Oh no…now Meta is automatically sharing our private messages to its AI. As far as I can tell, you can only turn it off for each message thread, one at a time (and there seems to be no option to turn it off *at all* for group threads!). Yet another privacy disaster from Facebook.

I use Messenger btw for family and non-tech friends, so don’t (ahem) shoot the messenger.

A friend who's a fed employee sent me a msg about what's happening in their agency and it is so much worse than I thought.

It's not just that the Trump administration is breaking shit.

They're literally building their own dark infrastructure inside the one that exists. They brought their own personnel, yes -- personnel who aren't even being cleared. They just come straight from Heritage or Musk, and they're setting up shop. They're bringing their own servers - so there are no communications that can be traced through 'the system.' This goes against every rule. They're all going through their own offline channels.

That's what all that stuff about the meta data on those memos is about. No trace back to the WH.

The Heritagers + Muskovites have purged all the senior folks and sending memos in the name of powerless juniors who remain.

I don't want to sound alarmist but it's literally like those movies about evil fuckers taking over. It's another Jan 6 but with memos and communiques vs guns.

It's a coup.

For people who are newer here, if you have too much US politics in your feed for your taste, you can do a few things to help yourself:

• use keyword filtering tools available on your service. Use words commonly found in posts you don’t want to see, especially if the poster is thoughtful and uses hashtags consistently.

• you can mute people temporarily (e.g. for a week or a month)

• you can always unfollow people or mute people who post non-CW’d politics. It’s not rude, it’s self-care.