%%Remember Last Name, First Name for Alias%% # Virginia Heffernan ## TL;DR - Changed her location to Germany - ==see [[Ich Bin Ein Tweeter]]== - to falsely flag content she doesn't like as illegal. ## Aggregate > [10/25/2008](https://archive.is/ql2mY): Hitler was maybe right about himself. > Links to https://archive.is/lC6iC. > … Imaginary Germany. I’d gotten the tip from a canny Twitter user that—it was a rumor, really—==you could reset your location in your Twitter profile and, in a flash, get the benefit of German anti-hate-speech laws.== The Nazis in my timeline, I was told, would dry up. Should I stay and fight on America’s Twitter shores? Hell, no. Internet times call for internet measures. > - [Ich Bin Ein Tweeter](Ich%20Bin%20Ein%20Tweeter.md) - 02-05-2018 > **Virginia Heffernan** (born August 8, 1969) is an American journalist and cultural critic. Since 2015, she has been a political columnist at [the Los Angeles Times](The%20Los%20Angeles%20Times.md) and a cultural columnist at [[Wired]]. From 2003 to 2011, she worked as a staff writer for [[The New York Times]], first as a television critic, then as a magazine columnist, and then as an opinion writer. She has also worked as a senior editor for Harper's, as a founding editor of Talk, and as a TV critic for [[Slate]]. Her 2016 book Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art argued that the Internet is a "massive and collective work of art", one that is a "work in progress", and that the suggested deterioration of attention spans in response to it is a myth. > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Heffernan) ### My Notes - Compare Virginia's reporting on [[Elon Musk]] in 2013 [[Elon Musk's approach to work-life balance really is from Mars]] to now. - Compare Virginia's reporting on [[Aaron Swartz]] [[Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 - a computer hacker who is now a political martyr]] to reporting on [[Julian Assange]] [[WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Is a Terrible Houseguest]]. - In [[Ich Bin Ein Tweeter]] Virginia is very evasive about her "abuse" after she "thinks" she'd been critical of [[Donald Trump]] Jr. She had been getting roasted for writing an op-ed about [[Hillary Clinton]] and then doubling down on her comparison to MLK. Source: https://archive.is/20230519155105/https://twitter.com/page88/status/798611601674805249. - The article [[Hillary Clinton Is More Than a President]] was published in [[Lenny Letter]], a defunct feminist newsletter founded by Lena Dunham. - Explore relationship with [[Van Jones]]. Twitter mentions? Check the Excel file. # Tags #Card --- - **First Indexed:** 05-27-2023 - 4:26 pm - **Last Updated:** 05-30-2023 - 12:45 pm %% - [ ] Date of birth: - [ ] Place of birth: - [ ] Death Date: - [ ] Death Location: - [ ] Nationality: - [ ] Citizenship: - [ ] Parent: - [ ] Spouse: - [ ] Sibling: - [ ] Child: - [ ] Notable Family: - [ ] Position Held: - [ ] Member of: - [ ] Alma Mater: %%