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Joe Ragazzo
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Publisher of TPM, Writer of Rhapsody
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@ericmgarcia.bsky.social tells the story of how autism disinformation spread from obscure Facebook groups to the top of the U.S. government’s public health apparatus

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Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare
In 2007, Oprah Winfrey featured Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy model turned...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Aurin Squire bought a cabinet’s worth of supplements during the pandemic. For @talkingpointsmemo.com's 25th anniversary series on 25 years of digital media, he explains how the COVID "infodemic" dissolved the line between news, advertising and conspiracy theory

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The Cabinet in My Apartment That Explains How Journalism Broke During COVID
There’s a cabinet in my apartment that tells the story of how...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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@kellyweill.bsky.social takes us inside a 2018 Flat Earth conference. While flat earthers were then a curiosity at the time, "They were early adopters of a delusional digital mode that, a couple years later, would come to dominate political speech," she says talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment
I first realized the extent of the internet’s takeover of U.S. politics...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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In 2015, at the peak of the digital media boom, law student Nathan Robinson founded the print magazine @currentaffairs.bsky.social. He makes the case for why democracy needs small print magazines for TPM’s 25th anniversary series on 25 years of digital media:

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Why I Founded a Print Magazine At the Peak of Digital Media Mania
Here in New Orleans, if you want to go out and buy...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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@maxrn.bsky.social thinks the most "bone-headed" of all the rules for online journalism was that it should be free. When he & his co-founders started @hellgatenyc.com, a local NYC news site, they decided to do so as a reader-funded, worker-owned publication.

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The Future of Local News Is Making People Pay For It
You can leave journalism altogether or you can take the longest way...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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"Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything. It wasn't all that long ago that we were going to have internet in our schools. Now, let's do A1."
April 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM