facebook? randolph: if i were mark zuckerberg come i don't think i would have imposed a permanent ban. most of what our former president says on twitter and so forth, i don't necessarily agree. but on the facebook oversight board's decision, i think there are some positives. the main positive is that the board did come down fairly clearly to say that the decision that was made was standardless. it was really unclear what the basis was for it, and they didn't mention any bones about that. that is my view, and it is the fact, peter, that the action couldn't be tied specifically to any known standards. that, i think, creates unease among those that share my concern about the power of these platforms. one thing i would say by way of criticizing the decision, i don't understand why they would take another six months for facebook to make a decision. i'm not sure what other information they are going to gather. maybe the board is watching what mr. trump says day by day, but that kind of open-ended is what bothers me some. that part of the decision i don't understand, but i will say this, it is obviously of great interest what facebook has do

what facebook, twitter and google have done is a toal disgrace and embarrassment. free speech has been taken away from the president of the united states because the radical left lunatics, all caps, are afraid of the truth but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and

is it donald trump starts his own twitter, facebook, instagram? is it something you are considering? >> i am getting the big word out because we are doing releases and every time i do a release, it is all over the place. it is better than twitter, much more elegant than twitter and twitter is very boring. people are leaving twitter. it has become during -- become boring. it was like a failed concept. it was failed. it became exciting and i think i had a lot to do with it, it became exciting. now, it is boring and no good. host: we should be hearing news from the facebook oversight for -- by 9:00. we will keep you posted. pennsylvania of next. should former president trump be reinstated? margaret, what you think? caller: no, he should not, period. i will not go into a bunch of details about it because he cannot be trusted. he has already shown us what he can do it. i would say no. host: to bellevue, washington. democrats line. caller: absolutely not. the six bankruptcy filer, womanizer, liar, people died because of his rhetoric. his antiaging comme

they are not as public as we have seen with twitter and facebook but they are still occurring. to me that's the sort of thing that we are experiencing right now is just come is one expansion of the larger conversations, communities bumping up against each other, trying to find what appropriate speech looks like in their own realm. but also using this retraction, people are going to private spaces, and to meet both of those things are working in concert and i'm concerned especially that were talking about this issue, what are the solutions? to me that's the big, big concern, it's what can we do to solve this problem. i'm not really so worried or so convinced that there really is any sort of pure technical or legal solution to really solve this problem, if it truly is a problem. >> host: country if i d follow one for just a second before we start talking about the solutions. i think the way will put that, some extent illustrates my concern. i don't doubt, i don't think anyone could doubt there's a heck of a lot of speech that occurs all over the internet, and that there's more ob

still, that is what i think probably is most important part of what is going on within twitter and facebook that these conversations are determining certain kinds of things that entire communities are talking about but at the same time, as much as we are talking about the concern of these large platforms, there are very, very clear benefits. i have met people from around the world and my friends that live in spain and in the west coast that i have, you know, that i met in physical space because i knew them in interacted with them online. that also is a part of this conversation that i wish we really do need to add which is that these can indication mediums do allow for people to come indicate and connect and to learn in a very expansive way. you know, i'm embedded in these communities online that i don't think i would have gotten this whole bunch of information, research studies, i would not know about a whole bunch of things that are going on if it weren't for these communities. so is much as there are concerns about stifling free-speech or stifling the agenda and changing and working the

the power of money cannot be ignored here because facebook, if you think they could be shamed into putting president trump back on the platform or twitteryou got to look at the stock prices over the last year. facebook is up nearly 100 points, nearly 50% increase if you look at the stock a year ago today. twitter stock doubled. to put donald trump or stop conservatives from the perspective. several top executives are working in the biden administration from those companies so if the revolving door between the two, i just don't see it happening. jon: something like 86% of americans get their news from social media these days? >> that's right. they get their news often or sometimes from their smart phones or computer. social media has never been more powerful and you probably do it, i do it, we go on our phone and scroll through and look at headlines and gather news stories from facebook and twitter and click from there. we are not going to the front of our driveways and more to grab the newspaper everything builders through social media and obviously television as well. donald trump is going to fight back through creating his own platfor

