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What The Guardian’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Attempting To Publish An Accurate Article About Substack Can Tell Us About How Twitter-Truth Is Colonizing Reality

What The Guardian’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Attempting To Publish An Accurate Article About Substack Can Tell Us About How Twitter-Truth Is Colonizing Reality

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Jesse Singal
May 04, 2021
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Last week, a journalist named Oscar Schwartz wrote a column for The Guardian headlined “Substack: the future of news – or a media pyramid scheme?” It’s a useful example of how, contrary to the claim that Twitter “doesn’t matter” or “isn’t real life,” what I call Twitter Facts — that is, things that are treated as ‘true’ on Twitter, but which may or may …

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