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reporter @NYTIMES and author of NYT Bestseller, AN UGLY TRUTH: INSIDE FACEBOOK'S BATTLE FOR DOMINATION with @sheeraf (DM for signal/proton)

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Cecilia Kang
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Civil rights leaders went into a call with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg tonight with low expectations. They were not disappointed. Mark didn't comprehend/accept history of voter suppression and that Trump's tweets could stoke violence against demonstrators. More to come
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Transition 2008
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Kate McKinnon leaving SNL should be the headline
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Wow. Remarkable statement. So much tension between White House and Facebook right now. Heard from a source that WH incredibly frustrated after months of asking FB for data on vaccine misinfo that company, despite saying in public they want to work with WH, isn't sharing
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Real Facebook Oversight Board
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Reporter: "What's your message to platforms like Facebook?" President Biden: "They're killing people."
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Attendees included Vanita Gupta of National Leadership Conference, Rashad Robinson of Color of Change, and Sherillyn Iffill of NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Our story today: We're following up tomorrow. FB employees: as always, email or call (DM for signal)
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Zuckerberg: Facebook suspending Trump “Indefinitely”
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Tell me again anti Asian violence is exaggerated. Horrifying. Cannot believe we are pleading with the public Stop assaulting Asian seniors.
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CeFaan Kim
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NYPD says 65-year-old Asian American woman was walking to church this morning when suspect assaulted her and said “f*** you, you don’t belong here.” Happened in front of 360 W. 43rd St. 11:40am. Sources say building security guard not only failed to render her aid... 1/2
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NEW: Big Antitrust Crusader Joins White House @POTUS Biden To Appoint Tim Wu, A Leading Critic of Big Tech, as Tech & Competition Policy Special Assistant to the President.
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Cecilia Kang
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FB's Sandberg January 14: "...I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don't have our abilities to stop hate and don't have our standards and don't have our transparency."
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It's incredible that Mark Zuckerberg hasn't addressed the Whistleblower's damning reveals. When there is a crisis - plane crash, product defect - a CEO always addresses employees and the public. Where is Zuckerberg?
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"It's not an option for us to throw another community under the bus."
@simran
Simran Jeet Singh
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The first hate crime casualty after 9/11 was a Sikh named Balbir Singh Sodhi, murdered by a man who thought Balbir was Muslim On The Daily Show, Hasan Minhaj asked, “Why don't you just go “Hey—I'm not Muslim.” This was my response. I hope you’ll join us.
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NW DC is not having it. Gaga takes over and pushes out the conspiracy theorist protestors
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Laura Dally
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Happening now: two worlds colliding at Comet ☄️
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I’m front of Mayflower hotel for @fedsoc conference. Tonight dinner honoring Brett Kavannah ...
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HUGE. Did not expect the call for Breakup. This is going to be a hell of a war in court.
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rat king 🐀
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BREAKING: FTC + 48 States attorneys sue Facebook, alleging the company illegally crushes smaller rivals and competition — They're calling for the SPIN-OFF of Instagram and WhatsApp, a move that Zuckerberg has called "existential" for FB w/ @ceciliakang
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Feel the need to be Twitter police on this: KPOP fans are not just in South Korea. This is not a foreign thing. They are a global, including in U.S. with huge multiethnic following. Thank you. That is all.
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Twitter labels Trump again
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In what may be the first time in American history, a Black family has had property returned to them by the government, Los Angeles County Votes to Return Beach Seized in 1924 From a Black Family
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i still think this is a good look and i won't apologize. yours sincerely, Gen X
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This video of @BTS_twt video of Jungkook dancing to Billie Eilish was the most retweeted post of 2019 - and had 2.4 million likes
@BTS_twt
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Duh😛
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"Good morning my beautiful son" Cannot stop thinking about these words
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the smart and highly educated ones spreading disinfo are the scariest ... they know
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This cannot cannot get buried in the news cycle via @NYTimes @shearm ⁩ ⁦ @ktbenner ⁩ ⁦ @charlie_savage
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Wow - the daughter of MLK speaks out against Zuckerberg's analysis of free speech and civil rights here. Bernice King is not alone. Several civil rights leaders say Mark Zuckerberg does not appear to understand the harms the FB's hands-off approach of platforms.
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Be A King
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I heard #MarkZuckerberg 's ‘free expression’ speech, in which he referenced my father. I'd like to help Facebook better understand the challenges #MLK faced from disinformation campaigns launched by politicians. These campaigns created an atmosphere for his assassination.
