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along the way the investigations provided democrats with a full year of government-funded ipo research and destroyed the lives of a number of people who supported donald trump. there have been downsides for democrats. voters are not impressed by the russia story. it is weird and false and confusing and it's precisely nothing to do with voters actual lives of the issues they vote on. it is a total waste of time for everyone. and yet it's all democrats have. trump is evil, so is russia. that's the entire progressive program 2018 summarized into sentences. if the democratic party had a sermon, those would be the attitudes. no wonder their approval numbers are falling. republican congressman has introduced over the resolution calling for an end to mueller's investigation or a report within 30 days. he joins along with ron desantis of florida. he says he may know the identity of the person who was spied on trump's campaign for the fbi in 2016. gentlemen, welcome to you both

tonight. congressman, first to you. this resolution would call for an end to the investigation or a report summarizing its findings so far. am i misstating that? >> both correct. the fact of the matter is it's been a year. as you say, it's been $20 million and we need to see a report on what evidence he has and absent that evidence it should wind up within 30 days of the resolution passing. >> tucker: so why wouldn't other members on both sides in the congress want some oversight and? if you are constitutionally bound to provide oversight of the doj, why are you the only person calling for this? >> are not. matt gates is also calling for it. there's a couple other calling ports. call your member of congress and get them on board. you can only have a free republic, as you know, if you have transparency and this is exactly what we need. it is a witch hunt. it has gone beyond an investigation and the only evidence of collusion we found, the only evidence of criminality

has been on the democrats. we are calling on mueller to show his hand or fold the deck. >> tucker: even if i believed the president colluded with vladimir putin i'd be very concerned about this investigation because the parameters aren't clear. the timeline is opaque and it's not clear what the point is. congressman, one of the enduring mysteries of the past two weeks has been the story of a mole or spy within the trump campaign feeding information to the russia investigation. have you any sense who that person might be? >> i do, tucker, but i think that the issue needs to go through the trouble so my proper channels. i'm not comfortable disclosing who i think it is based on the evidence that i have, but i can say this, the american people deserve an answer. up or down, did the fbi direct somebody to spy on donald trump's campaign? was somebody actively working to undermine his campaign and create the illusion of collusion?

and if that's the case, i think that's more serious than the fisa abuse. i think it's more serious than rosenstein butchering this whole appointing order with mueller from the beginning. we need the answer to those questions. they are not giving us the answers right now. >> tucker: they are definitely not. i know you don't want to risk libel by naming someone because this is not been proved in court, but give us a sense of what you are talking about. are you saying someone who worked on the drum campaign fed information to law enforcement? >> so if you look at glen simpson's testimony from fusion gps, he talked about there being a human source and that was something that was controversial. some people said it was papadopoulos. it's not papadopoulos. the issue is he acknowledges there's a human source. peter strzok, he opens up the counterintelligence investigation in 2016, what does he do the next day? he goes to great britain and he goes to london and he's meeting with people. how the heck would you do that

if you just open the investigation that day? i think in that kind of, the london, christopher steele, glenn simpson access is probably the individual we are looking at. we need to know whether this individual was spying or not. i have great concerns about it but i believe we can get those questions and answers when the justice department ponies up the documents. >> tucker: are you suggesting or do you believe that this is someone who was pressured into cooperating with the investigation, or someone who freely send information over about the campaign? >> i think it's the latter, tucker. i think this could be someone, potentially could have been paid by the fbi, like steele. there was an agreement to pay steele. did they pay anybody? yes or no. did they direct anybody to go to the campaign? yes or no. very easy questions to answer. >> tucker: i'm sorry, congressman. please go ahead. >> ron is exactly right. we also need to know the

relationship between mueller and comey. comey kicked this whole thing off with a bogus fisa warrant and what is the relationship between mueller and comey? did mueller give comey immunity? does comey think he's about the law? where are we going with all of this? that's what needs to be investigated. >> tucker: do believe, quickly, congressman, do you believe that jim comey has been offered immunity by the mueller investigation? >> i think it stands to reason and i think the american people deserve to know. >> tucker: that would be shocking. thank you both. i hope you get to the bottom of those. ted malik was an informer advisor to the donald trump campaign. in march he says he was detained at an airport by investigators for robert mueller who took away his cell phone and asked about his ties to roger stone among other things. he is also the author of the book "the plot to destroy trump" about the deep state. gifford coming on. >> good evening. >> tucker: when you say you were detained, that's kind of a

