let's cross live now to piers robinson piers maturity politics society and political journalism at the university of sheffield in the u.k. piers always good to have you on the program. we're no longer. sure absolutely yeah no sorry about how piers there was r t report twitters to the sky by thought that we just ran is not going a little too far do you think. well i think there are several questions which immediately come up when you have effectively taxes and control and prevention in a way that twitter is doing with these red flags seen on i mean the 1st question is who is making the decision of information and misinformation. and it's not clear exactly what rationale is being applied the 2nd thing is is it they are censoring what they believe to be misinformation is being applied consistently across different outlets and so on and i suppose that the norm the usual or the obvious question theresa's where there's some kind of ideological bias going on that sort of some media outlets will be subjected last one had a sentence applied to them cetera. and i think maybe the biggest concern

flagged by the twitter as potentially misleading content we heard from independent researcher piers robinson he believes social media giants are going way beyond their remit. the biggest concerns that i have about any of these attempts to sort of control the misinformation. is that you're really no longer trusting the euros and readers you actually use their own intelligence and judgment to assess and commission and i think that's a much safer better rather than democratic term road there and it turns to go down don't censor don't try and go into this possible terror deciding what is this information of what is not what you actually are allowable classes without no serial requirements etc without wanting to make suitable the plan you know the criticism will be that you choose twitter etc and facebook are seen and controlling information flow which really is going one direction which is actually politically biased the actual acts of a late news this is part of the bias itself. which is why it's such a dangerous road to go down i think more in general i mean it does the i think a wider crack c

been flagged by twitter as potentially misleading content we heard from independent researcher piers robinson he believes social media giants are going way beyond their remit biggest concerns that i have about these attempts to control misinformation. you really no longer trust you. actually use their own intelligence and judgment. you know so much so you. go down. don't censor don't try and go to the tariff you're deciding what is this information and what is not. allowable cost without the serial requirements etc without wanting to move to bold plan no criticism would be that you choose twitter etc facebook are seeing and controlling information flow which really is going $1.00 direction which is actually politically biased national. late news part of the by itself. which is why it's such a dangerous road to go down i think more in general i mean does the i think a wider concern amongst people which i think is probably increasing now that you know information is being censored we've seen it in so many different rounds on so many different areas and of course the code 19 remote control so yo

obliterate our cap dangerous to go out piers as always thank you for your time in speaking to piers robinson independent research your life on the program thank you. if you feel like delving deeper into any of those stories i'd suggest a good place to start is r.t. dot com you can't add always being out there to help you ease into the weekend by for no. one else seems wrong but we'll just don't have all. the world yet to see how this day comes to cancel. and in again because the trail. went on many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i. this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss for in washington coming up with less than a week until the united states election g.d.p. that it is out in the nation of the seen its fastest growth ever amid the copen $1000.00 crisis but the economy is still far from a full recovery straight ahead we break down the spike in growth and the economic state of the nation plus big tech is back under fire as some of the most powerful people in this sector face down congress later on and we bring you up to speed on the