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"It's a hearts & minds thing. #BigOil has always understood that & we'd better get smart about it fast. As for talking about #ClimateChange, it wasn't even the right time to talk about it during the #LAWildfires, which came with $250 billion worth of damages. That's if money's all you care about."

podcastics.com/episode/352139/

Many years ago a man wrote a funny reply to a a Twitter thread pretending not to understand the whole Vietnam-analogy of Star Wars. You could tell he was joking just by opening his Twitter page and scrolling through his older tweets.

Since then I've seen countless people sharing screenshots of that thread making it seem that this joker was being completely serious and clueless.

This bugs me every single time I see it. It is a lesson in not believing every screenshot you see posted on social media but more importantly it shows how de-emphasizing links has corrupted information sharing on the web.

‘The real “problem,” for Washington, is that [Europe w]on’t accept food drenched in pesticides, genetically modified crops, or digital platforms that ignore #privacy and spread #disinformation.’ 💯 linkedin.com/posts/pbarbesino_

www.linkedin.com#eugreendeal #sustainability #trade #euvsus #regulationmatters… | Paolo Barbesino, PhD | 183 commentsThere’s a reason why many of us in Europe don’t buy US food, US produce, or US cars—and it’s not about cost. It’s about quality, safety, and values. From pesticide-heavy agriculture to “forever chemicals,” the US continues to push for access to EU markets by framing our health, environmental, and digital regulations as “barriers to trade.” But what they call “barriers,” we call standards. The US administration sees the EU’s rules—on food safety, anti-deforestation supply chains, digital transparency, anti-monopoly protections, PFAS restrictions—not as public safeguards, but as obstacles to unregulated, polluting capitalism. Even more concerning, some European politicians like Italy’s Minister Urso are now echoing these US critiques, suggesting we dilute the Green Deal and our hard-won protections in the name of competitiveness. Let’s be clear: weakening EU rules won’t make us stronger—it will make us sicker, more dependent, and less future-proof. The US wants to level the playing field—not by improving their standards, but by undermining ours. Their latest trade war rhetoric falsely accuses the EU of imposing 39% tariffs (a number debunked by economists and even conservative US think tanks). In truth, the EU’s average tariff on US goods is about 1–4%. The real “problem,” for Washington, is that we don’t accept food drenched in pesticides, genetically modified crops, or digital platforms that ignore privacy and spread disinformation. Let’s not fall for the false narrative that Europe is “falling behind” because we’re too regulated. In reality, we’re leading a different path—one that protects consumers, communities, and the environment. A path that is under threat. European integrity is not for sale. And those advocating to water it down should think twice. Our future depends on it. #EUGreenDeal #Sustainability #Trade #EUvsUS #RegulationMatters #DigitalSovereignty #ClimateAction #ThinkTwice | 183 comments on LinkedIn
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@FAIR Oh yes. They started blocking pro-Palestine and anti-Russia messaging on Ukraine for me a long time ago.

This is of course systematic abuse of reporting tools by automated means or by troll farms in the case of Kremlin.

Facebook refuses to hire enough people to counter the problem, which is just getting exponentially worse by cheap LLM’s able to do the job which you formerly needed a Russian spy for.
#ai #disinformation #llm #botnet #socialmedia #facebook

“How Israel uses seductive imagery to hide its military transgressions”

by David Miller, Paul Salvatori and Marion Fernando in Tracking Power Update on Substack

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“Marketing female sexuality & establishing a ‘hip’ social media presence are just some strategies Israel employs to distract from the violent crimes it’s committing vs Palestinians”

open.substack.com/pub/tracking

Tracking Power update · How Israel uses seductive imagery to hide its military transgressionsBy David Miller

#Facebook #NonEnglish #ContentModeration #misinformation #disinformation

'Meta’s automated filters and content moderators often fall short when dealing with non-English content. This isn’t just a technical limitation — it’s a dangerous oversight. In communities where English isn’t the dominant language, this gap leaves space for disinformation to flourish unchecked.

Two recent examples show the effects disinformation can have.'

poynter.org/fact-checking/2025

Poynter · Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages - PoynterInternal docs and fact-checkers show Meta often misses harmful posts in Swahili, Amharic, Oromo and more — putting real communities at risk

I read an article in Rolling Stones magazine (@RollingStone) from 2017 about Elon Musk, "The Architect of Tomorrow." It's very funny to read this today. It reminded me of an argument I had a few years ago with a software developer I respected, because he argued that the guy was a genius and I said he was just a crook. Until recently, in the developer bubble, many people I knew said that the guy buying Twitter would be fantastic for the platform because it would increase freedom of expression. I even saw people I used to work with sharing some of this nonsense.

Isn't it amazing how easily people are manipulated into believing fantasies that help create a myth? And there was a lot of help from the media in all of this. This is the richest man in the world, who some believed wanted to solve humanity's problems, but is helping to destroy US democracy and interfering in that of other countries to go the same way.

#Musk#crook#USA