The first major wave of online misinformation resulted in Brexit, a decision that the majority of economists regard as the most damaging economic choice Britain has made in modern times, making millions of working families poorer.
Now it appears a second wave may succeed in forcing out a democratically elected Prime Minister who in a short timeframe has a track record of delivering policy designed to help millions of working families. Not a perfect man, but certainly one of the better PMs of the last 30 years or so.
A wave of gross & obvious misinformation, spread and amplified by foreign-owned social media platforms, in a deliberate campaign designed to indoctrinate UK citizens, may have toppled a British Prime Minister.
We are going down a very dark path here.
Still reeling that Scholes only listens to Talksport. At funeral his coffin will probably come in to 3 minutes of Dean Saunders and Gabby Agbonlahor talking about a VAR decision at Brentford.
one of the funniest things about conservatives getting political power is that they finally get to show us their unfiltered vision for what is cool and it becomes immediately obvious that it’s, like, a senile boomer’s idea of a crazy party
Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.
It is not a threat.
It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.
Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.