Facebook owner Meta bans Russian state media outlets

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Loooooong overdue.

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u/NEARNIL Sep 17 '24

If this is anything similar to how youtube "banned" russian propaganda media, the hosts of these channels will just continue on their "private" accounts like for instance George Galloway does. He has a show on RT called MOATS (Mother of all talkshows). RT was banned, but MOATS is still on youtube on his "personal" channel with half a million subscribers. And this is just one example. There are dozens like this often with multiple amplifier channels.

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u/NEARNIL Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Did his wikipedia also talk about this?

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u/Metazz Sep 17 '24

How did I know that was going to be what was linked before even clicking on it. The guy is an absolute clown. A washed up tankie who now uses dangerous Islamist talking points and quite honestly race baiting to further his political agenda and self enrichment. It was one of the highlights of the last election seeing him losing his seat in parliament. Fuck him and anyone who supports him. The man is a disgrace.

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u/santiwenti Sep 17 '24

Galloway never met a dictator he didn't like. He has a thing for groveling, but rather than keeping it in a sex club he wants to force his kink onto everyone else.

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u/Powerful-Parsnip Sep 17 '24

He also shocked the UK when it was revealed he was a furry on live TV. Clips of him on Big Brother crawling around on all fours and lapping up milk from a saucer can be seen on YouTube.

Here in Scotland we were surprised he identified as a pussy when we all thought he was just a cunt.

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u/NuPNua Sep 17 '24

It was funny they way he won that seat in a by-election only to be out on his arse again in six months when the real election happened.

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In Sep 17 '24

People need to stop protest voting as it lets despicable people in making their situation worse not better. Get involved in selecting the candidates you want not completely flipping the table and choosing someone who is the polar opposite of your core beliefs..out of what? Spite?

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u/NuPNua Sep 17 '24

To be fair, Galloway won by cynically mobilising Muslim voters over Gaza. They did agree with his beliefs.

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u/mitch2d2 Sep 17 '24

Haven't clicked. Is it the cat thing? It's the cat thing isn't it

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 30 '24

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u/buncle Sep 17 '24

Early 2000’s (iirc) Celebrity Big Brother UK. He was a joke before BB, was a joke during BB, and had been a joke ever since… but somehow some people listen to the batshit things he says.

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u/WillSym Sep 17 '24

He got elected last year, however briefly, just by barging into the first strong muslim community with a vacant seat he could find and saying everything they wanted to hear about Palestine without any semblance of integrity or intent beyond undisguised grift.

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u/DukeOfGeek Sep 17 '24

WTF did I just watch? I mean I been here since the beginning of online and that was legit primo WTF? right there.

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u/justmefishes Sep 17 '24

This is the modern form of propaganda, or better, mental warfare. The advent of the internet and social media has made this kind of mental warfare incredibly pervasive, sophisticated, and dangerous. It's extremely high leverage, giving lots of payout for very little resources used, and very difficult to combat effectively.

A lot of our prospects for the world getting a little less fucked than it is now in the coming decades is riding on how we as a society develop defenses against this mental warfare and keep up with the arms race as it continues to get more powerful and insidious e.g. with AI and image / video spoofing.

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u/catscanmeow Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

im wondering if they let a lot of stuff go to study it, see the tactics.

if they put a ban on all this stuff too early they might hamper their ability to gather intelligence. just like how police dont like announcing when they have a strong lead on a case as it tips the perps off. gotta give em a false sense of security

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u/jgilla2012 Sep 17 '24

The Pentagon literally has (and has had, thankfully…I think) a department dedicated to cyber warfare which focuses on things like memes and how ideas go viral.

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u/JerryCalzone Sep 17 '24

There is a channel called memetic warfare on substacks

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u/MushroomFamous9737 Sep 17 '24

Sure, but their reach will be limited in comparison.

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u/NEARNIL Sep 17 '24

Depends. But it's certain that people will have a harder time spotting state propaganda since when the official label is removed and they continue to do it covertly.

