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    <title>Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties | Climate crisis | The Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>mjb</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>mjb</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's become apparent that the Trump Administration is trying to make major changes to the way that the scientific funding agencies of the US government operate. That's about as neutrally as I can put it: my own opinion is that said changes (as they appear at the moment) are an outrage, a vindictive ideological assault on agencies that (for all their flaws) have helped produce major scientific advances in more fields than I can name. But let's go into the details so you can see why I think that way.

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    <dc:creator>mjb</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The fact that the WSJ wouldn’t play along is at least a surprising crack in the MAGA propaganda machine.
The administration’s attempt to spin maintaining the status quo as a victory would be merely amusing if it weren’t symptomatic of a deeper crisis. And this brings us to perhaps the most striking evidence of actual conservatives potentially awakening from a MAGA-drenched stupor.
When senior fellows at the Manhattan Institute — yes, the same think tank that gave us Chris Rufo and perfected the art of manufacturing absolutely ridiculous culture war outrage — start warning about an ongoing constitutional crisis, it’s worth paying attention. This is the organization that wrote the MAGA playbook, now apparently worried their creation has escaped the lab.
Brian Riedl, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, with a career spanning service to multiple Republican leaders, is now warning about the constitutional crisis triggered by Trump and Musk’s actions. And yes, he’s making it clear he means a “constitutional crisis.” When he and Alan Cole of the Tax Foundation — another conservative stronghold — both characterize the situation as a “constitutional crisis,” it represents more than just policy disagreement. It’s alarm bells coming from inside the house.]]></description>
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    <title>Trump fires at least 12 independent inspectors general in late-night purge - The Washington Post</title>
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    <title>Trump fires 17 independent inspectors general at federal agencies, source says</title>
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    <dc:creator>mjb</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs at multiple government agencies on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, eliminating a critical oversight component and clearing the way to replace them with loyalists.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>mjb</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Zuckerberg’s general narrative that Meta faces intense competition from China and that Chinese social media companies cannot be trusted persisted across all of his Congressional hearings, and he has repeatedly used the specter of China exporting its cultural values via social media as a shield to deflect from his own company’s monopolistic tendencies, its privacy violations, and its harms against children. He has used this not only to avoid regulation of his company and his platforms, but also to seed the ground for what ultimately became the TikTok ban. Zuckerberg can see the prize. The question is whether, by kissing Trump’s ass, he will actually finally get it.]]></description>
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We completely changed how the algorithm worked, pushing pro-Trump and right-wing posts to the top of people's feeds. To make it look balanced, we also boosted some left-wing critics of Democrats, but it was all carefully calculated. These changes didn't just affect Americans - they impacted users worldwide.

One of the most disturbing things we did was create thousands of fake accounts using advanced AI systems called Grok and Eliza. These accounts looked completely real and pushed political messages that spread like wildfire. Havn't you noticed they all disappeared? Like magic.

We also knowingly allowed foreign governments to manipulate the platform. State-backed groups from Israel, Iran, and Russia were running their own influence campaigns, and because their goals aligned with ours, we looked the other way. Even when they clearly broke the rules, we didn't stop them.
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Donees include the Heartland Institute, a longtime purveyor of climate disinformation, which published a video on YouTube in May stating incorrectly that “the scientific data continue to show there is no climate crisis”. Other groups that have received donations include the American Family Association, which claims that the “climate change agenda is an attack on God’s creation”, as well as the Heritage Foundation, the lead organization behind Project 2025.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>mjb</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cases abound of innocent people ensnared in this legal web. A Philadelphia family lost their home over a son's alleged $20 drug deal. A man's life savings vanished into the pockets of authorities due to mere suspicion.

The Supreme Court's ruling further solidifies this practice, fueling concerns that law enforcement agencies are incentivized to seize property for financial gain rather than public safety.

The ruling has also drawn attention to the growing trend of police violence against protesters exercising their First Amendment rights. Recent incidents involving excessive force against demonstrators opposing government policies have raised alarms about the increasing militarization of police and their willingness to suppress dissent.]]></description>
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    <title>Exclusive | Trump Considering an Advisory Role for Musk If He Wins a Second Term - WSJ</title>
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    <title>The U.S. Finally Passes An Internet Privacy Law… For Rich Jet Owners | Techdirt</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-29T15:47:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/29/the-u-s-finally-passes-an-internet-privacy-law-for-rich-jet-owners/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjb</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Jack Sweeney, the jet tracking student who made Elon Musk cry like a baby, says the law won’t completely block the tracking of jets, given they can still glean a lot of detail from general contextual clues. But it’s still amusing how quickly and easily Congress is able to shore up lax U.S. privacy safeguards when it’s to the specific benefit of the rich.

The thing is, letting dodgy, unregulated data brokers monetize everybody’s sensitive movement and behavior data harms poor people, rich people, and everybody in between. Right now most members of Congress view these privacy issues as somebody else’s problem, but at some point there’s going to be an unprecedented privacy scandal tied to data brokers that shatters that delusion in very painful ways.”]]></description>
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