hoping that ties in is returning at least on wall street if you look at the stock prices of facebook of twitter also pinterest i'm all of those had a mess of against them in the wednesday session so yes it looks like it's are back for those companies and social media companies in general have come under a lot of scrutiny in recent times what do they have to do to keep advertisers on board. well in general probably spend more to make sure that everything is sound and proof was content on those sites but i personally wouldn't interpret too much in those numbers when it comes to the scrutiny of social media companies are one big reason why ads got pulled in spring was actually that was the pen demick a lot of companies were struggling they had to cut cost and so they also cut spending so that was an extra reason and i've followed social media companies for so long and there has been so much scrutiny and so much criticism but overall the subscriber numbers keep growing and also all overall companies besides what happened this spring have been pretty patient was those companies and even in spring wh

as much as it wants but there are huge number of americans who now get their news from facebook, don't we start to see a blurring of the lines and on twitter and facebook to not look like they are so partisan at a certain point, you have to look at that, do you not? >> i think the conversation has highlighted to the two ends of the political spectrum operating in different universe, it will come to news that facebook has been harmful to conservatives, the data ought to do well on facebook, i don't think there's any blurring of the lines but i do think the leadership of facebook and twitter are considering the facts that are in the crosshairs in the very upset about this and not content moderation. the fact is as long as their private companies are allowed to associate with whatever content that they want, this does not come up in the election the whole year with covid reveals the content moderation, and my happy to have private failure than government failure, urgently twitter and other available avenues out there. liz: brianne, for our investor audience, what are you advising when you clean the headlines out of washington, d.c. about the

>>we'll keep an eye on it and bring you the latest as it comes in meantime the ceos of facebook and twitter. >>we'll have to answer to senate republicans next week that's after both companies limited the distribution of verified new york post report about the biden family hearing was set before the article that was released to the new york post but our washington correspondent jessi turnure reports republicans now have even more questions about social media platforms alleged bias against conservatives. it's outrageous that senator roger wicker is response to twitter and facebook's handling of a controversial new york post story about the biden family a message from the conservative point of view or from the republican point of view somepow get shut down it's a it's a mystery that i'd like to see us exam wicker chairs the senate committee that already subpoenaed the social media giant's to a hearing next week. >>he now has even more questions whether they continue to deserve this liability protection workers referring to section 2.30 which currently gives big tech companies a free pass when

these players there are questions about whether, you know, the boycotts in the quarter of facebook, of twitterwould have an impact. not really on the revenue side maybe the user growth was a little weaker for some of them but the core businesses there are really interesting and then we have apple let's dig in a little more into that josh, a lot of talk about iphones this morning >> so, john, a couple big issues for investors to think about apple did report and beat q-4 expectations if you look at the segments, services, mac, ipad, they did best expectations. iphone revenue, though, did miss estimates, that's unusual. tim cook noting customers put off purchases because they were waiting for the new models to arrive and this fiscal q-4 was different than last year saying this time in the last two weeks of september, we did not ship new iphones. and so you obviously have a big compare issue which we knew would occur. another issue, cook declined to offer q-1 guidance saying the pandemic is causing just too much uncertainty right now he did offer positive color and commentary about his new iphone

of possible. facebook and twitter can figure it out with billions of cash flow. they can absolutely solve this problem. they throw their arms up and claim it's impossible. that is a lie. >> professor galloway, thank you as always. >> thank you. >> what are your thoughts? tweet me at smerconish. go to my facebook page. i'll read responses. what do we have? i'm not a trump fan at all but when twitter locked out the white house press secretary for posting a published story that was censorship, plain and simple. joe abrams, i don't want to be recompetitive, i think what conservatives wish more might not actually be the panacea that they envision. it stands to reason, if you get rid of 230, if you get rid of 230, what they're saying, they open themselves up to liability. think about it logically. if you start treating the platforms not like a phone line. we don't hold sprint or at&t responsible for the speech that crosses their line, instead, right, we think of them as a newspaper going forward. then there's editorial control that they'll need to scriexhibid perhaps e

