Notices by ZhiZhu (zhizhu@newsie.social)

"In 2021 alone, #Google paid #Apple, #Samsung & others $26.3 billion to keep it buried...

This setting affects who gets to track your location & watch what you look up online. It affects the usefulness of the information you see & how much of your screen is taken up by ads.

I’m talking about your #search engine... Google pays the makers of phones, laptops & browsers to be your default & to stop them from even presenting you other options during setup."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/08/google-search-default-iphone-samsung/

#Tech #News

@onthisday

Fascinating!

So if you really want to annoy a historian, ask what happened in #Spain, #Italy, #Poland or #Portugal between Oct 5 and Oct 14, 1582.

#History #Humor

@NewsDesk

Some of my favorite media accounts:
@ProPublica
@TexasObserver
@damemagazine
@democracydocket
@TruthOrFiction
@gbhnews

Journalists:
@w7voa
@pbump
@timkmak
@anneapplebaum

and @GregSargent and @MacFarlaneNews would be among my favorites if they ever posted to their Mastodon accounts.

I wish more news orgs and journalists would create official non-bot ACTIVE accounts in the fediverse.

News orgs on Mastodon/in the Fediverse.

News orgs host that their own instance:
@TexasObserver
@TucsonSentinel

News orgs that have created official Mastodon/Fediverse accounts:
@ProPublica
@texastribune
@damemagazine
@COTimesRecorder
@rferl
@msfreepress
@Chron
@themarkup
@TheConversationUS
@sfstandard
@sfgate
@sfchronicle

If anyone knows of any others, please let me know.
#News #FollowFriday