The unique perspective and provocative opinions of Joe O’Neill
Media Matters
“The company’s leadership knows how to make Facebook and Instagram safer, but won’t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people. Congressional action is needed.”—Facebook whistleblower FrancesHaugen.
According to a Pearson Institute and AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, 79 percent of Republicans and 73 percent of Democrats said social media companies bear a great deal or quite a bit of responsibility for misinformation.
The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that 274 journalists were imprisoned in 2020, the most since 1992.
Grandstanding centrist Sen. Krysten Sinema, sometimes referenced as the “GretaGarbo of Congress,” has received a well-earned spotlight—well outside her chosen role as a reconciliation-bill-obstructionist Democrat. She was featured, as it were, in “Saturday Night Live’s” cold opening. She was played, all too accurately, by a SNL cast member as a silly, absurdist narcissist.