twitter ceo jack dorsey told me why his company is now take action. jones has posted a video telling people to get their battle rifles ready against the media. >> they will need to have their battle rifles ready at their bed sides. you have to be ready. >> it sent a chill up my spine. how about yours? >> it did. there's a number of actions that we believe help a call to incitement to violence. those are the things that we need to make sure that we are taking action on. >> you've taken action against him in this instance. can you tell us what it is? >> i believe we put him in a time out, removing his ability to tweet for a time period. >> that period just seven days. and presumably after that, jones will be back. a time out seems minor compared to the implication of one suggesting a call to arms against a particular group, in this case the media. how do you respond to that? >> i feel any suspension, whether it be a permanent one or a temporary one, makes someone think about their actions and their behaviors. >> you think this is going to change his beh

dorsey. >> just to dig into this a little bit further.the companies and the ceos should not be in the position to self police and decide what should be and shouldn't be on their plat forms then that would infer that regulators should step in. i will say it. we saw how the testimony with mark zuckerburg turned out in congress. it seemed very much like a number of lawmakers don't fully understand tech or the business of tech. would they be the ones capable of making the right types of regulations? >> i think this issue is actually simpler than the one we dealt with in those hearings. this one is really about media. there are a set of rules that govern cnbc and newspapers and any media about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate. and for reasons that are historical and relate to the early days of the internet, the internet platforms were exempted from all of that. it strikes me that the first, most basic thing is that we have to recognize that these are media companies, that they have enormous influence in our public square. in the

dorsey defended the timeout saying the company can't build a service that's subjective to the whims of personal belief, adding he thought it could still be effective. >> i feel any suspension, whether it be a permanent one or a temporary one, makes someone think about their actions and their behaviors. >> he said the move is consistent with how twitter infoi enforces its policies. last week facebook took down four of jones' videos and placed him on a 30-day block for his role in posting content that violates the company's policies. youtube has pulled down his videos and apple recently removed infowars' podcast from itunes. >>> lester holt and jack dorsey talked about more than alex jones. they spoke about the president's tweets and dorsey's feeling that freedom of expression has been, quote, weaponized. >>> a man has been arrested linked to that deadly crash that killed a chp officer and another driver. the chp is holding a news conference in less than 30 minutes to give us more details. the arrest stems from last friday's accident in fairfield. to a car when the driver of a pickup tru

he is giving jack dorsey credit. dorsey said his goal is to gain people's trust.ople upset about what goes on. >> mega-church pastor greg laurie was forced to take down this billboard that shows him holding a bible. these billboards were promoting a popular religious festival coming up later this month, hanging inside a mall in orange county, california. the festival organizers were told to remove the religious imagery from billboards but they were taken down and the festival was refunded. john collins, executive director of the harvest crusade says it is sad our culture is that this degree of intolerance, such intolerance against christianity, we are not allowed to state that are publicly advertised this event. a lot on social media are concerned as well, kathy says i should be shocked but in today's world nothing shocks me. another calling it ridiculous, so tired of everybody being offended and taking away our rights to freedom of speech. greg laurie is going to be on "fox and friends" this morning at 6:45 eastern time. if you have questions about this story i a

a fact twitter ceo jack dorsey acknowledges.ey tells our brian stelter what is broken about twitter and how he plans to fix it. >> there's a lot of emphasis today on politics twitter. politics twitter is divisive and contentious. you see a lot of outrage. you see unhealthy debate. sw we see a lot of negative things. i believe it is important to see the dark areas of society so we can acknowledge and address them. i think the only way to address them is through conversation. it is hard especially when it feels toxic and you want to walk away. >> let's bring back oliver darcy. it is all one twitter. what is he doing to fix it? >> we were talking during the break. politics twitter is twitter. everything these days is politics. he doesn't want to dive into real world solutions to help fix the hate and harassment that has really become and defined twitter. he talks in hypotheticals and philosophy about the size of the -- or the whatever he was saying. he doesn't want to get into the nuts and bolts of how to fix the hate and harassmen

