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sheryl sandberg, chief operating officer of facebook, spoke this week and tried to distance her countryn. >> i think these events were largely organized on platforms that don't have our abilities to stop hate and don't have our standards and don't have our transparency. >> so there sandberg is trying to downplay facebook's culpability in all this. i saw this week on facebook's platform a video getting 5 million views that had the false conspiracy theory that it was antifa, that it was left-wing activists that were responsible for the violence here in washington last week. so, you know, if you're running a platform where a lie like this, in the days after an insurrection, can go viral, you have a major problem still. >> right. i mean, there are still gaping holes at the very least. brian, let's talk about another family enterprise and entity, james murdoch is the youngest son of billionaire media mogul rupert murdoch and apparently he is criticizing what he's calling media properties owners, he's talking about his dad, as outlets for promoting conspiracy theories over the election. what

. >> why do you think, going deep on zach and sheryl sandberg they'll get to in a minute, what made them make that decision? that's a big decision particularly for a no liberal libertarian but that's a good decision to say we see if it were not do thing about it. >> so, the answer is to reconstruct the frame of 2016. three things are happening with the election on facebook. the first is, that trump is using facebook and the way it's supposed to be used almost better than anybody else has in history. bosworth told me, he was in awe of him, this later came out in a memo, that it was beautiful. essentially, trump in the trump campaign played facebook like a straw to various while the clinton people played it like the cardboard banjo you'd find in the street. the trump campaign accepted, and embedded in facebook and the ins and outs of how to use it. they made a bigger bet on him. he did thousands of ads every day. sometimes hundreds of thousands. and whereas the clinton campaign did not use it well at all. that was part one. part two, was misinformation. people found that they could make mo

. >>> tonight, facebook chief operating officer sheryl sandberg says last week's violent takeover at the u.s. capitol was largely organized on other platforms, not facebook. and added that the company continues to work to fight any mention of the insurrection, and remove it. earlier today, facebook announced it is banning any content that mentions the phrase stop the steal. the term quickly became a rallying cry for trump supporters following the election. >>> partner, the alternative social media platform favored by conservatives, is suing amazon tonight, the lawsuit is in response to amazon cutting off the platform from its services. partner accuses amazon of breaking antitrust laws, breaching its contract, and interfering with the company's business relationships with its users. >>> tonight, twitters a stock is off of it, it fell as much as 12% today, after the social media giant permanently simply suspended the president's account, the drop wiped $5 billion from twitters market value. >>> the debate over freedom of speech is intensifying after big tech companies crackdown and ban

sheryl sandberg is a social media giants chief operating officer. >> most of the rules that govern the internet were in 25 years ago. and we have been very public and not just saying we will participate in legislation but we are calling for recognition. we do think the internet needs new regulation. >> reporter: groups like q and on, pat boys and stop the steel have already been banned for trying to organize violent protests. the law professor justin leavitt specializes in constitutional law. he once served as the u.s. department of justice. >> this is something of a debate about free speech versus free enterprise but the speech that we get from the big social media companies is privately facilitated, it is a company deciding what it wants you to do. >> reporter: the applicant is allowed conspiracy theories to go unchecked went off-line. after amazon said it would no longer host the site on its computing services. apple and google removed it from the app store's this weekend. prof. leavitt says social media platforms have conduct rules that users must agree to when they sign on. that d

itsffhief operatinger sheryl sandberg is defending their decision to indefinitely ban the president.ad already banned proud boys, qanon, but there are people who feel you shouldn't ban the president. and their people sitting here today who feel, wow,e taking dn ice of the president is too far even now. so,hy did we do it? have clearly established principles that say we do not call for violence. in this moment, we took down the post that we thought maybe calling for violenc immediately. in this moment, the risk to our democracy was too big that we feel we had to take the unprecedented step of an indefi bte. >> let's hear from jeffarvis, and author of "what would google do.?" it could be seen as tech giants practicingheir free speech. >> free speech includes t right to choose what you carry. to have compelled speech is not free speech. so, the platforms are perfectly tthinir rights to choose to carry donald trump or not. >> buy-- but isn' the problem that they are almost like publia utilities th run by corporations? >> the platforms have opened up speech in ways thatre -- our oldess of

