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Judd Legum @JuddLegum
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1. Facebook is the most powerful source of information in the world.

They reach 2 billion people.

Nearly half of all Americans get news from Facebook.

WTF are they doing?

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2. Earlier this week, Alex Jones went live on Facebook and accused Robert Mueller of raping kids.

And running a pedophilia ring.

"You are going to get it or I'm going to die trying, bitch. Get ready"

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3. Facebook has a glitzy PR campaign promising to cut down on misinformation and abuse.

So I emailed Facebook to ask why this video was still up.

"We evaluated this video and didn't find it to violate our Community Standards."

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4. OK, but Mark Zuckerberg said FALSE information wouldn't be banned but would see its distribution drastically reduced.

Mueller does not rape children.

So how did Alex Jones' video reach 45,000 people?

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5. I asked Facebook and they had a very interesting response.

"[F]act-checkers check article links but not photos or videos quite yet"

This means false videos don't see their distribution reduced.

This seems to be a pretty big loophole!

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6. The problem isn't limited to InfoWars.

YourNewsWire pushes conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and has had its articles judged false by Facebook fact checkers 45 TIMES.

It still gets massive distribution of Facebook

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Sign up for Popular Information, my new political newsletter for people who give a damn

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TRUMP: "At the request of Democrats it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall."

What Democrat has requested a border wall made of steel?
TRUMP: "The border wall would very quickly pay for itself."

Absolutely no evidence of this. Trump cites the cost of illegal drugs, most of which come through official ports of entry.
TRUMP: "The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico."

This is not true. And the deal hasn't even been approved by Congress.
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A total and humiliating capitation to a president with no interest in the truth.

The news media is supposed to inform the public.

They are now being used to disseminate government propaganda.
REMEMBER: When Obama wanted to address the nation on immigration, the networks refused to air it because they believe it would be "overtly political."

What a joke.

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The idea that a Democratic rebuttal or fact-checking will make this better is insulting.

If I break my arm and a doctor gives me a cast, I'm thankful.

If a doctor breaks my arm and hands me a band-aid, it's not a favor.
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Any network that airs this live is knowingly participating in a disinformation campaign
Some conflicting info, but @JenniferJJacobs of Bloomberg says the networks will air this live

This show just how deeply the mainstream media misunderstands Trump and his tactics

@JenniferJJacobs This is what happened when Obama gave a primetime address on immigration in 2014
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Russia and Iran are engaged in disinformation campaigns aimed at US citizens. Twitter just released over 10 million tweets from over 4500 Russian and Iranian accounts engaged in influence operations dating back to 2009. We've analyzed the data. Here's what you need to know...
Russia's influence operations are far-reaching, aimed at a number of countries. This, of course, includes ops aimed at US voters in 2016, but also includes their own people. 58 Russian-language accounts tweeted regional "news" related to Crimea, Syria, and other military action.
44 US-directed local "news" accounts amassed over half a million followers. By using local-sounding news source names, they were able to dupe Americans from *other* regions to share what they thought was authentic news.
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A thought as to why this might be...
cnet.com/news/google-is…
See, Google is very well positioned in the market. They are tied to the Android phone platform (the only viable option other than @Apple) not to mention "Google it" is synonymous with answering questions. That's whats called massive brand aweness.
Google has prositioned themselves as a utility. Utilities don't need to be fresh or hip. They need to work and work effectively.
Don't get me wrong, Google is into some seemingly spooky 💩, however facts are facts...

Google it.
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Trump: Day 556
-Giuliani Sz "Collusion is Not a Crime"
-Threatens (Again) 2 Shutdown Gov't
-Forms 'Religious Liberty Task Force'
-Considers $100B Tax Cut 4 Wealthy
-Russia Liquidated All U.S. Holdings
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Day 661 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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The personnel chief of the FEMA — who resigned just weeks ago — is under investigation after being accused of creating an atmosphere of widespread sexual harassment in which women were hired as possible sexual partners for male employees.
washingtonpost.com/politics/fema-…
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UNFAITHFUL SHEPHERDS

"Many years ago, the then president of The National Council of Churches warned that the danger of the great religious awakening taking place in our country, might become fanatical and be carried into our political and business life!
"Perhaps this was a fair assessment, that is, if you conflate #Christian #Zionism with religious awakening. Unfortunately, these "fanatical" #Evangelicals have 0 faith in the #Christian religion to which they give empty lip service--while paying homage to those who hate #Christ.
"For lack of faith in the actual #Bible, #Evangelicals make Scofield’ Notes, (Scofield! A drunkard and a con-man allied with the Satanist, Darby) --#Evangelicals have turned Scofield’s NOTES into a DIABOLICAL FORCE in our #national life.
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THREAD

#CambridgeAnalytica #Russia ties.
1.Alexander Kogan a #CambridgeUniversity academic, who orchestrated harvesting #Facebook data, is tied to a #Russian University and had grants for researching into social media networks.
2.Alexander Kogan harvested the data in cooperation with #CambridgeAnalytica.
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Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters  theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Cambridge Analytica who worked with Trump’s team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of FB profiles of US voters, in the tech giant’s biggest ever data breach, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.
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