Washington Examiner / Magazine
November 5, 2019 Issue
November 5, 2019 Print Edition
Cover Story
The social media panic
When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Financial Services Committee last week, legislators treated the Facebook CEO like he was getting put in timeout. “Have you learned that you should not lie?” asked Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez in the tone of a scolding kindergarten teacher. Shaming the CEOs of America’s largest tech companies — Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and YouTube are the usual targets — has become all too fashionable on both sides of the political spectrum. Everyone from radio host Dennis Prager to Elizabeth Warren has no shortage of bones to pick with Big Tech, whether over political bias and censorship, screen-addicted teens, election interference, pornography, sex trafficking, or a dozen other things. Some of these concerns have limited merit — Twitter’s “learn to code” debacle, in which users were temporarily banned for...

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Ruff day at work
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When President Trump announced that U.S. special operations forces successfully raided the home of ISIS leader Abu Bakr...
Word of the Week: ‘Whiteness’
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Social media, the problem and the solution
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Business

Trump’s promise to revive American manufacturing could mean trouble in swing states
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Days before Donald Trump would secure the presidency with the help of voters from Wisconsin, Michigan,...

Washington Briefing

Healthcare
Standing against assisted suicide
Growing dissatisfaction among families whose terminally ill loved ones face excruciating suffering has ignited debate over whether people...
Foreign Policy
Democrats in Congress seek new terrorism commission
Democrats in the House of Representatives want to create a commission to study how terrorist groups use social...
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‘You’re the CEO’: Congress rebukes Boeing’s CEO over 737 Max crashes
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Letter from editor
‘White supremacy’ was a leftist scam
When facts are stranger than fiction, pundits will say, “You can’t make this stuff up.” But actually, you can make...
Magazine
Should Alito stay or go?
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