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<p>[thread] post-truthism<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tru</span><span class="invisible">th</span></a></p><p>* &quot;alternative facts&quot;</p><p>&quot;Science is more than body of knowledge; it&#x27;s a way of thinking.<br>I have a foreboding of an America ...<br>when people lost ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority ...<br>unable to distinguish between what feels good &amp; what&#x27;s true, we slide ...<br>back into superstition &amp; darkness&quot;<br>-- Carl Sagan<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth#Contemporary_evaluation" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth#Contemporary_evaluation"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tru</span><span class="invisible">th#Contemporary_evaluation</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/digitalmedia/" rel="tag">#DigitalMedia</a> <a href="/tags/disinformation/" rel="tag">#disinformation</a> <a href="/tags/misinformation/" rel="tag">#misinformation</a> <a href="/tags/posttruthism/" rel="tag">#PostTruthism</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#memes</a></p>

<p>💰 Spain is done with AI slop and disinfo</p><p>｢ The Spanish bill, which needs to be approved by the lower house, classifies non-compliance with proper labelling of AI-generated content as a &quot;serious offence&quot; that can lead to fines of up to 35 million euros ($38.2 million) or 7% of their global annual turnover ｣</p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/spain-impose-massive-fines-not-labelling-ai-generated-content-2025-03-11/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/spain-impose-massive-fines-not-labelling-ai-generated-content-2025-03-11/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/technology/art</span><span class="invisible">ificial-intelligence/spain-impose-massive-fines-not-labelling-ai-generated-content-2025-03-11/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/spain/" rel="tag">#spain</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/deepfakes/" rel="tag">#deepfakes</a> <a href="/tags/disinformation/" rel="tag">#disinformation</a></p>

<p>It&#x27;s time to consider vaccinating healthcare professionals for smallpox.</p><p><a href="https://vermont.cool/how" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>vermont.cool/how</a></p><p><a href="/tags/vermont/" rel="tag">#Vermont</a> <a href="/tags/smallpox/" rel="tag">#smallpox</a> <a href="/tags/mpox/" rel="tag">#mpox</a> <a href="/tags/disinformation/" rel="tag">#disinformation</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#noAI</a> <a href="/tags/kelptocracy/" rel="tag">#kelptocracy</a> <a href="/tags/project2025/" rel="tag">#project2025</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/infektion/" rel="tag">#infektion</a> <a href="/tags/autocracyinc/" rel="tag">#AutocracyInc</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/giftarticle/" rel="tag">#GiftArticle</a></p><p>America Is on the Cusp of a Two-Tier <a href="/tags/vaccine/" rel="tag">#Vaccine</a> System</p><p><a href="/tags/poor/" rel="tag">#Poor</a> kids will be hardest hit by <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a>&#x27;s <a href="/tags/antivax/" rel="tag">#AntiVax</a> crusade.</p><p><a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#medicine</a> <a href="/tags/policy/" rel="tag">#policy</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/conspiracytheories/" rel="tag">#ConspiracyTheories</a> <a href="/tags/disinformation/" rel="tag">#disinformation</a> <a href="/tags/eugenics/" rel="tag">#eugenics</a> <a href="/tags/socialcleansing/" rel="tag">#SocialCleansing</a> <a href="/tags/healthyifyourewealthy/" rel="tag">#HealthyIfYoureWealthy</a> <a href="/tags/aporophobia/" rel="tag">#Aporophobia</a> <a href="/tags/economicdiscrimination/" rel="tag">#EconomicDiscrimination</a> <a href="/tags/plutocracy/" rel="tag">#plutocracy</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/09/acip-vaccine-for-kids-rfk-jr/684284/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxe20JdbfQeb-MVvQASQIPyc" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/09/acip-vaccine-for-kids-rfk-jr/684284/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxe20JdbfQeb-MVvQASQIPyc"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theatlantic.com/health/202</span><span class="invisible">5/09/acip-vaccine-for-kids-rfk-jr/684284/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxe20JdbfQeb-MVvQASQIPyc</span></a></p>

<p>The result is that X/Twitter is a Pornhub where everything is twisted around the particular kinks of a specific, and visibly disturbed individual. Whatever Musk wants, as the Voice of God, may or may not become the Voice of the People, but is probably what the people are going to end up talking about, whether they want to or not. This is what gives X/Twitter its Philip K. Dick quality - it’s like Dick’s novel Ubik, in which the characters repeatedly find their world being pulled back into the mental patterns of a predatory teenager-turned-existential-vampire, Jory Miller.<br></p>From <a href="https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis" rel="nofollow">We&#x27;re getting the social media crisis wrong</a>: The bigger problem isn&#x27;t disinformation. It&#x27;s degraded democratic publics<br><br><a href="/tags/longread/" rel="tag">#LongRead</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/disinformation/" rel="tag">#disinformation</a> <a href="/tags/misinformation/" rel="tag">#misinformation</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/x/" rel="tag">#X</a> <a href="/tags/twitter/" rel="tag">#twitter</a><br>

<p>UK imposed sanctions against Imedi and POSTV pro-government channels in Georgia for spreading Russian disinformation against Ukraine.<br>Here is related news story:<br><a href="https://civil.ge/archives/722559" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>civil.ge/archives/722559</a><br>The related UK sanctions announcement:<br><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/699c9dd4882eb23165f1277f/Sanctions_Notice__Russia__24_February_2026.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/699c9dd4882eb23165f1277f/Sanctions_Notice__Russia__24_February_2026.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">assets.publishing.service.gov.</span><span class="invisible">uk/media/699c9dd4882eb23165f1277f/Sanctions_Notice__Russia__24_February_2026.pdf</span></a><br>And now their website of imedi TV had to stop using cloudflare, and using German server of OVH Cloud.<br>Please fill an abuse report against that website here:<br><a href="https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/abuse/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.ovhcloud.com/en/abuse/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#Ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/russiandisinformation/" rel="tag">#RussianDisinformation</a> <a href="/tags/sanctons/" rel="tag">#Sanctons</a> <a href="/tags/disinformation/" rel="tag">#Disinformation</a></p>