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1. Major policy decisions at Facebook are being driven by three Republican political operatives who work out of its powerful DC office, former Facebook employees tell Popular.info

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2. "Decisions are made to benefit Republicans because they are paranoid about their reputation among conservative Republicans, particularly Trump," one former Facebook employee who worked in the DC office said

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3. Recent decisions driven by the Republicans in Facebook's DC office include:

- Allowing politicians to lie in paid Facebook ads

- Making the Daily Caller a Facebook fact-checking partner

- Commissioning a study of "anti-conservative bias" at Facebook

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4. Facebook will be one of the most influential forces in the 2020 election. Trump made the guy who bought his Facebook ads in 2016 his 2020 campaign manager.

That's why I'm scrutinizing Facebook's actions in my newsletter.

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5. The most powerful figure in Facebook's DC office is Joel Kaplan. He's the guy who sat behind Kavanaugh while he denied allegations of sexual assault. At Facebook, he defends the interests of far-right publications like Breitbart and the Daily Caller popular.info/p/google-misre…
6. Facebook's head of global elections is Katie Harbath. She broke the news to Biden that Facebook would continue to allow Trump to run false ads. She's a longtime GOP operative who, while at Facebook, was a delegate to the 2014 Virginia GOP convention popular.info/p/the-republic…
7. Another major player in Facebook's DC office is former Republican FCC commissioner Kevin Martin. His work at the FCC is summarized in a 110-page report: "Deception and Distrust: The Federal Communication Commission under Chairman Kevin J. Martin" popular.info/p/the-republic…
8. If you are a current or former Facebook employee, I’d love to hear from you. My DMs are open and my email is in my bio.

I’m on Signal and other secure messaging apps.

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The creation of the new "News Section" also shows that Facebook is not a neutral "free speech platform." Instead, Facebook is making judgments about what is trustworthy news and what is not. And, in its judgment, Breitbart is the type of news people should see more.
I asked Facebook for the list of included news orgs as well and have not yet heard back.

For now, it's secret.

How can people trust this source of news without knowing what publications will contribute?

If anyone has access to the News Tab already and has a few minutes, let me know. DMs open, email in bio.
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Judd Legum
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Facebook’s new section of “trusted” news sources will include Breitbart, a website that featured a section on “black crime” and laundered white nationalist talking points bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The distribution and legitimacy that Facebook confers on far-right publishers is a systemic issue

I've been working on a story that reveals the massive scope of the problem that will publish Monday

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This is some important context for Facebook's decision to include Breitbart as a trusted partner.

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1. This is important. Because telling the truth to Congress is important.

Yesterday, @AOC asked Zuckerberg why Facebook had selected The Daily Caller, which has published pieces from white supremacists, as a fact-checking partner.
2. Zuckerberg replied: "We actually don't appoint the independent factcheckers. They go through an independent organization called the [International] Factchecking Network"

I asked the director of the International Fact-checking Network (@factchecknet), @baybarsorsek, about that
3. Over Twitter DM, @baybarsorsek confirmed to me that Zuckerberg's answer was FALSE

"We don't appoint any fact-checking org from our verified signatories to work with Facebook," Orsek said

@AOC asked Zuckerberg a tough question & he dodged it by saying something not true
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