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Horseshoe Theory, Now on the Blockchain

Republicans whining about how social media moderators are violating their inalienable right to lucrative follower counts have found an ally in Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Earlier this month, SCOTUS threw out a lower court’s ruling that Donald Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked his haters on Twitter, finding that the issue was…

Internet Tom McKay Apr 15

Donald Trump and Mike Lindell Should Cage Fight Over Whose New Social Media Site Is Actually Real

We’re jumping the gun on Hellfeed’s normally bi-weekly schedule—because dear lord, the last five days were something else. This week’s social media hellscape kicked off with news Donald Trump is investigating opening his own, presumably even more racist social media platform (uh-huh) before drunkenly veering everywhere to a beleaguered mega-ship clogging the bowels of shipping…

Internet Tom McKay Mar 26

Senate Considering Hauling in Facebook, Twitter CEOs so They Can All Ramble for Hours About Whatever Bullshit Gripe They Have This Time

If you thought last year’s clusterf*ck of a Senate hearing on social media was a good use of everyone’s time, congrats! The Senate is considering calling Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and the rest of the gang back together for another hearing, this time before the Judiciary Committee. Per Politico, Senator Chris…

Internet Tom McKay Mar 19

Good Lord, It’s Only February

It’s called bipartisanship: Both major political parties have some bad ideas for reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the foundational internet law that shields websites from lawsuits over user-generated content or their moderation decisions. Democrats in the Senate have introduced the “SAFE TECH Act,” which would expose website operators to greater legal liability…

Internet Tom McKay Feb 12

The Ban Is Working

This week, most of the world took a collective sigh of relief as Joe Biden was inaugurated as president without something incredibly terrible happening. That doesn’t include the most die-hard loyalists on the Trump Train, who spend Wednesday freaking out. On pro-Trump board The Donald, which was banned from Reddit for rampant hate speech and…

Internet Tom McKay Jan 22

Here Are All the Trump Sycophants Who Got Banned From Social Media After the Capitol Riot

Last week, Donald Trump riled up a mob of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol while members of Congress were voting to certify the results of the 2020 elections—a de facto act of sedition that failed to bring about his fantasized coup and resulted in five deaths. As a reward for his efforts, social…

Internet Tom McKay Jan 12

What the EPA Has in Common With Pornographers

It’s been a few weeks since our last edition of Hellfeed, and in the meantime, things on the feed have gotten somewhat closer to baseline dispiriting: While the president’s efforts to overturn the election results have degenerated from coup attempt to dangerous levels of cringe, social media firms are eager to return to pretending everything…

Internet Tom McKay Dec 11

If You Can’t Beat Them, Make Some Shit Up About Them and Hope It Goes Viral

Your feeds are not currently full of news about the ongoing civil war between the Real American Front and the Alliance to Restore Democracy. In fact, there’s barely any Second American Civil War going on at all, which is to say that things could theoretically be going a lot worse after November 3 than your…

Internet Tom McKay Nov 13

The Senate’s Section 230 Clown Show, Trump’s Twitter Password, and Impending Doom

It’s heeeereeeee: the 2020 elections are just four days away, which means the next 100-plus hours may be the longest of your life. Given the results of the election are unlikely to emerge on November 3 and the current presidential administration has made clear it intends to claim victory no matter what happens, it might…

Internet Tom McKay Oct 30

Twitter Screws the Pooch, QAnon Bans, and FCC Takes the Bait

It’s hard to believe that the 2020 election is just 18 days away, which may count for the inexorable sense of doom hanging over everything, or the sensation of that time is warping like the event horizon of a black hole. Before we’re smashed into an accretion disk, you might as well catch up on…

Internet Tom McKay Oct 16

Facebook’s Dilemma, Subpoena Time, and Twitter: There Was an Attempt

It’s time for Hellfeed, your biweekly summary of who’s kicking and screaming online, and we really couldn’t have picked a better day: The president tweeted that he is ill with the novel coronavirus this morning and then totally dropped off the goddamn radar. While the nation waits for updates on the president’s condition—the White House…

Internet Tom McKay Oct 2

Facebook Does It Again (and Again), More Bans, and FOSTA v. the Amendments

The never-ending battle over content moderation is only intensifying as we get closer to the 2020 elections and beyond. We’re trying out new formats to round up and summarize developments in this space—both in the interest of everyone’s sanity and to allow more time for the ramifications and context of the outcomes of various screaming…

Internet Tom McKay Sep 18

Facebook’s Militia ‘Mistake,’ FCC’s Speech Police, and TikTok’s Secret Sauce

The never-ending battle over content moderation is only intensifying as we get closer to the 2020 elections and beyond. We’re trying out new formats to round up and summarize developments in this space—both in the interest of everyone’s sanity and to allow more time for the ramifications and context of the outcomes of various screaming…

Internet Tom McKay Sep 4

Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late

Content and moderation decisions by tech companies are increasingly the focus of unending kicking and screaming—to the point where it’s now essentially a campaign plank for at least one of the U.S.’s major political parties. The likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are also trying to convince the public how well they’re dealing with the…

Internet Tom McKay Aug 21

Hellfeed

Horseshoe Theory, Now on the Blockchain

Donald Trump and Mike Lindell Should Cage Fight Over Whose New Social Media Site Is Actually Real

Senate Considering Hauling in Facebook, Twitter CEOs so They Can All Ramble for Hours About Whatever Bullshit Gripe They Have This Time

Good Lord, It’s Only February

The Ban Is Working

Here Are All the Trump Sycophants Who Got Banned From Social Media After the Capitol Riot

What the EPA Has in Common With Pornographers

If You Can’t Beat Them, Make Some Shit Up About Them and Hope It Goes Viral

The Senate’s Section 230 Clown Show, Trump’s Twitter Password, and Impending Doom

Twitter Screws the Pooch, QAnon Bans, and FCC Takes the Bait

Facebook’s Dilemma, Subpoena Time, and Twitter: There Was an Attempt

Facebook Does It Again (and Again), More Bans, and FOSTA v. the Amendments

Facebook’s Militia ‘Mistake,’ FCC’s Speech Police, and TikTok’s Secret Sauce

Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late

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