i want to ask you about twitter's handling of the president's twitter account, particularly since thelection. what is the conversation like at parler? amy: obviously, we do not do anything like what twitter has been doing. what twitter has been doing, and jack dorsey explained it at length yesterday, they have been putting tags onto the president's tweets and those will take you to what they called broader context for the information the president puts in his tweets, the argument or position he puts in his tweets. restriction, or the ability of other twitter users to engage with the tweet. there have been studies showing there is quite a bit of a restriction that comes from twitter putting that label on that tweet. and it isjust a label the same otherwise, there is a significant reduction in engagement. we do not do that on parler. is tack we take in parler similar to what senator kennedy talked about in the senate hearings with dorsey and zuckerberg. we allow people to think for themselves. just as kennedy was questioning the two of them and saying, do you believe everything you read

i want to ask you about twitter's handling of the president's twitter account, particularly since the election. what is the conversation like at parler? amy: obviously, we do not do anything like what twitter has been doing. what twitter has been doing, and jack dorsey explained it at length yesterday, they have been putting tags onto the president's tweets and those will take you to what they called broader context for the information the president puts in his tweets, the argument or position he puts in his tweets. with that comes restriction, or the ability of other twitter users to engage with the tweet. there have been studies showing there is quite a bit of a restriction that comes from twitter putting that label on that tweet. it is not just a label and it is the same otherwise, there is a significant reduction in engagement. we do not do that on parler. the tack we take in parler is similar to what senator kennedy talked about in the senate hearings with dorsey and zuckerberg. we allow people to think for themselves. just as kennedy was questioning the two of them and saying, d

i wanted to ask you about twitter's handling of the president's twitter account, particularly since the election. what's been the conversation like at parler? >> guest: well, obviously we don't do anything like what twitter has been doing. so what twitter has been doing and jack dorsey was explaining it at some length yesterday, is a have been putting tags onto the president's tweets, and those tags will take you to links in which they provide what they call context, broader context for the information that the president puts in his tweet or the argument or position he puts in his tweet. with that also comes some restriction either reach or the ability of other twitter users to engage with the tweet. there have been studies showing there is quite a bit of restriction that comes with twitter, putting a label on the tweet. it's not just a label and then everything is the same otherwise. there is a significant reduction in engagement with that material whenever they do this. we do not do that on parler. the attack we taken is similar to what senator kennedy talked about in the senate heari

i wanted to ask you about twitter's handling of the president's twitter account, particularly since the election and what has been the conversation at parler? >> guest: obviously we don't do anything like what twitter has been doing and what twitter has been doing and jack dorsey was explaining it at some length yesterday they have been putting tags on the president's tweets and those tags will take you to links in which they provide what they call, context, broader context for the information the president puts in his tweet or argument or position he puts in his tweet. with that also calms some restriction you need to read through the of other twitter users to engage with the tweets and there have been studies showing that there is quite a bit of restriction that comes with twitter putting that label on the tweet. it is not just the label and then everything is the same otherwise there is a significant reduction in engagement with that material or whenever they do this. we do not do that on parler. the tack we take an parler is similar to what senator kennedy talked about in the senate

emily: president trump has spent much of his time in office using twitter, exhausting twitter employeese, accusing the company of anti-conservative bias, arguing for section 230 to come to an end. what is your outlook for twitter under a biden administration? does the drama died down when he leaves office? dick: the drama never dies down on twitter. that's the reality. it will just be -- every user of the platform has 10 great ideas that are obvious to that user that twitter should do to "save" twitter, and they usually include silencing voices that think things other than they do or engaging in the prohibition of speech that they think should be prohibited, and the company has to balance those strong points of view. it's probably not going to make life just a bowl of cherries over there. there's always going to be some next issue the company has to deal with that we don't know about today, and it will be a new kind of issue that the industry has not had to think about before and will struggle with. that happens every couple of months. probably, it's a little easier on them because you

cnn's donie o'sullivan reports. >> i've been suspended by twitter a few times. >> i got sick of twitter> we got censored too much. >> censored. >> she was in jail every other day. twitter jail. >> we just want to exist. we just want to be able to be a part of the conversation. we want to be able to speak on the platform without being labeled, without being besmirched. i mean, it is toxic out there. >> reporter: convinced that tech companies are biased against conservative views, some trump supporters have turned to parler. it touts itself as a free speech social network, one with far fewer rules than facebook or twitter. >> every time twitter or facebook takes authoritarian steps to curate content and act as a publication, it drives more people to our platform, which is a town square. >> reporter: how is parler different? >> you can have free speech. you can say whatever you want. you can voice your opinions. >> as long as you're not getting people riled up to go out and actually make threats on people. >> and incite violence, which we don't. never have, never will. then we just go and

this was born of twitter. the idea was twitter would bring back long form communication in a social network style where we are writing longer pieces and sharing them in the same way that twitter manages shorter, much shorter dialogue amongst digital social network. we haven't ebb and flow of different types of narratives and communication, to think we have a variety of tools at our disposal to communicate. it's important the ecosystem remain vibrant, that we don't class to the lease, denominate of communication and that we have multilevel communications so we could maintain that depth. i think the depth is a sentence i think you're right to worry and i think we definitely need to stay focused on that. >> dimension game which analytic and i prefer the less foragers with great interest debate over whether or not it had a a meaningful impact on the election. do you come down one side or the other of the question? >> the second half of the book is called the end of reality which talks about the spread of fake news

seems to unfold on twitter.at influence your day job? >> it influences it a lot or all of us, but, thank lee, we have a really strong policy team, a really strong product team, a really strong infrastructure team, all of whom are critical to making sure twitter is there for people, to making sure those moments that we are enacting policies quickly and transparently, and to make sure that the product works in a way where people can find the things that they go to twitter to look for. emily: younger generations, many newer hires perhaps, are increasingly cognizant about the sustainability and social issues. obviously, the black lives matter movement has been incredibly powerful and important over the last few months. twitter has historically been very active on these issues, issues,showcasing addressing issues within the company. where is twitter on that today, and how to make sure that those issues stay relevant? >> the issues of sustainability, of respecting the environment, good corporate governance -- these ar

twitter se of twitter, has become a publisher, choosing to fact check. publisher, there are certain responsibilities with that. ou shouldn't be immune from liability. if you look what twitter has done on ayatollah khomeini, we at his twitter account, and just a few weeks khomeini of llah is there -- why claims about the holocaust, despicable. and israel is a deadly cancerous rowth that should be uprooted and destroyed, something twitter did not deem worthy of flagging or blocking in its entirety. fact, twitter executives defended that move in front of connected. this is a very important issue. one, there's bipartisan greement something needs to be done. the president will be unashamed fighting against that vitriol we very hateful language that twitter is publishing. kristen. kayleigh.thank you, section 230. the democratic chairman of the house armed services committee, e put out a statement essentially saying that these two things are not related. something and important for our national security as the ndaa. clear.to be s the president talking about vet

something that twitter did not deem worthy of flagging or blocking in its entirety and in fact twitter executives defended -- move in front of the this is a very important issue and there's bipartisan agreement something needs to be done. the president will be unashamed in fighting against that kind of vitriol we see and hateful language that twitter is publishing. reporter: one more question about section 230. the democratic chairman of the house armed services committee put out a statement essentially saying that these two things are not related, section 230 and something as big and important for our national security as the ndaa. is president trump seriously considering in talking about vetoing the ndaa over section 230? kayleigh the president is serious about it. you have other world leaders making calls for genocide and twitter not finding that worthy of flagging or blocking. china is putting out disinformation. china tweeted out, i believe it was six days ago, november 25, that covid-19 did not originate in wuhan. something that was not deemed worthy of flag big twitter. there ar

so i think twitter, what twitter did is up conscionable. you know -- unconscionable. $500 million libel suit against twitter, and right now that's in the southern district of florida x. and so we'll see what happens with this. i heard that the cause was dropped today -- the case was dropped today but it can be refiled, and it's only because of technicalities with jurisdiction. so we'll see what happens with mr. isaac. gregg: you know, sara, and you know this, it's not just twitter and facebook that suppressed and censored the story, it was the mainstream media who refused to report on it. >> absolutely. gregg: and i mention this because here are just a few examples of it. "the daily beast" only after the election offered this ridiculous excuse: the evidence of a probe was apparent in the markings on a series of documents that were made public but went largely unnoticed in the days leading up to the november election. no, it wasn't unnoticed. responsible journalists noted it, reported it, including myself. here's "the washington post" op-ed before the election: we must

