[ZERO] Facebook's parent company Meta has been ordered by a Washington State court to pay $25 million in fines after it found that the social media platform violated Washington’s political disclosure law 822 separate times between 2019 and 2021.
Meta was also ordered to fully comply with the state's election transparency laws, which have existed since 1972, requiring ad sellers to "disclose the names and addresses of political buys, the targets of such ads and, the total number of viewers of each ad." Facebook argued in court that the laws are unconstitutional.
While Facebook has dealt with numerous instances of election related complaints and also litigation, it should be noted that the company has received extensive state and local subsidies totaling almost $800 million, including $35 million in tax credits from Washington; that's free taxpayer dollars going into the pockets of Mark Zuckerberg. While Meta argues that it should not be subject to the oversight of states when it comes to its political advertising, it's hard for them to claim private business rights when they are swimming in government money.
The fine from Washington might not seem like much, but Meta and Facebook have entered financial free fall over the past year as problems continue to accumulate.
Mark Zuckerberg has seen his net worth plunge by more than $100 billion in the last 13 months as the stock price of his company, Meta, faced steep losses this week. The primacy of Facebook in the social media sphere is coming into question, with Zuckerberg's virtual reality projects adding little optimism or excitement.
Before the advent of the covid lockdowns most Big Tech media platforms were in steep financial decline due to falling ad revenues and rising costs. Facebook in particular was dealing with stock share losses and stagnating growth. After the lockdowns began, there was a brief period in which the public and investors believed that online platforms and sales would become indispensable as the only options available in the midst of a pandemic environment and government enforced stay at home orders.
People thought we might be locked down for many years to come and the online marketplace would dominate. One would think that the populace would turn to these corporations in droves as the only source of relief, but this renaissance for Big Tech never actually materialized.
[NYPOST] The man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer sexually abused his sons and stepdaughter as children, one of the alleged victims claimed in online posts.
David DePape, 42, was "consumed with darkness," Inti Gonzalez charged on Facebook and in a blog post.
DePape allegedly broke into House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... ’s the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... home early Friday and attacked her 82-year-old spouse with a hammer while ranting, "Where’s Nancy?"
"This attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband came as a shock to me, though not much considering the kind of extreme abuse he had inflicted on me and my brothers," the 20-something Gonzalez wrote.
Gonzalez described DePape as someone who "did genuinely try to be a good person," but added "the monster in him was always too strong for him to be safe to be around."
She said her mom met DePape — whom she describes as her "father" — in Maui while pregnant with her. The couple moved to the Bay Area shortly after Gonzalez was born.
They split in 2014, when Gonzalez was 13. Gonzalez said her mother "kicked David out because of his toxic behavior."
As a cop for 11 yrs in St. Louis I never once worked a burglary where the broken glass and debris at the entry point was OUTSIDE the residence. pic.twitter.com/Fs5DYEuwHp
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AOS Comments: Doctors have upgraded Mr Pelosi from "stable" to "Fetterman".
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"Somebody let him in." Isn't that the J6 scenario?
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"Investigation unfolding"...? Duhhhh, San Francisco gay bars closed at 2 am. Two gay men met in a bar and went home together. Happens every night in the City by the Bay.
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I want to know who the unknown person who let the police in is. I think the broken window was done later to make it look like a break-in. Were DePape's clothes in the house? Was Paul in his underwear? This whole thing smells.
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GAY LOVER COVERUP
^ Of course. Bet your last three dollar bill on it
But No, they’re saying it was a Trump follower looking to attack Paul the cruiser-dude’s old hag.
Right: a BLM loving hemp-pushing psycho-nudist. From Berkeley. For Trump. Uh-huh.
I think the broken window was done later to make it look like a break-in.
I don't know if the photo is valid or not, but there is an overhead photo of a door allegedly of the Pelosi residence, clearly showing the broken glass with the fragments well to the outside. This indicates the glass was broken from the inside.
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The next step: Twitter will have its ability to process payments removed by Visa and Mastercard. Followed by the app being banned from Google Play Store and Apple downloads. Basically, the Parler / Canadian trucker treatment.
