Judd Legum

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@OversightBoard 3. The @OversightBoard also understood that this is not just about Trump. IT'S ABOUT THE ALGORITHM. So the Board asked Facebook about the algorithm and how it amplified Trump and all the lies that set the stage for January 6 Facebook REFUSED TO ANSWER https://t.co/ejsBgLsZfu https://t.co/fUVxFUO93o — PolitiTweet.org

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@OversightBoard 2. First the @OversightBoard called out Facebook directly for trying to use the Oversight Board as a mechanism to avoid accountability. There were direct: "Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities. The Board declines Facebook’s request" https://t.co/ejsBgLsZfu — PolitiTweet.org

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1. I've been a longtime skeptic of the Facebook @OversightBoard and remain one but I was pretty impressed with the decision it released yesterday. Here's why. https://t.co/ejsBgLsZfu — PolitiTweet.org

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ONLY FOX NEWS is allowed to witness DeSantis sign Florida’s new voter suppression law — PolitiTweet.org

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6. The Texas House is expected to vote on HB6 on Thursday. Things could start moving very quickly. Sign up for the newsletter for updates and accountability journalism. https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenTedCruz 5. The companies that are staying silent are heeding threats of retribution by Texas Republicans. Some of these threats are public -- amendments were introduced punishing corps that speak out on voting rights But it's also being done in private https://t.co/eBgZdJOZ7F https://t.co/g2ssCp4ZuX — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenTedCruz 4. A splinter group at GHP wrote their own letter to the House speaker and it contains a very succinct summary explaining why HB6 and SB7 are voter suppression. https://t.co/eBgZdJOZ7F https://t.co/9Kw95Cgvtu — PolitiTweet.org

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3. Many of the top donors are members of the Greater Houston Partnership, a biz group. Many members wanted to speak out against the bills. But it was nixed by GHP leadership A guess who is a member of the GHP leadership? Heidi Cruz, wife of @SenTedCruz https://t.co/eBgZdJOZ7F — PolitiTweet.org

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2. None of the companies taking public stances against SB7 and HB6 are among the top corporate PAC contributors to the sponsors of the bill. These companies have prioritized their relationship with Texas Republicans over voting rights https://t.co/eBgZdJOZ7F https://t.co/qR68zctIca — PolitiTweet.org

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1. After months of silence, some corporations are finally speaking out against Texas' voter suppression bills Others are staying quiet The makeup of the two groups tells us a lot about politics in Texas and around the country Follow along if interested https://t.co/eBgZdJOZ7F — PolitiTweet.org

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*6 months from the initial decision so 2 more months — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook spent years setting up this elaborate Oversight Board and after months of reviewing Facebook's decision to indefinitely suspend Trump the Board has decided that Facebook should spend another six months thinking about the appropriate punishment for Trump — PolitiTweet.org

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@blakehounshell @jackshafer Uh, the "Democrats" "loving" Cheney in this piece include Charlie Sykes (Republican), an anonymous Republican member of Congress, Chris Cillizza (?!?), The Financial Times, and People Magazine. The only Democrat quoted is Jamie Raskin. — PolitiTweet.org

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SPOILER: This "new communications platform" is a "website." — PolitiTweet.org

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@nickconfessore Carlson is expressing a white nationalist conspiracy theory. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexanderrusso @Choire I’ve investigated this extensively and could not find anything. But I hope I’m wrong — PolitiTweet.org

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@HoustonChron @SenTedCruz A breakaway group, including several members of the board, released their own letter specifically opposing HB6 and SB7 and laying out in compelling detail why they opposed those bills — PolitiTweet.org

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Important story in @HoustonChron about a business group, Greater Houston Partnership, that refused to take a stand against bills restricting voting Among those on the board of the group that refused to take a stand, Heidi Cruz, wife of @SenTedCruz https://t.co/JEnNfhgasm — PolitiTweet.org

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The natural place for all this functionality is TweetDeck, which I still use and have used for years. But since Twitter acquired it many moons ago, innovation has languished. It can't replicate Nuzzel or Crowdtangle — PolitiTweet.org

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Before Nuzzel I used Crowdtangle, which was actually a much better tool to monitor the conversation on Twitter. It was incredible. But then Crowdtangle was acquired by Facebook and eventually stopped tracking Twitter data — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter and Facebook have systematically acquired and destroyed every app that is useful for news discovery. Today it's Nuzzel, which I probably use a dozen times a day https://t.co/ZceAkd5k7a — PolitiTweet.org

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3. @Patagonia shines a light on something that I've been hearing a lot about but is hard to nail down. Republicans legislators are THREATENING corporations to keep them quiet about voting restrictions https://t.co/C9sw51CTb5 — PolitiTweet.org

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2. Ron Kirk, former Mayor of Dallas, correctly connects this issue with the 1/6 insurrection. "It is a test of the commitment of the business community that spoke out so forcefully in the aftermath of the insurrection at our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6" — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Corporations in Texas are finally speaking out against the state's voter suppression legislation. I'll have more to say when I see the text of the letters and the signatories. But there are two important points. https://t.co/E4vrM6jzOv — PolitiTweet.org

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9. It's easy to dismiss this as a sideshow but Trump is relentlessly promoting this audit and the "results" are likely to be used to justify voter suppression laws in AZ and elsewhere For updates and accountability journalism, sign up for the newsletter https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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8. Byrne is a notorious conspiracy theorist who insists Trump won and says he has "been funding a Bad News Bears collection of just the right spooks, lawyers and ethical hackers, patriots all, to reverse engineer, infiltrate, and disrupt this coup" https://t.co/j6LwSEAZId — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Logan is being paid 150K by taxpayers. But that's not nearly enough cash to pay for this circus. So a website called https://t.co/QoxkEobeLf is trying to raise $2.8M. The website is created by former https://t.co/BlxpqwqHPf CEO Patrick Byrne. https://t.co/j6LwSEAZId — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Among the people COUNTING THE VOTES is a former member of the Arizona legislature, Anthony Kern, who was on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the insurrectionists https://t.co/j6LwSEAZId https://t.co/1emBXlD9BP — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Logan tried to keep the procedures used to count the votes secret but was forced to make them public by a court and they involved putting the ballots under a UV light to check for "watermarks" even though Arizona ballots don't have watermarks https://t.co/j6LwSEAZId — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Doug Logan is the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, a firm with zero experience in election audits. Logan also tweeted numerous wild conspiracy theories about the election, including the claim that Trump really got 200K more votes in Arizona https://t.co/j6LwSEAZId https://t.co/kimXCuptnq — PolitiTweet.org