As I invested way too much time yesterday writing about Trump’s budding jihad against Twitter, I’ve decided that, tonight, I’d like to focus elsewhere. So, as much as I’d like to write about our president’s toothless retaliatory attack against the social media company that had the audacity to fact-check him, and his growing fondness for […]
Tag Archives: Mark Zuckerberg
Two tweets from October 25 perfectly illustrate the difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, call to violence, COVID-19, election integrity, Facebook, Jack Dorsey, Joe Biden, Lincoln Project, Mourning in America, pandemic, public health, social media, Twitter 72 Comments
Elizabeth Warren’s response to Facebook’s refusal to stop running false political ads
A few days ago, as you may have heard, Facebook made the decision to run an ad produced by the Trump campaign which had been proven to be false. While other media companies, like CNN, made the decision not to run the ad, which falsely suggested that Joe Biden, while Vice President of the United […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2016, 2020, Ben Rhodes, disinformation, Donald Trump, election meddling, Elizabeth Warren, Facebook, factcheck, fake ads, Joe Biden, political ads, political endorsements, social media, Ukraine 61 Comments
Carole Cadwalladr on how Facebook broke democracy
Today, in front of an audience at the Time 100 Summit in New York City, Donald Trump advisor Jared Kushner downplayed Russian interference in the 2016 campaign as “a couple of Facebook ads.” The truth, of course, as we just had confirmed by the Mueller report, is that the Russian disinformation campaign was significant, aggressive […]
Posted in Media, Uncategorized Also tagged Brexit, Cambridge Analytica, Carole Cadwalladr, disinformation, election interference, European Union, Facebook, Jack Dorsey, Jared Kushner, Larry Page, racism, Russia, Sergey Brin, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, social media, TED, threats to Democracy, Time 100 Summit, Twitter 48 Comments