of course it does. nasa pays the bills and they are the ones who say “we will hire or fire people, because we do or do not have money”. management from caltech says “ok, these are the people who have expertise we need”.

you don’t think they are giving money to someone and that someone does whatever they want with these money, do you?

but my point still stands;

yeah, i don’t think it does.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ -> ABOUT

About JPL JPL is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech.

to put that into context - according to wiki, jpl has about 5500 employees

as a very minimum, it would make sense to demand safe-deleting the photo immediately after the verification process, with fucking prison time to someone if it is found they did not comply with that.

but that is clearly not the direction the society is going 🤷‍♂️

the headline sounds fucking scary, but i wonder what the reality really is. i am in my fourties, i remember news being printed on the paper, and i understand the media world and what the difference is between trustworthy media and tabloid.

still, lemmy is often times the first place where i see specific news, esp. regarding us politics (i am from eu) - but i choose links to reputable sources (which is not that hard, because lot of times the same info is linked 5 times from the different sources) and verify if needed.

so “gets news from social networks” would sound more ominous than i think my reality is. i don’t have tiktok, so i have no idea what the reality is there.