Every reporter who wrote about the META partnership research published by SCIENCE should write a follow up on how Meta hoaxed academics into writing false research reports by giving academics access when META had purposefully fudged the data pipelines. www.umass.edu/news/article...
Though Facebook can limit untrustworthy content, the new research suggests it often chooses not to.
The GOP is strategically employing lawsuits during the last weeks of the election that launder falsehoods through the courts, disenfranchise voters, and create chaos that will likely generate more false rumors to justify contesting election results they don’t like. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/u...
Republicans are filing a barrage of election lawsuits in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. The cases may be a road map for a legal battle over the results.
Utah’s elections chief, Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson, barely survived a Republican primary challenge from a conservative challenger seeking to restrict mail voting and voter access. Henderson is favored in November: boltsmag.org/electio...
Candidates are debating how easy to make mail voting and direct democracy. And in some states, election deniers are still bidding to take over the system.
What's unfolding in Western NC and E Tennessee is a disaster of monumental proportions--please keep the people there in your thoughts and help as you can. BUT ALSO: Project 2025 wants to dismantle NOAA (weather tracking/warnings), FEMA, and effective governance in general. Remember that as you vote
Khan's tenure at FTC has been amazing. She's made it one of the most important centers for progressive policymaking in the Biden administration. Harris needs to publicly back her to the hilt
My latest: New polling shows that roughly 80 percent of Democrats feel the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies. Still, prominent party donors are urging Kamala Harris to dump Joe Biden's star antitrust enforcer. www.wired.com/story/ftc-ch...
New polling shows roughly 80 percent of Democrats feel the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies. Still, prominent party donors are urging Kamala Harris to dump Lina Khan.
We could do city-sized heat pumps apple.news/AnbaQQNQXTV6...
If switching one home to a heat pump improves energy efficiency, why not whole cities? September 24, 2024 In the United States, home heat pumps have been gaining traction (and government subsidies) as...
Not ethically … 😁
Trump is now smearing Haitians in the small town of Charleroi, PA in truly vile terms. But the town manager tells me everything Trump is saying is a lie: *Haitians aren't taking Americans' jobs *No 2000% population increase *No uptick in crime New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1863...
In western Pennsylvania, Trump made one of his most savage anti-immigrant appeals yet. But one local official says it’s all a lie.
why are people not posting about fat bear week here. get it together apnews.com/article/fat-...
An Alaska national park’s annual celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber.
Very cool and awesome that this is happening right after SCOTUS declared that judges have sole individual discretion over the legality of virtually every corporate regulation. Nope, no incentives for bad things to happen there.
New: U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges on lower courts do not have to publicly disclose when they dine or stay at someone's personal residence, even one owned by a business entity, under a revised ethics rule released Monday. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges on lower courts do not have to publicly disclose when they dine or stay at someone's personal residence, even one owned by a business entity, under a revised ethics rule.