Facebook says Trump can lie in his Facebook ads
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> Moreover, Facebook says "political figures" are exempt from even that narrow restriction.
Grim.
(2) Accepting money from someone to help them do wrong is not a neutral act.
(3) Shrugging off the bad actions of some actors encourages other bad actors, and dulls the public outrage that is appropriate.
(2) With all of the nefarious shit Facebook has done and continues to do, I can't muster much outrage over yet another piece of evidence that Mark Zuckerberg is a piece of shit who has no business possessing as much money or power as he does.
Things aren't going to get better until corporations who engage in this sort of malfeasance start getting their charters revoked, their assets expropriated under civil forfeiture laws, and their executives prosecuted under the RICO statutes.
I haven't done a huge amount of research but here's what USA Today says:
"Burisma Holdings was not under scrutiny at the time Joe Biden called for Shokin's ouster, according to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, an independent agency set up in 2014 that has worked closely with the FBI.
Shokin's office had investigated Burisma, but the probe focused on a period before Hunter Biden joined the company, according to the anti-corruption bureau.
The investigation dealt with the Ministry of Ecology, which allegedly granted special permits to Burisma between 2010 and 2012, the agency said. Hunter Biden did not join the company until 2014."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/03/what...
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USA Today, FOX, CNN, *NBC are not sources of information. They are wings of power centers. It's best to think of them as perception managment platforms. If you read them, purely looking for things you can actually check, fine. But realize thay are not even remotely neutral and they lie just as much as the average political figure.
Real windows are not for public consumption. Skippy's email (32795) for example.
"His dismissal had been sought not just by Mr. Biden, but also by others in the Obama administration, as well other Western governments and international lenders. Mr. Shokin had been repeatedly accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his office and among the Ukrainian political elite, and criticized for failing to bring corruption cases."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/us/politics/biden-ukraine...
A curious reader would need to contact Kenneth Vogel directly. If history is a guide, the response it something about "backgound sources with information about the matter". Or start searching archives for Shokin. It's common to use hit pieces to attack people problems.
Again though, consider that claim in context with the first hand account from the person that got fired:
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Who is Joe Biden's son? Why would that company hire him?
And what is the NTY? IMO thinking of it as a newspaper is like thinking of Google as a search engine: https://i.imgur.com/VUdcIou.jpg https://gawker.com/here-are-some-top-n-y-times-editors-and-s...
Hunter Biden is a lawyer who had previously been on the board of Amtrak. I'm sure the political connections helped.