is alan rusbridger, former editor of the guardian and now a member of facebook‘s supervisory oversight board:01:45,257 --> 2147483051:37:38,712 how do we ensure fact prevails 2147483051:37:38,712 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 overfiction? how do we ensure fact prevails over fiction? alan rusbridger, welcome to hardtalk. pleased to be here. your latest book is subtitled "what to believe in a fa ke subtitled "what to believe in a fake news world". do you believe we are living in a fake news world ? believe we are living in a fake news world? i think we are. we are living in an age of com plete are living in an age of complete information chaos and all of the surveys of trust show that the media is doing very badly. people don't know what to believe any longer, who to believe and who to trust. but to call it a fake news world surely to undermine the importance of so many different media organisations and journalists of integrity right around the world who are continuing to do what they have a lwa ys continuing to do what they have always done — that is, to bear witness, to report accurately and trut

is alan rusbridger, former editor of the guardian and now a member of facebook‘s supervisory oversight boardensure fact prevails overfiction? alan rusbridger, welcome to hardtalk. i'm very pleased to be here. alan, your latest book news and how to use it is subtitled what to believe in a fake news world. do you really believe we are living in a fake news world? i'm afraid we are. we are living in an age of complete information chaos and all of the surveys of trust show that the media is doing very badly. people don't know what to believe any longer, who to believe and who to trust. but to call it a ‘fake news world' is surely to undermine the importance of so many different media organisations and journalists of integrity right around the world, who are continuing to do what they have always done — that is to bear witness, to report accurately and truthfully, and to give their viewers, listeners and readers a picture of what is happening in the world today. well, i think actually, it's the opposite. it is really trying to emphasise the importance ofjournalism at its best as a method of under

stephen sackur talks to alan rusbridger — a member of facebook‘s oversight board.me to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. the covid—19 pandemic is a test of global public health systems. it also presents a profound challenge to our media and information networks. look online and you will find fact and fa kery locked in mortal combat on the dangers of the disease, the efficacy of lockdowns and the safety of the vaccines. my guest today is alan rusbridger, former editor of the guardian and now a member of facebook‘s supervisory oversight board. how do we ensure fact prevails overfiction? alan rusbridger, welcome to hardtalk. i'm very pleased to be here. your latest book, news and how to use it, is subtitled, "what to believe in a fake news world." do you really believe we are living in a fake news world? i'm afraid we are. we are living in an age of complete information chaos and all of the surveys of trust show that the media is doing very badly. people don't know what to believe any longer, who to believe and who to trust. but to call it a fake news world is surely to u

. >> facebook heading the final decision to permanently ban former president trump to its oversight board. trump was barred from the platform after the capital writer earlier this month. facebook says this board will review whether trump violated its community standards and if permanent removal would violate his human rights like freedom of expression was trump's account will remain suspended until a decision is made. we will discuss the award's redo. jillian: wrapper little wayne praising donald trump or his eleventh hour pardon tweeting i want to thank donald trump for recognizing i have so much more to give my family, my art and my community. >> is facing 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to illegal possession of a firearm. time is 11 minutes after the hour, west coast chaos striking on inauguration day but will the left ever condemn antifa violence. the chair of the washington state gop said democrats get a free pass from the media on this one. he joined us next. >> the repair shop owner at the center of the hunter biden laptop scandal talks to sean hannity ahead. >> it looked

could figure out how to build in transparency requirements, and whether that becomes a government oversight boardooks like, these things can't keep happening in a black box. when biden criticises big tech, he often picks out one company and one company alone — facebook. for him, it's become almost a byword for a free internet gone wrong. here's another quote from joe biden about facebook from that new york times interview. "facebook is propagating falsehoods they know to be false. there's no editorial impact at all on facebook. none. none whatsoever. it's irresponsible. it's totally irresponsible." and then, in an open letter to the company before the election, he asked them to do more to take down fake news. it didn't used to be this way — facebook execs reportedly had a good relationship with the 0bama administration — but then 2016 happened — cambridge analytica, the trump campaign's ruthlessly effective use of the social network, and things have gone downhill since then. ok, i'm recording... sarah miller is director of the american economic liberties project and also happens to be onjoe biden

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this is also interesting and we are talking about that reversal of course, right, facebook's oversight boardwere removed for breaking rules on hate speech, misinformation and other issues as well. these decisions are the first rulings for the board, this board is supposed to be independent. its inception came last year. the rulings do not include facebook's ban on former president trump which the board has 90 days to consider. so your thoughts on how this board is going to operate here. are they independent? does facebook really have to listen to them? and does any of this really matter within the facebook micro come. >> i know this board was hand selected by facebook. to suggest it's independent from facebook i think would not pass the smell test. ultimately, this board has some responsibility to try to apply the freedom -- especially in the united states, the freedom of speech values that we have as americans and the further it gets away, the more speech that is suppressed, the more content that is taken down and the more sort of companies that are deplatformed and lose large followings, f

oversight board for action to the review and approval. today is a workshop for you. give you an opportunity to ask us questions as the presentation gives the flavor of the work plan for the year to come to share what is on deck for ocii this coming year. >> thank you, interim director. i am the reporting management analyst and today we will be discussing the workshop on the rops for 21-22. i will cover the overview and debt and administrative portion of the budget and the project manager will speak to their respective work plans. next slide please. so as you may recall, these are the funding sources and we have the bond proceeds and we have the reserve balance which is property tax increment that we received in prior years and are allocating for the current year in use. we have other funds that include developer payments and grants. we have our redevelopment property tax trust fund which funds the enforceable obligations. we have the admin which is the administrative costs set by formula. next slide please. so the total request is $542.2

the competition director on possibly breaking names up an inside look at facebook's independent oversight boardnions are suddenly cropping up in and around silicon valley. we're going to start with this disconnect between fundamentals and valuations hit me baby, one more time traders are looking at this market like a genie in a bottle. britney spears and christina aguilera songs, you'll get them looking at a chart of tesla or snowflake or gamestop up over 100% i'm not trying to say this is the dot-com boom all over again but this is what it was like when you had certain stocks which had a clear story behind them soaring beyond the story, beyond the fundamentals, and you had people who made money in that name justifying staying in it and valuations that the math couldn't make happen i know you remember. >> i do, but, jon, we're going from talk of a bubble to talk of a mob. i mean, andrew left notable short seller, he wrote a letter to shareholders on try day saying they're going to stop coming to gamestop because the angry mob that owns the stock has committed multiple crimes that it will be tur

. >>> facebook's new oversight board issued its first rulings today, overturned four of the company'sions. one case involved facebook's removal of a post that appeared to disparage muslims as psychologically inferior the oversight board used the terms used i the post were not derogatory or violent. decisions made by the panel are binding, meaning that facebook ceo mark zuckerberg cannot challenge them in a few weeks, the board is set to decide whether to overturn facebook's ban on the former president. >>> 30 seconds left on a race to the finish gamestop shares surging after hours, due in part to the trading platform robinhood announcing it will allow limited buying of restricted securities tomorrow the ceo telling cnbc tonight the company initially limited trading in gamestop and other stocks to protect the firm and its millions of users. and now you know the news of this -- what is it today i think it's thursday today. january 28th, 2021 i'm shepard smith. >>> good morning, and happy friday it's 5:00 a.m. at cnbc headquarters the dow set to drop triple digits at the open, at the clo

is open-ended with no plans to lift but an executive says it's a major decision, so facebook's oversight boardhe board was created last year for users to appeal the company's restrictions imposed on them. it's not clear if mr. trump has actually challenged the ban on his account. >>> okay. the warriors look to stay hot. we're going to tell you how they did it tonight against new york. >>> and happening now, yosemite closed for the next several days. strong winds this week uprooted trees toppled them over. lodging and campgrounds have been closed because of the pandemic. we're back with more in a moment. >>> okay. the warriors at home taking on the knicks tonight. steph curry a little history. he needed eight three-pointers to tie reggie miller for all time. steph did hit five of them. it wasn't enough to catch reggie or to beat the knicks. warriors lose 119-104. their next game is saturday against utah. we are back with high-tech moves as it gets ready for the winter olympics 2022. want to save hundreds on your wireless bill? with xfinity mobile you can. how about saving hundreds on the new sa

. >>> facebook's new oversight board issued the first rulings today, overturned four decisions of theppeared to disparj muslims as psychologically inferior the oversight board ruled the term used in the post were not derogatory or violent. the decisions made by the independent panel are binding. meaning the facebook ceo mark zuckerberg can't challenge in a few weeks they will decide whether to overturn the ban on the former president the 30 seconds left on a race to the finish gamestop shares surging after hours. do due to the raid robinhood allowing restricted buying of the securities tomorrow. the ceo telling the company initially limited trading in gamestop and other stocks to protect the firm and its millions of users. and now you know the news. of this -- what is it today? i think it's thursday today. january the 28th, 2021 i'm shepard smith. i made a business out of my passion. i mean, who doesn't love obsessing over network security? all our techs are pros. they know exactly which parking lots have the strongest signal. i just don't have the bandwidth for more business. serious

so the oversight board will review the decision. board was created last year for users to appeal the restrictions imposed on them. not clear whether donald trump has officially challenged the ban on his trump. >>> from the agricultural fields of california to the most important room in the white house. a bust of cesar chavez sits behind the resolute office in the over office. damian trujillo joins us from the old chavez home where they say the placement of the statue surprised them. >>> cesar got out and now he finds himself in the oval office. the old home is still standing on sharp avenue, a plaque marking the spot considered a san jose historic landmark. this is a reminder of chavez's message. his bust in the center of the most revered office in the world. >> i was very excited, very proud. >> reporter: the chavez family said they got a call from the white house on tuesday asking if they could borrow the bust displayed in kern county. by the next day it was boxed and delivered. and it wasn't until the family saw the news that the

oversight board for action to the review and approval. today is a workshop for you. give you an opportunity to ask us questions as the presentation gives the flavor of the work plan for the year to come to share what is on deck for ocii this coming year. >> thank you, interim director. i am the reporting management analyst and today we will be discussing the workshop on the rops for 21-22. i will cover the overview and debt and administrative portion of the budget and the project manager will speak to their respective work plans. next slide please. so as you may recall, these are the funding sources and we have the bond proceeds and we have the reserve balance which is property tax increment that we received in prior years and are allocating for the current year in use. we have other funds that include developer payments and grants. we have our redevelopment property tax trust fund which funds the enforceable obligations. we have the admin which is the administrative costs set by formula. next slide please. so the total request is $542.2

they may have the decision on this oversight board, board that is supposed to hear appeals from people when their accounts get banned. after january 20, trump becomes a regular user. he is subject to the same kinds of three strikes roles as other users. he could be suspended more easily. he does not get the kind of leeway that he gets as a public leader. the line twitter and facebook often use with the president is listening, he is a public official. the public has a right to know what he is saying. that is transparency. they can disagree with it, they can be angry about it. but of course, this conversation changes when there are actual human lives at risk. emily: then there is what happened with parler, which might be more dramatic than putting off the president himself. you have amazon web services saying they will no longer service parler. they do not have a web hosting platform. the ceo says they are going to be off-line for at least a week. you wonder, we are so used to ht is on facebook, on twitter. it is difficult to say what is going on at the white house at this very moment al

what they want or missing the president of united states can't say what he want but your on the oversight board of facebook and very social media so you have to be careful maybe you haven't had a meeting yet can you actually tell me what you think of the censoring and banning of the president when i think it's a very difficult question and you're right this is a question that might go to facebook or was i boil it but i mean here in general the issue is between the president all the democratically elected directly to print democratically elected president or of a country which has a strong tradition of free speech and i think he has an overwhelming rights to be heard and for people to hear him in order to form judgments about him and that anything that looked as though he was being censored needs to be resisted may be until the moment in which he uses his social media accounts to do what he appears to have done the last week or in the weeks leading up to last week which is actually incitement to start i think i have some sympathy for the way that twitter . behaved you know i think it's more that

