Their algorithms promote people and content that are emotionally engaging, which means that this platform, by design, rewards those who excel at intentionally using language/content to emotionally manipulate others.
The Paradise Papers revealed that, "in 2011, [Russian state-owned bank] VTB funded a $191m investment in Twitter. About the same time, Gazprom Investholding financed an [offshore corp that] funded a vehicle that held $1bn-worth of Facebook shares."
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shared at least 17 tweets from a confirmed Russian troll account - linked to the Kremlin’s Internet Research Agency - between late-2016 and mid-2017, according to an analysis from The Wall Street Journal.
In an effort to investigate fraud, CA passed a law, requiring charitable nonprofits that solicit donations in the state to confidentially submit their IRS Schedule B forms to regulators, identifying donors who gave $5,000 or more.
Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska has been indicted.
Charged with concealing information and making false statements to federal authorities investigating 👉 illegal contributions made by a foreign national to his 2016 re-election campaign.👈
The indictment alleges that Fortenberry repeatedly lied to and misled authorities during a federal investigation into illegal contributions to Fortenberry’s re-election campaign made by a foreign billionaire (Nigerian Gilbert Chagoury) in early 2016.
The whole point of the child tax credit is to decrease child poverty - which it can cut in half.
Including a work requirement is basically making sure that some kids always stay on an unlevel playing field. It isn’t the kids’ fault that their parents are out of work.
The Times also ran a story about this network in Oct, 2020.
This, along with Facebook, and in some cases app-based communication systems, is what fills the void when local newspapers die or are killed when after being bought out.
ADF (Alliance Defending Freedom), created decades ago, is a collection of attorneys organized to work cases that roll back civil rights. It is fundamentalists’ ‘answer’ to the ACLU.
Here is a sampling of extremist efforts that ADF supports or advocates.
Not only has AT&T been propping up OAN, it appears they have been overpaying them as well.
And, despite everything that has happened and OAN’s clear contributions to the insurrection and pandemic disinfo, AT&T also appears to have renewed their contract again earlier this year.