ben what do you make of that the i don't i don't agree at all look mark zuckerberg is saying something that i think is factually untrue 1st of all facebook does not have a clear process for overturning these fact checking organizations when they cancel content or remove content because i've had gone to the remove and it is not clear how that works they have actually outsourced it to these outside groups that are 3rd party groups that have very questionable funding mechanisms of their own because special interest groups fund the fact checkers that facebook is a hands everything over to but something else mark zuckerberg said which i do not think is the answer is he says congress needs to be more involved no congress does not need to be more involved in what speech is allowed on the internet and what isn't is not allowed congress does not need to be involved in that instead what we need is clarity from these organizations as to who is a fact checker what constitutes a fact check what is the natural process for this because it doesn't make sense and just a quick example you know this whol

we have received a prepared testimony for mark zuckerberg, jack dorsey, and sundar pichai.ng in bloomberg's ben brody who covers tech lobbying on the hill for us. so what is the run-up show tomorrow? how long will this go? what time do we start? ben: we start here at 10:00 a.m. eastern. sue pretty early for you guys on the west coast. the person i'm talking to say they expect multiple rounds of questioning. we are getting used to how these herrings work. when you have these big ceos, although lawmakers show up and they take all their time. one round of questioning could be one or two hours. it could really be kind of a long deal for us. emily: we are also seven days away from the election. how does that up the ante and potentially increase the political fireworks we can expect to see? ben: i expect a lot of political talk during this particular hearing. a lot of what these folks have talked about, zuckerberg and and dorsey, they have said in their hearings is that republicans are upping the pressure on the companies over there allegations that there is anti-conservative bia

emily: absolutely, and of course, we have mark zuckerberg, jack dorsey testifying on wednesday.uge week for big tech. abigail, thanks so much for giving us that look ahead. i want to talk a little bit more about the broader market, the selloffs, closer look at the tech sector in particular. ceo.e joined by a cannot we to hear your thoughts on this. is the markets picking up to the bad news or seeing more bad news ahead? >> i think the answer is yes to that. quite honestly, if you think about a presidential election in the middle of a pandemic, with markets that have been basically march,g steadily since nasdaq up27% or so you're today, i would feel more concerned if the markets were just rallying aggressively into the election and through the earnings season. i think this type of price action, choppy sideways price action would be to find the markets of the last two weeks, something to be expected. big cap tech earnings of this weekend election around the corner a week from tomorrow, i think some of those uncertainty factors in out-of-the-way will help risk assets. in my view th

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and could they have done it a lot sooner should as kara points out mark zuckerberg squashed holocaustial posts much sooner of course. but at least they're starting to do the right thing they're just not explaining it as well as they could and twitter seattle jack dorsey seems to admonish his own staff in a tweet saying we did a bad job of explaining it but if you really drill down into the reasons, again, explained not very well, they made the right call. again, i submit if the new york post story had had not embedded documents, the providence of which are completely unverified, we wouldn't be havingthis conversation >> kara, i guess the question now is, you said the most important thing and that is that they're a private company. they can do whatever they want but where is the line to where they're not just restricting content but the public's ability to listen to public officials, to listen to house judiciary and the press secretary? are they making this stuff up on the fly or are they reaching into a toolbox that they've had plenty of time to build? >> they balked at me when i link

because mark zuckerberg has no moral compass mean that is fundamentally the problem. i mean you know you started out i mean you know at one point we you know so many people loved it was like you know it was a word you know when your friends and your family and then you know when he was found to be still a traitor to gender star i in my own mar you know that's what a united nations report said is that it played to determining role in the genocide in mind. and you know what i consequence was that absolutely nothing guests and you know maintain the company after that. you know guess this i'm saying well this is you know i live. across the word so many countries where you. rely on. many many caked deef i am. i'm basically going to say that this conversation has got so much more energy in it and much more time as kate pointed out about 15 minutes ago now text says maybe we should just suspend facebook during election to avoid confusion and the spread of lies by individuals thank you guess what a robust conversation. we shall see the election is just 2 weeks away thank you

saw a statement, mark zuckerberg himself took to facebook to lay out his focus on this.asaid my own thinking evolved. it already has evolved to a certain extent at facebook, hasn't it? kurt: it has. it has always been said that the best way to change mark give himg's mind is to the data, show him the numbers. a study that facebook conducted that showed about a quarter of people between 18 and 40 thought the holocaust was a myth. if you look at those numbers, this is a dangerous thing to continue to let spread on our service. i think those numbers in particular seemed to really help him make the decision. caroline: we have already seen misinformation regarding q ano o and the like. is it going to be postelection? is it all in the run-up to the election that these become hot potatoes? kurt: because the election is coming, mark zuckerberg himself has said he is worried about civil unrest, violence. i don't know if that relates to holocaust denial is a but certainly qanon. i think the last thing they want to do is get to election day, see things playing out, that started bec

