The White House is RESCINDING the memo freezing federal aid. So funding is back? Maybe?
The White House is RESCINDING the memo freezing federal aid. So funding is back? Maybe?
Politicalcompass.org has has fascinating quiz that helps folks see where they are left to right but also top to bottom. Where do you land?
Spread information, not panic
From a trusted source at the US-Mexico border:
Amen!
A baby duck and a bunny sit together with text on the screen that reads βWhat in the Cadbury crΓ¨me egg is going on here?β
1 Cadbury creme egg is $2.49 at my local store. And itβs not even Lent yet! I justβ¦ what is this country coming to? π
Trump allegedly wants to restore TikTok ASAP.
Anyone else worried about all those poor congresspeople who invested heavily in Meta before sponsoring the banβ¦? π
A black and white cat with a toy in her mouth
A screen shot from Red Note showing the user has paid the βcat taxβ by posting a cute cat photo
Hi everyone. Iβll come play here when Iβm done being a giant child on Red Note. π PLEASE call/email your Senators and Reps to encourage them to support the βExtend the TikTok Deadline Act.β It would give us a bit more time to learn BlueSky before we migrate en masse. π
Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the companyβs apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election β βPope Francis endorses Trump,β Pizzagate, and all the rest β are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Weβre all so little here! Can totally work.