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Zuck can't buy friends: Twitter clone Threads suffers 70% drop in user engagement

Lucas Nolan
Breitbart
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:06 UTC
Zuckerberg
© Getty/Chip Somodevilla
Threads, the Twitter clone launched by Facebook (now known as Meta), has suffered a massive drop in user engagement. One of Silicon Valley's key metrics, daily active users, has plummeted by 70 percent since its initial launch.

Forbes reports that since its launch, Threads, the new social media platform introduced by Facebook, has seen a dramatic decline in user engagement, with a sharp dropoff in daily active users and average usage duration. Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter Clone has experienced a nearly 70 percent decline in the number of daily active users since its peak on July 7.

The platform, which was initially hailed as a potential competitor to Twitter (now rebranded as simply "X") has seen its active user base fall from 44 million to around 13 million in a matter of weeks.
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MSNBC leftist calls for post 9/11 style crackdown to prevent Americans becoming too patriotic

Steve Watson
Summit News
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:35 UTC
Paul Rieckhoff
"A lot of Americans are up for grabs."

A talking head on MSNBC has called for a post 9/11 style government crackdown as a means of winning "a battle for hearts and minds" of Americans who might turn against the leftist mindset and become overly patriotic.

Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and Righteous Media compared the "threat" of such a scenario to the "number one threat" after 9/11, effectively suggesting conservatives and Trump supporters are akin to terrorists.
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"Where you're going it's much hotter": Hillary Clinton blasted after blaming weather on Trump supporters

Steve Watson
Summit News
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:25 UTC
hillary clinton
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Hillary Clinton was taken apart on Twitter X Tuesday after she appeared to blame hot weather on supporters of President Donald Trump.

"Hot enough for you? Thank a MAGA Republican. Or better yet, vote them out of office" Hillary posted along with a graphic of alarmist climate headlines.

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Russian officials warned not to use Apple devices


RT
Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:46 UTC
Valentina Matvienko
© Russian Federation Council / RIA NovostiRussian Federation Council speaker Valentina Matvienko.
Western nations are "snooping on the entire world," according to a top senator.

Officials should never use Apple devices at work due to the threat of surveillance by foreign intelligence, the speaker of the upper chamber of Russian parliament, Valentina Matvienko, has suggested.

"It's clear why people are ditching iPhones. At the very least, they certainly cannot be used for work purposes, because our non-partners [Western nations] are snooping after the entire world," she said on Tuesday during a session, insisting the devices are a risk in terms of national and personal security.

Comment: See also:

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LeBron James' son rushed to the hospital in cardiac arrest

David K. Li and Katie Distler
NBC
Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:39 UTC
bronny lebron james
© Alex Bierens de Haan / Getty ImagesBronny James talks with his father, LeBron James, after the McDonald's High School Boys All-American Game in Houston on March 28.
Bronny James is "now in stable condition and no longer in ICU," his family said.

Bronny James, a son of basketball icon LeBron James, collapsed during a workout in Los Angeles on Monday and was rushed to the hospital, his family said.

"Yesterday while practicing Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest. Medical staff was able to treat Bronny and take him to the hospital," the family said in a statement.

Comment: It's interesting that they've acknowledged that these cardiac arrests have been happening among athletes recently, but notice they throw one in from 1990 to try and avoid the elephant in the room. The fact is, pre-Covid vax, cardiac arrests among athletes were exceedingly rare. Not now.

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New York Times blames Ron DeSantis for the 'steep cost' of his Covid response - despite admitting Florida did better than rest of the country

Igor Chudov
The Daily Sceptic
Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:15 UTC
DeSantismask
© The New York Times
The New York Times published an angry article lambasting Florida governor Ron DeSantis for the "steep cost" of his Covid decisions.

In the best traditions of 'fake news', however, the title of the article does not match its content, and it does not match the reality of what happened in Florida - because even the dishonest New York Times could not find evidence of "steep cost" of Florida's Covid decisions.

With a straight face, the newspaper recalls the freakout of then-Florida's Surgeon General about DeSantis listening to experts who believed the virus's threat was overstated:
"'You won't believe what happened,'" she said he told her. Months before Covid vaccines would become available, Gov. Ron DeSantis had decided that the worst was over for Florida, he said. Mr. DeSantis had begun listening to doctors who believed the virus's threat was overstated, and he no longer supported preventive measures like limiting indoor dining.

Mr. DeSantis was going his own way on Covid.

Comment: This article is a test run to calibrate future hit pieces.

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Is left-wing politics causing mental health problems?

Noah Carl
Daily Sceptic
Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:00 UTC
screaming leftie
There is growing evidence that the percentage of young Americans experiencing mental health problems is on the rise. And the rise appears to be particularly stark among white women who identify as 'liberal' (which basically means 'Left-wing'). Could Left-wing politics be causing mental health problems? It's a real possibility.

The tendency for young, white, female liberals to report mental health problems at higher rates than other groups was discovered by political scientist Zach Goldberg. Analysing data from a Pew Research survey carried out during the pandemic, he found that 56% of white, liberal women aged 18-29 had ever been diagnosed with a mental health condition by their doctors - that's more than half!

Goldberg recently shared some charts (see below) that show exactly how the mental health of different groups of American 12th graders (those aged 17-18) has changed over time. The graphs are based on data from the Monitoring the Future - a repeated survey of young Americans that's been going since the mid 1970s.
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'Miss Italy' bans biological males from beauty pageant

Tyler Durden
ZerofHedge
Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:35 UTC
miss italy pageant
The Miss Italy (Miss Italia) beauty pageant has banned transgender contestants from participating, saying that all entrants must be "a woman from birth."

According to Patrizia Mirigliani, the official patron of the competition, this is a longstanding policy.

"Ever since it was born, the competition includes in its regulation the clarification that you have to be a woman from birth. Probably because, even then, it was expected that in the future beauty could undergo changes, or that women could undergo modifications, or that men could become women," she said.

Comment: At least some beauty pageants aren't succumbing to the ideological insanity.

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Man found dead on Obama estate identified as Obama's personal chef

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:01 UTC
tafari campbell obamas
The 43-year-old man who drowned while paddleboarding off the Edgardtown coast of Martha's Vineyard on Sunday has been identified as the personal chef to Barack and Michelle Obama.

Tafari Campbell was a White House chef before coming on in the personal employ of the Obamas after President Obama left office in 2017.

Divers recovered his body just before 10 am from Edgartown Great Pond, on which the Obama family's $12 million mansion lies.
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Hundreds of British holidaymakers flee for their lives as wildfires ravage holiday isle of Rhodes: Tourists abandoned by holiday firms, flights bringing people to the area CONTINUE

Stewart Carr and Shari Miller and Arthur Parashar
Daily Mail
Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:08 UTC
rhodes island fire
Twitter user John Hughes took a video of the chaotic scenes as the wildfire rages on the island.
Holiday firms have been criticised for jetting in tourists to Rhodes today as the island buckles under its fifth day of wildfires, with thousands of people evacuated from beaches.

Desperate tourists have described feeling 'abandoned' by flight carriers as they shared harrowing stories of being forced to walk for miles to safety and rely on help from overburdened local authorities.

Panicked Brits say they have been left to fend for themselves after fleeing their burning hotel which felt 'like a warzone'.

Comment: See also: Rhodes and Corfu wildfires: Thousands evacuated from Greek island fires

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