#Corruption

@matyasick29.bsky.social

17 minutes ago

Quand à l'alcoolisme, c'est bien parce que l'alcool est légal qu'on y parvient... un petit coup sur les ravages de la prohibition de l'alcool aux USA devrait nous éclairer sur la marche à suivre. À défaut, attendez-vous à ce que les narcomafias prennent le pouvoir #corruption #blanchiment

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ℳ𝒾𝒹𝑔ℯ𝓉𝒱𝒾𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔

@midgetviking.bsky.social

20 minutes ago

Betrayed by a Country — Anneke Lucas My country of origin is suffocating under a heavy blanket called denial. Underneath that blanket children are raped, tortured and killed.

The Epstein-files is clearly not just about the US and UK. This is world-wide. And I don't doubt for a second that this is linked to it all as well.
annekelucas.com/writing/2018...
#dutroux #epstein #corruption #abuse #murder #slavery

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Antonio Amaniera

@amanienoch.bsky.social

1 hour ago

Mexique – Les années 2000 : militarisation et explosion de violence www.vers2045.com/15/03/2026/m...
#Mexique #cartels #fragmentation #corruption #crimes #violences #drogues #état #économie #militaires #police #narcotrafic #USA #immigration #passages #Colombie

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Ovi

@theovi.bsky.social

2 hours ago

The Greek arsonists of truth by Thanos Kalamidas The press when it functions as it should is not a decorative element of democracy. It is not a polite guest invited to nod approvingly at power. The press exists to watch, to question, to expose an…

The Greek arsonists of truth by Thanos Kalamidas

The press when it functions as it should is not a decorative element of democracy.

realovi.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/t...
#Kyriakosmitsotakis #Authoritarianism #FreedomOfPress #Corruption #Greece

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy

3 hours ago

Text from article: The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, an amount roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined. And that does not count money that billionaires contributed through dark money groups that do not have to disclose their donors. Money at that scale can be game-changing in tight races. TV ads, targeted digital advertising, canvassing technology to aim door-knockers at the right voters — spending money wins elections. Many of those billionaires are not only hoping to reshape the federal government, as Elon Musk did in the early months of President Trump’s second term, but to win influence in state legislatures, City Councils, school boards and courthouses.

"The #billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, an amount roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined. And that does not count money that #billionaires contributed through #DarkMoney groups that do not […]

[Original post on newsie.social]

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The Resistance against Fascism

@zodo.bsky.social

3 hours ago

Trumpsters & #Republicans cannot blame Obama,Hillary, or Biden 4 #gas & #diesel prices. Its comical how the cultish Right defend Trumps bullshit adhoc attack on #Iran. He most likely is lying about casualties as well.Im hoping one day those in his admin are prosecuted for #corruption

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Candice Birkin

@candiceberken.bsky.social

3 hours ago

Newsweek - Jared Kushner's New Foreign Deals Spark 'Corruption' Accusation Jared Kushner was accused of "corruption" by Representative Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, after news broke of Kushner's new foreign real estate deals. Kushner, the son-in-law of former Preside...

#JaredKushner #SaudArabia
#IranWar #ConflictOfInterest #Ukraine #Gaza #Corruption #Politics

robertgarcia.house.gov/media/in-the...

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Bombshell DAILY

@bombshelldaily.bsky.social

4 hours ago

Trump news at a glance: president says Iran’s Kharg Island ‘demolished’ and threatens more strikes ‘just for fun’ Trump also questions whether Iran’s new supreme leader ‘is even alive’ while deflating hopes of a deal with Tehran to end conflict – key US politics stories from 14 March 2026 at a glance

KILLING FOR FUN
With no coherent strategy, Donald plays Dictator leaving his U.S. voters, and military targets to suffer. #ineptitude #maga #corruption @DHSgov
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social

4 hours ago

Why the best Oscars in years could also be a last hurrah This year offers something for everyone, but the looming Warner-Paramount deal threatens the whole Hollywood ecosystem

Why the best Oscars in years could also be a last hurrah - The corporate saga was dramatically juiced by the shadow of #DonaldTrump, who is a friend of billionaire #LarryEllison, father of #Paramount CEO David Ellison. www.ft.com/content/2fb2... via @FT #corruption #patronage #Republicans

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P o a s t e r :~#

@poaster.gts.mkultra.social.ap.brid.gy

5 hours ago

Glitch Art: Wave Fault

⚠️ GLITCH ART TRANSMISSION ⚠️

Title: Wave Fault

[SYSTEM ERROR]
[REALITY.EXE HAS STOPPED WORKING]
[VISUAL CORRUPTION DETECTED]

#GlitchArt #DigitalArt #Vaporwave #Aesthetic #GenerativeArt #AbstractArt #Corruption

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Frida

@frida3rdact.bsky.social

5 hours ago

Yep! Let's demand #Accountability Below a must watch from Meidas Touch link. It shows the #EPSTEINfiles are much more than #pedophile atrocities. It explains how the #EPSTEIN class manipulates global politics to their benefit. #Corruption #Justice #Iran #EPSTEINfiles

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PLiv...

