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1. Facebook's top news executive is Campbell Brown — she's in charge of Facebook's new "Facebook News" tab

Brown also co-founded her own media outlet, The 74, where she maintains an active role

In recent weeks, it's been SAVAGING Elizabeth Warren

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2. Brown's media outlet, The 74, has recently described as "the second coming of Karl Marx," "a millionaire who raves about socialism," and "another tired politician."

According to The 74, Warren is not a "straight shooter" and lacks a "moral center."

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3. The 74 was founded with support from Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. After DeVos' nomination Brown praised DeVos as "a born decision-maker, thick-skinned... and impervious to hostile criticism."

The 74 has been effusive about DeVos' tenure.

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4. Wouldn't Facebook object to this dual role for Brown?

Quite the opposite: Zuckerberg donated $600K this year to fund The 74.

Facebook will have a massive influence on the 2020 election.

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5. Brown maintained an active role at The 74 after accepting her position w/Facebook. According to documents filed with the IRS, Brown spent 5 hours per week - the equivalent of 1.5 months of full time work - on The 74 in 2017, her first year at Facebook

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6. 2017 is the most recent year IRS docs are available. Facebook did not answer Qs about her current role but made no effort to downplay Brown's involvement

Brown reported spending the same amount of time on The 74 in 2016, when she was Editor-in-Chief

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7. Brown has defended the inclusion of Breitbart, the noxious right-wing site known for laundering white nationalism and publishing a slew of inaccurate information, as a "trusted source" in Facebook News.

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1. This story is in the weeds but it's a good example of how corporate PR works so I'm going to tell it anyway

On 11/11, I reported that Facebook's Campbell Brown had an active role in the website she founded, The74, and it had been savaging Warren

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2. Facebook responded by attacking me on Twitter, falsely suggesting I had inappropriately edited its statement and retweeting a thread from the Editor-in-Chief of The74, Steve Snyder

Snyder claimed I didn't reach out to The74 about Brown's role.
3. Snyder was right, I reached out to BROWN through Facebook about her role at The 74. And Brown admitted that she purposely ignored the question.

But Synder sought to portray The 74 as an open book, and specifically said he would be willing to talk to me "in depth"
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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.

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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.

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