I mean I told everyone about the grifters. I tried to warn the conspiracy theorists they were being taken for a ride and weaponized for political purposes. I warned about the bowels of the "alternative medicine" internet, where people give their kids hydrogen peroxide enemas...
...so now, all I can do is laugh at everyone as they eat fucking landfill dirt and whatever the hell other vile shit they're putting in their body as they merrily A/B test themselves into further insanity. But remember this, mainstream American press: You treated these people as
though they were a legitimate political bloc. You helped this weaponization and misery along by treating disinformation campaigns as though they were legitimate. You could have helped, and you chose not to.
It's very easy to find with those search terms to verify it for yourself. Here's the link. fb.me/e/1jZyuWdvl
This is what Facebook, or @Meta, or whatever stupid bullshit that creepy platform is calling itself to try to distance itself from its ongoing sins, is allowing -- encouraging, even.
Thread. I joined the San Diego SPJ board to try to get journalists to join forces against what Facebook was doing to our industry in 2018. I discovered instead that SPJ's national board (which is heavy with San Diego people) is taking money from Facebook, and has been for years.
When I brought up my concerns about Facebook and its influence on journalism, my fellow board members laughed like I had made an especially funny joke. "Find us alternative ways to get money then if you're so smart," was pretty much the attitude I was met with.
What's especially great about this video is that because they are always so inauthentic anyway it's impossible to tell whether this is a poorly acted bit
Yep! I can no longer remember this guy's name but I can tell you that during a brief stay in San Diego he did try to stick his gross and much older than me tongue in my mouth when I was just a lil wee one going by "Producer Brooke" at the rock radio cluster in 97 or so