TIL Big right-wing donor British American Tobacco actively made efforts to market and sell its products in unstable, deeply impoverished nations and conflict zones and sold cigarettes to North Korea

BoycottPro@lemm.ee · edit-2 9 hours ago

TIL Big right-wing donor British American Tobacco actively made efforts to market and sell its products in unstable, deeply impoverished nations and conflict zones and sold cigarettes to North Korea

BoycottPro@lemm.ee · 2 days ago

But Google’s guidance was also telling us that recovery was possible if we just “removed” our “unhelpful” on-page content:

This is very chilling because it means websites will delete content. If the internet archive didn’t grab it in time it means knowledge is gone forever. An algorithm is not going to always be accurate in determining what is helpful.

BoycottPro@lemm.ee · 2 days ago

For those people they should all contact the government agencies that are still on Twitter and demand they switch to Bluesky.

BoycottPro@lemm.ee · 4 days ago

TIL The Legatum Institute has attracted controversy as a result of its opaque, offshore funding. They promote "free-markets" and promoted Brexit.

BoycottPro@lemm.ee · 5 days ago

Reminds me of this far-right antivaxer who suggested being exposed to a weakened version of the virus to build immunity instead of vaccines.

https://old.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/comments/q82lqj/_/

BoycottPro@lemm.ee · 6 days ago

If for some reason you or anyone you know is still using Twitter now is the time to take advantage of the outage and urge people to leave Twitter permanently. Tell your friends about alternatives to Twitter such as Bluesky and Mastodon.