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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-18 14:20:45

Sources: CNN restricted staff from using its platforms for self-promotion, after Jake Tapper pushing his Joe Biden book turned into a "rolling infomercial" (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)
thedailybeast.com/cnn-forces-i

CNN Rewrites Its Rules After Jake Tapper’s Biden Book Fiasco
The anchor is said to be “very, very unhappy” at the network’s new policy on self-promotion.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-02-15 20:28:59

The racist online video that Donald Trump recently shared and then deleted generated a bipartisan furor
-- because of its portrayal of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
-- What was little remarked on was how it presented Trump himself — as the “King of the Jungle.”
After a year back in the White House, Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace
that they no longer seem surprising.
He regularly d…

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality
President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world.

@adulau@infosec.exchange
2026-04-04 07:20:47

Another cut in CISA budget for 2027, 707 million less.
#cisa #us #cybersecurity
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e CISA (-$707 million). The Budget refocuses CISA on its core mission—Federal network defense and enhancing the security and resilience of critical infrastructure—while eliminating weaponization and waste. CISA was more focused on censorship than on protecting the Nation’s critical systems, and put them at risk due to poor management and inefficiency, as well as a focus on self-promotion. Examples of how the Budget refocuses CISA include: o The Budget removes offices that are duplicative of ex…