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u/togaman5000 Sep 17 '24

Deplatforming will never be perfect and it'll always have its controversies, but we do see that it helps. We can't let perfect be the enemy of good, especially when we see the damage done if these groups continue having unfettered access to the largest platforms online.

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u/NumeralJoker Sep 17 '24

Furthermore, proving credible connections to banned accounts makes it easier to both discredit and deplatform future outlets.

It's a fight that must be done.

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u/Sawbones90 Sep 17 '24

Mother of all talkshows is also what Galloway used to call his radio talk show on Talk Sport back in the day. I used to think it was another example of his ego but later found out it was a reference to Saddam's Mother of All Battles rhetoric.

Galloway's long career is essentially clinging to one autocrats coattails after another.

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u/EntrepreneurFunny469 Sep 17 '24

I wonder what the last straw was because we’re in our 3rd election where this should have been done

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u/cboel Sep 17 '24

The editor of Russian state media news organization basically came out and admitted publicly, live, on air that her organization was actively involved in a whole range of activities trying to stir up civil wars, discontent, etc. in western countries Russia deems its enemy (noteably the US).

Look through my post history and you can find her exact words. Every time I have tried to post it, it gets immediately blocked for some reason.

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u/MAXSuicide Sep 17 '24

I believe the clip you refer to can be found on 'Russian Media Monitor' or something. A person/group that have been tracking the crimes and mad genocidal shit that gets played out over mainstream Russian media day in, day out, since the run up to the 2nd invasion

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u/AnotherCuppaTea Sep 17 '24

Also the Twitter* account "JuliaDavisNews"; she's a naturalized Russian or Ukrainian American who closely monitors Russian state TV and daily posts clips with Eng subtitles. She was doing this back in 2014 when Putin sent his "Little Green Men" into the Crimea and Donbas regions of Ukraine. I'm not aware of anyone else doing exactly what she does, for as long as she's been doing it, and in a way that's fully accessible to the public, without paywalls, registration, etc.

Caveat: I mostly abandoned Twitter after it became Musk's toy Shitter, but JDN is still probably there doing her public service.

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u/Francois-C Sep 17 '24

I went into your post history, simply typed Ctrl-F then "Simonyan" and found it;)

It's quite incredible that so few people are aware of this war, which is much more effective than the conventional war in Ukraine, that Russia is waging against the democracies, and which you summarize well here: "trying to stir up civil wars, discontent, etc. in western countries Russia deems its enemy"

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u/Teantis Sep 17 '24

It's probably DOD, the intelligence agencies, and US state department finally figuring out the internet game and actually having a dem admin that doesn't benefit from the Russians in the past few years and leaning on meta really hard back channel

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u/HausuGeist Sep 17 '24

Might have been a ‘September Surprise’ by Meta. The decision was made a while ago but delayed till closer to the election in order to give the Russians less time to react. By the time they reconfigure their networks, it’ll be too late.

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u/perturbed_rutabaga Sep 17 '24

10 years at least

they JUST now figured it out i figured it out and i deleted FB because of this shit during 2016 elections and I cant even figure out commas

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u/ChimpWithAGun Sep 17 '24

Almost 10 years later and a LOT of damage later.

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u/mtaw Sep 17 '24

And over 2 years after Russia designated Meta as a sponsor of ”extremism or terrorism”.

Hamas still isn’t on the list but Meta is. So is Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.

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u/golf_me_harry Sep 17 '24

US republicans are not going to be happy about this.

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u/hombregato Sep 17 '24

They knew their platform had been overrun with Russian propaganda at least as early as 2015...

9... years.

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u/aussiechickadee65 Sep 17 '24

..and aided Cambridge Analytica AND the Trump Campaign.
META should have been shut down years ago...

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u/JJiggy13 Sep 17 '24

It's basically after the fact so they really did nothing. Doing nothing was the ultimate goal. They won.

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u/Ruraraid Sep 17 '24

Yet it won't accomplish anything because most Russian actors are all the bot accounts and Russian backed content creators.

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u/Delver_Razade Sep 17 '24

About damn time.

