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27 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This viral tweet shows how easily social media is used to deceive:

A much higher-ranking Facebook executive, its second-highest ranking boss, Sheryl Sandberg, has donated sums vastly in excess of this to Democratic candidates and Democratic PACs, with none going to Republicans:
Indeed, "Sandberg, who worked for the Department of Treasury under President Clinton, has been a reliable Democratic donor for years. In 2016, she put more than $416,000 into the Hillary Victory Fund."

Is that influencing Facebook's role in elections???

protocol.com/tech-political…
Over the years, Sandberg -- obviously a more powerful Facebook executive than Kaplan -- has maxed out her donations to countless Dems, including Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Steny Hoyer, numerous Dem PACs & multiple Dem state parties:

opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/r…
Silicon Valley -- beyond censoring Hunter docs -- is overwhlemingly Dem: "WIRED found employees at [Google], Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Oracle have contributed nearly 20 times as much money to Biden as to Trump since the beginning of 2019."

wired.com/story/silicon-…
But by singling out one Facebook official who donated to two GOP candidates - in a predictably mega-viral tweet -- @JuddLegum not just implied but outright stated that FB may be intervening for the GOP, when the obvious truth is exactly the opposite: FB execs & SV are pro-Dem.

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If you can, please listen to this amazing Red Scare interview with NYU Professor @mcrispinmiller, now being formally investigated by NYU with threats of firing because -- in a class on **propaganda**! -- he encouraged students to review the conflicting messaging on mask-wearing:
I hope this will be made available to non-subscribers. The story is amazing. *One student* in the class whined on Twitter that she was upset by his teachings on COVID propaganda, and so the University apologized to her & assured her he'd be investigated:

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How come the people who always talk about the sanctity of "norms" are always the ones most eager to abolish the longest-standing and most fundamental norms?

Also, I don't think one can say that it's just one party who has abused the pardon power for corrupt ends:
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With Biden's New Threats, the Russia Discourse is More Reckless and Dangerous Than Ever

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It is genuinely astonishing that after all these years, and all the outright lies Kristol has told, that gullible people treat his claims about secret conversations he had with anonymous sources -- ones which *always* perfectly coincide with his political agenda -- as credible.
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They have the spokesman that movement deserves.
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