Jen and Noam continue to discuss The Biggest News Ever; the changes being made to Twitter in the wake of Elon’s acquisition, the sustained freakout, the true value of a bluecheck, $8 verification, and the pending misinformation apocalypse. 

We also sneak in a little Andor talk before taking on Ron DeSanctimonious’ chances of winning the GOP nomination and if he should run in 2024 at all.

And as usual we will be on Callin at 8:30pm Eastern Wednesday night where we’ll break down the Stupid Tuesday results (or at least those that will be known at that time)

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Twitter hilariously bans a Qanoner after taking his Twitter Blue money:

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1589025757183242240

Noam wrote a very good piece critiquing Max Fisher’s book on social media and you should read it:

https://www.commentary.org/articles/noam-blum/social-media-chaos-machine/

Yoel Roth once again has to make a tweet thread explaining what really happened with the Twitter layoffs as it relates to the content moderation team:

https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1588657228462317568

For everyone who thinks the new penalty for impersonating a public figure on Twitter is new, let me take you back to 2019 when we were discussing parody accounts getting the banhammer:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1088088107134668801

Matt Yglesias’ tweet thread (the one we savaged that is):

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1588190763413868553

Some folks over at Twitter bluecheck verification allegedly had quite the side hustle:

https://twitter.com/WSBChairman/status/1588973918379200512

Thaddeus Russell’s critique on the critique of conspicuous consumption:

https://reason.com/2014/02/01/that-kind-of-luxe-just-aint-for-us-the-p/

That time that the NYT doxed SSC for no good reason other than to start shit with the tech bros:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-slate-star-codex-doxxing-is-the-latest-squabble-inside-new-york-times

Pfffft why didn’t you know that Trump secretly hates DeSantis, the right people have known for months:

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1589097754521137152