Poland's PM says authorities in the previous gov widely used Pegasus spyware

Re:Poland's PM says authorities in the previous gov widely u... by wafflemaker on Sunday February 18, 2024 @03:34PM (#39422936)

Worth pointing out that bribed* by PIS reporters have made the Polish "public" (in reality party owned) television into a meme by the sheer amount and ridiculousness of propaganda. What older people watched out of habit and inability to get their information online, was so bad that you could as well watch it as a monthy python episode. And one of the most shown topics was blaming literally anything on the PM that ruled 8 years ago (one who thrown then out now). They blamed from immigrants and war in Ukraine to bad weather and situation in health services. They even showed the guy with parts of his previous party logo as horns and with his face hued with red. I'm not making this stuff up.

*They were bribed with money taken from defunded children cancer treatments.

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Re:Poland's PM says authorities in the previous gov widely u... by FirmwareBurner on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:04PM (#39423315)

> What older people watched out of habit and inability to get their information online

The quality of "news" old people end up finding online isn't any better than on TV.

I know because unfortunately, my parents in their 60's, both with advanced degrees, are now more retarded and brainwashed than ever, by all the nasty shit that gets pushed to them on Facebook, Youtube and Tiktok.

I think those are even worse than the TV, because in the EU what gets shown on TV is at least mildly regulated, but what gets shown to you on social media isn't.

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