Nevada Republicans deride Facebook news curation: 'it's almost scummy'
by Nicky Woolf in Reno, Nevada from on (#1DT9D)
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Reno, Nevada may be only a few hundred miles from Silicon Valley, but it may as well be another planet. At the Atlantis casino and resort, men and women sit and chain-smoke at slot machines.
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