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07-12-2018, 03:35 PM
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deep-thrusting hard hitting journalism 2018:
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/11/med...ars/index.html
even CNN cant stop Joe P.
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/11/med...ars/index.html
Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn't banned
The company's failure to produce a satisfactory answer on the matter came at an event Facebook organized in its Manhattan offices where the company aimed to tout its commitment to combating fake news and misinformation.
After a short presentation showcasing Facebook's efforts to fight misinformation, John Hegeman, the head of Facebook's News Feed, and Sara Su, a Facebook product specialist for News Feed, took questions from reporters.
When asked by this reporter how the company could claim it was serious about tackling the problem of misinformation online while simultaneously allowing InfoWars to maintain a page with nearly one million followers on its website, Hegeman said that the company does not "take down false news."
"I guess just for being false that doesn't violate the community standards," Hegeman said, explaining that InfoWars has "not violated something that would result in them being taken down."
The company's failure to produce a satisfactory answer on the matter came at an event Facebook organized in its Manhattan offices where the company aimed to tout its commitment to combating fake news and misinformation.
After a short presentation showcasing Facebook's efforts to fight misinformation, John Hegeman, the head of Facebook's News Feed, and Sara Su, a Facebook product specialist for News Feed, took questions from reporters.
When asked by this reporter how the company could claim it was serious about tackling the problem of misinformation online while simultaneously allowing InfoWars to maintain a page with nearly one million followers on its website, Hegeman said that the company does not "take down false news."
"I guess just for being false that doesn't violate the community standards," Hegeman said, explaining that InfoWars has "not violated something that would result in them being taken down."
even CNN cant stop Joe P.
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07-12-2018, 04:06 PM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 92-year-old man beaten repeatedly in the face with a brick in Los Angeles on Wednesday thanked the passer-by who took video of the aftermath of the attack that may have helped lead to an arrest in the case.
Rodolfo Rodriguez was out for a walk when he was beaten the night of July 4 on a sidewalk in a tough South Los Angeles neighborhood known as Willowbrook.
Misbel Borjas, who lives in the area, captured a video of Rodriguez as he sat dazed in the grass, his face covered in blood. The video and a photo that Borjas says shows the attacker drew widespread attention in the news media and on social media in the days following.
Detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department arrested 30-year-old Laquisha Jones in the attack late Tuesday and booked her into jail for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon.
It's unclear if Jones has an attorney. She was being jailed in lieu of $200,000 bail.
Borjas, who said she witnessed the attack, said Rodriguez did nothing to provoke it, though she said Jones claimed he had bumped into her daughter.
"She immediately hit him with her hands and then got a brick and started hitting him in the head with the brick," Borjas said Wednesday near the scene of the attack. "He tried to block her but he's old and pretty weak."
Borjas, 35, said Rodriguez was hit about five times with the brick and that Jones yelled at him: "Go back to your country."
She said she thinks the attack was racially motivated, though the sheriff's department said Wednesday that "this is not a hate-related incident." The department didn't explain why a hate crime had been ruled out.
Rodriguez, whose face is still black and blue a week after the attack, hugged Borjas outside his home Wednesday and thanked her for her help.
He told reporters that he doesn't know why he was attacked and is grateful for the outpouring of community support and well wishes he's received.
"I'm just a poor old man; I don't deserve it," he told reporters in Spanish outside his home.
As for Jones, he said she's in the right hands.
"I'll leave it to the law," he said in Spanish. "I'm not qualified to say she deserves five years or 10 years — that's not going to heal anything or heal me. What's going to heal me is Jesus Christ. They'll give her the punishment she deserves."
Two black men are asked to leave Starbucks for loitering... automatically a national "Whitey is racist" issue...
Black chick nearly kills an old Mexican man while yelling "Go back to your country" - Not a hate crime.
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07-12-2018, 04:32 PM
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how to deep-state government, 2018 edition:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/u...osecutors.html
Just waiting for the Russian collusion to show up here...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/u...osecutors.html
Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, has asked federal prosecutors to help review the government documents of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times on Wednesday.
Mr. Rosenstein’s request was an unusual insertion of politics into federal law enforcement. While the Justice Department has helped work on previous Supreme Court nominations, department lawyers in Washington typically carry out that task, not prosecutors who pursue criminal investigations nationwide.
