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Sep 5, 2018 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Jones meets Rubio
“I don’t know anything about your site.”
Jul 31, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
SCOOP w/@kevinroose: Facebook is preparing to announce that it has identified a coordinated political influence campaign, with dozens of inauthentic accounts and pages that are believed to be engaging in political activity ahead of Nov.
nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/…@kevinroose FB has been unable to tie the accounts to Russia but company officials told Capitol Hill that Russia was possibly involved.
The company is not expected to name Russia in its announcement.
Jul 16, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
McCain: “President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin."
"He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world."
Jul 16, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Corker: “I just felt like the president’s comments made us look like as a nation more like a push-over.”
“Putin only understands strength. And I did not believe this was a good moment for our country.”