Unprecedented corruption

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"The announcement says TBPN will maintain editorial independence"

Love this.

Also, fastest way to end issues at airports would be to ground private jets, due to capacity constraints, until TSA problem(s) resolved. Over in 24 hours.

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover.

The state capture of network television is almost complete.

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

A social media post from Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, posted 9 minutes ago. The text reads: "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States:" followed by a link to justthenews.com. Below is a link preview showing the article headline "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces possible war with U.S." accompanied by a photo from what appears to be an Iranian protest or rally, showing demonstrators holding anti-Trump signs and posters with Persian text.

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Important experiment showing that social media algorithms do have political effects.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If an increasing unpopular leader, known for shaping reality w/ lies, wanted to subvert democracy, would they: A) complain that the polls are “fake news”, B) threaten polling organizations into silence, C) sow distrust in election results, or D) find ways to disenfranchise voters of the other party?

If anybody is curious about local search and AI summaries, I’ll be speaking about some of our results from a large scale audit at this upcoming panel on AI Search and News on Feb 19th!

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Yes. The folks who study election rumors and conspiracy theories are worried that a forced (and false) confession by Maduro (of 2020 election fraud) is a real possibility, and we’ve already seen some (wink, wink) foreshadowing of such a move.

A problem is that there are many of us who read about, research, and publish on AI (and have been doing so for years), but the university puts us on the same playing field of decision-making about it with those who have not.

Trump is working hard to set/reinforce a frame that connects immigration, financial fraud, & election fraud. He and the right wing propaganda machine will keep producing “evidence” to fit this frame, then use it to justify attempts to suppress voters, kick voters off rolls, and delegitimize results.

I get that people are posting similar sentiments as a punch line, but really think about this: for millions of Americans this was their identity and they are not just ignoring their identity, they are actively opposing it. The cognitive dissonance is just extrordinary.

Trump is literally just going to have the US Treasury wire his bank accounts $billions.

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

One of the reasons why Elon Musk and other folks on the right want to shut down Wikipedia (or "compete" with it). It's a good platform for regular folks to accumulate data, even keep track of all of this administration's atrocities in real time. Great work

Any news source siting, in any way, Trump Regime officials for what happened is collaborating against US.

The speed at which their propaganda machine activates and their dedication to selectively amplifying evidence to push their frames is remarkable.

Horrifying news out of MN this morning. Sadly, I think we can confidently predict what comes next... DHS, the Trump admin, & rw influencers working to frame another ICE murder as the fault of the victim. I don't see it here on Bluesky, but over on X the focal claim is that the victim was armed.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

SaneWashing of Trump is the only reason he is still in power, not in prison, if The People understood how dangerously insane he is, Republican Elite would have to abandon him.

Trump is deranged.

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"

If they were serious, Corporate Media should normalize discussion about the 25th Amendment (if not impeachment), not because the lackeys in cabinet (or Congress) are going to do, but because The People have to understand how serious the crisis is to apply necessary pressure on our pathetic Elite.

Almost surely won't happen, but it should. History will remember that they have done nothing as Trump destroys NATO and Fed independence

The total capture of the DOJ, seemingly with very little pushback or resistance, is one of the most striking examples of the capitulation of American elites in the face of authoritarianism. It’s been less than a year, and federal prosecutions or investigations are already completely discredited.