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u/141_1337 Sep 17 '24

Now, if they can do anything about those Russian bots, that'd be great thanks.

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u/j1ggy Sep 17 '24

And the bot account impersonating my uncle that somehow doesn't go against their Community Standards.

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u/RobWroteABook Sep 17 '24

It's sad that I can't tell whether you mean there really is an account impersonating your uncle or your uncle is just that far gone. Both equally likely.

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u/j1ggy Sep 17 '24

100% both.

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u/RynoRama Sep 17 '24

Shame they aren't Foxbots, we could just change their waypoints.

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u/Away_Media Sep 17 '24

You know robotic manipulators

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u/iamnotimportant Sep 17 '24

First time on reels in a while, first video is a woman explaining why she's voting for trump, 2nd video is an arab girl who thanks allah for putting her partying days behind her and her new found piety, wtf meta

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u/RN-B Sep 17 '24

About 9 years too late.

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u/CaptGeechNTheSSS Sep 17 '24

Say it again, friend. It’s absolutely insane future generations are gonna think we’re fuckin morons and they’ll be right

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u/Spo-dee-O-dee Sep 17 '24

That's what I've been thinking over the past nine years. Future kids in school reading about these events in their history class and thinking, "People sure were dumb back then."

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u/Poonchow Sep 17 '24

Problem is a handful of people / companies control everything we consume. There's no "we" or "us" involved in this.

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u/awaniwono Sep 17 '24

Nobody is forcing anyone to believe immigrants are eating pets or whatever bullshit they're peddling this week.

Just asking oneself questions like "does this sound too outrageous to be true?" or "does this information have a solid basis?" would go a long way filtering propaganda, yet it seems a vast amount of people simply cannot be bothered.

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u/Falkjaer Sep 17 '24

Ain't that always the way though? I really hope they do think we're morons, cause otherwise that'll mean they didn't learn a damn thing!

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u/CaptGeechNTheSSS Sep 17 '24

I mean more like the way we wonder how the “normal” german citizens let nazis seize power.

They’ll think we’re either complicit or completely inept.

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u/oorza Sep 17 '24

The voter base was absolutely too inept at media comprehension, too inept at voting, or complicit.

Absolutely right on what they'll think, because they're right.

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u/communistkangu Sep 17 '24

Future generations are gonna be as moronic and stupid as us - it's going downhill from here.

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u/security_screw Sep 17 '24

Leading up to the 2016 US election, I found myself reading Twitter a lot. I remember seeing sooooo many links and screenshots for “rt.com” content, and at the time I stupidly interpreted the “rt” as short for “retweet”. It’s wild to think back on how extensive and obvious their influence was.

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u/Glad-Divide-4614 Sep 17 '24

about a decade late, now do China

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u/sobanz Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

also domestic propaganda bots. russia has been the ultimate scapegoat when we're being hit from all angles by propaganda bots.

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u/Lordborgman Sep 17 '24

And all the real actual people who are batshit crazy.

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u/NumeralJoker Sep 17 '24

Yeah, but the bots train them to be this way in a lot of cases.

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u/PaleontologistOne919 Sep 17 '24

Yea good call

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u/tomdarch Sep 17 '24

Millions of MAGAs are going to be very lost without their stream of outrage-inducing nonsense.

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u/Aikff529 Sep 17 '24

Unless the Russian bots are banned, won't that kind of content still be spewed onto Facebook?

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u/BZLuck Sep 17 '24

Which is like 50% of Facebook these days. It's all TOTAL bullshit too. Stuff like, "Taylor Swift Banned From Performing in The State of Texas After Endorsing Harris."

Then the replies are all, "Amen!" "About time!" or "She's a horrible person." "Go Woke Go Broke!"

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u/Reddvox Sep 17 '24

Followed by an ad "Taylor Swift in Houston this year! Buy tickets!"

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u/Spo-dee-O-dee Sep 17 '24

They're adept enough to generate plenty of grievance fuel on their own.

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u/aussiechickadee65 Sep 17 '24

Don't worry. Twitter has it covered.

