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Hedge fund manager Robert McNamee suggests to @democracynow that Facebook should be shut down because it "enabled the Russians to interfere in a U.S. election" & to "to undermine our democracy."
@democracynow In reality -- one that somehow gets overlooked in this @democracynow segment on "Russian Interference" -- "the Russians" were a clickbait troll farm that spent $46k on ads that mostly had nothing to do w/ the election, & were barely seen in swing states. thenation.com/article/russia…
@democracynow It is surreal, and sad, to have to keep urging @democracynow , where I learnt so much about doing actual journalism on critical issues (including by being skeptical of mainstream narratives) to do actual journalism on Russiagate, a most critical issue.
@democracynow Speaking of sad: @democracynow has done zero segments on Hillary Clinton smearing @TulsiGabbard and @DrJillStein Jill Stein as Russian assets. In the past, they'd be all over this neo-McCarthyism in the same way they were all over Trump's smears of the Squad. Instead we get this:
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