Monitoring the Manipulation: How Twitter is Failing our Discourse

From the Texas Senate Primary to the conflict in the Middle East, the discourse on Twitter is pushing too many agendas with very few facts. We’re monitoring the manipulation here on Concepts of a Pod.New. Digital. Now. built the nation's largest focus group of grassroots Democrats to figure out how we can fix our party. We kept things behind the scenes during the 2024 election to avoid distracting the media, but now that Trump is back in power, it's time to have the hard conversations.Join the conversation! Let us know what topics you want to hear about on future episodes and add to the Q&A. Nothing is off-limits: https://newdigitalnow.us/respondChapters:00:00 - Texas Senate Primary05:14 - Lack of Nuance in Iran Discourse10:53 - How Twitter is Manipulating the Situation15:42 - ‪@dropout‬'s #therookie (non-)Controversy21:39 - Rethinking Persuasion in the Age of New Media