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Judd Legum
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Wow. WTF.

"Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint."

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Gets worse: "Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson determined that the complaint was credible and troubling enough to be considered a matter of 'urgent concern,' a legal threshold that requires notification of congressional oversight committees."
And then, the coverup: "But acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire has refused to share details about Trump’s alleged transgression with lawmakers, touching off a legal and political dispute that has spilled into public"
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Monday, I reported on a huge network of Facebook pages that were run by Ukrainians and pushing pro-Trump propaganda.

A few hours later, Facebook took the entire network down

Now, I secured interviews w/the Ukrainians running the pages

It's pretty wild

popular.info/p/an-interview…
2. The entire network, which had the same reach as the NYT and WashPost combined, was run by 3 people!

One of them was a 13-year-old girl

Another was an elderly woman w/disabilities named Ludmila

Ludmila ran the "I Love America" page w/1.1M followers

popular.info/p/an-interview…
3. The motivation for the creation of this network was MONEY.

The guy running it said when Facebook shut it down, it cost him $1 million.

And he was just getting started. He estimated that it would eventually have made him $500K/month

popular.info/p/an-interview…
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UPDATE: 8 hours after popular.info's report, Facebook has taken down the Ukrainian "I Love America" page & every other page identified in the piece

This was a huge network pushing pro-Trump propaganda with greater reach than the NYT & WashPost popular.info/p/massive-i-lo…
Facebook is a $500 billion company. But they are not holding themselves accountable.

But there is too much at stake. That's why I'm dedicating myself to accountability journalism.

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Just heard back from Facebook: "We are removing these Pages for violating our policies against spam and fake accounts, and are continuing to investigate for any further violations."
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🚨 TRUMP JUST ADMITTED TO THE QUID PRO QUO 🚨
I'll add that the quid pro quo isn't even necessary for this to constitute an impeachable offense. Asking a foreign government to investigate one of your political leaders is bad enough. But he's admitted to the quid pro quo aspect as well.
The inaction by political leaders of both parties in the face of brazen lawlessness will not be judged kindly by history
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