is the answer donald trump starts his own twitter, facebook, instagram? is that something you are considering? guest: i think all of that. i am getting a big word -- >> every time i do a release it's all over the place. it's better than twitter. much more elegant than twitter. twitter is very boring. a lot of people are leaving twitter. twitter is becoming very boring. when i started with twitter years ago it was like a failed thing. concept. media, platform. it was failed. and it became exciting. i think that had a lot to do with it to be honest t became very exciting. and now it's boring and it's no good anymore. people -- host: the former president on fox news with sean hannity. and since then he has launched a blog post site. here's the headline from reuters, trump launches to post ahead of his facebook ruling on his ban. that ruling is set for -- to be announced at 9:00 this morning. let's hear from callers. joe first in indianola, iowa. hi, there, democrats line. caller: top of the morning, to you. host: top of the morning. caller: he should be banne

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facebook and twitter suspended him. it was seen by many reporters as censoring conservativeoices. ers, he had stepped too far. >> the facebook suspension was to be ratified by the oversight board. it is supposedly independent of facebook. the board acts as a court judging on controversial moderation decisions. >> let's have a look at what the oversight board said. it upheld the decision to restrict president trump's access to content. but it did not impose indefinite suspension. it has given facook six months. for now, donald trump only has its own platform. this is it. from the desk of donald trump, it's his website. it is a feat of messages -- feed of messages. here is our support -- reporter. >> this is something that can be shared on facebook, twitter, instagram, platforms that he is suspended from. a number of his supporters will do that. since the riots at the capital, a number of the supporters have migrated to other social media platforms. one of those is telegram. it's a little bit like facebook and that there are other channels you can join. it is encrypted and hard to fi

what happened on iran, social media, or persian social media, twitter, facebook, where especially twitter, where it was supposed to be hosting the national dialogue, that it's become very much weaponized by various various political groups, interest groups. you see massive, massive troll armies by supported by their on, in government, by the saudi government, israeli group. and also the u. s. data apartment funds of some of these groups. and it really years the conversation away from organic dialogue among citizens, to the point that it's become very radicalized very toxic and ordinary people. when you talk about president twitter, it's just something that people don't want to get involved and they may go on to read. but everyone talks about how to talk, the club house has broken that sentiment to some extent. one is that it's hard to have set of armies on club house, or at least they haven't figured it out. you need a working phone. you need an actual wife. you need to pretend like every were a real person. it's hard to have one person sit at a computer and 100 twitter accounts like they

if you like american history tv keep up with us during the week on facebook twitter and youtube learn about what happened this day in history and see preview clips of upcoming programs follow us at c-spanhistory. a century ago on may 31st 1921 racial tensions in tulsa, oklahoma led to an armed mob of white men marching on the city's predominantly african-american greenwood district the arrest of a young black man for his interactions with a white woman and a downtown office building triggered the unrest over the next day the neighborhood known as black wall street would be the scene of shootings arson and looting while official totals put the number killed at 36 historians now believe the toll was as high as 300 35 blocks of the city were left in ruins american history tv and washington journal will be live on memorial day may 31st at 8:30 am eastern to mark the anniversary and explore the consequences of the days events joining us from the tulsa historical society in museum. we'll be local author and attorney hannibal johnson whose latest book is black wall street 100 an american cit

through sport, huge amounts of traffic is diverted to sites like instagram, facebook and twitter, an champion lewis hamilton, a huge game, man united versus liverpool, nothing. the result of that fixture could see manchester city crowned champions yet nothing in the form of celebration from their players on social media. facebook, instagram and twitter are going to miss out on billions of views this weekend due to the boycott and these major clubs not participating on their platforms. in terms of companies investing in the ads on these platforms, the traffic isn't going to be there. the spotlight seems to be firmly on social media companies, their message remains the same — that they are committed to making their platforms a safe space for everyone. this isn't about profit and it's not about money. we've been working on some of these tools for a very long time regardless of any calls for a boycott. generation by generation, athletes have shared stories of being racially abused at work. yet each storyteller hopes they will be the last to have to tell it. nesta mcgregor, bbc news. we c