s will discuss with twitter' cfo next.berg. ♪ ♪ ♪ emily: we have some breaking news out of texas. cases of covid-19 in texas have risen by more than 15,000. that is a huge jump, breaking the record in a daily new cases. of course, as we know, cases have been continuing to rise around the country and around the world, something we are, of course, continuing to follow. even before the coronavirus outbreak hit in the united states and offices closed their doors, twitter was preparing for a future that relied heavily on remote work. i spoke earlier with cfo ned siegel about if he feared for the future of productivity in the new normal. ned: this was a decision that was really separate on the global pandemic. for a couple of years, we sought to decentralize our workforce. what that means is we love the places where we have our 35 offices, but we don't want to be tied to those as we grow our team. some people are more productive on their sofa in montana and others are more productive in an office because of their personality typ

john: let's talk about twitter events. how do you talk about the political impact of president trump's twitter account. it's a new phenomena. what kind of impact is and had . >> is completely changed political discourse. this is the primary channel through the president of the united states. the skates of the world. whether it has his own staff or the public or foreign leaders and etc. targeted and this is never been the case before. it is a tremendous number of implications. number one. we have to understand how information moves through twitter and how we can see some people but not others. how quickly it moves and in some circles but not others. how quickly certain types of information moves and out. and how important the policies are on the platform like twitter are in terms of labeling. and the tweets based on new policies. we also have to realize that the security of the platform is important now. because typically, presidential communications and a lot of circumstances needed to be secure but they kind of just go ou

so i think twitter, what twitter did is up conscionable. you know -- unconscionable.and right now that's in the southern district of florida x. and so we'll see what happens with this. i heard that the cause was dropped today -- the case was dropped today but it can be refiled, and it's only because of technicalities with jurisdiction. ee htpe hnsap hap hithhhhhh isisaa knowhis,s, is n nust jus juswitt ac tha supsed and nsor torhe s t, itasit the mareinammaediamama w who who r o tg:gr andg: ig:g: mentientihist becausbeeere a jus few a a a es of it. deast"eaea onlnlynlnlnlnler the idon oon oedff off off off thisd idcuseex the tvidenc of affrobe sarent inki mngar mngar m m on m ries made llylycum tt wer toovembe electioctionotis up ..sponsispble sijoblurnablbl ned it, reit it,t, iding myself. here's "the washington post" op-ed before the election: we must treat the hunter biden leaks as if they were foreign intelligence operation even if they probably aren't. and npr, this was my favorite: we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories. we don't

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we have more. >> i think twitter -- >> got sick of twitter. >> censored. >> she was in jail every other twitter jail. >> we just want to exist. we want to be able to be a part of the conversation. we want to be able to speak on the platform without being labeled, besmirched. it is toxic out there. >> reporter: convinced that tech companies are biased against conservative views, some trump supporters have turned to p parler. >> every time twitter or facebook takes authoritarian steps to curate content and act as a publication, it drives more people to our platform which is a square. >> how is parler different? >> you can have free speech. can you say whatever you want. you can voice your opinions. >> as long as you're not getting people riled up to go out and make threats on people. >> and incite violence, which we don't. never have, never do. we just go in and have our free speech on there. >> what is something you can say on parler that you wouldn't be able to say on facebook? >> that the coronavirus is not as deadly as everybody says it is. >> literally post that on twitter and get in

we'll be watching all of it and talking about it on twitter. @scottmcgrew. >> thanks so much, scott. 5:45. the covid surge continues and people are turning to testing not exclusively because they feel sick but to see if they're in the clear to celebrate new year's eve with friends or family. public health officials say that's misguided. kris sanchez joins us live from palo alto where a self-testing site opens today. kris? >> reporter: this is kind of exciting for folks who have been apprehensive about the covid testing. here in palo alto folks will be able to administer the test themselves. they'll have to swab their nose so this is one of a number of new testing sites kicking off today. this week there is a lot of demand. bay area hospitals are seeing the surge in patients pushing it to the brink. as of yet we saw -- as we saw over thanksgiving and christmas a lot of folks are counting on testing to feel safe. doctors say that strategy is flawed. >> the intubation period and superspreader events and asymptomatic people that can spread it, too.

