my executive order further ininstructs the federal trade commission to prohibit media companies to engage nling acts or practices affecting commerce. this authority resides in section 5 of the federal trade commission act. you know it pretty well. most of you know it very well. additionally, i'm directing the attorney general to work cooperatively with the states. he will be working very much and closely in cooperation with the states to enforce their own laws against such deceptive business practices. the states have authority to regulate in this arena and doing it also and encourage them to do it as we have been seeing. it's what they are doing is tan ta mount to monopoly and taking over the air waves, can't let it happen. otherwise we aren't going to have a democracy or anything to do with a republic. i'm directing my administration to develop policies and procedures to ensure taxpayer dollars are not going into any social media company that suppresses free speech. the government spends millions of dollars on giving them money. as president, i'm not allowing the american people to be b

the process that could happen the other avenue that president could take is through the federal trade commission which is there to protect consumers rights he could direct the federal trade commission to look at allegations of bias for example in social media but the simple point is rob is that he has to go through regulate 3 bodies of coding to most legal experts he cannot take unilateral action on this. and one would assume that this is somewhat fraught with a certain amount of danger for the white house itself because of course torture is donald trump's main avenue of communication to so many of his supporters. well indeed yes there are those who argue that twitter is policing itself in terms of putting a warning chick warning on president trump's tweets and taking steps to amend any false would spin perpetrated on the media now interestingly enough social media appears to be divided a facebook founder mark zuckerberg has stated that he believes that twitter was wrong to put that label on president trump's tweets arguing that social media does not have the right to be a social operator but th

mark zuckerberg, was it your impression that there was concern that the white house and federal trade commissionere ever going to do anything to prevent censorship. does he take it seriously do you think? >> i definitely think they take it seriously, and i think -- i've never had an intervie oppoo interview jack dorsey. i asked him a couple of things, one was specifically about twitter's decision to make its first attempt to fact-check the president on the mail in ballot tweet. there are hundreds of tweets and if they are going to choose one i don't know why they chose that one. i think the first step out of the gate, then they fell on their face because they were basically then fact-checked. so free speech is working pretty well. everybody going back and forth. what facebook has said is they will not weigh in on political speech. now that is something that they instituted last fall. they stuck to it so far and the left actually is so frustrated with facebook, they think they are evil. when there is a threat either about antitrust actions by the justice department or the ftc or if you look at so

you know, as his critics are calling a political vendetta, right, get involved, get the federal trade commissionderal communications commission involved in something that, you know, these agencies are supposed to be independent, right? and so this is getting them involved in something that's political just a few months before the election. and so it can sort of go either way, but it's clear now, overnight, as twitter has flagged another tweet that this is not going to end. >> i mean, the writing is on the wall here, anita. is there any checks and balances involved to hold the president accountable per these advances that he has made on these social media companies that we've seen? >> i think the thing that you're going to see is him being taken to court. and so many times in the last 3, 3 1/2 years, that's sort of the mechanism people use. they'll take him to court and sort of let the courts decide. but i think you might see congress get involved. you saw members of congress say what he's trying to do changes that law. so there might be some members willing to do that. it's unclear, though, if t

todayk we are at a point where it would be not the fcc, more of the federal trade commission but at a point today , where privacy is an important human right. where we need to be focused more on how we provide citizens with a greater control over what information is gathered and used about them. i am hopeful congress will finally get its act together and pass a privacy act. california and other states certainly are doing that right now. there is greater incidence for or desire to do something across-the-board for the u.s. gdpr, a regulation act from europe, is largely felt here. not entirely. for example, many broadcast and other companies, their online platforms will not service europe. that having been said, that world tends to be governed by process. there may be other ways that are more central to what we do and how users can take advantage of the system. i think it is important for us to do our own privacy system in the u.s. so to see legislation for that. there is a lot of talk about regulating the internet as a general matter. there may be areas where such oversight makes sense

the federal trade commission says no. federal law prohibits mailing unordered merchandise and demanding payment. as for the product, the ftc says it's yours. you have a legal right to keep it as a free gift. if you have a consumer complaint, let us know. 888-996-tips. or online at nbcbayarea.com. >>> and happening now starting its four phase plan today to gradually reopen its economy by the end of the month or next month. masks are mandatory such as bookstores and can continue services. 6 million masks are being distributed to residents. the country's death toll more than 25,000 people. 4:52 for you right now. >>> welcome back for you. 4:55 and some but certainly not all uncertainty should be cleared up for football fans this week when nfl releases its 2020 schedule. according to reports by thursday fans will learn where and when their favorite teams play come september, at least on paper. a lot still has to happen for teams to actually hold games. by then the league normally releases its schedule in april. this one, of co

