The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing a dozen current and former officials and sources.

    • @[email protected]
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      181 day ago

      Remember covid? Numbers go up = bad. No numbers = no bad.

      He operates on optics and not reality. As long as the spin is good, he doesn’t care if the thing happening is actually good or bad. If everyone died on earth except him he would think it was a great thing he didn’t die and not oh no everyone died.

    • @b34k
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      511 day ago

      So they can ensure they’re only parroting the party’s lines when they do resume communications.

    • @ladicius
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      391 day ago

      Is that a real question?

      It’s textbook behaviour for dictators: Control all the information.

    • @Sanctus
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      271 day ago

      To suppress the soon-to-be outbreak if bird flu

    • bacon_saber
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      131 day ago

      Drumpf’s “reality” and scientific reality tend to clash on a number of things