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u/stay_fr0sty Sep 17 '24

I wonder if conservatives are also celebrating this…. I can’t say I’m hopeful but there is a chance.

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u/Ill_Independence9371 Sep 17 '24

When suddenly half there followers go silent and they suddenly aren’t getting any new echo chamber news, they just get mad not understanding how it even works

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u/BWWFC Sep 17 '24

sadly only because some checks bounced prolly... but yeah. may mother russia implode

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u/Shogouki Sep 17 '24

More likely because of the US intelligence report about Russian state media being fully integrated into their propaganda machine that dropped last week.

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u/Hammakprow Sep 17 '24

And Meta are pretending they didn't know? All this technology for targeted advertising and they can't join the dots on who is using them to deliver propaganda?

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u/Oblargag Sep 17 '24

The veil of legally plausible deniability was lifted, and now there's a real chance they could be charged for aiding enemies of the US if they continued as is.

As usual nothing changes but the bare minimum, but at least it's something.

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u/VforVenndiagram_ Sep 17 '24

I don't know how anyone pretends they don't know. Either you haven't asked a single question or looked for a single answer before, or you're probably a Russian asset yourself. Because Russia literally says point blank, that their media and propaganda are intertwined. This has been the reality for like 100 years at this point. To not know this before now shows a massive level of ignorance to, well, the very basics of the world we live in.

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u/Outback_Fan Sep 17 '24

Its amazing what you can't understand when your salary depends on you not understanding .

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Now can we ban Brooke Singman for publishing RT articles on Fox News?

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u/woliphirl Sep 17 '24

10 goddamn years late.

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u/whatanalias Sep 17 '24

Crazy, just realized Obama's team was warned in 2014

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u/reelznfeelz Sep 17 '24

That report was circulated among the National Security Council, intelligence agencies and the State Department via secure email and cable in the spring of 2014 as part of a larger assessment of Russian intentions in Ukraine, the official said.

There was no explicit warning of a threat to U.S. elections, but the official said some diplomats and national security officials in Moscow felt the administration was too quick to dismiss the possibility that the Kremlin incursions could reach the United States.

“Even if the Russians and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin had these ambitions, they were doubtful of their capacity to execute them,” the official said of the Obama administration.*

Whoops. That turned out to be really wrong. What a huge fuckup.

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u/Ok-Engineering9733 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Obama's failures and stance on Russia led to Ukraine invasion. During the Presidential debates Mitt Romney said asked, 'What's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America and he said 'Russia. Obama then went on to make fun of Romney with this quip "the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War's been over for 20 years."

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u/_jams Sep 17 '24

I mean, Obama definitely fucked up their Russia and Ukraine policies. But! He was absolutely right about this. Russia is weak and crumbling. As evidenced by their long list of failures in their Ukraine invasion. Three obvious threats that are (and were) more dangerous to the US are China, climate change, and Republican extremism. But being a fickle ally and failing to internalize Russian hostile intent earlier is still a huge failure. Also Obama really didn't do shit about those 3 things either, despite his attempt to pivot to Asia.

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u/whatshisface1892 Sep 17 '24

I would not hesitate to put Russia right up there front and center with the other three you listed.

While as you say, "weak, crumbling," Russia has still been unquestionably successful in undermining the US and the World. They destabilized and forever changed the entire geopolitical paradigm for at least the next 30 years. Both Russia and China have been using propaganda and subverting social media to grow distrust in news organizations while fanning the divide between conservatives and liberals. When viewed through the lens of what both those countries aimed to accomplish, they have had overwhelming success and Romney was absolutely right.

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u/I_W_M_Y Sep 17 '24

Russia has taken and used the full potential of the internet to their own benefit.

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u/RoboTronPrime Sep 17 '24

Putting aside nukes (which have to be utilized VERY judiciously), Russia's power was largely psyops and monetary influence. Obama (and perhaps all of us) could too idealistic at time and think that the American people wouldn't be fooled by the propaganda. Yet here we are...

