🤐 Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020. From: Just The News. Biden administration gave millions in tax dollars to groups after election, records show. Election Integrity Partnership says it had 35% success rate getting tech platforms to label, remove or restrict content.
Through the eyes of greed. From: Anthony Davies/AIER. “When gas prices rose 150 percent from June 2020 to June 2023, politicians and the media didn’t hesitate to blame corporate greed. The evidence they offered was two-fold: rising prices and rising profits. Yet over the past six months, gas prices have fallen 33 percent. Are politicians and media congratulating oil companies for displaying altruism?
The moral hazards of banking keep increasing. From: Morningstar. No size, it seems, is now too small to fail.
⭐️ “Drunk” driving and “racism.” From: Eric Peters Autos. Driving drunk used to mean just that – just as being a racist meant you disliked a set of people on account of their race. Nowadays, the latter means anyone who questions or disagrees with anything racialists say must not be questioned or disagreed with. And the former now means having had anything alcoholic prior to driving.
Fire the Fed. From: Matt Stoller/Substack. Key bad guys in the Silicon Valley Bank saga are at the Federal Reserve. It's time to end the era of central bank supremacy and fire the Fed as our most important bank regulator.
🤥 Researchers pressured Twitter to treat COVID-19 facts as ‘misinformation.’ From: Reason. The latest Twitter Files shows a partnership between Stanford University researchers and government-funded organizations encouraged social media companies to police true information.
EV owner satisfaction with home charging declining. From: The Detroit Bureau. J.D. Power report suggests rising electricity costs and slow rate of charging are driving the decrease.
👀 Toys that can spy. From: Diane Dimond/Creators. Beware the gifts that can spy on you. Sounds like an overly dire warning, you say? Well, in this evermore internet-connected world, it might surprise you how many wish list gifts come with a tantalizing lure for criminals/government.