I keep going back to the first time we wrote about Hanania, in 2019. He had published a "study" in Quillette, claiming to prove "anti-conservative bias" in Twitter moderation. But when looking into the methodology, it was a joke. But it also showed his Nazi sympathies even then... - ThreadSky

mmasnick.bsky.social • 8 days ago

I keep going back to the first time we wrote about Hanania, in 2019. He had published a "study" in Quillette, claiming to prove "anti-conservative bias" in Twitter moderation. But when looking into the methodology, it was a joke. But it also showed his Nazi sympathies even then...

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I wrote about the Free Press's shameful decision to publish Hanania's apologia for Nazi salutes www.unpopularfront.news/p/enough

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blakestacey.bsky.social•8 days ago

Hanania writes that Nazi salutes are "not sincere Nazism but an oppositional culture".

[enraged goose meme] "Oppositional to what? Oppositional to *what*?!"

dokterrudi.bsky.social•8 days ago

Weiss is a hack, and a very self serving one at that.

atlemar.bsky.social•8 days ago

And everyone she hires is, too.

mmasnick.bsky.social•8 days ago

First, it cherrypicked accounts *he could find* that had been banned, rather than anything systematic. But, more importantly, he lumped in literal Nazis as evidence of "anti-conservative" bias. Literally, the banning of the "American Nazi Party" was his proof.

https://www.techdirt.com/2019/02/22/does-twitter-have-anti-conservative-bias-just-anti-nazi-bias/

brockmeyer.bsky.social•7 days ago

If a self-identified conservative chooses to also identify the American Nazi Party as conservative, I will simply draw the logical conclusion about the aforementioned conservative.

citizen216.bsky.social•8 days ago

Saying the quiet part out loud.

thehaligonian.bsky.social•8 days ago

So he was equating Conservatives with Nazis... Can't really say he's wrong.

lakecounty1975.bsky.social•8 days ago

Twitter banned Nazis, racists and chronic misinformation accounts and for some reason conservatives took that personally. Go figure.

chessercat.bsky.social•7 days ago

to be fair…

mmasnick.bsky.social•8 days ago

Since then I've had difficulty seeing why *anyone* could take Hanania as a serious thinker on anything. It was obvious six years ago that he was willing to cover for Nazis.

blakestacey.bsky.social•8 days ago

They prop him up as a serious thinker because they, too, want to cover for Nazis.