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Unimaginably Conventional
Senator John Coryn unleashed the following, crushing Tweet:
The president is not doing cable news interviews. Tweets from his account are limited and, when they come, unimaginably conventional. The public comments are largely scripted. Biden has opted for fewer sit down interviews with mainstream outlets and reporters.
What a searing critique: the President’s Tweets are “unimaginably conventional.” Of course this is utterly boring news for anyone who has been following the President: he just isn’t interested in Twitter. For Coryn, this is evidence of only the latest conspiracy theory: that Biden is not really President. If the standard for the Presidency is perspicacity on Twitter, clearly Wendy’s hamburgers will should rule.
What was Trump Twitter?
Barrett and Sims helpful report on political bias on social media concludes that there is no evidence of partisan bias, it is simply that the right wing information ecosystem is so concentrated that when perfectly normal and legitimate changes (really any changes) take place there are impacts on those big accounts. The right wing media ecosystem is like Delta — they route pretty much everything through Atlanta (and sometimes Minneapolis), if there is a storm in Georgia, the whole web feels the effects. The left wing media ecosystem is like Southwest — there are planes going to…