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has mark zuckerberg in october was here in washington and spoke at georgetown university. he harped on the idea that facebook errs on the side of speech, he would rather people decide for themselves the information they would like to believe than facebook make that decision for them. at the time, it seemed he was defending some controversial content moderation decisions facebook had made that angered people on the left, the democrats. it seemed he was deciding that facebook would not be the speech police. flashforward a year and that has changed. it ist know whether because there have been more pressure from the left to take down misinformation or if there is just so much misinformation out there that facebook has no choice but to act, but it has changed. twitter has been more aggressive from the beginning about saying they will take down information that is deemed to be misinformation from their platforms, from day one. but as we just saw with the hunter biden'situation can lead they ar not better than facebook or any other platform, they still have tough content moderati

mark: this is how it began, it was away from mark zuckerberg and his pals to meet girls. ever. >> it is coming full circle. mark: it was great to see you. and thank you for the business news. and thank you for watching live from paris. ♪ 10/22/20 10/22/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> we want justice! >> we want justice! we want justice! nigeria!l of amy: mass protests against police brutality are continuing in nigeria after security forces

will mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey testified? ben: that seems certain.aid they could agree to testify voluntarily or be subpoenaed. if they don't agree to be testified voluntarily, they are already scheduled to be testifying on privacy and the liability shield under section 230. so no matter what, jack dorsey and mark zuckerberg will be testifying once again here in washington, d.c.. twoy: so we are expecting major ceo hearings next week. we just spoke to senator marsha blackburn, who is on both committees. is there were republican versus republican turf war going on here? why are we seeing so many different and uncoordinated actions? ben: it seems like a turf war. roger wicker, chairman of the commerce committee, told reporters today they have these issues in hand and the judiciary committee can do what they want, but they should understand with these issues are. what you are seeing is a ramping up of washington scrutiny not only on the range of issues in section 230, antitrust, privacy, but thet you want, companies are trying to help jill biden on nove

jack dorsey, ceo of twitter, mark zuckerberg, ceo of, well, facebook has made it clear to all that they mean 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 righ

is going to say >> i've obtained a copy of the written comments of mark zuckerberg he says without section 230, they would perhaps field the risk of constant litigation as they try to remove potentially harmful content as well as misinformation however, he does acknowledge that the debate about section 230 shows that people of all political persuasions are unhappy with the status quo. and he strikes what sounds like a more conciliatory tone saying that i believe congress should update the law to make sure it is working as intended he said he supports ideas around transparency, collaboration and some of the bipartisan proposals and looks forward to meaningful dialogue he said he looks forward to public scrutiny, says i know we will be judged by how we perform in this pivotal time and live up to the trust that people have in the platform there you have the written testimony of ceo mark zuckerberg, being more conciliatory, acknowledging there could be changes to section 230 the company my suppo support. >> how would you compare so far what we've heard from zuckerberg to the approach that jack

that mark zuckerberg and to schwarzenegger and other what you think of as long as palo alto and san francisco and laguna beach are doing okay, then california is working. system in the foothills and the cascade mountains and the high and low desert, not only do they don't care they don't even know they are there. and then to juxtapose that talk about the parchment regime with the juxtaposition that is a new regime of where the seem to be going in this other regime with that analysis and this regime that we talk about the older america tell us how you analyze that and the confusion of the left and the right. >> the main thrust of chapters number two and three how we are supposed to be governed but not anymore. and to shape conservatives to review the constitution of the declaration and the bill of rights so looking at the united states is no longer governed but is a fundamentally different way i look at that civics lesson more than five or six pages because it's covered elsewhere but i spent a lot of time on chapter two discussing the attacks on the original understanding of how america should

kid shepherding his company on to the main stage a new "wall street journal" article titled how mark zuckerbergrned politics appear today joining us is the author of that article. your reporting painted an image of zuckerberg who took 2016 as a wake-up call and leaned into policy in a big way, cultivated personal relationships with policymakers, publishers, civil rights activists have we ever seen this level, this kind of engagement in terms of political and social reach out from a tech ceo before >> i think you see this a lot with tim cook at apple you see it certainly a little bit with jack dorsey at twitter. it's definitely new for facebook it's new for mark, at least in the last several years a lot of these tech ceos belong to the camp of politics is something that happens on the other side of the coast. 2016 was a massive wake-up call and they realized they couldn't leave it to the policy teams there anymore. >> i guess it still remains to be seen, but in your research and reporting, do you think that zuckerberg and facebook are ready for the election, in a better position this time around

