Texas is trying to making texting and posting about abortion online illegal. Please watch my video with @eff.org's Jennifer Pinsof about this terrifying bill and how free speech and bodily autonomy are intricately connected
Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics. He was asked whether or not heโ€™d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel
"We condemn India's increasingly fascist government for demanding that Meta shut down the popular social media page Muslim, and we call on Meta to reverse its decision to surrender to this bigoted attack on free speech,โ€ said Ahmed Mitchell of the National Council on American-Islamic Relations
SCOOP: Meta bans largest Muslim news page in India. The company is working hand in hand with the government to censor social media influencers and journalists in the region for 'anti-national content' following the terror attack in Kashmir.
โ€œWeโ€™re not telling Jewish people that they need to leave. Weโ€™re not trying to create a religious supremacist ethnostate. We want democracy. We want democracy from the river to the sea. Thatโ€™s the [Hamas] position.โ€ https://www.youtube.com/live/B9T4bj81Dgs?si=jwGg_kVs5kCCSI2F
Please do not come in my mentions claiming that the public isnโ€™t engaging in widespread pandemic denialism when youโ€™re referring to Covid in the past tense. That sort of framing *is* denialism.
New Power User episode out with 404 Media's @npub1nn0l...qf5k about Massive Blue, the company helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to gather intel
Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The regionโ€™s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.
Shein village, Jesus Swiftie fancams, a monastery for hackers, TikTok footnotes, Seatopians, the Ice Bucket Challenge returns, Coachella billboards, the rise of the 'infinite fringe', and a free speech activist on child influencer laws -- all in today's newsletter!!!!
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