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Andrew Feinberg

@AndrewFeinberg

5 Oct

@SenateCommerce

At today's @SenateCommerce hearing with @FrancesHaugen, @MarshaBlackburn all but calls @Facebook officials liars: "Having seen the data that you've presented ... I feel pretty confident that it's Facebook, who has done the misrepresenting to this committee."

@FrancesHaugen

Whistleblower @FrancesHaugen: "I believe Facebook's products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy."

@FrancesHaugen

.@FrancesHaugen: "Facebook consistently resolve these conflicts in favor of its own profits. The result has been more division, more harm, more lies more threats and more combat. In some cases, this does this dangerous online talk has led to actual violence".

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Andrew Feinberg

@AndrewFeinberg

14 Sep

@SecBlinken

NEW: Republicans wanted @SecBlinken’s appearances before the House and Senate foreign relations committees to be fodder for a Benghazi-like scandal. Instead, they ended up shouting about op-eds and asking nonsense questions about White House livestreams. independent.co.uk/voices/blinken…

@SenateForeign

.@SenateForeign Ranking Member @SenatorRisch used his time to ask Blinken who is responsible for ending broadcasts of @WhiteHouse events. White House spox @MGwin46 called it “cheapening [the] hearing by peddling baseless and bizarre conspiracy theories.” independent.co.uk/voices/blinken…

@JoelMartinRubin

Former Deputy SecState for Legislative Affairs @JoelMartinRubin said the GOP’s performance shows how Republicans “have recycled talking-points that they tell each other and are caught in their own inner feedback loop on their own disinformation platforms.” independent.co.uk/voices/blinken…

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Andrew Feinberg

@AndrewFeinberg

8 Sep

@perrybaconjr

This @perrybaconjr column on the sins of Politico is spot on at some points, but I would respectfully suggest that he has overlooked a significant problem that no one with any juice at any outlet seems to want to change. 1/

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Here’s the problem: Being right often gets you nowhere, being wrong gets you promoted.

As one of the reporters he writes about as having been “without such access” to lying Trump administration officials over the course of 2020, I would argue that the publications that… 2/

…ignored the signs that led to 1/6 haven’t made any effort to make any changes in how they hire and promote that take into account the extent to which most major publications failed to recognize the danger we were in.

All they’ve done is continue to enable the giant game… 3/

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Andrew Feinberg

@AndrewFeinberg

18 Aug

NEW: Current and former officials say attempts to warn the Biden Administration of the Afghan military's lack of capabilities were hampered by a National Security Council staff that is heavy on think-tankers and light on field experience. independent.co.uk/voices/biden-a…

“There were some reports that were just passed right over, and others that got a couple of glimpses of highlights, critical information and stuff like that [at top levels]. It just didn’t seem to hit them, said one military intelligence officer. independent.co.uk/voices/biden-a…

The officer, a veteran of multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan, said they felt reports that Afghan defense forces were not up to snuff would “get pushed off to the side” by senior NSC officials who did not want to “create a panic”. independent.co.uk/voices/biden-a…

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Andrew Feinberg

@AndrewFeinberg

11 Aug

@JoeBiden

NEW: @JoeBiden and Merrick Garland have tried to leave Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the election to the Congressional committees and @TheJusticeDept's internal watchdog. New evidence may make that impossible. independent.co.uk/voices/biden-m…

@JoeBiden

“He [@JoeBiden] would very much prefer not to be the first American president to see his predecessor in the dock, but there’s a growing realization that the more that becomes known, the more likely that possibility becomes," said one insider. independent.co.uk/voices/biden-m…

@January6thCmte

.@January6thCmte member @RepRaskin said evidence of Trump & former AAG Jeffrey Clark's push for the DOJ to question swing state results is “highly suggestive of criminal activity” and "indicative of a corrupt design to interfere with a federal election". independent.co.uk/voices/biden-m…

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