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WARNER: AI = Artificial Integrity and A Massive Cost to Consumers

August 28, 2025 Aaron Warner

The steady march of technology has brought with it many blessings, from railroads to pocket calculators to pacemakers and solar-powered home heating systems. However, the adherents of the scientific revolution assume the inevitability of humanity needing to acquire artificial intelligence as if actual intelligence requires supplementation. Even the innovators of this technology, such as Elon … Read more

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Meta’s Free Speech Makeover And The Fight For Digital Free Speech

January 28, 2025 Daniel Ortner

Two weeks ago, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to Facebook and Instagram’s content moderation policies in order to return these platforms to their “roots around free expression.” Meta will eliminate restrictions on debate around controversial topics like immigration and gender identity, dramatically reduce the use of automatic moderation, and replace fact-checkers with Community Notes. These are … Read more

Facebook is About to Get a Little Bit Less Censorious

January 7, 2025 Steve MacDonald

I wandered over to a different Grok, X’s AI, and found this headline. META Ditches Fact-Checkers for Community Notes. Who doesn’t click on that? Here’s what it said. Multiple Media reports confirm this as accurate. As many of our readers have been banned, thrown in Facebook Jail, and throttled by Meta, we look forward to … Read more

The NH AG’s Office Should Just Ask Meta to Write A Check

December 14, 2024December 14, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The state of New Hampshire is a great place except for family court, election integrity, too much dependence on federal money, institutionalized child-sex predation, electricity prices, and jackpot justice. Wow, Steve, that sounds like a terrible place. It’s not awful. Better than most. We have a low total tax burden, increasing liberty, and a great … Read more

New Mexico’s AG Investigates META for Allowing Child Grooming and Trafficking … But Not Its Public Schools?

January 7, 2024January 6, 2024 Steve MacDonald

New Mexico’s Attorney General, Raúl Torrez, has filed a lawsuit. In the suit, “Torrez claims that Meta’s platforms, Facebook and Instagram, are a breeding ground for predators who target children for human trafficking, the distribution of sexual images, grooming, and solicitation.”

One of the Nuanced Meanings of the Word ‘Meta’ Is ‘Between.’ As in I Am between Jobs Because I Just Got Fired from Meta.

March 16, 2023 Steve MacDonald

A Labrador sheds twice a year, so the saying goes—January to June and July to December. Facebook, now doing business as Meta, is trying to shed more than labs, only it’s not hair; it is employees.

Go Woke Go… “Facebook’s” Value Has Plunged Nearly 70% Since Last Year …

October 31, 2022 Steve MacDonald

We’ve had a beef with Facebook for Years (impossible beef, since it’s Facebook). The Social media beast trampled on our speech because they didn’t like it, so is this Karmic revenge? While the markets have taken a beating under Biden (down 30+ percent), Meta (Facebook) is down 67%.