The Danger of Outsourcing Your Platform to Social Control Media and Getting "Information" There

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 05, 2024

Stella is probably not aware of what she has just done.

The Assanges could use more caution or better "optics" with sources to avoid bad association [1, 2].

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