Cheryl Robertson

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"Rethink Democracy." That was the tagline for Politify back in 2011. A Berkeley student project that went viral during the election. Four million users in one month. National media coverage. A feel-good story about using technology to help voters understand how policies would affect them. Nikita Bier was 22 years old when he discovered something profound: Americans vote against their financial self-interest more than any other nation in the Western world. Most people would see that as a problem to solve. A gap to bridge with better information and education. Bier saw it as an opportunity to exploit. Because what he actually learned from Politify wasn't just that voters are irrational. What he learned was that "rhetoric supersedes logic when systems are complex enough that ordinary citizens don't have hours to understand them." That line, buried in his TED talk and some Berkeley research papers, is everything you need to understand about what came next. It wasn't a warning about vulnerabilities in self-governance. It was his operating manual. Bier abandoned Politify after proving the concept worked. A Berkeley study showed 6% of users changed their voting choice after using the app. That's enough to swing an American election. The Knight Foundation gave him money. Governments wanted to license the technology. But he walked away from all of it. Not because the mission was accomplished. Because he'd learned that manipulating behavior at scale was possible, and government contracts weren't the most lucrative way to apply that knowledge. So he went looking for a better laboratory. A population more psychologically vulnerable. More desperate for validation. More willing to give up their data in exchange for a dopamine hit. He went hunting for teenagers. In 2017, Bier launched tbh ("to be honest") an app that let high schoolers send anonymous compliments to each other through polls. The pitch was pure and positive: "Make this generation happier." Stop the bullying that plagued other anonymous apps. Create a space for kindness. The reality was more sinister. To use tbh, you had to give the app access to your contacts. Your location. Your school. Your social graph. Every vote you cast in a poll. Every notification you responded to. Every dopamine hit the app delivered. The app wasn't measuring happiness. It was measuring dependency. Which prompts created the most engagement? Which rewards kept users coming back? How quickly did teenagers respond when they "won" a poll? What made them anxious when they weren't chosen? Every data point was a lesson in behavioral manipulation. And the growth strategy? Pure psychological warfare. Bier would create a private Instagram account for a specific high school. Follow students who had that school in their bio. Then at a predetermined time, make the account public with a link to download the app. Engineered scarcity. Manufactured FOMO. Weaponized social anxiety. He called it "a psychological trick." That's not marketing language. That's a confession. Facebook acquired tbh within months. Not for the product. They shut it down less than a year later. They acquired it for what Bier had learned. The behavioral data. The manipulation techniques. The proof that you could engineer psychological dependency in teenage populations at scale. Then Bier did something that should have raised every red flag: he built Gas, a nearly identical clone of tbh. Same anonymous polls. Same dopamine engineering. Same growth tactics. Same mandatory access to contacts and location data. But this time he added something darker: "God Mode." For a fee, some users could get hints about who voted for them in polls. The psychological architecture was explicit now, monetizing insecurity by creating information asymmetry. Some kids could see who liked them. Others remained in the dark. Pay to resolve the anxiety we engineered into the experience. Gas exploded to 5 million downloads. Then the rumors started. Parents on TikTok and Snapchat began spreading a theory: Gas was a front for human trafficking. The hoax went viral. Police departments issued warnings. Schools sent alerts. The app experienced a 3% uninstall rate in a single day. Bier's team received death threats. The trafficking claims were baseless. The app had no messaging, no location tracking, no features that could enable trafficking. But here's what's revealing: the hoax worked because the app already felt predatory. Parents couldn't articulate why, but they sensed something wrong. Teenagers couldn't explain it, but they felt manipulated. The app was designed to exploit fear of social rejection, monetize adolescent insecurity, and extract behavioral data under the guise of "positivity." When parents heard "human trafficking," they didn't need evidence. The entire design already felt like exploitation. Discord acquired Gas in 2023. Again, not for the product. For the proof that Bier's techniques were reproducible. Now he's @X's Head of Product. @elonmusk bought Twitter promising to restore free speech. To make it the digital town square. To end the shadowbanning and algorithmic manipulation. To bring transparency to content moderation. Then in late 2024, as Bluesky and Threads gained momentum and X bled users, Elon needed someone who could make the platform stickier. Someone who understood how to engineer psychological dependency. Someone who'd spent a decade learning how to keep people scrolling even when they knew they should leave. He hired Nikita Bier. A man whose entire career has been built on exactly the opposite of everything Elon promised: opacity over transparency, behavioral manipulation over authentic engagement, psychological control systems disguised as community building. Bier's expertise wasn't in building community. It was in building cages that feel like community. And suddenly, mysteriously, predictably, users are reporting exactly what you'd expect from someone whose entire career has been