May 18, 2022
SPECIAL DELIVERY: About a month back the Biden Administration launched the Orwellian “Disinformation Board,” ostensibly to combat Russian propaganda. But we all know this song — and it’s a bad song. After two years of increasingly-normalized political censorship, federalization of truth arbitration alarmed every sane person in the country (along with all the crazies). Fury was immediate, and profound. The Ministry of Truth has since collapsed, Nina Jankowicz, the would-be TikTok-star-turned-Chief-Censor has resigned, and the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz has once again made herself part of the story.
I hit up Santi Ruiz for details on Jankowicz, and a look at the bizarre parallels between subject and reporter in this ongoing bleed between the worlds of press, government, and technology.
-Solana
uwe boll’s film, banned in germany, features reformed cannibal armie hammer as a vigilante exacting revenge for migrant crime. is this “good right-wing art”? or bad right-wing pandering?
a star is born // the former president’s troubled son is making waves on 𝕏, talking about bar fights, and hinting at a presidential run. is it time to “take another crack with a biden?”
the chaos unfolding inside the cbs newsroom isn't about trump; it's about whether established media can learn to be... fun