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1. Facebook has admitted that @benshapiro is breaking its rules.

There is an undisclosed financial relationship between Shapiro's The Daily Wire and Mad World News, a notorious outlet that exploits fear and bigotry for profit

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@benshapiro 2. 5 large pages controlled by Mad World News expanded The Daily Wire's audience by millions through the coordinated posting of dozens of links from The Daily Wire each day

This arrangement has helped The Daily Wire get massive distribution on Facebook

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3. I've been reporting The Daily Wire's underhanded tactics since LAST OCTOBER. Up until last week, Facebook has insisted that nothing @benshapiro was doing violated its policies.

They've finally conceded he's gaming the system.

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4. This goes right to the heart of the argument Facebook's @nick_clegg has been making on national TV

That Facebook is just a REFLECTION of society

No, Facebook has allowed purveyors of the toxic content to violate its rules, magnifying their influence

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5. It takes a lot of time and effort, but persistent accountability journalism can create change.

You can get more of this kind of reporting by signing up for my newsletter, Popular Information.

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6. There are still questions about how Facebook is handling this situation. It is penalizing Mad World News by demoting its content.

The Daily Wire has to stop paying people to post, but will not see its content demoted unless the violations continue

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7. It's unclear, to me, why The Daily Wire is being treated differently than Mad World News when they conspired to break the same rule.

Facebook says its standard protocol.

But it was unable to provide other examples of this protocol being implemented

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8. Zuckerberg and Shapiro have a personal relationship. Shapiro has had dinner at Zuckeberg's house and a source that spoke to Shapiro tells me the two remain in touch.

Facebook denies this relationship played any role in their handling of the situation

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9. I've also found evidence that @benshapiro and The Daily Wire have similar financial deals with other large Facebook pages, some of which have millions of followers.

Facebook says it's investigating.

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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. 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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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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