built on behavioral manipulation disguised as innovation. Reach vanishing without explanation. Accounts shadowbanned for "inauthentic activity." Critics blocked when they ask questions. Complexity preventing understanding. Opacity preventing challenges. When users started noticing these patterns, that verified accounts with large followings were being suspended for unclear reasons, they reached out to Bier directly. He's the Head of Product. Surely he could help. He blocked them. When someone reported that their home address had been posted online and asked if that violated platform policy, Bier responded: "Thanks for flagging. I sent the post to our policy team and that user was suspended." Then when that same user pressed him on why the reporting system was broken and why users organizing doxxing campaigns weren't being automatically suspended, Bier blocked them too. The behavioral architect doesn't like being questioned about his architecture. But the most revealing pattern is what the algorithm now promotes. A selfie from a moderately known account? 129 million views. Substantive research and investigative journalism? Suppressed. Meme content? 6.2 million views. External links to academic papers or primary sources? Buried. Bier announced it explicitly: "Starting next week we'll be testing a new way to share and engage with web links on X. The goal will be to ensure all content on the platform has equal visibility on Timeline." Translation: we're going to bury external links, the kind that provide verification, context, primary sources, and boost native engagement bait. Selfies. Memes. Rage content. Anything that keeps you on platform, scrolling, engaging, feeding the algorithm. The business model is obvious. Engagement equals ad revenue. External links send users away. Users leaving means less data to harvest, less time on platform, less revenue. Bier was hired to solve a revenue problem by making X psychologically inescapable. He's applying everything he learned from teenagers to everyone. Then came the "authenticity verification." Bier announced that profiles would soon display new information, like which country an account is based in, to help users "verify authenticity." Social credit scoring by another name. Geography as a trust indicator. Behavioral patterns as authenticity markers. Here's what nobody's saying clearly enough: Bier didn't spend the last decade building apps to help people. He spent it building the most sophisticated behavioral data harvesting operation in history. Politify taught him that human behavior can be manipulated through information complexity and psychological triggers. tbh and Gas taught him exactly which triggers work, how to engineer dependency, how to monetize insecurity, and how to extract behavioral data at scale while calling it "community building." And now he's deploying everything he learned at X. On the platform that controls public discourse. Think about what he knows: How to make people act against their self-interest. How to create psychological dependency. How to map social networks. How to trigger emotional responses. How to manufacture consensus. How to suppress dissent while maintaining the illusion of openness. How to keep people trapped in systems they know are harming them. And now he controls who sees what you post. Who you see. What gets amplified. What gets buried. This is why it matters. Not because this pattern is new. But because behavioral data harvesting plus infrastructure control equals manufactured reality. And manufactured reality is incompatible with informed consent. A free people require informed consent. But informed consent requires access to information, ability to verify information, understanding of how decisions affect you, and transparency in systems of power. Bier's entire career has been about destroying all four. The complexity prevents understanding. The opacity prevents verification. The psychological triggers override rational analysis. The architecture engineers compliance while maintaining the illusion of choice. You think you're participating. You're being managed. You think you're being heard. You're being suppressed. You think you understand the system. It's deliberately incomprehensible. You think you're making free choices. You're responding to engineered triggers. More and more users are now openly questioning whether Bier is indifferent to their safety. Whether he's enabling harassment that could lead to real-world harm. Whether someone who likes posts about political assassination being "free and legal" should control who gets heard on a platform that shapes public discourse. That's not hyperbole. That's the actual question users are asking. Because when someone with his history gains control over whose voice gets heard, and then blocks victims of doxxing, and deletes evidence of inflammatory statements, and weaponizes "inauthenticity" against critics, people stop believing the censorship is about platform health. They start believing it's about control. And they're right. The cage you build for others becomes your own prison. Bier thought he was building tools to manage other people's behavior. He's discovering he built his own cage. The authenticity verification tracks him. The algorithmic suppression creates an environment where everyone suspects his motives. The complexity and opacity make even his own actions look sinister. You cannot build systems of control without eventually being controlled by them. "Rethink Democracy" wasn't about improving it. It was about replacing authentic public discourse with behaviorally engineered compliance. Learn how to manipulate voter behavior. Perfect the techniques on psychologically vulnerable teenagers. Deploy at global scale on the infrastructure of public discourse itself. The data harvest is complete. The control systems are deployed. Elon promised you a town square. He hired someone who specializes in building beautiful prisons. The only question is whether you'll keep participating. <3 EKO