remarkable story. tell us the circumstances of this. >> especially for yale, oxford business professor to be stopped at an airport, taken into a room and ask questions by the fbi and having their phone under a warrant seized. i write about this in the book as a postscript and my lawyers tell me not to confirm or deny very much about this because i'm still actively participating in this conversation. >> tucker: i don't understand, why would that put you with legal peril if you believe the government overstepped and detained you -- the logan airport in boston, right? flying in from abroad. they pull you aside, take your cell phone and ask you questions. you have no lawyer present, is that correct, during this conversation? >> none at all. >> tucker: so how -- why would you be in jeopardy by exercising their first amendment right to explain the truth? >> i have explained it as a

postscript to the book and actually detailed it and i'm told that the fbi is not all that happy about that fact. therefore, i'm not really at liberty to say a whole lot more about where this stands at present. >> tucker: give us a sense, when you sat down you had no lawyer. it's generally not advised to talk to the fbi without a lawyer. did they just grab you if you got off the plane? what did you say to them when they did? >> they had to wait for about 2n divided me from my wife and then searched my belongings and took me to a separate building to introduce me to two fbi agents who asked me a series of questions. actually it was quite chit chatty for about 20 minutes. as a fan of the philadelphia eagles they asked me what i thought of their victory at the super bowl. >> tucker: that's what they said to mike flynn during his

chit chatty conversation. they had a warrant for all of this, i assume, is that right? >> correct. >> tucker: okay. what did they ask you? >> as i said in the postscript, there were very few substantive questions. some about individuals, what my relationship wasn't to the campaign. they seem to know all the answers to the questions. >> tucker: did you consider saying buzz off, i'm not going to answer your questions? >> i think had they gotten any more aggressive than in fact that would have been the case, but they were fairly benign. i'm a patriotic american. a cold war era. i worked in the state department. i was the top american in the u.n. in geneva, switzerland, for four years at the end of the cold war. i'm certainly willing to cooperate in any inquiry. i don't think i have much to

add. >> tucker: why do you think they wanted to talk to you? >> my publisher thinks that they read my book on the plot to destroy the president, which is in fact about the conspiracy -- the first in american history since 1783 and the newburgh conspiracy that tried to overthrow a sitting president of the united states. >> tucker: why did they ask you about roger stone? >> i have no idea. i've met roger stone three time times. he did write the forward to my new book because we had the same publisher. he gave an address at oxford university about eight or ten weeks ago and it was a pretty compelling story about what happened in the 2016 election and we had it transcribed. i had attended that lecture, and we used it as the forward to the book. maybe they read more into that then is the case. >> tucker: what did they do to your phone?

you said they had a warrant for your phone? >> yes. they confiscated my phone and i'm told it's been returned to me and i should be receiving it any day. >> tucker: they took your phone away? how long have they had it? >> since that day, which was before easter. >> tucker: i would be pretty annoyed. ted, thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. >> good to be with you, tucker, thanks. >> tucker: democratic congressional candidate has expressed his real thoughts about the nra in a new ad, which is completely over-the-top. he joins us next. ♪ baby boomers,

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>> tucker: a politician's job is to appeal to voters. it left leaning voters don't like the nra. pat davis is a democrat running for congress in new mexico. put two and two together and davis has produced a new ad where he expresses his view of the nra unambiguously, but you decide. >> [bleep] the nra. their program policies have resulted in dead children, dead mothers and dead fathers. i'm pat davis and i approved this message because if congress won't change our gun laws, we are changing congress. >> tucker: pat davis joins us tonight from new mexico. thanks for coming on. >> hi, tucker. >> tucker: that's the ad? kind of moronic, no? >> that's it, just 15 seconds, but it got a whole lot of attention and started a new conversation about guns and i'm grateful for that. >> tucker: doesn't it degrade you? you use the f word in the ad.

