Tag: Truth Social

Trump Sold-Out His Base to Shovel $95 Billion to Ukraine and Israel

Ms. Cat

America last. America last. That’s all this is. America last, every single day. – Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene

The man who is most responsible for the $95 billion giveaway to Ukraine and Israel, is the same guy who pretends to oppose America’s “wasteful” foreign wars. Donald Trump. It was Trump who consulted with Speaker Mike Johnson about the contents of the Ukraine aid package, just as it was Trump who concocted the idea of issuing loans instead of dispersing the standard welfare handout. It was also Trump who said:

Trump Sold-Out His Base to Shovel $95 Billion to Ukraine and Israel

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Michael Tracey: America First, or Ukraine First?

Nikki Haley Reinvigorates The GOP’s Breathless TikTok Hysteria… For The Children

Ms. Cat

We’ve noted many times how the GOP’s obsession with TikTok is stupid, performative, and utterly hollow. For example, the party desperately wants to ban TikTok for “privacy reasons,” yet consistently opposes passing privacy laws, or regulating data brokers that traffic in far more data — at a far greater international scale — than TikTok executives could ever dream of.

Nikki Haley Reinvigorates The GOP’s Breathless TikTok Hysteria… For The Children

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Osama Bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ goes viral

‘I Was Trying To Protect Elon!’ Matt Taibbi Tells Jimmy Dore Podcast He Took Twitter Files Off Twitter To HELP Musk + Matt Taibbi Taking Twitter Files to Trump’s Truth Social

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‘I Was Trying To Protect Elon!’ Matt Taibbi Tells Jimmy Dore Podcast He Took Twitter Files Off Twitter To HELP Musk

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Matt Taibbi Taking Twitter Files to Trump’s Truth Social After Musk’s Censorship Makes Him ‘Nervous’

The disabling of the Twitter Files threads even temporarily made me nervous right away about leaving them to the whims of the company. I know other sites have already copied the TF material, but as of today we’re uploading my threads at least to a number of different platforms, including Facebook, Substack (see the new section atop the face page), and, yes, TruthSocial, among others.

Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform needs big revamp

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Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform needs big revamp

Starboard also claims that artificial intelligence technology can help boost Parler’s reach. “Advancements in AI technology, along with the existing code base and other new features, provide an opportunity for Starboard to begin servicing unsupported online communities—building a home for them away from the ad-hoc regulatory hand of platforms that hate them,” the company said.

Politicians and commentators are blocked online in Brazil after censorship order targets Bolsonaro support

Ms. Cat

The censorship power lies with a single judge, Alexandre de Moraes.

Politicians and commentators are blocked online in Brazil after censorship order targets Bolsonaro support

Related:

Tech companies under fire after Brazilian riots repeat Jan. 6 pattern

[SumOfUs] Researchers analyzed five livestream broadcasts from far-right YouTubers taking part in the riots and mapped how the content was posted across other platforms, mainly Facebook.

How Meta and Google enabled and profited from the terrorist attacks in Brazil’s capital (PDF)

Stop the Steal 2.0: How Meta and TikTok Are Promoting a Coup (PDF)

Trump’s TRUTH Social Turns Users’ Info Over to Police – Just Like Facebook and Twitter

Ms. Cat

TRUTH Social, the platform launched by former President Donald Trump earlier this year, complies with law enforcement requests in the same manner as more established companies.

While that information in and of itself is not particularly surprising, it does show TRUTH is more or less everything it purported not to be when Trump unveiled it to “stand up to the tyranny of big tech.”

Trump’s TRUTH Social Turns Users’ Info Over to Police – Just Like Facebook and Twitter