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CEOs of Google, Twitter and Facebook grilled in Senate hearing

CNN 30d 1 tweets

A Senate Commerce Committee hearing with the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter is underway on Wednesday amid cries of conservative bias and threats to change a crucial law, known as Section 230, that protects the companies' ability to moderate...

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Brian Stelter Just going to leave this here... "Independent studies of social media have found little credible evidence to suggest that the technology is biased against right-wing viewpoints." 30d

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Watch The New Yorker Documentary | What Do Foreign Correspondents Think of the U.S.? | The New Yorker Video | CNE | Newyorker.com

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Journalists from around the world are reporting on the 2020 Presidential race—and offering perspectives not found in American media coverage.

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Brian Stelter Swiss journo: "Trump makes it hard on us because some of the things he does makes me wonder whether I'm covering an election in the United States, one of the oldest democracies in the world, or whether I'm actually reporting from almost a failed state." 31d

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Brian Stelter What the press needs to do between now and Nov. 3: — Keep focusing on the Road to 270. — Demystify the decision desks. — Call it election season, not Election Day! 31d

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Rallies Are the Core of Trump’s Campaign, and a Font of Lies and Misinformation

Linda Qiu, Michael D. Shear - Nytimes.com 32d 15 tweets

A recent rally in Wisconsin was typical. In 90 minutes, President Trump made 131 false or inaccurate statements.

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Brian Stelter The lying is the story: Trump's "falsehoods are the foundation of his campaign rallies and the connective tissue of the often 90-minute narrative he spins at every stop," @YLindaQiu and @shearm write 32d

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Trump’s chief of staff defends the White House’s attempt to keep the outbreak in Pence’s circle quiet.

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Brian Stelter Breaking: Fox News prez Jay Wallace "and several of the network's top anchors," including @BretBaier and @MarthaMaccallum, "have been advised to quarantine after being exposed to someone on a private flight who later tested positive for the coronavirus." 33d

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Kristen Welker Was Always Going to Be the Best Debate Moderator

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In an exclusive interview, the NBC News correspondent tells ELLE.com how she prepared for the final presidential debate—and made it actually watchable.

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Brian Stelter >> @kwelkernbc: "I just kept saying to myself, 'listen and be present.' I thought it was critical that we talked about the issues that mattered to voters, and I wanted the questions to be accessible. I wanted them to be meaningful to people." 35d

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The Final Debate

David Leonhardt - Nytimes.com 36d 1 tweets

And what else you need to know today.

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Brian Stelter "I understand you may be tired of hearing about President Trump’s untruths. I’m tired of writing about them. They hardly qualify as surprising anymore. But it’s impossible to analyze a debate filled with untruths without first acknowledging them..." 36d

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Brian Stelter NBC News prez Noah Oppenheim's reaction after Kristen Welker's successful turn as debate moderator: "Every single person at NBC News is bursting with pride. Kristen is beloved and admired by all of us and tonight the whole country knows why." 36d

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Trump’s 2020 cure-all: Rallies, rallies and more rallies

POLITICO 38d 2 tweets

It doesn’t matter that some around Trump say the rallies do little to persuade new Trump voters.

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Brian Stelter "Most of Trump’s rallies are no longer televised nationally as they once were. And with coronavirus infection rates climbing, the Trump rallies often draw negative headlines in local news markets because the packed events defy public health guidelines..." 38d

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POLITICO Playbook: New poll: Biden edges Trump on the economy

POLITICO 38d 1 tweets

And the NYT drops another Trump finances bombshell.

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Brian Stelter >> @jmartNYT and @alexburnsNYT are writing a book for Simon & Schuster about the 2020 election and all it signifies... Playbook has the details 👇🏼 politi.co/37qvSZ5 pic.twitter.com/CUKe5GGzTj 38d

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U.S. Postal Service Benches Its Police Officers Before Election

WSJ 39d 4 tweets

The U.S. Postal Service has ordered its police officers off city streets, sparking a legal battle in the final weeks of an election that could hang on mail-in ballots.