was it your impression that he was concerned that the white house and federal trade commission, congressthe united states was ever going to do anything to prevent censorship? does he take it seriously, do you think? >> i definitely think that they take it seriously. and what i think at least for facebook, i have never had an opportunity to interview jack dorsey of twitter, they don't do any interviews at all. they are accountable to no one. mark zuckerberg today, i asked him a couple of things. one was specifically about twitter's decision to make its first attempt to fact-check the president on the mail-in ballot tweet, there are hundreds, if they were going to choose one, i don't know why they would choose that one, i think the first step out ofho the gate they fell on their face, because they were basically then fact-checked. so free speechen is working prey well. but what facebook has said is they will not weigh in on political speech. now that is something that they instituted last fall. they stuck to it so far. the left actually is so frustrated with facebook. they think that they

my executive order instructs the federal trade commission ftc to prohibit social media companies to engagen any deceptive acts or practices affecting commerce. and this resides section 5 of the federal trade commission act and as you know pretty well, most of you know very well, i would think you know it quite well, right? additionally, my directing the attorney general to work cooperatively with the states. he will do and work closely in cooperation with the states to enforce their own laws against deceptive business practices. the states have broader power or authority to in this arena meant they will be doing it and we encourage them to do it if they see exactly as what we have been seeing. what they are doing is tantamount to monopoly my tantamount to taking over your waves. we can't let it happen, otherwise we will not have a democracy. we will not have anything to do with a republic. finally i'm directing my administration to develop policies and procedures to ensure taxpayer dollars are not going in any social media company that represses free speech. billions of dollars on giving t

my executive order further instructs the federal trade commission, ftc, to prohibit social media companies from engaging in any deceptive acts or practices affecting commerce. this authority resides in section 5 of the federal trade commission act. i think you know it pretty well. most of you know it very well. i would think you know quite well, right? additionally i'm directing the attorney general to work cooperatively with the states. he is going to be working very much and very closely in cooperation with the states to enforce their own laws against such deceptive business practice the states have broad, powerful authority to regulate in this arena and they will be doing it also and we encourage them to do it if they see exactly as we've been seeing. what they're doing is tan at that mount to monopoly you could say. tantamount taking over the airwaves. can't let it happen, otherwise we'll not have a democracy, not have anything to do with a republic. finally i'm directing my administration to develop policies and procedures to insure taxpayer dollars are not going in any social media c

the federal trade commission is cautioning you to watch out for scammers posing as covid-19 charitiesit's easy to do a little research. make sure your money goes to the right cause. first ask if the charity is registered as a public 501 c3 organization and ask for the ein, their employer identification number. you can use that to search their tax record at irs.gov. ask them how are you going to spend my money. how much of it goes to people who need it and how much to administration? costs like salaries and fund-raising. if a charity rep can't give you a fast and clear answer, consider giving elsewhere. finally the ftc recommends looking up the charity with some of these watchdogs here including the better business bureau, charity navigator, charity watch and guidestar. we've shared links to all four at nbcbayarea.com/responds. just tap responds from the main menu. >>> while some auto racing is now starting to get back on track. not everything is up to speed including the annual event at sonoma raceway this year's installment was scheduled to start july 24th. yesterday it was postponed

. >> reporter: president trump's executive order calls for the federal trade commission and the attorney general to take action and restrict the role social media companies play and monitoring the content they deliver. the move comes two days after twitter put out a fact check marker on a tweet by the president that claimed mail-in voting allowed fraud. at twitter headquarters in san francisco, several protesters said twitter should dump trump. select donald trump is spreading deadly lies through twitter and twitter has a duty to either fact check everything trump says on twitter, or to suspend his account. >> reporter: the debate centers on the 1996 communications decency act, which categorizes social media companies as distributors of information, rather than editorial publishers. the intent was to provide protection for moving content, such as pornography or copyright infringements without facing the threat of free- speech lawsuits. >>> that's written very broadly. it includes all of the things that are objectionable. and then courts over the past 25 years have interpreted that statue

