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6 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Today's attempted coup in Congress began with Trump saying "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," and then telling the crowd to head to the Capitol to give Republican lawmakers the message.
Don't forget the president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, calling for "trial by combat" moments before.
And then there was @RepMoBrooks, the Republican congressman from Alabama, shouting to the crowd: "Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass!"
In retrospect, this is quite a statement from Trump at the rally that led to the storming of Congress:

"We're gathered together in the heart of our nation's capitol for one very, very basic and simple reason: to save our democracy."

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8 Dec 20
Remember when Trump fell for a fake account posing as his sister? (If not: He did.)

Well, I figured out who was behind it: a 21-year-old DoorDash driver and Trump supporter in Mechanicsburg, Penn.

And hoo boy, it's quite a tale.
nytimes.com/2020/12/08/tec…
First, let's recap that, yes, the United States president was duped by someone posing online as his own sister.

Here is his tweet.

The article he's sharing is about a fake Twitter account posing as his older sister, Elizabeth Trump Grau.
I wrote about it. Then I got to work figuring out who was behind the fake.

Eventually it was pretty clear: a 21-year-old Trump supporter named Josh Hall. So I called him up -- and he fessed up.

“I was like, ‘Oh, my goodness. He actually thinks it’s his sister,’” he recalled.
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20 Nov 20
So President Trump just shared a story about his sister supporting him and wrote “Thank you Elizabeth, LOVE!”

And then when you click through to the article ... it was based on tweets from a parody account of his sister.
The account alleging to be his sister, @TheBettyTrump, only shows a record of tweets starting yesterday.

These are some of its posts since then.
Here is the president‘s original tweet.
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Jack Nicas Profile picture
18 Nov 20
New: Facing antitrust scrutiny, Apple cut in half the commission it charges smaller app makers.

Starting on Jan. 1, developers with less than $1 million in app sales the previous year will pay Apple 15% instead of 30%.
nytimes.com/2020/11/18/tec…
The move could help Apple deflect scrutiny of its commission without costing it much.

The change will affect roughly 98% of developers who pay the commission -- but they account for less than 5% of Apple’s overall App Store revenues, according to @SensorTower.
Put another way: Apple is keeping its 30% commission on the roughly 2% of companies that generate 95% of its App Store revenues.

nytimes.com/2020/11/18/tec…
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11 Nov 20
Today many right-wing accounts are spreading claims that election software from Dominion Voting Systems caused widespread problems.

We looked into each claim of problems and found that they were either caused by human error or didn't affect vote counts.
nytimes.com/2020/11/11/tec…
Some Republicans have pointed to voting and vote-counting issues in five counties in Michigan and Georgia.

The Dominion software was used in only two of those counties, and in every instance there was a detailed explanation for what had happened.
In the two Michigan counties that had mistakes, the inaccuracies were because of human errors, not software problems, according to Michigan officials. Only one of the two counties used Dominion.

Here's Michigan officials' explanation: michigan.gov/documents/sos/…
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10 Nov 20
The claim: “Software glitches” in Michigan & Georgia screwed up vote counts.

The facts: They didn't.

We investigated. Mistakes in two Michigan tallies were due to human error & were quickly fixed. In Georgia, software problems didn’t affect vote counts.
nytimes.com/live/2020/2020…
Let's start with Antrim County, Mich.

Unofficial results had Biden up by 3,000 votes. That didn’t seem right in the Republican stronghold, so election workers checked again.

Turned out they had set up the reporting system incorrectly. They fixed it. Trump had 2,500 more votes.
In Oakland County, Mich., the winner of one local race was changed from Democrat to Republican after election workers caught and fixed a separate human error.

The votes from one city, Rochester Hills, had been mistakenly counted twice. wxyz.com/news/error-in-…
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8 Nov 20
This is the second straight day that Facebook's top posts are mostly from large news outlets versus right-wing Facebook pages.

It could reflect something about the election. But given how sharp and sudden the change has been, I bet Facebook changed its algorithm.
This was the top 10 a week ago:
And let me be clear: I am merely speculating about an algorithm change.

We don't know what happened here because the Facebook computer code that governs which posts and news more than a billion people see is a black box.
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