twitter ceo jack dorsey says the company put alex jones on a timeout after he urged viewerseso >> todaydorsey spoke with nbc news and defended his move and explained why he didn't do it sooner. >> for seven days alex jones will not be able to tweet. but tonight even some twitter employees are questioning whether a week of silence is enough. when radio host and infowars founder alex jones urged his twitter followers to ready their battle rifles against the media, twitter ceo jack dorsey says the company had to do something. >> there's a number of actions that we believe help a call to incitement to violence. those are the things that we need to make sure that we're taking action on. >> dorsey says the san francisco company put jones on a week long timeout. many are criticizing the move. some call it censorship. others say jones should be banned outright. that includes a engeer who is vg is the next three months in protest. dorsey defended the timeout saying the company can't build a service that's subjective to personal beliefs. he also said that even a temporary suspension can be effect

how would you grade jack dorsey based on that interview and the actions he's taken in recent weeks?actually admire jack dorsey, i've been a critic of the way twitter per conveys hatd disinformation but jack's interviews both with lester holt, "the washington post" and the hill showed somebody who's willing to get out there, provide some thoughtful leadership, and really most importantly question the very basic premise of twitter, which is that it's supposed to provote you to be more engaged and he's saying we have got to find ways to make the foundation of twitter less divisive and less uncivil that's a difficult job and i applaud him for getting right out there and saying we're rethinking things. >> we're not talking about social media and the role it plays in terms of content curati curation, one of the things about twitter, and we make the same argument about twitter as well if you cut down on the trolls, you cut down information from the bad actors, you cut down on revenue? >> i think more serious changes need to come i think it's laughable that dorsey is getting up there to say

obviously, investors they no like >> plus all work and no play would make everybody especially jack dorsey a dull boy and he's working overtime on his apology tour his first stop, fox news and sean hannity, but is he playing a dangerous game with shareholders all that coming up, but first, we've got to start again with tesla. it is directly in the crosshairs once again that stock has round tripped since elon musk's famous tweet about taking the company private and that stock down to the levels it hit after the earnings report that wall street didn't like last week, but it may be signaling there is no deal in sight. let's go right now to phil lebeau in chicago for all of the developing details on an equity, phil that is saying investors are not convinced. >> they're not convinced and they're waiting for some definitive word from tesla or elon musk about, if there is funding and what's the source of that funding there are more questions than answers at this point, and some of those questions are being asked by the sec a report this afternoon by bloomberg saying that the sec has been looking

with jack dorsey.t does not censor users based on political beliefs and conservative politicians on twitter. the company blaming that on a technical glitch. despite jack dorsey's latest comments on social media remain unconvinced, they do shadow ban, we have seen the numbers. elaine says when is jack going to take care of the situation. jeffrey saying even though i disagree with the way they have been treating conservatives, he is willing to listen and adjust a platform instead of hiding like the other guys do, give him credit for going on sean hannity's radio show, they are trying to be better at least. rob: nancy pelosi always for a controversial soundbite. >> nancy pelosi says a vote for a democrat in november will make the lives of illegal immigrants a little easier. take a listen. >> going home for a family funeral can come back into the country. every mom who courageously brought her child across the desert across all those injustices. jillian: not making surprising comments a press conference in

today jack dorsey told me why his company is alow taking action. well jones on twitter posted this week what essentially is a video calling for people to get their battle rifles ready against the media saying it's time to e act, it's got to done now. >> people need to have their battle rifles everything ready at their bedsides and you got to be re y. >> sent a chill up my spine, how about yours? >> it did. there is a number of actions that we believe help a call to incitement of violence e and those are things that we need to make sure that we are taking action on. >> you've taken action against him in this instance. can you tell us what it is? pu >> i believe w him in a time-out, removing his ality to tweet for a time period. >> that period just seven days and presumably after that, jones will be back. a time-out seems min compared to the implications of someone suggesting a to arms against a particular group in this case, the media. how do you respond to that? >> well, i feel any suspensionwhether it be a permanent or temporary one and make someo

jack dorsey is the ceo of twitter. i really appreciate you coming on because i'm sure this is probably the last thing you want to do, is come on my radio program. but i appreciate you coming on and answering the questions. >> thank you, sean, first for the opportunity to talk with your listeners and also getting a picture of the complexities we're facing. this is definitely not easy but we're trying to approach this with a very simple principle. how do we earn more trust? and the way for us to earn more trust around how we make decisions, the algorithms that help us enforce these decisions is try to be as open as possible about them. >> jack dorsey on the sean hannity show. the "wall street journal" says the san francisco office of the s.e.c. is interested in talking to elon musk about his claim that he has funding to take tesla private. not an investigation, but the series and exchange commission would like to see evidence musk really does have the money set up. musk had tweeted tuesday, funding secured. now, if you'r

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it feels like jack dorsey and by the way breaking news jack dorsey now we know he will testify beforegress. the date wasn't hammered down we know now. how important is it for them to get this right not just the midterm elections but to figure out how to stop censoring certain americans? >> it's incredibly important because they are trying to get rid of the fake stories from russian bots versus making sure they aren't censoring things that americans are writing and conservatives are writing. jack was talking to "cnn" last weekend and he said something that i thought was really concerning. he said they were actually trying to measure people's conversations. i don't know how you have the ability to measure it it based on censoring and shadow banning conservatives i'm worried the help of conversations means conservative thought is going to be considered unhealthy but i'm looking forward to jack's testimony to see how he plans on making sure this platform is dedicated to promoting a culture free speech. >> i had an occasion to spend some time with jack dorsey and i've got to tell you i thi

so the idea -- and they're making money off of it. >> jack dorsey denies it. he says we're just a small company with a big impact and a lot of that impact's been real, real good. that's nonsense. >> i think that washed a couple years ago. we've all grown up since then. we may have seen an american presidential election affected by this. we're watching real people be hurt who should be comforted. it's not good enough what his explanation. they're making this up as they go along. they're trying to protect as much of their business model and revenue streams as they can. >> it's not good enough. >> no. >> but the consequences are zippo and zilch. we're doing absolutely nothing. >>> up next, money, power, politics. the president tweets this morning, touting the strength of the u.s. economy. between tar riches and inflation, we're going to explain why everyday items are costing more. >>> a quick shout-out to madonna. want to date yourself right here? the material girl turns 60 today. 60. how about some of us who remember when she turned 30? i can do more to lower my

ceo jack dorsey.'s get to leslie picker. >> jack dorsey, the ceo of twitter will be testifying in front of the committee on the afternoon of september 5th the chairman announcing that when decisions about data are made using processes, the american people are right to raise concerns and that this committee being the house, energy and commerce committee intends to ask, quote, tough questions about how twitter monitors and polices content so that will definitely be something to watch out for december 5g9 back over to you >> leslie, thank you leslie picker and the benefit that twitter and they have over facebook is they were able to deal with the problem before they had a problem thanks to facebook's problem >> i don't think it will ever be as big. >> to your point, they learn from facebook and it's a muted effect and i don't think it has the exposure that facebook did with the negativity and it's up 42% year to date i don't -- i think they're in the big boy's chair now and i think they'll be okay. >> it

. >> twitter's ceo jack dorsey is committed to curbing fake news from the platform but no timetable forow the company will approach the intssue. he discussed the issue surrounding alex jones. twitter suspended jones' account for a week after he tweeted a link to a video calling for supporters to get their battle rifles ready against the media and others. dorsey says politics on social media tend to be divisive, but it's important to talk about. >> i believe it's important to see those. i believe it's important to see the dark areas of society so that we can acknowledge and address them and i think the only way to address them is through conversation. it is hard especially when it feels toxic and you want to walk away from it. >> dorsey says social media and tech companies need to be transparent and open about its actions. >>> netflix is facing backlash after the streaming service confirmed it's testing ads on its original content. >> kendisand linda have the details. >>> netflix customers concerned aboutia interrupting theirworry. >> that's what netflix is saying after viewers complaine

in an interview with cnn, dorsey discussed the controversy discussed the controversy surrounding alex jones, twitter suspended jones' account for a week after he tweeted a link to a video calling for supporters to get their battle rifles ready against the media and others. dorsey says politicscial media tend to be divisive, but it's important to talk about. >> i believe it's important to see those. i believe it's important to see the dark areas of society so that we can acknowledge and address them and i think the only way to address them is through conversation. it is hard especially when it feels toxic and you want to walk away from it. >> dorsey says social media and tech companies need to be transparent and open about its actions. it has nothing to do with anything, but jack dorsey has a nose ring now. >> reggie can't get past that. >> he used to have one before and now has one again. end of story. >> thank you for clearing that up. >> i have a question for you, how do you get rid of old contact lenses? >> i do the wrong thing. >> a study finds flushing lenses contribute to pollut

here's part of what dorsey told me about recognizing the pressure big tech is under and the fear thatmbers of the public feel about his company. >> there's a lot of emphasis today on politics twitter and politics twitter tends to be pretty divisive and it tends to be pretty contentious, and you see a lot of outrage and you see a lot of -- a lot of unhealthy debate that you probably want to walk away from. if you go to other twitters like nba twitter or k-pop twitter you see the complete opposite. you see a lot of empowering conversation. you see a lot of aspects that want to keep you in the conversation and have you engage in the conversation. so we do have a lot of focus right now on some of the negative things given the current environment, and i believe it's important to see those. i believe it's important to see the dark areas of society so that we can acknowledge and we can address them, and i think the only way to address them is through conversation, but it is hard, especially when it feels toxic and you want to walk away from it. >> dorsey is under pressure from multiple direc

are we getting paid to clean of twitter for jack dorsey?air: we are getting paid to -- one of the classic arguments that not just twitter makes is if there is something out there that is wrong on the internet, other people have to get out there and say what's right and make it clear so that they can use that content to refute what was wrong before. those tech companies always say that type of thing. i think that has some validity. i think jack has also tried to avoid falling into a trap with conservative commentators on twitter over the last year or so. they basically say, oh, you are limiting our free speech, it is a first amendment issue, and you shouldn't be allowed to do that. with that decision so far, he has taken the opposite tack. carry on. he is basically saying, maybe not just journalists, but everyone else on twitter, if you feel strongly about it, you can get on twitter and refute what he is saying. emily: twitter has made many mistakes over the years, not making it clear what the rules actually are, then being capricious about

i mean he's talking to you now, dorsey is talking to you and "the new york times."is an element of pr response and also response to political pressure. you know, these guy has to testify on capitol hill about russian interference in the election. they'll be back on capitol hill next month and right now dorsey is under pressure to come and testify about alleged censorship as well. so they are fighting multiple battles, you know, in d.c. in silicon valley and in the press. i think all of us, whether we use the sites or not, all of us are seeing the down side it's and upsides of technology. great ten years ago. this flourishing of social networks. people are reckoning with the consequences including the ceos. >> it's a blessing and vain in our lives in so many ways. let me switch gears. i want to your reaction to the interview with meet the press with rudy giuliani where he questions truth. watch. >> i'm not going to be rushed into having him testify. so that he gets trapped into perjury. and when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he's going to tell

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i take freight offense you mentioned elon musk and jack dorsey in the same -- neil: jack dorsey, elon musk, who would you trust your money more? >> personally, oh, god why are you asking me this? i'm trying to be objective here. neil: i'm saying. two different parts -- >> they are two different companies. neil: i understand that. >> twitter i'm not sure, i'm not sure twitter's long term business prospects. tesla has emerging technology. i'm not sure about the way it is being managed. neil: so you're dodging it? >> i have my money in a money market fund. that is the stock i will recommend. money markets. neil: buddy, thank you for breaking all the news. he is constant, more news we'll follow very closely. speaking of all this hyperactivity and who is doing what to whom, you know a lot of people tend to think that the russians were involved in the last election. they will be involved in this election. our next guest says you know, whatever you think about russia, worry more about china. bush 43 writer ned ryun. he is watching closely. uncannily prescient about a number of big developmen

we spoke to her about jack dorsey's defense. ms.ao: it feels like he is standing on his own, that he feels like he can change twitter without following what other platforms are doing and without learning. we have learned so much in the past five years. he is not incorporating any of that, building empathy for the people being harassed on his platform. instead, he believes they should be a free-for-all on twitter that he can somehow control and manage. emily: it seems to revert to some of the press that twitter has made. ms. pao: it really surprises me. i have seen people leaving the platform. i haven't decided for sure that i will leave but i'm not tweeting. i don't feel at participating anymore. you feel like you are contributing to this site that is allowing harassment, allowing this hate speech and harassment that comes from it and contributed to it if you are participating in it. emily: despite the fact that facebook -- facebook, google, spotify -- the app info wars is rocketing up the app charts. it is more popular than cnn, fo

liz: that's jack dorsey, ceo of twitter. company is left-leaning like a lot of companies in silicon valley. remember facebook's mark zuckerberg also said the same, that silicon valley is left-leaning. he did that in testimony before congress. take a check of stock in twitter. it is up almost 5%. we're bringing in conservative veteran former u.s. special forces jim hanson. what did twitter do with you? what do you say about twitter? >> well, it is not just me. they implemented what they called a quality filter that allow as liberal mob to attack conservative accounts, using some of the tools twitter built them, including these mass block lists where the liberals have gathered hundreds of thousands of conservative accounts. twitter built them a tool, with one push of a button they can block those accounts, twitter counts that as a black market against the account. they use it as heckler's veto. it affects republican politicians, their accounts are not being seen as much as their democrats opponents. at some level, twitter is c

a fact twitter ceo jack dorsey acknowledges.brian stelter what is broken about twitter and how he plans to fix it. >> there's a lot of emphasis today on politics twitter. politics twitter is divisive and contentious. you see a lot of outrage. if you go to other twitters like nbc twitter or k-pop twitter, you see the opposite. it is important to see the dark areas of society to acknowledge and address them. i think the only way to address is through conversation. it is hard especially when it feels toxic and you want to walk away. we give people one tool right now which is to follow an account. >> you want people to follow stories or subjects or hash tags? >> we have been focusing the service today more toward topics and interests. >> it sounds like you are ready and willing to rebuild the house. renovate. >> we are ready to question everything. >> dorsey added he needs to overhaul the fundamentals of twitter, but did not commit to a ti timetable. >>> a somber sunday for catholics in pennsylvania. a report detailing hundreds of p

. >> twitter's ceo jack dorsey denied accusations paid by president trump that the media giant bans is users plaus because of their political leanings. he explained their decisions are not driven by any political ideologies. it says twitter provides a forum for people to express opinions within the rules it's established. >> are we doing something according to political ideology or viewpoints. we are not. we do not look at content with regards to political viewpoint or ideology. we look at behavior. >> dorsey also emphasized that social media and tech companies need to be transparent and they should explain their decisions and articulate goals. >> a mother says she's living a nightmare in southern california after i.c.e. agents arrested her husband while he was drubing her to the hospital before their son's birth. maria delcarmen and her husband had left their home so she could give birth to her son by c-section. before they got to the hospital, they pulled into a convenience store parking lot. surveillance footage shows two vehicles surrounding them and agents taking her husband into

the ceo jack dorsey responding to incredible claims that his company censoring voices. guy benson sat down with dorsey and he will bring us the details of the interview coming up. melissa: market caps hitting the 1 trillion-dollar mark. nicole petallides is that this doc exchange. >> the dow industrial average trying to get the dow onto the green but it's down 7.5.. the snp and the nasdaq are higher. nasdaq up 1.2% so we can say thank you apple. this is reminiscent of when i stood here, to see apple and standing here with all the excitement when it blows through that 1 trillion-dollar mark. the only company that has done this with the exception of petro china but this is a u.s. company breaking ground. it was monumental and really exciting to watch. you own it how about for the last 52 weeks it's been up 30% so that's a good return for that one. take a look at the rest of the pack stocks. they have been all winners. facebook has struggled some but wonders across-the-board in today. then there was -- the ceo trying to make points. we are more like voc who. we are hardwar

what will he be asking jack dorsey? that is next.his is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg technology. i'm emily chang. president trump has been fretting -- focusing his ire on tech giants. he didn't let up thursday night at a rally in evansville indiana. >> look at social media. thing called free speech rights. you look at google facebook twitter and other social media giants. i have made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and rate search results. comee president's comments ahead of wednesday's hearings on capitol hill where facebook the 00 and twitter coo will appear. they will appear before the house energy and commerce committee. representative reinke seller joins us now. -- brian costello. what do you make of the censorship and free speech and the issue that has been dogging these companies? the presidentings deciding comes with no evidence. it is a fairat characterization of where we are. politicalization of what it does and does not go into the algorithms and the content judgment call

. >> dorsey said the san francisco company put jones on a twitter time out.icizing it, calling it censorship. others say he should be banned out right. an engineer is vowing to delete his twitter app in protest. >> i feel any suspension whether it's permanent or temporary makes someone think about their actions and behaviors. >> dorsey defended the time out saying they can't build a service that is subjective to personal beliefs. even a temporary suspension can be affected. >> it has the potential to impact and change behavior. whether it works opinion this case to change some of the behaviors and the don't know. this is consistent with how we enforce. >> other social networks have gone further. facebook, spotify and twitter have removed him from their platforms. >> you drive to and from work and it costs more than you realize. this is 101 in san jose. a report said the majority of bay area roads are in poor condition. that may not surprise you. the roads cost drivers thousands of dollars a year in repairs and wasted fuel. for some the cost is adding up. the

