The school focuses its curriculum on biblical theology, where students take classes about the bible along with standard education courses, with the school motto being “Shepherding Hearts, Empowering Minds, Celebrating Childhood.”
>people start enjoying life all while knowing the country is filled with people who hate to see that
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1640456914864578562
Transgenderism is a mental illness. Keep your children away from transgendered individuals and their parents. People that support and encourage this are monsters and should similarly be kept away from children.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/died-suddenly-documentary-covid-vaccine-conspiracy-theory/672819/
Twitter Has No Answers for #DiedSuddenly
The latest anti-vaccine conspiracy theory is taking off easily on platforms that have no interest in shutting it down.
Twitter, like many platforms, has spent the past decade refining its content-moderation policies. Now it is randomly throwing them out. Jing Zeng, a researcher at the University of Zurich, began her work on Twitter and conspiracy theories in 2018, and she noted a major transformation in response to the pandemic and the rise of QAnon. “Especially since the start of COVID, Twitter had been active in deplatforming conspiracy-theory-related accounts,” she told me. A lot of conspiracy theorists moved to fringe sites where they had trouble rebuilding the huge audiences they’d had on Twitter. But now their time in the desert may be over. “Twitter under Elon Musk has been giving signals to the communities of conspiracy theorists that Twitter’s door might be open to them again,” Zeng said.
Earlier in the pandemic, researchers like Zeng were concerned about “dark platforms” such as 8kun or Gab, and how their wacky, dangerous ideas about COVID-19 could leach onto mainstream platforms. But now? The difference between alt and mainstream is getting slimmer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/ivermectin-medical-subculture-covid-pandemic/673467/
How Ivermectin Became a Belief System
The deworming drug is central to an improvisational, alternative medical subculture that was forming even before the pandemic.
>Twitter Has No Answers for #DiedSuddenly
>How Ivermectin Became a Belief System
https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2019/08/atlantic-hires-kaitlyn-tiffany/596329/
The Atlantic Hires Kaitlyn Tiffany as Staff Writer
Tiffany to cover internet culture on The Atlantic’s tech team
Today, The Atlantic announced that Kaitlyn Tiffany is joining its tech team as a staff writer covering internet culture. Tiffany comes to The Atlantic from The Goods, at Vox, where she was a tech reporter. She begins with The Atlantic next month, and will be based in New York.
In a note to staff announcing Tiffany’s hire, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and executive editor Adrienne LaFrance wrote: “Kaitlyn is funny, sharp, and possesses both a wealth of weird internet knowledge and a classic magazine sensibility. We can’t wait to have her writing for The Atlantic.”
Tiffany previously wrote about consumer culture for The Goods at Vox, covering everything from face tattoos to palm fronds. Before joining Vox, Tiffany worked in audience development at Damn Joan and was a culture reporter at The Verge.
“Shadowbanning,” in its current usage, refers to a content-moderation tactic that reduces the visibility of a piece of borderline content rather than removing it entirely. It originally referred to something much more dramatic: quieting annoying personalities on message boards by making their posts totally invisible to everyone else. Platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have denied doing anything that extreme, but they do limit content’s reach in various ways—it’s frequently unclear how or why, which makes people suspicious. Shadowbanning can mean that posts aren’t promoted to a wide audience, or it can mean something more severe, such as hiding accounts from search results (platforms tend to blame this on bugs).
https://www.wired.com/story/fandom-internet-culture-one-direction-politics-kaitlyn-tiffany/
What Black One Direction Fans Reveal About Activism
Pop music fans know that their faves can't change the world's systemic problems—that's not what they're asking for.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/andrew-tate-youtube-shorts-video-algorithm-tiktok/673291/
Andrew Tate Is Haunting YouTube
Many months after a misogynist influencer was banned from social media, his face is still everywhere. Will it ever go away?