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Brian Stelter "If I was going to undermine public trust in the mail, one of the first things I would do is pull postal police off the street..." 38d

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Jeffrey Toobin suspended from New Yorker, on leave from CNN, after accidentally exposing himself on Zoom call

CNN 39d 3 tweets

Jeffrey Toobin, CNN's chief legal analyst and a renowned reporter for The New Yorker, has been sidelined at a pivotal moment in the run-up to the presidential election.

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Brian Stelter Jeffrey Toobin has been sidelined at a pivotal moment in the run-up to the presidential election. The reason: He exposed himself during a Zoom call with New Yorker colleagues in what he says was an accident. Here's our full story 39d

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Where Liberal Power Lies

Ross Douthat - Nytimes.com 41d 11 tweets

And why conservatives fear the creep of authoritarianism, too.

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Brian Stelter "If you switch back and forth between reading conservatives and liberals, you see mirror-image anxieties about authoritarianism and totalitarianism, which each side believes are developing across the partisan divide," @DouthatNYT writes 40d

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Brian Stelter This is something a lot of people misunderstand about Fox News: It is pro-President Trump, yes, but it is far more ANTI-Joe Biden. 41d

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More people watched Biden on ABC than Trump on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC

CNN 42d 17 tweets

Joe Biden's town hall on ABC averaged 13.9 million viewers on Thursday night, easily surpassing the Nielsen ratings for President Trump's town hall on NBC. That alone was a result virtually no one in the TV business expected. And that's not even the...

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Brian Stelter This is a result virtually no one in the TV biz expected. Staffers at ABC News privately admitted to their surprise when the Nielsen #'s came in. 42d

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Brian Stelter Breaking: @JoeBiden's town hall on ABC averaged 13.9 million viewers. @realDonaldTrump's town hall across NBC, MSNBC and CNBC had a combined 13.0 million viewers. Biden won the head-to-head ratings race. Here's my full story 42d

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Brian Stelter The final #'s are in, and the results are the same: Biden's town hall averaged 14.1 million viewers on ABC and Trump's town averaged 13.5 million viewers across NBC, MSNBC and CNBC combined 42d

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Analysis: Savannah Guthrie's questions at NBC's town hall exposed Trump's warped information diet

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Whenever President Trump ventures off Fox and gives an interview on another major network, something is instantly apparent: His information diet.

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Brian Stelter Trump's Fox friends rarely challenge his evasions and excuses. They subsist on the same warped info-diet he does. But when Trump gives a (rare) interview outside the right-wing media universe, his falsehoods and flimsy sources are instantly exposed... 43d

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Brian Stelter Whenever Trump ventures off Fox and gives an interview on another major network, something is instantly apparent: His information diet. Here's what I mean... 43d

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C-SPAN political editor Steve Scully suspended after admitting he lied about his Twitter feed being hacked

CNN 43d 2 tweets

C-SPAN said Thursday that Steve Scully, the network's senior executive producer and political editor, has been placed on "administrative leave" for lying about being hacked earlier this month.

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Brian Stelter A true WTF, what-was-he-thinking moment... causing real damage to the national news media's reputation 43d

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C-SPAN suspends Scully after he admits to lie about hack

AP NEWS 43d 10 tweets

NEW YORK (AP) — C-SPAN suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely Thursday after he admitted to lying about his Twitter feed being hacked when he was confronted about a questionable...

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Brian Stelter "C-SPAN suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely Thursday after he admitted to lying about his Twitter feed being hacked when he was confronted about a questionable exchange with former Trump aide @Scaramucci," @dbauder reports 43d

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'Fatigue is a factor': Political exhaustion weighs on voters in rural Wisconsin

CNN 44d 6 tweets

In an electorate that agrees on little, there is one thing that nearly every voter here in Southwest Wisconsin feels: Exhaustion.

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Brian Stelter Read @merica on "exhaustion" in rural Wisconsin: "Fatigue with politics, aimed primarily at President Donald Trump but also Democrats in Washington and the overall tone of discourse in America, is coursing through the minds of many voters..." 44d