that when i mean the idea that your quitting 3 speech you're investing one man one billionaire mark zuckerberg with the power to start decreasing your home day more than 3000000000 people across the globe to use facebook products i mean if that's your idea of free speech that's an unknown algorithm we've got no idea how it works and a certain messages and doesn't amplify other ones one of the things we see and find there's been a white supremacist we've got no idea how that works or what's going on inside the company and i that's not free speech that you know that's that artificially enhanced and amplified and that's just one of the many issues going on but i mean can i just come back on something which is the thing that kate said about not be cynical about the oversight board and you know i really do wish them all the very best of luck and i hope also they don't get a good outcome yet but i think it's certainly wrong not to be cynical or facebook now as a journalist who's been reporting on these companies for 4 years you have had i have had the e.c. in a report in which they find facebook $10

john: well, mark zuckerberg wasn't alive when i started the company, so i couldn't have referred to himll gates had just started microsoft, and my dad would never have heard of that. my dad was very supportive. he just wanted his son to do something he was passionate about. he could see i was very excited about this, so he was actually very supportive. david: in the early years, he helped you somewhat as an accounting professor and gave you some advice. john: my dad was my mentor because i didn't have a business background. i always say from 1978 to 1994, i never made a move at whole foods without checking with my dad. in 1994, i turned 40 years old. we'd gone public two years before. and my dad was now wealthy on paper with all the stock he had bought, and he wanted to hold onto what he had. and i wanted to grow the business. i just thought we could really grow this thing. so we used to fight in our board meeting. we would scream at each other in public board meetings. finally, i said dad, i want you to sell half of your stock tomorrow -- i'm firing you. i don't want you on the board a

we are unable to make contact with mr mark zuckerberg. cebook staff that he is alone and attempting to connect with this hearing. zoom uses everywhere salute you mr zuckerberg. isn't that all our experience? we all feel the pain of zoom, don't we? we all feel the pain of zoom, don't we? so are these big tech companies, publishers or not? the law says they cant be sued, as a newspapers or broadcasters could be sued, for the content they carry, which critics say amounts to "sweeping immunity". although republican lawmakers seemed more concerned at what they are not carrying, some of the presidents tweets, or this months new york post story on hunter biden that twitter and facebook removed. democrats thanked them for the steps they have made to combat fake news and misinformation. mr dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the american people are allowed to hear? and why do you persist in behaving as a democratic super pack silencing views to the contrary of your political belief

we're talking about mark zuckerberg because of the ad buys that campaigns are using and as well as you know different political groups right now in a campaign election cycle i don't get it. and i didn't know it. i look at it like this about how it should go the opposite i don't get it for any of them and here's why i wondered i understand logically but i will say this we always talk about a minimum wage father actually brought this up in our group that we need to have a maximum wage because when you have people making this much money that gives them more power and control over so many different aspects of this country that it's ungodly what do you need that much money for at the end of the day no i agree with you there what we know about amazon is that the majority of their workers are full time workers these are contractors so you know when coburn 1000 hit it meant that a lot of people were either laid off or they already didn't have health insurance and we also know that they weren't given the proper p.p.a. to protect them while they were working in these warehouses so there's a lot

facebook's mark zuckerberg and twitter's jack dorsey testified virtually. they censor trump but protect biden as twitter does with the hunter biden story. >> why did twitter censor the "new york post"? >> we -- >> they were not hiding the source. when you don't have the source do you block stories? >> no, our team made the decision. >> laura: but what happened just a few weeks ago when a story about the president's tax returns came out. >> did twitter block the distribution of the "new york times"'s story that perported to be based on copies of president trump's tax returns. >> it was a report about the material. >> that's not true. they purported it was original source federal and it's a felony to distribute someone's tax returns. >> laura: ted cruz schooled these guys. the tech companies are acting like a censorship bureau for the democrats. where did that leave the voices of independent thinkers during the biden administration you? would be silenced. the left's efforts to shut you down will continue until the democrats feel real political pain. governors

