Democrats Block GOP Attempts to Pay Federal Workers During Shutdown

House Republicans voted twice over the past two weeks to pay federal workers during the partial shutdown.

Democrats went on tropical spas during the shutdown but won’t pay government employees.

They know the liberal media will carry their water.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) joined FOX and Friends to discuss the failed GOP vote to pay federal employees during the partial shutdown.

Crenshaw sounded off after giving up his own salary during the partial government shutdown.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/democrats-block-gop-attempts-to-pay-federal-workers-during-shutdown-video/

Facebook Slides After Report Claims 50% Of Its Users Are Fake

As bad as things have been for Facebook since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke one year ago, one team of researchers, led by a former peer of Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard who created one of the original Facebook prototypes, thinks the reality of the company's circumstances is even more dire than investors realize.

In a report published Thursday by PlainSite, an independent research shop led by Aaron Greenspan, analysts calculated that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been regularly lying to investors and the public about the company's user metrics, and that the company could be overestimating the number of users by as much as 50%.

The team detailed their findings in a 70-page report published on their website.

Facebook has been lying to the public about the scale of its problem with fake accounts, which likely exceed 50% of its network. Its official metrics—many of which it has stopped reporting quarterly—are self-contradictory and even farcical. The company has lost control of its own product.

Ultimately, this is just the latest sign that Facebook - formerly one of the world's most successful companies - is doomed to go the way of CompuServe and AOL.

PlainSite is a project launched by the Think Computer Corporation and Think Computer Foundation which aims to make "data accessible to the public free of charge” and "lets ordinary citizens impact the law- making process," according to Bloomberg. Aaron Greenspan recently told his story about how he fit into the history of Facebook's founding at Harvard on a podcast.

Facebook's fraudulent numbers hurt its customers (advertisers) by overstating the effectiveness of Facebook's product, the company said.

Fake accounts affect Facebook at its core in numerous ways:

Its customers purchase advertising on Facebook based on the fact that it can supposedly target advertisements at more than 2 billion real human beings. To the extent that users aren’t real, companies are throwing their money down the drain.

Fake accounts click on advertising at random, or “like” pages, to throw off antifraud algorithms. Fake accounts look real if they do not follow a clear pattern. This kind of activity defrauds advertisers, but rewards Facebook with revenue.

Fake accounts often defraud other users on Facebook, through scams, fake news, extortion, and other forms of deception. Often, they can involve governments

FB shares reversed earlier gains after the report started making the rounds; shares were down 1.2% on the day in recent trade.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-24/facebook-slides-after-report-claims-50-its-users-are-fake

"Pawns In Someone Else's Dirty Game": Russia's Lavrov Slams US Interference In Venezuela

Commenting on Washington’s claim that Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is the legitimate president, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called out what Moscow sees as rank hypocrisy, saying:

The US, which is paranoid about somebody interfering in their elections, even though they have no proof of that, themselves are trying to rule the fates of other peoples. What they actually do is interfere in their internal affairs. There is no need for [US special counsel Robert] Mueller to determine that.

He further noted that the speed of events and unrest inside Venezuela suggests foreign powers are ultimately pulling the strings, calling attempts to foster a coup "someone else's dirty game". He said:

We hope the Venezuelan opposition prioritize national interests and call on them not to be pawns in someone else’s dirty game.

In separate statements Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev questioned of the "quasi-coup" in oil-rich but cash poor and inflation gutted Venezuela: “How would the American people feel if, say, the Speaker of the House declared herself president as a result of the shutdown?”

While countries like China, Turkey, and Syria have declared intentions to stick by Maduro, little has as yet be heard in terms of a consistent position from EU countries, which given their current silence will likely toe the US line.

But already, UK Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt has made a statement saying it's "clear" that Maduro is "not the legitimate leader of Venezuela".

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-24/russia-warns-us-intervention-venezuela-would-have-catastrophic-consequences

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