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Zuckerberg says Twitter is wrong to fact-check Trump
""I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online," the Facebook CEO told Fox News. "In general, private companies probably shouldn't be."
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Trump to sign executive order on social media Thursday
President Trump is set to sign an executive order "pertaining to social media" on Thursday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Wednesday.She did not offer any further details.
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Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media platforms
The president has escalated his attacks against Big Tech in recent days.
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Twitter Hides Trump's Tweet About Minneapolis, Saying It Glorifies Violence
President Trump said he will "send in the National Guard" to restore order to Minneapolis, which has been wracked by protests and looting following the death of George Floyd, a black man, after he was pinned to the ground for several minutes by a white police officer. "When the looting starts, the shooting starts," Trump said, prompting Twitter to hide the message for, in its view, "glorifying violence."
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The United States will cut ties with the World Health Organization, says President Trump
The United States will terminate its relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO), President Trump said in a press conference today. “China has total control over World Health Organization,” Trump said. “We have detailed to them the reforms that they must make and engaged with them directly but they have refused to act.”
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Study: Conservatives, liberals read different scientific books
Suggesting that science is not immune to political partisanship, new research by computational social scientist Michael Macy shows liberals and conservatives have stark differences in the types of scientific books they read.
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Trump’s Plan to End Obama’s Peaceful Reforms and Unshackle the Police Succeeded
Trump wanted to end evolutionary change within the system. He got it.
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Twitter takes action against Rep. Matt Gaetz for glorifying violence
But the platform didn’t remove it
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White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter
Other misinformation and misleading claims spread across Twitter on Sunday night and into Monday related to the protests.
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Trump walking to his local church
Set to music
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Lawmakers Begin Bipartisan Push to Cut Off Police Access to Military-Style Gear
The effort to end a program transferring surplus military equipment from the Pentagon to the police reflects a revived bipartisan concern about excessive use of force by law enforcement.
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Trump Administration Escalates Global Fight Over Taxing Tech
The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it would open an investigation into taxes on digital commerce that have been adopted or proposed in nine countries and the European Union, escalating a global battle that will affect where big American tech companies like Facebook and Amazon pay taxes.
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'He wears the armor of God': evangelicals hail Trump's church photo op
No one accuses Donald Trump of subtlety. When the US president raised a Bible overhead on Monday evening outside St John’s Episcopal church in Washington DC, the sign was unmistakable: an appeal to his evangelical base for loyalty, as protests and riots roared across America. Not every Christian answered the call. The Rev Gini Gerbasi, an Episcopal priest, said police used teargas to drive her and others from St John’s before Trump’s appearance. “They turned holy ground into a battleground,” she told Religion News Service.
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When Trump attacks the press, he attacks the American people and their Constitution
Attack the press, and you attack the very system that has made places like the US and Australia among the safest and most prosperous in the world.
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Snapchat will no longer promote content from Trump's account
The company said it won't "amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice."
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Trump's political golf bag
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Donald Trump is (Finally!) Losing Support Among White Evangelicals and Catholics
Donald Trump‘s Electoral College victory in 2016 came from narrow wins in a handful of states — and no doubt that’s due to the fact that roughly 81% of white evangelical voters supported him. Given that current polling shows him losing to Joe Biden — but it’s early and no one should rest easy — he can’t really afford to lose his most devoted base. And yet even some of those evangelicals are starting to slip away from him.
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Twitter Pulls Down Trump Campaign Video About George Floyd’s Death Over Copyright-Infringement Claim
A video posted by Donald Trump’s 2020 election campaign — decrying civil unrest in the wake of the killing of George Floyd — was removed Thursday by Twitter, citing a copyright-infringement claim. A June 3 tweet by the @TeamTrump account with the video now displays the message: “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.” Twitter confirmed it received a DMCA takedown request from the owner of one of the images included in the video but the company did not specify who that was.
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Cartoon from Rupert Murdoch's newspaper "The Australian"
Where do you even begin with this racist propaganda?
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Trump’s Approval Slips Where He Can’t Afford to Lose It: Among Evangelicals
Polls and private concerns from top social conservatives show the president’s standing with the cornerstone of his base isn’t what it used to be. A photo op with the Bible was supposed to help fix that.
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