Fauxscial Media and the Last House on the Street

In December of 2018, I logged into Twitter to find a message waiting for me in my inbox.

I didn’t know the sender. If we had ever interacted, I hadn’t recalled the exchange. It was just a message in my inbox from a name I didn’t recognize. At the time, I got a lot of those. Up until Elon Musk bought Twitter, I had always “left my DMs open” – meaning, any…