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	Podcast:		WIRED Business – Spoken Edition
	Episode:		How Facebook Gets the First Amendment Backward
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:08:07
	Publish Date:		2019-11-18 06:10:24
	Description:		What does the First Amendment have to do with Facebook? It depends on whom you ask. Mark Zuckerberg would probably say: a lot. Over the past few weeks, he has repeatedly invoked the First Amendment to justify Facebook’s controversial decision to exempt posts and paid advertisements by political candidates from its fact-checking system. In a speech to Georgetown students last month, he claimed that the company’s policies are “inspired by the First Amendment.
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