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After an unscheduled interruption, back to the program: Part III: the $21M cash infusion of dubious origin @susannecraig @mmcintire @russbuettner #trumptaxes
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Thinking a $6 cappuccino is okay, but a $6 Sunday paper or magazine too much, is wacko economics
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Reminder: A thing about FB's 2-week Trump ban: If Trump declares a 2024 run on inauguration day, he will remain a public figure and he will be afforded broad political speech privileges on Facebook. So there's that
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perfect
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Lori Levin
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The fearless girl statue is wearing a collar!
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Trump is still tweeting - only now through his campaign account
@TeamTrump
Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022)
4 years
Statement from President Trump: As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me...
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this is some bs, sacramento
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Yashar Ali 🐘
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Buffy Wicks, a California Assemblywoman from Oakland, was told that having a newborn wasn’t a good enough excuse to vote by proxy due to Covid-19 concerns. So she drove from Oakland to Sacramento with her baby to vote on critical eviction legislation.
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@JoeBiden ⁩ campaign blasts Facebook for allowing a manipulated video of Biden - that was shared by Trump and officials - to circulate this weekend. Scathing rebuke Story on the way
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Just a reminder: saying "this is off the record" and then proceeding to talk talk talk is not off the record. Off the record is an agreement.
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To suit is focused on Google's search. And it will allege Google used contracts to make its search engine the default and pre-loaded, locking out competitors
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NEW: U.S. Files Suit Against Google of Building Illegal Monopoly on Search and Search Ads.. developing
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um. wut? smdh
@axios
Axios
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Scoop: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu shared with his cabinet a video he claimed was evidence of Iran concealing coronavirus deaths by dropping bodies in garbage dumps. Hours later, his office realized it was actually a clip from a 2007 Hallmark mini-series
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NEW: Scores of Tech CEO hearings (including this week) have resulted in zero new laws. It turns out, holding hearings to humble the world’s most powerful Tech CEOs is much easier than legislating via @NYTimes
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Nothing begins until America gets its hangover egg sandwiches
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🙏🙏🙏
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Seriously, I want a 70 over 70 list because I guarantee those individuals would have stories to tell
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In leadership vaccum, new COVID cases surge
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@WashingtonPost journalists arrested
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Zoeann Murphy
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With @wleaming , still rolling the camera while we were being arrested for filming protests outside the Capitol.
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NEW: How PizzaGate Returned. New audiences and a dangerous daisy-chain of social media giving it new life. The harms are real: death threats into Comet on the rise: w/ @sheeraf
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"I'm convinced that right now," Obama said, "one of the biggest reasons for democracies weakening is the profound change that's taken place in how we communicate and consume information." Obama speaking now at Stanford Our story w @stevenleemyers
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New: Desperate for Wi-Fi, Many Have Nowhere to Go but a Parking Lot. How Covid has exposed the still gaping digital divide and how the Internet is an essential utility:
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Biden Will Nominate First Woman to Lead Intelligence, First Latino to Run Homeland Security
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Obama on McConnell packs an accurate punch: What McConnell “lacked in charisma or interest in policy he more than made up for in discipline, shrewdness and shamelessness — all of which he employed in the single-minded and dispassionate pursuit of power.”
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Cecilia Kang
4 years
i know there's a lot going on but this is bOnKERs:
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Cecilia Kang
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How dare you music exit Jean Smart
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Where are Mark and Sheryl? Zuckerberg hasn't posted in days Sandberg's post from 9/29 has scalding comments 👀 @Mosseri has been MIA since his week on Today Show and the Met Gala red carpet latest on internal turmoil by @MikeIsaac @sheeraf @RMac18
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Y’all look at all those glorious female bylines. Women take over the NYT Sunday front page today.
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The FB-Google ad deal has been a huge 👀👀 and @daiwaka @tiffkhsu tell us what that partnership was all about
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Seattle, Washington, age 3. #webelong
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Updated: Twitter has blocked the Trump Campaign from tweeting until they remove the offending tweet. This is standard. For now it is hidden behind a warning.
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Facebook Removes Trump Campaign’s Misleading Coronavirus Video
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"Facebook is the primary protector and enabler of the far right in the United States, without question." via @satariano
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Cecilia Kang
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We were also stunned reporting this anecdote in AN UGLY TRUTH
Almost too many infuriating details in “An Ugly Truth” to pick out a single quote, but this bit about Facebook trying to portray a “Muslims for Clinton” ad Russia ran in 2016 as “pro-Clinton” really says it all when it comes to the company’s evasion.
