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Hillary Clinton Condemns Facebook For Not Policing Political Ads 0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Political Opinion
- October 30, 2019
Audrey Conklin on October 30, 2019 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Facebook for not policing political ads in a Wednesday tweet. The failed presidential candidate’s tweet came as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg faces backlash for defending the tech giant’s policy of not fact-checking political ads the same way it fact-checks other ads in
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Facebook Announces New Effort To Clearly Mark Fake News Ahead Of 2020 0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Front Page, Headline News, Tech Freedom
- October 22, 2019
Audrey Conklin Facebook announced Monday an effort to “protect the 2020 U.S. elections” by clearly marking fake news posts, offering protections to politicians’ accounts and offering more transparency. The effort comes after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg defended the social media site’s new advertisement policies, which will effectively allow political campaigns to release misinformation to voters, in an
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Censorship: Facebook Tries to Straighten Out TLR’s Squiggly Line Guy 0
- Free Style, Front Page, Political Correctness, Political Opinion
- October 5, 2019
The Libertarian Republic’s Squiggly Line Guy has appeared to be intentionally censored by Facebook for nearly two years. We spoke about this issue and the importance of free speech to the preservation of American values. Shumate: How did you start writing for TLR initially? SLG: I originally started with the sister site, Liberty Viral. That
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Bipartisan Lawmakers Want Google’s Internal Emails, Along With Exec’s Private Communication 0
- Front Page
- September 13, 2019
Chris White Lawmakers are calling on Google, Facebook and other social media companies to turn over memos related to their business interests as Congress applies more pressure on big tech, The Washington Post reported Friday. Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are asking the companies to share information about their operations, including copies
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Back the Libra with Gold, Says Steve Forbes 0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page
- June 26, 2019
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Facebook’s Libra – a stablecoin that could offer a serious challenge to the money and banking status quo – will likely be very good for mainstream acceptance of blockchain technology as an infrastructure of a global privately produced currency. It could become a genuine challenge to the whole idea of nation-state money as
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Remember the Good that Social Media has Achieved 0
- Front Page, Political Opinion, Tech Freedom
- June 19, 2019
By Alexandra Hudson It’s the popular and fashionable thing to do these days — on both the political Left and Right — to name, shame, and blame the social media giants for the death of American democracy. The Left, still smarting from Donald Trump’s stunning victory in 2016, emphasizes the way in which social media
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