facebook has a dial for hateful content, can the company dial it down now? why doesn't it dial it down already? and to all of the representatives who are here today from youtube, twitter, as well as facebook, can you commit to providing access data to independent researchers to help us better understand and address the scourge of hate and harassment online? >> senator, thank you. and let me start by saying i completely agree that the rise in hate speech and hate crimes is very concerning and is a priority for us. and i'll just point to one quick example, which is we started publishing the prevalence in our quarterly reports we put out, we now publish the prevalence of hate speech. so we look through with a fine tooth comb to see what we missed. and the prevalence of hate speech on our service is very low, less than a tenth of 1%. but it's something that we're really focused on finding. and now i'm happy to say that more than 95% of the content that we remove for hate speech violations, we find ourselves before anybody reports it to us. so we are making strides. to respond to your point about the measures we took rnld the chauvin trial and why we don't always do that.

allow users to allow interaction with the content except to share on other platforms like facebook and twittergically four months after the former president was banned from facebook, instagram, twitter, snapchat and youtube following the capitol riots. it is not clear if it is permanent or temporary workaround reaches the border, jason miller saying it will be a great resource for followers to find trump's latest statements but it is not a new social media site, the lunch coming as the oversight board announces its decision on whether to indefinitely suspend trump from facebook and instagram today. regardless of facebook's decision twitter says trump is permanently banned, there's a sign up list for people to enter their phone number and email address to receive alerts when the president and former president posts a message, at least now facebook and twitter both allow links. >> the president has -- don't know if you call it social media platform but a way to communicate online. your impression of brooke. >> i sound so horrible. birth rate, the biggest and 50 years. it is 4%, every major race

there's a lot at stake for the big tech giant. twitter has more than 70000000 indian users . facebook over 400000000 and facebook subsidiary, what's app? both over half a 1000000000 subscribers more than in any other country. they're impressive revenue streams and the conflict between the platforms and the indian government over free speech on the internet has intensified in recent months. it's getting to the point where the companies will have to decide just how much the indian market is worth to them. let's take a look at the matter with a journalist, nickel, and deli, welcome to the program nickel and good to have. you know, these of rules cuz these rules took effect today. what exactly is it that the government is taking offense in here? like this according to the leads. you know, if it can be the platform, don't take, don't content after the keeping order within tickets itself or if they don't provide it for the law enforcement agencies based on the demand within 30 to us. and even if, let's say user file a complaint and, and the address that can be mentored within 15 days. and t

there is a president trump that being shut out by facebook and twitter could impact fundraising power and ability to reach his base. in fact, the trump re-election campaign devoted a nine-figure budget to facebook. as far as president biden... >> the president's view is major platforms have a responsibility, related to health and safety of all americans to stop amplifying untrust worthy information and disinformation. >> in congress some bipartisan support for big tech reform, which some pushing for section 230 reform to theorist. the senate intelligence committee says failure is not an option. >> in urging reform and have not been able to get them across the finish line. >> there are calls for social media giants to be consistent in enforcing the rules and instituti constitution constitutional reasons regarding free speech. >> thank you. one of cot-chairs of facebook's oversight board, former federal judge michael mcconnell. professor, start with facebook's original decision to ban president trump based on two of his posts on the day of the capitol riot. first, there was this. >> thi

and the collusion between twitter, google, facebook, cnn and the "new york times." so we have to expose that and veritas, you know, we did the video on charlie chester thing he set network propaganda. twitter banned us for reporting what he said. i don't think we can lose if we fight back. go on offense the courage to stay on offense so we sued "new york times," we are suing cnn. we are suing twitter and we just launched a new initiative to represent other people to sue for defamation. we have to hold them accountable any way we can. >> pete: you have. you just launched the new legal fund i believe people can come in if they faced similar defamation. is that the route to go say listen we are going to allow you silence me? >> we have to have whistleblowers inside like we did at cnn. record them, expose them, shame them but we also have to sue them. i mean, this "new york times" lawsuit is a big deal. we will depose the "new york times" reporters under oath. they said in their legal motion that they were merely expressing their opinion but facebook relied upon what the

