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"We can’t remove all of it because it will disproportionately affect conservatives,” said Kaplan, a former George W. Bush White House official and now the head of Facebook’s Washington office."
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So. It's still fiction.
“They don’t believe it to be fake news,” he said, arguing for time to develop guidelines that could be defended to the company’s critics, including on the right.
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“Trump’s campaign is bringing on Matt Oczkowski, an alum of Cambridge Analytica, a move likely to raise alarms among Trump critics and data privacy advocates who worry the president will push the technological envelope to get reelected...” politico.com/news/2020/02/1…
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Barclays says U.K. regulators are probing CEO Jes Staley’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail last year wsj.com/articles/barcl…
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af­ter he left JP­Mor­gan in 2013 and the last time he had con­tact w/ him was in the “mid­dle to fall” of 2015.”
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The dark web of Leonard Leo, Kavanaugh & GOP legal cesspool. Been working w/@JamesFourM on all things LL. This wk brings new context, exposing GOP conspiracy behind this SCOTUS nom

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