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Former Facebook Product Manager on ‘Ridiculous’ Fears Over Campaign Ads: ‘Political Ads Have Always Been Lies’
“Those who most dislike or distrust Facebook want to give it the most power and appoint Zuck to be the arbiter of truth somehow,” author and former Facebook product manager Antonio Garcia Martinez tells TheWrap
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Twitter Faces Blowback After Ex-Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia
Users “could claim a basic right to privacy violation, just as if someone had trespassed into your house and taken a photo of you in your bathroom,” attorney Matt Bilinsky says
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False Articles About Trump and Pelosi Show Facebook Is Losing Battle Against Fake News, Investigation Finds
New investigation from Avaaz says the U.S. has been flooded with over 158 million views of political fake news ahead of the 2020 elections
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Memphis TV News Anchor Calls Out Stranger Who Body-Shamed Her on the Street
Nina Harrelson has a message for the person who told her she looks “mighty big on TV”
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Hillary Clinton Says Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg ‘Should Pay a Price’ for Harm to Democracy
Former secretary of state is worried about 2020 election on Facebook “because propaganda works”
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Elizabeth Warren’s Health Plan Could Cost Jeff Bezos Billions (He’d Still Be the Richest Man Alive)
Warren’s Medicare-For-All plan would include a 6% tax on billionaires like the Amazon boss and Mark Zuckerberg
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Why Twitter Can Afford to Ditch All Political Ads
Democratic presidential candidates have contributed only one-fifth of one percent to Twitter’s total ad revenue since last June
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‘Social Network’ Writer Aaron Sorkin Accuses Facebook of ‘Assaulting Truth’
Facebook is allowing “lies that have a very real and incredibly dangerous effect on our elections and our lives and our children’s lives,” Sorkin says in New York Times op-ed
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Facebook’s Refusal to Fact-Check Political Ads: ‘Our Values… Are Not Partisan’
Comments come an hour after Twitter announces it will no longer allow political advertising
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Facebook Shrugs Off Political and Regulatory Concerns, Posts Huge Q3 Earnings
Social network climbs to 1.65 billion daily active users
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Twitter to Ban Political Ads Beginning Nov 22
“We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought.,” CEO and founder Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday
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Facebook News Boss ‘Astonished’ Journalists Want Political Ads Fact-Checked
“I strongly believe it should be the role of the press to dissect the truth or lies found in political ads – not engineers at a tech company,” Campbell Brown says
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Facebook Pays $644,000 UK Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Case, Doesn’t Admit Fault
Social network to pay £500,000 after 87 million users had their information unwittingly accessed by Cambridge Analytica
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Facebook Employees Tell Mark Zuckerberg: We ‘Strongly Object’ to Policy on Fact-Checking Political Ads
Allowing ads with misinformation to run increases “distrust” in Facebook, employees say in letter to chief executive
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Facebook News Criticized for Including Breitbart as ‘Trusted’ Source
The social media platform’s news service is already facing pushback on day one