s of google twitter and facebook faced u.s. lawmakers to defend their content moderation practices in the fraught nearly 4 hour hearing. and bring on the fake snow china's hoping to create a nation of interest for its enthusiasm ahead of the winter olympics in 2022. this is the the way of business i'm joined now the an amber lyon thanks for joining us. we begin here in germany where the surgeon coronavirus cases has prompted the government to impose a so-called soft lockdown starting monday next week for 4 weeks we need fresh coronavirus aid will be needed to help prop up businesses up to 10 up 1000000000 euros is being made available to reimburse the lion share of companies lost sales as restaurants clubs and bars shut down for the month of november that it could mean the difference between being able to reopen after the lock down or going out of business restaurant owner christiane as freeney is nervous many of her customers are counselling their reservations out of fear of the coronavirus and she's also worried about the cons

hoping that ties in is returning at least on wall street if you look at the stock prices of facebook of twitter also pinterest i'm all of those had a mess of against them in the wednesday session so yes it looks like it's are back for those companies and social media companies in general have come under a lot of scrutiny in recent times what do they have to do to keep advertisers on board. well in general probably spend more to make sure that everything is sound and proof content on those sites but i personally wouldn't interpret too much in those numbers when it comes to the scrutiny of social media companies one big reason why ads got pulled in spring was actually that was the pen demick a lot of companies were struggling they had to cut costs and so they also cut spending so that was an extra reason and i've followed social media companies for so long and there's been so much scrutiny so much criticism but overall the subscriber numbers keep growing and also all overall companies besides what happened this spring have been pretty patient was those companies and even in spring when some compa

jack dorsey, ceo of twitter, mark zuckerberg, ceo of, well, facebook has made it clear to all that theyean to decide the outcome of this election, and they will do so by silencing anyone or any media outlet that threatens their chosen candidate, joe biden. their censorship comes just weeks after executives of both facebook and twitter joined the biden transition team. twitter's public policy director, carlos, recently heft the social media company to join the biden team. can you believe this? former facebook executive jessica hurt also join ared biden's transition team this month as its general counsel to oversee ethical issues. big tech has a history of supporting the radical dems. nothing makes the relationship with the left any more vivid than in this picture from 2011. and, yes, that is president obama in the center of the assembled tech titans. it's almost a secret society that you're watching there of silicon valley executives dining with the former president. in this photo you see to the left of the president at that time steve jobs, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg to husband right,

of circumstances by rudy giuliani. facebook limited distribution of the piece. twitter barred users from sharing the story and locked the post account, accusing the paper of distributing hacked material. twitter escalated by temporarily locking the trump campaign's account and kayleigh mcenany's personal account. joining us now is griff jenkins. griff, twitter's ceo, jack dorsey, said the lack of explanation was unacceptable. twitter backed off and said we'll allow hacked material as long as it's not posted by the hackers, put a warning on it. it took two days to apply that to the story. hotchow much of a black eye is s for at whic twitter. >> if jack dorsey and mark zuckerberg wanted to limit people wanting t to look at the story, it ended up amplify it. twitter revised the story,

don't even have to have that but that really helps it but there are also these networks of facebook groups and twitter accounts and. you know the reality and get out there pretty quickly or if you know how to use hashtags and trending terms and that sort of thing it works celebrated but certainly if you're you get immediate let. we share with me some of the conversation michael has shown says i'm from missouri usa truth and fact is what i live by i don't do facebook because of the misinformation. oh ok that's a little dig at facebook actually lawrence says fact checking boxes are starting points for self research so i would not take the information found by fact checkers as fact immediately after reading the sheets questioning even the fact checking as

