This administration posts a lot on social media. The president himself posts or reposts sometimes more than 100 times a day on Truth Social. Then there’s the accounts of the Department of Homeland Security, various agency secretaries, the vice president, other Cabinet members. What the administration is calling the Department of War also has an overactive X account.
With so many accounts and such frequent posting, it’s easy for throughlines to be lost and dangerous rhetoric to sneak by.
That’s why today’s reporting from Sam Van Pykeren, Mother Jones’ digital producer, is so important. His new video and accompanying article tackles how, as the headline explains, our government won't stop sharing Nazi dog whistles on social media.
“Individually,” Sam writes, “each post could easily be dismissed, but taken together, they seem to form something more deliberate: a stream of repurposed Nazi propaganda for the everyday person’s feed.”
Sam, and the whole digital team at Mother Jones, excels at tackling complicated topics in insightful and digestible videos. (When Sam recruited me for a video, I learned firsthand just how hard it is to make talking to the camera about news seem effortless. It’s so difficult! He’s a rock star!)
I hope you’ll take a moment to watch his latest video.
—Katie Herchenroeder