others to share their experiences of racism and police violence on facebook twitter and instagram they used images right. with symbolic meaning the hash tag black lives matter was often combined with other hashtags to reach more people in the following years it was used about 17000 times a day. by the hash tag always helps so because many people can rally around it but it improves visibility and most importantly it sends out a message like a slogan lives black lives matter is a great hash tag and it's also a great slogan they can be chanted on the streets. in may 2020 george florence black and was killed in a violent terrorist video documenting the brutality went viral and sparked outrage since then protests have been taking place on and off line the demands put forth by black lives matter even reached from platforms like i believe we all matter but right now blacks have a much bigger matter celebrities are also supporting the cause online under the hash tag share the mike now selena gomez and hillary clinton amongst others have lent their social media profiles to black lives to get th

saying on twitter that no rules were broken. "i skated alone before others arrived."alone. i have learned that as a soccer mom, hockey is no different. a scrimmage involves more than one player. we see on the video, call it for what it is, you got busted. wendy, they hypocrisy, you must admit, is becoming quite tiresome. >> yeah, but that's the hypocrisy from both the left side of the aisle as well as the right side of the aisle. it's not necessarily a political affiliation of who you decide you are a part of, whether republican or democrat. we see politicians who, every day, tell the american people, taxpayers, what they should do with their lives. but then they are the same individuals who don't follow their rules. right now millions of americans out of work. whether you are republican or democrat, you are out of work because of the pandemic. however, we have elected officials still getting paid even though they are not doing anything to solve the current pandemic that we are all under. it is not a blanket hypocrisy when it comes to democrats, it's a blanket hypocri

in a statement a twitter spokesperson said twitter will tell followers about the accounts to provide context that the content will be archived to follow the new accounts. twitter will facilitate the transfer of several accounts on january 20th including potus, white house, vp and flotus. >>> lot of green on the maps but that's a good thing. >> yeah. it is. if you are headed out the door early this morning schu be good to go for the most part but for 580 in to the pass, that's an area where we normally see delays. doesn't matter what day it is but we have ia crash right there. a big rig involves in this accident. it its over to the right shoulder no. lanes are blocked but emergency crews are arriving on scene. we will see how that plays out. a minimal impact to the roadways. we are tracking the brake lights in to the pass. it's getting better. we were seeing a steady portion of brake lights come away from tracy, 205, 580 to north flynn but look like its braking up just a little bit. things are improving in to the pass. then continue to see green on the travel times. that's good news,

so it seems to me that that language on twitter just doesn't do what twitter might intend for it to dobecause as the companies start to take down certain kinds of content, that also increases polarization. and foreign adversaries like china and russia that use the fact that the tech companies will label it saying this is disputed, they use it to drive even more polarization. now people will get more upset that tech companies are taking down certain things, and upset that they're not taking down other things. and there's no simple way where they can reduce this problem. they've created 3 billion truman shows. there's not a person behind your camera who is checking to see if i say a swear word or something with a five-second tv delay and doing gatekeeping. in this model we have 3 billion truman shows, and there's no gatekeeping. yes, twitter may try to flag one thing, but for every one thing they flag correctly, they may accidentally take down 100 accounts that didn't deserve it. and that drives more polarization from conservatives who believe they're being censored. so this is the situa

>> because of all his crazy tweets, finally twitter was like, that's false!nk we've got to completely reassess the way social media operates in this country. >> reporter: president trump found another enemy this year in the social platform of choice for teens and tweens across the country. >> this morning the clock is ticking on tiktok. the stroke of a pen, president trump issuing executive orders, shutting down the wildly popular apps that have taken social media by storm. >> 2020 has thrown a lot at us. but when i thought tiktok was going away? i was not well. >> reporter: but the proposed ban never came to pass. and despite the drama, tiktokers danced and stunted their way through our year in isolation. tiktok dance challenges, from the wipe it down to something new, helped us to quell the boredom. >> that wipe it down? ♪ wipe wipe wipe it wipe >> every time i looked in the mirror, i was so cute. >> the cohoreography section of the tutorial section takes less time than explaining to grandpa what tiktok is. ♪ look i just flipped the switch ♪ >> i actually f

