Just spoke to a mom and dad of a Capitol police officer who said they traveled from upstate New York to DC to be able to give their son a hug when he finishes his shift tonight -- this time last year they didn't know if he was alive or not.
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New Zealand Designates the Proud Boys as a Terrorist Group
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska after consultation with state governments
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A Facebook employee resigns.
"Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence. He showed us on Friday that this was a lie."
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NEW: CNN has independently confirmed the Russia funded US media company that paid American right-wing social media stars is Tenet Media, based in Tennessee.
Some very big names tied up in all of this.
Reporting w/ @ZcohenCNN @evanperez @snlyngaas
cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/…
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#BREAK Facebook's new company name is Meta
It still has all the same problems it had this morning.
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NEW: YouTube has banned OANN from posting any new videos for a week.
YouTube says OANN has repeatedly shared Covid-19 misinformation.
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Hadn’t fully grasped the scale which Ireland is taking in Ukrainian refugees until I heard my old primary school of 100 pupils just added 50 more kids from Ukraine.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended from tweeting for a week after she claimed on Twitter yesterday that vaccines are “failing.”
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Facebook has removed the Eric Greitens video:
Meta spokesperson: "We removed this video for violating our policies prohibiting violence and incitement."
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Twitter has removed some tweets from the Russian Embassy in the UK for breaking Twitter's rules on "denial of violent events," a spokesperson confirms.
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Here’s the text of the email Musk sent to Twitter staff overnight.
Those who don’t commit to being “extremely hardcore” by 5pm ET today must leave the company. ‼️
Story: cnn.com/2022/11/16/tech/elon…
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"If anyone, including a politician, is saying things that can cause, that is calling for violence or could risk imminent physical harm.... we will take that content down."
Zuckerberg told @AOC a few months ago.
cnn.com/2020/05/29/tech/face…
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RTÉ News
We spent the week with Mike Lindell in South Dakota where he... did not prove the election was stolen by China.
Produced by @DoctorGuff
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Oh my god. @joejohnscnn telling a raccoon to get lost is giving me life.
Alisyn Camerota
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🚨🚨 Coca-Cola is pausing all social media advertising “for at least 30 days” beginning in July.
This Facebook ad boycott is getting bigger by the hour.
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NEW: Facebook sent a memo to its fact-checkers this afternoon telling them if Trump announces he's running for president tonight they can no longer fact-check anything he says.
cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/…
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🚨 Twitter says it has seen conversation on and off Twitter of a “proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.”
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NEW: Parent of toddler in 'manipulated' Trump video forces Facebook to remove it
cnn.com/2020/06/18/business/…
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Some happy fishermen -- we are live tonight from Castletownbere where the fishermen who were prepared to stand up to the Russian navy are celebrating.
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The things you see in New York City. Melissa McCarthy riding Sean Spicer's podium through Midtown #SNL
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“You don’t actually want a civil war, do you?”
Not a question I thought I’d ever need to ask.
Donie O'Sullivan
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This is going to be an Ireland stan account for the next few weeks. (Even more than normal). 🇮🇪
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#BREAK Twitter has permanently suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene's account @mtgreenee for repeatedly sharing Covid-19 misinformation, the company said in a statement this morning.
Greene still has access to @RepMTG.
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Twitter permanently suspends Steve Bannon account after talk of beheading cnn.com/2020/11/05/tech/stev…
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The President has written five tweets since midnight.
Three of them have been flagged as misinformation.
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So the video Bannon streamed live saying Dr. Anthony Fauci and Christopher Wray should be beheaded has been on Facebook for 10 hours and has 200,000 views.
10 hours.
Remember that next time Zuckerberg talks about all the moderators and A.I. they have.
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"And right now, on your website, is an ad claiming that Joe Biden gave the Ukrainian attorney general a billion dollars not to investigate his son. Every square inch of that is a lie and it’s under your logo."
nytimes.com/2019/10/31/opini…
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1. Make video about hunting people
2. Wait for video to get removed/restricted by tech platform
3. Fundraise off being censored
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My colleague @Acosta points out on air just now, after Inauguration Day Trump will be just “another crackpot on the internet.”
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The former President of the United States is banned from Twitter but the Taliban is not.
