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Wondering if the Russians reached you over Facebook? You can soon find out.
Facebook is creating an online tool to allow users to determine if they might have been exposed to Russian disinformation during the 2016 presidential election and its fractious aftermath. The new tool, which the company said will be available by the end of 2017, is the latest move by Facebook to respond to public and political pressure to reveal the extent of the Russian disinformation campaign waged on its social media platform and on Instagram, which Facebook owns.
FCC ignored your net neutrality comment, unless you made a ‘serious’ legal argument
The Federal Communications Commission received a record-breaking 22 million comments chiming in on the net neutrality debate, but from the sound of it, it’s ignoring the vast majority of them. A senior FCC official said that 7.5 million of those comments were the exact same letter, which was submitted using 45,000 fake email addresses. But even ignoring the potential spam, the commission said it didn’t really care about the public’s opinion on net neutrality unless it was phrased in unique legal terms.
NYT White House correspondent Glenn Thrush’s history of bad judgment around young women journalists (Vox)
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Submitted by benton on Tue, 11/14/2017 - 16:29Facebook wants 'flexibility' in political advertising regulations
Facebook says that it supports the government’s push to further regulate election ads on digital platforms, but qualifies that it wants flexible rules.The company explained in comments it sent to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that new regulations should give “advertisers flexibility to meet their disclaimer obligations in innovative ways that take full advantage of the technological advance.” The firm explained that by “technological advances,” it means instead of firm rules requiring specific text to show up on political ads on its platform, Facebook would instead like to see a pro
President Trump said he ‘didn’t make that decision’ to potentially force AT&T and Time Warner to sell CNN
President Donald Trump appeared to stress that he had not intervened in AT&T’s bid to buy Time Warner — nor did he seek to require that the companies sell CNN in order to obtain the US government’s approval of the deal.
Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner to CNN: Fire 20 percent of your staff
President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner is still upset with CNN. Kushner met with Gary Ginsberg, a top executive at Time Warner, CNN’s parent company. In the meeting, Kushner told Ginsberg CNN should fire 20 percent of its staff because of its coverage of the 2016 presidential election. A White House official said that Kushner’s remark wasn’t serious, and that he “was simply trying to make a point.” It seems like the Trump administration’s feud with CNN isn’t going away.