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Will Facebook’s Efforts Prevent a Breakup? Anyone who is considering buying Facebook stock wants to know one thing: Will the company be broken up? Will Facebook’s efforts result in a warning and a fine, or will the government move to break the company up? At this point there are mixed opinions. Those that see a breakup as a possibility include University of Miami Antitrust Law Professor John Newman. He told Bloomberg, “there’s a pretty strong a chance a judge will find a violation of t...

Mitch McConnell Is My Person of the Year and Thats Not a Good Thing | Opinion Newsweek 12/13/2020 Hank Gilman © Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Democrats criticized Senator Mitch McConnell for holding up coronavirus relief. McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media after the Republicans weekly senate luncheon in the US Capitol on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Another 853,000 people applied for unemployment benefits last week. Will we ever get another COVID relief bill out of Congress? Ye...

Google has banned narrowly targeted ads from its site and there has been a lot of pressure on facebook to do something. now, in october mark zuckerberg, the head of facebook, came to washington, gave a speech basically in defense of freedom of speech on facebook. he said facebook would not fact check political ads. he said the reason he wouldnt was that political ads are already highly scrutinized, heavily debated, and it is not up to a tech company to decide what is acceptable political speech ...

They will treat this as it should be treated. >> bill: do you think censure would be a good off ramp yes or no? >> i dont have an answer. i really dont. bill, i didnt wake up on january 3, 2019, and say i want to impeach the president. i hope my congress person. i woke up on january 3, 2019 very excited about the prospects of seeing nancy pelosi lead the country. im not ready to give an answer. >> sandra: just months before the iowa caucuses and facebook is feeling the heat to limit those politi...

Regular targeted age. >> you can target by gender or postal code. race and stuff like that will be out. they will make sure that the ads arent -- dont have misinformation. again that gets down to nebulous area, right? how many articles that you read today people say it was clear this weeks impeachment hearings didnt lay a glove on president trump and someone else says its clear it did. you know what i mean? if you put either of those in an ad would they get rid of them? >> sandra: whats the cons...

Dinner with trump. this is corruption plain and simple. >> it is his job to get along with everybody in washington im sure he has had a lot of dinners with backers of democrats and pals around with more progressives than he does conservatives. i think from a boards perspective and shareholder perspective he did the thing he is supposed to be doing. >> do you think she said that when barack obama had dinner with facebook? >> she has to get off this. you mention how shareholders believe? the botto...

Down on political ads as a twitter ban takes effect. will facebook follow suit? without my medication, my small tremors would be extreme. without it, i cannot write my name. i was diagnosed with parkinsons. i had to retire from law enforcement. it was devastating. one of my medications is three thousand dollars per month. prescription drugs do not work if you cannot afford them. for sixty years, aarp has been fighting for people like larry. and we wont stop. join us in fighting for whats right.

That target only a few hundred people. and democrats especially say that allows a political party or candidate to spread disinformation but unseen by the larger public. so its likely that at the very least facebook will sort of raise the threshold of how many people have to see an ad making it more likely it will come under scrutiny. >> sandra: here we are a year out from the next election and this is going to play a key role. the way we use social media in our election process today has changed...

Itreat them all as if, they are hot and energized. sofi thank you, we love you. stay away from any downed wire, call 911 and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. >> sandra: google announcing restrictions on political ads this week following twitter ban taking effect today. now there is pressure on facebook to take action as well. byron york. what kind of pressure is there to make change? >> a general effort led mostly by democrats to try to limit political s...