🚨 Our Head of Global Trade & Supply Chains, @JensLundNielsen, speaks today at TradeTech Forum 2025 in Abu Dhabi! He’ll present #TWIN#, the #IOTA-powered# tech transforming global supply chains with real-time trade data – more about it coming soon. 🧵 👇 https://t.co/XzPV0btjFm

🚨EXCLUSIVE - BOUGHT AND PAID FOR: HOW $472 MILLION BUILT A GLOBAL LEFT-WING MEDIA MACHINE In February 2025, WikiLeaks pulled back the curtain on a government-funded media empire that’s been quietly shaping what billions of people read, watch, and believe. At the center of it all? A group you’ve probably never heard of: Internews Network. Funded mostly by USAID, Internews presents itself as a friendly nonprofit supporting “independent journalism.” But behind that noble-sounding mission lies a global operation that critics say is more about managing narratives than reporting facts. The numbers are jaw-dropping. Nearly $473 million—yes, that’s nearly half a billion—has flowed to Internews from USAID and the U.S. State Department over the past 2 decades. Add in millions more from billionaire-backed organizations like George Soros’s Open Society, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and you’ve got a media Frankenstein stitched together with government cash and private influence. In 2023 alone, Internews claims to have worked with 4,291 media outlets, produced 4,799 hours of programming, and trained over 9,000 journalists. It also says it reached an audience of 778 million people worldwide. That’s more than double the population of the United States. But here’s where things get murky. Internews isn’t just giving media groups equipment and microphones. It’s tying grants to ideological conditions. In Hungary, for example, officials accused Internews of funding anti-government media under the guise of “media development.” If you didn’t toe the line, you didn’t get the money. In Ukraine, it funded 9 out of 10 major media outlets—almost all promoting pro-NATO, pro-conflict content during wartime. And it’s not just about news. In Kosovo, just months before major protests broke out in Serbia, Internews offered grants to reporters to write in Serbian. The pitch? Promote “positive” stories about Albanian-Serb relations. Sounds harmless—until you realize this was a foreign-funded push to shape how people talk about sensitive ethnic conflicts. Then there’s Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, which recently launched a $100,000 media grant focused on climate reporting in Asia. Sounds great—except that the fine print gives Internews and its donors the rights to edit and publish all the content. So yes, they’re funding journalism—but they’re also controlling the output. Even advertising isn’t off limits. Through its “Ads for News” program, Internews partners with GroupM, the world’s biggest media buyer, to funnel ad dollars to “trusted” outlets. If you’re not on the list, you get nothing. It’s a digital loyalty program—except instead of points, you get credibility and cash. Internews is led by Jeanne Bourgault, a former U.S. government official who made $451,000 last year. She previously worked on post-Soviet “transition programs” and oversaw a $250 million budget at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. In 2023, she launched a $10 million media fund at the Clinton Global Initiative—a project backed by Hillary Clinton. The Internews board includes big Democratic donors and political insiders, and WikiLeaks says at least one of its six subsidiaries is based in the Cayman Islands, a notorious offshore haven. Meanwhile, its headquarters in California? Reportedly an abandoned building still listed in official filings. Let that sink in: a half-billion-dollar media empire, pushing narratives in dozens of countries, funded by your tax dollars—and run from a ghost office. Internews says it’s here to “support press freedom.” But as one media analyst put it, “It’s not about giving journalists a voice—it’s about choosing which voices get heard.” So the next time you read a “fact-check” or see a story calling something “disinformation,” remember: it might just be brought to you by the same people who paid $473 million to decide what the world thinks is true. Sources: Anadolu Agency, Hungary Gov, Ukrayinska Pravda, KoSSev, Earth Journalism Network, TRT World, Concordia, Shore News Network

Congrats to the OG meme legend “Hide the Pain Harold” and the @PAIN team for the biggest $SOL memecoin presale in history. Regardless of what will happen at TGE, raising more than 180,000 $SOL (~$40M) during the 2 days when the biggest liquidation in crypto happened was a painful and impressive quest. Be it living our lives, raising our families, or building in Web3, there will always be pain. Maybe that's why Harold is the longest-running meme that everyone knows and loves. Like Doge (RIP Kabosu) or Pepe, he has been a global sensation for over a decade. His wisdom and energy in person are also unmatched! No, I'm not trying to shill $PAIN. I don't need to. But I do want to share two quotes about pain with you. James 1:2-4 has these famous verses about pain and trails. “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” Jensen Huang, @NVIDIA founder and CEO, had a similar message for students at Stanford University a few months ago. “I wish you ample doses of pain and suffering.” I'm no Jesus, James, or Jensen. But I hope everyone stays painful and stays bullish in everything we do. 🙏🏻

【About JY】聊聊我自由职业的5年是怎么过的？ 【The Truth About Freelancing】 其实以前在小红书经常录Girlstalk，但这是第一条英文Talk视频。在进化英文表达的同时，分享真实的自己，希望让大家更了解我和我的团队，对于我们的频道来说，也是尝试一种新的聊天形式节目的可能： 00:00 Opening｜开场 00:37 what’s my daily life like as a freelancer?｜我每天的生活是如何？ 02:12 How I reset my mindset？｜我如何调整自己的心态？ 04:16 how do I make money while working solo and online?｜我怎么在自媒体赚钱💰？web2/web3 05:17 Some thoughts and suggestions｜如果你想做自由职业，一些想法和建议 【清晰版】https://t.co/M2XdfbwpDy

