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twitter and facebook certain type of open forum platform company cootion something other than they represento their customers then that's fraud. looking at that is one thing. having senator lindsey graham asking about whether twitter and facebook were addictive companies or addictive services which also opens up a whole another way for congress to regulate these companies. censorship is a huge issue but we also have these other things that niece senators are looking at in terms of thousand regulate these companies. >> harris: yeah, you know, carley, that was about the point of the hearing that i wanted them to fact check because when the answer from the ceos of big tech and i can't remember whether it was dorsey or zuckerberg, i want to say zuckerberg, so correct me if i am wrong, when answer to while talking about well, know, we don't know about the total results and findings on addiction with the platform, but they try to make it more about the content and not making people stay for longer period of time. mine i'm skeleton call. >> the addiction element of this whole thing is interesting.

the bosses of twitter and facebook have defended their misinformation during the u.s.n campaign. ck dorsey and mark zuckerberg part of the discusashe senate. president trump's postelection tweets, and this standoff st andn the new york twitte in october, a story and unverified claims abou biden's son hunter. both facebook and twitter intervene to limit its spread. >> what i want to try and find. out newspaper at twitter or facebook , then why do you have editorial control over the new york post? they decided -- and maybe for a good reason, i don't know -- that the new yorkosarticles about hunter biden needed to be flged, excluded from distributionor made hard to nd. that to me seems liketh you are ultimate editor. karen: twitter's ceo jack dorsey acknowledge that his company's decision to block links to the ardcle about hunter biden been wrong. here he is speaking to the ynpublican senator john co >> this was a policy around distribution of hacked materials. webeidn't want twitter t distribution point for hacked materials. >> you realize that bywn taking the store you

a deep dive when it comes t twitter and facebook about the platforms and decisions they make, can weo better? do we need to do better? the first thing i want to talk about here is health risk associated with social media. the 2018 research center survey of nearly 7150, 13 to 17 -year-oldsnt 45% online almost constantly. 97% use socia media platforms such as youtube,st facebook or snapchat or instagram. why are we having thisearing? she's o companies offer, people like the politics ander u them. they probably more successful in their wildest dream they are having to make decisions that offend people on the left a the right. what we are trying t do is look at section 230 see if it nee to be modified or changed because section 230 basically allows social media platforms like twitter and facebook to pass on informati whout legal liability. if a newspaper does somethi you don't like, you think they've slandered you, you can sue them. a news program does something you think i out of line even as a politician, you can sue them the companies have liability protection when it comes to the con

can follow me on twitter an instagram at candidate nation. candidate fbn facebook. get your hate in there now, tomorrow night on the show robby soave, emily campagna and marth martha, what did i do to deserve this? i love it, see you tomorrow night. tonight washington, d.c. in full fight mode. we're in breaking news mode. we have the update on big fights happening now over the election vote count, the controversies there. on another front, republican senators really tearing into twitter and facebook over big tech censorship of conservatives. they were unconvincing in senate testimony today tying to claim they don't have nearly unchecked power to censor those they disagree w we have highlights what is going on there and this rough-and-tumble hearing today on capitol hill. with us jason chaffetz, congressman kelly armstrong, senator ted cruz, plus christopher bedford, senator james lankford, dr. alveda king on the breaking headlines today. big tech gone bad. headlines, do they have the power to change elections, even stop probes of politicians in any way? we're findin

the senate judiciary committee will question the ceos of facebook and twitter and the handling of misinformationction. mike lee sits on that panel and is joining us now. marsha blackburn tweeted the following quoting enough with the biased fact checking flagging and takedowns at facebook and twitter. looking forward to a robust discussion tomorrow. sir, what do you say to the critics who say these hearings the end to be long on confrontation but very short on consequences. >> this time that's not going to be the case for the simple reason that the more reuncover about how they are operating their businesses, the more we can see that these big social media platforms are in fact offering one service and providing another. in other words, they are claiming that they're politically unbiased and not putting their thumb on the scale between one side of the political spectrum and the other. so they lure their customers in thinking they'll have an unbiased experience. in practice this is not how it works. in practice what they are doing is steadily putting their thumb on the left side of the scale. that

facebook. i think that twitter shut down vine in 2016. mr. dorsey, you can tell me about the actual impact of facebook's actions on vine's business? on vine's ability to compete and your decision to shut down the service? and i know you're not a chinese company. >> well, i don't know about the intent on the other side, but i know our own experience was we found it extremely challenging to compete with vine. and ultimately, it decided that the ball moved past us, and we shut it down. i don't know the specifics and tactics and what was done, but we did find it very, very challenging market to enter, even though we existed prior to some of our peers doing the same thing. >> okay. i'm going to move to something else quickly. instagram and whatsapp and we've had terms that instagram was nascent and if they grow they could be disruptive to us. later, you write in an email, one of the purposes of facebook to acquire it would be to neutralize a competitor. you wrote those emails referenced in a house report, is that right, mr. zuckerberg? >> senator,