if you think twitter needs more regulation, twitter allows you to vocal your complaints.illian: you make a lot of sense, we appreciate it. >> a winter storm bringing near white out conditions across the plains, snow dropping in oklahoma. the system is expected to hit the east coast just in time for the weekend. janice dean is tracking it all. it is december. >> janice: let's take a look. we did see snow. more snow in parts of the southern plains in the northeast, pretty impressive, and that cold air below freezing, 20s and 30s in the gulf coast, snow across the plains is going to wind down as the system moves toward the east coast was it will strengthen and we have to watch the track of this storm. we will get a mixture of snow in heavy rain and wind as the system moves across the mid-atlantic and the northeast friday into saturday so that will be the next weather maker causing travel delays if you are traveling, forecast precipitation friday and saturday things will start to clear out and there is the rest of the forecast, we are watching the storm system move across the

that is some of the twitter response.he continuity of government, it goes to the national security act of 1947. it is the policy of the united states to maintain comprehensive continuity programs to ensure national security and the preservation of government structure on the united ace constitution, and in alignment with presidential policy directive 40, agencies including the executive office he must --lude the capability and regardless of the threat or condition and with understanding that adequate warning may not be available. the agency has a fully integrated preparedness program and ensure the preservation of this under all conditions. the legal terms from the national security act prompted a column by the washington post this ont -- who wrote the idea of congressional vaccinations -- the very folks who downplayed the virus, partied, and called the vaccine a hoax are getting the vaccine ahead of front line and essential workers, and even the vulnerable residents in long-term care facilities. though you could make the

twitter for $500 million.s one of the lawmakers decommanding a special counsel on this. thanks for being here. so why do you believe a special prosecutor is needed? >> well, the investigations and the reports that came out of the senate homeland security and senate finance committee are troubling. troubling connections with hunter biden and the chinese communist party, individuals connected to the chinese communist party. also hunter biden's question financial arrangements with burisma when his father, joe biden, was vice president. all of these things are concerning. i'm concerned that assuming president-elect biden becomes president of the united states, this is all swept under the rug by his person that appointed to the doj. so i think a special counsel needs to be appointed because the american people are sick of injustices. they see that people that are conservatives are getting all kinds of investigations like president trump was investigated for basically four years and nothing is happening to the liber

he may have suffered the twitter did not defame them directly.is is what jack dorsey said in a hearing back in november on capitol hill when this was being debated shortly after the election. >> we made a quick interpretation using no other evidence that the materials in the article were obtained through hacking and according to our policy we blocked them from being spread was upon further consideration we admitted this action was wrong and corrected it within 24 hours. >> you think about the new york times which is among the papers the published information about donald trump's tax returns which is a crime to do that if it is been gained illegally and i don't think the president signed off on that information being out there and yet that article was all over the place, there was no ban on that article being passed along like there was on the new york times article is twitter said potentially was attacked. that will to a lot of people like a double standard. >> certainly and i think people have an opinion left or right of double standards dependi

just a few weeks before the 2020 election, twitter did what was previously unthinkable. it suppressed a long-standing legitimate news outlet, that was "the new york post," from sharing an article, from sharing either publicly or privately, it deemed unfavorable to presidential candidate joe biden. obviously they're concerned about joe biden and they were using this act to suppress information that may not have been favorable. that's not what this thing is supposed to do. to make it worse, they suspended an account of the "post," a major news outlet, for over 24 hours, while other big tech entities suppressed the story as well, the depths of twitter's censorship reached new heights telling users sharing the article could be potentially harmful. now, there's no criteria to determine what's potentially harmful. they just decided it's a liberal mind-set. they want to punish people who are not sharing their mind-set. you contrast that with the refusal to moderate any comments made by iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini who called israel a, quote, cancerous growth to be u

