<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to fire his fact-checking team has opened the floodgates to a deluge of scams, hate speech, propaganda and lies. I first discovered how the platform used by 3.2 billion people was being misused when I started sub-editing at the Post in 2017. Every news story about the plight of the Rohingya was followed -- in seconds -- by dozens of crude memes and copy-and-paste hate speech in comments demonising the stateless people as usurpers, animals and even cannibals. The campaign was later linked to propaganda farms run by Myanmar's Tatmadaw military.</p>
What former President #Trump's conviction means, is that even a former #President isn't above the laws of the United States, and he can be held #criminally #liable for the #crimes he has committed.
This isn't a very high standard we are holding the former President to. As a matter of fact, it's the same standard we hold all people to. If the #Republicans cannot understand that, it's their fucking problem. Deal with it in an adult way, please.
#Trump #Melts #Institutions, #SCOTUS Edition.
The #SupremeCourt's #nowin #situation and the #healthy #liberalism we need. How much should people #freakout over Thursday’s #SCOTUS #oralarguments about #Trump’s #claims that he can’t be #Criminally #prosecuted for election #crimes due to #presidentialimmunity?
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-melts-institutions-scotus-edition
#Seven #Trans #Protestors In #Iowa Were #Criminally #Charged Months After Attending a #Protest.
There were about 100 #people at the #protest but the only people charged were all #trans and #nonbinary.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Iowa #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Police #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #NoPoliceAtPride
https://www.them.us/story/trans-protestors-iowa-criminally-charged-censure
#Ohio #Woman Who #Miscarried at Home Will Not Be #Criminally Charged - NBC
“The medical examiner testified at a preliminary hearing that this fetus died in utero and showed no signs of injury.”
The #prosecutor chose to pursue charges regardless of the #law or the #facts and should face #professional #discipline.
An Ohio woman was not indicted by a grand jury Thursday on a felony charge after she miscarried at home, in a case that has drawn international attention and fears among reproductive rights experts who see it as a dangerous precedent in post-Roe America.
At one point, Judge Florence Pan presented Sauer w/a hypothetical situation, asking if a president could be #criminally charged for ordering SEAL Team 6 to #assassinate a #political rival. Sauer said that a #prosecution would be possible in that situation only if the president had first been found #guilty in an #impeachment proceeding.
#Trump #law #legal #Jan6 #TrumpCoup #democracy #election #JackSmith #UnitedStates #government