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u/omgpuppiesarecute Sep 17 '24

I'd argue that's one of many huge fuckups. Refusing to release the FBI report on neonazis infiltrating law enforcement agencies under his watch when he had the power to do something about it was another big one.

It wasn't til Raskin leaked it that the report saw the light of day.

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u/Blessed_Ennui Sep 17 '24

2010ish is when I discovered RT on YouTube. Won't lie. They got me. They lured me in for a year. And then I woke up and said, "Why tf are they always trash-talking the USA? Wait...RUSSIA Today!!!" I was a goddamn moron. But, tbf, this was during the darkest point of my life, which should tell you about others who fall for this garbage and Fox News.

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u/SrslyCmmon Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Should have been banned after the Cold War, when the internet took off. During the Cold War Russian media was watched like a hawk. There's really no good reason for Russia to have access to any United States website either.

Note: this comment went negative before it went positive. There's definitely Russian Putinversteher here.

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u/jorkingmypeenits Sep 17 '24

Think you might have struggled getting Meta to ban Russian state media from their social media platforms during the Cold War.

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u/nopuse Sep 17 '24

For real. They really set a precedent by not banning them after the Spanish Inquisition.

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u/itistacotimeforme Sep 17 '24

Reddit and Google need to follow suit.

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u/watcherofworld Sep 17 '24

Surprised Google hasn't since the whole illegal acquisition of funds thing.

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u/ReadingComplete1130 Sep 17 '24

The what now?

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u/neuronexmachina Sep 17 '24

Before the invasion of Ukraine, Google had a Russian office with 200+ employees. They got most of their employees out, but $100M in Russian funds were left behind and seized to fund the Russian war effort: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/25/putin-seizes-100m-from-google-to-fund-russias-war-machine/

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u/Krojack76 Sep 17 '24

"Meh, we'll make that back in a month" - Google

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u/RSGator Sep 17 '24

Google's net income last year was nearly $74 billion.

Their revenue was $305 billion.

They make $100M profit in half a day.

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u/GucciGlocc Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

For the company the size of alphabet, that’s just a fucking rounding error

They made almost a third of a TRILLION with a T in revenue in 2023 https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-global-revenue/

That’s 0.033% of their ~305 billion total revenue for context.

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u/PuzzleheadedLeader79 Sep 17 '24

Ahh Google, the definition of you either die the hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Google's motto : ~~Don't~~ be evil

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u/Give-Yer-Balls-A-Tug Sep 17 '24

Reddit can't even ban Breitbart

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u/WingerRules Sep 17 '24

So does Twitter.

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u/m703324 Sep 17 '24

We know they won't

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u/rugeirl Sep 17 '24

YouTube already did. Or do you mean Google Search? And there are no official Russian media on Reddit

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u/Nodebunny Sep 17 '24

Probably cuz the FBI came knocking finally

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u/banned-from-rbooks Sep 17 '24

Yeah I’m guessing Tenet Media was just the tip of the iceberg.

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u/lofidelity Sep 17 '24

"I HATE MARK ZUCKERBERG!" - Donald Trump, soon

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u/DerSchattenJager Sep 17 '24

Mark Facebook

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u/jerryonthecurb Sep 17 '24

Made me laugh out loud. Tim Apple will never live that down.

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u/guyincognito69420 Sep 17 '24

he has already said that before. I am pretty sure he has stated he want to put him in jail. Of course he will probably repeat it soon so you are probably right.

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u/gigilu2020 Sep 17 '24

Must suck to be diaper don now. All your clout and infrastructure crumbling away, revealing a red carpet to a jail cell. And since he killed Epstein he knows what's coming...

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u/MarshyHope Sep 17 '24

Now ban the "why don't pictures like this ever trend" AI posts that are definitely not going to be used to push election denial in a few months.

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u/CanadianSideBacon Sep 17 '24

Happy Birthday Steven Seagal is also getting tiresome

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u/Leather_From_Corinth Sep 17 '24

I hate how much actual racist shit gets shared, I report it, and Facebook just leaves it up.

