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I found this video. This may be a way to control deception running rampant on social media without actually regulating speech.
by joelado
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on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 09:35 AM PDT
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Guest: Alex Mahadevan of Poynter's MediaWise Also: Trump CFO goes back to jail GOP chaos, panic in AZ after 1864 abortion ban restored... And we thought the real news sites were bad enough. Now, as discussed on today's BradCast, fake ones, aided by...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 06:50 PM PDT
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Tombs of rich & powerful. Zuk’s Meta bunker & ‘survival follies’. The limits of privilege. Altruism is not in their DNA. While they willfully ‘dig our graves’ for profit, rather than invest in the preservation of the global ‘commons’, cognitive...
by mikeymikey
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 08:01 AM PDT
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Guest: Legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern on two ridiculous cases, increasing court dysfunction Also: Primary, Special Election results from AZ, FL, IL, KS, OH, CA And the Biden EPA's 'biggest climate move yet'... From top to bottom, the Federal...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 06:58 PM PDT
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While I agree with the bipartisan House and White House consensus that having TikTok owned by a company that, by law, must share its information with the Chinese Communist Party is a national security threat, there’s a larger part of the issue — which...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 08:15 AM PDT
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— — Obermann raises the question: Who “owns” Donald Trump now, after recent meetings with Elon Musk and Jeff Yass? Either of these Billionaires could easily afford to cosign on Trump’s $90 Million Bond, allowing him to appeal his second loss in the E...
by jamess
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 04:41 AM PDT
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The tl-dr For the headline tl-dr above the fold if skimming this Diary, there’s been a serious and dangerous misunderstanding fuelling the proposed TikTok ban in the House panel (a lot of Dem votes) already costing us dearly, just when we have...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:30 PM PDT
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The entire meta platform seems to be offline at the moment. Users have reported being kicked off their active sessions without warning this morning. Not sure if it is just a routine technical failure or something more nefarious. But the timing sure...
by antonrobb
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 07:45 AM PST
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The Supreme Court cast doubt Monday on state laws that could affect how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube, and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The cases are among ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 01:43 PM PST
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Andy Horowitz on the NRA (from FB)
by madasheck
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 09:12 PM PST
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UPDATE: Tuesday, Feb 6, 2024 · 5:42:39 PM +00:00 · Dem I am thankful for the recommendations so that reality might intrude on some of these forced birthers. Thank you! UPDATE: Tuesday, Feb 6, 2024 · 5:40:49 PM +00:00 · Dem I have been dealing with a...
by Dem
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 08:52 PM PST
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Meta, the megacorporation that owns Facebook, wants the government to pass new legislation regulating the Internet. They say that they want this to protect your kids and your privacy. Folks, common sense will tell you that Internet companies care about...
by RobertEnders
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 12:26 PM PST
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That’s a rhetorical question. Of course we haven’t. And we won’t until we and enough of the public take control our commons, physical and digital, including system wide networks to individual contributions. We’ve trashed much of our physical commons,...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 03:01 PM PST
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Top tech executives appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as a part of a hearing titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.” Senators asked questions of the CEOs of Meta (the parent company of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 01:25 PM PST
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Pro-Tip: Often when someone posts a screenshot from social media, they leave out the date the original post was posted. If you are making and posting screenshots, please include the date. If you are using someone else’s posted screenshot, oh well…...
by jtg
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 05:50 PM PST
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So Tory Brown is trying to publish a second edition of her celebrated game, “Votes for Women” about the Women’s Suffrage Movement from 1848 to 1920. It had a successful first launch, and the author and publisher thought they could make a successful...
by spinozasghost
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 11:07 PM PST
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Trump learned two valuable lessons from Putin during their July, 2018 Helsinki summit: It doesn’t matter how many votes you get. What matters is who counts the votes. If you tell a lie repeatedly and often enough, eventually it becomes the truth. Trump...
by Art Smart
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 04:16 AM PST
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It’s hard to imagine the complete demise of the United States. Just as it once was hard to imagine anyone getting elected President while under four indictments. Throughout his life, Trump’s key to success has always been his incredibly skillful...
by Art Smart
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 06:34 AM PST
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I’ve started seeing threatening messages warning that a Facebook page for a group I work with has material that violates trademark/copy right, supposedly from Facebook/Meta, and the page will be permanently shutdown/deleted. I’m seeing this coming...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 05:57 AM PST
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Facebook has a new “feature” that is a privacy nightmare. � Their “Link History” feature stores all the links you opened in Facebook so you can reference them later. �But it also uses that ...
by angryea
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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