Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward Facebook Execs Want Zuckerberg To Abandon ‘Modest’ Approach To Fighting Hate
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg prefers to manage the fake news problem through rational, careful experiments and modest changes, Axios reported. Experts say that the social media platform could do a number of things to reduce fake news. But almost every option would challenge Zuckerberg’s long-term vision for the company. He sees fake news as a…
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Fast Forward Swastika Burned Into Omaha Park Honoring Soldiers Who Fought Against Nazis
A giant swastika was burned into the lawn of a park in Omaha, Nebraska, WOWT News reported Sunday. The Nazi regime symbol was burned into the Memorial Park lawn, a place that honors American soldiers who fought against Nazi Germany in World War II. Park maintenance tilled the defamed patch of grass, according to WOWT,…
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Fast Forward Kushner Threatens To Abandon Gaza Rebuilding Plan Amid Growing Violence
Five months ago, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, began shifting his focus from brokering a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians to the seemingly easier endeavor of solving the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But now, with a new cycle of violence deterring foreign investors from aiding Gaza, Kushner and Jason Greenblatt,…
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Fast Forward Facebook Puts Holocaust Denial Groups in Top Search Results
Mark Zuckerberg insisted Facebook is burying Holocaust denial at the bottom of search results, but actual search results say otherwise, according to the Daily Beast. Facebook still puts groups devoted to denying the idea that six million died in the Holocaust among the top results for searches on the site, as well as in searches…
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Fast Forward Workers Across Israel Given Day Off To Protest New Anti-LGBT Surrogacy Law
There will be strikes across Israel on Sunday to protest a new law that excludes LGBT couples from state-supported surrogate pregnancies, Quartz reported. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu swooped in with a last-minute vote Wednesday, rejecting an amendment to an existing law that allowed only heterosexual married couples to qualify for government-funded surrogacy under Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment To Playboy Model
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, secretly recorded a conversation with Trump two months before the presidential election, in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording. The F.B.I. seized the recording this year during a raid…
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Fast Forward Zuckerberg Called Trump To Congratulate Him After The Election
Following the election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed a secret, previously unreported call to then president-elect Donald Trump, during which, sources told BuzzFeed News, he congratulated the Trump team on its victory and successful campaign — which spent millions of dollars on advertising with Facebook. The private call between Zuckerberg and Trump, which was confirmed…
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Fast Forward Kushner, Greenblatt, Friedman: The Gang Gets Together To Blame Hamas In WaPo
Jared Kushner, senior adviser to President Trump, Jason Greenblatt, special U.S. representative for international negotiations, and David Friedman, U.S. ambassador to Israel, penned the Washington Post piece, “Help is at hand for Palestinians. It’s all up to Hamas,” where they expressed their concern for the continuing “nightmare.” The relationship between the three men predates their…
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