I’m a Ukrainian fact-checker. Meta just handed Russia the keys to your newsfeed.
Meta claims it’s championing free speech. But for Ukrainians, it feels more like a death sentence for the truth. - Olga Yurkova

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/12/im-a-ukrainian-fact-checker-meta-just-handed-russia-the-keys-to-your-newsfeed/?234hiuyb&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3kG06cWYcRuptMKqMbv19YexqwKOWRHcUnyFazoVFkIMk3N1nkDGYMQh8_aem_k0IMtjpjx_cpCAro1UZKUg

The Washington Post noted a sad milestone this week:a media company is getting rid of 3 Pulitzer-winner editorial cartoonists in the latest whacks at journalism jobs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/07/12/mcclatchy-cartoonists-layoffs/

But when the Post names McClatchy as the company doing the firing, it's letting the real culprit -- the owner of McClatchy, a financial operator called Chatham Asset Management -- off the hook. Chatham is one of the hedge-fund / private equity outfits systematically looting what's left of local news.

During the height of COVID, rental assistance, job assistance, food assistance and more were given to those in need. Student loan payments were paused. The US did not collapse due to these policies. In fact, consumer spending went up.

So, given that these things are possible and even economically favorable, one can only conclude that ending them benefits some small but powerful portion of the populace who wants to keep the rest of us under control and in relative, if not full-on, poverty.

Mega-hypocrites at Musk site go on bended knee to India's increasingly dictatorial regime, which is on the attack against free speech the government doesn't like. https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-amritpal-singh-sandhu/

Pre-Musk Twitter fought back against these attacks, on principle -- a quality the current management profoundly lacks.