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I'm Virginia Heffernen, Facebook and Flynn,

Flynn book and face.

That's what was around the psychedelic news cycle this morning.

Facebook, along with its little lethal friend Instagram and Twitter and Google YouTube,

is back equivocating and evidently not coming clean to Congress about the extent and

insidiousness of the Kremlin bought disinformation that pervaded it in the Kremlin's effort to elect Trump

in 2016. Among the highlights of a Senate Intelligence Committee report released yesterday

is evidence that black Americans were among the most exploited by the Russian troll farm IRA,

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