the federal trade commission says that consumers have lost more than $24 million.oogle says that it's intercepted nearly 18 million malware and phishing emails each day related to the coronavirus. scams are asking people to donate using bitcoin to the world health organization. now google says they have a new tool to protect you from scams. it's calls password checkup to see if any of your pass words were compromised. >> user trust is paramount for us. and we're going to continue to look out for our users in even more ways. >> users should change all compromised passwords, and remember, never donate with cash, by a gift card, or wiring money. >>> happening now, the supreme court is resuming oral arguments amid the pandemic via telephone. justice ruth bader ginsburg joined in from her hospital bed this morning. she's recovering from an infection caused by gallstones. this morning the justices heard a dispute that would allow more employees to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women. this would be if they have a moral or religious objection. >>> all right

in fact, the federal trade commission says consumers have already lost more than $24 million.ational correspondent keir simmons has an exclusive look at what one s major tech company is major tech company is doing to protect its millions of users. hi, keir, good morning. >> hey, savannah, good morning we're all working in different ways these days, whether this morning you're getting ready to open up your laptop or tablet to work from home, we are all more vulnerable to online criminals get this, this morning u.s. and cyber security agency warning even health care workers and hospitals are being targeted specifically by hackers. before all of this crisis hits us, savannah, we had a chance for exclusive access to a center in europe. we asked them if we could trust tech companies to protect our privacy. working, living, playing, our whole life online because of coronavirus. now the head of fbi cyber crime section says it's making us vulnerable. >> we have this massive group of people now forced to do their daily lives in an online capacity this creates tremendous opportunity for

important to remember the european commission took up these questions immediately after the federal trade commission seven years ago decided not to take action. one decides not to take action against the dominant firm in an antitrust investigation after you as the regulator have been persuaded that this big company in question is not going to be as big in a few years. perhaps there will be more startups in that space. i think it's fair to say the decision to abruptly close the ftc investigation into google in 2013, that decision has not aged well. one reason it has not is that europe looked at the same set of evidence, it took more time to carefully vet the evidence, and came to the opposite conclusion. it ultimately issued a finding of guilt for these practices against google. >> do you think the efforts by the european commission to inject greater competition into search have been successful? luther: it is a mixed bag. i'm thankful for the work of the european commission on this and the leadership. i do not think the so-called tech lash would exist without that in april of 2015, that they were wil

comments on speculation this is the 1st time the government has been google dominance the federal trade commission investigated google in the past but closed the case in 2013 the f.t.c. chairman at the time it made him all google unfairly biased its search results to hurt its competition the company's motives were to improve the online experience for its users but this draft from the department of justice is just one of many problems for google at the moment the goal is also being sued by an illinois parent who claims the tech giant is collecting bomb at your data from his 2 children and others the lawsuit claims google is gathering to face scans and voice prints from millions of children through its educational services the lawsuit also says google is in violation of the federal children's online privacy protection act coppa requires parental consent when acquiring personal data from users under the age of 13 another lawsuit for google in the works this one coming from a london court over an i phone privacy lawsuit. the class action suit was reinstated after an appeals court rules an individual d

and ultimately, you know, even if the policies are adopted by the federal communications commission and the federal trade those are subject to legal review also. >> you brought up facebook because, again, you know, we keep talking about twitter, but the whole thing has exposed this rift between the ceos of facebook and twitter, hasn't it? >> it absolutely has. you have these two massive companies kind of squaring off with different perspectives on how to handle the topic of the president's tweets. facebook's ceo, mark zuckerberg, said he doesn't believe seesoci media should be the arbitrator of truth. and twitter's ceo jack dorsey said she will not sthey will no about pointing out misinformation regarding elections. even if this is on shaky legal ground it serves the political purpose of driving a conversation in congress about potentially changing a quarter century old law that has so far been very successful at protecting these companies and start-ups and websites from litigation, which could now be more serious threat to them if this law gets changed. >> we'll watch to see where it goes. jim, we'll wa

congress to look at section $230.00 of that particular act then of course he could instruct the federal trade commission to investigate allegations of bias the f.t.c. is there to protect consumer interest so certainly there is a possibility that they could get involved in policing social media platforms but whichever way he goes here there's very likely to be all sorts of court actions following. well let's hear now from rebecca mackinnon who's the director of ranking digital rights and right through author of consent of the networked the worldwide struggle for internet freedom she says the move is a dramatic escalation interims war with the company. trump is trying to contort the law into an instrument that will enable him to say and do what he wants without any pushback with without anybody correcting him and what the fact of the matter is that the law that he's seeking to use or to kind of adjust section 230 gives companies immunity both from what their users say but also gives them the right to moderate content and fact check content to put warnings on content if they want to the law gives them that

