
New Jersey Matthew
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New Jersey Matthew
@NjMatt
trying and failing to be one of the 15 positive #WWFC supporters. how bout those Chiefs?



KY-04 GOP PRIMARY (with leans) 🟥 Thomas Massie: 50.6% 🟥 Ed Gallrein: 49.4% —— • Age 18-29: Massie +63 • Age 30-44: Massie +42 • Age 45-64: Gallrein +1 • Age 65+: Gallrein +22 @BIGDATAPOLL | 5/15 | 433 LV bigdatapoll.com/blog/initial-r…

Rama Duwaji wants the spotlight, just not the scrutiny. My latest for @TheFP

You can redraw districts, but you cannot erase the power of the people. This week, I spoke with @Justinjpearson about our continued fight for voting rights — even in the face of efforts to silence and divide us.



What historical fact sounds fake but is true?


Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients. The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views. “On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown. “Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.” Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: nymag.visitlink.me/w6Bu9N


Controversial streamer ChudTheBuilder reportedly shot a man and wounded his own arm outside a Tennessee courthouse, later telling police on stream that he was attacked and acted in self-defense.



NEW: President Donald Trump bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in tech companies and government contractors including Nvidia and Palantir. Some of those trades overlapped with regulatory decisions that were favorable to these companies. notus.org/money/donald-t…



JUST IN: Thomas Massie's reelection odds are tanking amid hush money allegations from an ex-girlfriend. He's now projected to be unseated.











