A UNITED FRONT: "The fight against infantile paralysis cannot be a local war," Truman declared. "It must be nationwide. It must be total war in every city, town and village throughout the land. For only with a united front can we ever hope to win any war." npr.org/sections/healt…
“Before the arrival of a vaccine in 1955, what made polio so terrifying was that there was no way of predicting who would walk away from an infection with a headache, and who would never walk again.”-@guardian theguardian.com/society/2020/m…
The sooner we call the traitors within the GOP foreign spies, and the media propagandists shilling for them foreign spies, the clearer things will become.
The GOP and propaganda networks are infested with foreign spies.
“Technology platforms are so much more powerful than any..mainstream press—there has to be..a global reckoning with disinformation, monopolistic power and control, and lack of accountability that platforms enjoy.”-@HillaryClinton @guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m…
“In particular Facebook, which has the worst track record for enabling mistruths, misinformation, extremism, conspiracy..even genocide in Myanmar. So governments are going to have to decide right now that the platforms have to be held to some kind of standard.”-@HillaryClinton
“We never had a president* who essentially aligned himself with authoritarian thinking..that certain media really became mouthpieces for Trump’s view of reality..did do damage inside our own country, because it fed paranoia, conspiracy theories..”-@HillaryClinton@guardian
A BETTER HEADLINE: Facebook’s ban of Donald Trump was upheld by a company-appointed panel, indicating a growing awareness that offering a platform for traitors who weaponize propaganda could be a liability.