Something strange happened today.

Major world events unfolding and the broadcast media, actually the entire corporate news landscape, was about 60-90 minutes behind on reporting information compared to the Open Source current affairs community (call themselves OSINT).

And whilst some of the OS information was very raw, and this was a situation with deliberate misinformation about, they did a pretty good job of talking it through and getting a generally good picture.

It felt a lot less dumbed down compared to any news desk. Whilst there is a fire hose of breaking news, the truth is in there somewhere. The transparency of having sight of the raw stuff removes all the editorial bias.

Watching this in parallel with broadcast corps was like watching stuff 40 years apart.

Whilst the raw OS stuff is not for everyone, the fact that it has OS scrutiny makes any subsequent bias very obvious and much more difficult to stick.

Open Source current affairs should be on FOSS, this is what leverage looks like. It’s currently on Telegram, Twitter, Signal, WhatsApp, a bunch of these big apps. Many of these apps will eventually die when their tech stack becomes obsolete, they already feel very clunky to me and the last cohort already doesn’t use these apps.

There is some “chicken and egg” challenge with having an audience, and Nostr overcoming the network effect but that’s our problem to figure out.