messaging with 0 context as to why we're blocking well that is the nick sceptical of what he said that twitter and facebook they they do have the 1st amendment on their side but they also have an extreme amount of power at the moment do you think they have too much power well i think leaders of large media companies have always had outsized power but so think of it this way if if if someone wrote into a newspaper today it wanted a letter to the editor to be published that spread scurrilous rumors about a candidate the editor of that newspaper would likely not publish that letter today social media companies are playing the role of editor of really large platforms and people are criticizing him for it but in some ways it's not that different from what has happened in the past so what does that mean in terms of legislation do you think that congress needs to change the legislation that has basically exempted platforms from being responsible for the content that happens to be on the platform . i don't think that legislative response is the appropriate response here instead regulation it's to be focused on man

of the internet. we have seen different approaches. twitter and facebook are different between the two of them. r has been more permissive. facebook takes down things and has a difficult time distinguishing between people discussing how terrible anti-semitism is, and people promoting anti-semitic ideas. that is more problematic during the pandemic because it takes a lot of human beings to do the content moderation. the systems are relying on computers to do that, and they are bad at nuance. it is a difficult question to answer. if i were a large social network and had the resources to hire people, i would do a better job than smaller sites who struggle to distinguish between the kinds of pro racist content or antiracist content we have been discussing. as a general matter, i am concerned misinformation about things like voting and covid is being spread on these platforms. at the same time it is important they find a way to outsource to credible organizations the decision as to who will be treated as an authoritative source. who counts as a journalist? news guard is a tool developed by the former

facebook systems. thein terms of organizing, recent shut down by facebook, by youtube, by twitter of many qanon pages andt was super helpful. that undermined their short-term ability to organize, but it did not wipe them out. and they have been working very hard to reconstruct networks. so, i'm nervous about all those things. i'm praying we will come through this smoothly but i think it would be naive to assume people would not try to exploit the uncertainty to insert disinformation into our politics. emily: interesting. on that note, i want to talk about some of the things facebook has done leading up to this moment, encouraging voter registration, ongoing efforts to combat misinformation and inauthentic behavior. they have banned, supposedly, qanon holocaust deniers. the postelection notifications that they will have in place. oting the head qu of integrity, that they have learned a lot since 2016 and they've made a lot of progress. they've got more than 35,000 people across the company working on safety and security issues. why is that not enough for facebook to be ready? roger: i think we could just

twitter, facebook, alphabet, and amazon, big days out of all of them. morrow, jack dorsey of twitter, mark zuckerberg of ofebook, and cinder pichai alphabet testifying before congress. as you are talking about, these three ceos are expected to defend section 230, which gives these companies protections around free speech so they will be somewhat legally protected in the case of content. amazon up 2.5%. that one doing well again after a slide during the prime event. thursday, all eyes will be watching. getting mixed reasons in terms of what is ahead for tech. sap, not so much. it seems that we will be moving into the baskets of the haves and have-nots. we will know on thursday. emily: tech shares in a bubble, wondering which tech shares in particular. buyingthe company xilinx. amd thehis will give ability to -- abigail: the whole day, investors responded well relative to xilinx. the response earlier was much more exuberant. the shares in the premarket, a. in the close, up 8.5%, which is great. you mentioned, they are buying amd buying, xilinx, them in an

actually cheering the big tech censorship including "the new york times" and regardless of what twitter and facebook want you to see, the facts are clear. hunter biden, look at ron johnson, who was on this program last night, he made millions of dollars while his father was vice president. much of that money, for example, some was supplied by a ukrainian oligarch. in another case, a russian. former first lady of moscow. in another case, to buy a new car with an oligarch as well as connected members of china's communist party. they even got to go on a $100,000 family spending spree. chinese nationals, russian nationals, like keswick nationals, ukrainian nationals why would all of these wealthy, who were connected nationals be giving zero-experience hunter billions of dollars? don't forget, $1.5 billion deal with the bank of china with no experience? gma, hunter said, do you have any experience in oil? no. gas? no. energy? no. ukraine? no. why do you think they paid you millions of dollars? i don't know. maybe because your father is vice president and in charge of ukraine. probably. in that case hunte

