potential for harm well joining us now to discuss has been west coast let's get a journalist ben swan bennett twitter's newest statement about this came out in a tweet on tuesday and it reads we are not attempting to address all misinformation instead we prioritize based on the highest potential for harm focusing on manipulated media civic integrity and coven 1000 likelihood to vary and type of potential harm along with search or reach and scale factor into this war what do you twitter is scrambling right now to try to figure out how to deal with this executive order that was signed by president trump we have talked about it on the show for section $230.00 of the communications decency act was just simply is a liability shield for tech companies and it's not just whether facebook and google you tube as well they all hide behind is this liability showed which allows them to be a platform that cannot be sued the problem is that twitter and these other companies are not acting this platforms they are acting as publishers and with an editorial control so what twitter's trying to do now is clarify

the united states during arrest well joining us now to discuss is an investigative journalist ben swan bennett break it down for us what are these documents and what specifically were canadian authorities warning about. yes of these documents were released on friday they show that the canadian security intelligence service essentially warned that if the united states got involved and if canada move forward with the rest in may 10 as you mentioned that this would send international shock waves throughout the world because of the fact that essentially the u.s. orchestrated in many ways this arrest based upon a whole series of steps that are somewhat shocking the fact that many ones oh it was stopped in the airports in canada she was told that security needed to speak to her but that she wasn't in trouble they took her cell phone they took her computer those were search for several hours while she was not given a lawyer and she was not even told that she was being charged with anything and again that what the lawyers for weiwei are saying is that this proves a conspiracy that the u.s. was working