based and others oh yeah let's look at the likes of these others or you would just jeff bezos mark zuckerberg musk and dan gilbert chairman a quick look at what they've made i mean jeff bezos world grew from 113000000000 in march 18th 203000000000 by october increase 80 percent zuckerberg $54700000000.00 in march 18th to $101000000000.00 by october 30th 85 percent increase in law must $24600000000.00 march 18th now close to $100000000000.00 and ben gilbert chairman of quicken loans saw his wealth rocket by 656 percent 49000000000 at the start of the year from $6000000000.00 at the start of the year to $49000000000.00 now at the end of the year that's massive wealth heading their way now i get it for a jet basis for instance because the majority of us are still using amman. on especially when you know that all of the stores were raided and everything at the start of code 19 a lot of people are turning to online shopping i get it for facebook we're talking about mark zuckerberg because of the ad buys that campaigns are using and as well as you know different political groups right now in a camp

we're talking about mark zuckerberg because of the ad buys that campaigns are using and as well as youknow different political groups right now in a campaign election cycle i don't get it. and. i look at it like this and i'll actually go the opposite i don't get it for any of them and here's why i wondered i understand logically but i will say this we always talk about a minimum wage and bother actually brought this up in our group that we need to have a maximum wage because when you have people making this much money that gives them more power and control over so many different aspects of this country that it's ungodly what do you need that much money for at the end of the day no i agree with you there and what we know about amazon is that the majority of their workers are full time workers these are contractors so you know when kobe 1000 hit it meant that a lot of people were either laid off or they already didn't have health insurance and we also know that they weren't given the proper p.p.a. to protect them while they were working in these warehouses so there's a lot going on at th

i don't think mark zuckerberg, there's a fundamental difference in the makeup between mark zuckerberg'sind, he may be somewhat smarter since he has $66 billion but the makeup of his mind, how he thinks, the things you wants to see done that are just and unjust, the way he thinks power is justly used to enable certain ends, there is no difference between him and the low 6-figure scribe or internet click debate offer. they think the same way as work in their own spheres toward the same end. >> you make some distinctions, freeloaders and avengers. who are these people? >> the ruling class army. or constituency. every ruling class, every leadership class needs people behind them. you can put stars on peoples shoulders, they don't have an army, what good are they? freeloaders is a loaded term and i try to qualify but fundamentally people whose interest in the political system is to get free stuff. prototypical freeloader is a birdie bro, i want socialism because the system is unfair and i deserve more and don't know how to get it. so i will make the government do it. they are more true belie

you referenced jack dorsey, the head of twitter, mark zuckerberg, the head of facebook, if you could turn to these two corporate leaders as well as others from social media companies sitting in front of you right now, socially distanced, of course, they are sitting in front of you right now, what would you say to them? what would you ask for them to do or focus on? you are asking a tough question there. now, what i would ask for them to do is allocate some money come allocate some funding, give up some of the prophet. they are a multibillion dollar company. alongp some money to work online gender-based violence. groups that are basically working for free or not enough, help make their platform be safer so they can keep their profit margins healthy. forthat money be used proper educational intervention. a lot of the time in our workshop goes to teach people how to use the platform safely. that should be something these companies should be paying for. them to part with money for them to care about how their money is being spent and their return on investment because that seems to be th

so mark zuckerberg and those of our responsible. and so i think that when you get into government determining what is true or not, you got a slippery slope the work not going to be able to get to. all company so should have the responsibility to moderate what's on their platforms rated by the way, they're coining money, trillion dollar corporation. they have the ability to do moderations. by the way, will there be controversial decisions. yes. but the big bucks in the big power comes big responsibility. it is this something all the platforms need to be responsible for and held responsible for. but i don't think you're going to get government individuals to determine what is tour not. but all other publishing in the 20th century, we found a very confident but his work very well broadcasting television and radio, and you can basically establish that you do that for social media and the internet as well. so i'm confident we can do that in a thoughtful and common sense play. but there's a response ability of these trillion dollar compan

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you look at both parties is there is some agreement that changes would be necessary actually mark zuckerberg from facebook has and himself is saying there should be changes and that the government so that washington should take more responsibility to get involved when it comes to content on those sites but to me that sounds a bit like they have trying to push the rest sponsibility away from facebook over to congress or to washington so a big question mark also is how congress will change after the elections if congress should remain split that might mean that we also might see the status quo when it comes to section $230.00 so that not that much will change the stocks by the way of those 3 companies they all went down by a good 5 percent but that might have to do with the overall negative sentiment that we had on wall street on wednesday clearly not the end of that story yes market there on wall street for us thank you very much. now to some of the other global business stories making news. hot spot is recalling more than 218000 jetta sedans in the u.s. it says a fuel leak problem can cause