think of where facebook might be if they didn't buy instagram. twitter is coming out, i will work that erin into the conversation in terms of political risk. what did you make of what you saw on capitol hill from the ceos and how big of a deal is this from a operational standpoint from the companies, the pressure they would be under? it would seem, i guess, maybe a lot depends on the election results but the pressure they will be under from washington? >> as long as you're constantly bringing ceos back into congressional hearings, you will have the negative headlines and that negative push on these stocks f they don't deliver blowout numbers, investors will be more hesitant. that speaks to what facebook has done. they have beat it but hasn't blown it out. maybe we're seeing the stock pull back today. concerns that he will lose the ad revenue, compress their margins if they have to spend money building new algorithms, creating new departments in order to address the concerns we're seeing within congress. so i think it is a real concern about, about future

the bosses of twitter, facebook and google have been accused of political censorship in the us over the. republicans claim that they're biased against conservatives. democrats believe they don't take down enough fake news. the accusations came during a senate hearing over the future of the law governing whether tech giants should be held responsible for what's posted on their platforms. james clayton reports. three social media companies that dominate the internet, google, facebook and twitter. these platforms referee themselves, they decide what content is promoted, taken down or left up. the question at the senate today in washington — is that too much power? but first it was good to know that even tech bosses have moments when the computer says no. we are unable to make contact with mr mark zuckerberg. thank you, chairman. i was able to hear the other opening statements, i wasjust having a hard time connecting myself. the line fixed and the hearing quickly moved to the subject of bias. do these social media companies use their power to unfairly pick on republicans? trump certainly th

jessica, a facebook executive, and twitter's director of public policy, carlos mangi are currently on's transition team. the revelation sparking backlash on social media. eric on twitter says joe biden hires facebook executive for transition team, no conflict here. paul on twitter says good lord, it's becoming a bit obvious, isn't it. a biden campaign spokesperson said in a statement, as the vice president's former deputy counsel with experience advising high level federal agency officials, jessica herds is the thoughtful and principled decision maker who can ensure the president's high standards are upheld during the transition. so interesting point to note there, guys. todd: okay. meantime, mr. biden is in trouble with some boi boilermak. >> during the town hall last week, joe biden said that the boilermaker's union which represents tens of thousands of american workers endorsed him for president. but apparently that's not true. let's take a listen to him from that town hall last week. >> the boilermakers overwhelmingly endorse me, the union endorsed me because i sat down with them,

of the internet. to answer your question, he has seen different approaches. twitter and facebook are very different, just between the two of them. twitter has been much more permissive. facebook takes down things and has a difficult time distinguishing between people, for example, discussing how terrible anti-semitism is, people who are promoting anti-semitic ideas. that's become more problematic during the event of it because it takes a lot of human beings to do that content moderation. you have to do that at the office and so these systems are relying more and more on computers to do that, , and computers are really bad at nuance. it's a difficult question to answer. if i were a large social network and and i had the resources to hire people, i would do a better job of it than the smaller sites that struggle to distinguish between the kinds of pro-racist content or antiracist content that we've just been discussing. but as a general matter i am concerned that disinformation particular things about voting and covid is being spread on these platforms. at the same time it's import

the actions of facebook and twitter. ree with juan, parts of the story is strained belief, that never stopped twitter or facebook in dozens of stories about the dossier or the collusion or jesse smolett, and videos we were told this and turned out that. let's not forget covington. they paid for it. facebook and twitter are exercising judgment because they are skeptical of this, that reveals a specific bias and i think trump should perhaps take a close look at that and there might be something there people can agree upon, i won't say what it is, i think that hunter -- i don't like it when people go into people's stuff, for reasons i won't get into. >> we'll agree. >> greg: we'll agree. hunter is making it hard for liber libertans. he is typical brat of powerful offspring person who thinks he can get away with everything. >> he is jeff sucoli, he has ultimate set of tools to fix it. back to twitter and facebook, are they running interference or is this the responsible duty of the big social media? >> they are trying to figh

