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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
'Carol's Journey': What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users — In the summer of 2019, a new Facebook user named Carol Smith signed up for the platform, describing herself as a politically conservative mother from Wilmington, North Carolina. Smith's account indicated an interest in politics …
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Inside Facebook, Jan. 6 violence fueled anger, regret over missed warning signs … Relief flowed through Facebook in the days after the 2020 presidential election. The company had cracked down on misinformation, foreign interference and hate speech — and employees believed they had largely succeeded …
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New York Times:
What Happened When Facebook Employees Warned About Election Misinformation — Company documents show that the social network's employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies before and after the contested November vote.
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CNN:
Not stopping ‘Stop the Steal:’ Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection — (CNN Business)Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook's Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company's role in what had happened.
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
New whistleblower claims Facebook allowed hate, illegal activity to go unchecked — Latest complaint to the SEC blames top leadership for failing to warn investors about serious problems at the company — A new whistleblower affidavit submitted by a former Facebook employee Friday alleges …
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Associated Press:
Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection
Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection
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Financial Times and NPR
Washington Post:
Ahead of Jan. 6, Willard hotel in downtown D.C. was a Trump team ‘command center’ for effort to deny Biden the presidency — They called it the “command center,” a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of President Donald Trump's …
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ camera crew walked off the set in protest before the fatal shooting — Hours before actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of “Rust” with a prop gun, a half-dozen camera crew workers walked off the set to protest working conditions.
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Wall Street Journal:
Alec Baldwin Film Set Was Hindered by Worker Complaints
Alec Baldwin Film Set Was Hindered by Worker Complaints
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Associated Press:
Baldwin: Killing of cinematographer was ‘tragic accident’
Baldwin: Killing of cinematographer was ‘tragic accident’
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New York Post:
Worker in charge of Alec Baldwin's prop gun was replacement hire amid on-set chaos, safety concerns
Worker in charge of Alec Baldwin's prop gun was replacement hire amid on-set chaos, safety concerns
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Camera crew walked off set of Baldwin movie due to working conditions hours before shooting
Camera crew walked off set of Baldwin movie due to working conditions hours before shooting
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The Wrap, The Atlantic, Fox News and RedState
New York Times:
Live Updates: Assistant Director Declared Gun Safe Before Alec Baldwin Fatally Fired It, Affidavit Says
Live Updates: Assistant Director Declared Gun Safe Before Alec Baldwin Fatally Fired It, Affidavit Says
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Peter King / The Hill:
The battle over school boards is a disaster for Democrats — The recent announcement by the Justice Department that the FBI would be looking for coordinated patterns of violence at local school board meetings is a broad overreach and an abuse of power that goes beyond the FBI's jurisdiction.
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Washington Post:
Biden's critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts — BOISE — On a quiet street south of downtown Boise, Michael Dick has festooned his front yard with homemade signs, including a large yellow placard that facetiously thanks President Biden for a growing list of grievances — $4-a-gallon gas, inflation, Afghanistan, covid-19.
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Andrew Miller / Fox News:
YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming ‘medical misinformation’
YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming ‘medical misinformation’
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RedState
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Nevada Republican who claimed someone stole dead wife's ballot is charged with voter fraud — Donald Kirk Hartle looked troubled last November. It was a few days after Election Day and the Las Vegas man was telling a local news station that someone had stolen his late wife's mail-in ballot …
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
‘New Democrats’ Break With Their Anti-Welfare Past And Back Biden's Agenda — Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington state is the centrist Democrat at the center of everything. — WASHINGTON ― When a small group of Democrats held up a procedural vote on President Joe Biden's policy agenda in August …
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Bloomberg
CNN:
US nearing a formal agreement to use Pakistan's airspace to carry out military operations in Afghanistan — (CNN)The Biden administration has told lawmakers that the US is nearing a formalized agreement with Pakistan for use of its airspace to conduct military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan …
Washington Post:
Residents in decaying public housing see futures on the line as Democrats trim spending bill — BROWNSVILLE, N.Y. — Douglas Covington has had a gaping hole in the ceiling above his toilet for most of the past four years, with the temporary patches from New York City public housing's repairmen typically …
Washington Post:
Would-be speaker Kevin McCarthy walks the Trump tightrope, pursuing a GOP House — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has regaled top donors at private events in recent months with a behind-the-scenes story about a fight he says he had with former president Donald Trump.
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Raw Story
Joseph R. Biden Jr / The White House:
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on the Temporary Certification Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy — Section 1. Policy. In the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act …
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HotAir, CBS News, New York Post and Washington Examiner
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden the Dealmaker Finds That Compromise Can Have Consequences — The president pushed for an expansive agenda knowing that he would most likely have to pare it back, leaving a sense of disappointment that could hurt his party at the polls. — WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's pitch during …
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Washington Examiner
New York Times:
What Kind of Mayor Might Eric Adams Be? No One Seems to Know. — The vegan, meditating ex-police officer is on the cusp of becoming New York's new mayor. Which version of him would show up at City Hall? — Eric Adams could not resist the story. — In a 2019 commencement address …
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New York Post
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Pessimistic Electorate Behind Biden's Approval Ratings — In the era of modern polling, only Donald J. Trump has had a lower approval rating than President Biden's at this early stage of his term. — What's dragging down President Biden's approval rating? — Everyone. — And everything.
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CNN:
'We're getting all kinds of threats': Judge says defiant US Capitol rioters are fueling threats from Trump supporters — New video shows first rioters enter Capitol on January 6 — (CNN)A federal judge said Friday that defiant US Capitol rioters, who are still defending their role …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
‘My god what an idiot’: J.D. Vance gets whacked for past Trump comments — Two super PACs have launched a nearly $1 million coordinated ad buy attacking “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance in Ohio, aiming to tear him down for his previous opposition to Donald Trump.
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