facebook ceo mark zuckerberg, sunder pichai of google and jack dorsey of twitter all in the hot seat, of them reporting earnings results this week. what are you expecting? abigail: the testimony was very colorful in terms of language, as these big-tech internet ceos are trying to defend the section 230 that protects their companies. lawmakers obviously going against them or trying to bring something about. in terms of any change that would actually affect the numbers or fundamentals for these companies anytime soon from this testimony, that is unlikely. so the big picture is what you're talking about, earnings tomorrow for apple, amazon, alphabet, and facebook. and interesting report. they had huge selling pressure. these were the big drags on the day. investors are taking chips off the table, perhaps profit where it has been working. over the last five days, these stocks are down as well. we don't have stocks trading well into the report, sometimes it can raise a red flag. but price for affection, that bar is very high because these are companies that have done very well, so any hicc

todd: senate judiciary committee set to vote on subpoenaing jack dorsey and mark zuckerberg.s following severe backlash against the new york post report about hunter biden's emails. >> the house judiciary committee joins us with more on what congress hopes to get on from this testimony. >> what is the number one thing you would like to see? >> we know censorship is going on. i would push back on the fact that after the new york post story we saw what happened with the white house press secretary's twitter account, asking tough questions and make them tell the truth to the american people the twitter and other tech companies are censoring conservatives and trying to affect the outcome of the election. >> we know each other, we are going around in circles on this, this is not the first time this is been brought up but look at these numbers, donald trump's 65 times, and biden 0. we have had these segments for the last couple years. will anything come of this? >> we are working on the house side, can't speak for the senate but on the house side to go after their liability protect

the fire from yesterday,lawmakers going mostly jack dorsey's direction despite the fact mark zuckerbergas sitting right there, deb aho willamson, emarketer analyst, we are going to continue to follow these headlines. i will speak with twitter ceo ned siegel tomorrow to get his outlook on the platform through the election in the end of year. that interview 3:30 p.m. eastern time right here on bloomberg television. ♪ coming up, counting the ballots. how to assure u.s. voters that this election will be fair. our conversation with the bipartisan election policy director, coming up next. ♪ the pandemic's driving record numbers of people to vote by mail, a process the president has inaccurately decried as fraud written. -- fraud ridden. counting all the boats could take days or weeks. trigger close, it could lawsuits over arcane procedures of election officials and battleground states. here to discuss counting the vote is matthew weil, bipartisan policy center's elections director. a huge task for you this week, matthew. big question, is the election going to be fair? matthew: the election is

mark zuckerberg. staff told by facebook attemptingalone and hearing,t with this and that they are requesting a five minute recess at this point to see if that connection can be made. this is a most interesting development, but we are going to themmodate the request of facebook employees and see if, within five minutes, we can make contact and proceeded. so at this point, i declare a five minute recess. been listening to the opening statements of the ceos of twitter and google. , isbook, as you just heard having some technical difficulties, but will hopefully be appearing before the senate committee, examining whether section 230 of the communications decency act has outlived its usefulness in the digital age. let's bring eric goldman back, clarasor at santa university. did you hear anything that stood out to you? eric: no, and i don't think they will concede much ground in their opening remarks. their goal is to survive today, so they are playing in a straight and narrow as possible. i will note that

>> maybe in twitter's case when jack dorsey is in versus being in at square, but not only is mark zuckerberglected, he is not even subject to shareholder approval to anything that he does is that okay i think it casts the whole thing in a different light given the sorts of decisions these plat forms made with democracy. >> there is a famous philosophy who said no one man should have pa power and it applies to mark zuckerberg when you are running a country with 3 billion people and your citizens have no means to address any grievance they may have, you have a problem so we're starting to see facebook start to take some steps, they are working on the oversight board that you will eventually be able to appeal to. but in examples like we saw this week when there is a very controversial decision, if you disagree, you are just out of l luck and that is a continuing pr problem for facebook >> yeah, kanye west wanting to write himself in for president, he wants even more power nick, casey, thank you >>> when we come back, judgment o'newe jim o'neill will talk about the stocks rising, dow up 348. som

into law when put mark zuckerberg was a teenager.e part communications decency act that shields online platforms from liability for content users post. it seems the ceos broadly agree that increased transparency and some sort of modification of section 230 should happen, but the law itself allows them to moderate and police the most violent and vile content. they sat they did not have the ability to do that, these platforms would be even unhealthier places. the big question is how the modification happens. can it enable companies to grow and not fight legal battles over everything their users post? it is also very outdated. david: let's broaden this out. we have an election. there is a question of what the election might do to tech. you're doing a series of programs on the subject, what are you finding? emily: all of these platforms are under fire for their role in the last election, but they did and did not do. in 2016 my mark zuckerberg said it was crazy to think that facebook could have influenced the election one way or another.