The powerful don't like it when we the people can talk back to them. Particularly when they're lying through their teeth. It's very pleasurable for elites to tell people to open wide and shit in their mouths. Real brain chemicals are released.
[Fedeeralist] Ever since former President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... carried the key battleground state in 2016 (the first Republican presidential nominee to do so in almost three decades), Pennsylvania has represented the nation’s "center of political gravity," boasting crucial midterm contests that are key to either party’s control of the Senate. As Republicans gain in the polls (thanks in part to skyrocketing inflation and the country’s disastrous economic prospects), sinister games are at play behind the scenes.
This is nothing new to the Keystone State. Corruption-riddled Philadelphia has long been ground zero for Democrats’ election-rigging schemes. During the 2020 presidential election, Philadelphia County received the most funding from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (a leftist nonprofit that funneled millions of dollars to blue counties in swing states to fund get-out-the-vote efforts for then-candidate Joe Biden).
But "Zuckbucks" were only part of Democrats’ cleverly-orchestrated plan to swing the 2020 election in Biden’s favor. Democrat secretaries of state in key battlegrounds also made last-minute, illegal changes to their state’s election laws, subverting the authority of their Republican-led legislatures. Pennsylvania’s then-Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar is no exception.
With the 2022 midterms fast approaching (and Pennsylvania a crucial decider of which party will wield power in the 118th Congress), Democrats are trying the same tactics they used in 2020.
[PJ Media] 54? 57? Do I hear a 60?
While at a campaign rally at the Philadelphia Convention Center this week, Joe Biden embarrassed himself with a number of whoppers, but one gaffe that really stuck out to me was when he got the number of states in this country wrong.
“Not a joke, everybody! That’s why we defeated it in 2018; when they tried to do it, we went to 54 states!” Biden awkwardly said.
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Because of dem run gummint pubic schools.
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States? They don't even understand what the Constitution says. To them its just an ancient relic that justifies unlimited power.
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There is Washington, DC and... Thereare 14 US Territories spread across the Pacific and Caribbean oceans. Three territories in the Caribbean Ocean and eleven in the Pacific Ocean are currently under US administration. The fourteen US territories are Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Wake Island and Navassa Island. Soo, as the old saying goes ..."That statement is not right, it isn't even wrong."
[Federalist] It appears Democrat Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s "Trump-voting Republican" parents are not Trump-voting Republicans, but card-carrying Democrats. In what seems to be an attempt to paint himself as an everyman candidate who is more Pennsylvanian than partisan, Fetterman apparently talked his parents into claiming they are Trump voters and Republicans in one of his senate campaign ads.
"We want to tell you something about John Fetterman. He was raised by two Trump-voting Republicans right here in this house in York," Karl and Susan Fetterman claim in the 30-second video. "Us!"
The problem is that Fetterman’s parents are not Trump supporters or Republicans. According to voting records obtained by The Federalist, Susan and Karl Fetterman have been voting Democrat for at least six years—beginning when the couple registered as Democrats to vote in the 2016 primaries.
Lies have become the central theme of the Fetterman campaign, starting with the claim that the candidate possesses the physical and mental capacity to carry out the basic duties of being a senator. In May, Fetterman, in his words, "almost died" from a stroke. Despite Fetterman and the corporate media practically screaming at the American people that he is fit as a fiddle, his facade of supposedly pristine health crumbled completely when he took to the debate stage last week to face off against his Republican opponent Mehmet Oz. "Hi, goodnight everybody," were the first words Fetterman uttered onstage on that disastrous, painful-to-watch night.
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Tim Ryan’s masquerading as Trump for Halloween, as well. Nobody is buying any of it. There is a whiff of desperation about the Dem closing arguments.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZERO] Facebook's parent company Meta has been ordered by a Washington State court to pay $25 million in fines after it found that the social media platform violated Washington’s political disclosure law 822 separate times between 2019 and 2021.
[NYPOST] The man accused of attacking 
"Investigation unfolding"...? Duhhhh, San Francisco gay bars closed at 2 am. Two gay men met in a bar and went home together. Happens every night in the City by the Bay. 
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
[Federalist] It appears Democrat Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. 
