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Adam Mosseri / Facebook:
News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News — A few weeks ago we previewed some of the things we're working on to address the issue of fake news and hoaxes. We're committed to doing our part and today we'd like to share some updates we're testing and starting to roll out.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Fake news is a convenient scapegoat, but the big 2016 problem was the real news — You can't blame Macedonian teens for disastrously email-centric coverage. — Speaking in early December at a ceremony to honor Harry Reid's retirement from the US Senate, Hillary Clinton took aim at a target …
Stephen Miller / Heat Street:
What Yasmin Seweid's Pretty Little Lies Reveal About ‘Fake News’ Media Hypocrisy
What Yasmin Seweid's Pretty Little Lies Reveal About ‘Fake News’ Media Hypocrisy
Alex Heath / Business Insider:
Facebook is going to use Snopes and other fact-checkers to combat and bury ‘fake news’
Facebook is going to use Snopes and other fact-checkers to combat and bury ‘fake news’
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Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
Trump Grill Could Be the Worst Restaurant in America — And it reveals everything you need to know about our next president. — Halfway through a recent late lunch at the Trump Grill—the clubby steakhouse in the lobby of Trump Tower that has recently become famous through …
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Chad Livengood / Detroit News:
Trump adviser: Kudlow to be top White House economist — Lansing — President-elect Donald Trump plans to appoint CNBC business commentator Larry Kudlow to chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers, a Trump adviser said Thursday. — Conservative economist Stephen Moore …
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Lawrence Kudlow in Running to Take Top Economic Adviser Post — The commentator was an early supporter of Donald Trump but has voiced doubts about the president-elect's views on trade and monetary policy — Economic commentator Lawrence Kudlow has emerged as a leading candidate to chair …
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Daily Kos:
STATE AND COUNTY BOARDS OF ELECTIONS — Under current state law, the governor's party controls the state board of elections with a three-to-two majority, and it also controls all 100 county elections boards with a two-to-one majority. After Republicans took power in 2013 with McCrory's victory …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Cooper threatens to sue over North Carolina GOP ‘power grab’
Cooper threatens to sue over North Carolina GOP ‘power grab’
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
North Carolina Republicans' Legislative Coup Is an Attack on Democracy
North Carolina Republicans' Legislative Coup Is an Attack on Democracy
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New York Times:
Dylann Roof Found Guilty in Charleston Church Massacre — CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann S. Roof, a self-radicalized young white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners last year when he opened fire during a long-planned assault on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, was found guilty by a federal jury here on Thursday.
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
What gave us Donald Trump is what gave us Dylann Roof. — On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump took the stage at his eponymous tower in New York City and announced his bid for the White House. His message was clear. “The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everyone else's problems,” Trump said.
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Dustin Waters / Washington Post:
Dylann Roof found guilty on all counts in Charleston church massacre trial
Dylann Roof found guilty on all counts in Charleston church massacre trial
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP strategy to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare is a joke — THE MORNING PLUM: — Politico's lead headline today blares: “Democrats open to replacing Obamacare.” — The story accompanying that headline is more nuanced than that. But it does raise the prospect that some Senate Democrats might …
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Trump's Dilemma: Can He Repeal Obamacare Without Killing Medicare?
Trump's Dilemma: Can He Repeal Obamacare Without Killing Medicare?
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NBC News:
Why Didn't Obama Do More About Russian Election Hack? — Exclusive: Why the White House Waited to Act on Russian Hacking 3:01 — The Obama administration didn't respond more forcefully to Russian hacking before the presidential election because they didn't want to appear to be interfering …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-British ambassador who is now a WikiLeaks operative claims Russia did NOT provide …
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-British ambassador who is now a WikiLeaks operative claims Russia did NOT provide …
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Brian Ross / ABC News:
Officials: Master Spy Vladimir Putin Now Directly Linked to US Hacking
Officials: Master Spy Vladimir Putin Now Directly Linked to US Hacking
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Indianapolis Star:
A 20-year toll: 368 gymnasts allege sexual exploitation — INDYSTAR INVESTIGATIONS REVEALED THAT CHILDREN WERE BEING ABUSED IN GYMNASTICS GYMS, BUT NO ONE KNEW HOW WIDESPREAD THE PROBLEM WAS. UNTIL NOW. — 11,600 — A 12-year-old gymnast molested by an Olympic coach during “therapy” sessions.
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Blake Seitz / Washington Free Beacon:
The 7 Most Insane Andrew Sullivan Quotes About Obama From That New Republic Interview — In the days after the U.S. presidential election, the New Republic convened “five leading historians and political observers” to discuss President Obama's threatened legacy.
Dan Kopf / Quartz:
Trump's 17 cabinet-level picks have more money than a third of American households combined — The 17 people who US president-elect Donald Trump has selected for his cabinet or for posts with cabinet rank have well over $9.5 billion in combined wealth, with several positions still unfilled.
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Ben Ashford / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Rocky goes to Washington! Trump taps Sylvester Stallone for top ‘arts’ role — President-elect Trump has approached the veteran actor for a top arts-related position in his administration, DailyMail.com has learned — The likely position would be Chairman of the National Endowment …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democratic donors call for Clinton campaign post-mortem — NEW YORK — When Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine greet the very top fundraisers and donors to their failed campaign at New York's Plaza Hotel on Thursday evening, many of them will have one question in mind: Where's the autopsy?
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Howard Gleckman / TaxVox:
Repealing the Affordable Care Act Would Cut Taxes For High Income Households, Raise Taxes For Many Others — Repealing the Affordable Care Act would cut taxes significantly for the highest income one percent of US households, according to a new Tax Policy Center analysis.
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New York Times:
Democrats at Crossroads: Win Back Working-Class Whites, or Let Them Go? — WASHINGTON — Sounding like a frustrated Cassandra, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. lamented last week that Hillary Clinton had not done enough to reach white working-class voters in the presidential campaign.
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Daniel Halper / New York Post:
Celebrities beg electors to be ‘heroes’ and vote against Trump — More On: — Celebrities are teaming up to beg Republicans in the Electoral College to vote against President-elect Donald Trump, pledging their “respect” for potential “heroes.” — A slew of other has-been and B …
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Omarosa joins Trump transition team — Another reality television personality has joined Donald Trump's transition team. — Omarosa Manigault, a contestant on the first season of the president-elect's show “The Apprentice,” was one of nine new members of the transition's executive committee named Thursday.
TMZ.com:
Scott Baio — Chili Pepper's Wife Physically Attacked Me Over Trump — Scott Baio has filed a police report claiming the wife of the Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer went nuts on him at a function with their elementary school kids ... physically attacking him over his support of Donald Trump.