This would be a HUGE benefit to Twitter, which is well situated to turn into a TikTok replacement. I believe Musk is aware of this and is likely lobbying Congress on this issue: The proposed legislation would block all transactions from any social media company in or under the influence of China and Russia. Source: US lawmakers unveil bipartisan bid to ban China’s TikTok | South China Morning Post
Local TV News KTVZ, Bend, Oregon published a report that 10 seconds of fact checking would have been detected as an erroneous news report. While about 80% of flights were canceled due to a heavy snowstorm, they ran a report saying the snowplows worked great and “no commercial flights were impacted”. WHAT?
Reporters are oblivious to what an NDA is, and why they exist. They think Twitter enforcing employee agreement NDA’s is a violation of “free speech and transparency”. No one in the real world agrees with these idiot reporters. Can they be that obtuse?
It is now confirmed that Twitter routinely “Blacklisted” (their words) accounts from trending and search results. Twitter lied.
Half of recent news reports about holiday suicides spread disinformation that suicides go up over the holidays: Summary: Despite media claims that suicide rates increase dramatically over the holiday period, researchers report the average daily suicide rate during the holidays remain among the lowest rate of any period of the year. Source: University of Pennsylvania The holiday-suicide myth, the false claim that the suicide rate rises during the year-end holiday season, persisted in some news coverage through the 2021-22 holidays, according to…