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Washington Post’s Felicia Sonmez now works in retail

The Washington Post’s revolving door People are losing their jobs in all sorts of industries — but chances are the layoffs you’ve heard about most in recent weeks are in finance, tech or the media. Squeakiest wheel and all that. This week brought news that the Washington Post was cutting twenty newsroom jobs and shuttering its gaming vertical. Also out at the Post: Margaret Sullivan, who has left to sign as a columnist for the Guardian. It's not all departures at One Franklin Square though: executive editor Sally Buzbee has signed up a slew of names for the Opinion desk, including conservatives Jim Geraghty and Ramesh Ponnuru from National Review and disaffected liberal Ruy Teixeira.

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Blame legacy media for spreading disinformation, not Facebook

One week after the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton’s digital chief, Teddy Goff, declared Facebook the enemy of the republic and the reason why Clinton had failed to capture the presidency. His diagnosis caught on, and the media and the Democrats had found their excuse for Trump’s election. That war on Facebook continues today. Now, a whistleblower has landed on the scene, buoyed by a powerful Democratic PR firm led by former Obama alum Bill Burton. A wave of media attention has crested that's meant to once again put Facebook in the regulatory crosshairs and demand more censorship from what's deemed to be dangerous and influential 'misinformation’.

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