[Mega] MAGA Super Trump Mega Thread

The Washington Post has made a correction to an explosive cover story that undermines the entire premise of Monday’s front-page article headlined, "Obama sought to prod Facebook on Russia role."

The problem, according to a Facebook executive, is that when Obama reached out to the social media giant in 2016 to discuss political disinformation spreading on the site, he didn’t actually call out Russia – essentially making the Post’s headline misleading and inaccurate. Or, as President Trump would call it, “fake news.”

As first reported by Axios, the Post added significant information to the digital version of the story with the disclaimer, “This story has been updated with an additional response from Facebook.” The response from Facebook that didn’t make the paper’s print edition is vital and changed the story enough that the word “Russia” was removed from the updated headline.

The story detailed how then-President Obama gave Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a “wake-up call” regarding fake news spreading on his social media platform. After reporting that Obama “made a personal appeal to Zuckerberg to take the threat of fake news and political disinformation seriously," the paper has added that Obama “did not single out Russia specifically."

The story reported that Obama and his top aides “quietly agonized on how to respond to Russia’s brazen intervention on behalf of the Donald Trump campaign without making matters worse.”

The paper also added a statement from Facebook’s vice president of communications, Elliot Schrage, which it received after the front-page story was published. Schrage told the Post that Obama’s talk with Zuckerberg was about “misinformation and false news” and “did not include any references to possible foreign interference or suggestions about confronting threats to Facebook.”

The initial correction was unclear and only mentioned that it added Schrage’s statement, but this was eventually corrected by the paper’s editorial staff.

“When we updated the story with Facebook’s additional response, we also added the text ‘did not single out Russia specifically’ to foreshadow the Schrage statement, which appears further down in the story. When we added that clause we should have made the attribution clear and we’ve modified the line to do so. Here’s how it now appears: ‘although Facebook representatives say the president did not single out Russia specifically,’” a Washington Post spokeswoman told Fox News.

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Gandalf said:

The flag thing didn't bother me too much, but when the players started tossing up clenched fists in a black power salute after tackling a white player, I stopped watching. Racist fucks.

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Bombardier Inc. plunged the most in almost two years after the U.S. levied import duties on its priciest jet and the company missed out on a rail merger in Europe.

Sales prospects for Bombardier’s C Series jetliner, which cost $6 billion to develop, dimmed after the U.S. Commerce Department slapped it with preliminary import duties of 220 percent. The agency cited claims of improper subsidies after a complaint by Boeing Co.

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SuperTrap said:

Busted

Embarrassment as Washington Post corrects its 'scoop' about Obama, Facebook and Russia | Fox News

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absent said:

Almost 17,000 people prevented from voting in key swing state won by Trump, study finds | The Independent

And that's just in two out of 72 counties. America has a sham democracy that is run by the corporations who are represented by a single party

Grats on your "swamp draining" you fucking pillocks.

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Of those, they estimate that 6 percent were prevented from voting because they actually did not have an acceptable ID. Most of the remaining registrants possessed acceptable IDs, the study stated, but did not try to vote because they mistakenly believed that the ID would not be accepted.

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SuperTrap said:

Millennials. A whole generation of unreliable, self entitled, binary douchebags. Worthless to the to the nth degree.

Millennial Poll: Democrats Cant Take Their Vote for Granted - NBC News

The ADD/ADHD, participation trophy experiment failed... colossally

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absent said:

Almost 17,000 people prevented from voting in key swing state won by Trump, study finds | The Independent

And that's just in two out of 72 counties. America has a sham democracy that is run by the corporations who are represented by a single party

Grats on your "swamp draining" you fucking pillocks.

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cael said:

were you assuming gender when you delete my posts of women from the white girls thread

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