you have a position stated, but f the nra? >> being the light hasn't made our schools in his favor. it hasn't protected police officers like i used to be. if a cuss word on tv offends you more than dead children in parkland or newtown then your priorities are wrong. >> tucker: it's not either/or. i don't care if you are a cop or not. it's not an either or. it's not that i'm so offended. do you think rudeness will? is rudeness going to save lives do you think? >> as we were looking to make this ad, what we said -- we kept coming up with the same idea and every add, this issue looked like somebody else's and those had not worked. clearly this got the nra's attention and it has started the new conversation both amongst candidates running for office about who -- how we organize and take back congress and put the leaders there and take back on control. and also how we stand up to the

nra. we know what works. 50% of nra members support -- >> tucker: a conversation about how embarrassing you are. how many nra members have committed mass shootings? >> tucker, here's the thing. a majority of america's -- 89% of police officers, a majority of nra know there are common sense things we can do. >> tucker: you just released an ad that said f the nra which i'm sure back at your fraternity house they love. but let me ask you one adult question, how many nra members have committed mass shootings? >> tucker, this is about the organization itself. my family grew up -- >> tucker: i'm asking you about the organization itself. >> it's not the nra that my dad organization. >> tucker: how many of their members -- they have millions of members. how many of them -- >> i've been hearing from them all week. i've been hearing from them all week. the nra made us their target.

we started a new conversation and what i've also heard from our parents in hyde park when, in virginia and newtown who donated to keep the out on the air because they want people in congress to finally step up. if the nra wants to come to the table and help us pass common sense regulations that their member support, let's do it. we are not waiting on them to come to the table. >> tucker: trying to have an adult conversation. here is your new spot. i want to talk the policy and see what you know about it. here's your latest 152nd ad. >> by the time this ad is done in ar-15 could have fired 150 bullets. that's why we need to ban assault weapons. i'm pat davis, running for congress and i approved this message because lives are more important than gun company profits. >> tucker: so you just said that in 15 seconds and ar-15 can fire 150 rounds. is that true? >> that's right. you get it right here in new mexico.

right here in new mexico you can go to a parking lot or go on the internet, buy an assault weapon, and ar-15 and by a legally available add-on like a bomb stock that allows you to replicate exactly what happened in las vegas. the las vegas shooter 600 rounds a minute. >> tucker: you are saying and ar-15 can shoot 150 rounds in 15 seconds. let me ask, let's be specific. if you are at. what with that magazine look like you mike the 150 round magazine. >> exactly like the magazines that las vegas police officers pulled out of that hotel room. >> tucker: there were 150 round -- >> 50 and 100 round magazine. >> tucker: it's not. these are rhetorical questions. you don't know what you're talking about. i know that you are a police officer. no ar-15 can fire 150 rounds in 15 seconds. that's untrue and if you believe it is true then you are not

qualified to have a conversation about guns. people are laughing at you because you are ignorant. you don't know what you're talking about. >> we take exactly the word of the police officers in las vegas who i trust who ran into that room to save people down below and found a weapon modified with farm stocks. >> tucker: so they say and ar-15 -- what do you think would happen to the barrel in 15 seconds if you put 150 rounds -- it would melt. >> i know they get hot. >> tucker: being mr. tough, i was a cop guy, maybe you should know what you're talking about, but you don't. you are putting on television something that is demonstrably wrong and physically possible and all of your voters are like this guy knows what he's talking about, he was a cop, but you don't know so maybe you should apologize for it. >> i'm not apologizing for anything. >> tucker: i think you should apologize for saying something that is factually untrue. >> we need new focus. this will be a priority. >> tucker: but you don't know what you're talking about, so

maybe you shouldn't be in a position to make decisions because you don't understand the issue because you just told me with a straight face that in ar-15 can fire 150 rounds in 15 seconds. it can't. maybe you should admit that and move on to something you understand, would you do that? >> this is exactly the type of arguments that don't get us where we need to be. we need new -- we are moving -- >> tucker: i thought politeness didn't work, tough guy? >> politeness is not working so far. you want somebody in congress to step up. >> tucker: why don't you get some facts? do like this new mode of communication we have? f the nra, pat. interview over. you don't know what you are talking about. let's go back to politeness. i liked it better. it's another primary night and a democrat who sounds like donald trump could be a winner tonight. amazing. he will join us. plus brit hume joins us to break

