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  • MAGA is more about mental gymnastics than dictations, to be fair.

    But y'all are probably right on both points. Have you seen how much Trump posts on Truth Social? He's probably had Carpel Tunnel for YEARS!

  • Interesting, last I checked they weren't but maybe their rating got updated or I was looking at a rating from a different organization.

  • There are some differences here for sure, but I'm not sure if they would warrant claiming that one is dramatically better than the other.

    CNN: The article claims that Mark stated that he bowed to government pressure to censor COVID-19 misinformation and comedic content like memes, refers to Biden publicly decrying such content in 2021, and then points out that he walked back those comments later, although the surgeon general continued to condemn COVID-19 misinformation. It also mentions that Zuckerberg was asked by the FBI about the possibility that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. It insinuates that this is why FaceBook censored the story when it was published by the New York Post. It notes that Zuckerberg recognizes now that the story is true, and wishes that he didn't censor the story at the time. While his goal regarding the COVID-19 misinformation censorship was to help local governments make sure people were getting accurate information, he states that he won't cooperate with such requests in the future. It wraps up pointing out that Republicans has celebrated this admission, as these actions are something they have criticized Zuckerberg for for years, and he testified on Capitol Hill in part to allay the fears of such lawmakers.

    Fox Business: The article claims that Mark stated that he bowed to government pressure to censor COVID-19 misinformation and comedic content like memes, and mentions that he has been cooperative with previous congressional requests for documents and employee interviews related to such requests. It states that at the time, they did not want to censor the content, but ultimately decided to do so after hearing vocal frustration from the Biden administration regarding it. He regrets the decision to censor past content at the behest of the US government, and is pledging not to do so moving forward. It also mentions that a White House spokesperson heavily insinuated to Fox News that they encouraged FaceBook to censor certain types of content, based on how such content would affect the populace. It mentions that FaceBook was subpoenaed regarding such censorship, as well as that Mark also admitted to censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story after being told by the FBI that it could be Russian disinformation, keeping the story censored while it fact-checked the story for themselves. He now admits that the story was true, and regrets censoring the story at the time, pledging to no longer censor stories in this manner moving forward.

  • Isn't it mostly boomers and bots at this point?

    I think its primary value is the fact that you can search for groups. Groups are a bane for people who are online but want to do things with people IRL, but unless you're willing to go to Discord, there's no better place for groups than FaceBook. I don't think there's a directory for GroupMe groups despite how many people use it to organize get-togethers.

  • I'm in a right wing Lemmy community run by someone who used to be alt right (and probably is but I muted him when he was spouting racist nonsense at me on another corner of the Fediverse), conservative@lemm.ee, and there is absolutely zero censorship over there. Most of the comments there are by people on the left.

    I get what you're saying here to a point, there are a lot of right wingers who support censorship to varying degrees. Even Trump has spoken in support of some forms of censorship before, even if they didn't materialize into political policy ("opening up the libel laws" and his recent calls to make burning the American flag a crime come to mind). But it's not true that every single conservative supports anti-left censorship, without exception.

  • Is Fox News blacklisted/banned on this community? If so I'll delete the post.

    It's just one of the many, many mainstream media sources I have in my RSS feed, and I pretty much notice posts at random.

  • I wish that such government powers were equally opposed by both sides of the political aisle. New powers granted by one side usually end up being abused by the other.

  • I mean...nothing in the article is false, right?

  • One of these days, I'll need to look into fact checkers' evaluations of Fox News as a news source. How the heck are they rated farther to the right and less credible than Breitbart? That makes no sense to me.

  • Antifa tried that but they were too busy terrorizing lower to middle class white people. That didn't last too long.

    But to their credit they are/were doing the whole Stop Copy City thing.

  • Don't we already have EV subsidies? Are those going away or something?

  • Both. I think they sow doubt in anyone who isn't in the MAGA camp. Everyone else thinks he needs to change his tactics.

    Trump thinks that Kamala being such a terrible candidate herself means that he can just do whatever and still win, which might technically be true but is a terrible perspective to have.

  • A federal judge has thrown out major felony charges against two former Louisville officers accused of falsifying a warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor's door before they fatally shot her.

    Maybe I'm wrong but Isn't falsifying a warrant illegal??

  • I'm surprised NASA is letting SpaceX help them. I thought they were gonna say "I'll do it myself" and twiddle their thumbs for a few more months.

  • The bot is pretty accurate and the comments are already pretty short. I feel like if people don't like it they should just block it.