in retrospect were you troubled by the way that twitter and facebook handled the story about hunter biden's laptop? whether you agree with any part of it in terms of true or not true or whatever, where you come in retrospect, troubled by the handling of that? >> guest: well, first of all i would say, yes, i am troubled precisely because i do have these concerns and they arise both with orth without any sortf government intervention because the response of the way these companies handled it was in response to a public uproar by one loud segment of the community. and then the course when they did it you have all the people who didn't like it making their own loud response, and the companies are sort of stuck in this position. but thehe "new york post" story highlights exactly the concern i have is here is a newspaper that is protected under i the first amendment that is given its views. it's not a russian operation something like that. at the same time there are other ways that can handle it and there are things that we can do. i am going to, first of all, like anybody who's written a book, i

i disagree with a lot of actions that twitter takes, facebook, google and from my own perspective that is right of center, free market, conservative, to my way of thinking there is a bias in their actions against those that have that perspective but nevertheless, that said, i have always said that these companies have a first amendment right to put up on their platforms what they wish and they have a first amendment right to take down what they wish. that is a different question though which i assume we will get to hear probably at some point of that section 230 immunity and liability from being sued because i don't think they have a first moment right necessarily to be immune so all of that is a way of saying when you get to the question of solutions and what to do about it and it is really difficult and i think i will just throw this out before turning it back to harold because we may ultimately end up in the same place and i think and i am beginning to believe that it is really a competition problem and the way to ultimately improve the situation really is to have more platforms and

instagram and facebook and twitter, all the social media companies decide through their incentives theyou. what works and what doesn't. facebook uses prime shares doesn't have a re- share button the main incentive is they are followers. each of these are in such a way that changes our behavior and how we interact with the world. i think that is a very important thing to think about, we have to stop thinking about individuals and think about the structural things these companies do to change what we see and do. >> the trepidation among social media companies in the silicon valley area about reform of section 230? >> absolutely. if they were to go away or get revived, they could be reliable for a lot more content. the whole reason the internet was able to be the size it is now is because amazon doesn't have to look at every single product before it goes up, you can just have every single minute of video before it goes up. if they were legally liable, they would have to. it stopped the companies in the talk but also would be difficult for every internet capital. the idea that if we reform

this is why i'm here at dillard demands a multinational i'm not a forbes like twitter facebook instagram invest in more stuff to monitor online content and to employ people who can understand the cultural and societal specifics of different regions of the wild in order to adequately assess online content social media platform should invest in more people from within countries a preview of the company so inevitably to portland some think it will 1st of all it will take 48 hours or 3 days or a week to be the 2nd thing to have more people from the region from lebanon or from jordan or from egypt because the grid know the context of these so whatever looks like something that does not violate the community standards of this platforms it's might actually put people at risk in our countries what other rules that determine how we communicate with one another shouldn't the same rules apply online as well as. this would also mean prohibiting users from remaining anonymous if they abuse others online that's the only way to work towards tackling online hate speech against women what have your exper

emily: that was my question, instagram, twitter, facebook, tiktok, they are not going anywhere. rack up more users, what is the point you're trying to make? what do you want users to learn from it? nick: 87% of kids today want to be a famous influencer. that is their dream job. 40 years ago they wanted to be a doctor or teacher or astronaut. now that is their goal, they want to be famous influencers. i think it's a pretty bad commentary on the state of society. most of these influencers are not real. it's based on complete space metrics. on the others, you have the companies that are doing nothing to police it. there are hundreds of millions of fake accounts on social media. the reason is because they get to pretend they have more users than they really do. if instagram really cared and tried to kill this, they would probably have half the users that they say they have on social media. emily: it's funny, we are reporting twitter results today and you wrote a book on twitter. much of the companies be doing? you have a call to action here. nick: i think they should take responsibi

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partido del presidente mexicano presentÓ una iniciativa de ley para reglamentar los contenidos en twitter, facebooka polÉmica. >> no me gusta la censura. >>este influenciar asegura que la regulaciÓn parece mÁs censura que protecciÓn a los usuarios. >> tienen un miedo y las redes sociales estÁn teniendo mÁs poder en el mundo, no quiere que se salga de sus manos. >> pretende regular las redes sociales con mÁs de 1 millÓn de usuarios. algo que generÓ crÍtica entre los usuarios. >> estoy completamente en contra de eso. >> la ley se va a discutir en semanas. >> el gobierno no tiene que meter mano allÍ, cada aplicaciÓn tiene que tener sus normas. >> el mandatario acusÓ al director de polÍtica pÚblica de esa red social y de favorecer a la oposiciÓn, twitter suspendiÓ varias cuentas por llevar a cabo acciones masivas engaÑosas. el pretexto de proteger a los derechos de ciudadanos. >> esta iniciativa llega pocos meses antes de las elecciones intermedias. en la ciudad de mÉxico, alejandro madrigal como univisiÓn. patricia: las autoridades tomaron medida ante el aumento de los migrantes que intentan cruzar il

