Walt Mossberg

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@JamesPRudolph @karaswisher @facebook I didn’t stay. I quit Facebook, as well the Facebook-owned properties Instagram and Messenger. Some tech journalists can’t quit, because it’s their job to know what’s happening there. But they aren’t staying voluntarily. Same with people who have to promote a business or a cause. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kvox Totally. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LilyBelle05 @karaswisher @KOnocomment @phjackson5 @facebook Satire isn’t disinformation. It’s legit. Unlike disinformation, it needn’t be deleted. And the publisher can decide to label it. For instance, the New Yorker does that with the Andy Borowitz satire it publishes. Facebook refuses to get involved. — PolitiTweet.org

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@phjackson5 @karaswisher @facebook Censorship is a reprehensible act that, in the U.S., is only (mostly) forbidden for the government. A private-sector publisher can freely and legally decide what to publish. In fact, it’s their obligation. This is what every publisher, old and new, does and has done forever. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Limerick1914: This is perfect https://t.co/bWBAn5ofCF — PolitiTweet.org

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@HowardKurtz But those championships weren’t simultaneous. Boston already holds the record for the shortest time span it took for all *four* of its major pro teams to win championships. (Six years, from 2005-2011, Patriots to Bruins.) See Wikipedia screen grab. https://t.co/j34wMEKTH8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@phjackson5 @karaswisher @facebook I disagree. It’s Facebook’s platform. So it’s Facebook’s responsibility to refuse to publish indisputably doctored political content. From either party or any political group. This burden shouldn’t be farmed out to third parties, or merely labeled. — PolitiTweet.org

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A powerful ⁦⁦@karaswisher⁩ indictment of ⁦⁦⁦@facebook⁩ . “The many indignities of being a Facebook user are making the platform a worse and worse place to be.” https://t.co/f0yxEw4K3N — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/3sI6O3A5qa — PolitiTweet.org

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I know that nearly everyone outside New England would hate this. I know the @StLouisBlues are the favorites of many hockey fans. But a @BostonBruinsNHL Stanley Cup win would give Boston three reigning major pro sports simultaneously, as the @washingtonpost points out. https://t.co/xN5PcZwaQZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@sfjoanne @SoFi @libbylh This is how I will always think of you now and for all time! — PolitiTweet.org

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This gives the lie to Facebook’s statements. Not only are they outsourcing the review of their own platform to kill disinformation, but they aren’t even disclosing the conclusion of the outsourced judges at only the time and place where it might help. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alanmillerNLP: Excellent piece on the power of teaching critical thinking. https://t.co/LI5DfUFXj2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@nkhandel @Acosta @facebook No, they are not. See the screenshot of what they’re doing elsewhere o. Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JasonKAlmeida @tomjirinec @Kanegroup Thanks. — PolitiTweet.org

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@heyyoudvd @marcoarment Facebook is 100% a media company, a publisher. It has paid content companies to publish on its platform. It does partnerships with content companies. It shouldn’t be protected by the 1996 safe harbor law. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nkhandel They are a private-sector company. So, yes, they can be the arbiter of the truth on their own platform. Zuckerberg has said he wants to get hoaxes off of Facebook. Since he’s not doing so, and not keeping other pledges, I quit. You? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattcutts iCloud. It’s the only mainstream email service managed by a company which values privacy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KruegerLawyer @ismh Instagram is 100% owned by Facebook and is governed by the same people with the same philosophy and business model. People who think they’re fleeing Facebook by spending more time on Instagram are fooling themselves. It’s just another iteration of Facebook. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tomjirinec @Kanegroup I’ve been using iCloud photo sharing for years with family and friends. I recommend it to everyone. It’s private, intimate, and social. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @carolmcc13: I had the pleasure recently of interviewing this committed and innovative science teacher about how she incorporates news l… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Kanegroup Oh, this has nothing to do with which party you favor. Facebook promotes lies and falsehoods of all kinds. Every minute you spend there or on Instagram (which Facebook owns) checking out a friend’s photos, you are enriching people who harm societies. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is why it’s vital that we educate the next generation to be critical thinkers able to tell fact from disinformation via the #Checkology news literacy curriculum from the @NewsLitProject. You can help here: https://t.co/vVXi8U9rat. — PolitiTweet.org

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Never trust Facebook to do the right thing. The company has shown time and time again that its guiding policy is greed, pure and simple. Not adherence to the truth, certainly not upholding privacy, and not even enforcing its own rules. — PolitiTweet.org

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A great combination: @Flipboard and the @NewsLitProject! — PolitiTweet.org

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@TylerReeves @gruber Yes it does. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RetProf77 I was there multiple times in the last few years of the Soviet Union. I was astonished at how backwards and dysfunctional even Moscow was. But they still posed a massive, sophisticated military threat - because they shifted huge talent & resources to the military. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @gruber: Apple News app doesn’t let you search. Think about that. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NewsLitProject: In Mansfield, MA, teacher Kelly Melendez is using Checkology® in her science classes to teach students how to be scienc… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @reckless: I HAVE A QUESTION: why the hell is the "race to 5G" even a race? https://t.co/NVgQSkA0RR https://t.co/73WzUxkN3e — PolitiTweet.org