>> yeah, sheryl sandberg is trying to down play facebook's k culpability.iew. have a listen. >> i think these events were margin alally organized plat fo that don't have our standards and our transparency. >> she's sort of trying to cherrypick what facebook did without mentioning that the whole stop the steal movement went viral on facebook, qanon was spreading on facebook for years. and just this week, i came being a cross a video that had 5 million views before facebook it ghig about anything about it and it was repeating antifa that were responsible for the violence here last week. so if you have a platform like facebook and in the days and weeks after an insurrection in which the country is mired in fee fear of more violence, if you have videos of that get 5g million views before you do anything about it, you have a major problem. so just a failure to acknowledge leaders in silicon valley and their culpability. >> thinking that stood out to you on other social networks? >> yeah, we have seen the high grating a lot of the far right extremists and trump s

sarah: sheryl sandberg at a reuters conference said they have no plan to reinstate trump's account. they may have the decision on this oversight board, board that is supposed to hear appeals from people when their accounts get banned. after january 20, trump becomes a regular user. he is subject to the same kinds of three strikes roles as other users. he could be suspended more easily. he does not get the kind of leeway that he gets as a public leader. the line twitter and facebook often use with the president is listening, he is a public official. the public has a right to know what he is saying. that is transparency. they can disagree with it, they can be angry about it. but of course, this conversation changes when there are actual human lives at risk. emily: then there is what happened with parler, which might be more dramatic than putting off the president himself. you have amazon web services saying they will no longer service parler. they do not have a web hosting platform. the ceo says they are going to be off-line for at least a week. you wonder, we are so used to ht is on

sarah: sheryl sandberg at a conference today said they have no plans to reinstate trump's account, andt may be a situation where they had the decision -- they handed it off to their oversight board, which is where people appeal to when they get banned. after inauguration, trump is a regular user and subject to the same three strikes rules as other users. he could be suspended more easily. not the kind of leeway he gets as a public leader. the line that twitter and facebook often used with the president is he is a public official in the public has a right to know what he is saying. that is transparency. and can disagree with that be angry about it and do that in the open. the conversation changes when there are actual human lives at risk. emily: then of course there is what happened with parler, which might be more dramatic than cutting off the president himself. amazon web services saying they will no longer service parler, so they don't have a web hosting platform. the ceo says they will be off-line for at least a week. we are used to seeing what is going on in the president's head, w

sheryl sandberg, mark zuckerberg, you guys are pathetic. you need to be shut down.eds what you have to offer. you have destroyed this country. howie: kat timpf, should facebook be blown up. i've been critical over the years of failures of disinformation and hate speech, what's the legality of going after a private company like that? kat: it's not legal. it's interesting because joe and mika have 3 facebook pages between them, but, look, i agree with mika actually about a lot of what the problems are with facebook, but first of all, no legal recourse for the government to actually shut a social media site and he think it is problems are due to monopoly and not due to lack of regulation. i'm old enough to remember in 2016 frank thanked joe and mika after he won the primary in new hampshire. they were giving him a lot of air time. howie: they've been announcing for 4 years now. mara, everybody in the business needs to be on facebook. when mika says nobody really needs facebook, the fact that hundreds of millions of people forfeiting and the process otherwise? >> yeah,

that killed 30 people, if it's violence to help their business, they are fine with it, facebook sheryl sandbergnday. >> where clearly established principles that they do not call for violence. steve: clearly established principles, hilarious. in india for years they were enablers of horrific political violence because they did not want to upset the ruling party, for years they were in genocide according to the new york times, human rights groups say facebook has promoted violence all around the world, ethiopia, cambodia and the philippines, they don't care about violence they care about power and money or they used euphemistically call it scale, mark zuckerberg is a maniac, there silently conservatives now to suck up to democrats so they break up their monopolies. what principles of the authoritarians. then corporate america as kim strassel put it from being captives him to now actively pushing it. we've got to social justice messages on coffee cups to the financial industry cutting off conservatives. this is supposed to be about defending democracy in the constitution, look at aoc she said thi

sheryl sandberg was asked about it this morning. here is what she said. >> i these these incidents were largely organized on platforms that don't have our abilities to stop hate and don't have our standards and don't have our transparency. >> is that true? >> it is very hard to say. but i think she is dramatically minimizing facebook's responsibility because it is so large with billions of users. and as you said, they turned up the heat in december that brought more hyperpartisan content and they're so much bigger than the fringe sites, parler wiped off the international f internet now. and the scale is enormous and i think sandberg is trying to point the finger instead of looking inward which would be a beneficial thing to do. >> brian stelter, thank you. always good to have you. quick break. we'll be right back. if these beautiful idaho potato recipes are just side dishes, then i'm not a real idaho potato farmer. genuine idaho potatoes not just a side dish anymore. always look for the grown in idaho seal. do you have a life insura

