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Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg (photo: White House)

This week on CounterSpin: A recent Washington Post report ([link removed]) tracks how Facebook has accommodated Donald Trump, allowing him to post false, incendiary and racist comments that would get another person sanctioned. Facebook, the paper reports, "has constrained its efforts against false and misleading news, adopted a policy explicitly allowing politicians to lie, and even altered its news feed algorithm to neutralize claims that it was biased against conservative publishers," according to former and current employees and company documents.

It's an incredibly important issue at a platform one-and-a-half billion people use, and that is, for many, replacing actual news outlets as a source of information. Activists have complained for years, but a current campaign is getting some traction. It's called Stop Hate for Profit ([link removed]) , and it's the work of a coalition of groups, one of which is Free Press ([link removed]) . We'll hear about what organizers want to change with Free Press co-CEO Jessica Gonzalez.
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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at media looking abroad rather than at home for the roots of Trump's authoritarianism, and also at journalists beginning to realize that you can't always trust the police.
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