Social Media

“In 2018, American Atheists… sued Rapert, a Republican, arguing he violated its members’ freedom of speech by blocking them from expressing their viewpoints on his official Facebook and Twitter accounts.” - RNS

“The bipartisan ‘Kids Online Safety Act,’ which is currently before Congress, is an effort to address these realities by providing parents and kids with safeguards and tools to protect them, uncovering the ‘black box algorithms’ that can feed dangerous content, and creating a duty for social media platforms to prevent and mitigate harms” - IFS

“In any case, the person you think is ‘playing politics’ may actually be trying to show respect to friendships he’s had for forty years. At least consider this option before you blast away.” - Mark Ward

“62% of tweets that the Center’s analysis identified as political were retweets, with no additional text from the user who shared them….Political tweets from Republicans and Democrats alike are more likely to mention the opposite party than their own.” - Pew

The Intercept claims an internal memo describes Jane’s Revenge as “a far-left extremist group that has claimed responsibility on its website for an attack against an anti-abortion group’s office in Madison, Wisconsin in May 2022. The group is responsible for multiple arson and vandalism attacks on pro-life institutions.” - The Intercept

“The post-Babel situation is, according to Haidt, a disaster and the ‘best metaphor he has encountered’ for ‘the fractured country we now inhabit.’ Haidt imagines the post-Babel world to be one in which people wandered amid the ruins of the destroyed city ‘unable to communicate, condemned to mutual incomprehension.’” - Law & Liberty

“Twitter announced on Monday afternoon that it accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company…. Twitter Board members unanimously accepted the deal.” - N. Review

SBC’s “North American Mission Board (NAMB) and Send Network partnered with Dan Darling, author of A Way with Words, to create a free web course at NewChurches.com called “Using Online Conversations for Good” - BPnews

“TikTok is now the world’s most downloaded app and the world’s #1 most visited website, ahead of Google (#2) and Facebook (#3). Every day, more than one billion different videos are viewed on TikTok. Experts agree that the key to its success is its unique algorithm.” - IFS

“…social media enables the same voices that (rightly) celebrate the downfall of corrupt institutions to wield significantly more power with even less accountability than their institutional predecessors.” - TGC