An elaborate, anonymous campaign to discredit a California @[email protected] volunteer running for school board resulted in the election of a right-wing extremist who admitted AFTER the election that his campaign staff was involved in spreading disinformation. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/16/campaign-tricks-cited-in-close-contra-costa-school-board-election
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1604140870168477697
Mastodon is growing and has become the favorite migration landing spot for former twitter accounts, but it would have to grow significantly to take on 100 million former twitter users.
8,589,415 accounts
+1,233 in the last hour
+42,318 in the last day
+246,332 in the last week
WATCH: A MAGA Trump supporter launched into a crazed rant against President Obama.
I responded calmly with the truth: Barack Obama is one of the finest public servants our country has ever seen.
An Incredible Day In Internet History
It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.
It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.
17 December 1942 | 11 governments condemned the 'bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination' of Jews by Nazi Germany in a "Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Declaration_by_Members_of_the_United_Nations
It was a response to a note addressed to the Allied governments on December 10 by the MFA of the Polish government-in-exile, Count Edward Raczynski, titled 'The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mass_Extermination_of_Jews_in_German_Occupied.pdf
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