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Trump Congratulates Wrong City for Super Bowl Win; Lyft Is Offering Free Rides to Vote, and Zuckerberg Declares Facebook Will “Stand Up for Free Expression.”
On Sunday night, President Trump didn’t waste time congratulating the winning Super Bowl team. There was just one problem.
On Twitter, he wrote: “Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on a great game, and a fantastic comeback, under immense pressure. You represented the Great State of Kansas, and in fact, the entire USA, so very well. Our country is PROUD OF YOU.”
So what’s the problem? The Kansas City Chiefs play in Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas.
The declaration left many scratching their heads. Does Trump know the United States as well as a president should?
The tweet was corrected soon after.
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Lyft made an announcement that it will start offering free and discounted rides during the primary and general elections, starting with the Iowa caucus.
“Every citizen who wants to exercise their fundamental right to vote should have reliable, affordable access to the polls—regardless of income, age, zip code or political affiliation,” said Lyft in their statement.
“Yet in the last presidential election, it’s estimated that more than 15 million eligible voters didn’t go to the polls in large part because they lacked a way to get there. Together with select non-profits, we’re helping voters exercise their right to vote. Join us.”
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In a move that the Facebook CEO admits will “p*ss off a lot of people,” Mark Zuckerberg declared that Facebook will “stand up for free expression.”
Zuckerberg spoke at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit on Friday. He told the audience that he believes Facebook has been asked to partake in “excessive censorship.”
“Increasingly we’re getting called to censor a lot of different kinds of content that makes me really uncomfortable,” he said. “We’re going to take down the content that’s really harmful, but the line needs to be held at some point.
“It kind of feels like the list of things that you’re not allowed to say socially keeps on growing, and I’m not really okay with that.”
Zuckerberg has been under fire recently for his refusal to ban or fact-check political ads from Facebook, despite fellow social media giants like Twitter stepping forth to ban them completely.
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