@catturd2 You should research Sandra Birchmore..very sad case, same rotten investigators - ruled suicide 3 years ago but recently determined to be a homicide. An epic tragedy that is certainly part of the same federal investigation.

Am I the only one not following the Karen Read trial?

@RepAuchincloss Are you trying to get us killed?

Russia’s war on Ukraine is bankrolled by its energy exports. Ukraine needs U.S. authority to strike Russian oil and gas fields, along with other sites that support the Kremlin’s brutal war.

For more than 2 years, Trump supporters have faced rigged trials before Democratic juries and Merchan-style judges in the federal courthouse a few blocks from the Capitol. Not a single GOP lawmaker has attended one trial. Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon also went on trial. Not a single GOP lawmaker showed up. When Judge Chutkan held a hearing on Jack Smith's proposed gag order, only one lawmaker--@RepMTG--attended the proceeding. Red state AGs could have filed a lawsuit similar to Missouri v Biden to sue DOJ/FBI for violating numerous constitutional rights of their own constituents in the DOJ's retaliatory, unprecedented, and in some aspects unlawful prosecution of J6ers. No one did. Red state governors could have spoken out against DOJ's abusive prosecution and the FBI's traumatizing and unnecessary SWAT raids against their constituents. They could have used resources to fund lawyers or help families being destroyed. They did not. Conservative organizations could have also aided in legal defense of J6ers. They did not. It's pretty infuriating to see many of these officials now expressing shock and outrage about the outcome of Donald Trump's trial in NYC. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

@DoctorTurtleboy It’s funny how they tracked Brian Walshe visiting Home Depot, his mother’s apartment, coffee shop and dumpsters along the way when his wife was “missing” the MSP got all that camera footage!

@RepAuchincloss What part of “the American people do not want another nickel sent to Ukraine” is confusing to the members of the People’s House? Just stop already. Fix our border before you worry about someone else’s.

All Dems should sign the discharge petition to fund Ukraine in its fight for freedom. Speaker Johnson is too afraid to let the People’s House work its will, and Dems shouldn’t give him cover.

@RepAuchincloss news.yahoo.com/ukraines-defen… Murder by blood clot? Weird. Where was your post on the death of an AMERICAN reporter, Gonzalo Lira, in Ukrainian prison? Did I miss that? The people of MA expect you to speak out on American’s behalf, Sir.

Putin's murder of Navalny is emblematic of his autocratic and repressive vision, which Xi Jinping shares. Ukraine is on the frontlines of the fight against that autocratic assault. Speaker Johnson is on the way out. His legacy will be defined by whether he stands with Ukraine.

@LeadingReport P

BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., challenged Joe Biden to debate and display his cognitive abilities after the 82-year-old committed a series of embarrassing mental blunders this past week. Kennedy started answering a question from a reporter by saying, “We have a right to know that our president is actually leading the country and not somebody else.” He followed up by speculating why he thinks Biden is still being “propped up.” “There’s so many special interests now in Washington, D.C., big financial interests that are trying to manipulate the political process, and I think those interests would just assume have a president with cognitive deficits because it enlarges their power.” And then Kennedy brings up the importance of Americans being able to see whether the president is capable of handling the job. "I think it’s really important for the president to show Americans UNSCRIPTED encounters with voters, but also through debate.” Finally, the reporter asks Kennedy, if he were president and he couldn’t remember significant chunks of his life, how he would address that. Kennedy responds by saying, “I would hope my family would say it’s time to enjoy retirement.”

@RepAuchincloss The American people don’t want comprehensive bills. Why is that so hard to understand and respect?

The Senate’s comprehensive national security bill is the right way to defend our allies and to strengthen our border security. Speaker Johnson should put this bill on the floor after Senate passage instead of handing Putin & the drug cartels a win by calling it "dead on arrival". I would vote Yes on the current version.