the department of justice is investigating google and is quite a long way through and the federal trade commissionigating facebook. we know the state attorneys general are investigating facebook and google and the house is doing a study of big tech companies and antitrust laws and looking at whether the laws can deal with the power of big tech and the digital economy. taylor: in your smart research you mentioned ongoing government investigations and hearts of amazon, facebook, apple. i know this is a difficult riskion but who is at most for being found to be liable for antitrust suit? >> it is a tough question and it is not great all for of them are under -- and it is not. all four of them are under investigation. the only ones we know for sure our facebook and google. they can make it public if they want to but if they have not, the government will not make it public. while we believe apple and amazon are under investigation, that has not been confirmed. for the risk, i see it is google. fined threeeen times by the european commission for violating their monopolization laws. it is called abusive

had discussed the progressive era when there were a great many -- although there was the federal trade commission, there were other commissions to control business, but in the 1920s, those commissions were manned by people from the industry, so they weren't doing much controlling. internationally, we cut our commitments abroad, beginning with the failure of the senate to ratify the league of nations, wilson's league of nations. and these two policies taken together, laissez faire and our reluctance to take our place in the world, although we had emerged from world war i as the most powerful nation, would prove disastrous to the united states and to the world in the 1930s. so let's say a word about each of the presidencies, beginning with warren harding. i think the best thing you can say about warren harding, he looked presidential. that was pretty much it. he looked presidential. it was the most corrupt administration that we had until that time, and maybe in all of our history. he escaped a lot of the because he died in office, but before that, the teapot dome, the most scandalous of all the sc

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that, paul, the president's executive order yesterday does direct both the federal communications commission and the federal trade commission to examine the content of these websites. and it is one thing for a president trump to be doing that but can you imagine if the same rules are in place a year from now with per chance president biden. you can bet that the democrats and liberals will use those powers, if they have them, to push back against conservative points of view, charging that they are racist or bigoted just as has happened on campuses. this is a two edged sword. it depends on who is wielding it and if it's in place when the democrats get their hands on it, they will use it against conservatives. paul: one of the things, kyle, that the president's going after is so called section 230 of the law, going back to 1996, which offered liability protection for comments on these sites because they weren't really publishers. but if you edit content a lot of people now say, doesn't that make you a publisher and shouldn't you lose liability protection. >> >> there's not editing going on here. the idea behind sect

the federal trade commission is watching people to catch out for scammers.want to talk about those posing as covid-19 charities. it's easy to do a little research to make sure your money goes to the right cause. first, asking questions. really important. if the charity is registered. a public 501c-3 orization. it means they have proved they are not profit. okay for the ein. the employer identification number. if they don't have, and there are no records at irs.gov, that is a red flag there. how will you spend my money? how much goes to people who who need and it how much goes to salaries and fund-raising? if a charity rep can't give you a fast and clear answer, another red flag. you might want to consider giving elsewhere. finally, the ftc recommends looking up that charity and any other you're dealing with with some of the watchdogs we have here. the better business bure owe -- we are shared links on nbc bay area.com, or respond on the main menu. back to you. >> i will put those to use. thanks. >>> remember the commercial in the 'e 80s, where's the beef, we

there are some pointers to the federal trade commission as well. of the action is going to be in congress. at the end of the day, they make the laws in this country. trump seems to forget that a little bit. i think the companies are going to be really doubling down there. one thing that's interesting is the order that tells the justice department to prepare legislation that congress might want to adopt to try to affect these kinds of things. it might not go through in this political environment, but i think kicking it to congress is a sign of where the fight is going to be, and, of course, you have the courts. emily: you will be following the twists and turns for us. ben, thank you so much for breaking it down. still ahead, we are going to head to hong kong, where protesters continue massive demonstrations against china's tightening grip. we are going to have a live report on the situation and what is at stake. emily: president trump has announced he will be holding a news conference about china on friday, after beijing passed a sweeping national s

the federal trade commission and federal communications commission do hold the reins here on how this is going to play out. the president and attorney general said they are working on legislation to address 230. there are other tools in the tool chest so you can't just write the entire thing off. it is not the case that by a stroke of the pen the president has undone years of regulation or that he's punished a company like twitter. it's a threat but it will be a slow burn over months or maybe years. >> shannon, let's go big picture here. you had a piece earlier this week sort of trying to help explain where all of this is coming from. >> well, i mean, it's starting at the president's base. mail in ballots, social media, as you mentioned, has been a longs standing area that conservatives have been very frustrated about and felt they were treated unfairly there. last week there was so much talk about michael flynn, the muller investigation, unmasking. the president is directly messaging to his base because he has a real base problem going into the crucial summer months of his re-electio

