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1. How many Google employees know that, last month, their company contributed $5000 to Devin Nunes?

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2. My guess is very few

And this is part of a much larger problem

A new Harvard study found employees are almost completely unaware of their company's political activity

And this activity is often at odds to the company's stated values

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3. It's a missed opportunity because the same Harvard study found that most people working for large corporations believe the political activity of other companies is a big problem and favor reform.

But they believe THEIR company is an exception

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4. Executives who control political donations at Google and other companies are counting on the ignorance of their employees and the public

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Judd Legum
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I don't trust Lev Parnas and am not inclined to believe anything he says that can't be verified in other ways.
There is overwhelming evidence against Trump and its a mistake to re-frame the case as a referendum on the credibility on one of Giuliani's goons.
As of now, the documentary evidence that Parnas has produced. Including letters from Giuliani to the Ukrainian government, is what's significant
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1. YouTube is pushing climate disinformation videos to MILLIONS of people through its recommendation engine

YouTube then monetizes the videos with advertisements from big brands

So both YouTube and the climate deniers are profiting from junk science

popular.info/p/youtube-broa…
2. In response, Google told popular.info it doesn't consider all climate disinfo to be "harmful"

For example, it considers climate misinformation clipped from Fox News to be part of a legit public discourse on a political & scientific issue

popular.info/p/youtube-broa…
3. @Avaaz, which conducted the study, identified major brands advertising against climate disinfo, including:

@Zipcar
@Samsung
@Showtime
@7eleven
@redbull
@Uber
@UnderArmour
@Loreal

I contacted all of the companies above and did not hear back

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Judd Legum
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UPDATE: In October, I identified a network of 14 purportedly independent Facebook pages that only promoted content from The Daily Wire

Facebook said the pages were "real pages run by real people" and didn't violate its rules

We now know that isn't true

popular.info/p/three-update…
2. Over the last several months, Facebook has implemented a new policy that requires certain pages to verify their ownership.

13 of the 14 pages identified by Popular Information are OWNED BY THE DAILY WIRE

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3. Recall these pages posted the same Daily Wire content at the same time ("coordinated")

And while they were claiming to be run by individuals or be independent media outlets, they were all owned and operated by the Daily Wire ("inauthentic")

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#NEW poll of the 2020 Democratic primary from The Economist and YouGov:

% support among likely voters (change vs last month)

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Warren: 21 (-5)
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Bloomberg: 12
Castro: 10%

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#NEW poll of the 2020 Democratic primary from The Economist and YouGov:

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Google's June filing for political donations is up, and surprisingly, the $203K the company donated to politicians substantially aligns with its stated values of inclusion and respect for employees from all backgrounds.

LOL, I'm just messing with you. Let's go through the worst:
Kentucky rep Andy Barr filed a somewhat unusual amicus brief in support of Trump's border wall, arguing that because Congress had allocated money to the Defense department, Trump could spend it however he wanted. Google allocated $1000 to Barr on May 24. mcclatchydc.com/news/policy/im…
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@Pinboard
Google's April FEC filing is up and it is full of interest. Google comes out strong right out of the gate with a $2500 donation to Mitch McConnell.
Here's Wikipedia on Pete Olson: "Olson sponsored the Civil Rights Uniformity Act of 2016 (HR 5812) which would strictly limit the definition of gender to the person's biological gender assigned at birth." Google just gave his campaign $1000.
In the same spirit, in 2016 Rep. Martha Roby said the Obama administration had "lost their minds" when they encouraged states to let transgender public school kids use the bathroom of their choice. Google gave her campaign $1000 in March.
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Brian Vickery
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I'm just getting caught up after the break, & still not done. There's been a ton going on recently in the food allergy space, and in particular I want to comment on the recent work by @ruchisgupta that's gotten a lot of press.

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2. It has long been known that food allergy prevalence is overestimated, but very little population-based work has been done in adults prior to this, and none with this amount of rigor. This kind of work is hard to do, & the definitions and expert panel in use here are strengths.
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