and i think that that that twitter and facebook are deliberately trying to withhold information from the public in a clear effort to swing the election look there are a lot of issues involved here the google case is one issue twitter and facebook are another issue but the point is that everybody's ganging up on social media trying to push it this way and that and the whole thing is just kind of madness and i really think we'd all be a lot better if we left these private companies alone i sound like a libertarian i don't want to sound like a libertarian but that's the position that i find myself moving towards i chose staying with a hunch that biden's story and his pride datings in ukraine is now in law and much that a former advisor to joe biden on ukraine is now a global policy money just a content moderation of facebook is that a conflict of interest. oh it is a massive conflict of interest i mean look what we have had it in this country in many countries is the stifling of the independent mind you tend to stifling by all of the arcs in the tech industry and the finance industry in our own media concerns . people do think for themselves people on the righ

in the history of the world i mean found it all boils 80 and see where nothing of powerful is google facebook and twitter i mean they control the flow of information throughout the world. that thick power and once they decide who gets on the platform and who and how we can manipulate the algorithm so that no one can actually find you on google and of course you know they went abbott and so when he saw that oh it will just deny space to the holocaust deniers oh well we'll just deny do the neo nazis and willow just deny to alex jones it was step by step because they knew that oh it was fine you know that's a good idea what we're. we don't want to give space to the nobs it but then of course it started expanding well we deny the people who are opposed to vaccines well we'll deny platform to the people who express skepticism about the coronavirus will deny now space the people who transmit information about hunter biden and stone and now we got a point when even the president of the united states this campaign. is closed down the presidents of press secretaries close down so they are totally involved in this

details of a boom bust co-host and investigative journalist ben swan now ben all of this ramped up this week when twitter and facebook censored and blocked a new york post story regarding e-mails of former vice president joe biden's son hunter biden what happened from the tech side and why has it created such a huge backlash yeah what's really interesting about this brand is that the backlash is bigger than the story itself quite possibly which is that you know because the post could. this article by the way the new york post you know the 3rd largest daily distribution of any paper in the country they put up this story they tweeted out and twitter responds by actually locking the new york post account they banned other accounts then they block sharing of it through the direct u.r.l. and they even blocked the sharing of it through d.m.z. what's interesting is twitter who's gotten a lot of attention here actually was the 2nd tech company to act the 1st tech company was facebook and facebook essentially said this is a story that should be looked at by our fact checkers but even without fact checkers looking at it we can

someone else who told the outlet in question and yet none of those stories has been treated the way social media companies, facebook and twitter have treated our story including facebook officials say they are going to reduce distribution of the story, outright blocking get so i as editor of the new york post get a block and so the double standard is striking and i encourage people to look the story up, a very remarkable, detailed of fair. everyone has been given an opportunity to respond. i really think the facts speak for themselves here. shannon: i want to get to the social media part. the biden campaign has said they were never asked about the critical elements of the story, rudy giuliani, discredited conspiracy theories, they say you did not reach out to them. >> i want to be clear. i read the denials by the biden campaign and it is 3 elements. it first shows various congressional committees have said mister biden is been exonerated and so that is fine but it is new information. the new york post didn't tell him about the rudy giuliani angle to this but that is a non sequitur, the point is the laptop evidence -- me report

attack biden over the business dealings of his son hunter meanwhile republicans want the heads of twitter and facebook to testify before congress over alleged political bias without thought of the platforms talking down links to a new york post article on hunter biden artie's more gas delves into bats and a few other controversies. it is often the case that those who trumpet loudest about being fair and unbiased aren't at all but facebook really seems to mean that they want fair elections no meddling and the president that america wants and facebook wants so today i want to share the steps that we're taking to protect election integrity and make sure that facebook is a force for good in democracy part of what facebook is doing is harming people to police news and one of the things that they're censoring is about the current scandal so joe biden his son and ukraine which involves alleged meddling abuse of power blatant conflict of interest and a whole lot of money going into the bidens family counts now if you try to share a link to an article about this on twitter or facebook here is what you get the