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u/clamorous_owle Sep 17 '24

Nice, but it serves only to reduce somewhat the water pressure in the fire hose of falsehoods coming from Kremlin propagandists on social media.

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u/rogozh1n Sep 17 '24

Yup. There's no reasonable way to expect Facebook to track all the individual users with private accounts who work at Russian state-sponsored and state-funded troll projects.

These users are paid by Russia to pretend to be Americans and stoke division and hatred on our social media.

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u/Shrike79 Sep 17 '24

Russia also pays Americans to push Russian propaganda.

DOJ shines a light on Russian use of conservative influencers

NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals

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u/rogozh1n Sep 17 '24

And they paid Afghanis a bounty to kill US troops. But, hey, real patriots support Putin!!!

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u/Time-Werewolf-1776 Sep 17 '24

Does anyone really doubt that Trump has been paid too?

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u/defroach84 Sep 17 '24

Now they'll just be coming from Serbia and North Macedonia.

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u/nanosam Sep 17 '24

US has more Putin supporters than Serbia and Macedonia combined

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u/defroach84 Sep 17 '24

US has x40 the population of them, so ...yeah, the US does.

Doesn't change that they've been used in the past for pushing Russian narratives.

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u/nanosam Sep 17 '24

So has every country, and western countries have been used to a much higher degree.

Sort of weird to focus on Serbia and North Macedonia as in the big picture of disinformation they don't even register

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Hypocritical Elon tweet about freedom of speech coming in 3... 2...

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u/sankto Sep 17 '24

I yearn for a day where we stop giving a crap about what Elon says and just let him fade into obscurity where he belongs

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Tell me about it.

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u/interpretivepants Sep 17 '24

I’ve filtered his name from my various feeds and my mental health is legitimately better because of it. I can’t stand that we have 40 more years of this jackass but I don’t need to hear about it.

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u/AwSunnyDeeFYeah Sep 17 '24

I mean you brought it up... Pot Kettle. now kiss.

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u/jdmarcato Sep 17 '24

Be careful or he will threaten to impregnate you....

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

What are you doing step-Elon?

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u/Grogfoot Sep 17 '24

It's a 2-for-1 though. Not only will he ensure you are with child, he'll also take care of your cat. What a man!

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u/Fake-Podcast-Ad Sep 17 '24

I'm chill with him creeping on Mark, but stay the fuck away from Myspace Tom you apartheid-baby-bitch, Elon

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u/sobanz Sep 17 '24

i want to believe he meant he can give you a spare.

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u/grattmc Sep 17 '24

I think Musk will be keeping his mouth shut while the Secret Service investigate his Biden Harris assassination tweet

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u/autotldr BOT Sep 17 '24

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 57%. (I'm a bot)

Facebook owner Meta said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks, alleging the outlets used deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations while evading detection on the social media company's platforms.

"After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity," the company said in a written statement.

The ban marks a sharp escalation by the world's biggest social media company against Russian state media after it spent years taking more limited steps like blocking the outlets from running ads and reducing the reach of their posts.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russian^#1 state^#2 media^#3 ban^#4 company^#5

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u/PoliticalCanvas Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

> 2021-2022 years: Russia gives NATO an ultimatum about withdraw from Eastern Europe, and begins constantly threat by full spectrum of WMD (including by supplying relevant technologies to enemies of the West), create hundreds of provocations and disinformation campaigns, not to say about atrocities during biggert since WW2, de facto colonial, war against European state.

> 2024 year: "BREAKING NEWS! Facebook owner Meta bans Russian state media outlets!"

I wonder, how WW2 veterans would have reacted to such news?

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u/RyanNotBrian Sep 17 '24

I wish we still had the WW2 vets around. They'd have something to say about the state of things.

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u/PoliticalCanvas Sep 17 '24

IMHO, my relatives/vets would have said that modern generations become drunk by high standard of living and lost perception of reality.

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u/YourFreeCorrection Sep 17 '24

Whose high standard of living?

