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The Trump campaign is flooding the zone w/a Facebook ad whose central claim has been ruled FALSE by Facebook's third-party fact-checkers

Facebook says the ad DOESN'T VIOLATE ITS POLICIES because political ads are exempt from fact-checking

Details here ➡️ popular.info/p/facebook-say…
The Trump campaign's ad spending is now up to $1.6 MILLION PER WEEK.

According to Facebook, Trump (and all politicians) can use this money on Facebook to spread lies.

Dark days are ahead.

popular.info/p/facebook-say…
I've been spending time making sure people know the truth about what Trump is doing on Facebook and how Facebook is responding

I will continue to hold the Trump campaign & Facebook accountable

You can support this work by signing up for my newsletter ➡️ popular.info
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Remember when a book was published that contained allegations that Trump engaged in unwanted sexual contact with 26 women.

These were all NEW allegations, separate from the two dozen women who had already spoken publicly.

No?

IT WAS THREE DAYS AGO

esquire.com/news-politics/…
There were credible NEW allegations that Trump sexually assaulted or harassed DOZENS of women and it barely made a blip in the newscycle

It's not just an indictment of Trump but what Trump has done to our culture

As a survival mechanism, we've grown numb
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Judd Legum
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1. Facebook is a $500 billion company with many talented communications professionals who are able to induce journalists to print things that ARE NOT TRUE

I'm going to go deep in the weeds to illustrate an example

Follow along if interested
2. One of the things Facebook is insistent on is that its policy to let politicians lie in political ads has been in place for over a year

They've told me this repeatedly

It's been printed in the Washington Post and CNN, among others.

IT IS ALSO NOT TRUE
3. Now lets dive in. Until Late-September 2019 Facebook's ad policies contained a BLANKET PROHIBITION on "deceptive, false, or misleading" content.

No mention of any exceptions. Not limited to things debunked by fact-checkers

False or misleading content was banned.
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Judd Legum
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Let's review:

Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by A COMPANY NAMED FRAUD GUARANTEE

The owners of the company were arrested Wednesday at the airport with one-way tickets to Vienna

Giuliani was scheduled to fly there the next day
The owners of "Fraud Guarantee," Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, ALSO WORKED ON BEHALF OF PRESIDENT TRUMP.

How do we know?

Their attorney, John Dowd (who used to work for Trump at the White House) told Congress last week
Putting together the pieces: there is evidence that Trump, Giuliani, Parnas, and Fruman were collaborating on an illegal scheme to pressure the Ukrainian gov't to help Trump's reelection

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Little story for you guys from my own experience about this charming feature of Facebook's culture. Thread. 1/
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Romanian American diaspora
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