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1. This is an important piece about ad-supported media by @sarafischer

Advertisers want to avoid controversy.

Increasingly that means they refuse to advertise against real news.

Advertisers are blocking stories with words like "pregnant" and "gay"

axios.com/media-trump-ad…
@sarafischer 2. The fetish around "neutrality" among large outlets is not about serving the readers. It's a relatively new concept designed to make advertisers comfortable. AND ITS NOT WORKING.
@sarafischer 3. That's why it's important to have sources of information that are not beholden to advertisers.

Because those kind of publications don't have to worry about creating a "safe" environment for ad dollars

And it's why popular.info will never have ads
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1. Trump was acquitted by the Senate on FEBRUARY 6.

Since then, he's been on an absolute RAMPAGE.

This thread is a list of what has happened.
2. Trump fired Ambassador to the EU Gordan Sondland, who provided damaging testimony in the impeachment inquiry.
3. Trump fired Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, who provided damaging testimony in the impeachment inquiry.
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1. In Ohio, GOP officials are abusing their power to smear @HillaryMueri, a promising Congressional candidate.

And the local and national media spread their lies without doing basic verification.

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@HillaryMueri 2. The Ohio GOP filed a complaint with the state Attorney General, claiming that Mueri had voted in the 2008 primary in Ohio and California, suggesting she committed a felony.

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@HillaryMueri 3. The Ohio Secretary of State (@FrankLaRose), without doing any investigation, immediately released a statement saying it was "the exact type of violation I would refer to the Attorney General."

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1. Zuckerberg and other Facebook execs love to talk about the company's third-party fact-checking program.

But how much content is actually fact-checked?

And how much does Facebook actually invest in the initiative?

Not much.

popular.info/p/the-facts-ab…
2. Facebook has 7 active fact-checking partners that review content in the US

In January, they fact-checked 302 pieces of content.

There are more than 200 million Facebook users in the US

This is like draining the ocean with a thimble

popular.info/p/the-facts-ab…
3. Why is so little content fact-checked?

One reason is that Facebook spends very little money on the program.

My best estimate is that Facebook spent $1.2 million on the program in 2019.

That's an investment of 0.0016% of its 2019 revenue
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