The White House has launched a new website to promote President Trump’s agenda, a page that looks similar to the popular Drudge Report that has served as a must-read for conservative media members and political operatives for years.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Please don’t tell me Drudge Report is still influential in 2025. It’s like finding out how many people’s number one source of news is My Yahoo or some shit. It’s bad for morale.

    I fix my elderly relatives’ computers. I know the horrors that lie within. I don’t need to be reminded.

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      19 hours ago

      My grandmother, before she passed, insisted for YEARS that AOL was the internet. We had gotten her a broadband connection. She hadn’t had dial-up since the early naughties. She did not understand that you could just open up chrome or Firefox or IE. For her to get online, she HAD to go through AOL. It was How Things Worked.

      And dear god the malware infestations she managed to acquire were impressive