I just checked, it’s true: https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/columns/columns/viewpoint/25490-dear-kamala-harris.html

Another update. I got the following back from a moderator of politics@lemmy.world.

"Those sources are not acceptable in Politics or World, along with others like the Daily Mail, OANN, Newsmax, and others.

They are nuked on sight. Our users are also super good at reporting them.

Similarly we remove social media links and blogsite posts."

That’s fantastic news!!

Here is what I ended up sending to the moderators of politics@lemmy.world. I’m leaving this as a comment because my post is already long enough.

politics@lemmy.world has robust rules to protect the integrity of the community. Looking the most recent posts I didn’t see any links to Murdoch owned websites but in case this ever comes up in the future I wanted to mention I’ve observed that assets owned by Rupert Murdoch would often conflict with the rules of politics@lemmy.world According to Wikipedia "Many of [Rupert] Murdoch’s papers and television channels have been accused of biased and misleading coverage to support his business interests and political allies”. Content like this could be in violation of rule #4 which bans misinformation.

Moreover often times articles on websites such as the New York Post (nypost) and Fox News are nothing more than summaries of articles from other reporters with added bias. A New York Times article (archive link) has mentioned this practice. Rule #2 mentions “Links must be to quality and original content”. If it’s just effectively a summary with added commentary is it really original content?

I see the following possible actions that could be taking on the Politics community.

• The automoderator can reply to any link to a Murdoch owned website and issue a warning. The warning could be something like this:

The following website is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Assets owned by Murdoch have a reputation for bias and misleading coverage to support Murdoch’s business and political interests. Please use caution when reading and sharing the article and seek out more reputable sources. Consider using an adblocker such as uBlock Origin when visiting the link or use the archive link instead of visiting directly.

In the future note that it’s recommended when posting to Politics to use reputable sources. We discourage the linking of this website unless the reporting on the specific article you posted was original and verified.

• People should be encouraged to seek another more reliable source if possible unless the link offers unique and verified reporting.
• People visiting the link should be encouraged to use an adblocker such as uBlock Origin
• Instead of linking directly to the website an archive link should be visited.

Wikipedia has a list of entities that are ultimately owned by Rupert Murdoch:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Fox_Corporation
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corp
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:News_Corporation_subsidiaries

I hope you will consider taking a stand for journalistic integrity and truth and consider deprioritizing Murdoch owned assets. Thank you so much for your time!

Maybe you can ask people you know if they know someone who uses Twitter and then try to get them to convenience people they know to stop using Twitter.

That’s a really good point too about using uBlock Origin. Many times advertisements lead to outright scams and if you don’t keep your browser up to date you can give a virus without even clicking on or interacting with the ad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising

Good! Let’s work to keep the momentum going and encourage everyone you know to boycott Twitter/X. If you still use Twitter/X make a post saying you can find me on Lemmy/Bluesky/Mastodon or whatever website/app you choose to replace it.

Don’t let Elon Musk control you and your country, stop Twitter/X now!

Good! Let’s accelerate this trend. If you have friends or family still using X tell them to delete their account.

It’s true. It’s often said that Trump frequently uses this method.

Here is another good website with more information on the Fox Fee: https://www.nofoxfee.com/

It also gained a biased algorithm: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endorsement-x-boosting-republican-posts-july-algorithm-change

People in the EU: please contact people in your government to ban X in the EU: https://ban-x-in.eu/

Amazon has lots of money and they can easily afford this PR/marketing promotion that they choose to do. Amazon drivers work hard and deserve to be paid fairly for their work. Even though this is just marketing it still results in the drivers getting more money so if you order something from Amazon you might as well do it at every opportunity you get.

It’s a fascist propaganda technique. The ene­my is both strong and weak.

That is a really interesting story! I’m sure if he were still alive he’d be very happy to hear some of his works completed.

I see Donald takes after his father.

For sure people think differently. I agree when having a discussion with someone it’s important to learn how they think.

I must tell you I used to be on the right, I used to support Trump actually. Part of what made me more sympathetic to immigrants is meeting some and they told me their struggles and I gained empathy for their struggles and how difficult the system is.

You’re right. I hope that maybe this could lead to a conversation about why putting people into camps is a bad idea. In my head I imagine starting a conversation with a conservative and they say why the FEMA camps are a bad idea then you could say how do you feel if you were put in one. Now ask how you’d think immigrants would feel when put in a camp. In reality things may not go how I imagine.

I totally get what you mean! They think the cruelty is the point and it will never happen to me or my family/friends so I don’t care.

Certainly an interesting statistic but one thing to keep in mind is that Elon Musk has control over the algorithm and he uses it to boost right wing causes. So even if the Twitter has an equal number of users from both sides one side is getting an unfair advantage. Sources: https://cybernews.com/news/x-algorithm-changed-musk-boost-right-wing/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/x-has-disproportionately-pushed-right-wing-content-since-elon-musk-took-over-reports https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endorsement-x-boosting-republican-posts-july-algorithm-change

It’s really hard to say because there are so many different listings for laptops. Try calculating a spec to price ratio to determine if it’s a good value or not.

The concerns are true but if people leave Twitter for Bluesky it’s still an improvement because Elon uses the algorithm to boost far-right content and he has your data.