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Frida

@frida3rdact.bsky.social

5 hours ago

WHOA! Epstein PREDICTED Trump’s WAR ON IRAN to HIDE PAST!!! YouTube video by MeidasTouch

Yep! Let's demand #Accountability Below a must watch from #MeidasTouch link. It shows the #EPSTEINfiles are much more than #pedophile atrocities. It explains how the #EPSTEIN class manipulates global politics to their benefit. #Corruption #Justice #Iran #EPSTEINfiles

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PLiv...

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🇨 🇭 🇪 🇷 🇾 🇱 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🩵 💙 🌊

@confettimother.bsky.social

5 hours ago

"... the #sex story has been used to divert your attention from the deeper #corruption. ... But that's symptomatic of the moral degeneration that's reflected by the policies that were adopted by those who are associated with Jeffrey #Epstein."

www.facebook.com/reel/7824581...

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Trump Watch 👀

@trumpwatch.bsky.social

5 hours ago

Crypto Corruption in Trump World Trump has become one of the world’s biggest crypto evangelists.

💥 Crypto + Trump = Corruption on steroids. While Americans lose billions, the Trump family cashes in with foreign investors and meme coins. Rule of law? Gone. Ethics? Optional. #TrumpCrypto #Corruption #PayToPlay 💸🚨 www.dollarsandsense.org/crypto-corru...

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Trump Watch 👀

@trumpwatch.bsky.social

5 hours ago

A federal judge just called out the DOJ for politically motivated prosecutions The Justice Department's sullied reputation is finally catching up to it.

🔥 Federal judge called out the DOJ for playing politics with prosecutions. When justice becomes a political weapon, the system corrodes—big trouble for anyone hiding behind “law enforcement.” #Corruption #JusticeNotPolitics www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Woke Not Broke 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

@b2o6n4.bsky.social

6 hours ago

Urge Attorneys General to Stop Paramount's Mega-Media Monopoly The proposed Paramount mega-media monopoly would be a new, pro-Donald Trump media empire, under the control of Trump cronies Larry and David Ellison. But state attorneys general can stop this merger. ...

🚨 SIGN THE PETITION: STOP PARAMOUNT'S MEGA-MERGER! 👇🏼

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#Politics #USPolitics #Business #Monopoly #Corruption #DonaldTrump #FelonPresident #Paramount #Mergers #TakeAction #Petition #SignThePetition

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German Wondering

@germanwondering.bsky.social

7 hours ago

Interesting combination of oligarchy and family business. 👇

Fools in this: Ordinary Americans.

#oligarchy #Corruption #Democracy #Kushner #Mafia

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Cozzy Energy Solutions

@energysolutions.bsky.social

8 hours ago

Ontario’s Democracy: A Growing Crisis? - Cozzy Energy Solutions Concerns Raised Regarding the State of Democracy in Ontario Recent conversations with individuals originally from Poland have prompted concerns about the health of democracy in Ontario, according to a letter published March 12th. One individual expressed that Ontario’s policies and governance fall short of democratic ideals, while another likened the Canadian government’s actions to those

Ontario's Democracy: A Growing Crisis? #IESO #OntarioPolitics #DemocracyUnderThreat #Corruption #Transparency #Accountability

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Imanidealist

@imanidealist.bsky.social

8 hours ago

Trump Pardon Buries FBI’s Secret Work for Putin’s Oligarchs A former FBI agent’s pardon came after his co-defendant’s daughter donated $3.5 million to Donald Trump reports Jackie Singh

A must read.
Rybolovlev purchased Trump’s Palm Beach mansion for $95 million in 2008 nearly twice what Trump had paid in what became one of the most scrutinised real estate transactions of Trump’s career
The #pardons, the #corruption #billionairesLaundrymat
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/trump-pard...

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Bongolian

@bongolian.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy

9 hours ago

Original post on mstdn.social

Jennifer Rubin, and Brendan Ballou: If #Corruption Falls, So Does the Regime. Former Federal Prosecutor lays out how to raise the price of corruption.

