memeorandum: Facebook Removes Trump Campaign Ads, Citing Census Interference Policy (Wall Street Journal)

5:30 PM ET, March 5, 2020

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Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Will Drop Out of Presidential Race — Ms. Warren, a senator and former law professor, staked her campaign on fighting corruption and changing the rules of the economy. — BOSTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts plans to drop …

Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:

Elizabeth Warren Could Never Escape The Baggage Of Being A ‘Female Candidate’ — She was qualified. She persisted. But sexism still mattered. — Elizabeth Warren wasn't trying to be the first female president. — She wanted to be president. She wanted to cut banks down to size and relieve student debt.

Discussion: Washington Post, Vox, National Review and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »

Megan Garber / The Atlantic:

America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence — In November 2019, as the Democratic presidential candidates prepared for the primaries that had been taking place unofficially for more than a year and that would begin in earnest in February, FiveThirtyEight's Clare Malone profiled Pete Buttigieg.

Discussion: National Review, CBS News, The Wrap, Washington Post, Breitbart and No More Mister Nice Blog

NBC News:
Elizabeth Warren ends presidential run

Discussion: Washington Post, Breitbart, The Hill, IJR, The Atlantic and New York Magazine

Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Super Tuesday's true meaning? Americans are desperate to show we're better than Trump

Discussion: Washington Post, HuffPost and IJR

Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Back on top: nationally, Democrats are again rallying around Biden: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Discussion: Ipsos and The Hill

Jon Green / Data For Progress:
Sexism is Probably One Reason Why Elizabeth Warren Didn't Do Better

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, New York Post and POLITICUSUSA

Michael Scherer / Washington Post:

Mike Bloomberg plans new group to support Democratic nominee — Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to form a new independent expenditure campaign that will absorb hundreds of his presidential campaign staff in six swing states to work to elect the Democratic nominee this fall.

Discussion: National Review and The Hill

Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:

Latest poll of Florida primary shows Joe Biden with massive lead over Bernie Sanders — Even before Mike Bloomberg dropped out of the race for President, voters in Florida were consolidating behind Joe Biden. — More than 61% of likely Florida voters favor Biden, according to the most recent survey …

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, New York Post, Vox, The Gateway Pundit, FOX6Now.com and The Hill

Team Warren:

The Fight Goes On — Remarks from Elizabeth Warren shared in a call with campaign staff: — I want to start with the news. I want all of you to hear it first, and I want you to hear it straight from me: Today, I'm suspending our campaign for president. — I know how hard all of you have worked.

Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos, Reason, The Week, UPI, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, The Wrap and Rolling Stone

Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Warren declines to endorse Biden or Sanders after dropping out

Discussion: ABC News, Vox, The Hill, Associated Press and IJR

Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Pelosi cites ‘element of misogyny’ after Warren drops out

Discussion: The Daily Beast, OpenSecrets.org and The Hill

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Removes Trump Campaign Ads, Citing Census Interference Policy — Company points to rules aimed at avoiding confusion in decision to bar reelection ads labeled ‘Official 2020 Congressional District Census’ — Facebook Inc. FB -3.53% removed Trump campaign ads that referred to a census …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Judd Legum / Popular Information:

Facebook allows Trump campaign to run deceptive Census ads [UPDATED] — This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter. To get independent accountability journalism straight to your inbox, please subscribe: — Subscribe now — UPDATE (3/5, 2 PM) …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Politico, The Guardian, One America News Network, CBS San Francisco, The Verge, Vox, Security and CalMatters, more at Techmeme »

Reuters:
Facebook takes down Trump 2020 campaign's ‘Census’ ads

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Travis Gettys / Raw Story:

'He's trying to kill us': Trump blasted for spreading coronavirus ‘misinformation’ in Fox News interview with Sean Hannity — President Donald Trump spread misinformation about the coronavirus during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity — and faced furious outrage afterward.

Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Trump to take questions at 1st TV town hall of 2020 campaign

Discussion: Politico

Kevin D. Williamson / National Review: Joe Biden: Not a Socialist, Just a Scoundrel

Bloomberg:

U.S. Will Miss Coronavirus Test Rollout Goal, Senators Say — GOP senators says kits to be in mail by end of this week — Distribution, training ‘going to take time,’ Lankford says — The Trump administration won't be able to meet its promised timeline of having …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Daily Kos and Raw Story

Cindy Krischer Goodman / Sun-Sentinel:
Federal rules changed to allow more testing for coronavirus. Florida isn't going to follow them.

Discussion: CBS Miami

Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:

The former President said that when he met Lewinsky, the pressure of the job was too much and he thought, 'There's something that will take your mind off it for a while' — Bill offers an apology to Lewinsky in the documentary that will premiere on Friday, and says he felt ‘terrible’ that her life was defined by their affair.

Discussion: Fox News, Big League Politics, Breitbart, WayneDupree.com, Twitchy and PJ Media Home

Lee Brown / New York Post:
Bill Clinton: Monica Lewinsky affair was to ‘manage my anxieties’

Discussion: The Root, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy

Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:

First patient in Nevada tests presumptively positive for novel coronavirus, is in ‘airborne isolation’ — A Clark County man who is in his 50s and has an underlying health condition is the first patient in Nevada who has tested presumptively positive for the novel coronavirus, Southern Nevada Health District officials said Thursday.

