agreed. Part of Gerrit Smith's (I think, maybe have been another of the Secret Six) defense against treason charges was he gave Brown money to go away and didn't believe it would lead to anything because Brown was too incompetent to accomplish it.
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I think Benji is Rumi, Boredfrom is Zoey, and Jansen is Mira.  Heartbeat



Seriously it totally fits!  Heartbeat Heartbeat Heartbeat omg
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(09-17-2025, 01:15 AM)Propagandhim wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/suspect-in-charlie-kirk-shooting-charged-with-aggravated-murder.1299657/page-9
Embiid wrote:Candace Owens thinks space is fake, Dinosaurs weren't real, Stalin was a Jew, and thinks the French PM's wife was body snatched by a trans woman. She's completely nuts.
 
Candace Owens believes in alchemy, that aliens built the pyramids, that Jimmy Hoffa's ghost visibly haunts an indian burial ground, and that Weird Al Yankovich is of Jewish descent.  She's utterly fucking deranged.

At least she isn't deranged enough to believe communism is a viable model of government...
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It's funny that Nepenthe considers John Brown a hero when he was a perfect example of a wannabe white savior. His entire plan was that when the local slaves heard he had seized Harper's Ferry they would spontaneously rise up and flock to him and then he could march around the South uncontested with a few hundred men until slavery was over. He literally believed he was destined to be the "Moses" of the slave population.

A guy who went bankrupt repeatedly from being too crazy to hire. (Oh, and the part where he became a WANTED FELON for the MASS MURDER in Kansas.)

There's tons of way better abolitionists, including ones that are actually Black, but I doubt you'll ever see their names in her posts. She probably considers Douglass a [slur] for defending free speech, liberalism, etc.
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(09-17-2025, 01:46 AM)Gameboy Nostalgia wrote:
(09-17-2025, 12:21 AM)benji wrote:
(09-17-2025, 12:02 AM)Gameboy Nostalgia wrote: Wait.. you need to be anti 2nd amendment to be leftist?

LOL WHAT?! Why the fuck would you let the nazis disarm you?
(09-17-2025, 12:02 AM)Gameboy Nostalgia wrote: Benji, tell us the true communist position on gun ownership.  Hmph
Actual leftists always support and trust the state and only the state especially when literal Nazis are in power. Trump sending ICE and the FBI door-to-door to confiscate all guns, shooting the family if necessary, would never be a reason to complain for a true leftist. Don't gaslight people by saying holding far-right views is part of leftism.

You never know when some hate site is going to post a picture of your parents house and you'll need the cops to take out the threat without putting themselves in danger.

Quote:As in the past, so in the coming struggle also, the petty bourgeoisie, to a man, will hesitate as long as possible and remain fearful, irresolute and inactive; but when victory is certain it will claim it for itself and will call upon the workers to behave in an orderly fashion, to return to work and to prevent so-called excesses, and it will exclude the proletariat from the fruits of victory. It does not lie within the power of the workers to prevent the petty-bourgeois democrats from doing this; but it does lie within their power to make it as difficult as possible for the petty bourgeoisie to use its power against the armed proletariat, and to dictate such conditions to them that the rule of the bourgeois democrats, from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction, and its subsequent displacement by the proletariat will be made considerably easier.

Quote:Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary. The destruction of the bourgeois democrats’ influence over the workers, and the enforcement of conditions which will compromise the rule of bourgeois democracy, which is for the moment inevitable, and make it as difficult as possible – these are the main points which the proletariat and therefore the League must keep in mind during and after the approaching uprising.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm

Anyone on Era who claims to be a leftist and anti-gun is no ally of mine.  Hmph

I can see why Benji refused to like this post. I was mistaken. In North Korea guns are banned.  Heartbeat

If our great leader deems guns as bad for civilians then who am I to disagree.  Juche