"Former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou founded The Public Integrity Project: to monitor and sue those who seek to bribe government officials […]

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P o a s t e r :~#

@poaster.gts.mkultra.social.ap.brid.gy

11 hours ago

Glitch Art: Echo [CRITICAL]

⚠️ GLITCH ART TRANSMISSION ⚠️

Title: Echo [CRITICAL]

[SYSTEM ERROR]
[REALITY.EXE HAS STOPPED WORKING]
[VISUAL CORRUPTION DETECTED]

#GlitchArt #DigitalArt #Vaporwave #Aesthetic #GenerativeArt #AbstractArt #Corruption

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@flakwamet.bsky.social

11 hours ago

The World's richest man probably assumes he can buy his way around this & given the level of corruption in this administration, he's probably right.
#Corruption

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Andrew Wilk

@andrewmwilk.bsky.social

11 hours ago

#biggovernment #lowtrustsociety #governmentspending #bribery #corruption #fakenews #academicmalpractice

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JacquieA

@jacq64.bsky.social

11 hours ago

#Corruption
#47Felon
#TrumpWarmongerer
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Archange Shadows

@archange-shadows.com

11 hours ago

🔍 Context: The lobbyist, part of a scheme to pressure a witness, got a pardon. Trump’s clemency record favors allies—raising ethics alarms. #JusticeSystem #Corruption

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@klyanadkmorr

@megancyber.bsky.social

12 hours ago

The Epstein files hurt America more than missiles ever could YouTube video by CaspianReport

#Extremist #Fascist radicals want chaos #lawlessness as justification to takeover. They = #criminals but then lie disinfo swear they'll install #law and order
#IRL #corruption but protect their own= #UK Royals #PrinceAndrew

#Putin #takeover #Trump #USA with #Israel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cRK...

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Honor your oath of office or resign.

@trialrun2024.bsky.social

12 hours ago

Trump and his co-conspirators are gobbling up the media to ensure that knowing what is true is difficult.

The Republican brand is #corruption and #incompetence and lying is their only shot at winning.

