Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Since his appointment, Starbuck has baselessly claimed that individual shooters in the US were motivated by leftist ideology, described faith-based protest groups as communists, and without evidence tied Democratic lawmakers to murders. 

Starbuck's online posts have not changed in tenor since the "anti-DEI agitator" was brought into the Meta fold, and his Trump administration connections raise broader questions about the extent to which corporate America has capitulated to the Maga movement...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/meta-ai-adviser-robby-starbuck

 

Pam Bondi fires US justice department’s top ethics adviser | Trump administration | The Guardian

Tirrell's firing comes as Bondi has begun firing career employees connected to Jack Smith's investigation into Trump. Those firings have included career prosecutors as well as support staff. The firings also come as Ed Martin, a prominent defender of January 6 rioters, was chosen to lead a working group in the department investigating so-called weaponization of officials who investigated Trump...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/14/pam-bondi-fires-top-ethics-adviser 

 

RFK's claims on vaccine advisers' conflicts of interest don't check out : Shots - Health News : NPR

The Health Secretary's assertion inaccurately characterizes the 2009 government report he cites, according to an NPR review and interviews with former committee members…

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5323771/rfk-jr-vaccine-advisers-conflicts-interest

 

Trump’s Gorka pick met with outrage: he’s ‘as dangerous as he is unqualified’ | Trump administration | The Guardian

…John Bolton, the former UN ambassador who was Trump's third national security adviser in his first term, told CNN that Gorka was "a conman" who should not be "in any US government" and whose selection does not "bode well for counter-terrorism efforts"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/27/trump-national-security-gorka

‘I’m hopeful’: Jerome Foster, the 18-year-old helping to craft US climate policy

"I thought 'I'm done convincing people. We're just going to work around you.' We don't have time to be slowed down by people that don't understand and don't acknowledge the science. It's far beyond that. You got 50 years to read the papers. You had 50 years to understand this crisis and you still are doing nothing. So we're done spoon feeding you. We're moving on, next step, next phase."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/13/jerome-foster-us-biden-climate-crisis

Stephen Miller has been the de facto head of Homeland Security, and it's going to keep being deadly

A record five people so far have served as impeached president Donald Trump’s acting or confirmed Homeland Security secretary, but one person has really been in charge the entire time: Stephen Miller, senior adviser to the president. Now, in the midst of a global pandemic, we’re seeing more results of what happens when the reins of government are handed over to a 34-year-old whose sole mission in public service has to make his white supremacist radicalism the official policy of the United States.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/4/9/1935843/-Stephen-Miller-is-the-de-facto-head-of-Homeland-Security-and-it-s-killing-people

Mismanagement, missed opportunities: How the White House bungled the coronavirus response

Trump’s own advisers acknowledged to NBC News that the failure to focus on widespread testing was a major misstep.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/mismanagement-missed-opportunities-how-white-house-bungled-coronavirus-response-n1158746

David Wurmser, Key Iraq War Architect, Advising Trump on Iran

DAVID WURMSER WAS a longtime advocate of war with Iraq in the Bush administration. Eventually, he got what he wanted, and it was a total disaster. Now, Wurmser again has the ear of a president — this time, Donald Trump — and his sights are set firmly on Iran.... https://theintercept.com/2020/01/16/david-wurmser-iran-suleimani-iraq-war/