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Wikipedia might soon need a bouncer to keep Brits off the site. https://t.co/JoKSHWGUop — Mr H (@MrHrandomnumber) August 11, 2025 “The High Court has rejected a challenge by Wikipedia to Britain’s online safety rules after the company claimed the laws could force it to block millions of people in the UK from visiting its website.” …
Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post’s longtime “fact checker,” is out, taking a buyout with no replacement coming. Leadership under Bezos and CEO Will Lewis is reportedly trying to detox the paper’s partisan stench and cut costs. Kessler’s farewell sounded noble, but the timing and silence around a successor says more than the post did. WASHINGTON …
Ozempic: OUT Corruption: OUT#MAHA: IN pic.twitter.com/juARdMT18V — MA for MAHA 🇺🇸 (@AdmissionsTruth) December 5, 2024
via moneymetals Some myths are stubbornly persistent. Count the greedflation myth among them. A recent poll conducted by Navigator indicates a notable uptick in the number of people attributing inflation to corporate greed. That’s worrisome: public opinion eventually becomes public policy. Senators Warren, Casey, and Baldwin are again pushing for executive powers to “crack down” on what they see …
When Donald Trump was president, the so-called ‘mainstream media’ spent a great deal of effort — often in real-time — engaging in what they considered to be “fact checks” of his statements, but a new analysis by a media expert finds such fact-checking has nearly disappeared under President Joe Biden. In a finding that will …