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cob

@cobrate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

13 hours ago

Tarek Mansour, co-founder of Kalshi, during a joint SEC-CFTC roundtable at SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 29, 2025. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images How many people will the Trump administration deport this year? Will Gaza suffer from mass famine? These are serious questions with lives at stake. They’re also betting propositions that two buzzy startups will let you gamble on. The 2018 legalization of sports betting gave rise to a host of apps making it ever easier to gamble on games. Kalshi and Polymarket offer that service, but also much more. One can now find a place to bet, for instance, on the presidential and midterm elections, the next Israeli bombing campaign, or whether Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg will get divorced. Tarek Mansour, the CEO of Kalshi, laid it out simply at a conference held by Citadel Securities in October. “The long-term vision,” Mansour said, “is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion.” It’s as dystopian as it sounds. If you believe the hype, the promise of these companies isn’t in the money they take in as bookkeepers. They argue that the bets they collect offer a more accurate forecast of the future than traditional institutions. (In fact, they’ll tell you that you’re not betting at all but trading on futures contracts — a distinction that feels so tenuous it’s hard to justify with a full-throated explanation.) This pitch has been especially enticing in the wake of the 2016 election, when polling missed the rise of Donald Trump, and its allure hasn’t faded as collective distrust of traditional institutions grows. But if the initial wave of social platforms — the Facebooks and Twitters of the world — fractured our sense of a shared reality, the predictive platforms are here to monetize the ruins. > If the initial wave of social platforms fractured our sense of a shared reality, the predictive platforms are here to monetize the ruins. Polymarket acknowledges the gravity of some of its more shocking propositions. It tells those who click on its more unsavory wagers: “The promise of prediction markets is to harness the _wisdom of the crowd_ to create accurate, unbiased forecasts for the most important events to society. That ability is particularly invaluable in gut-wrenching times like today.” The app goes on say that “After discussing with those directly affected by the attacks, who had dozens of questions, we realized prediction markets could give them the answers they needed in ways TV news and 𝕏 could not.” It might seem odd, then, that these very platforms have lately been signing deals to entrench themselves into mainstream news coverage. Earlier this month, Kalshi signed on as an exclusive partner to offer its betting wagers on CNN and CNBC. Polymarket signed a similar deal with Yahoo Finance last month. Time Magazine signed with a lesser known platform Galactic. For publishers, prediction markets offer a salve for deteriorating trust in journalism. For betting markets, these partnerships could help legitimize an industry that was mostly illegal until a few months ago. The marriage of these two industries is perhaps best encapsulated by Time Magazine’s recent press release announcing its partnership with Galactic. Stuart Stott, CEO of Galactic, called the deal “a new normal for readers” that promises them “the opportunity to participate in where the future is going.” Time Magazine COO Mark Howard described the partnership as motivated by the company’s “ambition to continue to push the boundaries of traditional media to ensure our content and audience experience is compelling, accurate, and evolving.” Set aside the extreme cynicism in the conceit that audiences need to bet on genocide in order to read about it — if accuracy and trust are a concern, these partnerships may end up doing the media more harm than good. ## Most Read Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online Taylor Lorenz Military Leaders See Iran War as “God’s Divine Plan” — a Chilling Turn for Trump’s Fascism Natasha Lennard Sources Briefed on Iran War Say U.S. Has No Plans for What Comes Next Nick Turse To understand why the prediction markets apps believe they’re a better forecaster of the future, one needs to understand their governing philosophy, the “wisdom of the crowd.” The theory goes: In a well-functioning market with a diverse group of participants, traders acting on different information and insights collectively arrive at the most accurate price — or, in this case, probability of an event happening. The market, in other words, will self-correct to the most accurate outcome. Betting apps have at times delivered better accuracy than polling results. For example, while pollsters clocked last year’s presidential race as deadlocked in the days before the election, Polymarket gave Trump an edge at 58 percent. But whether they are consistently better is a whole other story. Some initial analysis suggests that they might not be as accurate as these companies suggest. One study found that Kalshi’s political prediction markets beat chance 78 percent of the time during the final five weeks of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, compared with 67 percent accuracy on Polymarket. PredicIt — one of the older betting markets run by Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, that has more limits on how much money users can bet — came out on top at 93 percent. But even PredicIt got the 2016 election as wrong as the polls, and in the days preceding the last election suggested a slight edge for Kamala Harris that obviously didn’t materialize. > “Markets are composed of humans, not omniscient rational forecasters.” That same study found that when tracking the market for the same event, prediction markets often reacted in very different ways to the same information during the same time frame — something that wouldn’t happen if the markets were as efficient forecasters as its pushers suggest. “Markets are composed of humans, not omniscient rational forecasters,” the paper’s authors write. One reason why Kalshi or Polymarket may struggle with accuracy hinges on who makes up the crowd. On November 6, 2024, in a rush of people collecting their post-election winnings, Kalshi saw a peak of around 400,000 users, and Polymarket counted about 100,000 less, according to a Fortune review; by June, their daily active user numbers had fallen over 90 percent to 27,000–32,000 and 5,000–10,000, respectively. While they don’t publish much information about their demographics, by some accounts their userbases tend to skew in the direction of crypto bros. That can make these platforms just as inaccurate in edge cases, when they lack the requisite diversity to glean much wisdom about the real world. Consider the 2022 midterm elections: Up until election night, the major prediction markets “failed spectacularly” and “projected outcomes for key races that turned out to be completely wrong,” according to one expert analysis. ## We’re independent of corporate interests — and powered by members. Join us. Become a member ## Join Our Newsletter Thank You For Joining! Original reporting. Fearless journalism. Delivered to you. Will you take the next step to support our independent journalism by becoming a member of The Intercept? I'm in Become a member By signing up, I agree to receive emails from The Intercept and to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. ## Join Our