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Unlike the Facebook Portal smart display, the Portal TV is a little camera-equipped webcam that tethers to your television via an HDMI cable (not included in the box). This may be an antireview, but I can't close out the article without any tech talk. That said, here's an overview of the tech that separates the Portal TV from the 10-inch Facebook Portal smart display I reviewed back in October. It's a complete anomaly - a solidly performing, decently priced device that just isn't suited for anyone because of the privacy concerns and increasingly alarming issues plaguing the social networking site. I just can't get there with the Facebook Portal TV. Sometimes, it's all of those things combined.Д®ven when there are multiple issues with one product, there's usually something that makes it recommendable to at least someone. New territoryД©9.9999% of the products I have trouble recommending have issues related to the products themselves that are hard to overlook.

That includes the $149 Facebook Portal TV. In short, there's way too much going on with Facebook for me to recommend sticking its latest round of camera-equipped Portal devices in your home. (CNET and some sister sites, including CBS News, CBS Sports and ET, are also paid partners of Facebook News.) Some have called for Facebook to join Twitter and stop displaying political ads, but Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg defended the decision to keep them on the site in a video posted to Twitter:ДЇacebook did not respond to a request for comment.ДЇacebook is also testing out Facebook News, a curated news service that includes Breitbart, a conservative outlet with a history of publishing misinformation, according to reports.

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'That's not defending free speech, Mark, that's assaulting truth,' he added. 'Every square inch of that is a lie and it's under your logo,' Sorkin wrote regarding a Trump campaign ad on Facebook aimed at 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden that contained misinformation. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin chimed in on Facebook's policy on political ads in an open letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg published last Thursday in The New York Times. Elizabeth Warren protested with her own false ad. Most recently, Facebook has been in the news for how it handles fact-checking of political ads. But the headlines surrounding Facebook are still pretty bleak. Like so many other folks, I had read about Cambridge Analytica and the other ways the social media giant misused user data.

I ditched my own Facebook account earlier this year after covering the social media giant's original Portal video-chat-centric smart displays last fall. 'Don't buy it' is all I could - and can - come up with. Reviewing products is one of my main roles at CNET - and yet, I had no nuanced words for the Facebook Portal TV. When I first sat down to write this article, I struggled.