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Line 151: − − ===Private prisons=== − Warren bought $50,000 in shares of a Vanguard Group fund that heavily invested in private prison companies. The fund was the largest shareholder of America's largest private prison corporation. − − Warren invested in Vanguard Target Retirement 2025—a retirement account run by the Vanguard Group, an investment management company—which in turn invested more than 30 percent of its money in Vanguard's domestic stock index fund. Vanguard was the top shareholder of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), and one of the largest of GEO Group, both private prison companies, according to data from the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]]. Vanguard owned more than 12 million CCA shares and nearly 9 million GEO Group shares, which were worth roughly $456 million and $216 million, respectively, in March 2013. − − CCA, now called CoreCivic, was already the country's largest owner of private prisons in 2013, according to an annual report. The company owned or controlled more than 50 correctional or detention facilities in the country, "with a total design capacity of approximately 86,000 beds in 20 states and the [[District of Columbia]]." GEO Group is also one of the largest private prison providers in the country with 66 prison facilities across the world as of 2013. The two companies also operate many Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities for [illegal immigrant]]s.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-invested-in-private-prisons/</ref>
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[[File:Warren tweet.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Warren sent a fake news tweet claiming Mark Zuckerberg endorsed Donald Trump.]]
[[File:Warren tweet.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Warren sent a fake news tweet claiming Mark Zuckerberg endorsed Donald Trump.]]
Warren should expect a huge legal battle if she becomes the next US president and tries to lead a breakup of [[Facebook]]. In an internal employee meeting in July 2019, Facebook [[CEO]] [[Mark Zuckerberg]] threatened “to go to the mat” and “fight” attempts to breakup Facebook.<ref>https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/1/20893133/mark-zuckerberg-elizabeth-warren-facebook-sue-us-government-tech-breakup</ref>
Warren should expect a huge legal battle if she becomes the next US president and tries to lead a breakup of [[Facebook]]. In an internal employee meeting in July 2019, Facebook [[CEO]] [[Mark Zuckerberg]] threatened “to go to the mat” and “fight” attempts to breakup Facebook.<ref>https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/1/20893133/mark-zuckerberg-elizabeth-warren-facebook-sue-us-government-tech-breakup</ref>
===Gun rights===
===Gun rights===