so, somebody on twitter comes out and says i'm going to do "x" crime, twitter is not liable for that. the person who said it on twitter is liable. there's been a lot of angst among republican circles that this is allowing biased speech. and there's talk going after it. people who are more expert in this than i said, look if this got repealed, the president's tweets themselves would probably be liable for legal action and may come against that action. that said, the one thing that seems to be in agreement across the hill, this is no change for the defense bill especially as trump tried to force it in the last couple of days. you saw senator imhoff, a close ally of president trump, talks to him frequently, he even said i want to repeal section 230. we've got to get it done, i support the president on this, but this defense bill is not the place to do it. that's something that we've seen with the national defense authorization act a lot in the past. is the sense, look, you don't want to load it up -- because it's a must-pass bill you try to load it up with stuff for defense. the defense

in the case of twitter, twitter has become a publisher, choosing to fact-check certain content. when you are publisher there is certain response abilities with that. i should not be immune from liability. when you look at what twitter has done, we were just looking at the twitter account before coming out here just a few weeks ago, the ayatollah of iran tweeted "why is it a crime to raise doubts about the holocau holocaust? something not worthy of a flag by twitter, which is despicable when you think about it. also the ayatollah tweeted that israel's event of the cancerous growth edge of the uprooted and destroyed. something that would have not deem worthy of biking while blocking its entirety. in fact twitter executives defended of that move in front of the board. this is an important issue. when there is bipartisan issue that something needs to be done. the president will be in a and fighting making that kind of vitriolic obesity, and very hateful language that twitter is publishing. >> one more question about section 230, the democratic chairman of the health services committ

this was the infamous new york post front page story that twitter blocked because twitter said it wasn'talid. you yourself, you expressed concern about this story, many in the mainstream media were mocking people who were putting the story out there. turns out, looks like it was true. this is something that's very serious. we need -- i think people deserve answers. chris: we don't know if anything is true or of not. we know there's an investigation going on. let me ask you a different question. >> but even -- that was being laid out. that's where twitter blocked even the story by the new york post. chris: i never blocked it. i reported on it. >> twitter didn't. chris: i understand. here's what president-elect biden says about the department of justice and his administration. >> it's not my justice department. it's the people's justice department. so the person or persons i pick to run that department are going to be people who are going to have the independent capacity to decide who gets prosecuted, who doesn't. chris: do you trust joe biden to continue this investigation when he becomes

twitter. i did not envision wall street titans and billionaires hitting me up on twitter and telling me, hey, that was a great book. but here we are friends. interesting because in the book came out, academics in the intelligentsia around the world were quick to be critical of the book because it did not go down the orthodoxy that they were brought up on. it was, of course heterodoxy, and i would judge that impact by a book of how it actually affects society. and by that measure at this book is all frick and awesome, you know, world changing book. all right, so you got a new book out called the fia standard, the debt slavery alternative to human civilization. i, i would have, i guess, is a companion book. you know that you got, i gather you have a complete way to get your mom and dad bitcoin during thanksgiving. if you are christmas, if you've got a black belt and bitcoin, i'm ology by professor safety analysts. so let's talk about black rock. the largest asset manager in the world, they join

the same amount the president out of nowhere called a disgrace on twitter.o, bill keeps the united states government running. funding was going to run out tomorrow, leading to a shutdown. the president waited until after unemployment benefits ran out for some 12 million people overnight, leaving them extremely anxious. i want to get to our congressional reporter, lauren fox, on the phone. lauren, tell me what you are hearing from your sources. i know we have a new statement from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> right. we are starting to get some of the reaction. i think it's important to note. we haven't heard anything from mcconnell over the last several days. we know behind the skecenes, republicans were trying to get the president to sign the piece of legislation. it was a delicate balance. in some ways, the president felt like some republicans were moving on without him given the fact he lost the election in november. he was very upset about that. i want to read part of the mcconnell statement. i thought it was interesting that he didn't ge

you see, you know, you don't see twitter here, right? twitter will not respond to even, you know, a senator or to chairman of the subcommittee's request to show up and listen, how are we going to get them to listen to us, or listen to the wedding photographer or the songwriter. it's just not going to happen. so what we need here is cooperation. what we need here is to sit down and come up with voluntary agreements. what we need here is to address this provision on 512-i that's been laying dormant for years and congress did not intend for that to be dormant. the only way we get there is cooperation from the service providers. we're ready, willing and able to sit down and talk with them, but we've heard nothing, but talk. i wish i had some pompons here, i'd say we want action, we want action, that's what we need. we can't get if. they-- anyway, they're being very incooperative. >> understood. you also in your testimony suggested that the reason this hasn't come together as authors of section 512 might have imagined was miss interpretation