Discussion: New York Times

Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Coronavirus outbreak expands to 18 states

Discussion: KUT and The Tennessean

Kashmir Hill / New York Times:

Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich — Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public. — One Tuesday night in October 2018, John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner …

Discussion: OneZero, The Surveillance, The Daily Dot and The State of Surveillance, more at Techmeme »

Public Policy Polling:

Democrats lead by at least 4 in 4 GOP held Senate seats — New PPP polls find Sara Gideon leading Susan Collins 47-43 in the Maine Senate race and Mark Kelly leading Martha McSally 47-42 in the Arizona Senate race. Additionally a PPP poll for a private client last week found Cal Cunningham …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Political Wire, The American Independent, Washington Monthly, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, The Intellectualist and Balloon Juice

Andrew Desiderio / Politico:

Romney could derail Republican subpoena targeting Bidens — A Republican effort to subpoena records about Joe Biden and his son Hunter could be derailed amid concerns from at least one GOP senator that the push appears politically motivated. — The Senate Homeland Security Committee is set …

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Washington Post:

Newly obtained documents show $157,000 in additional payments by the Secret Service to Trump properties — President Trump's company charged the Secret Service $157,000 more than was previously known — billing taxpayers for rooms at his clubs at rates far higher than his company has claimed …

Discussion: Public Citizen, The Hill, Raw Story and Vox

Tony Romm / Washington Post:

State Department blames “swarms of online, false personas” from Russia for wave of coronavirus misinformation online — A top State Department official said Thursday that Russia is behind “swarms of online, false personas” that sought to spread misinformation about coronavirus on social-media sites …

Discussion: Bloomberg and The Intellectualist

Ben Tobin / Courier-Journal:

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul votes against bill funding coronavirus emergency aid — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul voted against an emergency response coronavirus bill Thursday afternoon after his proposed amendment to the bill was turned down. — The bill had already received more than 60 affirmative votes …

Discussion: Raw Story and The Week

Sydney Ember / New York Times:

Bernie Sanders Cancels Mississippi Rally, Shifting Focus to Michigan — The decision suggests that the Sanders campaign is largely ceding another Southern state to Joseph R. Biden Jr. and going all-in on the Midwest instead. — BURLINGTON, Vt. — Senator Bernie Sanders has canceled …

Discussion: The Hill

Twitter:

Updating our rules against hateful conduct — Editorial note: This blog was first posted in July 9, 2019, and updated March 5, 2020, to reflect additional changes made to our rule against hateful conduct — We create our rules to keep people safe on Twitter, and they continuously evolve …

more at Mediagazer »

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:

Why Do Such Elderly People Run America? — When Joe Biden climbed to the stage in California to celebrate his Super Tuesday comeback in the Democratic primary, three things happened in a matter of minutes. He basked in the thunderous applause from the crowd. He mistook his wife for his sister.

Discussion: Snopes.com

Casey Michel / The Daily Beast:

Top Green Party Candidate Says He'll Run Against Dems—Even If They Nominate Sanders — The party's candidate appeared on RT earlier this year, marking the first time this year any candidate in any party had appeared on the Russian propaganda organ. — In both 2000 and 2016 …

Brian Flood / Fox News:

Wendell Goler, longtime Fox News White House correspondent, dead at 70 — Longtime Fox News White House correspondent Wendell Goler died this week at age 70. — “Wendell was a gifted correspondent, a wonderful colleague and a FOX News original whose reporting was respected on both sides of the aisle.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Hannah Sampson / Washington Post:

Sick cruise passengers await coronavirus results at sea as officials debate quarantine — A Princess Cruises ship that recently carried people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus was still being kept off the coast of California Thursday as officials sent kits to test passengers …

Discussion: WREG-TV, Politico, VICE and KTLA

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Trump's Plan to ‘Help’ Black America Is a Corrupt Scam to Enrich His Family — Now that President Trump's Plan A of running against Bernie Sanders is looking unlikely, he is preparing for Plan B: campaigning against Joe Biden. Trump has plenty of avenues of attack, ranging from legitimate …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and The Intellectualist

U.S. Department of Justice:

Tennessee Man Ordered Removed to Germany Based on Service as Concentration Camp Guard During WWII — A U.S. Immigration Judge in Memphis, Tennessee, has issued a removal order against a German citizen and Tennessee resident, on the basis of his service in Nazi Germany in 1945 as an armed guard …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Washington Post:

U.S. markets tank as coronavirus outlook worsens — The Dow skids 969 points as investors race for the safety of U.S. debt, extending a punishing market run — As the coronavirus upends more aspects of life in the United States, Wall Street's only certainty is this: The uncertainty will continue.

Andrew Ferguson / The Atlantic:

The College President Who Simply Won't Raise Tuition — “I'll tell you a funny story,” said Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University. It was the day before the first home football game of the season and he was sitting in his corner office, overlooking the postcard-perfect quad.

Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:

Why Democrats Are Still Not the Party of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — In contests for party control between progressives and moderates, electoral and governing results speak for themselves. — WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats are very familiar with the political dramaturgy now playing …

Discussion: The Nation and OpenSecrets.org