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Slash and Burn: How Cheap Debt Killed the News

Remember all those huge consolidations? It's time to pay the piper.

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[DrCaleb]

Shadowbanning: Some marginalized social media users believe their content is suppressed.

[DrCaleb]

Judge halts Texas probe into Media Matters’ reporting on X

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A judge has preliminarily blocked what Media Matters for America (MMFA) described as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to "rifle through" confidential documents to prove that MMFA fraudulently manipulated X (formerly Twitter) data to ruin X's advertising business, as Elon Musk has alleged.

After Musk accused MMFA of publishing reports that Musk claimed were designed to scare advertisers off X, Paxton promptly launched his own investigation into MMFA last November.

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[DrCaleb]

Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WDCDwtOQUI



This is going to backfire on the house of Saud, once out in the wild it is loyal to the highest bidder.

[DrCaleb]

Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women

If you think about that, it shouldn't be a surprise.

[DrCaleb]

You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising

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In 2019, other than the government of Vladimir Putin, Warren Buffett was the biggest funder of Sputnik News, the Russian disinformation website controlled by the Kremlin. It wasn’t that the legendary champion of American capitalism had an alter ego who woke up every morning wondering how he could help finance Vladimir Putin’s global propaganda network. It was because Geico, the giant American insurance company and subsidiary of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, was the leading advertiser on the American version of Sputnik News’ global website network.

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It's over for Russian streamers

[DrCaleb]

Australia plans age limit to ban children from social media

[DrCaleb]

Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads