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we know specifics about the table top exercises they conducted at the aspen institute in 2020.n big tech around the table gaming out how they would cover this story about hunter biden's laptop and how they would bury the information. and that would have had an effect on the outcome of the election. these are things the new select committee will be looking at. our challenge is to focus our attention and determine what priorities we'll get first. there are so many with the biden administration. >> what will you hit first? >> stay tuned. we are in the early stages of this. among the top concern for the american people is this idea about big tech. in our generation this is the free marketplace of ideas. in previous generations it was the literal town square. now it's done on line. liz: maybe we should not have social media at all. maybe twitter and facebook should go away. because the national conversation was so distorted, and we see how deep the tentacles came out of government into social media. you and i talked about this last year about frank church after the nixon administrat

this all happened at the aspen institute in august 2020. labeled a table top exercise on combating disinformation. it morphed into smothering a perfectly legitimate story. due to new emails given to us by shellenberger -- once we started pulling the thread of which journalists and social media employees were involved we found other past associations that should raise eyebrows. first is nathaniel -- current head of cybersecurity policy at facebook. formerly of the department of justice, and these two, grotto and jeannine -- both from stanford, and the latter, a former bureau chief at the "washington post." now, stanford's connection is important because it was that you are playbook that this harem of journalists would operate from. the university's cybercenter published a 10-point "newsroom playbook for propaganda reporting." the irony being that their guidelines would result in said propaganda, the most interesting of these steps is number 10 which says networks must hire reporters assigned to cover the disinformation or a propaganda beat.

iof n concert to protect joe biden against damaging storiesn again >> this all happened at the aspen institute in august of 2020, labeled a tabletop exercise on combating disinformation, it quickly morphed into smothering a perfectly legitimate story. now, due to new emails given to us by shellenberger, we know the effort was organized by vivian schiller, former npr president and former twitter global chair of news. >> and once we started pullingwc the thread of which journalists and social media employees were involved, we found other past association that should raise eyebrows. first is nathaniel leiker,ad o current head of cybersecurity policy at facebookcybers, formef the department of justice. >> and these two, andrew grado and janine zakharia, both fromfh stanford and the latter,er a former bureau chief atton pos" "the washington post". now, stanford's connection is important because it wast ths their playbook that this of journalists would operate from m the university's cyber center, published a tethe univern point newsroom playbook for propaganda reporting, the ironyn being that their