Author: Tom Geiger

This past week, a video edited to make it appear as though Nancy Pelosi’s mental health is deteriorating began circulating its way around Facebook. In accordance with our guidelines, we have decided not to remove the video from our platform. We at Facebook recognize the nefarious influence fake news has had on our society, and that’s why we are committed to our longstanding policy of shamelessly dodging accountability. This decision comes lightly, and we have many choices other than merely standing by and doing nothing. But it’s important to remember that Facebook is not in the news business – we’re…

With the release of the Justice Department’s summary of the Mueller report, it appears that President Trump did not conspire with Russia to influence the 2016 election. Even though I’ve always hated Donald Trump and think he’s an embarrassing idiot who is terrible at his job, I now approve of the job he is doing as president. At first when Donald Trump was bad at being president for two years, I thought, “this new president is a huge fucking moron who lies all the time.” Honestly, it seemed like all he was interested in was being racist and sexist and creating…