Trusted and Triangulated News and Analysis

The caption says it all and  Elon Musk has the platform to call it out.  Here's what we know. The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s found trust in the media has improved in a number of nations and globally, except in the United States.  Interest in news has fallen sharply in the United States following the "most secure election ever" or the election of President Biden, especially with right-leaning groups. The Reuters report found the already untrusted legacy media loss another 11 percentage points in interest to watch in the United States, to 55 per Finland, who have billboards poking fun of the lack of effectiveness of masks, remains the country with the highest levels of overall trust (65%), and the USA now has the lowest levels (29%) in the survey. Why do Fins trust the media? True their media is not so polarized. but, is that the goal of society to be in unison on all issues?  Is the trust for the wrong reasons?   One explanation for Finl...

  Thanks to  NSA Whistleblowers Edward Snowden Americans are at least aware of much of the police state reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984 classic.  Local police departments are using software developed by a CIA-funded company to monitor citizens’ social media posts and their physical locations in real time 24 hours a day. Homeland Security has fake cell phone towers which are portable and drive in front of your home and download everything you have on your laptops, cell phones, etc. The FBI has for decades used surveillance and racial profiling to target Muslims, immigrants, people of color, activists in general, and Black activists in particular. AFSC itself has a substantial FBI file,” added Zerkel. “Mass data collection tools will only serve to further criminalize protests and free speech, and expand the criminalization of Muslims and people of color. The FBI has “dirt boxes” set up on Cessnas which fly around areas wholesale collecting data on private citizens. Jour...