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hillary clinton in 2016 and despite his party affiliation he is antiabortion and has called for some restrictions on immigration and sanctuary citie cities. he joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. >> tucker, thanks for having me tonight. >> tucker: so as i understand there are three candidates, democratic candidates running in this primary tonight. polls have closed so we are not effecting anything with his interview. but the three candidates each come from a distant, different strain of the democratic party ideologically. describe the kind of democrat that you are. >> well, i come out of a blue-collar background. my father was a construction worker with a sixth-grade education education. my mother was a seamstress with 11th grade education and i believe that i come out of the sort of traditional democratic party that is concerned about working men and women. concerned about blue-collar issues that affect these folks and i have always believed the

john f. kennedy model and even to some degree at the bill clinton model, who ran as a centrist. and that's pretty much where i have been. i'm not strain of democratic party. >> tucker: so i'm fascinated by the news coverage of your race. you have said things that don't seem very controversial like you are not in favor of giving driver licenses to illegal immigrants. you are not against all immigration but you are worried about illegal immigration, and you are not for giving state subsidized tuition to illegal immigrants. for this you are described as a hard-liner on immigration. you think that's fair? to think the coverage of that subject is fair? >> no i don't think it's fair. first of all, i'm a grandson of an italian immigrant and i believe immigration is great. it has made our country great, but immigration is a process. there is laws that we have and people have to get in line and come into the country in a legal way and to describe me as a hard-liner i think is not accurate. i go to the naturalization

service that we have in our county were people from all over the world to become naturalized citizens. it's a wonderful ceremony in the courthouse and those are immigrants. what i'm opposed to is just people breaking into our country without permission. some of them being criminals and i've seen them in my own town, from the ms-13 gang and others. our country giving incentives for more illegal immigration such as driver's license and state tuition. i don't think those incentives should be given. it just creates more illegal immigration. >> tucker: so bill clinton said that exact same thing 20 years ago. now you are one of only a couple democrats willing to say that out loud. what happened to the democratic party? >> it's interesting. as you know, there is a picture, a video of president clinton giving i think a state of the union speech where he talks hard-liner on immigration. he says everything that i believe in and even president obama gave a similar speech. this is not out of step with democrats. in my own community here i have great support for this position.

people here, democratic voters, i don't think, i guess we will know better tonight foreign criminals coming into the county and setting up shop. they don't want sanctuary cities. i have opposed sanctuary cities for a long, long time. having a sanctuary city is like putting up a big sign that says please all foreign criminals come here because we won't do anything about it if you commit a crime. i don't think that all democrats are in lockstep necessarily with some of the national philosophy that comes out of washington on this issue. >> tucker: i hope you are right on the pulse of closed so i can say i'm certainly rooting for you tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. >> thank you, thanks, tucker. >> tucker: it probably won't help. some candidates on the democratic side flipping the bird to the nra while others back from style immigrations, it's not quite clear what the democratic messages for 2018. brit hume is fox's senior political analyst. he watches carefully. he joins us tonight. what you think the messages, or is there a national message that

the democratic party is selling this midterm? >> i think it's pretty indistinct at this moment if there is one. i think much of the party is so mesmerized by donald trump and loads him so deeply that that has become kind of the central thing and the central theme that you can see. that's what the democratic party appears to be mostly about right now. i suspect as time goes on something more oriented towards borders will come along. but remember, tucker. these candidates are running in a party where 71%, according to one recent poll, want donald trump impeached. so it's kind of understandable that there would be some focus on him. >> tucker: for sure. most democrats are, of course, very anti-drum, that's why they are democrats. but is that a message that moves people to the polls? >> based on the evidence we have, it seems not to be working very well, and the reason i say that is, look at the advantages that democrats enjoy going into this midterm election. first of all, the political

gravity and any president's first midterm is always with the other party and the average loss is more than would be enough if they made their average again, the democrats would get control of the house. they had a huge gap in what's called a generic ballot. that's the one where you ask people if they would rather vote for a democrat or republican unnamed in the upcoming election. normally democrats do well on that ballot. they were up, plus 15 or 16 at one point not very long ago and now that number is down to single digits and samples down below single digits which suggest that whatever they are selling people are not buying with the enthusiasm that the party had hoped for. >> tucker: what will happen if they don't retake the house? >> well, i think there will be an agonizing reappraisal because we've been hearing about this blue wave that was thought to be inevitable and may yet come. if it doesn't come, obviously there's going to be a search for scapegoats and we will see what happens.

but this party i think, what we are seeing emerge now is that for all the divisions in the republican party between trump supporters and so on and all the divisions within the conservative movement, the divisions in the democratic party are at least as deep, if not deeper and at the heart of the democratic party, and remember you saying in a speech not too many years ago, was not with hillary clinton but she won anyway. a candidate of her stripe i don't think win this time. i don't know that a white male candidate could win. here we are in the democrats, the democrats really have some serious divisions to worry about and whether whatever they come up with will be appealing to a broad cross section of voters is obviously what remains to be seen. >> tucker: a white male candidate could not win. i don't think a lot of the white male candidates running for the democratic nomination know that yet but i think they're going to learn. do you think that it moves in the direction of populist economics, the elizabeth warren, the bernie sanders party?