toward that end the white house will create a tool to report bias to the federal trade commission forsible investigation. additionally the secretary of commerce is the order to petition the spc that would expose tech companies to legal action if they were banning users or if they don't give users an adequate ability to contest the censorship they've suffered. all of this is good, but the question is, is it enough if it comes to fruition, and if the order does what it says it well, it will take some time. of course it could be instantly reversed and likely will be the second democrat takes power. so what we need to fix this is an executive order. again those are reversible about laws which are passed by the congress traditionally and it should be. the communications decency act of 1996 is at the center of this. it's the reason that big tech is as powerful as it now is. section 2:30 of that act holds, and we are quoting now, "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of information provided by another information content provider

which leaked to some news organizations, including reuters, would give the federal communications commission and federal trade commission some responsibility for investigating complaints of political bias when it comes to certain social media sites. we are going to take you to the white house as soon as it happens but any executive order will probably most likely be met with a flurry of lawsuits coming out of silicon valley, or any of these companies who say it would squelch free speech. >>> meanwhile, the house hunting market, let's get to that, went from 180 to zero right as the prime spring selling season was to begin. realtors around the nation found themselves banned from physically showing homes to potential buyers due to the dangers of the pandemic. no one should be surprised that april pending home sales did plunge 21.8% month over month but toll brothers announced today that deposits on new homes have ticked up in recent weeks. a positive sign for the luxury market. realogy has real estate brands such as century 21, coldwell banker, corcoran, better homes and gardens real estate. for a straight from

you are going to see, increasingly, a lobbying battle that spreads out in congress, at the federal trade commissionat the federal communications commission. what this executive order does is it takes the liability protections companies have. companies can leave users' content up or take it down if they do it in good faith. trump wants the fcc now to define what good faith is, but the law does not give the fcc to power to do that. the law actually does not give the fcc the obligation to listen to trump. that's before you get into any of the first amendment issues of trump coming down on a company that expressed a view he did not like. i think there is a lot of grounds for legal challenge, and i think you will see that if the fcc takes the bait. so, with the early amount of analysis we are seeing, would constitutional? ben: there is a strong case that it might be. experts i have heard on the left and right suggest that there were big constitutional issues here. the u.s. chamber of commerce, certainly known to be allies with republicans, came out with a statement and said that only congress can change

is it will start the process towards that end and that may be in some directions for the federal trade commissionlook into some of these issues of bias. there may be some opening for the federal communications commission but ultimately, what i'm told is if you really want to change this, it probably has to be done through congress and an active legislation, very limited amount of action that president trump can take unilaterally. >> bill: makes sense. with regard to china, just reading this now that he will hold a press conference tomorrow on china. the first time we are getting this as well, he will be making certain decisions. he just heard my conversation at the state department, what is part of these discussions now within the west wing? >> this is such a big deal, so important, and the devil is in the detail. talking about the declaration that mike pompeo made yesterday that hong kong cannot be considered separate from china even what china is doing. the real question is what does president trump and the administration do about it. something that wall street is going to be watching very clos

the federal trade commission is cautioning you to watch out for scammers posing as covid-19 charitiesit's easy to do research to make sure your money goes to the right cause. first, ask if it is registered as a public 501c3 organization, that means they proved to the irs they're a nonprofit. also ask for their employer identification number. you can use that to search their tax records at irs.gov. ask them how are you going to spend my money? how much goes to people who need it, how much to administration, costs like salaries and fund-raising. if a rep can't give you a fast and clear answer, consider giving elsewhere. finally the ftc recommends looking up the charity with some of these watchdogs including the better business bureau, charity navigator, charity w we've shared links to all four at nbcbayarea.com. just tap responds from the main menu. >> thank you, chris. >>> two southern california cities are reopening their beaches after submitting a reworked social distancing plan to the governor's office. they say the revised plans will prevent crowds that got newsom's attention two w

they are asking the department of justice and federal trade commission to keep an eye on this deal. both stocks are moving higher by about half a percent right now but one primary concern for law makers is the fee that restaurants are forced to pay to use both grub hub's delivery services and uber eats. why wait around for regulators to decide? now some restaurants are actually taking matters into their own hands. we said let's get kristina partsinevelos on the story here. she is at pita's and sticks restaurant in brooklyn, new york. what are they doing and what do you see happening here? kristina: okay. first i want to set the scene. the fact that it is bustling, there's lots of people out, lots of people looking to buy food. but like the restaurant you just mentioned, the greek one right in front of me, they have to rely on delivery apps and this restaurant owner says he is tired about how high these fees, some up to 30%, they are charging by a lot of delivery apps like grub hub. listen to what he had to say. >> we cannot operate with 25%, 26%, 28% commissions flying out the door.