is the answer donald trump starts his own twitter, facebook, instagram? that something you are considering? guest: i think all of that. i am getting a big word -- >> every time i do a release it's all over the place. it's better than twitter. much more elegant than twitter. twitter is very boring. a lot of people are leaving twitter. twitter is becoming very boring. when i started with twitter years ago it was like a failed thing. concept. media, platform. it was failed. and it became exciting. i think that had a lot to do with it to be honest t became very exciting. and now it's boring and it's no good anymore. people -- host: the former president on fox news with sean hannity. and since then he has launched a blog post site. here's the headline from reuters, trump launches to post ahead of his facebook ruling on his ban. that ruling is set for -- to be announced at 9:00 this morning. let's hear from callers. joe first in indianola, iowa. hi, there, democrats line. caller: top of the morning, to you. host: top of the morning. caller: he should be banned.

there's a lot at stake for the big tech giant. twitter has more than 70000000 indian users . facebook over 400000000 and facebook subsidiary, what's app boasts over half a 1000000000 subscribers more than in any other country. their impressive revenue streams. and the conflict between the platforms and the indian government over free speech on the internet has intensified in recent months. it's getting to the point where the companies will have to decide just how much the indian market is worth to them. let's take a look at the matter with a journalist, nickel, power, and deli. welcome to the program nichol. a good to have, you know, these rules this, these rules took a fact today. what exactly is it that the government is taking offense in here? like this according to the leads you're not. if you can read up, i don't take down the content after the shipping orders billing tickets itself, or if they don't provide in for the law enforcement agencies based on the demand within 50 to us. even if let's say users find the complaint and, and the platform to address their mentors within 15 d

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i mean, it's always unlikely just because there are so many users on places like facebook and twitterllowings i was going to be vulnerable to this. but i think it's a good thing. anything that batters discourse and conversation is a good thing. are there any practical, easy steps these companies might take or that players might recommend those companies take? yeah, there —— they are going to have two increase all their budgets to look at the clear and obvious abuse instances and harassment. they are obviously things that go way over the bounds of decency and there are clearly people who are asking for it. not regulating opinion, but regulating abuse. just increasing the budget for that, to hire more people to look into it. surely you are always going to be overwhelmed when you have tens and tens of hundreds of millions of people involved in some of these platforms. is it always clear where the line is between criticism of a player's performance, and personal abuse? yeah, you know it when you see. you don't ever want to ratchet it down too much when it's a legitimate opinion. but certa

ads was not their goal it was about getting published city now signal in turn refuted facebook claims saying on twitter we absolutely did try to run these ads the ads were rejected and facebook disabled our attic ound these are real screen shots as facebook should know now as facebook's spokesperson responded on twitter saying that the screenshots from early march when the attic count was briefly the sable for a few days due to a related payment issue now from what we've seen so far it's difficult to see who was speaking the truth here signal has been proc actively advertising in services as a pro privacy alternative to what's app facebook on the other hand has not always been the most transparent company and signal it is funded by brian acton an entrepreneur who sold whatsapp to facebook for 22 $1000000000.00 making himself a billionaire several times over in the process now act unless facebook and whatsapp and 2017 and later claimed that facebook was a laying the groundwork to sure of targeted ads and facilitated commerce. messaging and whatsapp and following that can bridge analytical scandal act in

what facebook, twitter and doing have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our country. facebook is taking a victory lap we believe our decision was necessary and write and we are believe that the board recognized the unprecedented circumstances justified the exceptional measure we took. the power social media companies have in america an area of bipartisan agreement in america. >> i'm not a big fan of facebook. they have had a business model that is a business model built on making money on misrepresentations. >> free speech in america now depends on the whims of a monopoly corporation. that's how much power these people have. >> but today some democrats are changing their tune. >> if we are fortunate, a permanent ban. >> and the white house avoiding taking sides. >> i think we are, of course, a believer in first amendment rights. i think what the decisions are that the social media platforms need to make is how they address the disinformation. >> republican lawmakers say it's facebook's anti-conservative bias that spreads disinformation. >> most of the young people and

