Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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Trump Accountability Project: Meet new group seeking to blacklist staff who worked for Trump administration
Fp Staff •The Trump Accountability Project, boosted on Twitter by former DNC press secretary Hari Sevugan, is seemingly looking to blacklist those that worked for the outgoing administration
New York progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez comfortably secures second term in US Congress
•Her challenger, John Cummings, had collected $10 million but Ocasio-Cortez still scored an easy win, creating speculation about her future political ambitions
Democrats make it official, nominate Joe Biden as their 2020 presidential nominee to take on Donald Trump
•The moment marked a political high point for Biden, who had sought the presidency twice before and is now cemented as the Democrats’ candidate to defeat Trump this fall
TikTok users, K-pop fans claim they sabotaged attendance at Donald Trump’s comeback rally in Tulsa with false online registrations
•TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music took partial credit for inflating attendance expectations at a less-than-full arena at President Donald Trump’s first political rally in months, held in Tulsa
After dropping out of race, Elizabeth Warren is unlikely to endorse either Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden
•Senator Elizabeth Warren, whose endorsement became highly coveted in the Democratic presidential race after she dropped out last week, is unlikely to endorse her ideological ally Senator Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders versus the Machine: How the Vermont Senator is taking 1983 experience into 2020
•In the 2020 Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders, now 78, is crusading for his ideas across a vastly larger territory than the city of Burlington
Debating political ads on social media is Facebook, Twitter's way to derail issue; what's needed is legislation, not bans
Gurumurthy Jha •The advertising model and opaque ad-targeting of these platforms ends up undermining trust in political advertising itself.
Civil rights activists meet Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to discuss fact-checking political ads
Tech2 News Staff •Ahead of the US presidential election in November 2020, Facebook’s policy has also been slammed by Democratic candidates
Ads from political groups will be checked by Facebook, but ads from politicians will be left alone
•Facebook has drawn criticism over its ad policy from Democratic candidates running in the 2020 presidential election.
Jeffrey Epstein found dead in Manhattan jail: Apparent suicide by high-profile detainee triggers outcry as FBI launches probe
•US financier Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead in jail Saturday of an apparent suicide, triggering outcry over how the high-profile detainee could die in custody.