A quick THREAD on the Beltway dimensions of our new Facebook investigations, which you can read here:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html …
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Schumer told Warner in July to back off Facebook, telling the Virginia Democrat that he should look for ways to work with Facebook, not damage it.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html …
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Context: Schumer sees Big Tech as a job creator, broadly part of the Dem family, and a relatively well-behaving industry on the scheme of things. You can see some of this in his
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He also appeared to be concerned that if Democrats hammered FB too hard on privacy, FB would cave to Rs on disinformation. Of course, there's a good case that privacy and dis/misinformation are actually closely related policy problems.
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So. At least it’s not the Russians.
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