Groupthink? What groupthink?

From "we're a nation of immigrants" to "America first!!!" in the blink of an eye.

Dec 14, 2022

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(Note: The focus of this essay is on how left-wing bias in Twitter moderation, which I think was real, was a sub-set of left-wing bias in many mainstream institutions, particularly media, and has had the result of lowering trust in those same institutions. Because of this focus, I’m not going into all the other Twitter Files stories, such as the Trump s…

3 years ago · 7 likes · 4 comments · HistoryBoomer

The Twitter Files are also further evidence of a trend in mainstream American institutions to favor left-wing views over others and to frame counter-narratives as dangerous misinformation. A recent Wall Street Journal editorial made the argument that it’s not so much that liberals live in a silo as they’ve become so institutionally dominant that they’ve created a world where contrary points of view can only seem bizarre and dangerous.
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[Matt] Yglesias is not talking about a massive conspiracy and neither am I. Instead, what’s happened is that liberals who dominate both big media companies and tech companies share the groupthink that the Wall Street Journal described.

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