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This House hearing on disinfo & extremism in cable media is quite something. Right now @soledadobrien naming names and telling all. She's going through history of the "truth decay" and notes Lou Dobbs egregious report blaming leprocy on illegal immigrants.
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Editorial/Opinion 👏 Is 👏 Separate 👏 From 👏 Newsroom
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Running this puts black @nytimes staff in danger. I stand by my colleagues in solidarity.
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👏👏 @andrewrsorkin zero tolerance for science deniers
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Rex Chapman🏇🏼
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Things escalated quickly on CNBC this morning. This is fantastic...
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you had one shot at asking the CEO of Google questions about policy and substance
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POLITICO
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn today asked if a Google engineer who has criticized her still has a job. “He has had very unkind things to say about me and I was just wondering if you all had still kept him working there," she said
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at this time, especially this is an incredible blow
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Who else is hearing horns and sirens from protestors outside the White House?
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A thread 🧵on our front page Facebook story today: We heard this a "Big Tobacco Moment" This won't be a "moment," but more like a very long fight to regulate FB and big tech. Here's what to expect, how the analogy works and doesn't. 1/
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For tens of millions of students and families with no internet access during the pandemic, Biden's internet-for-all plan is coming late into a crisis:
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On July 27, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai will testify together for the House antitrust subcommittee hearing on Big Tech competition. 🍿🍿🍿
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blow up the myth: my parents never pressured me to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer and never pressured me on grades. also, our electricity was a turned off a few times b/c we couldn't pay the bill
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every facebook reporter is already sick of next week
@verge
The Verge
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Exclusive: Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
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8 am: total detox, man. just water with squeezed lemon 10 am: that pumpkin pie is a fruit so it's basically a squeezed lemon
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FIRST GLIMPSE of our book An Ugly Truth: starting with the frayed partnership of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. With ⁦ @sheeraf ⁩ Much more to come. Book lands July 13.
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"Don't be afraid of the spices!" - Bajaj, owner of James Beard-award winning Rasika One of my very favorite cookbooks
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Judge denies Facebook's motion to dismiss FTC antitrust case. So the lawsuit can proceed - a win for the agency.
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PRECIOUS CARGO: Our book is in my hands! And it feels sooo good. AN UGLY TRUTH, our investigation of Facebook, comes out July 13 but is available now for preorder: W/ ⁦ @sheeraf
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Huge: FTC calling for Unwinding of Instagram and WhatsApp mergers
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NEWS: FTC and States Sue Facebook For Illegal Monopolization through Acqusitions, Instagram and WhatsApp
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NEW: 48 AGs file appeal to try again to break up Facebook
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Most obvious tweet of the day: Women (especially women of color) are really the voices you should reading on universal day care.
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Woah, @KannoYoungs joins the White House team for @NYTimes . Newsroom and readers so fortunate!
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FTC names Olivier Sylvain Senior Advisor to Chair Lina Khan. He is one of our country’s leading scholars on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, per internal memo
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Cecilia Kang
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This one hits hard. I and other parents of teens have long complained about the devastating effect Instagram can have on so many youth. Now @WSJ has the receipts that Facebook knew for years that Instagram has been on boil on youth culture. via @WSJ
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Sick to my stomach. My Asian colleagues are afraid to take the subway and even walk their neighborhoods. I've told family and friends in NYC to only travel in groups.
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Cecilia Kang
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This man literally went around beating up seven Asian women in NYC throughout the day via @nbcnews
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Hello. We reporters can’t help you submit your Op-Ed. I honestly don’t even know who takes submissions. -30-
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California sues Facebook for information in privacy investigation, says Facebook has refused to cooperate with subpoenas and docs on Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg:
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Cecilia Kang
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going to be a very long winter. many of us have not seen family for a year. just wear a damn mask
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Cecilia Kang
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In leadership vaccum, new COVID cases surge
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With documents obtained by @RMac18 @sheeraf and from the whistleblower, a harrowing look at how employees raised red flags for many months before the Jan. 6 Riots - to public shrugs from top leaders
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terrifying detailed investigation of videos
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NEW: "Seriously? People are literally dying" - White House officials texted each other as Facebook deflected during vaccine misinformation talks. What led Biden to say Facebook was "killing people?" @KannoYoungs and I show the months long battle
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Tired and afraid Look there is a lot we don’t know yet. But I know we are tired and afraid
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so in on this
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