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Judd Legum
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1. Dear @BenSabaHasan:

You are @Walmart's Chief Culture Diversity & Inclusion Officer.

But your company donated thousands to the politicians behind Alabama's abortion ban.

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2. Two questions for @BenSabaHasan:

Will @Walmart continue to donate to politicians advocating to ban abortions even in cases of rape and incest?

Will @Walmart seeks refunds from Speaker McCutcheon, Ledbetter and Reed?

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3. If you think corporations should be held accountable for their actions and their political donations, sign up for my newsletter Popular Information

I follow the money. It’s work the corporations are banking on no one doing.

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Judd Legum
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Yesterday I identified 6 companies who donated significant amounts to state politicians who have enacted abortion bans this year

@ATT ($196K)

@LillyPad [Eli Lilly] ($66K)

@Walmart ($57K)

@pfizer ($53K)

@CocaCola ($40K)

@Aetna ($26K)

So far none has responded

You can help
@ATT @LillyPad @Walmart @pfizer @CocaCola @Aetna If you contact one of these companies and get a response, please let me know. My DMs are open and my email is in my bio.

If you work at one of these companies and want to help, please drop me a line.

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It's likely that if one company offers a response, they all will. Right now they are trying to keep their heads down and hope the controversy just blows over.

Time will tell if they are right.

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Judd Legum
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1. The New York Times wrote an entire article on the Trump campaign's Facebook ads without mentioning that Facebook has admitted the Trump campaign RAN HUNDREDS OF ADS THIS YEAR THAT VIOLATED FACEBOOK RULES

cc: @thomaskaplan @SarahAlmukhtar

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@thomaskaplan @SarahAlmukhtar 2. This is the problem with HORSE RACE JOURNALISM that emphasizes easy-to-compare metrics (who spent more on Facebook?) over exposing bad acts.

If you value ACCOUNTABILITY JOURNALISM sign up for my newsletter, Popular Information at popular.info
@thomaskaplan @SarahAlmukhtar 3. Also ignored by the NYT: Facebook promised to hire THOUSANDS of people to manually review political ads.

But Facebook told me that it is relying on computer algorithms and no humans are reviewing Trump's ads prior to publication.

popular.info/p/trump-ad-con…
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Judd Legum
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CONTEXT: Messina is a corporate consultant for many of the companies that Warren wants to break up
Messina shouldn't be allowed back on MSNBC to criticize Elizabeth Warren until he discloses who his corporate clients are

According to his website, he has more than 70. Let's see a list.
BTW, "strategic consultant" is what you say when you are a lobbyist but you don't want to fill out the lobbyist disclosure
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