that hey look twitter allows total pornography and yet you're not banning twitter twitter so why are you banning us facebook you tube of instagram to talk and twitter the most popular online platforms today a brave new world with no boundaries the pioneers achieved a real breakthrough in 2006 when facebook opened up to pull internet users aged 13 and over. in the same year google both the only one video sharing platform you tube which had rapidly gained popularity the audience for these services has grown with each passing year if you aren't so he media and you say isn't bread great aren't kidneys wonderful isn't music great isn't oh i love i. love people on close social media aren't political they're not 'd they're doing stupid in an auction was things lionel is a well known media analyst and radio host he certainly. even though the internet has long been a reliable tool for promoting anything you like there are only certain things that you can say take a currently relevant topic for example covert vaccines sputnik v russia's inoculation had come under a lot of criticism in the west even in its early devel

instagram and facebook and twitter all of these social media companies, decide what bubbles to the top through their insintives insend tiff -- incentives. to be facebook the things are reshared. instagram's main incentive is you want to build more followers, and so each of these apps works in such a way that changes our behavior and changes how be interact with the world, and i think that is a very important thing to think about when you're not -- you just -- we have to stop thinking but individual pieces of parts and start think can about the structural things these companies do to change what we read and see and do. >> host: irthere trepidation among the social media companies in the silicon valley area about reform of section 230? >> guest: absolutely. it's section 230 were to go a. or get revised, they could be liable for a lot of -- a lot more content. the whole reason the internet was able to scale up to the size it is now is because amazon doesn't have to look at every single product review before it goes up. youtube doesn't have to watch every sinkle minute of video and i they

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so i think in this case, dealing with companies like facebook and twitter and other social media companies, tech and google and youtube, i think the landscape is much different. these are not products. they provide services that are free. welfare guided u.s. antitrust policies for the last several decades are up for an overhaul. i would think we're going to be seeing a lot of efforts in congress, a lot of efforts from the justice department, from the white house, to push some of these ideas, to redefine how we measure anomaly power in the hands of these companies. but i would expect that the real action is going to take a bit longer than the next 12-18 months. peter: emily birnbaum. emily: yeah, so today the committee is holding their first hearing of the 117th congress. they are asking experts over the next month, they think there are going to be multiple hearings, when they start to hone in on legislation. the chairman of the committee says he intends to put out legislation either through one big package or multiple packages, some with bipartisan port -- bipartisan support, some without.

this is why i'm here and delighted to moms a multinational online platforms like twitter facebook instagram invest in more stuff to monitor online content and to employ people who can understand the cultural and societal specifics of different regions of the wild in order to adequately assess online content social media platform should invest in more people from within countries but if you are the company so inevitably to portland some think it will 1st of all it will take 48 hours or 3 days or a week to be the 2nd thing to have more people from the region from lebanon or from jordan or from egypt etc because the green know the context of these so whatever looks like something that does not violate the community standards of this platforms it's might actually put people at risk you know what countries what other rules that determine how we communicate with one another shouldn't the same rules apply online as well as. this would also mean prohibiting users from remaining anonymous if they abuse others online that's the only way to work towards tackling online hate speech against women what h

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then and what's next will there be some will again momentum will it be one way or the other via twitter facebookis has been shut down effectively as off today via twitter. social media channels will there be some sort of organizational mass protest will people come out in force i think that's what we need to to look out for this city would you say there's anything behind the army's claims that there were irregularities during the election has there been any proof of that from independent observers not. international observers have said that the election was largely fair and transparent. and also their commentators there are kind of comparing at the military's reaction to after how donald trump reacted after the election claiming that it was rigged and it was a fraud and i think similarily the military is using this tactic to call to kind of told time and the to make to plan the next move and but however most international observers are saying that the it was over 75 to 80 percent that they voted for instance which democratic party that's been international observers have also been commenting wit

i would say that given how we sought the suspensions occur in the successions between twitter, facebook and rapid number of other platforms. my guess would be that the impact of the decision, whatever will probably extended to other platforms and other technological means as well. but i guess we will see how that relates. i want to goow back to helen and ask you a follow-up question. one of the issues that facebook has asked the board when it comes to the trump man really relates to the 'political theater' question and that is the issue should political leaders have a greater amount of discretion or be given a wider area to deal with this. if the most part, it was yes because of high public interest. the newsworthiness exception. now it seems that were sort of turning in another direction. when given as a former head of state, any insights that you might have on this particular issue. it's welcomed. i think you may be on mute. helen: . [inaudible]. on the newsworthy question, i think that is a guiding light or facebook. it will have to be a guiding light for us as well. because of the s

then and what's next will there be some will again momentum will it be one way or the other via twitter facebookis has been shut down effectively as of today via twitter. social media channels will there be some sort of organizational mass protest will people come out in force i think that's what we need to look out for is to cheap would you say there's anything behind the army's claims that there were irregularities during the election has there been any proof of that from independent observers no so. international observers have said that the election was largely fair and transparent. and also their commentators there are kind of comparing at the military's reaction to after how donald trump reacted after the election claiming that it was rigged and it was a fraud and i think similarily the military is using this tactic to call to kind of told time and the to make to plan the next move and but however most international observers are saying that the it was over 75 to 80 percent that they voted for instance which democratic party that's been international observers have also been commenting wit

then and what's next will there be some will again momentum will it be one way or the other via twitter facebookis has been shut down effectively as off today via twitter. social media channels will there be some sort of organisational mass protest will people come out in force i think that's what we need to look out for the city would you say there's anything behind the army's claims that there were irregularities during the election has there been any proof of that from independent observers no so. international observers have said that the election was largely fair and transparent. and also their commentators there are kind of comparing at the military's reaction to after how donald trump reacted after the election claiming that it was rigged and it was a fraud and i think similarily the military is using this tactic to call to kind of told time and the to make to plan the next move and but however most international observers are saying that the it was over 75 to 80 percent that they voted for instance which democratic party that's been international observers have also been commenting with

twitter, facebook,and a rapid number of other platforms might be the impact of this decision, whatever it is, to the extent other platforms and other technological needs, as well. i guess we'll see how that relates. i want to go back and ask a follow-up question. one of the things you ask the board to consider relates to the leader question. should they be given a water birth to say things? and the answer, for the most part, was yes. facebook has a newsworthiness impression. now we're turning it in other direction. as a former head of state, i would love the insights you may have on this particularly thorny issue. i think you may be on mute. >> on the newsworthy question, i think that is a guiding line for facebook and will have to be for us, as well. at the same time, when someone is a public figure, it might be what they're sing. but at the desk saying. but at -- saying. that's always been the balance that you have to strive. i want to go back a little bit about what is the purpose of the oversight board. i'm not here to defend facebook. i have no interest in facebook. i don't care a

operation closely monitored the web's darkest corners, ranging from mainstream sites such as twitter, facebook, and reddit, two fringe boards like 4khan, to the donald.win, an offshoot of a banned reddit community dedicated to rabidly supporting all things trump. they actively monitored the exact sites, like the donald.win, on whse s recollectionists wrote their posts. so what would trump and his teae monitoring these sites? what would his supporters have said? they would have seen a clear road map of exactly what happened. this is an example of a post that was captured from one of the sites dedicated to donald trump that we just talked about. shortly before the site was taken down. and the meme reads, "the capitol is our goal. everything else is a distraction. every corrupt member of congress locked in one room and surrounded by real americans is an opportunity that will never present itself again." let that sink in. think about that. the exact thing that happened on january 6, that whetut loud on sites th a third-party site captured a post on the donald.win, where one user posted, "this cann

be then and what's next will there be some gain momentum will it be one way or the other via twitter facebook is has been shut down effectively as off today via twitter. social media channels will there be some sort of organizational mass protest will people come out in force i think that's what we need to look out for the city would you say there's anything behind the army's claims that there were irregularities during the election has there been any proof of that from independent observers no so international observers have said that the election was largely fair and transparent. and also their commentators there are kind of comparing at the military's reaction to after how donald trump reacted after the election claiming that it was rigged and it was a fraud and i think similarily the military is using this tactic to call to kind of told time and the to make to plan the next move and but however. international observers are saying that the it was over 75 to 80 percent that they voted for instance which democratic party that's been international observers have also been commenting with quit

facebook and social media. spend three seconds on twitter, you will see commentary on these issues. one of the challenges is over the last decade, people have limited attention spans, coming up with nuanced and complex solutions. people want a quick, one-size-fits-all solution that will solve all our problems. the oversight board, we have never claimed to be that way, but a lot of people want to dismiss the oversight board and look for something new, but any real solution while have to involve different pieces of the puzzle and all of us trying to work together and share our learnings and figure this out. >> if i could add, on the solution of content moderation, it is not for governments. i am in europe right now and i hear that european governments talking about how they want to do something, but belarus, turkey, ukraine, those countries, every time something happens, russia, of course, the first thing governments do is shut down social media. they don't want anyone to get in contact with each other. we have to have a deep conversation. some countries, i would say most countries in

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