Prosecutors Just Rested Their Case Over Roger Stone’s Lies: “Truth Matters”
Roger Stone returns for his trial after lunch on November 13, 2019 in Washington, DC.Mark Makela/Getty Images In his closing argument Wednesday, Roger Stone’s lawyer, Bruce Rogow, told the jury that there is really nothing to the government’s case against his client. “Much of this case, you have to ask, ‘So what?’” Rogow said. Prosecutors…
Twitter Announces Political Advertising Ban
Jack Dorsey, the chief executive officer of Twitter, announced on Wednesday afternoon that his company will no longer allow political ads on its platform. “We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought,” Dorsey wrote in a tweet thread announcing the post.…
Facebook Removes Over a Hundred Russia-Linked Accounts and Pages Targeting African Countries
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Facebook announced Wednesday that it had removed a trio of networks from its platforms promoting content targeting users in nine African countries. The company says the networks have links to Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Russian oligarch indicted by U.S. prosecutors over interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The operation illustrates…
AOC Asked Mark Zuckerberg About Facebook’s Fact Checking Process. He Didn’t Give Her the Whole Truth.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images During his congressional testimony on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to side-step responsibility for partnering with the conservative media site, the Daily Caller, giving an at-beast misleading answer to a pretty direct question from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Ocasio-Cortez asked Zuckerberg why Facebook partnered with “the Daily Caller, a publication well-documented with ties to white supremacists,…
Facebook Says It’s Here to Help—But It Can’t Explain How
Niall Carson/PA Wire/ZUMA During a major address at Georgetown University on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg kept hammering the same point: connecting people (on Facebook) and elevating their voices is good for society. Compromising on this (on Facebook), he argued, would stifle their free speech, which would be bad for society. “Our mutual commitment to each other—that…
Senate Republicans Say Russia Helped Trump—and Is Still Messing in US Elections
Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee has found that the Kremlin directed a social media campaign in advance of the 2016 elections that “overtly and almost invariably” aimed to help Donald Trump—and that it is still at it. In a report released Tuesday, the committee endorsed an Intelligence Community assessment issued…