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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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4. The media is making the same mistakes in 2020 it made in 2003.

The stakes are too high to rely on all the same sources that dropped the ball last time.

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UPDATE: Jeh Johnson was also cited as an authoritative source on CBS's This Week. Host Margaret Brennan also did not disclose that Johnson is on the board of Lockeheed Martin.

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Now that the Trump campaign has the green light to lie in Facebook ads, here is what is happening.

Just a string of unhinged falsehoods.

In exchange for cash, Facebook is infecting its users with misinformation.
Here is another Facebook ad that Trump is running today that falsely claims there is some sort of effort to prevent him from running an ad during the Super Bowl. (There isn't and the campaign has already bought the time.)
This is not trivial. Trump is currently paying Facebook nearly $700,000 PER WEEK to spread these kind of lies. And that number will only increase as the election draws nearer.

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1. I don't think people fully understand how dysfunctional and dangerous Facebook's political ad policy is

Yes, people know Facebook allows politicians and parties to lie

But it's so much worse

This is important, so I'm going to explain in detail.
2. Facebook says, except for candidates and parties, political ads are subject to fact checking

This isn't trivial. Super PACs play a huge role in politics and are going to be spending big bucks on Facebook

So how are these ads fact-checked?
3. First, Facebook takes the money.

Then Facebook starts running the ad on the platform.

THERE IS ZERO EFFORT TO FACT CHECK ANY POLITICAL AD BEFORE ITS PUBLISHED

Facebook will show any political ad to as many people as you can afford with no fact-checking
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1. Facebook's political ad policy is MUCH WORSE than you think

The company says it subjects Facebook ads from Super PACs to fact-checking

But, as a practical matter, Super PACs can lie in Facebook ads

And a large pro-Trump Super PAC is taking advantage

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2. The Committee to Defend the President is running an ad claiming Biden is "a criminal who used his power as VP to make him and his son RICH"

The claim has been debunked repeatedly by Facebook's official factcheckers

BUT FACEBOOK WILL NOT REMOVE THE AD

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3. Facebook tells me its NOT ENOUGH that the claim has previously been ruled false.

The fact-checkers must review this new ad again.

Will they?

It's entirely up to the fact-checkers.

In the meantime, Facebook has its money and the lies spread.

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Iraq’s PM is fuming.

He says Suleimani arrived in Iraq to deliver a response to the Iraqis from Iran about a Saudi offer to de-escalate. They was supposed to meet.

Explains why the Iraqi government’s statement was the strongest, even compared to those of clerics Sistani & Sadr
Regardless of facts, this explosive detail will be understood in many circles in the Middle East as the Saudis played a role in the killing of Qassem Suleimani, a payback to the Iranian attack on the Saudi oil facilities in September.

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Holy cow! Senior militia leaders killed in American strikes in Iraq, and could include Iran’s Qassem Soleimani or one of his top aides from Iraq. Beyond insane.
So far confirmed — the Pentagon is saying two senior operatives “linked to Iran” were targeted.

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