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Facebook Admits 'Enforcement Error' In How It Handled Content From Pro-Trump Duo

Diamond and Silk are two Internet personalities from North Carolina — also known as Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson — who amassed an enormous following during the 2016 election.
Pro-Trump Internet personalities Diamond and Silk speak during a 2016 Trump campaign in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Mark Zuckerberg left Capitol Hill last week with his primary mission complete.

The attention-shy 33-year-old Facebook CEO had deftly answered or deflected hours worth of questions about how the company dealt with the private information of its users, its relationship with the Trump-campaign linked firm Cambridge Analytica, and congressional concern about how his social media platform had been used by the Russian government to spread disinformation during the 2016 presidential election.

But perhaps none of those issues had the cultural resonance — or

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