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jmbar2

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Tue Jan 20, 2026, 07:55 AM Tuesday

DAVOS launches information site to counter misinformation on social media [View all]

This is getting interesting: Davos elite billionaires concerned about disinformation... "You don't know who you can believe".

In Davos, there’s a launch of a new social media platform called “W” to counter the misinformation on other social media platforms. Here’s part of their introductory video at the debut event. They tout actual verification and no bots, and being hosted on European servers.





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Timothy Snyder
Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

https://www.carnegie.org/our-work/article/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny/

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