Quote:The Republic of Korea's original gun control law, known as the Law Controlling Firearms and
Explosives (43 articles), was enacted in 1961. After two minor revisions in 1962 and 1975, the law
was amended in its entirety in 1981 and renamed the Law Controlling Firearms, Swords, and
Explosives (61 articles). The 1981 law in turn was entirely amended in 1984. The amendment
provided for an overall increase in the punishment of offenders and for the banning of the manufacture,
sale, and possession of toy guns, in addition to incorporating a new provision establishing the Safety
Techniques Association for Firearms and Explosives. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that the law
was rewritten in plain vernacular Korean so that every citizen could easily understand its content. 1
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(09-17-2025, 01:53 AM)Propagandhim wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-orders-slavery-era-photo-removed-from-national-parks-and-museums.1299402/
[quote=Nepenthe]
Hell, let me tell you how much Black History was pushed by this country not to actually educate people about Black radicalism and its history, but to focus on a few select figures with which to propagandize about assimilation because white people were ultimately terrified of revolution (which is why King was killed; he started talking about fighting capitalism and not just fighting for voting rights.) 

What does Nepenthe think would be the effect if black history month focused on radicals?

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(09-17-2025, 02:14 AM)Gameboy Nostalgia wrote: I can see why Benji refused to like this post. I was mistaken. In North Korea guns are banned.  Heartbeat

If our great leader deems guns as bad for civilians then who am I to disagree.  Juche

Quote:The Republic of Korea's original gun control law, known as the Law Controlling Firearms and
Explosives (43 articles), was enacted in 1961. After two minor revisions in 1962 and 1975, the law
was amended in its entirety in 1981 and renamed the Law Controlling Firearms, Swords, and
Explosives (61 articles). The 1981 law in turn was entirely amended in 1984. The amendment
provided for an overall increase in the punishment of offenders and for the banning of the manufacture,
sale, and possession of toy guns, in addition to incorporating a new provision establishing the Safety
Techniques Association for Firearms and Explosives. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that the law
was rewritten in plain vernacular Korean so that every citizen could easily understand its content. 1
OOF, YIKES, that's the Fascist Korea. Snoop

I didn't like it for quoting a yt about leftism. ufup
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Wink I caught you liking the post, Benji. I'm reporting you now. The jig is up.
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Was looking for this post earlier. This expert really did a great job
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(09-17-2025, 01:40 AM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ars-technica-mods-react-as-reddit-kicks-some-of-them-out-again-%E2%80%9Cthis-will-break-the-site%E2%80%9D.1299813/#post-145262889

Slayven wrote:
Transistor wrote:That's not a huge deal, is it? Not modding more than 5 subreddits with that many visitors sounds very reasonable.
Think of the person taht does that.....just picture them
Thinking

What is this?
What the fuck is he saying?
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but Era kept posting her video as proof..
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(09-17-2025, 01:40 AM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ars-technica-mods-react-as-reddit-kicks-some-of-them-out-again-%E2%80%9Cthis-will-break-the-site%E2%80%9D.1299813/#post-145262889

Slayven wrote:
Transistor wrote:That's not a huge deal, is it? Not modding more than 5 subreddits with that many visitors sounds very reasonable.
Think of the person taht does that.....just picture them
Thinking

imagine the smell
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Imagine modding multiple subreddits, each of them the size of one kiwifarms.

Existential

Y'all want to let a person like that be in charge?
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(09-17-2025, 02:20 AM)HaughtyFrank wrote:

Was looking for this post earlier. This expert really did a great job

OH WAIT

hot damn



ok here this one's for the real homies only

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(09-17-2025, 01:53 AM)Propagandhim wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-orders-slavery-era-photo-removed-from-national-parks-and-museums.1299402/
Nepenthe wrote:but to focus on a few select figures with which to propagandize about assimilation because white people were ultimately terrified of revolution (which is why King was killed; he started talking about fighting capitalism and not just fighting for voting rights.)
1. MLK always talked about that.
2. Voting rights was achieved, 1965, so he had to talk about other things.
3. MLK was absolutely against non-assimilation and Malcom X came to agree with him.