chris: what do you think a of platforms like facebook and twitter banning donald trump? hink facebook was right. you cannot have the incitement of violence, even though we believe in free speech, that crossed the line. chris: you have been at the center of so many key events and you have dealt with so many major figures in this country. as you look back on your life, what are your thoughts? >> i'm so devoted to this country and been so fort note have been -- fortunate to have been involved in so many important things and every day i say thank god for america. chris: minow says the goal for television should be to serve the public interest. back in that 1961 speech, he said history will decide whether today's broadcasters employ their powerful voice to enrich the people or to debase them. and that's it for today. to all you moms out there, happy mother's day. have a great week. and we'll see you next fox news sunday. ♪ we cannot allow that ideology to congress from within. as long as i am sitting here and as long as i am behind a microphone. as long as i have a breath to b

right thing. >> the former president released this statement after today's ruling, quote, what facebook, twitter and google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our country. free speech has been taken away from the president of the united states because the radical left lunatics are afraid of the truth. >> one day after president biden's travel ban to india went into effect of politicians in the high court of india. they're intervening in the country's covid-19 crisis hospitals. sot court intervention over the weekend because the government there has been unable to maintain a steady supply of oxygen. the court says that it would start a contempt proceedings. then punish government officials. if the supplies of oxygen allocated hospitals are not delivered. the leaders of 13 opposition parties are also urging the government to launch a free vaccination drive india recorded a slight drop in covid-19 cases today with 370,000 new infections and 3400 new deaths. but experts believe that it's a drastic undercount due to a lack of testing. the san joaquin county bar owner caught and cuf

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the internet better, facebook, twitter, youtube, and google, who and what to allow on its sites. the bigger issue, it's the former president of the united states who might run again in years from now. we'll send it back to you. >> thanks so much, raj. >>> well, making it in the bay and really in any u.s. city could be harder now that a judge struck down a moratorium on evictions. it was to allow people to hold onto their homes during the pandemic when their jobs were cut. the justice department is now appealing that ruling. >>> let's get a check of our forecast. we did feel some temps cool down just a bit. but inland, still hot. when are we going to see the numbers drop. >> really kind of uncomfortable for some of you as we had temperatures in the 90s, even record-setting heat. we have big changes tomorrow. look at this heat today. 86 in santa rosa. the record was 87, real close there, concord got up to 93. the old record set in 2011. you can see the fog rolling into the golden gate bridge, and that's helping to drop our temperatures. do expect that cloud cover to stay tonight an

with the apple cloud operation, more than with facebook or with twitter. you cannot afford to have google decide to take people off or to have apple decide, as they did with one competitor, that they d just close them down. it this is a kind of use of power which really destroys any kind of free enterprise system because it eliminates the free enterprise and turns it into the playground of billionaires, who then use their power in ways that are impossible in a free society for us to put up with. >> i think what you're going to see -- what you're going to start to see our actions by attorney generals in the states. you're going to see actions by governors -- governor desantis is already starting to take some initiatives. listen, the american people are not going to take this lying down. i can tell you, i talked to house and senators yesterday in light of the facebookorpl tak d. at this real taken place.. we also, as the speaker is talking about, we need to make sure we have those alternative platforms, encourage conservatives to go there -- the president ha

tiktok and facebook and twitter but youtube? what matters? >> we are in the early days social media every big technological upheaval from printing press to cable and tv we see the surges. to some degree technology makes the idea of the public possible because we can encounter each other in virtual settings. so with social media and allows us to have conversations to broaden the scale of the conversation. but certainly i'm old enough to remember platforms like myspace where younger people have never heard of. social media is evolving. it is premature but the unique characteristics for anyone to enter a conversation about politics and has potential for good. >> salon the political and social affect the key is that allows people to but to ask about. >> i've only then studying for a couple of years with the effect on teen mental health simon focusing on driving people crazy is a feature of user generated content why did they like her picture more than mind? is that important is it just our product. >> the single greatest driver on social media is

ads was not their goal it was about getting published city now signal in turn refuted facebook claims saying on twitter we absolutely did try to run these ads the ads were rejected and facebook disabled our attic ound these are real screenshot as facebook should know now as facebook spokes person responded on twitter saying that the screenshots from early march when the ad account was briefly the sable through few days due to a related pm an issue now from what we've seen so far it's difficult to see who was speaking the truth here signal has been actively advertising its services as the pro privacy alternative to what's app facebook on the other hand has not always been the most transparent company and signal is funded by brian acton an entrepreneur who sold whatsapp to facebook for 22000000000 dollars making himself a billionaire several times over in the process now act unless facebook and whatsapp and 2017 and later claimed that facebook was a laying the groundwork to sure targeted ads and facilitated commerce. messaging and whatsapp and following that can bridge analytical scandal act and tweet it

