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Aug 22, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
"Their reams of data converged on a breathtaking statistic: Wherever per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average, attacks on refugees increased by about 50 percent."

nytimes.com/2018/08/21/wor… Harris Media can address the issue of access, helping AfD bypass German subsidiaries to get ads through. “The team at Harris Media just places quick calls to the companies’ headquarters in Silicon Valley, sources say, where [it’s] very well-networked” texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post…
Apr 26, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
PAID ADVERTISING != PROTECTED SPEECH
But here's confirmation Facebook strongly sides with:
-Citizens United (David Bossie, Trump Deputy Campaign Mgr)
-Club for Growth (Stephen Moore, Heritage)
-SpeechNOW (David Keating, Club for Growth ExecDir)
-McCutcheon (w/Dan Backer + RNC) Citizens United, Club for Growth, SpeechNOW, Shaun McCutcheon (+RNC), and Mitch McConnell all crushed the born-crippled FEC so Facebook & Google could demand zero online political ad regulations from FEC-USA. Now Facebook uses "free speech" as blanket defense @ UK Parliament. 🤯
Aug 3, 2017 12 tweets 4 min read
MSNBC, Politico, & WaPo said yesterday State/Tillerson's GEC has given out zero contracts, but that's incorrect. SCL got one in February. This was covered in our March article, but has shockingly seen no further followup from any other sources. medium.com/textifire/scl-…