Pay attention.

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@ClintonAnderson @lyndamerry484

[ocrbot@kolektiva.social]

@NatureMC
a Melanie D‘Arrigo @​
A i @​DarrigoMelanie

Trump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN,
Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post —
plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100
markets.

They also control X, Facebook, Instagram,
Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and
Twitch.

They control the Al you're integrating into
your lives, the algorithms feeding you
content, and your personal data you've
given up for access.

This is all by design to manipulate and
surveil us, and we’re not talking enough

about it.

Pay attention.

[hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com]

@Kierkegaanks @lyndamerry484 One of the great feature and also one of its major pain points is that you can't buy the network wholesale, and any attempt would result in a carved-in isolated network like Truth.social.

Still, Mastodon is on borrowed time but not from threat of buyout, but rather by regulating it into oblivion with the social media age restriction policies that have cropped up in the UK and in many other places.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@lyndamerry484 @hypolite yes i think it will be torpedoed by legal corruption

[icanbob@techhub.social]

@fname @lyndamerry484 The only real choice we have is to not give them our eyes and ears. Without eyes and ears there can be no ad revenue. Without ad revenue the media businesses are not viable. We just need to collectively stop watching and listening.

[jdeisenberg@tech.lgbt]

@RealGene @lyndamerry484 Thank you for adding #AltText

[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@lyndamerry484 I I do not subscribe to nor will I click on or boost stories from CNN, Fox, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post. (sometimes I mess up if the headline is compelling.)
I do not have a presence on X, Facebook, Insta, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth or Twitch.
It's so easy, folks. Take back your lives.

[garybrazzell@mastodon.social]

@RantingCanuck @tokyo_0 @lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy BBC News America?

[tokyo_0@mas.to]

@RantingCanuck Thanks. I already do most of those things... individual action does have meaning, but personally I don't think it'll be enough to counteract systematic issues like the hollowing out of American newsrooms over the past few decades or the new ownership of CNN. I'd like to be wrong about that, so will keep paying attention
@lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy

[tokyo_0@mas.to]

@garybrazzell You could do worse. PBS is still hanging in there, though, and NPR. BBC World Service is still decent (their UK coverage less so). DW do some good English-language programming. Al Jazeera tends to be strong, although has its own biases. If you want an extremely calm presentation of the world's disintegration, NHK World offers English-language coverage (again, biases—but the major stuff gets covered).
@RantingCanuck @lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy

[garybrazzell@mastodon.social]

@lyndamerry484 Here's how to save Democracy. Remember what Bush tried to teach us. "It's the economy, stupid." Campaign on saving democracy and win the college-educated vote. But the people who actually change their votes from time to time get their news at the grocery store. Neglect them. Lose elections.

[dexter@bsd.network]

@lyndamerry484 An attempt at Soviet-style central propaganda in the place that invented the Internet and most alternative communication media. Some will fall for it but many simply route around it.

Such a waste of money that will leave empty husks of formerly-OK properties.

#ETTD

[scaletheory@mastodon.social]

@lyndamerry484
No Kings March 28th at DC, Capital, White House, SCOTUS, DOJ AG, all of them HAVE TO GO!

[danielh@mastodon.green]

@lyndamerry484
1984 was thought as dystrophy. Reality overtook it.

[anderslund@expressional.social]

@lyndamerry484 Anyone can abandon those platforms. There are alternatives.

[tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@lyndamerry484@mastodon.social Dear Americans, time to pay attention was in 2024 before presidential elections. Many Americans failed to realise that elections aren’t about picking perfect candidate and so just stayed in their homes.

Trump got less votes in 2024 than in 2020, when he lost. What that means is that you Americans fucked it up big time and now everyone have to deal with Orange Mussolini thanks to you.

[jimfl@hachyderm.io]

@lyndamerry484 Obviously, they’re not on Mastodon where we do nothing but talk about it