>> i think that's the drift and i think that excites a lot of people. you look at the attitudes of young voters now. who do not seem to have grasped the benefit of a market capitalist economy and don't seem to be put off at all about the idea of socialism despite its abysmal history, which is playing out even today in certain parts of the world, venezuela being the most conspicuous example. but i think that the party, it's gotten pretty far left now and a lot of old ideas that are being passed off as kind of new ideas are in the air. in the party will have to reckon with that because if they come up with somebody who was a socialist for president i don't think they could possibly win. i'm not sure how many of them we will see but there will be awful battles over this. >> tucker: their corporate donors because the party is entirely supported by corporate america will be pretty surprised when it turns out there and sending money to hugo chavez. thank you. >> you batten, tucker.

>> tucker: go ahead. >> don't underestimate the ability to raise money for a small donation and make a serious run for it. bernie sanders did. >> tucker: i think the goldman sachs guys are going to be pretty shocked when they see what's coming. great to see you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: and embattled minority group is under attack in south africa on the receiving end of genocidal rhetoric. considered unacceptable to talk about this in the west for some reason but we don't care because it's true and it's happening and it's news and we are covering it next. ♪ 10 miles on every dollar they spend at thousands of hotels. all you have to do is pay with this... at hotels.com/venture. 10 miles per dollar? that is incredible. brrrrr. i have the chills. because you're so excited? because ice is cold. and because of all those miles. obviously.

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the government just passed a law allowing it to seize their farms without any compensation based purely on their ethnicity and distribute those two more favored groups. thousands of already migrated out of the country but they struggled to attract any sympathy abroad for some reason. deputy ceo of the south africa civil rights group. he was just in the united states to meet with a number of government officials. also took a moment to talk to us. here's part of what he said. >> thanks for coming on. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: what you describe in this book, it is organized but in some sense intentional campaign to crush a racial minority within your country and the government seems onboard with it. is that an overstatement? >> with the book is about, it's about government complicity in the form of attacks and murders. the last two decades there have been -- we believe we have reason to say it's may be

downplayed a little. there's been about to go farm attacks every day and two farm murders every week in south africa and in the book i highlight actually ten different reasons why we think the government is complacent. it stretches from reasons including -- for example in 2007 it was a 25% increase in these attacks and the south african government responded saying we are not going to release any more statistics about this. and also, which is very concerning is the hate speech in south africa. that's the title of the book as well. it's a very popular song which is still being sung. it sung at political rallies and its referring to a particular cultural group in south africa. there are a variety of ways in which -- >> tucker: i thought that hate speech was now a crime punishable by prison time in

south africa. are any of the people who say this arrested? >> to have hate speech declared crime punishable by prison time, there's a bill on the table. if you look at the motivation around it, it's clear that, very clear that government are pushing this don't regard this as hate speech. as a matter of fact, they've been arguing that it's not hate speech in court. they would argue that they have a right to sing about killing farmers and they would say it's an expression of freedom of speech. >> tucker: so now the government has announced that it plans to pursue a policy of taking land away from people on the basis of their skin color. do you think will do that? >> that is what is adopted in our parliament. a measure was adopted that the constitution has to be changed to allow for the private property without compensation. say that this would turn south africa into the ultimate paradise in the garden of eden and deputy president even went further saying that he is

basically telling white farmers that if they do not voluntarily hand over their land to black people and there will be a violent takeover. the situation is very dire in south africa. but the good news is that there is still a process that has to be followed and that's why we are in the united states. >> tucker: what i find so striking is the response from everyone else around the world. there's almost normal snow covered the american media. the deserve it because of what their ancestors did. the international community is similarly silent. have you met with any government officials here in washington about what's happening in your country? >> that's why we are here. we are about to meet with some government officials and it's very unfortunate, the situation that you've just mentioned. especially in south africa if there's a hierarchy of recognition. some people when they are the victims it's all over the news and you hear about it frequently and other people, especially farmers in south africa, white farmers in particular. they will be tortured to death and it receives very little news

