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Tara McGowan Profile picture
@taraemcg
Oct 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
🚨 WSJ confirms what we've suspected: Mark Zuckerberg directly intervened to prevent progressive news orgs like @CourierNewsroom from being included in Facebook's News Tab, while sharing meals with Ben Shapiro + exchanging texts with Jared Kushner 🚨
wsj.com/articles/how-m…
"When @Facebook tweaked its newsfeed algorithm to minimize the presence of political news policy execs were concerned about the outsize impact of changes on the right. Engineers redesigned changes so left-leaning sites like @MotherJones were affected more than previously planned"
"After the launch last year of @CourierNewsroom, a network of 8 progressive local-news sites that is part-owned by a left-leaning nonprofit with close ties to Democratic donors, Mr. Zuckerberg argued that Courier wasn’t a real news outlet, given its political connections..."
"The discussion sparked a new Facebook policy in August that limits the reach of partisan-backed sites by blocking their pages from inclusion in Facebook News, restricting their access to the Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp platforms and curtailing their advertising."
To be very clear, this "policy" does not impact right-wing media outlets including The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, Breitbart, Washington Free Beacon + dozens of others known for spreading disinformation. According to Facebook, these are all still "verified" news publishers 🤬

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Tara McGowan Profile picture
Nov 8, 2022
Something the left needs to invest in, regardless of how the midterms shake out, is owned media that is honest, nimble, and that reaches the millions of Americans who've been shamefully ignored by legacy news orgs + paywalls, but are being reached by right-wing disinfo everyday🧵
Our 8 newsrooms at @CourierNewsroom reach millions of Americans who primarily get their info by scrolling platforms like FB, Instagram + TikTok with factual, shareable news content every day, year round, puncturing their echo chambers + shaping the conversation at the local level
Our newsrooms have published over💥4,000💥 pieces of original reporting on the midterm elections in the last 28 DAYS ALONE and I'm continuously in awe of how much good information + compelling local reporting they are flooding our audiences' newsfeeds with day in and day out📣🇺🇸
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Feb 25, 2022
Wonder why this is? See this 🧵 - and news boosting friends, these might be worth adding to your programs as the world watches this man murder thousands of innocent lives: newsweek.com/majority-repub…
From 2016, worth boosting. washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
npr.org/2022/02/22/108…
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Feb 4, 2022
Can you imagine what would be possible if we had a progressive media marketplace even half this competitive? (I can)

"The bottom line: Several operatives said they could easily go a whole primary without needing to engage at all with the mainstream media"
axios.com/newsletters/ax…
Tens of thousands of people who died from COVID would be alive today, millions of Americans would know who kept their children safe + delivered the only financial relief they received in the pandemic, guns, not books would be banned in schools, empathy would be louder than hate..
Our media is horrifically imbalanced + broken. Traditional media can't save us. (They're not even trying to!) The only way we're going to keep a democracy in place is to understand this + rapidly build our own channels, lift up our best messengers, + never, ever take their bait.
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Nov 24, 2020
🚨 @Facebook has the ability to up-rank factual news over disinfo + HADN'T ACTIVATED IT 🤬🚨
"Days after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to increase the weight that FB’s algorithm gave to NEQ scores to make sure authoritative news appeared more prominently"nytimes.com/2020/11/24/tec…
"It resulted in a spike in visibility for big, mainstream publishers like CNN, The New York Times and NPR, while posts from highly engaged hyperpartisan pages, such as Breitbart became less visible, the @Facebook employees said."

ARE YOU KIDDING ME I AM LOSING IT 🤬
"In an employee meeting the week after the election, workers asked whether the “nicer news feed” could stay.. Guy Rosen, who oversees the integrity division said on a call that the changes were always meant to be temporary. 'There has never been a plan to make these permanent.”
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Oct 14, 2020
"There’s only one full-time newspaper reporter. @AshleyinFloyd's title is Managing Editor of the @FloydPress, but in practicality she’s reporter, photographer, layout designer + editor. Each week she single-handedly pulls together the 16-20 page newspaper."wvtf.org/post/she-s-one…
"When big companies start to buy up papers it’s often no longer seen as a long term investment. @alisonkgraham worries that the lack of investment is a vicious cycle that can only be headed in one direction: Lee Enterprises eventually closing the paper."
"The loss of local reporters is nothing new. From 2008 to 2018 the number of newspaper journalists in the country shrank by half. Those losses have only accelerated during the pandemic." pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020…
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Jul 30, 2020
Team, we have a problem. Women can and have won elections- and can strengthen a presidential ticket- but the biggest barrier standing in their way is a tried-n-true playbook that has effectively kept us out of positions of power- that even we "progressives" can fall victim to.
We know from research + history that the most effective ways to take down a woman candidate are to make her appear unqualified, untrustworthy and/or unlikeable. We know there's a double standard + we know that standard is significantly worsened if you're a woman of color
Trump, the GOP + their right-wing media are all foaming at the mouth ready to use our badass woman VP (whoever she may be) to divide us + weaken our chances of beating their asses up and down the ballot. And we cannot let them get away with it again. So we have some work to do.
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