Analysis · Big Tech
Meta's Mixed-Bag Settlement
The company that owns Facebook and Instagram just reached an $18 billion settlement to protect kids, but does it really do that?
Nate JacksonManaging Editor
08 / 27 / 26 · 4 min read
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- Big TechMeta's Mixed-Bag Settlement
- CultureFrailty, Thy Name Is Woman!
- HistoryWere the Bombs of August 1945 'Demonic'?
- Re: The LeftLifestyles of the Rich and DSA
- Re: The LeftWhat Is the Western World?
- On the Left: Academia Taxpayer-Funded Socialist Breeding Campuses
- Re: The LeftEighteen Years Ago
- MailbagReader Comments
- 'The Brink of War': How Reagan Refused a Deal and Changed the World
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CultureEmmy Griffin
Frailty, Thy Name Is Woman!
Women's issues have dominated the news over the past few weeks, exposing the utter depravity of the female zeitgeist.
Re: The LeftThomas Gallatin
Lifestyles of the Rich and DSA
New York City DSA chapter co-chair bemoans the cost of housing even as he enjoys owning a $1.5 million home.
Re: The LeftGregory Lyakhov
What Is the Western World?
Certain principles shaped the Western world, and the modern progressive movement, which so often feeds on emotion, is incompatible with those principles.
Re: The LeftAllen West
Eighteen Years Ago
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."
HistoryVictor Davis Hanson
Were the Bombs of August 1945 'Demonic'?
We may consider nuclear weapons to be Satanic, but they certainly were not first created by the devil.
HumorThe Babylon Bee
Trump Officially Classifies Liberal Women as Terrorist Organization
"They're nasty, dangerous people, these women," Trump said.
MailbagThe Editors
Reader Comments
"Lazy and selfish folks think they like socialism — until it actually hits home. By then it is too late."
On the Left: Academia Mark Alexander
Taxpayer-Funded Socialist Breeding Campuses
"Every campus forms students whether it says so out loud or not. The only question is by whom, and toward what."
FamilyMark Alexander
Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors
"I was brought up believing that through God all things are possible and that Jesus loves me. That's embedded in me. It follows me through everything that I do."
Right Opinion— today’s columnists
The Executive News Summary— from the editors
- Biden's Abbey Gate disaster, five years laterYesterday marked five years since 13 U.S. service members were killed at Abbey Gate in Kabul during Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.…
- States keep suing over mail-in ballotsFollowing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to lift a lower court’s injunction against President Trump’s mail-in ballot order, dubbed the “Ballot Mail…
- China’s AI ArmyThe Chinese military is developing AI to boost hypersonic missile capabilities. AI-powered missiles would have improved maneuverability and would…
- Trial date for alleged 9/11 mastermindA military judge ruled that the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will stand trial in June 2028. Three other alleged…
Short Cuts— in their own words
- From the Loony Left"I'm going to have a paperweight sitting on my desk. You know what that paperweight is going to be? It's going to be a piece of the [White House] ballroom after we all blow it up." —Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner"People have always lived under somebody like King George or Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump. That's the fate of humanity — to live under psychotic dictators." —Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin"I went down to check out the Reflecting Pool in DC, which now we call the Strait of Warm Ooze." —Jamie Raskin"I would say we are no longer the…
- From the Reasonable Right"It's disgusting that a district attorney in Philadelphia — who, by the way, has a city with its own problems — is so focused on what the president is doing at the White House." —Attorney General Todd Blanche"If Elon [Musk] had voted for a Kamala Harris, he would just be another eccentric billionaire. But he voted for Trump and he took over X, and this means that he is Satan." —Ben Shapiro"It was just a short eighteen years ago when an unaccomplished U.S. Senator, Barack Hussein Obama, a clear Marxist, gave his famed quote, 'We are five days away from…
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