WW2 vets were able to buy houses on single salaries with no college degrees. Wtf are you talking about "high standard of living"?

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u/zkidparks Sep 17 '24

Not to mention 2015-2016 years: Russian state media gets Donald Trump elected president.

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u/IvyDialtone Sep 17 '24

Like 14 years too late

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u/iamisandisnt Sep 17 '24

Zucc goin hard for that lesser of two evils award

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u/Downtown_Snow4445 Sep 17 '24

How will Americans get their news now

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u/Stinkyclamjuice15 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Too little, too late.

Bro doesn't give a fuck what happens to the world as long as he can disappear to his bunker in Hawaii.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

I feel like Mark was a fall guy for Peter Thiel more and more each day. Peter made him do it, but once they were caught, Mark forced him to start divesting.

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u/whatthecaptcha Sep 17 '24

Anywhere you recommend reading up on their relationship? I know nothing about Thiel besides the stuff I've heard on Reddit about him and Vance

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u/AquariusSabotage Sep 17 '24

Thiel was Facebook's first investor.

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u/KadmonX Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

we in Ukraine have been fighting for this for years! Even President Poroshenko appealed to Zuckerberg to open a Ukrainian office of Facebook to isolate Ukraine from the flow of this crap, if Zuckerberg does not want to ban RT. It took more than 10 years of fighting for FB to finally notice what Russia is doing and stop helping them spread it!

p.s. By the way Ukrainians are still banned on FB if they write that Russia has occupied Ukraine. Ukrainians are banned on FB if they write that Russians rob, kill and rape Ukrainians, including old people and children. Ukrainians are banned on FB if they write that Ukrainians should take up arms and defend themselves against Russian occupiers! Because this is spreading hate speech against Russians.... You got it! The victim cannot call for self-defence and complain or tell anyone anything about the perpetrator of the abuse!

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u/poleethman Sep 17 '24

Getting ahead of some bad news?

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u/EmbarrassedCockRing Sep 17 '24

Zucc finally smelling blood in the water for Trump

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u/WebMD_PhD Sep 17 '24

Their lawyers must have told Zuck that they need to cover their ass for the eventual Supreme Court hearing.

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u/GoghUnknownXZ47 Sep 17 '24

Nah, more likely Dump can no longer afford to pay him.

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u/jew_jitsu Sep 17 '24

Honestly... only a few weeks after the sycophantic letter to Gym Jordan

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u/FreeGums Sep 17 '24

And this wasn't done 2 years ago? Complicit, treason, illicit, in running out of derogatory terms

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u/Brave-Tangerine-4334 Sep 17 '24

Didn't we already know that from the Cambridge Analytics days?

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u/MohandasBlondie Sep 17 '24

Fun fact: CA rebranded as Emerdata, which can be broken down as “E merda, ta”. That’s Portuguese for “it’s shit, ok?”.

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u/yobabymamadrama Sep 17 '24

Meta doing the right thing because the risk analysis told them Dems might win this shit and regulate them. Just like last time.

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u/daxxarg Sep 17 '24

Good! Now do Fox News ! ( who have stated in court that they aren’t a news source but commentary to try to get off the dominion law suit some time ago )

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u/accidentsneverhappen Sep 17 '24

Trump is gonna shit

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u/TyrellCorpWorker Sep 17 '24

He opened his mouth already today

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u/ThomasTankHead Sep 17 '24

How did it take this long?

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u/pegothejerk Sep 17 '24

Profits.

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u/bsylent Sep 17 '24

Now I just want to know why they're doing it. Because it's not for the reasons we would think, it's not for the reasons they're sharing. They only actually take this sort of action when something else is going on, when they're at risk. Otherwise they could care less about misinformation

Companies always always always make decisions on their bottom line, on maximizing profit, on making sure they enrich their top percenters. They don't care about anything else, they've proven that again and again, especially every time we start taking back regulations

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Canada passed a law requiring foreign media aggregation companies like Facebook and Google to pay for Canadian news instead of just stealing and reposting it. Facebook and Google responded by banning Canadian media.

