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1. This is a clarifying moment.

It shows exactly what Facebook is and who Zuckerberg is

Trump is violating Facebook's rules on election misinformation

Zuckerberg's response was to go on Fox News and defend Trump's right to undermine the integrity of the election
2. For several years, Zuckerberg has oriented Facebook's entire public policy apparatus around placating Republicans and Trump

Again and again, Facebook has taken actions to empower Trump and the right-wing, ignoring their own policies

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3. Trump is spending millions on Facebook ads featuring claims that have been debunked by Facebook's third-party fact-checkers

In response, Facebook CHANGED ITS POLICIES to allow Trump (and other politicians) to lie in ads

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4. Facebook says again and again that it never changed it's political ad policy.

But it did!

I have receipts.

The policy used to ban all misinformation in ads. Then Trump started spending millions to spread misinformation and the policy was changed.

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5. Facebook recruited the Daily Caller, a far-right site founded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, to become an official fact-checker for Facebook. The decision was made even though the Daily Caller has a history of inaccurate reporting targeting Democrats.
6. The Daily Caller uses its privileged position to benefit Trump and reduce the distribution of critical articles about Trump by outlets like POLITICO.

Why does The Daily Caller get to fact check POLITICO on Facebook?

Because Zuckerberg says so

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7. Facebook hired former Republican Senator Jon Kyl to produce a report on whether Facebook is biased against conservatives. Facebook did not make any effort to study whether the platform had any bias against liberals.
8. Zuckerberg invited right-wing pundits to his home to discuss "partnerships" and "free speech." Invitees included Tucker Carlson, who recently said that immigrants were making America "dirtier," and Brent Bozell, who said President Obama looked like a "skinny ghetto crackhead."
9. Facebook allows The Daily Wire, a toxic right-wing website, a clandestine network of 14 Facebook pages that purport to be independent but exclusively promote content from The Daily Wire

This is in clear violation of Facebook's rules

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10. The head of "Facebook News," Campbell Brown, continues to be involved in her own news outlet, The74, which Brown founded with the support of Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Brown wrote a column on the site lavishly praising DeVos

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11. Zuckerberg announced the launch of Facebook News on stage with News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, a top executive in Rupert Murdoch's right-wing media empire

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12. Brown and Zuckerberg hired a former producer for Fox & Friends, Jennifer Williams, to run video strategy for Facebook News

Williams will be part of Facebook's news curation team, which means she'll be selecting content to be featured in the News tab

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13. Facebook News team elected to include Breitbart — a noxious right-wing site that was caught laundering white nationalist talking points — among the 200 "quality" sources included in the launch.

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14. Facebook has a policy that prohibits misrepresentation on voting methods. In announcing the policy, Zuckerberg said there would be no exception for Trump or other politicians.

Trump is now violating the policy, but Facebook won't enforce it

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15. I'm going to continue to report the THE TRUTH about how Facebook operates.

That's because it is a core source of information for billions of people.

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UPDATE: On Wedneday, another Congressional candidate in Georgia, began running an Faceboook ad advocating violence

In the ad, Green cocks a semi-automatic rifle while she delivers a message to “ANTIFA terrorists”: “Stay the hell out of Northwest Georgia”

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2. Like the ad from Paul Broun, Facebook did not do anything about this ad until I emailed them about it this afternoon.

A few hours later, the company removed it.

But, by then, it had already been shown 50,000 to 60,000 times to Georgia voters.

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3. While Facebook removed the ad, they did not respond to my request for comment.

But they have a serious problem with politicians paying them money to distribute violent content.

I'll let you know if I hear back

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1. On Saturday, Facebook began running an ad from Georgia Congressional candidate that urged people to shoot "looting hoards" with AR15s

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2. Facebook did not do anything about this ad until I emailed them about it yesterday.

A few hours later, the company removed it.

By that time, the ad had already been shown to 50,000 people in Georgia

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3. "We removed this ad, which advocates the use of deadly weapons against a clearly defined group of people, for violating our policies against inciting violence," Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said.

But why was it allowed to run for more than 5 days?

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1. The internal revolt at Facebook is the result of its contradictory messages colliding

Facebook has pitched itself to employees as a progressive & inclusive company

Meanwhile, its public policy team is run by GOP operatives focused on placating Trump

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2. Ultimately, Zuckerberg is in control.

And he's sided with the GOP operatives over the vast majority of his employees

It's a massive gamble

Facebook's future depends on its ability to attract and retain talent

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3. Zuckerberg could just own up to what he's doing

Instead he told employees that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" is not a dog whistle

The people who work there are smart and won't be fooled by this dissembling

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