Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Why Isn't DOJ Investigating Possible Chuck Schumer-Facebook Pay For Play?

According to the New York Times, During the 2016 election cycle, Chuck Schumer Raised more money from Facebook employees than any other member of Congress according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Schumer's daughter Alison was hired by Facebook and is now a marketing manager in Facebook's New York office and the Senator protected Facebook from an investigation in the Senate.

Why isn't the DOJ investigating Chuck Schumer's "Special relationship" with Facebook?

In July, as Facebook's roubles threatened to cost the company billions of dollars in market value, Mr. Schumer confronted Mr. Warner, by then Facebook's most insistent inquisitor in Congress.

Mr. Warner should be looking for ways to work with Facebook, Mr. Schumer advised, not harm it.

A Senate aide briefed on the exchange said that Mr. Schumer had not wanted Mr. Warner to lose sight of the need for Facebook to tackle problems with right-wing disinformation and election interference, as well as consumer privacy and other issues.

"Sen. Schumer has worked aggressively to push Facebook to do more to purge fake accounts and bots used by the right wing and Russians to perpetuate a disinformation campaign and interfere with our elections," Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman said Thursday.

This sounds like Chuck Schumer was behind the Facebook purge of conservative sites.

https://lidblog.com/chuck-schumer-facebook/

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