About a year ago, someone rear ended me in my old Model Y. I submitted a claim with their insurance company, and uploaded footage from both the front and rear cameras. Because they clearly saw that their insured driver rear ended me via the trunk camera, and saw from the dash cam that I was correctly stopped for traffic, they claimed liability immediately and processed my claim faster than I’ve ever had any insurance claim processed. When I talked to the agent, he specifically noted my footage as the reason why they’ve immediately claimed liability. It’s not just “dash cam,” it’s 360 cam. The car records every angle using cameras that come stock with the vehicle. You don’t have to buy any accessory or fish a dash cam wire through the car’s trim. You don’t have to add it as an option. This is built into every Tesla by default. Little stuff like this means a lot.

About the definition of mindshare and sentiment - seeing people unclear about what mindshare is defined and feeling strongly about having critical voices in the space let me be clear - 1/ mindshare is NOT sentiment dependent - it represents share of voice in a particular topic this applies to Kaito Yaps (tokenized influence), CT leaderboard, pre-tge arena, VC arena etc so when you trade on @noise_xyz, you are trading unfilter-ed mindshare - regardless if it's bullish or bearish 2/ what is senitment-weighted mindshare currently? it's ONLY the project-specific yapper leaderboard. those leaderboards are designed to highlight and reward the biggest evangelists in each of the community 3/ what about critical voices in the space? my view is Yaps (and X) actually disproportionally incentivizes controversial takes given virality lots of people have said since Yaps there’s been a significant increase in the number of public call outs looking at Kaito Yaps emerging accounts L30D leaderboard - you notice many of the accounts here that've been critical including @0x_ultra no 4 @VannaCharmer no 19 @silverfang88 no 8 @_FORAB no 10 === happy to answer any questions below -

About 6 years after promising hair stem cell metabolism research came from the UCLA labs of Drs. Bill Lowry and @hchristofk, the startup Pelage Pharmaceuticals now has a website, and more development to follow. ➡️ https://t.co/zHLAFryofF #lactate# #stemcells# #PelagePharma# #UCLA# https://t.co/UjmeG4Kbtw

📕 About https://t.co/nYkoxhEdEw ( mostly ) Kaito, Kols and this fucking app. Aight let’s get some shit out of the way first. I own a lot of Boop, as I do for basically anything I enthusiastically talk about. Dinga has been a buddy for a long time. And I hate the extractive cancer that is https://t.co/KTp1qd7Xs3. So here are all my biases. Ah, and none of this shit is financial advice of course. 1/ Now, Boop has been on everyone’s mouth on CT for a few days. It’s the shiny new launchpad and vampire attempt on https://t.co/KTp1qd7Xs3. Most of the times I’ve seen it criticized for it’s KOL heavy distribution, with a caveat: they need to launch their own shitter to claim said allo, currently worth over 200k for the top spots. Clearly, rage and disdain ensued. The rich get richer, scammers getting rewarded, “how did the government let this happen”. We’ll get there. Now let’s focus for a second on what makes this platform different, and better than pump and all it’s copy/pasta clones. Stakers get just shy of 70% of all the fees produced in $sol as well as an allo of 5% pro rata of every single shitter launched. That’s right. The passive trenchor dream is alive. And it’s a game changer. Keep reading to understand why.

Thrilled about this step forward for Space and Time! We created Space and Time to address a critical gap in the industry by building the first trustless database. We spent the last four years bringing together some of the brightest minds across blockchain, databases, AI, and ZK to pioneer a sub-second ZK coprocessor for SQL and a fast, verifiable database. Today, Space and Time powers some of the most prominent businesses across DeFi, AI, gaming, infrastructure, and enterprise software with a robust community.  Delivering this solution to our community as a decentralized and open network has always been a core part of the vision for Space and Time. The Foundation carrying on this vision is a natural and necessary next step in realizing this global goal to enable data for everyone.  As Space and Time Labs evolves into @MakeInfiniteCo, our commitment remains strong: delivering innovative technology to empower developers and creators in the @SpaceandTimeDB ecosystem. We’re excited about what’s on the horizon for the network and look forward to continuing to collaborate with the community and other ecosystem participants. I'm proud to see @chiefbuidl and @_catdaly lead engineering and growth for the new Space and Time Foundation. There's no team I'd trust more to drive the ecosystem, empower builders, and accelerate the adoption of ZK-proven data.

Learn about the unique dance tradition of the Kudubi community of Udupi (Karnataka)⬇️ 👉The folk dance called Hooli is performed during the festival of Holi by the men of Kudubi tribe (1/2) #CultureUnitesAll# #BharatKiNrityaKala# https://t.co/n8EDAZOQUn

Curious about what it’s like to be a student in VESL? 🔥 Meet Rebeca, one of our STEM State Championships participant, as they talk about their experience in STEM and the unbelievable prizes she took home. 🎁 👤: Rebeca Whitney 🏫: Ardrey Kell High School https://t.co/GiTkGJPSaP