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1. @sarahpalinusa has an undisclosed relationship w/an obscure right-wing website called Analyzing America

The website, which traffics in propaganda and conspiracy, pays Palin to post links to her Facebook page

The arrangement violates Facebook's rules

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@SarahPalinUSA 2. In response to a request for comment, Facebook said: "After an initial investigation, we found there’s enough evidence to merit a deeper review. In the meantime, we are taking temporary enforcement action and demoting the Page posting this content"

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3. Palin has posted links to Analyzing America 280 times since May 4. All of the content is aggregated and much of it is toxic. Last year, Analyzing American published a post implying that Hillary Clinton was responsible for murdering Jeffrey Epstein.

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4. Palin posts Analyzing America links with a special code appended to the URL which facilitates being paid for driving traffic to the site

It's the same scheme @realDailyWire was using with a toxic group of Facebook pages controlled by Mad World News

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5. Facebook does not appear interested in enforcing its rules on its own.

So it's up to people like me to uncover this kind of manipulation.

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6. I also found evidence that The Washington Times is paying a huge Facebook page called ForAmerica (7.5 million followers) to boost its content.

ForAmerica has published 1,360 links to The Washington Times since October, about 2/3 of all links posted

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7. Like the scheme perpetrated by The Daily Wire and Palin, each Washington Times link posted to ForAmerica includes a code that allows the traffic to be quantified and paid for

ForAmerica is affiliated with @BrentBozell

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@BrentBozell 8. The arrangement massively increases the distribution of The Washington Times on Facebook. On most days, Washington Times links get more engagement from ForAmerica than everywhere else on Facebook combined

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9. Facebook, however, says it has not established there is a paid relationship between ForAmerica and The Washington Times and, for now, is taking no action

The evidence seems overwhelming but apparently its not enough

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1. McConnell is insisting on a liability shield for businesses in the next COVID-19 bill to prevent "frivolous lawsuits"

THE TRUTH: he's proposing to protect corporations in virtually every circumstance, no matter how egregious the conduct

Let's review

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Plaintiff's are responsible for proving the defendant was careless, their carelessness caused the injury, and the injury caused specific damages

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3. Even if a Plaintiff achieves all of that, a Defendant can still win if they can prove that the plaintiff's own conduct played a significant role in the injury

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1. Congressman Jim Hagedorn (@JimHagedornMN) is using white nationalist talking points to attack the Black Lives Matter movement

Major corporations — including @UnitedHealthGrp, @BestBuy, @usbank, @GeneralMills, @Bayer, @BNYMellon — are supporting him

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@JimHagedornMN @UnitedHealthGrp @BestBuy @usbank @GeneralMills @Bayer @BNYMellon 2. Hagedorn wrote that the Black Lives Matter movement is “at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture.”

It's not an anomaly. Hagedorn has a history of racist, sexist and homophobic screeds going back decades

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@JimHagedornMN @UnitedHealthGrp @BestBuy @usbank @GeneralMills @Bayer @BNYMellon 3. @Intel donated $4,000 to Hagedorn's reelection campaign but when reached for comment, the company said it disavows the Congressman and is asking for its money back

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1. Federal agents from the CBP are snatching protesters off the streets Portland

Trump says he's deploying them to other cities

Meanwhile, the nation's top consulting firms are paid millions to assist CBP's operations and burnish its image

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2. @Deloitte has inked $308,438,589.71 in contracts with the CBP since Trump took office

A recent contract that covers "knowledge management" appears likely to assist the agency in the surveillance of protesters in Portland and elsewhere

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3. PR giant @Ogilvy has inked $35,334,633.97 in contracts with CBP since Trump took office

Advertisements produced by Ogilvy aim "to humanize the organization and its employees, using words like 'compassion.'"

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