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this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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This is what happens when governments rely on a private corporate service for public announcements
Every government should just adopt a fediverse instance of some sort, maintain it and push that to everyone to use as a public announcement service. That way it would not be controlled, manipulated, lost or disconnected if they had full control over it all the time.
The government uses EAS and WEA to disseminate alerts. Both are government-operated systems that are not controlled, manipulated, lost, or disconnected by third parties. The AMBER alert in question was delivered via both EAS and WEA.
The Xhitter avenue (along with every other major social media platform) is what they refer to as a "secondary distributor".
Except the primary distributor doesn't have any actionable details.
Yep! I finally got confirmation of that when someone posted a screenshot of the alert.
What a bunch of chucklefucks.