sheryl sandberg of facebook said there was no plans to do that? >> i can't imagine it.nce you draw the line in the sand you go back on it, that will upset shareholders even more. one thing we know markets don't like is uncertainty. if you say you ban him you have to ban him take the good and bad with that. if you let him on and do that. twitter, facebook, others, are down today. if we learned anything about this market rally over the past however long it has been at this point there is always folks out there willing to buy the dip. connell: yes there are. there have been no doubt. thank you. susan as well. now to a possible second impeachment for president trump. new developments today in the house of representatives. fox's mike emanuel is live with us and he has the latest. reporter: connell, good afternoon. this new impeachment resolution says president trump gravely endangered the united states and institutions of government. he threatened integrity of the democratic system. he interfered with the peaceful transition of power and imperiled a coequal branch government

but you have to look at the fact that the suits at facebook, charles, namely sheryl sandberg, they arebut there won't be a probe into facebook because they're precious if, charles and david. they are the precious of the democrats, the democrat politicians, the liberal media. we're not going to see a probe. they are shielded by all of these aspects. and so you're looking at them going after parler and also the competition. don't forget these tech companies have a huge monopoly in what they do. charles: right. >> and i just wanted to say real quick, i think you and your viewers should join david webb and i at clouthub because there is no censorship. i'm moving twitter followers by the minute. it's unbelievable. charles: yeah, i'm down 75,000 myself. trust in traditional media, 46% according to a new poll, that's an all-time low. trust in social media at a 27% level. david, i've got to tell you, and this is a general poll, right? but conservatives have been saying this for years and years. now it feels like no one's even making a pretense anymore. there's a war against conservatives, yes,

facebook has drawn criticism for enabling extremist groups to organize chief operating officer sheryl sandberg defending the decision to ban the president in an interview with reuters >> we did go to an indefinite ban, and that is a really big step, so why did we do it? we have clearly established principles that say you cannot call for violence in this moment we took down posts we thought might be calling for violence or were calling for violence immediately, but in this moment, the risk to our democracy was too big, we felt we had to take the unprecedented step of what is an indefinite ban, and i'm glad we did. >> reporter: facebook also announcing today that it's now removing any content that contains the phrase stop the steal. that is the phrase used by the rioters in washington, d.c facebook has this indefinite ban. twitter, a permanent ban these are moves that have drawn applause from some others have criticized companies for limiting speech, and others have said this crack down comes too late shep. >> julia, thank you very much. let's turn to cara swisher, "new york times" contributor o

meanwhile, facebook has drawn criticism for enabling extremist groups to organize today sheryl sandberg defending the decision to ban the president in an interview with reuters. >> we did a band and why did we do it we have clearly established principles that say you cannot call for violence in this moment we took down those posts that we thought might be calling for violence or were calling for violence immediately but in this moment the risk to our democracy was too big that we felt we had to take the unprecedented step of what is an indefinitely ban and i'm glad we did. >> reporter: facebook now saying they are removing any content that uses the phrase "stop the steal" that was used last week permanent ban. these are moves that drawn applause from some, others have criticized these companies for limited speech, and others have said this crack down comes too late shep >> yuliya, thanks very much. let's turn to carol swicher new york times con tribor opinion writer cara you called platforms digital arms dealer of the modern age. >> yes. >> has what's happened in the last week changed y

rupert murdoch, sheryl sandberg, mark zuckerberg, what the hell are you people doing?t do we have to do to get you to realize that these ideas have been mainlined into people now so far so deep that we've had to check the national guard to see who has been infected or not? and so, every one of us, we all have to be on our a-game. by the way, that includes the liberal press, you, i, all our institutions, you know, we've been mobilized. but we got to calm down, too. we got to get back to separating news from opinion. >> yeah, totally agree with that. >> we got to get back to people wanting to read our papers, watch our cable shows because they trust it for the news and if we are -- because we were so mobilized against trump and if everyone is just been -- just on total edge, we've got to all calm down but we also got to understand the stakes. if you are purveying conspiracy theories, you are an enemy of the nation and if i see you on the street, if i see you at a conference, i'm going to call you out. business has to do it, politicians have to do it, media has to do it.

