Nobody elected Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and he has made no secret of his bias. That should be enough to ban him from influencing election machinery.
Misinformation Lingers After Incorrect Reporting About Giuliani, FBI
NBC, New York Times, Washington Post corrected stories about the former mayor
Misinformation promoted by NBC and two other news outlets about Rudy Giuliani was later corrected, although some readers may remain unaware because the network failed to fully correct its reporting.
NBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post added corrections to reports that initially claimed the former New York City mayor and former President Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer received a warning from the FBI that he was the target of an alleged Russian intelligence influence operation.
But some social media posts promoting the information went uncorrected, including from the sole author of NBC’s piece.
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Arent Fox’s government relations and government enforcement and white collar groups as counsel. Jackson previously was counsel and national security adviser for Jones. Jones said he won t register to lobby but that still leaves incredible opportunities to me to advise clients and help them navigate the political world and the world of D.C. without registering as a lobbyist.
Back in October 2019, I laid out what Rudy Giuliani, Victoria Toensing, and her husband Joe DiGenova were doing in Ukraine, especially in terms of where the national security and political implications overlapped. And this context is important to review and keep in mind in regard to today’s news. Pay specific attention to the second and third parts of the operation:
That larger operation, which is a domestically focused Black PSYOP, has three lines of effort, each with multiple parts, and they all are now interconnected.
1) The Ukrainian deliverable.
A) The real deliverable wasn’t manufactured dirt on the Bidens. Rather, it was getting Zelensky to go on CNN to announce the opening of an investigation into the Bidens, because CNN is a mainstream news outlet and is in opposition to the President in its reporting. As soon as that happened, the President’s team would have campaign ads running 24/7 with this. They’d be pushing the reporters they often use, or who are primed for
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CONVICTED MUELLER WITNESS DROPPED $4M ON CLEMENCY LOBBYING: One filing that caught PI’s eye this week was the reported $4 million that
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