facebook�*s suspension of donald trump's account is to be reviewed by its new oversight board. indefinitely earlier this month, will be able to submit a user statement to a five—member case—review panel. its ruling will be binding and apply to instagram also. twitter has already banned him outright. the release of the james bond movie no time to die has been postponed to october from april, its producers say, another setback for movie theatres trying to rebuild a business crushed by the coronavirus pandemic. the movie's new debut date is 8 october, according to an announcement on the james bond website and twitter feed. put your hand up if you shop online. before britain left the eu, uk shoppers could buy from across europe with ease and speed. but post—brexit much has changed. new customs protocols mean the costs for uk retailers sending goods into the eu customers are much higher. and just three weeks into the new trading relationship, some retailers are discovering getting their returns back is very difficult, with some abandoning or maybe even burning goods because it's che

coming up in half an hour — stephen sackur talks to alan rusbridger — a member of facebook‘s oversight boardgood evening. the health secretary, matt hancock has warned that every time people "flex" the lockdown rules it "could be fatal" and has urged everyone to follow government restrictions. but the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the current rules may not be tough enough. in the latest 24—hour period, the number of people who have tested positive for covid—19 is 5a,940 with 619,91” virus tests conducted overall in the same period. the latest number of people who have died — within 28 days of a positive test - is 563. and the number of patients admitted to hospital in the past 2a hours stands at 4,066. this report from our political correspondent nick eardley contains flash photography. central london this morning as quiet as you will ever see it, with shops shut, pubs closed. some parts of the country are deserted again. but there is also real concern in government that not everybody is following the new lockdown and the strict stay at home message. the government rules only are one

the oversight board is made up of academics, lawyers, and other xbox -- experts.h messaging site parler has lost its cage of a court order forcing amazon to restore its privileges. a judge and seattle turned on the request after parler argued that the decision by amazon was politically motivated to benefit twitter. the parler ceo it says he has gone into hiding after receiving death threats. it is the end of the line for the car assembly lines in the philippines. it was these productions after its contract with local partner expires. it told the government that it would hold production of the hatchback. -- is also close factories in the philippines. let's take a look at stocks we are watching in asia. sophie: in joke yet are watching japanese cosmetics maker shiseido as it is in talks to sell its personal-care products up to 1.9 billion dollars. shiseido shifting its focus to premium products. so watching for moves in japanese makers like panasonic after the vexing minister tweeted about the government's plan for procuring machines to keep and transport the pfizer

facebook's oversight board will review it. estrictions imposed on them. it is not clear whether donald trump has actually challenged the ban on his account. >> a hearing today to reconsider scott peterson's death sentence was postponed. attorneys all appeared in court this morning. the judge said the state first needs to fully retry peterson on his guilt. peterson's attorney will have to file paperwork for a whole new trial before resentencing can move forward. peterson was convicted of killing his wife lacy and their unborn son back in 2005, but a judge overturned his death sentence due to questions about potential juror bias. peterson's attorney said the judge's decision to delay sentencing is the right thing to do. >> and so she's making sure that he is heard and that if he ever decides he wants to move forward, that he has the opportunity. >> the next court date is set for april 27th. prosecutors have vowed to seek the death penalty again. >> well, coaches for youth sports in california want out of the state's tiered reopen

facebook returning trump's account suspension to what they call a oversight board. t of all, what is that mean and how soon could they make a decision? lauren: stuart, it will take them three months. is a newly formed board of five academics, attorneys and human rights advocates from around the world that are going to determine if trumps facebook and instagram accounts should be restored. this panel is ultimately the check and balance on big tax power to curb political speech. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg cannot override with the board decides and trouble getting opportunity to submit a statement on why he thinks his accounts of 60-- 60 million total followers should be restored, but i don't think president trump will respond to them, i mean, 90 days is a long time and he may join another network, might start his own, who knows. i think facebook is in this odd position that they don't want to be in big they don't want to be an arbiter of truth. they reacted fast to my january 6, and now they are hearing from around the world, politicians, lawmakers, users, why is tru

account, and it may be a situation where they had the decision -- they handed it off to their oversight boardwhich is where people appeal to when they get banned. after inauguration, trump is a regular user and subject to the same three strikes rules as other users. he could be suspended more easily. not the kind of leeway he gets as a public leader. the line that twitter and facebook often used with the president is he is a public official in the public has a right to know what he is saying. that is transparency. and can disagree with that be angry about it and do that in the open. the conversation changes when there are actual human lives at risk. emily: then of course there is what happened with parler, which might be more dramatic than cutting off the president himself. amazon web services saying they will no longer service parler, so they don't have a web hosting platform. the ceo says they will be off-line for at least a week. we are used to seeing what is going on in the president's head, whether it is on facebook or twitter. it's difficult to say what is going on at the white house at

facebook reports a new independent oversight board will review its decision to suspend his account indefinitely company took it offline after the insurrection at the u.s. capitol the board is charged with deciding whether to reinstate thek the decision can't be binding, meaning the ceo mark zuckerberg would be able overturn it. they will begin accepting public comments on this case next week. >>> american outfitters is looking to close 250 stores. most of them in malls. the chief financial officer said the closures will happen over the next two-to-three years. he says the focus is growing into lingerie and active wear brand aerie. shares of american eagle up during mid-day trading. >>> and united airlines reports it lost nearly $2 billion in the fourth quarter alone its revenue down 69% concern about the pandemic kept most people grounded the ceo says united has enough cash on hand to get through the slow recovery but that the vaccine rollout will determine the future of the entire airline industry >>> on wall street, the dow down 12 the s&p up 1 the nasdaq up 74, pushed higher by amazon and ap

they're referring the trump matter to an oversight board believing our decision was necessary and rightignificance. we think it's important for the board to review it and reach an independent judgment whether it should be upheld from the facebook vp of global affairs. they set up this board, i can't remember within the last 18 months or two years basically to try to help them because as you remember ceo mark zuckerberg said social media should not be the arbiter of truth and now you have a situation where instead of just making their decision on their own they'll take it to this independent board. what do you think about that? >> it is going toob secret court. 5 of the 20 people on the board. mark zuckerberg cannot overrule the decision by this secret court. it is binding. 5 of the 20 chosen at random. they won't be identified. if you go through the list of people, one quarter of the total 20-member board will from the united states. one of the members of facebook's board is pamela carlin. you might remember her, a stanford law professor testifying against president trump at his first i

he will remain locked out until facebook's oversight board reaches a decision. >>> ucsf is moving forward with a plan to develop housing for healthcare workers despite push back from the city. uc regions voted in favor of a plan to modernize the campus. it would include 1200 units of housing for the ucsf workforce. leaders urged to postpone until march, cited several concerns mainly that the project would create congestion. >>> more than a million california renters could face eviction if lawmakers don't extend the moratorium expiring at the end of the month. new research found 1.1 million households have fallen behind since march by average of $3,400. without a deal in sacramento, renters who can't pay at least 25% of back rent could face eviction as soon as next month. >>> 5:37. republicans and democrats are butting heads over the hefty price tag of president biden's coronavirus relief package. diane king hall is joining us live from new york city with that story and lots more in today's money watch report. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it appears unlikely president biden's $

decision to indefinitely suspend the accounts of former president trump to its independent content oversight boarde social media company blocked mr. trump's access to his facebook and instagram accounts following the capital riot earlier this month. instead of the time the suspension would last until at least the end of his presidential term and perhaps indefinitely. a federal judge is rejecting a demand from social media site parler that amazon restore web hosting services. amazon dropped parler january 10, 4 days after the capital riot. the judge says parler failed to show it was likely to prevail on the merits of its claims or that the public interest supported a preliminary injunction requiring the restoration of service. late this afternoon, parler's chief operating officer said the company welcomes by the congressman sean patrick maloney to have the fbi conducted robust investigation of its policies and actions. we are learning more details tonight about the offer from amazon to help with the vaccination effort, in particular the timing of the outreach. this comes amid serious issues about t

