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1. The entertainment industry publicly championed the Black Lives Matter protests

But what are they willing to DO?

While others have cut ties w/lobbyist @mschlapp, who has been attacking Black Lives Matter, the entertainment industry has stayed silent

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@mschlapp 2. @mschlapp's attacks on Black Lives Matter continued over the last week, when Verizon and Abbott Labs severed ties

Schlapp posted a video describing the protests as "not about George Floyd anymore" but "overturning the values of Western Civilization"

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@mschlapp 3. @comcast, the parent company of @NBCUniversal, continues to pay Schlapp 120K annually to represent the company as a lobbyist

The company publicly champions Black Live Matter

But it has ignored multiple requests for comment

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@mschlapp @comcast @NBCUniversal 4. For years, @motionpictures employed @mschlapp as a lobbyist

@motionpictures told me it no longer pays Schlapp directly

But @motionpictures has continued to donate 175K annually to Schlapp's political organization, @CPAC

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@mschlapp @comcast @NBCUniversal @motionpictures @CPAC 5. @motionpictures won't say whether it will continue to support @mschlapp's org, which he's using to attack BLM

@motionpictures represents Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros

They all have publicly announced support for BLM

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6. It's easy for @Disney, @Netflix, @ParamountPics, @SonyPictures, @NBCUniversal, @warnerbros to SAY they support Black Lives Matter

But what are they willing to give up?

Will they risk less access to Trump and the GOP by cutting ties w/@mschlapp?

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7. I'm going to continue to look beyond the corporate tweets about Black Lives Matter with black and white text and scrutinize corporate ACTIONS

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It's interesting that @neal_katyal is positioning himself as a voice for human rights while simultaneously representing @Nestle in the Supreme Court, arguing the company shouldn't be held responsible for exploiting child slave labor in the Ivory Coast to lower the cost of cocoa
@neal_katyal @Nestle In his petition for writ of certiorari @neal_katyal argues that all such suits should be prohibited because if the Supreme Court allows them to proceed it would DISCOURAGE FOREIGN INVESTMENT

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.@neal_katyal is advocating the same position as the Trump administration: "domestic corporations are not subject to suit for human rights violations" under the Alien Tort Statute

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1. This detailed account of how Facebook reacted, as a company, to Trump's "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" pretty much tells you what you need to know about how the company operates

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2. First, Zuckerberg's deputies "contacted the White House" with "an urgent plea to tweak the language of the post or simply delete it"

This is a clear indication that THEY KNEW IT VIOLATED FACEBOOK'S RULES
3. Then, Trump calls Zuckerberg, and Zuckerberg says that his posts "put the company in a difficult position."

This is the type of thing you would say to a co-worker or teammate.
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Zuckerberg announced a series of steps Friday to try to stem the advertiser exodus from Facebook and it went over like a ton of bricks.

Partly because the new policies were nibbling at the edges

The other issue is Facebook's big problem is ENFORCEMENT

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Facebook has a rule on coordinated inauthentic behavior.

It just won't enforce it.

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Facebook has a system to fact-check climate disinformation.

It just won't enforce it.

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