

Dissecting the company’s role in spreading election misinformation, NYT’s Ryan Mac and Sheera Frenkel go deep on a trove of documents that reveal the network’s staffers “repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies before and after the contested November vote,” but that “the company failed or struggled to address the issues.”.But that’s what happened with a glut of stories drawn from previously unreported internal documents at the social media behemoth.

A whole bunch of news about Facebook: It’s odd for several news outlets to release major stories on a Friday evening absent an urgent reason. (This seems destined to feed conspiracy theories.) They cited the pandemic’s “significant impact” as the reason why. KENNEDY will instead come out in two batches - one later this year, and another in 2022. A new delay for JFK assassination documents: Shortly before 9:30 p.m., the White House sent out a memo announcing that the long-planned imminent release of a trove of secret files about the 1963 assassination of President JOHN F. That 88-point gulf “ranks among the largest in more than eight decades of Gallup measurements of presidential approval,” writes Gallup’s Jeffrey Jones.įRIDAY NIGHT NEWS DUMP - A couple of interesting things came across the transom last night, just as most Washingtonians began their weekends: Among Republicans, 4% approve and 94% disapprove. Among Dems, 92% approve of his performance and 6% disapprove. STAT OF THE DAY - There’s an 88-point partisan gap in President JOE BIDEN’s approval rating. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAY

A glut of major news stories about Facebook published Friday night, drawn from previously unreported internal documents at the social media behemoth.
