I’m seeing lots of schadenfreude about the guy “losing” $200 billion. It benefits no one. A better way would be to tax the megabillionaires fairly: i.e., returning the bulk of their wealth to the society that made them rich in the first place.
𝗦𝗵𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹.
EU warns Musk that Twitter faces ban over content moderation.
The European Union has threatened Elon Musk's Twitter with a ban unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderation, setting up a regulatory battle over the future of the social media platform, the Financial Times <a href="https://on.ft.com/3AWGL2J" target="_blank">reported</a> on Wednesday.
Fox News for over 20 years has lied to the American people. They are gaslighters to those unfortunate people unable to decipher lies, unable to realise their reality has been fed to them.
Crime coverage on Fox News halved once US midterms were over.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/25/fox-news-crime-coverage-decline-us-midterm-elections
"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk decide..."
https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment
I’m finding that #Mastodon is helping me develop a more healthy approach to social media. The timeline doesn’t scroll forever (there’s a bottom!), & the feeds and filters mean there’s a few definite places I check for new interesting posts & then I’m done. Lots of discussion, often about hard & important topics, but no perpetual outrage that screams at me through the screen, & much less ‘both sides’ journalism that seeks to normalise the absurd & the untrue.
I log on, I share, I log off. Nice.
To all of you that celebrate, I hope you have a safe and fun turkey day tomorrow!
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