Nepenthe wrote:Hell, you don't even learn about folks like Kwame Ture, Marcus Garvey, or Patrice Lamumba until college unless you're lucky, at which point most people are not invested in Black people's collective welfare and political history to give a shit looking it up themselves, as is by design.
1. Carmichael was a failure who abandoned the movement because it was achieving its goals and he had turned towards violent revolution and even condemned your beloved Black Panthers because they weren't abandoning the United States for Africa.
2. Garvey was a literal con man who endorsed the KKK, opposed race-mixing and blamed Jews for "setting him up" for the fraud he committed, later he even condemned socialism!
3. Why would anyone learn about Lumumba in the United States? Also, he was the moderate in his movement. You only give a shit about him because the CIA wanted him dead and probably succeeded at it.
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Slayven wrote:We know what that means, they want to enshitify

Because Reddit is not already a cesspool. lol
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I'd like very much to listen to a Nep v Benji podcast.
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(09-17-2025, 02:20 AM)HaughtyFrank wrote:
Was looking for this post earlier. This expert really did a great job
This woman is insane and never should have been taken as an expert:
(02-22-2025, 09:44 AM)benji wrote: https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-distortions-of-joan-donovan
https://archive.ph/ZqOqV
Quote:Joan Donovan, one of the world’s leading experts in misinformation, was dying to set the record straight. On a brisk November night, she told me a story about why she’d left Harvard University. It was captured, she claimed, by a corporation she had loudly criticized, one with far too much power over our democracy: Meta.
Quote:Her document was not a lawsuit, but a first-person declaration of how the world’s wealthiest university, hamstrung by its “significant conflict of interest,” allegedly mistreated her up to her departure last summer. It had, she claimed, taken the copyright to her book. Stolen her plans to publish confidential Facebook documents. Blocked an event she was required to host. And jeopardized the livelihoods of her staff, the now-disbanded Technology and Social Change Project, which was part of the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy.

“I would be complicit if I kept my mouth shut.”
Joan Donovan

The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, NBC, NPR, and dozens of other outlets (including this one) carried her claims, along with Harvard’s insistence that the team ended for a purely administrative, only-in-academe reason: She was a staff member, not a faculty member, so as a matter of policy, she could not lead research indefinitely. Laurence H. Tribe, the Harvard constitutional-law scholar, declared that the university “has to be investigated from top to bottom.” This, Donovan told CNN, was “a knock-down, drag-out fight for my academic freedom.” Her eyes welled with tears.
Quote:When the moderator opened up the floor for questions, according to Donovan’s disclosure, Schrage “monopolized the discussion by accusing me that my reading of the documents was inaccurate and that he disagreed with all prior discussion about Facebook.” Donovan claims that she “tried to answer Mr. Schrage’s allegations, but he kept speaking out angrily.” His conduct was “so overwhelming and disruptive,” she claims, that someone else “was forced to raise her voice in an attempt to try and calm Mr. Schrage.” The mood was “tense, awkward, and embarrassing for everyone involved.”

But a recording of the meeting contradicts that account. In a video the Kennedy School shared with me, Schrage is called on to ask a question, and begins by saying, “I disagree with a tremendous amount of the characterization and analysis that’s been provided, but that’s not the topic here.” He does not bring up the leaked Facebook files. He does ask Donovan how she defines misinformation, and whether television-news networks should be punished for reporting it. He also asks whether a company like Facebook should be obligated to take down a media outlet if the Philippine government considers it to be spreading falsehoods. In all, Schrage speaks for three minutes. Donovan responds uninterrupted for five-and-a-half, mostly to his first two questions.

“Thank you, Joan,” another council member says, then asks Donovan to discuss the subject of social media’s financial incentives. Two other attendees go on to raise questions that she also answers. Schrage does not speak again before the session ends, the recording shows.

