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1. The whistleblower report filed by Dr. Rick Bright is an explosive expose of dysfunction and corruption at an HHS agency tasked with "coordinating production, acquisition, and delivery of medical countermeasures during a pandemic response"

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2. In 2017, Bright describes being pressured to re-up a contract w/Aeolus Pharmaceuticals. A board member warned him the CEO was "friends with Jared" and would trash his reputation in the press. Bright's boss echoed the company's talking points popular.info/p/the-ugly-tru…
3. In 2018, Bright's boss diverted money from his budget to spend $40 million on an inferior antiviral drug. Experts across government advised against buying the drug.

The company was represented by a politically-connected consultant.

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4. As COVID-19 began spreading in January, Bright pushed officials to secure more N95 masks. He was then excluded from meetings for causing a "shit storm."

The gov't didn't order masks for 2 more months. As a result, doctors and nurses weren't protected

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5. Ultimately, Bright was demoted for raising objections to a huge push chloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment. The drug was dangerous and ineffective

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1. Twitter says it prohibits "misleading claims about voting procedures or techniques which could dissuade voters from participating"

When Trump did that yesterday, Twitter refused to enforce its policy

So when is this policy enforced?

An example...

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2. Twitter says these two tweets violate its "rules against posting misleading information about voting"

But they don't seem to have anything at all to do with voting

The enforcement of this policy is a cluster

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3. An account with a few thousand followers gets shut down because he said something vaguely mean about Biden but the President of the United States actually violates the policy in a way that is genuinely harmful and nothing happens

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1. Last year, Facebook and Twitter issued clear policies:

Publishing misinfo about voting methods is prohibited

But policies are useless if they aren't enforced

Yesterday, both companies refused to enforce their policies against Trump

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2. Trump posted that the absentee ballot applications sent to voters in Michigan were "illegal"

Trump said the same thing about the absentee ballots in Nevada.

Both claims are false and could suppress voting.

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3. Twitter's policy prohibits "misleading claims about voting procedures or techniques which could dissuade voters from participating."

Twitter told Popular Information that Trump's tweets don't violate that rule.

Huh?

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A big test for Facebook and Twitter today

Both companies have said unequivocally they will prohibit misinformation about methods of voting in advance of the 2020 election

Trump is spreading misinformation about voting methods on both platforms

Will they enforce their policies?
I have inquiries into both companies are will report back with their responses.

We will soon learn if there are limits on what Trump can do on social media in this campaign.

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UPDATE: Facebook and Twitter failed the test

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