I hate that I’m doing this but here’s the link to his announcement on truth social. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113872782548137314

He spends 2/3rd of the post sucking up to Putin.

I really really heavily doubt he will overperform Biden on this.

wtf LMAO (you should probably tag NSFW)

Uhoh. I’ve been caught 👮🚓

To imply TikTok isn’t influencing people is baseless ignorance or deliberately misleading.

Either you’re not actually replying to me or strawmanning me because I said said this.

Social media + easily influenced kids is bound to have an effect.

Apart from that, all I said was that the poll showed correlation between tiktok use and favourable views of Russia/China. I said the poll didn’t show causation, not that it didn’t exist. And I was only talking about views of Russia/China not generally on if tiktok is influencing people.

Social media + easily influenced kids is bound to have an effect.

But I agree this news doesn’t show causation just correlation.

When you don’t have an independent judiciary, or serious appeal laws, it’s pretty quick.

Is there a reason we can’t just add a new mod team to the old 196?

I suppose that may feel a little “takeover”y by its them that decided to move.

Anarchism is often called libertarian socialism.

Yeah I’m aware of that. Axel Springer runs the paper that published the infamous Musk op-ed.

Generally though (despite an obvious current western neoliberal order bias) Politico has been decent in the past (outside of opinion pieces), as a sort of basic way to get general facts, but I fear their quality is declining. I’m personally gradually replacing them with EURACTIV and RFI in my reading habits.

Yes it’s a bit weird isn’t it.

Politico seems to be treading more and more into sensationalist titles. Disappointing…

Ditto.

“This far right Us oligarch is so problematic, let’s do buisness with this other far right Us oligarch instead” 🤦

Rather than move to Bluesky, a favored alternative to Musk’s X for many, the defense ministry said it will continue to stream videos and content on Instagram, YouTube and through a WhatsApp channel instead.

The Impressia for Pixelfed app has been serving me well the past 6 months.

If the bus is near full, you’re taking ~40 times less space than you would if you were taking a car, meaning if everyone took the bus, there would be no jam.

This is so confusing.

All I did was share a news article about Musk and Tiktok and then say your dismissal of data privacy as a non-issue is untrue.

And now you’ve strawmanned me to say data privacy issues are unique to tiktok and that I’m in favour of the ban. I never said either of those things. Go find someone else to argue with.

sell your data nonsense.

you have to be extremely oblivious to ignore that or claim it’s a “boomer” issue. It affects everyone.

never heard of El Pais?

France 24 seems good but their RSS feeds are messy so I don’t use them much.

Huh?

You’re going to 100% trust what tiktok says? Tiktok also says they are independent from China and don’t sell your data.

Twitter also denied reports Musk was offering to buy them before it became public.

RFI and DW are great at replacing the weak spots of Euractiv and politico europe.

According to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal