Last week, Baron Brooks couldn't figure out why his phone wouldn't stop ringing and why his Facebook page had suddenly been flooded with messages from available women wanting to date him. It would have been a nice problem for a single Jewish guy to have, except for one thing: The women were calling because they'd seen Baron's picture in a $900 ad taken out in an Idaho newspaper by his father, Arthur Brooks, 78, of Beverly Hills, California, who is determined to "marry off" his son and get a few more grandchildren. When Baron, 48, a Salt Lake City health food broker, realized what had happened,...
- 6/24/2016
- by Cathy Free, @cathyjfree
- PEOPLE.com
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has invited prominent conservatives to the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California for a meeting on Wednesday to discuss reports that his company’s Trending Topics section reflects deliberate liberal biases. Radio host Glenn Beck, Fox News’ Dana Perino, Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute, CNN commentator Se Cupp and former Mitt Romney staffer Zac Moffatt are among the conservatives who were invited to discuss the issue. “I’m going in with an open mind and an eagerness to learn more,” Cupp told CNN. “Conservatives and Silicon Valley actually come down on the same...
- 5/16/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning a meeting with Glenn Beck and other conservative media personalities after allegations of bias arose last week against the social media website. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Zuckerberg this week will meet with a group "conservative thought leaders," including Beck; Fox News Channel host Dana Perino; Zac Moffatt, who co-founded media-buying firm Targeted Victory; Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute, a public policy research organization. Beck revealed in a Facebook post updated Sunday that he'd been invited by Zuckerberg to meet in the company's Menlo Park,
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- 5/15/2016
- by THR Staff, the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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