Today, exactly 3 years ago, my family was awaken by an explosion and the alarm going off in the early dark morning hours. We would learn the #FBI SWAT Team with Drones and Flash Bangs were raiding our home in Southern California. No one in my home has ever been arrested or had any problems with the law. As a matter of fact, I am a decorated combat veteran of the Marine Corps and 14 years of Law Enforcement with multiple awards including the Medal of Valor. I've survived 4 officer involved shootings and in 2018 saved a toddler who was the victim of drowning with CPR. The Crime the FBI was investigating, Twitter Post, they say were triggered by January 6th making me a Domestic Terrorist. They would point guns at my family, force us to leave my 2 month old daughter alone in her bassinet despite our pleas to get her. They refused to show us the search warrant prior to searching my home. During their forced interview, after I requested my attorney, they would ask me who I voted for, for President and which political party I was registered with. They would turn my life into a nightmare, pressure my employer to terminate me, dox me to the local community, knowing I worked as an undercover gang detective and tell every gang member they (FBI JTTF) took away my firearms under Red Flag Laws. They would arrest me 5 days later on Inauguration Day for a single weapon charge (My police rifle) and even with no criminal history, raise my bail to $250,000 dollars by requesting a bail enhancement. They would lie during the booking process and say I had a "Parole Hold" even though I was never arrested in my life. This later explained away as a "Clerical Error" would force me to pay the bail in order to leave the solitary confinement they placed me in (Normally released with a Citation Notice to Appear). They would lie in the search warrant to the judge, they would withhold exculpatory information from the judge and fabricate the knowledge of a "Confidential Informant" they listed at least 3 times in the partial warrant they've released to me. Months later when requesting to identify the Informant, the FBI would state, there is NO INFORMANT, it was a typo (3 times at least!). The judicial system would continue to deny every motion we requested and continue to pressure me to take a plea bargain which I continue to reject. When the date came to testify in the Civil Trial (Red Flags Law they took my firearms with) they dismissed the case, leaving only the criminal case. The case which was bases of their fabrication of a red flags law case, now being dismissed. They dismissed this case to prevent the agents from having to testify to the questions we would ask; that the court would continue to deny in the criminal case motions. There is so much more, but this is the summary. I have NOT QUIT and I will continue to fight. If my story moves you and you want to help me, please consider my GiveSendGo which I have had for 3 years. They have made it impossible despite my impeccable resume to obtain a decent job, I get hired and offered bonuses and then the offers are rescinded following a background check. They had @BankofAmerica debank me in early 2021, they made me a Quad S for flying and continue to stalk my life. I really do need your help, I am trying my best on my own. MEDIA: If you are interested in sharing my story please contact me, I do my best to try to find all the DMs through the BOT DMs. My fight is not over and I will not quit, I just need some help Patriots. Thank you. #AlphasStory Help Here: givesendgo.com/DefendPatriotL…

Democrats control the state legislature in Maine, not Republicans

Please help me share this video announcing my run for President of the United States. #Kennedy24

A few years ago I met with the administration of a Catholic university. They were trying to understand their declining enrollment. I had some time before the meeting so thought I would attend Mass, but got lost. I asked a group of students, “Where is Mass?” One student responded, “What is Mass”? This question said it all. Apart from the elites (Notre Dame, Georgetown, Boston College, etc) Catholic university enrollment is going to tank, unless they re-embrace their founding mission. The universities that have already done this (Benedictine, Franciscan, the University of Mary, etc) are setting enrollment records. People, especially this generation, want the genuine article. Beige Catholicism is not worth the money.

@RepAuchincloss What are the names of the officers who were killed on January 6?

January 6th, 2021 was Xi Jinping’s best day on the world stage. The resilience of our democracy is up to us.

Systemic failures from the public school system and incompetence by the FBI led to 17 deaths 5 years ago. How dare you use my daughters murder to push a political agenda on the anniversary of her death you demon.

Where is AOC, Greta, Al Gore and the other climate alarmists? This won't change the weather but in time it's going to kill a lot of people with cancer and other diseases. This is what a real environmental disaster looks like

Do us a favor - if you see this tweet, give us a retweet or embed this video in your own timeline…the power is with the people! Thank you @elonmusk