donald trump will be allowed to return to facebook facebook ceo mark zuckerberg says the company's oversight board will review its decision to suspend his account for 2 weeks following the capitol riot. at the same time zuckerberg said the suspension would last up until president biden took office. a quick look now at national news police and protesters could be seen clashing in russia protesters are demanding the release of russian opposition leader alexei nevada lee. police have arrested more than 3,000 protesters across the country. the bunny was arrested on january 17th when he returned to moscow from germany where he recovered from the severe nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the kremlin. authorities say his stay in germany violated terms of a suspended sentence. let's go back now to our local weather forecast from meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez is really looking very closely now at the big rain system that's coming midweek yeah that's right just seen we certainly want and need the wet weather in fact you had a pretty dismal wet season. >>20 to 30% of average, but not like this let's t

much better than china in the wake of the enron scandal, there is a public company acounting oversight board audits auditors chinese companies can use their own orders that don't fall under the per view of u.s. regulators that brings me to the new law, holding foreign companies accountable act. they need to disclose they are not owned or controlled by their governments and need to let the public company acoucounting audt oversee it their stock can get delisted mainly, though, what this does is kick responsibility over the scc working on rules to govern chinese stocks so they are held as the same standards as the american stocks you might be buying whenever the scc rolls out the rules, the clock will tick chinese companies may not be able to compile which means governments will have three years to hammer something out with our government before they get d listed i'm glad our government took action bef years given we're hearing president elect biden picked gary the rigorous former head to run the securities and exchange commission will take this issue seriously. still, this process will take y

economic crisis and a massive debt restructuring plan known as pro mesa the federally appointed oversight board created in 2016 is managing puerto rico's, 70 billion dollar debt restructuring. and due to the devastation hurricane maria caused more than 3 years ago us taxpayers have already spent about 40 billion dollars for repairs and infrastructural improvements, especially to the power grid which was absolutely crippled leaving millions without electricity for many many months. last week the trump administration announced it will award a nearly 4 billion dollar grant to help puerto rico rebuild water and wastewater treatment plants pumping stations in reserve wars, even today, thousands of homes remain damaged. >>that was phil keating reporting in the last 8 to be added was hawaii in 1959 puerto rico would need congressional approval to join the list of republicans are hesitant they believe it would add to democrats to the senate. a senior democratic lawmakers are moving to fulfill president biden's desire to expand the child tax credit by drafting legislation that would send reoccurring mon

i think facebook is trying to respond with that by doing things like it's oversight board, which is forming. which in certain very limited cases, this board will have the ability to overrule the ultimate decision-maker, mark zuckerberg, on content decisions. what individual piece of content can come up and come down. and the board might even be able to make a suggestion that is adopted about facebook's policies. this remains to be seen. it's a pretty long time for this board to actually be set up and start to making rulings. i think that around the time 2018, not long after, he severed think a lot about governance and cad conversations with him during the course of the book. at one point he was thinking a lot about governance. ask him about that. he had did a lot of thinking about it and he is a sponge for information. he contacted people who were experts on governance and gathered them for dinners at their house at his house and had conversations with them so he could learn more about that. so i think he's trying to think ahead of the curve on that as well. >> interesting. where do you thi

facebook, they're looking at their trump ban, they've designed an oversight board, their version of theme court? >> i was trying to let you finish the sentence without laughing. no, it's not going to be a fair hearing. i can't see anyone on this so-called board raising their hand saying you should reinstatement donald trump's -- reinstate donald trump's account. i just think it's a joke, and it's more lip service coming from these big tech companies. >> there's a little secret here, charles -- charles: go ahead. >> mark zuckerberg once told donald trump face to face he's the number one, number one reference on facebook. donald trump leaves facebook, it has an immediatefect. it won't take them down, but it will send a message. and if look at other world leaders and how they feel about the shutdown like an angela merkel. charles: merkel and macron both coming out saying it's a dumb idea, it goes against freedom. general freedom of speech and voicing your opinion. deneen, david, i wish we had more time. thank you both very much. we'll talk again real soon. >>> president joe biden about to

