Bro don’t trust snopes.. 🤦♂️
Sadly this was misinformation. Politico only received about 44k. That said they can still get stuffed.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/usaid-payments-to-politico/ nostr:note1eg8lecn9e9yyrtcp4yz3hrwzkkhmn6rxswngu0jwkfcuvdqzf7hssu8dgt
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There are other sources stating the same. Snopes is just repeating them otherwise I would not have shared here.
Oh I’m sure you’re right about those other sources! I’m sure it’s the same story everywhere, and should be believed about as much as a bunch of suspected bank robbers that all have the exact same alibi. Watch out for those “independent” sources. AP has created a situation where company A can point to sources at company B which points to company C which points back to company A. But ignore the fact that they circle jerk each other’s “sources.”
Not just Politico, the rest of the legacy news is co-opted by the same bad money too. So who reports fairly on them? I don’t trust them to self report.
That’s why we need to rely on independent journalism and decentralized platforms like #nostr because otherwise we can’t have nice things.
For sure bro.. for sure.