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1. The real scandal isn't what Trump said about veterans.

It's what he did to them.

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2. Trump pushed hydroxychloroquine on thousands of veterans who contracted COVID-19.

The treatment continued even AFTER a VA study found that hydroxychloroquine was associated with HIGHER death rates

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3. How many vets that were given hydroxychloroquine died? We don't know because the Trump administration refuses to say.

But more than 3,000 veterans have died of COVID-19 under the care of the VA.

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5. The Atlantic story relies on several confidential sources who claim that Trump called veterans "suckers" and "losers"

But Trump has made substantively identical comments publicly.

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6. Trump publicly said that McCain and other prisoners of war were "not heroes" because they were captured.

Is it a surprise that Trump also holds derogatory views on veterans that were killed?

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1. Facebook has permitted a large network of Facebook pages and groups — with names like Trump's Deplorable Army, To The Death Media, and One Angry Conservative — to spread disinformation about voting in the 2020 election to millions of people.

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2. The network operates by funneling traffic to Conservative Brief, an obscure right-wing website.

Conservatives Brief distorts reports from mainstream sources to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the upcoming election.

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3. Over the last 90 days, the network of pages that promote Conservative Brief has generated 30.65 million engagements. That's more engagement than the main New York Times Facebook page generated over the same period of time (26.48 million).

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1. Yesterday, Georgia's Secretary of State announced that 1K people voted twice & they would be prosecuted for felony crimes that carry a sentence of up to 10 years

It's a pretty dramatic claim

But when you examine it closely, it completely falls apart

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2. First, you have to understand how voting works in Georgia. If you show up at a polling place and your absentee ballot is already been received, the poll worker is supposed to let you know and you aren't allowed to vote.

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3. If you are allowed to vote and your absentee ballot comes in later, it is not supposed to be counted.

So if anyone had their vote counted twice it is a result of ERRORS BY ELECTION OFFICIALS OVERSEEN BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE

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1. Facebook announced it would no allow any new political ads during the week before the election.

This move is intended to communicate that Facebook is doing something about the use of ads to spread disinformation but will make no practical difference
2. Facebook has created a system where campaigns and committees can micro-target thousands of ad variants EVERY DAY. The Trump campaign has 100s of thousands of ad variants that it can continue to run during the last week. And it can stockpile an unlimited # before the last week.
3. Facebook's policy is to allow candidate ads to continue to run even if they are ruled false by Facebook's independent fact-checkers. These false ads can also run during the last week.
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