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Elizabeth Warren trolls Facebook with 'false' Zuckerberg ad
Ad claims CEO backs Trump – then admits it’s not true – after company admits letting politicians make false statements
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Mattis: ISIS will surge back after Trump's Syria withdrawal
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis said ISIS "will resurge" in Syria, in his first public comments following President Donald Trump's withdrawal of troops from the region. "I think Secretary of State Pompeo, the intelligence services, the foreign countries that are working with us have it about right that ISIS is not defeated. We have got to keep the pressure on ISIS so they don't recover," Mattis said in an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press" set to air Sunday.
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Donald Trump joins Amazon's video game streaming platform Twitch
President Donald Trump has joined the Amazon-owned video game streaming service Twitch as part of his 2020 re-election campaign. But Trump has well-known long-standing animosity with Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos and has railed against violent video games in the past.
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Hunter Biden steps down from Chinese board to fight Trump accusations
Hunter Biden, 39, announced he will resign from the board of BHR (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Company at the end of the month.
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Zuckerberg: I Only Wined and Dined Right-Wingers to, Um, Engage in a Meaningful Exchange of Ideas
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg briefly poked his head out of his gilded panic room on Monday to address reports that he ran a quiet lobbying campaign to reassure right-wing critics of his company that he shares their concerns. In his view, he’s guilty of nothing more than “hearing from a range of viewpoints” and “learning.”
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Elizabeth Warren's Feud With Facebook Over 'False' Ads Just Highlights The Impossibility Of Content Moderation At Scale
Except... it turns out that the latter part of Warren's "fake news ad" -- the part which she presents as truthful -- is actually false as well.
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We always knew Trump was unfit, corrupt, and incompetent.
Syria and Ukraine prove that he is completely unfit for office.
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Trump presidential campaign threatens to sue CNN, news network calls it a 'PR stunt'
Donald Trump's campaign threatened to sue CNN over allegedly biased reporting, a move opponents denounced as an attempt to intimidate the media.
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Facebook just removed dozens of fake accounts based in Russia and Iran that were spreading misinformation and trying to meddle in elections
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social media platform is prepared to fight interference in the 2020 election, but the task is never-ending.
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Zuckerberg set for grilling over Facebook cryptocurrency
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces a tough test Wednesday as he testifies publicly before a House panel on Libra, his company's controversial effort to launch a global cryptocurrency.
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Facebook should at least label lying political ads
Facebook’s refusal to even touch false political ads sends the message that it only cares about lies spread by regular users and not politicians.
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Scientists fired by Trump warn particle pollution standards don’t protect people
A group of scientist advisers dismissed by the Trump administration has concluded that national limits on fine particles of air pollution aren’t strong enough to protect people. The expert panel of epidemiologists and toxicologists was disbanded by the Environmental Protection Agency but decided to continue its work anyway.
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Internal Cybersecurity Memo: White House Is Bound To Get Hacked
In the 1,006 days since Donald Trump became president, his administration has shown little vigilance when it comes to its own security, and a new internal memo suggests the White House is working to weaken its own cybersecurity safeguards.
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Facebook takes down fake political ad meant to test its fact checking
It highlighted Facebook's reluctance to fact-check politicians.
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Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents
As the election security conversation widens beyond Russia, to include countries like Iran and China, it’s important to examine how security flaws in our country’s voting equipment increase the vulnerability of our elections.
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If Trump Is Impeached or Defeated, Conservatives Will Call It a ‘Coup’
The rhetoric of violence on the right.
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Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads, C.E.O. Dorsey Says
The social media company’s action is a stark contrast to Facebook, which is taking a hands-off approach to political advertising.
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Facebook leaves no doubt: It's the right wing's social network now
The transformation of Facebook is complete. Facebook, a social network originally founded as an Ivy League version of Hot or Not, has billions of users and the power to sway elections. In the U.S., where nearly 70 percent of adults are Facebook users, its recent choices make it clear where the company stands: with the party of Donald Trump.
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First vote on impeachment probe passes House
The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. The measure detailed how the inquiry will move into a more public phase and was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.
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Last stand of the Grand Old Party
If Trump is removed from office, it will be because sufficient numbers of old-guard Republican senators come to see it as their last opportunity to act
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