The next time you look for news on Facebook or Instagram, the search results and answers returned might be powered by an unexpected source: Newsmax. This isn't new — Facebook and Instagram have been incorporating more right-of-center news outlets into their AI-powered results for months.

Facebook parent Meta signs AI licensing agreement with Newsmax

July 28, 2026 - Newsmax is one of several right-of-center news outlets to ink a partnership with Meta Platforms in recent months; others include Fox News Media, the Daily Caller and the Washington Ex...

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“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

“An email exchange reviewed by The Times documents a heated discussion among partners about how — or whether — to alter a website that recounted the firm’s work against white supremacists and the rioters of Jan. 6, 2021. Some even proposed checking with the administration.”

FT Exclusive: The Trump administration has collected more than $13bn in revenues from Venezuelan oil sales this year, according to FT calculations, but has said almost nothing about what has happened to the money. ft.trib.al/PfzSSIx

This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.

Andrew Russeth@russeth.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

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It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.

Company that ushered in an era of ai trained extensively on others ip without permission: "we don't have interest in others ip without permission". Rings hollow

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 4w ago

In response to Apple's trade secret theft lawsuit, OpenAI says "we have no interest in other companies' trade secrets" (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

when republicans start their inevitable whining about people making a big deal over the paint peeling algae infested reflecting pool remind them who made it a big deal in the first place lol

> @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/tv/art...

The odds of the OSS ecosystem existing in a permanent state of compromise have risen dramatically this year. (still not close, but the explosion in supply chain attacks is concerning) keydiscussions.com/2026/06/10/i...

for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades

Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.' @adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ca...

I can't recall anything close to this level of ratio-ing in my 15 years of HN-ing. Many top comments here focus on the financial engineering aspect of this deal (Alphabet owns ~7% of SpaceX) and the ubiquity of circular deals in the industry. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4841...

a grand total of 0 of these articles mention the context that Binance paid $4B in 2023 to settle with the US over violations of sanctions on Iran and that Trump pardoned CZ in 2025 after shady financial entanglements with his crypto ventures/coins like USD1. 1/2

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

Why did the press ignore a gathering of the world's leading fascists?

Right-wing extremism is going mainstream, but it's not getting the coverage.

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The perpetrators of the San Diego mosque attack appear to be members of a violent neo Nazi group, the Telegraph reports, noting that Sebasteyn L v Gorka's new counterterrorism watch list eradicated all mention of such groups, which appear to be responsible for over 90% of terrorist acts in America.

Scrolling up and down foxnews and guess what? There's absolutely zero mention of the 1776 fund, the latest act of Trump pilfering the American people. It's almost like brazen corruption doesn't play well with America. There's not even an attempt to spin it on propaganda sites.

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Unreal. Now that Trump dropped IRS lawsuit, DOJ just announced a new slush fund for alleged victims of "weaponization." Two Qs: *Will there be *any* congressional oversight? Most reporting suggests not. *Would payments to J6ers violate 14A? Raskin explains here: newrepublic.com/article/2105...

The key to raking leaves efficiently is to put it off and let a lot of/all them fall first

where we are in the ai revolution: startup experts casually accepting that entire categories of startups/SMBs are in the killzone for frontier labs. the tougher question is what software companies are safe www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phe3...

Will AI Kill All Startups?

YouTube video by Standard Capital

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great post

7 months to go

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

ICE keeps detaining the same US citizen again, and again, and again. He’s fighting back.

“I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.

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in terms of despised professions, domain squatters are up there with lawyers, but over the years I've come to appreciate them as the guardians of the most boring and obvious project names

As a coder, for over a year, natural language has been far more key to my productivity than it used to be. (Claude Code launched over a year ago and Anthropic's web interface was very interesting ~16 months ago.) 1/4

Brockman's testimony had some bombshells: a previously unreported $10M deal with Altman that may not have been disclosed in the non-profit's filings. Brockman solicited donations from investors like Marissa Mayer, saying he too had donated $100K. But he hadn't! etc www.techmeme.com/260504/p39#a...

Israel Said It’s Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon. This Is What the Devastation Looks Like. An entire street is leveled. Houses and shops are flattened, including a popular cafe. This is what is left of the town of Bint Jbeil, just a couple of miles from the Israeli border.

How Israel Is Using the Same Tactics in Lebanon That It Did in Gaza

Satellite images, photos and videos show the scope of widespread demolitions in southern Lebanon.

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My note to John Ternus

the past few months I've seen (a lot more of) what I think are low quality inauthentic comments that promote/bash specific AI tools, on forum like HN and reddit. it seems to track with how high the stakes are in the AI race and how much propaganda we know is being dark funded

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SCOOP: A pro-AI dark money group backed by a powerful super PAC funded by execs tied to Palantir and OpenAI, has been secretly paying influencers to push pro-AI, anti-China propaganda on TikTok and IG.