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When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
True
September 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Here's what I think is happening in Poland. Thank you all for being patient. Gifted.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Russia’s Reckless Provocation
Whether by accident or malice, the Russians are risking a wider war in Europe.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Here's what I think is happening in Poland. Thank you all for being patient. Gifted.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Truth bomb. Fire RFK Jr
September 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Truth bomb. Fire RFK Jr
How is it that a prescription I had under my husband’s medical insurance costs $111 and suddenly costs $400 under Medicare ?
July 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
How is it that a prescription I had under my husband’s medical insurance costs $111 and suddenly costs $400 under Medicare ?
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
More accurate, fewer words;
"There are plenty of contractors going under".
A friend furloughed 75% of staff (furlough w/paying for health insurance for three months), 50% exec pay cut, 25% rest of staff to keep as many people w/salary.
PS: Wasn't 18F a government office, not a contractor.
"There are plenty of contractors going under".
A friend furloughed 75% of staff (furlough w/paying for health insurance for three months), 50% exec pay cut, 25% rest of staff to keep as many people w/salary.
PS: Wasn't 18F a government office, not a contractor.
March 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
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I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
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Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It Was an Ambush
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
www.theatlantic.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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This is one of the most shameful things I've seen in my life. Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are fighting for their lives, and MAGA is all up in its feelings because no one is allowed to disrespect Trump. He can be grotesque, but everyone else has to genuflect. Pathetic.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is one of the most shameful things I've seen in my life. Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are fighting for their lives, and MAGA is all up in its feelings because no one is allowed to disrespect Trump. He can be grotesque, but everyone else has to genuflect. Pathetic.
But he’s still the evangelical’s pick 🤷♀️
Trump Mocks Federal Workers with SpongeBob Meme
Trump posted the meme hours after Elon Musk did on Twitter
Trump posted the meme hours after Elon Musk did on Twitter
Trump Mocks Federal Workers with SpongeBob Meme
Trump posted the meme hours after Elon Musk did on Twitter
meidasnews.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
But he’s still the evangelical’s pick 🤷♀️
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Drunk on power and ketamine
February 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Drunk on power and ketamine
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Today's front page of The New York Post.
February 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Today's front page of The New York Post.
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t's not just that Trump has a flawed strategic vision (lots of presidents have had flawed strategies), it's also that he's full of malice and spite towards Ukraine. So he will lie and lie and lie. This is a Russian propagandist's dream:
February 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
t's not just that Trump has a flawed strategic vision (lots of presidents have had flawed strategies), it's also that he's full of malice and spite towards Ukraine. So he will lie and lie and lie. This is a Russian propagandist's dream:
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Telling the Ukrainians they shouldn’t have started the war is some real high-level assholery.
February 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Telling the Ukrainians they shouldn’t have started the war is some real high-level assholery.
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Populist attitude = > vulnerability to conspiracy beliefs
Populistic attitudes = less "motivation to use a more effortful thinking style to reinterpret ideology-inconsistent information to protect existing conspiracy beliefs."
Study: bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Populistic attitudes = less "motivation to use a more effortful thinking style to reinterpret ideology-inconsistent information to protect existing conspiracy beliefs."
Study: bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Populist attitudes and belief in conspiracy theories: anti-elitist attitudes and the preference for unrestricted popular sovereignty reduce the positive impact of an analytical thinking style on consp...
Objective Populist attitudes and the tendency to believe in specific conspiracy theories (conspiracy beliefs) are often exploited by extremist or populist parties. However, more scientific research is...
bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Populist attitude = > vulnerability to conspiracy beliefs
Populistic attitudes = less "motivation to use a more effortful thinking style to reinterpret ideology-inconsistent information to protect existing conspiracy beliefs."
Study: bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Populistic attitudes = less "motivation to use a more effortful thinking style to reinterpret ideology-inconsistent information to protect existing conspiracy beliefs."
Study: bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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If Elon Musk were a regular guy with 13 kids from 4 women while living off government money, Fox News would call him a deadbeat. But since he’s a Trump-supporting billionaire, he’s a ‘visionary.’
February 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If Elon Musk were a regular guy with 13 kids from 4 women while living off government money, Fox News would call him a deadbeat. But since he’s a Trump-supporting billionaire, he’s a ‘visionary.’
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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
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February 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
It’s the Gulf of Mexico @karolineleavitt.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It’s the Gulf of Mexico @karolineleavitt.bsky.social