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   Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 09:54:41 JST Dan Gillmor

   Are you joking, Google? You're going along with the Trump regime's ridiculous "Gulf of America" nonsense?

   And you announce this on Musk's site?

   This is how to (further) discredit yourself.

   https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/google-maps-to-show-gulf-of-america-after-government-updates.html

   • Steve's Place and Robert Link repeated this.
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     Brian Perry (uguisubari@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 10:52:38 JST Brian Perry

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     @dangillmor Just wait until Google describes the Emperor’s resplendent garments to us.

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     Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 12:25:13 JST Alexander Karn

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     @dangillmor

     Eat a bag of dicks, Google.

     “We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps,” the company said in an X post. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”

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     Andreas K (yacc143@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 23:36:13 JST Andreas K

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     @dangillmor Dan you haven't noticed, US media (and big tech) are basically taking what they get from the White House, and run with it unfiltered.

     And "allies" like European media, just copies like cheating students from US media the #Trump propaganda.

     Personally, I'd recommend checking foreign sources (and yes, machine translation is fine for that), VPNs and see what the rest of the world sees.

     Because US (and EU) media will be singing the glory of #trump .

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 23:37:56 JST Robert Link

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     • Andreas K

     @yacc143 @dangillmor Nothing new. I got reprinted in the California Bar magazine in, oh, 2010, after commenting online that if they were going to print and "interview" with Scalia it really should be more than just a publication of his most recent press release.

     Our outlets don't investigate. They platform. More money, higher ratings in car chases and "man on the street" interviews.