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Arianna Huffington founded the liberal news website Huffingtonpost.com, which she sold to AOL in 2011 for $315 million. In 2003, she unsuccessfully ran for governor of California.

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Arianna Huffington
stated on September 9, 2014 in a tweet:

A poll found that "20% of young adults use (smartphones) during sex."

By Jon Greenberg • September 10, 2014
Arianna Huffington
stated on July 24, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"Most countries have no debt ceiling."

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2011
Arianna Huffington
stated on May 1, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."

By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2011
Arianna Huffington
stated on June 6, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":

Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 9, 2010
Arianna Huffington
stated on July 26, 2009 in This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2009

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