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1. In the critical weeks before the 2018 election, Facebook provided training materials to its content moderators that were riddled with basic errors and never corrected

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2. The internal Facebook training documents, obtained by Popular Information, said, for example, that "U.S. citizens must vote in-person at a polling location."

There is absentee voting in all 50 states. In 33 states, you can vote absentee for any reason

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3. This misinformation was provided by Facebook to contract content moderators at Cognizant.

Former Cognizant employees tell me most moderators had little to no political knowledge.

One "reviewer" didn't know what "GOP" meant.

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4. The election training presentation produced by Facebook, which also contained numerous other errors, sharply contrasts with Facebook's corporate spin

Zuckerberg has touted the "focus and rigor" the company was bringing to election protection.

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5. As we headed into another election, Facebook is still relying on poorly-trained, underpaid, third-party moderators to make decisions about election content

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6. In response to this report, Facebook admitted their election training materials contained "obvious errors" and said it was no long in use. (That's a relief since it was about the 2018 election.)

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1. This photo is fake (photoshopped)

2. The man on the left is Hassan Rouhani, who is still President of Iran

3. It's embarrassing that you are a United States Congressman
There is going to be an awful lot of misinformation floating around in the coming days and weeks.

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UPDATE: Gosar is still digging
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1. America is at the precipice of another all-out war in the Middle East.

The Sunday talk shows on NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN featured SEVEN guests who voted for or publicly supported the Iraq War and NONE who publicly opposed it.

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2. Congressman Chris Van Hollen opposed the Iraq War and appeared on Fox News Sunday.

But Van Hollen was a candidate when Congress voted to authorize the war in 2002.

So none of the five major shows included anyone who voted against the Iraq War

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3. Meet The Press featured former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, who said Trump had "ample domestic legal authority to take [Soleimani] out"

Neither MTP nor Johnson revealed he's on the board of defense contractor Lockheed Martin. He's paid 300K+ per year.

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Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson appeared on Meet The Press and asserted Trump had "ample domestic legal authority to take [Soleimani] out without an additional congressional authorization"

NOT DISCLOSED: Johnson is currently on the board of defense contractor Lockheed Martin
It's unclear why national news programs don't feel an obligation to disclose their guest's OBVIOUS conflicts of interest

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In case you were wondering, Johnson does not have a volunteer position with Lockheed. He was paid over 300K in 2018
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