Charlie Warzel

Anyhow here's my own reasoning for myself. No judgment on anyone else! Thanks for all the good tweets and even the bad ones because they made me laugh. 👋

After watching the racism dial turn further and further on this site, I decided to try and publicly make as definitive a case as I could. We're so far past the point of no return that I'm out of excuses for myself. Been a good 15+ year run. Bye! theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

@hankgreen pls blog about logging off on election night

Planning on spending all of election night designing socks and playing board games and I’m sure that will go fine.

Wrote about how Musk's purchase of Twitter (mass firings, financial chaos, no plan, turning it into a political weapon) are all seen as features, not bugs to Trump and MAGA elites. Musk's Twitter isn't just a success story, it's *the blueprint* for the federal govt in a second term theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

What did @cwarzel get when he created a new X account, said he liked tech, culture, gaming & sports, and followed only ESPN? Posts by Musk, Trump and MAGA-influencers—along with recommendations to stock up on food, water and guns. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

...that pushes politics on people regardless of whether they want it (a specific politics, too)

It's a bullshit machine

Wrote about X's Election Integrity Community which is the purest distillation of using this platform as an efficient incitement machine/bullshit/paranoia engine. And how it is so very clear that this chaos is the return on Musk's $44 billion investment theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

personally, i feel like a lot of these things are true at once. but what is undeniable is that the loss of trust is so, so real. and i don't know how that gets repaired.

and a complicating factor is that the information environment is so fragmented that it's both really hard to know what information other ppl are getting...but also it's really easy to look at a sliver of the ecosystem and convince yourself you're getting a representative view

one defining quality of this election is it seems that both in and outside of the media...nobody really knows or can agree the level of influence the press has in the whole process right now

a tradition unlike any other

@SteveKrak judging from my inbox i don’t get the sense people are making that distinction. also that’s not misinformation lol! i said social media strips context and that’s what is happening (with carlos’ post being the instigating post).

@cwarzel Now that’s misinformation. Marc and Elon were referencing Carlos’ post, not your column.

Great example of how platforms strip context. My story never mentions the words “free speech” or it “failing” or needing the govt to intervene. Not once! Not the point of the piece at all But thx to all these tweets from Musk et al ppl are certain that this is my argument (nope!)

(hilariously the point is that there’s an entire bad faith industry trying to misrepresenting real things that are happening to fit their worldview and a mass of people who are happy to be lied to…which is essentially what’s happening with these quote tweets)

they let me write the headline theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

@ry_storm i simply cannot stop listening to it

it just gets ya