View source for 2019/10/28/Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules

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[[title/short::Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules]]
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* '''when''': [[when posted::2019/10/28]]
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* '''source''': [[site::Popular Information]]
* '''topics''': [[topic::Facebook]] [[topic::Daily Wire]] [[topic::right wing/media machine]] [[topic::Andrew Klavan]] [[topic::Michael Knowles]] [[topic::anti-LGBT]] [[topic::conservativenews.com]] [[topic::Angry Patriot]] [[topic::Joel Kaplan]] [[topic::Ben Shapiro]]
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* '''link''': [[URL::https://popular.info/p/facebook-allows-prominent-right-wing]]
* '''title''': [[title::Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules]]
* '''summary''': [[Summary::&ldquo;The [[Daily Wire]], the [[right-wing]] website founded by pundit [[Ben Shapiro]], is a cesspool of [[misogyny]], [[bigotry]], and [[misinformation]]. Its toxic content is also fantastically successful on [[Facebook]], with each story reaching more people than any other major media outlet. A Popular Information investigation reveals some of this success is attributable to a clandestine network of 14 large Facebook pages that purport to be independent but exclusively promote content from The Daily Wire in a coordinated fashion.&rdquo;]]
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The Daily Wire specializes in [[anti-LGBT]] bigotry. In this video, Daily Wire host [[Michael Knowles]] says that "gay people" don't really "want to be tolerated by society and accepted by society." His evidence is the concept of LGBT "pride," which he calls "the worst sin of all."

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The Daily Wire is also a source for misinformation and conspiracy theories. The Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro, whose site was bankrolled by [https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-lot-of-butthurt-to-go-around-as-breitbart-battle-splits-billionaires Texas oil magnates], falsely claims that "[https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1169647810049912832 there is not that much we can do]" to combat [[climate change]]. Shapiro also says that the "[https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1172180776319901696 radical left]" is plotting to prevent you from giving money to The Daily Wire and your local church.
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h/t: [https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1189216741836107776 Judd Legum on Twitter]
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