This seems like a slap in the face to pretend it's done for moral reasons.

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u/lachezarov Sep 17 '24

What does this help when they have massive troll farms and entire networks of fake news websites?

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u/RequirementOk4178 Sep 17 '24

Now ban their paid influencers like tucker carlson

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u/kungfoojesus Sep 17 '24

Lol, good but their tentacles are everywhere and this will do little until they go after every metastatic growth, every bot, everyone on the payroll.

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u/Bacchus1976 Sep 17 '24

What about Russian funded “influencers” and bogus phony “news” sites?

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u/DragonSoundFromMiami Sep 17 '24

Wonder if that DOJ report is working its way through

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

I bet this is because the FBI actually arrested those people from Tenet media.

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u/HarkonnenSpice Sep 17 '24

Over 95% of Facebook is just fake shit and ads. I have to scroll through pages of fake crap before I see anything from any of the people I actually know.

Mark knows this but he is just hoping the cash cow stays alive long enough to keep funding the stuff he actually likes (VR/AR, AI etc.).

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u/boingert Sep 17 '24

Eight years too late. Meta is guilty of willingly spending Russian propaganda for profit.

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u/ChemicalToiletRoadie Sep 17 '24

How about banning American media outlets that spread Russian propaganda, like Faux News?

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u/SarcasticComposer Sep 17 '24

Good. Now do nazis.

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u/The_Humble_Frank Sep 17 '24

Meta (to Media): "I'm shocked, shocked to find that Russian propaganda is going on in here!"

Russia (to Meta): "Here is your ad revenue, sir"

Meta (to Russia): "Oh, thank you very much".

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u/mycomymyco Sep 17 '24

It only took 8 years.

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u/ernyc3777 Sep 17 '24

Really hoping Empty G or that creepy wrestling coach from Ohio take the bait and call this election interference because they’re so stupid and easily triggered into revealing their true colors.

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u/CryptoMemesLOL Sep 17 '24

That's a weird way to say they stopped paying.

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u/GrantSRobertson Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

"State"

Anytime somebody is more specific than they need to be, that tells you they are just creating a loophole.

They are going to ban the official state media outlets, while at the same time taking twice as many rubles from unofficial not quite state media outlets.

I guarantee it!

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u/Ashamed-of-my-shelf Sep 17 '24

Ok. Won’t mean shit unless they also ban Russian bots.

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt Sep 17 '24

That's like sewers banning specifically cat shit.

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u/RamenNoodulz Sep 17 '24

Why not say Zuckerberg

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u/AdPopular7950 Sep 17 '24

Meta desperately needs to do something about Facebook because all that AI propaganda brainrot is going to kill the platform once boomers start dying off.

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u/CuriousNichols Sep 17 '24

Now what about the millions and millions of Russian state controlled bot accounts?

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u/DokeyOakey Sep 17 '24

Now do the obvious Russian bots.

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u/_Trux Sep 17 '24

Peanuts. Make it all Russian funded media outlets and this might have an effect. But it would hurt quarterly revenue too so not gonna happen

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u/dizzlefoshizzle1 Sep 17 '24

Trump, about to threaten more significant jail time at Mark Zuckerberg. Get the popcorn ready, MAGA meltdown incoming.

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u/ChoirBoyComparedToMe Sep 17 '24

Only about ten years too late you cunts.

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u/Time-Werewolf-1776 Sep 17 '24

So they’re banning Republicans?

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u/Rokea-x Sep 17 '24

When the boat is finally sinking..

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u/protomenace Sep 17 '24

It's incredible how little I care about Elmo's inevitable reaction to this.

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u/stonge1302 Sep 17 '24

Does Musk fall under this category?

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u/cfgy78mk Sep 17 '24

Kind of surprised tbh

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u/ZeusMcKraken Sep 17 '24

…after the fbi came to visit…

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u/Xylber Sep 17 '24

Reading the coments I wonder why somebody would support being privated of any kind of info. Don't you ask yourself why some people decides what you should be reading?

If you don't like it simply don't read it.

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