charles: i have met with jack dorsey twice. i feel like when i talk to him, particularly last time just him and i. he sounded sincere. having said that, he acknowledges something is wrong, and i think he wants to fix it. how come you think others like liberals say conservatives stop imhiening. stop -- stop whining. >> i think shelby's analysis was clear. it's impossible to know if google, anybody who is a writer who wants to boost the coverage of google, good luck. facebook, i know david's experience, and you have got to look at that and say there is something functiony there. the only one you can test out as an individual is twitter. i have looked at some of the conservatives i know who file they have been mistreated and tried to match it with well-known liberals. i find that in some cases, i don't find it in others. i suspect with twitter it's not purposeful but there is something 0 wrong. charles: should government get involved? >> government is trying hard to get involved given it's a republican government. we'll see you if

dorsey told nbc jones's suspension is designed to change behavior. orany suspension, permanent tempora, make someone think about their actions and their behaviors. >> do you think he will change his behavior based on a time out? >> i don't know. we have found it does have the potential to change behavior.' emily: jones will not be able to probably interact wtih users for a week but he will be able to browse the platform. walk us through the step by testep. why does he have any access at all? a videohe did post that seem to incite violence against the media. now twitter has been doing this 360 reversal after last week after said it said that alex jones had not violated any of our policies, yet we will take action what he does. the team decided not he has taken action. as you heard from that short clip with last year hold, jack seemed to say that he is in this temporary time out. that these types of things will convince people to change their behavior. there has been an outpouring of tweets after that interview of people saying there is no way alex jon

coo sheryl sandberg will be there, twitter ceo jack dorsey.fered to send its top legal person, and congress said that's not good enough, but google hasn't offered anybody else. is that a mistake? shira: it is a mistake, because it becomes a new story. it looks like google is avoiding congress, or trying to evade responsibly for its actions, but it is also a bit of a no-win scenario for these tech companies, as it was perhaps with the banks in the wake of the financial crisis when they were called to testify in congress seemingly every other day, right? these congressional hearings, they tend to be grandstanding, particularly on issues of internet censorship, as we have seen recently, and is not going to be a lot of useful information gleaned out of these hearings, so i can understand why the tech companies don't want to send their most senior figures, but it does look bad if you are not sending the people members of congress want to speak to. emily: all right. bloomberg tech will be there, of course, covering every minute. thanksrg's shira ovi

explaining why he kept up jones and his postings, saying hes has not violated our rules, and dorseyaying we did not suspend joe joan jones we know that is hard for many butly it not break any rules. if we suck ow succumb and reactn outside pressure we enforce, regardless of political view points, we become a service that is constructed by our personal views that could swing in any direction, check stock twitter down more than 2 percentage points. alex jones has been criticized, as fake news is that what social media says they will do clean up fake news. >> again, question, how will they clean that up, and what is fake news. jones has some controversial things he said in past, but there are other news organizations that have been accused of spreading fake news, and host that have said controversial things, i aflawed dors -- applaud dorsey for making it decision to not kick jones off, otherwise they will be kicking a lot of people off, that is not what someone who represents first amendment -- who respects first amendmentments to see. >> but first hollywood celebrities really upset ov

emily: both of their points of view make clear what twitter and jack dorsey are facing on the right,have folks on the left saying, how could you not ban alex jones, how could no one flagged that? selina: jack dorsey has admitted their employment base is primarily left-leaning, liberal, young people working at their offices. that's why they are taking all these steps to create these rules, so they can combat these biases and try to make as clear-cut decisions as possible. on the other hand, trying to come up with these universal rules about what is abuse, harassment, hate speech, that's a very difficult, fuzzy thing to define, and the moment they rule -- roll out these policies, there will be thousands of edge cases that don't violate those rules, but clearly are something many believe they should take action on. they are in a difficult situation where they are trying to be unbiased, but by making policies that are unbiased, they run into a host of other issues. emily: he talked about a lot of the things the twitter does badly, but is there any indication anything will change? selina:

