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1. Facebook says it IS fact-checking political ads from PACs (just not politicians)

But Facebook approved an ad today from a pro-Trump PAC that claims Obama warned black voters not to "sell their soul" to the Democratic party

The ad is a lie

facebook.com/ads/library/?i…
2. The ad uses a quote from the audiobook of Obama's autobiography

"Here's President Obama"

BUT Obama is ACTUALLY JUST QUOTING A BARBER NAMED SMITTY

It's not something Obama said or believes

Obama touts the power of a unified black community
3. But don't take my word for it. This exact same tactic was used in a 2017 political ad and evaluated by Politfact, an official Facebook fact-checking partner, and rated PANTS ON FIRE

politifact.com/georgia/statem…
4. Facebook is a $500 billion company that won't follow through on its commitments

So I'm doing this work for them. Because what happens online will be a major factor in the 2020 election

If you think this work is important, sign up for my newsletter ➡️ popular.info
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GAME OVER

It's unclear why this impeachment inquiry needs to continue

Trump is guilty of multiple impeachable offenses

The evidence does not come from the deep state

It comes from a call summary released by the White House and a guy who donated $1M to Trump's inauguration
Republicans appear entirely unmoved by irrefutable evidence that Trump abused his power to advance his personal political interests.

No one can force Republicans in Congress to have principles.

But they can be forced to vote.

This will be their legacy.
We now know why Pompeo and Trump were so eager to block Sondland and the others from testifying.

It's a criminal conspiracy that goes all the way up to the President of the United States.

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UPDATE: Last Thursday, I reported that Facebook was a sponsor of Kavanaugh's keynote speech to the Federalist Society.

Facebook told me it didn't see anything wrong with it.

Many Facebook employees disagreed.

And now Facebook is changing its tune.

popular.info/p/facebook-fet…
2. A source tells me that a member of Facebook's public policy team responded to employee complaints on an internal Facebook message board and said "we made a mistake" in sponsoring the Kavanaugh speech

Facebook told employees it would take steps to remedy the situation
3. I asked Facebook about the difference between what it was now telling employees internally and what it told me last Thursday about sponsoring Kavanaugh's speech.

"We’re not going to have any comment on this, Judd," a Facebook spokesman told me.

popular.info/p/facebook-fet…
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Breitbart is exposed taking orders from the Trump campaign to aggregate conspiracy theories and other incendiary content.

Does @campbell_brown think this is the behavior of a "trusted" news source that should be featured in Facebook News?

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
@campbell_brown Facebook and @campbell_brown have attacked the accuracy and integrity of popular.info (despite not identifying a single factual error) but continue to defend and promote Breitbart (despite its unethical behavior and links to white nationalism)

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In today's @nytimes, Aaron Sorkin blasts Mark Zuckerberg for not fact-checking political ads.

Ironically, it seems no one fact-checked Sorkin's own column, which falsely claims that half of Americans say Facebook is their main source of news. nytimes.com/2019/10/31/opi…
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@nytimes @pewresearch I've written in the past about this particular bit of misinformation, where it came from, and why it persists. I suspect the deeper reason people keep citing it is the same reason misinformation flourishes on Facebook: It supports their preconceptions. slate.com/technology/201…
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Auntie Maxine is taking Mark Zuckerburg apart in House Financial Services Committee on cryptos right now. (C-Span radio 3 for audio.)

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MZ: We do not fact check political speech.
Do you fact check on any ads?
MZ: Yeah, but actually no, Facebook doesn’t fact check *any* ads.... If it gets flagged a lot, it goes into a queue for checking, and they don’t get to everything.

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ZUCK GOES TO CONGRESS.

The official live thread.

Can he change minds? Will Libra find new supporters? Will he be put on the spot to make major compromises? Will it be a referendum on FB in general w Libra as an afterthought?

Let's find out! 👇
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3/ Maxine Waters (chair) kicking things off with this bomb..

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