the heads of facebook, twitter and google testify on proposed regulations for social media and the tech industry. campaign 2020 coverage includes a senate debate in georgia between david perdue and his democratic challenger jon ossoff. national security advisor robert o'brien speaks about current threats facing the u.s.. that's followed by a discussion with political law experts on the upcoming election in the legal implications of expanding mail-in voting. at 1:00, the -- institute looks at the coronavirus vaccine and plans for its distribution. president obama campaign for joe biden tuesday at a drive-in rally in orlando, florida. fmr. pres. obama: it is good to be back here in florida. i don't know if we've got any tampa bay rays fans here. big game tonight. it is do or die time. the last time the raise were in the world series was 2008. florida sent me to white -- florida sent me to the white house. arrays -- the rays fell a little bit short. in 2016, democrats fell short here. you have the chance to fix two mistakes. the chance to set two things right. you can bring a world series

have long been concerned about twitters pattern of censoring and silencing individuals with whom twitter disagrees. but two weeks ago to a lesser extent twitter and facebook crossed a threshold that is fundamental in the country. two weeks ago twitter made the unilateral decision to censor "the new york post" in a series of two articles both alleging evidence of corruption against joe biden. first concerning ukraine and second, communist china and the twitter made the decision to prevent users from sharing the stories and number two you went even further and blocked the post from sharing its own reporting. why did twitter make the decision to censor the post? >> we had a material policy. >> when was the policy adopted? >> 2018. the policy is around limiting the spread of materials. we didn't want t twitter to be a distributor of hacked material. we found "the new york post" because it showed the direct materials and screenshots of the materials it's clear how they were obtained. the source in this instance "the new york post" documented what it said the source was which it is said was a laptop owned by hunter biden turned into a repair store so they were

social media giants facebook and twitter greatly limited the distribution of "the new york post"'s story the bidens, facebook is saying it needed fact-checking and twitter saying it violated the company's hacked material policy. let's dig into that angle with new york post op-ed editor and fcc commissioner brendan carr, thank you both for being with us. "the daily beast" reporting on this saying the man who reportedly gave hunters laptop to rudy speaks out in an interview, they say john paul isaak gave conflicting stories to reporters on wednesday so a lot of other organizations out there raising red flags about the story and of course you know that when rudy giuliani's name is connected to this, they are immediately skeptical about the chain of custody for this laptop, what can you tell us about your ability to get to the source of this story? >> i think the story speaks for itself, it is deeply sourced and all the sourcing is hard evidence. we obtained evidence of emails, photographs that are pretty hard to dispute as verifiably belonging to mr. hunter biden. that's a lot more of a sla

you can see was pretty intense it's all the republicans and democrats interrogate the heads of twitter facebook and google and it really exposed this deep distrust in the power of silicon valley to police the web. now this isn't the 1st time that r.t. has received a twitter label those who follow us on the platform will know that our account has been branded as state affiliated media tell us about that you're right yet twitter has previously labeled artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan as russian language twitter account russia's state affiliated media which struck many as a little bit unfair considering that other news groups that are also state finance which is the b.b.c. and p.r. were not given similar titles but it's not just twitter facebook has also labeled ati's account of state affiliated media again failing to do the same for other foreign state media such is the voice of america. facebook's position back then its stated goal is to provide greater transparency into publishers that combine the influence of a media organization with the strategic backing of a state so i think the d

of it. republican ticket. i was listening to the news this morning, and i was going to mention the tech giants. i have been blocked on facebook. i do not do twitter facebook. the billions of dollars, joe biden set on video that he was going to withhold from ukraine, that is all on video. i mention that and then i get blocked. are basically blocking everything. askedators repeatedly those ceo's's about their bias. if you missed it, go to our website. it does it for today's show. tomorrow morning. enjoy your day. ♪ >> house speaker nancy pelosi will have her weekly news conference with reporters. our campaign 2020 coverage begins this afternoon in tampa, florida. holding a drive-in rally also in tampa and we bring 6:30.o you at tonight, kamala harris will speak at an event hosted by bernie

