Kim LaCapria

Apologies to anyone who has been looking for me- my wonderful young husband has died and I'm in England to say goodbye to him

@mattjpfmcdonald @JSweetLI @TheSpectator @AdrianDittmann @elonmusk @X She was banned?! What the fuck!

A brief explainer of what’s going on with @JSweetLI’s story for @TheSpectator about how @AdrianDittmann likely isn’t @elonmusk, how reporting that got her banned from posting on @X and how you can’t share the story on here at the moment (thread)

@JSweetLI omg yes! also amy (s) was just saying the same thing, that it feels like a lot of mass panic, also there is a great some more news video about this i can never find, and it talked about halloween candy and havana syndrome as examples

@KimLaCapria do you like my historicist/ materialist micro lecture about urban legends and mass panic?

On a serious note, mass hysterias based on suggestion are based in the specific anxieties of a time and place. So the Salem witch trials, razor blades in Halloween candy, Antifa cinder blocks dropped from overpasses, etc can all be seen as expressions of the historical zeitgeist of the mass stupidity of that time lol

@adryenn oh my God, I'm shocked it hasn't been scrubbed or buried, you made my day ❤️ thank you so much 💖

@KimLaCapria I working on a pitch for a company whose origin was my war corresponding at the NV DNC Conv and the the chair throwing lie aftermath - based on my footage that was frankencut to make it look like chair throwing, which it wasn't - I just found your Snopes report and wanted to thank you for a thorough job and debunking that claim. We need more of you in journalism! 😍

@JSweetLI OH MY GOD it actually gets worse cnn.com/2023/07/13/pol…

If Alex Jones InfoWars goes down the same day RFK is announced for HHS does this mean the frogs are gay or straight again

@ThatEricAlper sean price, the answer is always sean price

Who is an underrated artist or band everyone should know about?

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@doobugclub @KellyScaletta you're not wrong, we lost funding in 2023 - counterdisinfo was killed

@KellyScaletta Counter intelligence to combat the lies was missing everywhere.

I keep thinking about it and these are two facts that I can't get around. 1. Based on exit polling, the people who voted for Trump were massively misinformed, objectively speaking. 2. There is a massive right-wing media which disseminates this misinformation. It's not just Fox News. 3. Due to a combination of factors, the people who vote for Trump tend to silo themselves off from any contradictory information. I don't know how we get around this problem, but blaming it on "Democratic messaging" is just silly. Messaging doesn't matter if the people who are voting never hear that message, and the Democrats can't force them to hear it.

we used to have this

My piece in politico points to the biggest change in our political world: how information flows. Latinos and young people, who shift led right, disproportionately get news from social media. (Local news collapse also shapes the new reality)

@ThatEricAlper go to the dentist but also set up a fund for young widows for emergencies and for us to stay housed and fed

If you won the $1 billion lottery, what would be the first thing you would do?

Religion.

It really is astonishing that Adrian basically created an English idiom. Face eating leopards is beyond an internet joke by now. It’s just a saying.

i know! by having a visible and thorough resource to explain policy and to address social media discourse about policy *at the time it is happening*

fwiw i keep talking about how we used to combat disinfo because it WORKED. in real-time - we'd watch disinfo collapse within the hour. this isn't all literacy, it's intentionally removing this guardeail

We’re not a serious country

scoop: The Guardian has raised $2.4 million in the last 2 days, continuing a donation streak that began after the LA Times and The Washington Post pulled their endorsements. It's a sign that some outlets are tapping a surge of enthusiasm for adversarial journalism post-election.

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies issued a somewhat muted response to the racist troll messages that Black voters got nationwide. Researchers say they think they know how these people were targeted: motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

@JabariBrisport it is absolutely enraging that everything "too far left" is a daily norm in the other 32 developed countries and we pretend that's not the case even though everyone knows about it

"The Democratic Party has moved too far left" No it hasn't and last time it actually did move significantly leftwards Americans liked it so much they gave the president 4 terms. You need universal programs. You need to tax the rich. You need to boldly lean into class warfare.

@umairh unrelated, your writing is my favorite <3 i appreciate your insights here and on your site

Alright I’m out enjoy your meltdown ☠️☠️

Where did Trump voters get their news? 📰 Yes, there's social and partisan sites, but there is another influential strategy that isn't getting enough attention: Manipulated, pay-to-play and all out fake news sites I've been covering a mix of those for years. Here's a primer 🧵