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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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"Any time there was an issue with Breitbart or Daily Caller, Joel made the decision, and he always acted to protect them," the former Facebook employee told Popular Information.

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1. The Trump campaign has held 15 contests since 2018 offering the chance to win breakfast, lunch, or dinner with President Trump.

An investigation by Popular Information did not uncover evidence that anyone has ever actually won

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2. The last contest winner was supposed to have lunch a week ago in Chicago. The pool reporter with Trump that day, Washington Post reporter Anne Gearan, asked the campaign for any information about the winner. She didn't receive a response.

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3. These kind of contests are a staple of a modern presidential campaign. Most campaigns are eager to show their candidate interacting with real people. Obama's dinners generated extensive coverage.

The Trump campaign has never released a name or a pic

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1. Axios announced this morning that it's #1 topic for the 2020 campaign will now be the manipulation of platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

That's been my focus on popular.info for the last year
2. I think Axios will have some conflicts covering this beat.

Axios is a Facebook "News Tab launch partner"

Axios content is sponsored by many large political advertisers on Facebook

This topic, in my view, requires complete independence
3. You don't need to get your news about Facebook from outlets with direct financial relationships with Facebook

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This column by @juliacarriew criticizes some of my reporting on Facebook as too focused on the United States but you should read it because it is very good column.
@juliacarriew The central point of the column is that Facebook is defending its ad policy by touting the role of free speech in democracies but lots of Facebook users don't even live in democracies
This was actually a point that was raised by several of the people that I talked to in my reporting but I didn't get into it only because I am a one-person operation and have to focus my work or I would never get anything done
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