. >> jesse: republicans are ready to haul the heads of twitter and facebook in front of congress. >> is is election interference and we are 19 days out, it has no precedent in the history of democracy. >> nobody in twitter and social media. >> an attempt to rig an election which is what we are seeing here by monopolies is unprecedented in american history. they have a lot to answer for and i will subpoena both twitter and facebook. >> jesse: all right, mr. williams, as a lifelong journalist and someone who values free speech, freedom of the press, you must be upset by the actions taken by these social media companies. these are colleagues of ours, new york post reporters in the same building. it's not right, is it? >> juan: i'm upset that the white house is trying to compel a private business to do its bidding. to say oh, yeah, you are a private business but we want you to give us a platform for this unverified information, it's actually political mudslinging and if you don't do it -- >> you are blaming trump for the scandal? >> juan: trump is the one who thinks it is -- speech to "th

social media trying to stamp out extremism online the government has summoned representatives of facebook twitter and other phones to explain my circle of 5 by islam islam is being allowed to spread on their platforms child tibetans can report from paris. it's hard to take stock in the wake of. beheading social media giants have become. those who participated in the public lynching of this teacher there are videos that were posted on social networks are in a way responsible for what happened in the days leading up to the mood of the 47 year old teacher videos inciting hatred against him was shared social media platforms so patty was also targeted by activists online in a hate campaign that went viral whipping up a storm that frances anti terror prosecutor says it was based on lies. it is clear that the teacher was targeted in various ways by social media by these 2 men using a false interpretation of the facts some new party had filed a complaint to the police about the hate campaign but it was not enough to prevent his brutal murder the terrorists who killed him also used twitter to claim respon

twitter all testifying in front of the senate this morning with all of the stocks trading down significantly. facebookter shares now down nearly 4%, alphabet down 4.5% shares of snap, which doesn't face the scrutiny, that company is in the green. what's going on on capitol hill right now? >> reporter: well, julia, the executives are all defending the political knew ralt neutrality and they're also warning lawmakers about the potential consequences ofchanging sectio 230. >> let me be clear, we approach our work without political bias. to do otherwise would be contrary to both our business interests and our mission, which come pels us to make information accessible to every type of person, no matter where they live or what they believe. >> reporter: now, republicans did try to bring up specific examples that they said directly convicted those assertions they said president trump's tweets have been flagged, but posts from other adversarial foreign governments have not, including the chinese communist party and the ayatollah of iran. >> we believe it's important for everyone to hear from global leaders an

the heads of google, facebook, twitter or grill bys. ey faced lawmaker questions for almost four hours and defended a law enabling them to moderate content without being responsible for what users post. republican lawmakers used most of their time to accuse the companies of selective censorship against conservatives. democrats focus on insufficient action against misinformation that interferes with the election. u.s. officials have arrested five chinesegents for the roles in an operation targeting beijing's opponents in the united states. they are accused of spying on and harassing a chinese family living in america. the plot was aimed at coercing the family members to return toc china to facrges. the justice department announcement comes at a time of vesing tensions between the u.s. and chinathe pandemic. president donald trump has repeatedly blamed this on beijing. the president of south africa is self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who tested posive for covid-19. it happened at a fund-raising dinner last saturday. he

