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A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook’s Attack Dog…

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A small firm called Definers Public Affairs brought the dark arts of Washington’s back-room politics to Silicon Valley when, while working for Facebook, it began disparaging other tech companies to reporters. But a few days before Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, testified to Congress in September, Definers set its sights on a different target: […]

Facebook and Twitter Chiefs Tell Senators: We Won’t Police the Truth…

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As Facebook and Twitter once again expanded their estimates of how much fake content infects their platforms, the chief executives of both firms were reluctant to commit at a Senate hearing Wednesday to countermeasures that might jeopardize their profits in the name of protecting what they described as a digital public square. Facebook COO Sheryl […]

Comey Intervened to Kill WikiLeaks Immunity Deal…

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One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking of the CIA’s arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel. Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey, fired FBI director. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice […]

A Young Reporter, Her Middle-Aged Source and the Real-Life House of Cards Drama…

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The first known leak investigation of the Trump administration has put under scrutiny a 20-something New York Times reporter, who enjoyed a meteoric rise through Washington’s journalism ranks that began while she was still in college. Times reporter Ali Watkins hasn’t been charged in the Justice Department’s investigation of the leak of classified information from […]

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