island and economic crisis and a massive debt restructuring plan for the federally appointed oversight boardbt restructuring. due to the devastation hurricane maria caused more than three years ago, u.s. taxpayers have already spent $40 billion for repairs and infrastructural improvements especially to the power grid which was absolutely crippled leaving millions without electricity for many months. last week, the trump administration which has blasted the island as corrupt and inept announced it will reward in nearly $4 billion grant to help puerto rico rebuild water and wastewater treatment plans, pumping stations, and reservoirs. even today, thousands of homes remain damaged. the last time u.s. added estate, it was hawaii in 1959. it would take congress but republicans are resistant as they believe the state of puerto rico would automatically add to democrats to the senate. brett? >> bret: thank you. when we come back, the panel on president biden's economic initiatives, the impeachment trial plans, and battling the coronavirus pandemic. >> this almost doesn't have a partisan piece to it.

facebook is asking their oversight board to review their indefinite suspension of former president donaldfacebook says they stand by their decision to suspend him for inciting supporters to storm the u. s capitol. but now they're asking for an independent judgment on whether to uphold the ban. the group includes a former prime minister of denmark, along with journalists, human rights experts and legal scholars. twitter has permanently banned president trump former. president trump that is from their platform watching this. you all right? checking out the weather out there. we've got to some rain to talk about check out some of these numbers over the next few days. you see, they're just just these are estimates. rain forest in there is the whole state's getting at all the way south of santa barbara. here. we ended monday. look at these accumulations, so it's going to be it's an atmospheric river got a lot of cold air with it to the north and really fires up next week. so tomorrow's event, so these are the rangers be the rain totals for through thursday s o. that's quite a bit almost six in

partnered with journalistic organizations for third party fact checking and it has created a separate oversight boardrts to handle controversial content decisions. this move of twitter's is drawing criticism on twitter from republican members of congress who have long accused twitter of bias. representative ken buck saying crowd source censorship, what could go wrong representative dan bishop, twitter turns libs into armies of sensors feeling very 1984, and twitter is watching to see what actually does work and it will make changes accordingly. shep. >> julia, thank you. >>> the fbi reports social media has been helping agents track down the suspects who stormed the capitol. so far 150 people have been arrested investigators say some of the rioters bragged about their actions online, even some deleted their accounts were still caught because investigators say family and friends had taken screen shots and sent them in the fbi reports it has 200,000 photo and video tips related to that assault. >>> you know, there are houses and there are mansions and then there's villa, one of the most expensive homes

president trump will be allowed to return to facebook facebook ceo mark zuckerberg says the company's oversight board will review its decision to suspend his account for 2 weeks following the capitol riot at the time zuckerberg said the suspension would last until president biden took office. a federal judge has denied an effort to bring back the far right social media platform. parler ruling that amazon is within its rights to refuse to host the app on its servers. amazon took the site off its web hosting service after the july 6 in sir action and repeated demands by amazon for parlor to remove posts promoting violence. and the judge agreed that amazon is not obligated to host so-called incendiary speech. we'll go back now to our coronavirus coverage as more people slowly get access to the covid vaccine. health officials are still trying to determine how long they remain active. lonnie wong tells us about some encouraging news for researchers at u c davis. >>medical research using rhesus monkeys has its critics but studies at the california national primate research center at u c davis has gather cr

. >>> facebook's new oversight board issued its first rulings today, overturned four of the company'sa post that appeared to disparge muslims as psychologically inferior the board used the terms used in the post were not derogatory or violent. decisions made by the panel are binding, meaning that facebook ceo mark zuckerberg cannot challenge them in a few weeks, the board is set to decide whether to overturn facebook's ban on the former president. >>> 30 seconds left on a race to the finish gamestop shares surging after hours, due in part to the trading platform robinhood announcing it will allow limited buying of restrijted securities tomorrow the ceo telling cnbc tonight the company initially limited trading in gamestop and other stocks to protect the firm and its millions of users. and now you know the news. of this, what is it today? i think it's thursday today. (naj) at fisher investments, we do things differently and other money managers don't understand why. (money manager) because our way works great for us! (naj) but not for your clients. that's why we're a fiduciary, obligat