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Judd Legum
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Are all the people at the Met ball with funny outfits cool with all the people dying of opioid overdoses? Lots of Sackler blood money at the museum
Sorry to ruin you party but thousands of people are dying in Appalachia
This might seem crazy but have you considering having a party someplace that isn’t funded by America’s most lethal drug dealers
Is getting addicted to heroin because your Oxy prescription ran out “camp”
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Judd Legum
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1. How does 8chan, a racist message board linked to the gun massacres in New Zealand and Pittsburgh, generate enough cash to operate?

Let's follow the money.

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2. 8chan is owned by Jim Watkins, a pig farmer in the Philippines. Watkins avoids a lot of the problems other racist sites run into by providing most of 8chan's services, including domain hosting, through his own company, NT Technology.

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3. But it's still expensive to run a website. You need to pay for servers, bandwidth, and staff. So Watkins needs an outside source of cash.

So he operates a number of other websites through NT Technologies.

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Judd Legum
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Dear @nick_clegg:

In the NYT, you write that @Facebook should be "held accountable for [its] actions"

Really?

Then why won't you or anyone else from @facebook respond to questions about Trump campaign ads that blatantly violate Facebook's own rules?

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@nick_clegg @facebook You (@nick_clegg) acknowledge that "election interference" remains a significant problem but "fixing these problems requires significant resources."

Really?

Then why is the Trump campaign allowed to post false ads to @Facebook without any human review?

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You (@nick_clegg) write that one of @Facebook's top priorities is "protecting democratic elections."

Then why do I personally devote more resources to monitoring Trump campaign ads for compliance with @facebook rules than your entire company?

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Judd Legum
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1. Giuliani's trip to Ukraine, where he was planning to pressure a foreign government to investigate Trump's top political opponent, has been called off nytimes.com/2019/05/11/us/…
2. This is now THREE NYT stories on a narrative created out of whole cloth by Giuliani.

Will this prompt any introspection? Doubtful.

It's likely that there will be another NYT story when Giuliani reschedules the trip later
3. The standard that's been established is that anytime Giuliani says something about Biden or Ukraine, true or false, it should be printed on the front page of the NYT
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