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1. A massive Facebook page, Rowdy Republican, has been pushing dangerous misinformation about diabetes to millions of people

Its reach exceeded many major media outlets like Vox, USA Today, and the LA Times

And for many months, Facebook did nothing

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2. The way this page operated was instructive.

Rowdy Republican used pro-Trump propaganda to gain audience and engagement. Then attached a diabetes scam to make money.

The scam advised people to ignore their doctors and buy a $55 paperback book

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3. In September, I first reported on this page and never received a reply from Facebook

After my report Rowdy Republican briefly stopped posting links to scams

In response to another inquiry this week, Facebook told me it was taking the page down

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4. The incident shows how slow Facebook is to act, even in cases where pages are endangering the health of its users

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The NYT has added a lengthy "editors note" to the top of Bret Stephens column.

It includes this claim: "Mr. Stephens was not endorsing the study or its authors’ views, but it was a mistake to cite it uncritically"

That is a lie.

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Here is the original column, via @ashleyfeinberg. Stephens writes: "The common answer is that Jews are, or tend to be, smart. When it comes to Ashkenazi Jews, it’s true."

He then goes onto quote the 2005 column.

That's an endorsement of the study and its conclusions. Image
This unsigned "editors note" implies the problem was not the column but THE READERS' FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND STEPHENS ACTUAL POINT.

That is an insult.

The idea that Stephens was not endorsing this study is a farce.
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As far as I can tell Joe Biden has done nothing wrong with respect to Ukraine and should welcome the opportunity to testify.

Of course, so should Mulvaney, Bolton, etc.
Biden agreeing to testify would put more pressure on Trump admin officials to agree to testify.
Really think Biden’s reluctance to testify is not based on political strategy but his desire to protect Hunter.

No evidence that Hunter broke the law but Hunter did act unethically when exploited his last name to land a lucrative position in Ukraine
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I'm going to use this thread to keep track of people at the NYT who are speaking out against Bret Stephens racist column, where he approvingly cites "research" from a white supremacist to argue that white jews are smarter than other people

Please reply with anything I'm missing
1. Strongest statement I've seen comes from @karaswisher. Swisher is a NYT columnist.

2. @jodyrosen is a NYT contributor

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