joining us, as always, jon fortt, kayla tausche and myself at post 9.today, the president and ceo of the aspen institute, walter isaacson. walter, good to see you again this morning. >> good to be back with you. >> our top story today, one we've been following pretty much all week. that is the moment of truth that social media is going through following donald trump's presidential win one week ago. in the last 24 hours, twitter has suspended a number of accounts associated with the alt-right movement just as it announced a new effort to crack down on hate speech. and in the fight against fake news on social media, tech executives from alphabet to linkedin say mistakes were made and the valley has to do more. >> at google, we've always cared about bringing the most relevant and accurate systems to users and that's where almost all of our work goes at the end of the day. when i look at it, it's important to remember, we get billions every day. there have been a couple of instances where it's been pointed out and we clearly did not get it right, and so it'

jon fortt is back at post 9, sara eisen will join us for the hour along with henry blodget, businessnsider. great to have you. >> great to be here. >> to the campaign trail for our top story. five days to go until the presidential election. new national polls show hillary clinton once again pulling ahead of donald trump as both candidates set their sights on swing states in the homestretch. john harwood is live in lima, ohio weather the latest. >> i want to step back for a minute from this strongly republican county, al lep county where lima is located, to look at the national picture. donald trump has fallen two points behind in "the washington post" poll. if you look at the nbc news battleground map you can see hillary clinton is either solidly or slightly leaning in enough states to get her over the 270 electoral votes she needs to be elected president. now, donald trump tends to do better when he follows the direction of his campaign staff and stays on script. in fact, donald trump yesterday was musing out loud about that. >> we are going to win the great state of florida, and we

welcome to "squawk alley," carl quintanilla with jon fortt and kayla tausche and ceo daniel rosenswag chief operating officer at yahoo! also from one market, "the new york times" tech correspondent mike isaac. mike, good morning to you as well. our top story is facebook reportedly developing this new censorship tool designed to persuade china to allow the social network to re-enter the world's second biggest economy. that is according to the "times." facebook has been banned in china for the last seven years. mike, you broke this story, and it raises all kinds of questions about what they're capable of in terms of screening content, and now increasing what they're willing to do. >> yeah, that's exactly right. i think the biggest point here is just the fact that facebook is even considering some form of censorship in order to get back into china. the sort of general knowledge or general belief among a lot of western internet companies shares a lot of american values, which is essentially that speech and free speech is very important, and you know, business may come at a cost of sort of

send it to jon fortt with a look at what's coming up on "squawk alley" at the top of the hour, jon. >e've got the ceos of adobe, hp and godaddy. we're going to cover your software, your services, your cloud, small business, large, a lot to dig into with new things coming out of adobe max this week. also we're going to dig into facebook's results and more. it's going to be a packed hour on "squawk alley." sara, you should stick around. >> i think i will be doing that with facebook shares off the lows. when we return, our exclusive sit-down with superstar quarterback tom brady. his take on trump, under armour and those declining nfl ratings. much more ahead. stay with us. >>> so is donald trump that person to take it -- to help america? >> that's for america to decide. what's critical thinking like? a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. morgan stanley i've spent my life planting a size-six, non-slip shoe into that

. >>> let's send it to jon fortt with a look at what's coming up on "squawk alley." jon. >> hey.alk about twitter. they're continuing to have a hate speech problem. how are they dealing with that? is it enough? also, tech under president trump. analysts are still crunching numbers and have evolving ideas on what that will look like and apple and holiday season. all that and more coming up on "squawk alley." ♪ mapping the oceans. where we explore. protecting biodiversity. everywhere we work. defeating malaria. improving energy efficiency. developing more clean burning natural gas. my job? my job at exxonmobil? turning algae into biofuels. reducing energy poverty in the developing world. making cars go further with less. fueling the global economy. and you thought we just made the gas. ♪ energy lives here. >>> technological changes that have already come to chains such as starbucks and dunkin' donuts in the u.s. we caught up with steve easterbrook yesterday and asked him what the company learned by waiting. >> we learned two different things. first of all, you can learn and underst

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i'm jon fortt. with me, sara eisen and melissa lee. karla and kayla have the morning off. welcome.o our top story this black friday, the trump rally rolling on this morning, the dow, s&p 500, and small cap russell 2000 hitting highs, the averages set for their third straight week of gains. just up fractionally, but we're in record territory so they continue to push higher. not all sectors have joined equally in the rally, but still impressive. and perhaps a good sign that as the shopping season kicks off they're continuing to at least make new highs. >> within today's market action, it's interesting that the utilities are doing very well in today's session, and it's really the standout in terms of leadership. you have to wonder, well, why is that, why are people feeling the need to go for safety the day before this weekend. granted it's light volume. we're also seeing interestingly in germany, the two-year yield on the bund is at its record low. minus 0.76%. so also a bid for safety overseas. >> it's an interesting timing for that because it's happening when our treasury yields are

jon fortt, rick santelli, here at post 9.hee code executive editor kara swisher will discuss all things tech. before that, there are major announcements from the trump transition team. john harwood has the latest. >> we've got three hard line announcements from the donald trump transition today. first of all, jeff sessions as the choice for attorney general. the alabama senator is someone who's been a sharp critic of immigration both legal and illegal, someone who was rejected by the senate for a federal judgeship during the reagan administration because of his racial views. then for national security adviser, lieutenant general michael flynn, a fiery critic of what he calls radical islamic terrorists, and he is very forward leaning in using that term. and finally, congressman mike pompeo from kansas, who is a tea party member, also somebody who's been very confrontational in terms of going after islam and calling it in terms that the obama administration has said were counterproductive to the fight. now, mike pence, the vice

jon fortt, kayla with us here, on a day we're watching the optics of politics. the very real quotes in the markets where the divergence between the trump trade materials, growth, is colliding with a serious downdraft in tech. amazon just the latest example. >> amazon is an example of one of the companies that trump as a candidate singled out for punishment saying, oh, are they going to have problems. that was retribution for "the washington post" writing something he didn't like, went right after jeff bezos. that will be important for the business community to see. trump took shots at lot of great american companies and it will be interesting and important to see how he handles it. >> somebody called it a trump grudge trade. do you think that exist sms. >> i think it's absolutely a risk. amazon does, as it gains power and has so many operations, tax implications so, many things. there are many, many ways if he were to follow through on that threat that he could screw up business for amazon. >> there's trump the man and the things he has said, but then there's tr

columba university professor tim wu discusses his book "the attention merchants" with cnbc as jon fortt. >> host: him, "the attention merchants" you take is on quite a journey in this book. historical perspective going way back to the early days of newspapers. what inspired you to die in this way and go so far back to track how high potential is getting captured? >> guest: on one of these people who believes our presence is formed by history. it just came to me, writing this book with a reason for writing this book as i started noticing how much of our life is driven by ad model to reduce to be just the media, newspapers, things like that but google, facebook, all of the internet sites. i think i have this experience which may be other people have that as well where i increase we found i would sit down at my computer and maybe try and write one e-mail and then four hours would go by and i'm like, call it casino effect. i thought our presence have gotten a strange, this ad model where the ideas to resell your audience to other people as opposed to have been by the product itself. it alwa

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columba university professor tim wu discusses his book "the attention merchants" with cnbc as jon fortt. >> host: him, "the attention