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FB is 22 years old. I just joined to see what it is. 90% Paid influencers, Politicians and Preachers 10% GoPro and wildlife videos. #Melodrama #Addiction #Vicariousness

I just read that in the last six years, 19.5 million Americans played golf for the first time but only 4.3 million stayed with the game. What do you think are the main reasons for that?

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1919 cartoon. Still hits. Still relevant #RemembranceDay

Lie spotting scorecard. Try it next time you watch TV. Is the guest... 1. Political. (Most are.) 2. LARPing. (Repeating scripts.) 3. Using DARVO. (A propaganda method.) 4. Using Non-Falsifiable claims. (Eg. Iraq has WMDs; Iran will nuke us; Putin is a humanitarian; etc. #Beware

The midterm elections have positively changed the political landscape, but the work of building a better future is just beginning. What comes next is understanding how authoritarian influence actually works, how disinformation spreads, how psychological warfare shapes what people believe, and how we help people think for themselves again. That is why I keep coming back to my Influence Continuum and BITE Model of Authoritarian Control®. People need to be able to distinguish between ethical influence and authoritarian mind control. We need better tools to educate people about disinformation, more training for media, educators, politicians, and ordinary citizens, and better tools for talking to people who have been radicalized without pushing them further away. We also need to understand the much bigger systems of influence operating around us. In The Cult of Trump, I put Putin and Russia at the top of what I called the “puppet masters.” Unfortunately, I did not include China, but I now believe it has been deeply involved as well. And there is another power center not named in the book: what Gil Duran calls The Nerd Reich, involving broligarchs such as Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison and others, as well as the ideologies and the enormous technological power surrounding them. I recently interviewed Gil about The Nerd Reich on my Substack. I also recently spoke with expat Amanda Rivkin Häsler, and this week I’m featuring Yale social scientist Matthew Facciani and his work on disinformation. All of these conversations connect to the same bigger question: how do we help people understand influence, recognize manipulation, identify trustworthy information, and recover their freedom of mind? I’m going much deeper into all of this on my Substack, from disinformation and psychological warfare to tech power, radicalization, Russia, China, and how we protect freedom of mind.

These freaking kids are ruining the game. They should have stayed in school 😂

I spent two years working with Stephen Miller. His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic. I say that without reservation.