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In recent months, Tucker Carlson said that immigrants were making America "dirty" and women who earn too much money are responsible for a spike in drug & alcohol abuse

Mark Zuckerberg responded by inviting Carlson to his house to discuss "partnerships"

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Asked for comment, Facebook, which publicly attacked Elizabeth Warren earlier this week, described Tucker Carlson as a "thought leader."
Recall that Facebook recently PARTNERED WITH THE DAILY CALLER, Tucker Carlson's far-right outlet with a history of fabrications to do "fact checking"

I've been covering all of this extensively in my newsletter, Popular Information.

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The Daily Caller fact-checked a post from a large Facebook page called "Rowdy Republican" that contained dangerous misinformation about diabetes.

The Daily Caller deemed the post "true."

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Remarkable.

Zuckerberg tells @AOC that he DOES NOT KNOW if she could run ads in a GOP primary saying one of the candidates supports the Green New Deal

What @AOC is doing is breaking down the distinction Facebook is trying to make between "fact checking" and "voter suppression"
@AOC Facebook will have as big an impact on the 2020 election as any candidate or political party.

That's why I am intensely scrutinizing Facebook's actions in my newsletter, Popular Information

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For context, here is some of my recent reporting on Facebook:

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Judd Legum
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This will be a thread of all the Republican members of Congress who defended Trump by saying NO QUID PRO QUO

The purpose of these statements is to suggest, if there was evidence of a quid pro quo, these members of Congress would take it seriously
Today, Bill Taylor, the top diplomat to Ukraine, testified that there was an explicit quid pro quo

Trump withheld military aid for the purpose of pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and the Democrats

So these Republicans have some explaining to do
Congressman Graves: "There’s no evidence of quid-pro-quo...You can’t impeach a president just because you hate him."

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1. There was a REMARKABLE exchange on a press call with Mark Zuckerberg yesterday that got lost in the shuffle.

In his speech last Thursday, Zuckerberg invoked the legacy of MLK Jr. to defend how Facebook operates

This didn't go over well with King's daughter, @BerniceKing
@BerniceKing 2. @BerniceKing noted that disinformation campaigns by politicians (which Facebook now permits and profits from) created the conditions that led to her father's assassination

@BerniceKing 3. On the press call, Zuckerberg was asked about @BerniceKing's comments.

Zuckerberg said that he believed that @BerniceKing's analysis about her father's assassination was correct but we shouldn't JUST FOCUS ON THE DOWNSIDE

Unbelievable.
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The grovelling querying of Mark Zuckerberg by these Senators who either have no idea what FB does or who are effectively on the FB payroll is why, I suspect, after Trump comes an even more Caesarian uprising.
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#Zuckerberg due to appear before the Senate Committee in a couple of hours - so here’s a short thread about what (I think) matters.
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