. >> an nbc news exclusive making major headlines this morning, twitter ceo jack dorsey s down for a wide ranging interview with lester holt. the two spoke about the company's week long suspension of alex jones which came after f tweet calli people to get ready for the battle, b tle riflesready, rather, against the media. here's why dorsey chose what he saou a tim for the talk show host over an outright ban. >> a time-out seems, seems minor compared to the implications of soone suggesting a call to arms against a particular group, in this case the media. how do you respond to that? >> well, i feel, you know,any, any suspension whether it be a permanent one or a temporary one, makes someone think about their actions and their behaviors. and -- >> you think he's goiis to changeehavior based on a time-out? >> i don't know. we have found that i h doese the potential to change, impact andhange behavior. so whether it works with, in this case to change some of f those behaviors and some those actions, i don't know. but this is consistent with how we enforce. >> one american reeled in a mas

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i wonder if dorsey wants that time out phrase back. this is not a three-year-old who has been having a temper tantrum and get sent to his room. this is somebody in his own words inciting violence. do you think it is a misopportunimiss opportunity there? >> looks like jack dorsey is looking at when to suspend him here. he's no able to retweet the next seven days. >> exactly. twitter has long been a place where they have been very focused on keeping the open public square opened. what is interesting from lester's interview is he asked of people of large followings and many other celebrities are being held to a higher standard because of the voice they have out there. >> yeah. if you got followers, you make a call to incite violence, it is different when you have a million. i don't know how many he has but it is a lot. >> about a million followers out there and jack dorsey, the ceo of twitter telling lester that they have a public interest clause in their rules to hold some of these people to a higher standard. here they seem to be moving

this follows several days of public backlash for twitter and jack dorsey after their decision not to remove him from the platform earlier jon jones-drew a link and he will be on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt tonight, dorsey is how do you judge what punishment's appropriate for jones or any user on this platform now >> twitter is late to the party on this. he was suspended first by apple, which is kind of interesting. >> spotify. >> and spotify and google and facebook it's interesting to know that while they have semisuspended him, they have not suspended info wars, the website twitter of all the social networks is the one that's most reluctant to be seen as -- they did suspend him because of inciting violence. they are going to continue it and say all these crazy things they need to say it goes back up to this fundamental issue which is this technology company or are they media companies? if they were a media company, there would be no question that you won't see that kind of talk on cnbc.com or "the new york times".com or any of the real media companies. so they continueto bat

dorsey also saying it's the job of journalists to validate and refute information so people can form own opinions. he followed that up by also tweeting, one of the most important constituencies we serve as our journalist population, they have to build tools to help journalists do our jobs this is a sticky one the idea that you can sort of have impartial technology that reflects real life to me, doesn't seem quite right. >> it's always been twitter's view that bad behavior in whatever form will be self-correcting on twitter because of the response from fellow users but i do think they have a point, that there's no algo for now that can correct these or set standards that you can work at scale and that's what the twitter safety account later tweeted out in that post >> i think he brings up some interesting points i think some valid points. it goes back to the conversation yesterday that private companies are private. they have their sort of own internal rules of governance and are basically drafting their own legal systems to decide what kind of content's allowed and what is appropriat

we start with her reaction to dorsey's defense.en: it feels like he is standing on his own and feels he can change twitter on his own without following what has happened in the past, without seeing what other platforms are experiencing and without learning. that is the part that surprises me. we have learned so much in the past five years and he is not incorporating any of that, building any empathy for the people who are being harassed on his platform and instead, he believes there should still be this free-for-all on twitter that he can somehow control and manage. emily: it also seems to reverse some of the progress twitter has actually made in the last two months. ellen: it is confusing to me. it is a surprise that he would not take this opportunity to people on his platform who are being harassed, and i have seen people leaving the platform. i have not decided for sure that i am to leave, but i am not tweeting -- i have not tweeted for a day and don't feel like participating anymore. you feel like you are contributing to this s

lester holt, 5:30 this evening on nightly news with jack dorsey and see the reaction to this timeout. i think i would have chosen a different word. >> suspension. >> exactly. we'll watch for that tonight. thank you very much. >>> you know, it's happening right now, harvest season is kicking off today in napa valley. first harvest of the season since the deadly north bay wild firs. >> nbc bay area's pete suratos was there this morning. he has this report for us. >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you, guys. harvest season is finally under way here in napa valley. workers picking grapes as the crush gets under way. but as all this gets under way and they get things going here, i spoke with the grower here of this vineyard to see if last year's devastating north bay wi wildfires had any impact on how things are done this year. the grapes picked this morning symbolize new beginnings for wine makers and growers. think of it as opening day. >> today's just beautiful. foggy weather. great for picking. not too hot. >> reporter: or as the chief wine maker of mum napa explained to me -- >> wine