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1. My reporting yesterday raised questions about Campbell Brown, the top Facebook exec in charge of the new Facebook News initiative.

Facebook defended Brown, but Facebook REFUSES TO RELEASE A LIST OF PUBLICATIONS THAT WILL BE INCLUDED IN FACEBOOK NEWS

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2. We know Brown decided to include BREITBART as a "trusted" publication in Facebook news.

And we know Brown co-founded a website that is now harshly attacking Warren.

We also know Zuckerberg wants Facebook News to reach HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE

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3. What other publications are included in Facebook News?

Facebook is keeping it secret as it plans to promote the outlets in this tab to million in advance of the 2020 election.

I'm going to continue to dig.

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This is absolutely indefensible journalistically.

You can’t have a media outlet that covers politics but has a policy of not investigating (which is another word for reporting) one or more candidates.
I am a paid subscriber to Bloomberg News because there are so many great journalists there doing amazing work but this is a real disservice to all of them.

You can’t declare the biggest story of the next 12 months off limits.
It’s also clear that Bloomberg had involvement with different aspects of the editorial product (editorials was just the place where he had the most impact) and there is nothing in this statement about that stopping or editorial independence
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1. Bloomberg wasn't going to get into the race until he became worried that Sanders or Warren will win

Now he's entering next week with a $30M+ ad buy

I don't think these "biographical" spots will have much of an impact.

But he's just getting started

nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/…
2. To me, the more interesting question is whether Bloomberg starts to use his effectively unlimited resources to attack Sanders & Warren

After all, he seems more motivated by stopping Sanders and Warren than winning himself

Otherwise he would have gotten in a long time ago
3. I am very confident that Bloomberg has already conducted extensive polling to determine what the most damaging messages are against Warren and Sanders.

I wouldn't be surprised if the ads are already cut.

The question is if/when we will see them.
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1. In October 2019, The Daily Wire was among the TOP TEN publishers on all of Facebook, despite producing a small fraction of the others on the list

One reason: Facebook lets The Daily Wire run a clandestine network of 14 pages that game the algorithm

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2. Facebook told me that, in November, it would require pages, like those in The Daily Wire astroturf network, to disclose what entity is actually managing them.

That has not happened.

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3. Instead these pages continue to deceive Facebook users and artificially inflate The Daily Wire's reach.

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