Almost like the Trump admin is a nonstop authoritarian propaganda machine.

They’re referring to all the subsidized bureaucratic closed-source monopoly-spyware that they force you to buy for NSA-purposes.

Hm, let’s not forget this gem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

The government also wants you to believe that Hamas is running AI bot farms with fiber ethernet under all that ruble. But what they don’t warn you about:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-israel-social-media-bot-falters-shares-pro-palestine-content

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-rise-of-digital-diplomacy-could-be-changing-israels-media-image/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/20/netanyahus-media-poison-machine

https://jewishinsider.com/2024/12/israels-foreign-minister-is-looking-for-a-way-to-spend-150-million-on-hasbara/

https://forward.com/fast-forward/685456/israel-has-spent-millions-trying-win-hearts-and-minds-abroad-its-about-to-spend-20-times-more/

Look at that, they’re not weeks or months away from human rights breaches, but actively engaging in them openly. We finally have a report agreeing with what everyone with eyes can see.

I think the appropriate headline should be:

“Reddit in talks to embrace iris-scanning Orb to verify users created by man alleged by his own sister to have molested her throughout her childhood beginning at age 3.”

I have a Premium subscription, but I can give you an even bigger reason to never use YouTube. They actively push brain rot in their search. No matter what words I use to search for something, it is almost always the same results. Looking for nostalgic videos from the 90s? YT: “Here is the most recent brain rot on the Internet.”

They probably also think USPS delivers there using Prime shipping. Those are the kind of people reproducing.