back in the hot seat the heads of facebook google and twitter face tough questions from politicians about how they monitor content on their platforms. we take a look at how cinemas in south korea are using technology to adapt to the new reality of private 19. now parts of europe are facing a new round of shutdowns as the continent struggles are to stop a 2nd wave of curve at 19 france will go into its 2nd nationwide lockdown on friday and announcing that rove president warns that this could be even more deadly than the fast and hospitals could soon be overwhelmed natascha back to reports from paris. in a sort of a t.v. address french president emanuel. new lockdown was necessary because france's health situation had deteriorated rapidly. departed because of what we learned in spring lockdown will be adapted schools will stay open and work can continue visits will be permitted to retirement homes but as in the spring you can only leave home to work for a medical visit to help someone for essential shopping or exercise in the home of. the number of new clothes that casey's is rising fast in

at this point, these monopolies, and terms of facebook and twitter, they have clearly shown they cannot shall be held in front of congress and they will be. liz: editors make editorial decisions. twitter and facebook's themselves are making editorial decisions by showing what instories to show and what not o show. twitter says it has changed its policy that it will no longer remove "hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers for those acting in concert with hackers." twitter could still block the new york post story saying they were acting in concert with where they got the material. in fact, you know, as of this hour, up until now, they had been blocking the new york post story. yourfi final word. >> yeah. look, twitter's original excuse was we are not allowing anyone to disseminate materials that were stolen. good thing o they were not aroud in 1971. the pentagon papers would not see the light of day. then you have the new york times story recently on trump's taxes. pretty sure that those were illegallyhe obtained. the picking and choosing that twitter does is only aimed a

facebook. those big tech ceos were on capitol hill today -- ceos of alphabet, facebook them and twitter. y, who covers tech lobbying on washington was watching every minute. what do you think the main takeaway was? obviously we knew there was going to be a little political fireworks ahead of the election six days away. this one was a lot more colorful than some of the testimony we seen in the past. i> took the partisan theater> to be one of the main takeaways. of course, in six days, and platforms will face their biggest test. there will be a lot of disinformation, there may be false claims of having one member states or the entire election and it was interesting to see how the tried to stand up to a republican or democratic pressure to basically treat contentkinds of certain ways. the tension was definitely high. frankly, it seemed like a fair amount of anger from the lawmakers. that really came through. but i think the platforms are andng to parry that particularly assure that them across the they will keep this information off the platforms. but it remains to be seen in less than a wee

number three, minutes from now the ceos of facebook, twitter and google will face congress. publicans accuse them of anti-conservative bias and election interference. >>> number four, winds will ease up today to help firefighters battling two wildfires in orange county. the southern california edison utility tells state regulators one of its power lines may have sparked the silverado fire. >>> the stress of high fire danger is over for us. today's one of those days where you wish the sun didn't set at 6:15 because it's going to be so nice outside. 60s and 70s with light winds and dry air. >> number six, taking a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. metering lights came on at 6:09 this morning. the motorcycle crash we were following has cleared. >>> number seven, golden state park is about to transform into a wonderland of sculpted light and illuminated trees and meadows. this is a part of the park's 150th anniversary celebration. you can check it out december 1st through february 28th. i've been told i can't do that. so -- >> you can go to it, kumasi, just to be clear, i d

valley as lawmakers look at the issue of who is responsible for what's posted on the likes of google, facebook and twitterhas established that four people who drowned while trying to cross the channel in a dinghy from france yesterday were kurdish iranian, and members of the same family. 0ur europe correspondent nick beake has this report from dunkirk. just 15 months old. baby artin was the youngest of those who drowned in the english channel. a family friend took this photo last weeker before a family friend took this photo last week before the final fatal journey. artin's body has not been found. when you look at that photo now what goes through your mind? very sad but maybe i cannot show my feel, i love him but inside i cry. artin is seen here on the left. being held by his father who also drowned yesterday, along side his mother, his nine—year—old sister anita, and six—year—old brother armin. the family were living in this bleak migrant camp in northern france after travelling from western iran. they paid a lot of money. i don't how much. 0ur they paid a lot of money. i don't how much. our family they