so i think this executive order is welcome news including calling in the federal trade commission.k, if you're any other type of business and you represent that you're a neutral platform then you engage in some of the conduct we're seeing, you'd be held liable for unfair business practices at that point. lou: well, the president served notice, more than sufficient notice, that he was not going to be trifled with by big tech, pencil-necked geeks in the form of one particularly jack dorsey who has tried to become his nemesis in silicon valley and as of yesterday had succeeded. i don't think he probably hikes the position he know -- likes the position he now finds himself in. your thoughts about how this will unwind, how it will move from here. >> here's what's really important about the president's executive order, everybody has free speech first amendment rights. what's different about these platforms that congress in the 190s afforded them a very special and unique legal liability and protection that all other political actors don't enjoy. and that maybe made sense when you had the

. >> reporter: president trump's executive order calls for the federal trade commission and attorney general to take action and restrict the role social media companies play in monitoring the content they deliver. >> they are using that market power to force particular viewpoints, and that's wrong. it has to be addressed, not only through this executive order, but i think litigation going forward and further action on capitol hill. >> reporter: the move comes two days after twitter but a fact mark checker on the president acclaimed mail-in voting allowed fraud. i twitter headquarters in san francisco they said twitter should jump dump trump.'s mcdonald trump is spreading deadly lies through twitter and twitter has a duty to give their fact check everything trump says on twitter, or to suspend his account. >> reporter: the debate centers on the 1996 communications decency act, which categorizes social media companies as distributors of information, rather than editorial publishers. the intent was to provide reduction for moving content such as pornography or copyright infringement wit

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the executive order will get the federal trade commission the power to regulate that law. >> social media companies that engage in censoring or any political contact. >> president trump claimed that conservative voices are being unfairly censored on social media platforms, warning "we will strongly regulate or close them down." in an exclusive interview, fox's dana perino asked facebook ceo mark zuckerberg about it. >> i have to understand what they would actually intend to do. in general, i think government choosing to censor a platform because they're worried about censorship doesn't exactly strike me as being the right reflex. >> the american civil liberties union weighing in on the white house action. in a statement saying "much as he might wish otherwise, donald trump is not the president of twitter. this order if issued would be a blatant and unconstitutional threat to punish social media companies that displease the president." the idea even drawing fire from members of the president's own party. >> if you don't like the platform, don't use the platform. to decide whether or not so

congress to look at section $230.00 of that particular act then of course he could instruct the federal trade commission to investigate allegations of bias the f.t.c. is there to protect consumer interest so certainly there is a possibility that they could get involved in policing social media platforms but whichever way he goes here there's very likely to be all sorts of court actions following nic do we not see the kind of clash of the titans are we read or see. the response to bosses of twitter and facebook and and there are different ends of the argument. well they are indeed the head of facebook mark zuckerberg giving an interview in which he said that it's not up to social media to police their platforms that they are not social arbiters as he put it twitter is intent on policing itself hence those fact checks on what they regarded as incorrect false misleading statements by president trump on twitter so yes there is division within social media there's also division among legislators some republicans are already working towards looking at that common decency act also they are looking on a biparti

business practice that would get a lot of other companies under scrutiny including from the federal trade commission. steve: so now the question becomes who is twitter going to footnote next. are they going to bo back and will it apparently have a left wing tent to it or right wing tent. go one pay as many conservatives have suggested for a while? i read i think it was today in the "new york post" and they suggested who are they going to do next? are they going to go back and annotate the various reporters who were talking about russia collusion and things like that that obviously never panned out, ainsley. ainsley: steve, the beauty of social media you can see a person's personality what's important to them. not only pictures of their lives but their opinions. and there are a lot of opinions out there that all of us probably don't agree with. you agree with some you don't agree with others. to do this to the president, you are right, are they going to do this to every single person? they attached two articles. one was from cnn. one was from "the washington post. those are more left leaning publicat