@odd

Totally sympathise, it's not your fault. That's a really difficult situation.

It is depressing that public bodies and public servants would put important public info on a closed toxic platform that cannot even be viewed or followed from the outside.

Is there any chance those services have an RSS feed too, maybe on their website? If so, you may be able to turn them into accounts on here through a service called RSS Parrot:

https://rss-parrot.net/

For example the White House's briefing room can be followed at:

@www.whitehouse.gov.briefing-room

@progressivecat @FediTips

You could block an account yourself, but that wouldn't stop lies about vulnerable groups from being spread to others. The root problem is that Meta's moderation is just awful, and they don't seem to care. Their aim is to stir up "engagement" by encouraging conflict, which is literally getting people killed:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

The worst part is, according to leaked secret memos, Facebook/Meta already knew in 2016 this would happen and didn't care:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data#.upw3jdyR8

The appropriate response to this pattern of behaviour is to defederate.

@progressivecat @FediThing

Hey there, you can follow the Whitehouse account at this address, it relays everything from the official Whitehouse briefing room RSS feed:

@www.whitehouse.gov.briefing-room

@progressivecat @FediThing @FediTips
yes, it is quite easy to block individual accounts. That is what we should encourage. Let people take charge of their own timeline, we do not need people deciding for us what we are allowed to see.