sheryl sandberg says facebook is removing anything that talks about possible violence including suche proud boys. she says the event at the us capitol were largely organized on other platforms and they don't have facebook's ability-- facebook and instagram says it's removing all content with the phrase: stop the steel, ahead of president-elect biden annihilation saying it violates the company's policy against for donating harm, but the company says it will continue to allow robust conversations related to the election outcome, but not those that call for violence. she says facebook has ability to lift the ban on president trump's accounts. stuart: got it. thank you. the chancellor of germany, angela merkel calling president trump the banning from twitter quote problematic, her words, problematic. bruce daisley is back with us, former vice president of twitter. bruce, let me offer my opinion. i think it is dangerous when two very wealthy guys decide what to the rest of the world can see and hear. i don't think they should be the arbitrators of free speech and that's what they have bec

sheryl sandberg, mark zuckerberg, you are pathetic.t your actions. you could have done this a long time ago. you decided to do it now. huh? i wonder who is going to be president now? maybe this will make them happy. no, you have just shown him why you need to be shut down. you need to be shutdown. nobody needs what you have to offer. you have destroyed this country. quite frankly, it's still happening right now. >> not just destroyed this country. destroyed democracies -- >> i'm sorry. one more thing. the little sheryl sandberg and mark -- we're working so hard. who are you to say that? follow the law. follow the law that publishers have to follow. follow the restrictions that anybody has to follow when they put something out in the public domain. >> well, first of all, they are publishers. >> that's what they are. >> they are publishers. section 230 is ridiculous. right now fox news has been threatened with lawsuits. they have been sued for spreading disinformation. facebook and twitter spreads it. multitudes more. and they're protect

gerry: reuters are reporting that sheryl sandberg of facebook saying that she is glad trump's account lift the ban on trump, it does look parler, and what's happening with amazon and google play and apple it does look, what everything about happened last week nobody will defendant, it does look like it's a conservative ten hit to purge te social media platforms of conservative voices. the respective, the private companies, we get that in the first mma challenge, is a good business, does that make sense, will it lose all the people of conservatives that were previously country been? >> 74 million people voted for donald trump, i get biden had more, 80, that 74 million people not all of the 74 million people were marching in that rally, clearly a vast vast minority of the 74 million people did what occurred last week, as i read your stuff in the journal your great column we've all said this is horrible stuff and people like you and i have condemned donald trump frederick for a long time, i get that, but a lot of americans are worried about the fact that the social media companies are so

it benefitted far less from trump's presence on the platform facebook's coo sheryl sandberg today explaining its move to block trump at a righter's conference. >> we have clearly established principles that say you cannot call for violence. in this moment we took down those posts that were calling for violence immediately in this moment the risk to our democracy was too big that we felt we had to take the unprecedented step of what is an indefinite ban i'm glad we did. >> the social platforms are sure to face heightened scrutiny of their power. german chancellor angela merkel saying she opposes twitter's decision to ban trump and private companies should not be the ones who decide limits to free speech. president trump is no doubt impacted by the loss of his social megaphones that will limit his ability to conduct business post presidency. >>> meantime, parler is facing backlash of its own from well established tech giants. josh lipton with more on that company. >> parler had become increasingly popular in 2020, that app was downloaded 10 million times more than 25 times the number in 2019 n

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this is what happened, sheryl sandberg. i hope your billions were worth it. jack, i hope wherever you're crossing your legs and doing yoga and taking an ice bath or a mud bath, i hope it was worth it. because the blood of these capitol hill cops, these deaths are on donald trump. these deaths are on josh hawley. these deaths are on ted cruz. these deaths, that screaming, that pain, all of that is on you. it's on the top republican and the house of representatives who continues. now -- now he's saying, let's just put this all behind us. let's put this all behind us and come together. no. no. i understand it may be hard for some republicans on capitol hill to understand this, but justice under the law comes first. and then reconciliation. >> let's bring in former u.s. attorney, now nbc news law enforcement analyst, chuck rosenberg. former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and msnbc legal analyst. and covering national security and intelligence ken delaney. a.p. jonathan la mere and caska hunt as well >> what do we have as far as responsibility