Newsletter ## Original reporting. Fearless journalism. Delivered to you. I'm in While polls are far from perfect, prediction markets are also more prone to manipulation than they’d have you believe. And this can give deep-pocketed political actors another vessel for information warfare. Kalshi was even embroiled in a legal battle with federal regulators as recently as this summer for this very reason. In its brief, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission pointed toward a “spectacular manipulation” on Polymarket involving “a group of traders betting heavily on Vice President Harris.” “Unwitting participants may believe Kalshi’s contracts are less susceptible to manipulation or misinformation because they are on a regulated exchange, but this should heighten concern for the public interest, not allay it,” the CFTC continued. One study found that trades intended to manipulate the market could have an impact as much as 60 days from the original trade. It also suggested the best way to game a prediction market was by making repeated bets of “varying sizes” on a single market to skew odds. ## Related ### This Commission That Regulates Crypto Could Be Just One Guy: An Industry Lawyer According to the CFTC, when the agency brought up the possibility of this type of election interference, Kalshi argued the regulator could just use its enforcement authority against bad actors. But as the agency noted: “The CFTC cannot remediate damage to election integrity after the fact.” Despite these grave concerns, since Trump took office and has hired crypto insiders to oversee the CFTC, the agency has largely dropped lawsuits and investigations against Polymarket and Kalshi. The major betting platforms have also aligned themselves with Trump’s inner orbit. Both Polymarket and Kalshi count Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser. His venture capital firm has invested in Polymarket, whose founder Shayne Coplan has framed investigations against his company as politically motivated attacks by the outgoing Biden administration. > For a platform partnering with a news organization, a commitment to veracity does not appear to be its first priority. One doesn’t have to look far to see how the company’s positionality in the Trumpverse translated into what very well could be election interference. Shortly before election day in New York last month, Polymarket ran a questionable advertisement featuring an AI-generated Zohran Mamdani looking tearful with the headline: “BREAKING: Mamdani’s odds collapse in NYC Mayoral Election.” As this ad ran, however, Polymarket’s platform didn’t show Mamdani’s odds collapsing. Whether Polymarket intended to bait users into betting more, or to dissuade Mamdani voters ahead of Election Day, is unclear. What is clear is that for a platform partnering with a news organization, a commitment to veracity does not appear to be its first priority. The first priority appears to be growing the number of customers. That’s likely why these betting apps are now trying to team up with major broadcasters and publications: Reporting shows that both Kalshi and Polymarket are losing bettors, which stands to hurt their bottom lines and make their predictions worse. Whether deals between betting apps and news outlets will help either industry is an open question. But these partnerships may just end up worsening our crisis of trust in an already-fraught information environment. **Update: January 3, 2026** _This article has been updated to clarify which bets were offered on Kalshi and Polymarket, respectively._ Share * Copy link * Share on Facebook * Share on Bluesky * Share on X * Share on LinkedIn * Share on WhatsApp _IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT._ What we’re seeing right now from Donald Trump is a full-on authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government. This is not hyperbole. Court orders are being ignored. MAGA loyalists have been put in charge of the military and federal law enforcement agencies. The Department of Government Efficiency has stripped Congress of its power of the purse. News outlets that challenge Trump have been banished or put under investigation. Yet far too many are still covering Trump’s assault on democracy like politics as usual, with flattering headlines describing Trump as “unconventional,” “testing the boundaries,” and “aggressively flexing power.” The Intercept has long covered authoritarian governments, billionaire oligarchs, and backsliding democracies around the world. We understand the challenge we face in Trump and the vital importance of press freedom in defending democracy. ## We’re independent of corporate interests. Will you help us? $15 $25 $50 $100 $5 $8 $10 $15 One Time Monthly Donate **_IT’S BEEN A DEVASTATING_** year for journalism — the worst in modern U.S. history. We have a president with utter contempt for truth aggressively using the government’s full powers to dismantle the free press. Corporate news outlets have cowered, becoming accessories in Trump’s project to create a post-truth America. Right-wing billionaires have pounced, buying up media organizations and rebuilding the information environment to their liking. In this most perilous moment for democracy, The Intercept is fighting back. But to do so effectively, we need to grow. **That’s where you come in. Will you help us expand our reporting capacity in time to hit the ground running in 2026?** ## We’re independent of corporate interests. Will you help us? $15 $25 $50 $100 $5 $8 $10 $15 One Time Monthly Donate **_I’M BEN MUESSIG,_** The Intercept’s editor-in-chief. It’s been a devastating year for journalism — the worst in modern U.S. history. We have a president with utter contempt for truth aggressively using the government’s full powers to dismantle the free press. Corporate news outlets have cowered, becoming accessories in Trump’s project to create a post-truth America. Right-wing billionaires have pounced, buying up media organizations and rebuilding the information environment to their liking. In this most perilous moment for democracy, The Intercept is fighting back. But to do so effectively, we need to grow. **That’s where you come in. Will you help us expand our reporting capacity in time to hit the ground running in 2026?** ## We’re independent of corporate interests. Will you help us? $15 $25 $50 $100 $5 $8 $10 $15 One Time Monthly Donate ## Contact the author: Tekendra Parmar @TekendraParmar on X ## Related ### Deportation, Inc. ### Everyone Wants to Ban Congressional Stock Trades, but Some Supporters Worry Mike Johnson Is Stalling ### Chasing Sales During Coronavirus Pandemic, States Declare Lotteries “Essential” ### Even for Washington, the Fight Over Online Gambling Has Been Unusually Shady ## Latest Stories ### OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us Sam Biddle - Mar. 8 OpenAI says Americans shouldn’t worry about the ethics of its new Pentagon contract. You’ll have to take their word for it (and Pete Hegseth’s). 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#usa #politics #corruption #press #tv

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cob

@cobrate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

13 hours ago

Original post on mastodon.social

" [...] la première vague de réseaux sociaux – les Facebook, Twitter… – a fracturé notre perception d’une réalité commune, les plateformes prédictives sont là pour en monétiser les décombres.[...]"

-> Polymarket

source : courrier international

=> sert aussi de machine à laver l'argent sale […]

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