
Matthew Yglesias is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. Then, Yglesias dug in, saying lying was a necessary part of politics. Twitter’s New CEO Says She’s ‘Excited’ to Transform Platform. “For better or for worse, that’s politics,” Yglesias said then.īut what set off a flurry of Tweets today �“ and Yglesias’s advocacy of lying �“ was a charge by Yglesias via Twitter that Washington Times reporter Eli Lake has a “deserved reputation for dishonesty.” Hemingway, Lake and others confronted Yglesias on Twitter about the charge, pointing out that Yglesias himself had actually advocated dishonesty. Here at the Center for Carceral Urbanism we dream of using technology to create a surveillance panopticon so effective that 100 of violations are detected which in turn allows us to punish any given offense less harshly. On that subject, Yglesias wrote more than a year ago that advocates for high-speed rail may need to present “unrealistically optimistic” ridership estimates to obtain government funding for the projects. Yglesias’s spat with Hemingway revolved around estimates for high-speed rail lines about how many people would ride on those trains.

“What I write on my blog is honest,” Yglesias said. I’m trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information,” Yglesias said.

No I don’t think that’s conducive to what I do. Elmas, who has been tracking restricted accounts, said around half a dozen users were suspended following the Twitter announcement.Asked who he meant by “advocates,” Yglesias said, “Politicians, things like that.” Not bloggers? “Not me. Tuğrulcan Elmas, a postdoctoral researcher focusing on social media manipulation at Indiana University Bloomington, told Insider. Both men, after all, love to disparage the mainstream. Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter, Carlson said on Tuesday in a video posted to the site. The recent restrictions on Twitter have impacted accounts that criticized the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Dr. If remaking Twitter into a nativist laundromat is Musk’s long-term play, then I can see why he’d welcome Carlson in the starring role. Matthew Yglesias (mattyglesias) The thing that’s hilarious about this is that the left didn’t give a darn about how Twitter 1.0 was suppressing conservatives or the suppression of things like the Hunter Biden laptop, because it helped their side and their liberal narrative. His choice, several news outlets have reported since, is Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s chairman of. Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On Thursday, Elon Musk announced that he’d found a replacement for himself as CEO of Twitter. Wales and a spokesperson for Wikipedia did not respond to Insider's request for comment ahead of publication. Turkey's highest court determined that blocking the website was unconstitutional, and access to Wikipedia was restored in January 2020, The New York Times reported. From 2017 to 2020, the Turkish government blocked access to Wikipedia after an entry on the website said the country was a sponsor of the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorist groups, Insider previously reported.

Wales was referring in his tweet to a ban Wikipedia previously faced from Turkey's government. Twitter’s New CEO Says She’s ‘Excited’ to Transform Platform. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
