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Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal
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Facebook's top leadership now acknowledges despicable complicity in using Definers to smear its critics. This blockbuster holiday revelation, after disingenuous denials, adds powerful evidence of an entrenched corporate mindset of deceit & evasion. nytimes.com/2018/11/22/bus…
FTC, Justice Department, SEC, & Senate Commerce Committee—all must investigate Facebook. Privacy commitments, deceptive & misleading practices, shareholder disclosure, antitrust—everything must be on the table.
FTC Commissioners will appear before the Senate Commerce on Tuesday. Online privacy & investigation of Facebook & Google will be the priority issue. Congress must act to make sure the FTC holds Big Tech accountable for its broken promises.
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Accepting these raises makes clear these “leaders” fail a basic tenet of leadership—putting what’s best for the group above one’s own self interests.
I will be donating my pay to Homes For The Brave until the shutdown is done. What will top Trump officials do with theirs?
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Unacceptably missed deadlines! Lifesaving railroad technology—Positive Train Control—still lacking on almost all rail lines, despite Dec 31 deadline. FRA must hold them accountable with $27,904 per day fines if necessary.
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Will Barr hearings be another rush to judgement Trump confirmation? The Senate Judiciary Committee needs documents, background investigation, & all relevant materials well before January 15. washingtonpost.com/politics/senat…
Mr. Barr must be fully forthcoming about his views on the Special Counsel’s investigation & any conversations with Trump or anyone else about it.
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#SHOCKER: Facebook used disinformation, aggressive lobbying, and a PR firm to shield itself from being exposed for their role in #TrumpRussia🇷🇺. The rest of this story seems to throw Sheryl Sandberg under the bus to save her brother, Mark Zuckerberg.🙄

nytimes.com/2018/11/14/tec…
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Thread: If you want to know how fake likes, loves and follows get industrialised on #Facebook, here's a good example from #Brazil.

The fakes boosted hyper-partisan posts in Mexico ahead of the election.

Fake engagement's an international business.

medium.com/dfrlab/electio…
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Note the number of accounts in common. Looks like an organised brigade.
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Facebook e Instagram mostrarão o tempo gasto no aplicativo! Quão viciado você acha que é?
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#QAnon #QArmy #POTUS @realDonaldTrump #WWG1WGA #Winning #Q
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50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. Psych prof/developer Aleksandr Kogan accessed 270k FB users' data w his app, then collected their friends' data…& sold it all to Trump's data firm which used it to target ads in 2016 election theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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