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Remarkable letter by some of Facebook’s earliest employees, who now say the company is unrecognizable and holds politicians to a lower standard than the regular people they govern. https://t.co/EWj3knujmD https://t.co/GAW6b2L646 — PolitiTweet.org

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Spiegel adds “divisive people” won’t get booted off the platform, but only “as long as [their] content … is consistent with our community guidelines.” On one hand, you could read this as necessary boilerplate. But he’s also leaving the door open to an account ban in future. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s Snap CEO Evan Spiegel’s blog post: “We simply cannot promote accounts in America that are linked to people who incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform." https://t.co/4NysyjQl05 — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the kind of cultural and social capital that makes America the envy of the world. It’s not built overnight, and it can be squandered. — PolitiTweet.org

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Find someone who looks at you the way this man looks at his country: https://t.co/EchIDEmRbg https://t.co/Z00v7NttC0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile, inside the house, Dubey ordered pizza for everyone by calling up the owner of a local institution, Duccini’s, which is literally as old as me. The response? “We got you, man.” And then the pizza got held up by the police. https://t.co/EchIDEmRbg — PolitiTweet.org

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Rahul Dubey gave shelter to dozens of protesters in his own home in DC last night. Per his first-person account, police threatened to arrest him for standing on his own porch; faked a 911 call to his house; tried to bait protesters into coming back out: https://t.co/EchIDEmRbg — PolitiTweet.org

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@digiphile @CenDemTech My first instinct was “digital rights advocates” but I ran out of space. — PolitiTweet.org

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A new federal lawsuit by tech advocates at @CenDemTech is challenging Trump’s executive order on social media, arguing it violates the First Amendment by chilling the speech of “all online platforms an individuals”: https://t.co/duzJ1NwDsd https://t.co/rW6SV825uD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Iyengarish: At one point around 22,000 people — almost half of Facebook's workforce — tuned into Zuckerberg's town hall today explainin… — PolitiTweet.org

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New: At a company-wide town hall today with nearly half of Facebook’s employees watching, Zuckerberg tried to explain himself on Trump. Staffers aren’t too satisfied with the response. https://t.co/IjcQvnc8xB — PolitiTweet.org

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New: USTR is targeting nearly a dozen governments worldwide with Section 301 investigations into their proposed or actual digital services taxes. https://t.co/9SwHQ50ZCH — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oliverdarcy: "Local news publications have been hard hit by financial pressure stemming from the pandemic, with many operating newsroom… — PolitiTweet.org

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Just a reminder that if you work at a FAANG or similar tech company and would like to talk confidentially about your workplace's handling of everything going on right now, I’m here to listen. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Helicopters audible as far north as Columbia Heights tonight. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Cat_Zakrzewski: A Facebook engineer responds to the call, saying he is “extremely disappointed” in the outcome. https://t.co/lfxTN0pY1V — PolitiTweet.org

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Also present were Nick Clegg, head of Facebook’s global policy and communications, as well as Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s VP of global public policy, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the meeting were confidential. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vanitaguptaCR @Sifill_LDF @rashadrobinson Facebook’s statement on the meeting, per spokesman @andymstone: https://t.co/bOeJNEPDht — PolitiTweet.org

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Civil rights groups met tonight with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg via video conference to talk about Trump’s content. They’re extremely upset, calling Zuckerberg’s decision “incomprehensible.” From @vanitaguptaCR, @Sifill_LDF and @rashadrobinson: https://t.co/DdfueP1YX4 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Civil rights groups met tonight with Mark Zuckeberg and Sheryl Sandberg via video conference to talk about Trump’s content. They’re extremely upset, calling Zuckerberg’s decision “incomprehensible.” From @vanitaguptaCR, @Sifill_LDF and @rashadrobinson: https://t.co/er4bPnjVVQ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oneunderscore__: New + exclusive from me, @BrandyZadrozny + @_esaliba : This viral tweet claiming to be Antifa calling for violence in… — PolitiTweet.org

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"Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Dioscese of Washington said Monday evening that she is 'outraged' after President Donald Trump visited her church 'without permission.’" https://t.co/TdBYx5xCo4 https://t.co/zzQ7x23WLb — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @myhlee: My dad sent a new batch of photos from his daily coronatine walk on the beach on Guam, and I really needed to see them today. H… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @MarshallCohen: President Trump has weaponized the #GeorgeFloyd crisis, by blaming his political opponents, egging on state violence, an… — PolitiTweet.org

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No masks or social distancing, FWIW https://t.co/i0rHfKWalz — PolitiTweet.org

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The end of Trump’s speech was very nearly drowned out on CNN by the shouts of “George Floyd” from demonstrators shown on split-screen. https://t.co/kbkz3Tt1Ft — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MarquardtA: AG Bill Barr just showed up with his security detail to seemingly take a look at the protest in Lafayette Square. He’s talk… — PolitiTweet.org

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@tarektomes Hi Tarek, hoping to connect with you today or tomorrow for a quick interview if you're available. My DMs are open. — PolitiTweet.org

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To put on my IR hat, this is securitization theory IRL. It’s the decision to frame a public policy problem in the language of war or threat in order to justify extraordinary measures. As always in these debates, the question is: Who is defining security for whom, and from what? — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Facebook employees are walking out today to protest Mark Zuckerberg’s decision on Trump’s social media posts from last week, per @donie, confirming this NYT report: https://t.co/GHXvkjzsAb — PolitiTweet.org