he learned it on twitter. he did see it himself when he came across. wanted med him if he to go with him and he said to stay behind, finish the fight with the team and get it done. a 45 secondbly phone call. putting theed places. from the chief. probably heard the news about chris. he said, they are not asking for your resignation. but they don't want you running cisa. i'm paraphrasing. kiara: you were next in line. matt: i was. the secretary have signed and updated it. to his credit, he had not been consulted on this. surprise on the white house decision on this. said let me see if i can fix this. exploding and he was working with white house personnel and others to see if he could get this turned around. he called me back and said he could not. i regrettably told him that i had to leave. and that was that. a pretty frenetic tuesday evening. it is still an experience i really cherish, being the deputy, working with chris. kiara: were you surprised by this level of politicization of an agency that just gives out practical and accurate information? matt

sue twitter. president believes it also allows companies to krecensure posts. sephora says it will open inside kohl's locations. consumers spent less than they did last year. that's to be expected, of course, marcus and laura, and could be interpreted as good news for the health of consumers, maybe getting the tv for less isn't worth bringing coronavirus back to your family. according to the latest numbers from johns hopkins, 6,394 have died since bckla friday. >> very tragic. i think so many people are just shopping online this year. >> thanks, scott. >>> 5:21 for you that morning. next on "today in the bay," terrifying moments caught on camera. >> i was prepared for a few moments to die. >> a tiktok user comes face-to-face with an intruder. how she managed to survive and what she says she's planning to do now. >>> but first our entire team always on social media. look at meteorologist kari hall and her sweet family getting into that holiday spirit dressed up ready for santa. they look great. all

right speaking of twitter i saw this little dialogue happened between andrew neil and danny blanchflower and as a b.b.c. presenter i think he's now gone off on his own he's a journalist from the spectator and other you know right wing conservative sort of press in the u.k. and danny blanchflower was a member of the open market committee in the bank of england for many years so ok he's a bet he's a central banker down the blanchflower and an economist an academic at dartmouth and i really like him because he's always so open and honest. he doesn't try to be depleted us about what they do as central bankers he agrees with what we've said here on price report essentially so andrew neil had 1st tweeted dinner tonight with somebody who thinks he's a great market do room said it is mad that the dow passed $30000.00 and current circumstances i said no equity prices reflect future not past 2021 will be a great rebound i'm optimistic u.k. stocks especially under price so engine yell like everybody else what people are expected to do with the participants in an economy are expected to do through f

they are trying to control the narrative when we log on to twitter or our facebook accounts, and so fox news looked into it. who these executives are donat ing money to, so many of them donated money to joe biden 's campaign we have a long list of them when it comes to the trump campaign, zero twitter executives donated to his campaign and two facebook executives donated less than 300 to trump's campaign but look at this long list, kayleigh. these are all of the executives with these two social media entities that donated to biden. what's your reaction? >> it's absolutely amazing. i mean, big tech was the joe biden campaign. now, big tech is the joe biden transition, when you look at who he has on his transition team in addition to those donations that you're showing, he has an amazon executive, he has a former facebook director, a former facebook board member, a former facebook lobbyist, joe biden's campaign, his transition, and likely his white house will be filled with big tech. they rigged this election against the president by censoring the new york post, censoring me, who was just

it was a real news but fake news put out by syrian hackers who hack to the ap twitter handle. and then those that were legion two other systems like trading algorithms that trade on the sentiment and they get a hold of the fake news and $140 billion of equity value and that's from a single tweet imagine we live in trillions of tweets every day small and medium and large enterprises and finally obviously there is a lot of coronavirus information and we track at mit the largest global survey and partnership with the mit additional economy in one thing we're tracking and announcing pfizer last week god 90 percent on its vaccine about other vaccines but it is related to misinformation and before that it was measles. there is a lot of misinformation and vaccination in spreading and that caused a resurgence even though we had eradicated measles in the year 2000. we saw 1800 percent increase in 2019 and a lot of that is caused by the threat of misinformation. >> are we talking metaphors or information affecting the biological world and information and virus is a real world now? >> is