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• @natashabertrand Natasha Bertrand on x

  NEW: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting secretive talks & off-the-record dinners with conservative influencers in recent months to discuss free speech and partnerships. Among the participants: Tucker Carlson & Lindsey Graham. scoop w/@dlippman: https://www.politico.com…

• @juddlegum Judd Legum on x

  To justify Zuckerberg's dinner w/Tucker Carlson, a Facebook spox called Carlson a “thought leader” What thoughts is Carlson leading on? His belief that immigrants are making America “dirtier”? His assertion that women who make too much money are responsible for drug addiction?

• @natashabertrand Natasha Bertrand on x

  Said 1 source: “The discussion in Silicon Valley is that Zuckerberg is very concerned about Barr's DOJ bringing an enforcement action to break up the company. So the fear is Zuckerberg is trying to appease the Trump administration by not cracking down on right-wing propaganda.”

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  Always interesting how Zuckerberg has business dinners at his home to avoid being spotted in public (in this case with conservative pundits) https://www.politico.com/...

• @bridgetmarie Bridget Todd on x

  ...Meeting new people and hearing from a wide range of viewpoints is part of learning. If you haven't tried it, I suggest you do!"

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  A reminder today that @Facebook has partnered with Tucker Carlson's website The Daily Caller to be a fact-checker despite the fact that they haven't met the standards of @Poynter, who is supposed to set them for Facebook's fact-checking. https://twitter.com/...

• @ericrweinstein Eric Weinstein on x

  I am reading this obviously scary headline pushed to me as the top story as curated by twitter. I would like to get back to criticizing conservatives when wrong. But treating conservatives as people you can't meet with privately without it being a headline makes this impossible. …

• @chrisinsilico @chrisinsilico on x

  Facebook is an alt right collaborator. https://twitter.com/...

• @jenni_gunter Jenni on x

  Secretly influencing elections with fake posts and advertising is SOoo 2016. In 2020, we're going fully disclosed dumpster fire. https://twitter.com/...

• @emilydreyfuss Emily Dreyfuss on x

  I'm basically always having dinner!! I have dinner all the time!! https://twitter.com/...

• @wongmjane Jane Manchun Wong on x

  It seems he's losing patience with the press https://twitter.com/...

• @chionwurah Chi Onwurah on x

  Facebook made £1.6 billion in revenue in UK last year and paid £25m in taxes. Is Zuckerberg meeting urgently w his advisors to ensure @Facebook pays its proper share of taxes to support the public services we all benefit from? No, is meeting w hard right ‘influencers’ https://twi…

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  what is the facebook version of a subtwete https://twitter.com/...

• @hamiltonnolan Hamilton Nolan on x

  The ideology of billionaires is not party-focused so much as it's “what will help me preserve my fortune?” This is why the rich historically end up in bed with monstrous governments, and why billionaires are bad. https://www.politico.com/...

• @juddlegum Judd Legum on x

  In recent months, Tucker Carlson said that immigrants were making America “dirty” and women who earn too much money are responsible for a spike in drug & alcohol abuse Mark Zuckerberg responded by inviting Carlson to his house to discuss “partnerships” https://www.politico.com/..…

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  So Mark Zuckerberg met with a guy who says immigrants make our country “poorer and dirtier.” Cool cool. https://www.politico.com/...

• @noupside Renee DiResta on x

  None of the repeated audits or investigations, dating back to Trending Topics manufactroversy of 2016, has revealed any actual evidence of anti-conservative bias or suppression of speech. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x

  Zuckerberg engages his critics on the right and his critics on the left very differently. Separately, his critics on the right want to deliver him tax cuts worth unimaginably vast sums of money. Also separately, his whims have vast influence on political outcomes. https://twitter…

• @drnovac Dragos Novac on x

  Here is the new telenovela episode from the tech world. Spoiler: nothing unexpectedly dramatic, just business as usual https://twitter.com/...

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  Meanwhile @ewarren is forcing them to debate in public, which they chose to do with the faceless @fbnewsroom account

• @paolobacigalupi Paolo Bacigalupi on x

  The message is clear. We need to vote for politicians who will break up and regulate Facebook. https://twitter.com/...

• @seldo Laurie Voss on x

  Zuckerberg is a republican. https://twitter.com/...

• @jonfavs Jon Favreau on x

  Facebook's CEO is holding meetings with the most prominent purveyor of white nationalist ideologies on television. https://twitter.com/...