Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips says that Elon Musk's attacks have "turned her world upside down" and left her fearful for her own safety.

The X billionaire "knows absolutely nothing" about grooming gangs scandal, she tells @itvnewspolitics.bsky.social

Oh and Zuckerberg is removing Meta fact checkers

Why? “To protect free speech”. FACTS AND FREE SPEECH ARE NOT THE SAME.

They’re removing access to objective truth and reality. To create chaos. This’ll open the doors to unprecedented foreign interference/bots.

The broligarchy is well underway.

Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation

FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

In Greenland, as we speak.

A message from a REAL farmer who hasn’t been brainwashed by the Tories, wealthy landowners and the right wing media👇🏽
#FarmersProtest

“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans.

#Newsnight

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Just joined from that Twitter place, I followback.

NEW: Archbishop of Canterbury resigns.

You can watch the new users coming in here @mrjamesob.bsky.social

About 1 every second at present

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The costs of Brexit dwarf the figures currently being argued about in Britain’s spending / saving rows:

A former police officer who subjected three women to a campaign of controlling, violent, and sexual abuse has been jailed for almost four years.

How TF has this man got less jail time than the Just Stop Oil protesters?

The justice system needs a complete overhaul 😡

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