Sources: Democratic Party leaders say Facebook has failed to stem the tide of misinformation on its platform, despite monthly conversations with the company
> https://www.vox.com/... John FitzGerald / @thetweetofjohn : Facebook has failed to meet promises to stem the tide of misinformation spreading on its platform. If the election's results are contested after November 3, Facebook is utterly unprepared to prevent people from using its platform to spread chaos. https://www.vox.com/... @voxdotcom : EXCLUSIVE: After months of private meetings with Facebook, Democratic Party leaders say the company is unprepared to handle election misinformation. “They're essentially slapping Band-Aids on wounds that require emergency room stitches,” said one source. https://www.vox.com/... @politico : The Trump administration is pressuring Senate Republicans to ratchet up scrutiny of social media companies it sees as biased against conservatives in the run-up to the November election. And the effort appears to be paying off. https://www.politico.com/...
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@teddyschleifer
Teddy Schleifer
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The Democratic Party campaign committees meet monthly with Facebook officials to talk about election misinformation. But Democrats are leaving these meetings “banging their head against the wall.” @shiringhaffary reports on these private sit-downs —> https://www.vox.com/...
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@thetweetofjohn
John FitzGerald
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Facebook has failed to meet promises to stem the tide of misinformation spreading on its platform. If the election's results are contested after November 3, Facebook is utterly unprepared to prevent people from using its platform to spread chaos. https://www.vox.com/...
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@voxdotcom
@voxdotcom
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EXCLUSIVE: After months of private meetings with Facebook, Democratic Party leaders say the company is unprepared to handle election misinformation. “They're essentially slapping Band-Aids on wounds that require emergency room stitches,” said one source. https://www.vox.com/...
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@jim_jordan
Rep. Jim Jordan
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Big Tech's out to get conservatives. Today a dozen members of @JudiciaryGOP introduced the “Protect Speech Act.” This bill will hold #BigTech accountable, fix Section 230, and protect freedom on the internet. Read it here: https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov / ...
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@wsj
@wsj
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerbeg, Twitter's Jack Dorsey, and Google's Sundar Pichai have been called to testify on their companies' legal immunity in managing content on their sites—in the midst of a national election https://www.wsj.com/...
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@repkenbuck
Congressman Ken Buck
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#BigTech has acted anticompetitively and now the ball is in Congress' court. We need to rise to the occasion to offer the American people a solution that promotes fair competition and ensures the free market operates as a free market long into the future. https://twitter.com/...
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@libertarianblue
Allum Bokhari
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This is a good move by the commerce committee - a subpoena is more aggressive than previous hearings. Senate committee votes to subpoena CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter to testify https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@judiciarygop
House Judiciary Gop
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Big Tech's out to get conservatives. That's a fact. No matter how you try and spin it. https://twitter.com/...
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@jeremycarl4
Jeremy Carl
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https://www.cnbc.com/... Great to see a bipartisan push in Congress to take on the power of Big Tech.
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@elizableu
Eliza
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“I don't want us to be the Senate of all words and no action, because that is what we have come to.” - @amyklobuchar Senate committee issues official subpoenas to Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/...
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@judiciarygop
House Judiciary Gop
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Your friend, @jack? https://thepostmillennial.com/ ...
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@jim_jordan
Rep. Jim Jordan
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Is “cancel culture” real? It certainly is. https://twitter.com/...
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@jason_kint
Jason Kint
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The antitrust issues can't be more clear with Facebook. Tech lobby is trying to keep focus on symptoms in order to politicize and polarize the debate. Reality is all of concerns (Rs and Ds) are a result of too much power, too little accountability and not enough competition. http…
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@matthewstoller
Matt Stoller
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Right after @TedCruz righteously went off on big tech as the robber barons of the 21st century, @amyklobuchar is railing on big tech, noting that Trump and the GOP have talked a lot but done nothing on monopoly. There's now competition to get tougher on corporate power.
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@matthewstoller
Matt Stoller
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Congress is doing an extraordinary job in these final days of 2020. Senate Commerce is issuing a subpoena for large tech CEOs, House Oversight releasing groundbreaking investigation on big pharma, and House Antitrust is cracking down on Google/FB/Amazon.
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@janschakowsky
Jan Schakowsky
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.@realdonaldtrump, I am all for holding big tech accountable in order to protect ALL Americans online, but not to advance your own political objectives. https://www.politico.com/...
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@mmasnick
Mike Masnick
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Everyone should be disgusted by @LindseyGrahamSC cynical attack on the internet, using it as as prop to appease the president and hope that helps him get re-elected. What he's proposing is extremely dangerous to free speech, private communications and more. https://twitter.com/..…
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@chrismessina
Chris Messina
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This growing frustration isn't only external to the US. Propagandists want to propagate! https://www.politico.com/...
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@daphnehk
Daphne Keller
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Here's a Politico article saying that the barrage of anti-CDA 230 proposals from Congressional Republicans in the past few weeks is all about Trump, who brings it up every time they talk to him. https://www.politico.com/...
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@slate
@slate
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Under a new law proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, platforms would face new legal exposure if they take down Holocaust denial, white supremacist racial theories, and electoral disinformation. https://slate.com/...
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@viacristiano
Cristiano Lima
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Quite an about-face. Blumenthal told me just Tuesday, “I am not interested in using our subpoena power to try to play or game the refs days before an election, which is clearly what Republicans are doing” https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@politico
@politico
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The Trump administration is pressuring Senate Republicans to ratchet up scrutiny of social media companies it sees as biased against conservatives in the run-up to the November election. And the effort appears to be paying off. https://www.politico.com/...