But in an email sent this week to the nation’s 93 United States attorneys, Mr. Rosenstein asked each office to provide up to three federal prosecutors “who can make this important project a priority for the next several weeks.” Names were to be submitted to Mr. Rosenstein’s office by the end of Wednesday.
Mr. Rosenstein’s request was an unusual insertion of politics into federal law enforcement. While the Justice Department has helped work on previous Supreme Court nominations, department lawyers in Washington typically carry out that task, not prosecutors who pursue criminal investigations nationwide.
But in an email sent this week to the nation’s 93 United States attorneys, Mr. Rosenstein asked each office to provide up to three federal prosecutors “who can make this important project a priority for the next several weeks.” Names were to be submitted to Mr. Rosenstein’s office by the end of Wednesday.
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07-12-2018, 04:39 PM
So it should be totally ok to kill the homeless, the elderly, the chronically unemployed, etc?
They have no skills to offer society, and are a huge drain on our collective resources.
If yes, then... you win I guess.
If no, then why are you arguing that it's ok to do to a fetus because it *might* end up in one of those categories?
They have no skills to offer society, and are a huge drain on our collective resources.
If yes, then... you win I guess.
If no, then why are you arguing that it's ok to do to a fetus because it *might* end up in one of those categories?
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07-12-2018, 09:00 PM
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Donald Trump arrives to London and declares "UK LOVES ME!"
WTF?
If he pulled his head out of his **** he might have noticed all the protestors waiving placards and abuse along his route!
- and that guy's in charge of the most powerful arsenal in the world ???
Most Brits would prefer he NEVER had an audience with the Queen and feel sorry that she's obligated to meet him (compare TrumptyDumpty's trip to any of Obama's where he and his family were warmly embraced by the entire royal family and had many meetings outside of the formalities - the footage of Michelle meeting Prince George in his dressing gown was quite charming and looked like a "normal-family" gathering).
WTF?
If he pulled his head out of his **** he might have noticed all the protestors waiving placards and abuse along his route!
- and that guy's in charge of the most powerful arsenal in the world ???
Most Brits would prefer he NEVER had an audience with the Queen and feel sorry that she's obligated to meet him (compare TrumptyDumpty's trip to any of Obama's where he and his family were warmly embraced by the entire royal family and had many meetings outside of the formalities - the footage of Michelle meeting Prince George in his dressing gown was quite charming and looked like a "normal-family" gathering).
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07-12-2018, 09:12 PM
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07-12-2018, 09:44 PM
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Donald Trump arrives to London and declares "UK LOVES ME!"
WTF?
If he pulled his head out of his **** he might have noticed all the protestors waiving placards and abuse along his route!
- and that guy's in charge of the most powerful arsenal in the world ???
Most Brits would prefer he NEVER had an audience with the Queen and feel sorry that she's obligated to meet him (compare TrumptyDumpty's trip to any of Obama's where he and his family were warmly embraced by the entire royal family and had many meetings outside of the formalities - the footage of Michelle meeting Prince George in his dressing gown was quite charming and looked like a "normal-family" gathering).
WTF?
If he pulled his head out of his **** he might have noticed all the protestors waiving placards and abuse along his route!
- and that guy's in charge of the most powerful arsenal in the world ???
Most Brits would prefer he NEVER had an audience with the Queen and feel sorry that she's obligated to meet him (compare TrumptyDumpty's trip to any of Obama's where he and his family were warmly embraced by the entire royal family and had many meetings outside of the formalities - the footage of Michelle meeting Prince George in his dressing gown was quite charming and looked like a "normal-family" gathering).
You deserve a purple heart.
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07-13-2018, 10:21 AM
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paint me surprised:
https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/12/s...ee-the-company
https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/12/s...ee-the-company
Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic
A Reason investigation reveals that the coffee giant's new cold drink lids use more plastic than the old straw/lid combo.
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07-13-2018, 11:11 AM
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i dunno how anyone would ever wanna be associated with the left:
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/sta...41999833042944
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/sta...41999833042944
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07-13-2018, 11:35 AM
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I do hope you don't take infowars as a serious news outlet though.
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07-13-2018, 12:13 PM
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I always wondered, do these people have jobs? Why are they all in the streets protesting? Do they not have anything better to do. I know here in the US they're paid to protest, I guess they could be getting paid there too.
There is literally nobody I would ever use a PTO day to protest.
There is literally nobody I would ever use a PTO day to protest.
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