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Oliver Darcy
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Confirmed: The Department of Labor — after a "thorough reexamination of the available information and upon reflection" — has reinstated Leif Olson who was wrongly accused of anti-Semitism by Bloomberg Law based on some sarcastic Facebook posts from 2016.
cnn.com/2019/09/04/pol…
Slight update: After the Labor Department reinstated Leif Olson, Bloomberg Law published a new story noting Olson had rejoined the agency. I'm told, however, reporters at Bloomberg Law were instructed not to tweet the new story out. It has also not been promoted by @BLaw.
Bloomberg Law has posted this note to its original story explaining revision removing "anti-Semitic" from the headline: "In light of the subsequent events, we removed 'Anti-Semitic' from the headline and clarified Olson’s reference to those tropes."

But still no correction.
—@ErikWemple got his hands on that email instructing Bloomberg Law staffers to "not tweet out" story about Leif Olson being reinstated by Labor Department: "And really, please do not tweet even generally about Leif Olson coming back to the department..." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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News: A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore @BrianKarem's hard pass.
—@BoutrousTed tells me he's "very pleased" with the court's decision, adding, "The White House’s suspension of his press credentials violated the First Amendment and due process and was a blatant attempt to chill vigorous reporting about the President.” cnn.com/2019/09/03/med…
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Oliver Darcy
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With his retweets of those vile anti-Clinton conspiracy theories, Trump gave permission — or perhaps even, in effect, assigned — his supporters in right-wing media to go full steam ahead with that narrative.
It continues to be a tricky situation for newsrooms. On one hand, you don’t want to give oxygen to these conspiracy theories. On the other hand, the president of the United States is peddling them.
One easy thing reporters can do though is avoid straight up quote retweeting the conspiracy theory POTUS just retweeted, with the only commentary being that he retweeted it. We know. Don’t help him amplify the conspiracy theory without at least putting it in proper context.
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I imagine this rule will affect anti-Semitic content that has been posted by @LouisFarrakhan, such as comparing the Jewish people to termites. Twitter says if dehumanizing tweets about religious groups are reported to it now, the company will require the user to delete them.
Twitter does add though that while tweets "that break this rule sent before today will need to be deleted," they "will not directly result in any account suspensions because they were Tweeted before the rule was set." blog.twitter.com/official/en_us…
Update: It appears Twitter has actioned @LouisFarrakhan's tweet comparing Jewish people to termites. When trying to visit the URL, an error message now reads, "Sorry, you are not authorized to see this status." The tweet was online just 20 minutes ago.
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In today’s Telegraph: Labour general secretary in stand-off with MPs over anti-Semitism.

I’ve also been passed a dossier revealing at least 20 party members accused of anti-Semitism have been allowed to remain in party after investigation since Nov.

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