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Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/…
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Melissa McCarthy has the Sean Spicer podium on 58th Street right now #SNL
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lol at all everyone who is pretending they understand a word my dad is saying... Now that's an Irish accent!
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We went to a Trump rally to ask people what they see in their Facebook feeds.
You can watch the full video here:
cnn.com/2020/09/24/tech/trum… @CNN
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A month ago @elonmusk said his not banning the @ElonJet account was an example of his commitment to free speech.
My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk
Community note
The implied account in this tweet is elonjet, which is currently banned:
nitter.app/elonjet
Elonjet used to use publicly available plane tracking data to follow which airports Musk’s private jet flew to.
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Russians back off after Irish fishermen vow to disrupt war games apple.news/Axkfn9YyqSSCzmKLY…
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Spotted going through the expedited entrance at the Trump rally in Arizona tonight: Ali Alexander, one of the main Stop the Steal organizers.
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Trump's social media platform sent a push alert this afternoon to an article with an unredacted version of the search warrant that included the names of two FBI agents.
Those agents' names are now circulating on pro-Trump social media and are being villainized.
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McCarthy just said he doesn't even know what QAnon is.
So the House Minority Leader doesn't care to learn about a set of beliefs that helped inspire an insurrection at the Capitol.
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#BREAK Election eve and Twitter has labeled a Trump tweet as misleading. Removed ability for tweet to be retweeted.
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The roller coaster continues! Busy year ahead.
CNN promotes Donie O’Sullivan to Senior Correspondent. His reporting on the spread of online misinformation, highlighting the effect conspiracy theories, extremism, & radicalization have on politics, culture, & society, makes an impact.
Congrats @donie! cnn.it/3yw7LId
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"I think it is time where God is separating the sheep from the goats....I'm a goat. Because I am not a sheep. I'm not doing what they tell me to do. I'm fighting against it (the vaccine)."
In Alabama -- the state with the lowest vaccination rate in the nation. w/@Sarah_Boxer
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The account is still on the obscure free speech platform Facebook.
facebook.com/ElonJet/
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been given a 12 hour Twitter ban for violating Twitter’s Covid misinformation policies, a company spokesperson says.
Greene sent two tweets about vaccines in the past 24 hours or so that Twitter labeled as “misleading.”
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Wow. @SenBlumenthal said his office set up an Instagram account identifying as a 13-year-old girl.
Followed some “easily findable accounts associated with extreme dieting and eating disorders."
And with a DAY Instagram was recommending accounts that promote self-harm.
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Guy next to me at a bar last night struck up conversation. Two mins in, not knowing what I do, he says, “you know the election was stolen, right?... You have to go down the rabbit hole.”
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The parents of a Capitol police officer traveled to DC so they can give their son a hug when he finishes his shift tonight.
They described how they watched in horror last January 6th, not knowing if their son was still alive.
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Wow. 60 Minutes interviews Lenny Pozner whose son Noah was killed in Sandy Hook.
CBS had to hire specialized make-up artists to disguise Pozner because of the threats he faces from conspiracy theorists.
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Oh....my...... nitter.app/CuomoPrimeTime/status/…
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Me watching CNN when they bring on Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and I don’t want him to out-Irish me.
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Oh for fuck sake. nitter.app/seyitaylor/status/1411…
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Four years ago tonight @carolecadwalla broke the Cambridge Analytica story.
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As Sheryl Sandberg sought to downplay Facebook's culpability in the insurrection this week, a video full of bullshit claims that Antifa was responsible for the violence was viewed 5 million times before Facebook did anything about it.
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.@donk_enby did a huge service for the country saving those Parler videos. So much of what we are watching right now is from Parler.
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Talk of a Myanmar-style coup in the United States has been popular among some Trump supporters and QAnon believers for months.
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We traveled to my beloved hometown of Cahersiveen to see how the people there are welcoming Ukrainian refugees -- it's a story playing out in many parts of rural Ireland.
w/ @LaurenGKent @NiamhMKennedy
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In a few months when people wonder how Elon Musk developed such an outsize influence over British politics, it’ll be worth noting the contribution of push notifications like this from the national broadcaster.
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He wasn't able to call them to tell them he was okay until 11pm that day.
Tonight his mom is making him one of his favorite dinners: stew!
Such lovely people.
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I’m convinced if they put #GAA hurling on an American sports network millions would watch here. What a sport.
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