and gemmel did that day. we are asking them to acknowledge what they did and recognize the truth of what happened that day of our country. sadly, it s on life support today. the decency question, i guess i think most of your colleagues across the aisle are not so indecent that they would heap that scorn and i would bet that, you know, even the people heaping the scorn wouldn t, like, do it to harry cambodian u dunn s face. but what there is instead this kind of ear is plugged see no evil, here no evil, let s avoid the whole thing, which i think has cast a pall over the capitol for months. i have been with harry dunn a lot. he is a big booming with a smile on his face always. i saw him before this and i have seen him since. now you see members walk by and they kind of put their head
which, very much, suggests, yes, they will. but because he is not stating it, facebook doesn t take him offline. yes, this is a cowardly dodge it s been honed by a whole bunch of people working in this space. max, your piece was fascinating to me because i did not know this industry existed. that there are firms, basically, as you describe, private firms straddling traditional marketing in the shadow world of geopolitical influence operations selling services once conducted principally by intelligence agencies, sowing discord, meddling elections, and pushing viral conspiracies mostly on social media. who who are these people? and how do you hire them? so, they are pretty easy to hire. that s kind of their whole proposition. really, anyone with 10, 20, $50,000 and access to a dark web account, now, you can have your own kind of, you know, russians meddling in the 2016 election style disinformation campaign.
mccarthy, like many republicans, have opposed just about every measure to suppress covid so he tweeted about this and took to the floor without a mask against the tyranny of the new rules. house speaker nancy pelosi was asked about what mccarthy said on. i am going to play her response because it s clear she has had it with business as usual. listen to what she calls him at the end. the mask mandate, speaker pelosi, any response to the backlash? the capitol physician, the official mandate from him. i have nothing to say about that expect honor it. i have my mask. mccarthy says it s against the science. he s such a moron. you hear that? that was the speaker of the house calling the minority leader a moron. later she reiterated that s what she meant. i said earlier in my comment,
fundamental believe is the united states is a birthright of straight christian men and his only authentic pleasure is cruelty. it s that that bind his most ardent supporters to him in shared scorn for those they hate and fear. immigrants, black voters, feminists and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright. through word and deed, it makes them euphoric. pretty on the money frm i mean, yesterday we were served up two perfect examples on full display. the first this incredibly emotional system investigating the capitol attack of four officers who faced brutal violence on january 6th and in the case of capitol police officer harry dunn a slew of racist epitaphs. they spoke with poise, courage and emotion about what they faced that day. being an officer you know your life is at risk whenever you walk out the door. even if you don t expect
and yet, they re having a hard time doing it. well, to their credit, facebook and twitter, especially, maybe lesser youtube, are being really aggressive and hiring some of the best people in this space to root out, identify, and expose these campaigns. and they are doing so publicly, which i think is kind of admirable. but at the same time, if you talk to experts and american officials, who track this stuff, they ll say, you know, for all the work that these platforms are doing on the back end, the design of their technology and the design of their platforms is really a big part of what makes this possible. and a lot of the firms that got into it, got into it, specifically, because disinformation is something that works really well in social media. i mean, that s what the russians found in 2016. just the nature of these platforms. their engagement maximizing, algorithms, and design elements, really privilege conspiracy and divisive content, which is part of why it s so easy to get in