This was the exchange that Donovan says jeopardized her career. That night, “I was worried I was going to lose my job based on Mr. Schrage’s anger,” her declaration says, and nearly a year later, when she learned that her team would be ending, she would think back to “when Elliot Schrage became enraged over my statements and possession of the Facebook files.”
Quote:During that meeting with the dean, Donovan’s declaration says, Elmendorf told her that Harvard would “exercise its ownership of my book,” Meme Wars, because, unlike faculty, “all staff’s research was owned by the University.” Late last year, over dinner in Boston, she told me, “It is what it is: Someone can own my shit. I still know how to work a copy machine.” And in December, she tweeted, “The truth is H took everything from me,” including “my book,” and added, “I truly have nothing left to lose.”

But Harvard does not own the copyright to Meme Wars. By March of last year, the three authors and the provost had signed an agreement that “Harvard hereby irrevocably transfers and assigns to the Authors, in perpetuity and throughout the world, all of its right, title, and interest in the copyright” to Meme Wars, according to documents I obtained. (One exception: Harvard got a royalty-free license to use it “for Harvard’s research, educational, and other scholarly purposes.”) In Donovan’s declaration, the only reference to this agreement is a vague mention of the book being “settled.”

Elmendorf told me that transferring the copyright “seemed the fair thing to do.” And when I asked Donovan if it was misleading to not mention the agreement, she insisted that it was irrelevant because “to me, it is still very true that Harvard laid claim to my book.”

Meme Wars isn’t the only thing Donovan says Harvard took. She has made a series of accusations — at times ambiguous — that her ex-employer is “holding on to my intellectual property,” which the university broadly disputes. She recently asserted to me that Harvard has refused to negotiate with her lawyers over this issue since December (though she declined to put me in touch with them, saying that they do not want to talk to the media). According to Harvard, that is false. “We asked Joan a number of times before she left to tell us what IP she seeks,” a spokesperson told me. “Harvard’s counsel has welcomed conversations with her counsel since then, and has repeated our requests for Joan to identify what she is seeking. We have not heard back.”

Of these allegations, the most-detailed is that FBarchive — Harvard’s online trove of the leaked Facebook documents — was stolen from her by Latanya Sweeney, a professor of the practice of government and technology.
Quote:Elmendorf told me that he isn’t aware of any other university that’s built a site like FBarchive. “I don’t understand an argument that the Kennedy School is somehow trying to protect Facebook when we have done that,” he said.

But Donovan says that the dean isn’t a reliable narrator, and that she wasn’t the only one with that opinion. “Dr. Sweeney once told me that she had attended a dinner at Ms. Sandberg’s home along with Dean Elmendorf,” her declaration says. “She was so struck by the closeness of their decades-long friendship that she confided in me her own concerns about Dean Elmendorf’s close, personal relationship with Ms. Sandberg and the potential conflict of interest with the work we were doing.”

Sweeney said that in April 2019, she did dine at Sandberg’s mansion in Silicon Valley, where a Harvard alumni-association representative had invited her to chat about her work with tech executives. But the dean told me that he wasn’t there. And Sweeney confirmed: “I’ve never been at a dinner with Sheryl and Doug. I’ve never been with the two of them at the same time ever.” She added, “I don’t know anything about Doug’s relationship with Sheryl Sandberg.” This story, she says, is a “lie.” (Donovan acknowledges that she “may have inferred” that Elmendorf was at the gathering, but she maintains that Sweeney expressed concern about the pair’s friendship.) Having now read Donovan’s whistle-blower disclosure, Sweeney told me, “I wouldn’t be able to trust her going forward at all.”
Quote:In April 2023, Nkonde herself texted Donovan seemingly by accident. “Joan has no money to take [to] her new institution and is demanding tenure,” she wrote, adding a string of laughing emojis. “So far everyone has said no.”

Donovan mulled whether to hit back in ways that she, as a media-manipulation expert, intimately understood. “What do I do?” she asked Collins-Dexter, sharing the screenshot with her. “I want to post it to twitter.”

“That could backfire,” her colleague cautioned.

But later that day, Donovan reported: “I made good gains with academics that follow me on Instagram after I posted the screenshots. Lots of them were wondering what had really happened.”

Donovan then raised the idea of publicizing details of the dispute — anonymously. She asked Collins-Dexter: “Do you have any sock puppet accounts?”
Quote:All the while, Donovan’s declaration says, she was “terrified for my staff, who were in need of contract renewals, stable employment and healthcare.”

But throughout last spring, according to texts, emails, and people who worked with her, Donovan was talking to her donors about ending their funding commitments — even though doing so would put her staff out of work even faster than anticipated. (Donovan denied approaching funders about pulling their money, saying, “All of my funders contacted me.”)

After the Crimson reported in February 2023 that their team would be eliminated, Collins-Dexter told me, Donovan asked her to arrange calls and meetings with some of their donors to discuss its future. She organized one such dinner with employees from two foundations, at a French restaurant in New York City, after Donovan initiated contact with them, emails show. Based on conversations beforehand, Collins-Dexter says, she assumed that her boss was going to reassure them that their money was safe until June 2024, the end date publicized in the news. That would’ve been just fine with Collins-Dexter and some of her colleagues, who were telling Donovan that they wanted to stay on the payroll as long as possible, according to texts from the time.

Instead, Collins-Dexter recalls, Donovan told funders to reroute their grants into a nonprofit that she wanted to start, to continue her research post-Harvard. “I was really shocked when I heard Joan start asking funders to pull their funding,” Collins-Dexter told me. She believes that after she tried to push back, she stopped getting invited.

Two major donors, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, had together given or planned to give about $1.8 million to the team. On March 3, 2023, when Donovan texted a teammate about a new funder interested in the nonprofit, she added, “We will get it started with that Hewlett $$ and I’m seeing if MacArthur will divert funds.” She made it official in an internal email days later: “I spoke to MacArthur and Hewlett and they are both going to end their grants early.” By the end of the month, MacArthur was canceling a planned $150,000 payment and Hewlett was canceling an expected $300,000, according to an internal budget document.
Quote:Five months after we met in Boston, I confronted Donovan with the findings in this story. Over a call that lasted nearly three-and-a-half hours, she responded to each claim against her, at times in tears.

I ended with the question that had become impossible to ignore: Had she — the famed misinformation researcher — been spreading misinformation?

She was silent at first. “I do stand by what’s in the declaration,” she finally said, “and what I’ve said to you and how I’ve presented what happened to me. I didn’t make up anything. If I had, it would be easy to disprove.” Her voice broke. “I’m merely one woman in the world,” she went on, “and that’s it. And to go up against corporations like Harvard and Facebook is very scary. But that is my truth. That is what I know to be true — that I was on top of it one day, and I was under it the next.”

We hung up. Starting that night and over the following four days, Donovan texted me 88 times. She forwarded me emails, texts, screenshots, voice mails. Each, she insisted, showed the facts to be on her side.

Her messages grew longer, darker. Unprompted, she began to refer to shadowy forces working against her. “There are people who do want me dead,” she wrote. “This line of work is wild and I don’t wish it on anyone. I am looking into changing my legal name so that it’s difficult to hack or find out where I live, by socially engineering access to my banking or property records.” She wrote that she was afraid of being assaulted, of being murdered.

“Harvard and Meta want negative press about me,” she wrote, “and that could get me killed, especially if one person gets it in their head that I’m illegitimate in some way.”

Two powerful institutions were out to discredit her, and my article was just more proof.

