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  • 2020-06-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Is Facebook Sponsoring the Republican National Convention? (en)
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  • Given the contentious relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and social media platforms in mid-2020, many internet users found it in turn amusing, ironic, or dismaying when they encountered news articles announcing that Facebook had confirmed they would be sponsoring the upcoming Republican National Convention at which Trump would be officially nominated for a second term in office: A salient detail that eluded many viewers, however, was that the information they were perusing was several years out-of-date, taken from a four-year-old Fortune article about the 2016 Republican convention. So much so, in fact, that Fortune prepended an editor's note to their story to alert readers to that fact: Editor’s note: In a bid to reduce misleading online sharing of this story, we must reiterate: It was published in 2016. As of this writing, the details of the 2020 Republican National Convention -- including its location -- remain uncertain: (en)
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