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WAS mentions (35)

• Tip: Use Free "Hyperweb" App to Dramatically Improve Safari Web Browsing

  Open Safari. Browse to https://washingtonpost.com/ (which paywalls nearly everything). In the address bar, press the jigsaw puzzle icon, and then the Hyperweb icon. Make sure that you've given it permission to access every website. Source: over 1 year ago

• (sorry if this does not fit the sub, thought more people should know about him.) Marc Fogel has been stuck in Russa since August 2021 for bringing prescribe medication with marijuana to Russa. he has been sentenced for 14 years there.

  Source washingtonpost does this work mods? Source: over 1 year ago

• Intoxicated Tyson Foods CFO, John Tyson breaks into strangers house and passes out in her bed.

  Quite the contrast to the video of the police shooting that young man in his own house in his own bedpolice shooting of unarmed black man. Source: over 1 year ago

• iOS App: No updates or fixes?

  I do not want a different app for https://cnn.com, https://nytimes.com, https://dailymail.com.uk, https://nypost.com, https://washingtonpost.com, https://news.google.com. Why not just use a web browser instead to read web pages? Modern web browsers can display individual pixels where ever they like, what is this utter fascination with an "app" written in a different language which makes it legitimate or better? ... Source: over 1 year ago

• We're about to succeed making Elon Musk poor again by ditching Twitter

  "An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk.."[washingtonpost.com]. Source: over 1 year ago

BBC News mentions (4)

• Why is mainstream media coverage of France so limited?

  It's everywhere I get the news. If you want a deep dive, just go to France24.com or LeMonde.fr/en or even bbc.com/news. Source: about 1 year ago

• Biden calls 'emergency' meeting after missile hits Poland

  Aight so the general idea here is it's not absolutely certain that Russia shot it and they're definitely denying it. Poland's trying to keep calm to avoid having to invoke article 4 and are leaning on the side of "accident" at the moment. This is almost certainly going to be fine, but if you want to stay up to date on it go to the BBC for decently unbiased reporting. Source: over 1 year ago

• Trader blames Brexit for soaring price of fish – but BBC edits it out

  It's similar to the memory hole effect with online news sites. If you initially release an article with inaccurate or misrepresented headline and contents, then change it later on without any record of the change (something the BBC has repeatedly done on bbc.com/news) you get a difference in perception of a news event based on when someone saw/read the coverage. Source: over 2 years ago

• Boris Johnson calls for calm after a fiery fourth night of violence in Northern Ireland

  True. I visit news.sky.com and bbc.com/news front page daily and I only found about it yesterday. Source: about 3 years ago