News | Politics & Elections Trump Allies Outspend Democrats by Millions Amid Impeachment Inquiry Trump’s campaign and joint fundraising committee spent more than $2.1 million running anti-impeachment Facebook ads. By Yue Stella Yu , CenterforResponsivePolitics October 3, 2019 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing Why Haven’t Police Departments Investigated Cops in Extremist Facebook Groups? More than 150 law enforcement agencies were notified of their officers’ ties to extremist groups. By Will Carless , TheCenterforInvestigativeReporting September 30, 2019 Truthout
News Analysis | Culture & Media Why White Supremacists Love Facebook Far from deplatforming racists, Facebook is moving toward private groups that will be harder to monitor. By Ben Kharakh , Truthout September 28, 2019 Truthout
News | Culture & Media Facebook Is Making Millions by Promoting Hate Groups’ Content Despite a company policy banning hate speech, Facebook has taken in nearly $1.6 million from hate groups since mid-2018. By Alex Kotch , Sludge September 27, 2019 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Leaked Draft of Executive Order to “Censor the Internet” Sets Off Alarm Bells Civil liberties groups are warning that it poses a major threat to online freedoms and First Amendment rights. By Jon Queally , CommonDreams August 11, 2019 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Trump Campaign Ran Over 2,000 Ads Warning of Immigrant “Invasion” Before El Paso The suspected Texas gunman echoed Trump’s rhetoric when he said the shooting was a response to the invasion of Texas. By Igor Derysh , Salon August 7, 2019 Truthout
Op-Ed | Culture & Media Why Is Facebook, the World’s Largest Publisher, Immune to Publishing Laws? Mark Zuckerberg should be called a publisher and held liable for what's published on Facebook. By Dean Baker , Truthout July 29, 2019 Truthout
News | Racial Justice Civil Rights Groups Have Been Warning Facebook About Hate Speech for Years Facebook says it prohibits hate in secret groups, but it won’t discuss how it moderated the Border Patrol posts. By Ariana Tobin , ProPublica July 6, 2019 Truthout
Interview | Immigration Racist Border Patrol Facebook Group Is Under Investigation The group is filled with racist, homophobic, anti-immigrant and misogynistic content about migrants and asylum seekers. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! July 3, 2019 Truthout
News | Human Rights Inside the Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths The group has roughly 9,500 members and is known for its graphic imagery of migrants and politicians. By A.C. Thompson , ProPublica July 2, 2019 Truthout