“This shows me,” she wrote, “that Harvard and Meta chose you.”
The person considering changing their legal name to be "difficult to hack" is a public professor at Boston University: https://www.bu.edu/ciss/profile/joan-donovan/

Joan believes that your social media feeds should be forced by the government to include news you aren't getting:
Quote:Quantifying the effect of misinformation is even harder than defining it. In the debate over why people fall for conspiracies, some scholars say that too much attention is paid to social media’s role and not enough to other factors, like government officials who make false claims on prime-time TV. Studies have failed to reliably find a direct causal relationship between viewing online misinformation and changing specific behaviors, such as switching voting positions. But to Donovan, Facebook’s ability to disseminate falsehoods at unprecedented scale has obvious consequences. When vigilantes take up arms in the wake of online rumors about “antifa” invaders, when people read on their feeds that vaccines are microchipped and voting is rigged, other members of the public — law-enforcement officials, doctors, journalists, election workers — spend time debunking and reassuring. “There are millions of resources lost to mitigating misinformation-at-scale, where the cost of doing nothing is even worse,” Donovan has written. She is among those advocating for “a public-interest internet,” one where social-media feeds would be required to contain “timely, relevant, and local” news curated by librarians.

Enjoy this interview from last year where Joan falsely claims that Sweeney's FBArchive was something only she had and that she personally released and it was what got her "fired" at ~10 minutes:


Note that Sweeney (a Black woman) is still employed at the Kennedy School and her profile openly links to the FBArchive: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/latanya-sweeney
In that story Donovan said she had to change her name soon to stop Meta and Harvard from killing her, but now she's showing up in the LATimes under her own name to spread dumbass theories?
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isn't it uncanny tho

like genuinely the extent that she matches her counterpart in peddling her dumbass theories
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Buzzfeed, slate, and wired magazine. 13 seconds into that video and I know what kind of person to expect.
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(09-17-2025, 12:02 AM)Gameboy Nostalgia wrote: Wait.. you need to be anti 2nd amendment to be leftist?

If true, why do they let a Nazi mod the forum?
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(09-17-2025, 02:18 AM)Gameboy Nostalgia wrote: Wink I caught you liking the post, Benji. I'm reporting you now. The jig is up.
True leftists don't report people, it's practically blood treason.
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(09-17-2025, 02:42 AM)HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth wrote:
(09-17-2025, 12:02 AM)Gameboy Nostalgia wrote: Wait.. you need to be anti 2nd amendment to be leftist?

If true, why do they let a Nazi mod the forum?
Maybe they're saying allies need to collect illegal weapons. ufup
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(09-17-2025, 01:15 AM)Propagandhim wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/suspect-in-charlie-kirk-shooting-charged-with-aggravated-murder.1299657/page-9
Embiid wrote:Candace Owens thinks space is fake, Dinosaurs weren't real, Stalin was a Jew, and thinks the French PM's wife was body snatched by a trans woman. She's completely nuts.
 
Candace Owens believes in alchemy, that aliens built the pyramids, that Jimmy Hoffa's ghost visibly haunts an indian burial ground, and that Weird Al Yankovich is of Jewish descent.  She's utterly fucking deranged.

I can't tell if you're mocking that post or just listing off more things Candace Owens genuinely believes.
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(09-17-2025, 02:34 AM)benji wrote:
(09-17-2025, 02:20 AM)HaughtyFrank wrote:
Was looking for this post earlier. This expert really did a great job
This woman is insane and never should have been taken as an expert:
(02-22-2025, 09:44 AM)benji wrote: Enjoy this interview from last year where Joan falsely claims that Sweeney's FBArchive was something only she had and that she personally released and it was what got her "fired" at ~10 minutes:


Note that Sweeney (a Black woman) is still employed at the Kennedy School and her profile openly links to the FBArchive: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/latanya-sweeney
In that story Donovan said she had to change her name soon to stop Meta and Harvard from killing her, but now she's showing up in the LATimes under her own name to spread dumbass theories?


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awww hell nah
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