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FACT: The joint US-Mexico declaration, which is less than 500 words long, requires Mexico to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING it isn't already doing.

It is not a "deal."

It is a fig leaf to cover up Trump's humiliating diplomatic defeat
What is particularly infuriating is how much "objective" media coverage repeats the Trump narrative without pointing out the basic fact that Mexico didn't agree to do anything new.

It's absolutely ridiculous.

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Well well. Looks like the NYT is starting to realize their mistake.

But the damage is done.
It is super weird that the NYT is pretending that figuring out that there is nothing new in this deal requires anonymous sourcing.

No.

It's all publicly available. Everything in the joint declaration was already announced months ago.
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1. An InfoWars host with a VERIFIED TWITTER ACCOUNT advocated lynching Obama on his show yesterday

"He belongs in jail. He belongs in Guantanamo Bay. I mean look - I'm not saying this should happen - but Barack Obama, find the tallest tree and a rope"

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Judd Legum
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1. In 2018, Zuckerberg said he understood why people thought Facebook was too powerful. His resolution was to "fix" Facebook because the company had made "too many errors."

Was this a humbler, more responsible Zuck?

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Judd Legum
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The Trump campaign continues to run false ads on Facebook with impunity.

On Friday, it ran an ad saying the deadline to sign Trump's birthday card was 9PM TONIGHT. (The card is used for email collection and fundraising leads)

Monday, a new ad saying the deadline is 9PM TONIGHT
You might think this is trivial but it's establishing a precedent

Facebook's own policies prohibit false and misleading ads.

Facebook doesn't enforce these policies w/the Trump campaign, which is spending 550K/week with Facebook
.@robleathern: Does manipulating people into clicking an ad by promoting a fake deadline violate your rule against false and misleading ads?

This is what the Trump campaign is doing here.

Wondering if Facebook is going to act or let this get worse.
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