and to all people every platform from facebook instagram now remember instagram is owned by facebook twitter to top reddit google all of these platforms have become the number one go to for the predators we handed people to that they suffer from no you know. anything now a very there are no now there are no accountability no i can almost not even talk about it because i'm shouting about this 247 there is no accountability there they suffer with complete you know a unity because of the section 230 communications decency act 1996 now a lot has happened in our world and online 1996 i don't think they intended in 1906 for all of this trafficking to happen but it is happening in how easy we have made it simply with so many people online and so many vulnerable people i want to remind you again especially in the last year during cold it specially children there to be their games more their be more equal. to the child or an adult things they're talking to you know a friend now and literally they move in about 48 hours you know but that also goes to society in manila like why are children feeling so

the former president released this statement after today's ruling saying, quote, what facebook, twitternd google have done. >> is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our country. free speech has been taken away from the president of the united states because of radical left lunatics are afraid of the truth, end quote. and here's what the local gop have say about the ruling a republican group headquartered in palo alto, quote, if inflammatory false content alone should cause a user to be banned. then much of today's political speech would therefoce need to be blocked and politicians banned since their speeches regularly inflammatory there are numerous examples of such speech by members of both political parties that could be in direct it indirectly linked to future violent actions. >> and now for a look at the forecast. our 4 zone a little hard to tell you what that is we know this is a view from sutro tower right now. a lot of fog out there. >> yeah. let's check in with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. that is cooling things down. obviously we're that is taking place. yeah. kin

really the issue, whether you're talking about facebook, twitter, instagram, whatever it is, they sets, until federal law changes nothing else will change. charles: i get that but do you think it is time for federal law to change though i got that, do you think as an attorney, someone that understands the area, should the federal government look closer to maybe changing these laws? >> personally the question really comes down to does facebook get to decide everything? i think the answer to that is simply no. when these federal laws were enacted they helped create the internet as the thriving community we know today. charles: right. >> when we look how facebook moderates, there is attorneys, human resources professionals, academics who should decide what stays up and what comes down? we see the problems with facebook, hate speech, misinformation, extremist groups. these are serious issues that have to be addressed and they're not addressed evenly around the world. charles: yeah. at some point, i mean i'm not sure how many hearings they will have in washington, d.c., we all hope at some

in brazil, president bolsonaro encouraged his followers to boycott both twitter and facebook because ir suspensions. even tweeted to his followers, encouraging them to leave twitter and follow him to his channel on the messaging app telegram. let's look at the international applications of today's decisions. joining me for more is the bbc's alex to come in. thank you for joining me. we have heard a lot about this. how much attention is it getting around the world? >> it is. it has caused some concern and other countries. because what has happened is facebook oversight board has made it clear that facebook itself has the power to ban anybody regardless of their status, if their content poses a risk of harm under international human rights laws. that means donald trump and other world leaders should be treated no differently than any other facebook users. world leaders should have no special status. we will have to's -- have to wait tsee if other leaders with populist or more extremist agendas will be held to the same standards. campaign against digital hate speech say they should. katt

the former president responded, saying quote, what facebook, google and twitter have done is a total ment to our country. the companies must pay a political price. dagen mcdowell, your reaction? dagen: facebook has the opportunity to step up and allow facebook to exist as a platform for free speech. thats is always what mark zuckerberg has said, that facebook should not consider itself an arbiter of truth. it would actually benefit facebook as a business if they allowed president trump's account to continue to exist. but the new york post points out in its editorial today that they pulled an interview off of facebook that was the voice of president trump in march that he did with his daughter in law, lara trump. why did they do that? anything he said at that point wasn't an imminent threat to the safety of the united states. they don't know what they're doing. these are inconsistent standards. facebook has never done a good job at policing violent content, if you will. this isn't just about the left wing liberal employ ayes at facebook pushing for a ban of president trump. this is als