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IronLionZion

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15. Plenty of late breaking news makes it to X before mainstream media sources

Reply to demmiblue (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 30, 2025, 10:17 PM

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Since journalists, politicians, and others would just send it from their phones during an event. I don't like it either, but Musk must have ordered US federal agencies to post things like alerts/advisories on X before posting it on their own websites and email distributions.

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