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Judd Legum
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1. The last three years have not been good for Facebook. Things started going off the rails after the 2016 election when people discovered that Facebook let its platform be used to disseminate pro-Trump misinformation. popular.info/p/rage-against…
2. Some of the shadiest stuff was done by the Trump campaign itself. In an interview with Bloomberg days before the election, the campaign bragged that it was using Facebook to suppress African- American votes in crucial states. popular.info/p/rage-against…
3. In the aftermath, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to fix the problem. Usually, he sets an ambitious personal development goal each year, like learning Mandarin. In 2018, Zuckerberg resolved to fix the company. popular.info/p/rage-against…
4. So you'd think, as we barrel toward 2020, that Facebook would have its act together this time. You would be wrong.

Facebook has launched an ad library where you can view political ads being run on Facebook by Trump and other campaigns.

popular.info/p/rage-against…
5. But this newsletter, with a staff of one, identified hundreds of ads from the Trump campaign that violated Facebook's ad policies. Facebook removed the ads only after I brought them to its attention.

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6. Facebook is a company valued at over $500 billion. It has over 35,000 employees and brought in $15 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2019. But somehow, this newsletter has more resources available to review political ads manually.

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6. If you think Facebook and the Trump campaign need to be held accountable, please sign up for my newsletter, Popular Information.

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Facebook permanently bans Alex Jones just 7 years after he claimed Sandy Hook was a hoax. Impressive. theverge.com/2019/5/2/18526…
Atlantic, the Verge, CNN, and Washington Post all writing up this story simultaneously per Facebook's PR army. Meanwhile the company won't answer basic questions about the review process for Trump campaign ads popular.info/p/trump-ad-con…
It's been four days since Facebook promised to get back to me. But they've disappeared. Why bother answering tough questions when reporters will just write up your press release? popular.info/p/trump-ad-con…
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Mark me down as INTRIGUED at the possibility of this woman on a debate stage with Donald Trump.

Harris is a stone cold killer here.
Being smart is an underrated quality in presidential candidates IMHO
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1. In this thread, I'll keep track of things Bill Barr says that aren't accurate.
2. First one comes quickly. He said he would exercise his discretion to release as much of the report as possible. That's false. He redacted to protect the privacy of "peripheral third parties" which is a totally made up category with no basis in law.
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Staedtler
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Good news!

"Oh God, not you again."

Good News!

The Tories are going to sack Theresa May and abandon Brexit. You'll even get a referendum for the pleasure.
A week on Friday we have to decide if we're doing European elections.

If we are, then we accept a long extension of a year.

If we are not, we leave a week on Friday with nothing. A raw Brexit.
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Brexit has shown up a deep and bedded problem with English journalism.
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People who disagree with you politically are not on different sides, are not enemies to be fought.

Whatever political party or ideology, we're all Americans of the USA.

When you turn disagreements into personal attacks, then you become a troll who's only thoughts are hate & war
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Good morning! Day 1 of my trudging through the Russian ad dump is below.

Day 2 coming soon. But first, some observations of what I've read so far:
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2. A lot of the ads are positive and *not* divisive, seeking to build community before increasingly large asks (sharing, commenting, showing up to protests IRL)
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Last week Deloitte published the 21st edition of their annual Football Money League, which ranks leading clubs by revenue, this time covering the 2016/17 season. Some thoughts in the following thread.
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