re: We have POSTS from Black Insurrectionist. Here we go.

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You are obsessed with this board and obviously have no other life or hobbies. As much as I check out this board, you are here 24/7/365.

Go lay out in the sun for a few minutes. Go fishing or go walk your cat.

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Making the VP nominee out to be a gay groomer is one hell of a game plan to discredit Twitter.

Seems like there are better ways.

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Making the VP nominee out to be a gay groomer is one hell of a game plan to discredit Twitter.

Seems like there are better ways.

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Want me to bump the thread so you can finally answer my questions? So we don't derail this one.

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but have you seen the VP nominee?

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I cannot imagine the liability he is opening himself up to by posting this stuff.

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During this thread I made a wonder dinner of London broil, a balsamic-soy reduction (base was the marinade), and roasted brussels sprouts

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but why wait until now and not when he ran for governor?

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how many times have you listened to "Closer to Fine" since this story broke?

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Making the VP nominee out to be a gay groomer is one hell of a game plan to discredit Twitter.

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The Hurricane Speech Panic is Here

In a sequel to the pandemic panic, politicians and elite media are calling for a European-style speech clampdown, this time using the weather as an excuse.

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A week ago, before America felt the full weight of the Hurricane Helene and Milton disasters, Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas said his Federal Emergency Management Agency “does not have the funds to make it through the [hurricane] season.” Late this week FEMA contradicted its own boss:



In Covid-19, health officials issuing confusing or incorrect or shifting dictates caused significant loss of trust, which was then used as an excuse to call for clampdowns on the information landscape. Now a sequel misinformation panic is upon us, with incompetent disaster management stepping in the role of the health bureaucracy. Once again, we’re told it’s Donald Trump and other online miscreants the world cannot survive:

“I’m running out of ways to explain how bad this is,” wrote Charlie Warzel in the Atlantic. “Rumors on X are Becoming the Right’s New Reality,” added Renee DiResta. Stories in Politico, the New York Times, CNN, the Daily Beast, Vox, CBS, Bloomberg, the Guardian, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times similarly howled about the hurricane misinformation crisis.

As the theme built momentum through the week, it was only a matter of time before we saw the inevitable next-step headline, provided by Axios yesterday:



Democratic members Kathy Castor (D-FL), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Nikema Williams (D-GA) and Wiley Nickel (D-NC) sent a letter Friday to Meta, X, TikTok, Discord, YouTube, Snap and Instagram saying, “In the aftermath of Helene, we have witnessed a troubling surge in misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and scams” that are “hindering recovery efforts and exploiting vulnerable individuals.”

The concrete example cited involved “posts on Facebook and X” that “claimed that FEMA was offering a new grant for immediate cash assistance,” resulting in a “flood of applications to non-existent programs.” Scams are already barred, and I doubt that “flood of applications” is so annoying to FEMA that they require cancellation of the First Amendment. But the lawmakers’ aim is broader, as is made clear by the demands they went on to list. Number one is the showstopper:

1.Increase the monitoring and rapid removal of misinformation and disinformation related to disaster recovery efforts, particularly from verified or large-reaching accounts that have the potential to do significant harm.

2.Enhance fact-checking partnerships with local agencies and disaster relief organizations, ensuring that accurate information about government programs, emergency shelters, and aid is readily available and prioritized across your platforms.

3.Strengthen algorithms to flag and prevent the spread of harmful conspiracy theories that target disaster victims.

4.Implement stronger safeguards against scams that prey on vulnerable individuals during disaster recovery, including ensuring that only verified organizations and entities can promote relief funds or disaster assistance programs.

Members of congress, seeking “monitoring and rapid removal” of “large-reaching accounts” who say things that have the “potential” to do “significant harm.” Who does that make you think of?

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