By Will Oremus, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Less than three weeks before the presidential election, TikTok is still struggling to consistently enforce its long-standing ban on political advertising, a new report finds. In September, researchers from the nonprofit Global Witness tested the political ad moderation systems of three leading social media platforms – TikTok, […]
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TikTok fails a test of its ban on political ads
By Will Oremus, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Less than three weeks before the presidential election, TikTok is still struggling to consistently enforce its long-standing ban on political advertising, a new report finds. In September, researchers from the nonprofit Global Witness tested the political ad moderation systems of three leading social media platforms – TikTok, […]
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McConnell called Trump ‘stupid,’ a ‘despicable human being,’ new book says
By Mariana Alfaro, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2020 said then-president Donald Trump was a “despicable human being,” a “narcissist,” “stupid” and “ill-tempered,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Republican leader by the Associated Press’s deputy Washington bureau chief. According to the AP, which reported […]
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McConnell called Trump ‘stupid,’ a ‘despicable human being,’ new book says
By Mariana Alfaro, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2020 said then-president Donald Trump was a “despicable human being,” a “narcissist,” “stupid” and “ill-tempered,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Republican leader by the Associated Press’s deputy Washington bureau chief. According to the AP, which reported […]
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Trump drops the pretense, labels Jan. 6 insurrectionists ‘we’
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Shortly after the dust settled on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump’s allies went to great and strained lengths to distance the then-president from the insurrectionists who had stormed the U.S. Capitol. They falsely linked the attack to antifa and supposed government “provocateurs” – claims that had no […]
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Trump drops the pretense, labels Jan. 6 insurrectionists ‘we’
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Shortly after the dust settled on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump’s allies went to great and strained lengths to distance the then-president from the insurrectionists who had stormed the U.S. Capitol. They falsely linked the attack to antifa and supposed government “provocateurs” – claims that had no […]
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‘Off the charts’: How Trump tariffs would shock U.S., world economies
By Jeff Stein, David J. Lynch, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Donald Trump is campaigning on the most significant increase in tariffs in close to a century, preparing an attack on the international trade order that would likely raise prices, hurt the stock market and spark economic feuds with much of the world. Trump’s […]
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‘Off the charts’: How Trump tariffs would shock U.S., world economies
By Jeff Stein, David J. Lynch, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Donald Trump is campaigning on the most significant increase in tariffs in close to a century, preparing an attack on the international trade order that would likely raise prices, hurt the stock market and spark economic feuds with much of the world. Trump’s […]
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One in 6 presidential votes will likely be cast by mail for Harris
By Philip Bump, The Washington Post (c) 2024 In the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, election observers, state officials and the media repeatedly articulated that results would be slow in coming. The coronavirus pandemic had triggered an expansion of remote-voting options across the country, with the side effect of increasing the number […]
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One in 6 presidential votes will likely be cast by mail for Harris
By Philip Bump, The Washington Post (c) 2024 In the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, election observers, state officials and the media repeatedly articulated that results would be slow in coming. The coronavirus pandemic had triggered an expansion of remote-voting options across the country, with the side effect of increasing the number […]