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White House reveals new app after cryptic posts: Full list of features (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] artyom@piefed.social 52 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Some thoughts:

  1. Its good to have an easily-acessible resource for official govt info
  2. However, The White House already has publicly accessible RSS feeds. This does seem to go beyond that with videos and live streams though.
  3. This will most certainly be used to spread and give credence to propaganda
  4. Given the aptitude of this admin, I give it about a month before its hacked and used to spread false information.
[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
  1. No need for a hacker there, it will have false information from the start
[–] artyom@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes but just unofficial false information

[–] XLE@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We must consider the possibility it is hacked to spread true information too

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Someone is going to link their Signal chat to the app, aren't they...

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly? I would expect hackers to actually spread the truth here for once.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

Could be that too!

[–] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Decent chance that when it is hacked, the hackers will actually use it to spread true information.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if this somehow gets around the requirement that all presidential communication to the public needs to be recorded.