coverage and that's unfortunately the situation abroad as well, which is why we are very grateful to be having this. >> tucker: a government official in australia said publicly maybe we ought to allow asylum to people being pew persecuted for their skin color and he was basically laughed at and then attacked by your government for saying that. >> he was attacked and they said that he shouldn't say that because they were providing him with false information. the information is government statistics. whoever speaks out against this just for being -- we've been accused of treason, people threatening us saying they will wait for us and attack us. the president and parliament calling on us to go back to south africa. whenever you speak out against this, there is very serious backlash. >> tucker: this is not what nelson mandela wanted. >> it's the exact opposite than what he wanted. he spoke about a free country in which people were not judged by

the color of their skin. he even wanted farm attacks to be a priority claim. when his presidency was over they deprioritized it. >> tucker: so you just watch something like this happen in a neighboring country, zimbabwe, which went from being one of the richest one of the poorest in the world because of attacks and because of the theft of private property. is the anc, the ruling party in south africa aware of that lesson? >> they are, but real communism has never been tried, that's what they keep saying. it failed in zimbabwe, it failed in cuba, it failed in venezuela, he failed in russia, it failed in china, all of those countries and they are basically saying are we going to try the same thing and this time it's going to work. >> tucker: basically it's immoral to talk to you and hear stories like this for no reason that nobody bothers ever really to explain but it's just understood. if you could speak to our media and people who are dismissing your claims as follows, what would you say?

>> i think there are three things. firstly, everything we say is fact based. it's based on research. but in terms of what we hope to achieve and what people can do, people who want, we want them to call on the south african government to say you want to expropriate those. number two, we are speaking with the u.s. government and asking them to put pressure on the south african government, which could be done in a variety of ways. and number three, members of the public and members of the media, the best thing you can do to help us is to talk about this, to talk about it on public platforms and in that way to continue to put pressure on the south african government not to continue with this policy. >> tucker: just to tell the truth. thank you. thank you for being here. tech companies are getting more powerful. facebook has a plan for ranking news outlets by how trustworthy they are. twitter sensing certain views

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>> tucker: apparently it's not enough of the tech companies to know what you do, and they do know what you do. increasingly they want to control what you do and what you see and what you think. during a recent meeting with investors, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg revealed that his company has been ranking news outlets by how trustworthy they are with less trusted outlets being penalized on facebook's new speed. trusted by the way by facebook, not by you, but i mark zuckerberg and his deputies. meanwhile, twitter is instituting a system to suppress tweets he regards as harassment even if they actually break no rules. in other words, the political orientation of the tweets. brett larson hosts fox news news headlines 24/7 and investigated big tech for the show. he joins us tonight. >> good to be here. we have been investigating the story over the past few days now. involving facebook changes to how they handle news sources in user's newsfeed. as you mention in a meeting with

media company executives from "new york times" to news corp., the parent company of fox news, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg said they will be relying on user surveys to determine which news sources are "broadly trusted." the comments were made following facebook's f8 developer conference at the beginning of the month and this is one of the many changes the social media giant has made in an effort to combat fake news, fake accounts and bots that help amplify and spread fake information. i spoke with facebook earlier today and they assured me that this isn't an effort to censor any ideas or beliefs and at the random sampling of trustworthiness happens frequently to ensure sites are getting a fair shake. the user will be presented with a simple yes or no question, are you familiar with the site? a "yes" answer brings up the next question. too rated for trustworthiness on a scale of 1-5. what about fake accounts boosting the trustworthiness of

a not so trustworthy news outlet? facebook just this year has removed more than half a billion fake accounts. further, those headlines like they pulled over to help this dog, what happens next will amaze you,... , not going to get the kind of ranking in your newsfeed going forward. the changes are also a crackdown so-called clickbait and news, especially local news. as for paying providers for the news, no deal. cable operators pay to carry channels like fox for their customers but when asked if facebook will do but assume thing don't like to make same thing, they are giant saying they don't see the need for that despite the fact they are relying on local news, it would seem that kind of new revenue would breathe life into local newspapers at outlets that are struggling to remain relevant and profitable. these changes on helping us feel any better. an effort to see more news from friends and was news for media sites actually puts us in a bad mood because we compare ourselves to our friends and our appearance and we see what we are missing out on. parties and awesome vacations

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