Favorite Rejects 2022-04-19

Matt Karolian 🇺🇦 @mkarolian

WHERE ARE THE VACCINES FOR YOUNG KIDS?! It has been nearly a month since Moderna said they were going to request FDA authorization.

npr.orgModerna wants the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6No deaths were reported in tests, and there were no signs of myocarditis, or heart inflammation, as a side effect.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

DC think tanks have always had one foot in the propaganda game and that’s fine, but these days the idea of being a good ally has become so dominant that it’s crippling the ability to do good analysis. slowboring.com/p/rigorous-acc…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My main thought on the Libs of TikTok is that people were right to worry 18 months ago about the implications of a popular and influential media channel being owned by a Chinese company and it’s too bad we’ve totally dropped the subject.

stratechery.comThe TikTok WarHow TikTok exposed Facebook’s blindspot, thanks to its Chinese roots, and why those Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Trump handled the TikTok issue in his typical corrupt, inept, clownish way so it got fumbled as a policy issue. But then instead of picking it up and addressing it responsibly, Biden’s team seems to have forgotten about it.

🔮 Oracle of Obama 🔮 @jryangolden

@washpostbiz By far the best line in the story "The online influencer Glenn Greenwald" - reducing Glenn to influencer status is gonna trigger him so hard

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is a very important story

theatlantic.com‘It’s Just Scaring People, and It’s Not Saving Lives’Stories about the pandemic’s continuing risks for immunocompromised people may create unintended harms.