Author: Zach_Wilson
Republicans’ Conspiracy Theory–Ridden Counterprogramming To Impeachment Is Working
Pool / Getty Images From left: Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, minority counsel Steve Castor, and Rep. Jim Jordan during testimony by Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, in the Longworth House Office Building, Nov. 20. Democrats have hoped that the…
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“Nothing Is Off The Table” For Facebook As Google And Twitter Crack Down On Political Ads
Google and Twitter are applying pressure to Facebook in a big way. In the last three weeks — as the Iowa caucus looms just months away — both platforms have restricted political advertising on their services. Now, after standing by its policies, Facebook’s advertising brain trust is huddling to consider…
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A Cricket Club’s Account Was Banned After It Was Hacked And Posted ISIS Content
Halls Head Cricket Club, an amateur sporting organisation based in the city of Mandurah on Australia’s west coast, had been pretty inactive on Twitter since making an account in 2012. That is, until a week ago, when the account fired off a number of tweets in quick succession, sharing content…
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Facebook Says Anonymous Pages Posting Coordinated Pro-Trump Content Do Not Break Its Rules
BuzzFeed News As public impeachment hearings kicked off in Washington last week, a meme featuring Rep. Adam Schiff spread across Facebook. Within minutes of one another, at least 23 pages with state-themed names such as Ohio Supporters for President Donald J Trump and Iowa Supporters for President Donald J Trump…
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House Caucus Leaders Wrote A Letter To Google Asking About Its Hire Of A Former DHS Staffer Who Worked On Family Separation
The three leaders for House caucuses representing racial minority interests signed a letter on Wednesday asking Google why it hired a former Department of Homeland Security staffer who worked on a version of the Muslim travel ban and helped implement the controversial family separation policy. Addressed to Google CEO Sundar…
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Before Mark Zuckerberg Tried To Kill TikTok, He Wanted To Own It
Ben Kothe / BuzzFeed News By the summer of 2016, Facebook was aggressively courting the world’s most populous country. Having largely saturated most of the developed world, the social network turned its attention to China, which banned Facebook in 2009, cutting it off from more than 700 million internet users.…
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