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Court recommends tossing lawsuit against AG Weiser for alleged Facebook blocking
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Attorney General Phil Weiser cannot be sued for a First Amendment violation for allegedly deleting comments and banning a man from his Facebook pages, a federal magistrate judge has recommended. Neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor the federal appeals court in Colorado has established that public officials may be held liable for similar conduct, U.S.…
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Judge finds police impersonation, not race, the reason for ex-Denver employee’s firing
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A federal judge has tossed a discrimination lawsuit against the City and County of Denver from a former employee, finding her termination was not due to her being white, but rather because she publicly and falsely identified herself as a police officer. Emina Gerovic, who was a custodian in the Facilities Management division from August 2014…
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CHOICE CUTS | How competing redistricting requirements will reshape Colorado’s congressional map
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Note: This story has been updated to accommodate developments that happened the week of June 7. Colorado’s congressional redistricting commission has grappled with months-delayed census data, legislators trying to unconstitutionally tweak their procedures, a state Supreme Court case to defend their independence and the takedown of their first chairman over his controversial Facebook posts –…
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Democrats call on GOP legislative leaders to take harassment training over jokes
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Colorado statehouse Democrats are demanding that two Republican leaders in Colorado’s House and Senate – House Minority Leader Patrick Neville and Senate Majority Leader Chris Holbert – undergo sexual harassment training. The request is in response to a Facebook post Neville, R-Franktown, on Saturday. The post refers to an article, written by the Christian news…
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Facebook uncovers political disinformation operation ahead of midterm elections
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Facebook said Tuesday that it had discovered a sophisticated coordinated disinformation operation on its platform involving 32 false pages and profiles engaging in divisive messaging ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The social media company that it couldn’t tie the activity to Russia, which interfered on its platform around the 2016 presidential election. But Facebook…
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BIDLACK | ‘Our nation is strong enough to weather vile speech’
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George Washington didn’t use the internet. In the era the Constitution was written, information and opinions could travel no faster than a galloping horse or a ship at sea. And in that slower time, a remarkable group of intellectuals crafted what has become the longest lasting written constitution in world history. Pretty impressive, to be…
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Zuckerberg arms Facebook for ‘fake news’ battle as elections near
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New tools built by Facebook, one of the social media platforms that Russian agents employed to influence U.S. voters in 2016, will protect users from similar tactics in this fall’s elections far more effectively, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. Among the security mechanisms are artificial intelligence capabilities that removed thousands of fake accounts…
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How to find out who’s buying political ads on Facebook
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Just like on TV and radio, political ads on Facebook will now show you who’s paying for them. Facebook announced it wants to regain users’ trust after critics bashed the social media site for widespread propaganda and “fake news” during the 2016 presidential election. Facebook was knocked again when people learned the British firm Cambridge…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP: Polygamous town picks outsider as police chief
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Utah Polygamous town under scrutiny picks outsider as chief SALT LAKE CITY – A polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border has hired an outsider as its new police chief, selecting a retired Salt Lake City area police officer with no ties to the fundamentalist Mormon group that controlled the town for a century until federal…
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Colo. newspaper advocate hails ruling on Trump Twitter blocks
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Wednesday’s federal court ruling saying it’s unconstitutional for President Donald Trump to block his critics on Twitter cheers the head of a trade and advocacy group representing Colorado newspapers. It isn’t so much about politics but about the concept of freedom of speech, Jerry Raehal, CEO of the Colorado Press Association, told Colorado Politics Wednesday.…