coming up the ceos of twitter and facebook grilled over how they moderate content.up the time to check in with steve doocy with what is coming up on "fox and friends". >> coming up on "fox and friends" in 15 minutes kayleigh mcenany will join us from the white house, plenty to talk about. a big day on capitol hill with big tech ceos was we will hear from senator mike lee who did a little grilling himself. the world awaits a coronavirus vaccine. senator rob portman of ohio is enrolled in the johnson & johnson vaccine trial. he's gotten a shot. what is it like? we will talk soon. doctor nicole safire -- dr. nicole saphier with tips on how you and your family can safely celebrate thanksgiving. did you hear about this? california lawmakers flew to hawaii despite that state's travel advisory. plus duffy double feature, say that 5 times, sean and rachel are here and we were here to round out the pictures, pete, candace and far right pioneer woman has a brand-new book, not a cookbook per se. it is about her life out on the prairie. a busy 3 hours kicks off 14 minutes from

what is really behind this search is the crackdown on trump from the other platforms from twitter from facebook you know they've been hiding tweets they've been adding disclaimers to them so a lot of pundits lot of conservative pundits have have urged people to switch from twitter to do we know who is behind the party so the c.e.o. and co-founder his name is john mates he is a conservative he's a member of the republican party there are other conservative pundits behind this. potter accuses twitter and facebook of ideological suppression and lack of transparency and john made says that whereas the other platforms act like publishers in what he says is censorship they. act like a town square where people can say what they want but what about donald trump i mean he is known as the twitterer in chief but he's not on parlor yet izzie is not people in his inner circle eric trump his son is on there his attorney rudy giuliani is and there is a trump campaign poller account and we might see him this soon though twitter might be cracking down further on donald trump soon there is a policy at twitter th

ceos at twitter and facebook not conscriptioning in front of understand judiciary.e're digging into with senator cruz. jack dorsey admitting the censoring the hunter biden story from the "new york post" with no evidence. your take own this? >> the heads of the tech companies were inconsistent. the bias is undoubtal. it was in the hearing when they have such huge donors within these companies all going to the democratic side. but look, they were given special access, a special way to communicate by congress. it is being abused. congress needs to do something but as i think mike lee, senator mike lehigh lighted, this may very well end up being a federal trade commission issue because of the deceptive trade practices that these companies are engaged with. that will ultimately do more to change the trajectory of these companies than just about anything else. elizabeth: will bring lawsuits on that front, the platform issue versus editorial content issue, acting like editors with protection on 230. with the fcc route that could bust them up, right or wrong, is that right?

facebook. i think that twitter shut down vine in 2016. mr. dorsey, you can tell me about the actual impact of facebook's actions on vine's business? on vine's ability to compete and your decision to shut down the service? and i know you're not a chinese company. >> well, i don't know about the intent on the other side, but i know our own experience was we found it extremely challenging to compete with vine. and ultimately, it decided that the ball moved past us, and we shut it down. i don't know the specifics and tactics and what was done, but we did find it very, very challenging market to enter, even though we existed prior to some of our peers doing the same thing. >> okay. i'm going to move to something else quickly. instagram and whatsapp and we've had terms that instagram was nascent and if they grow they could be disruptive to us. later, you write in an email, one of the purposes of facebook to acquire it would be to neutralize a competitor. you wrote those emails referenced in a house report, is that right, mr. zuckerberg? >> senator,

. >>> the ceos of facebook and twitter forced to run the senate judiciary committee gauntlet on capitol hill once again. one senator equating the social media sensations as quote, modern day robber barons. the ceo of what's being called the anti-facebook is here. millions have been flocking to this app. over just the past five days, millions. we will ask what it's about, what his platform offers that conservatives are rushing to and where he stands on whether big tech needs to be regulated or broken up or neither. >>> social media can make or break a brand. elf beauty sitting pretty during the pandemic thanks to its specific social media strategy but could it take a licking if tiktok stops ticking? the ceo of elf is here. >>> elon musk doing a happy dance as he inches closer to the top of the list of the world's richest people. very close right now, thanks to tesla's new spot on the s&p 500. >>> and wait until you see what warren buffett loaded up in his equity shopping cart this past quarter. we are about to crack open the oracle of omaha's newest secret stock playbook. >>> a fox busin

what are facebook and twitter doing to prevent that? that's next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> i've seen some of the stories you are talking about around this election. personally, i think the idea , you know, fake news on facebook, of which, it's a very small amount of the content, the election in any way i think is a pretty crazy idea. emily: that was mark zuckerberg to our contributing editor david kirkpatrick shortly after the 2016 election. this time, things have changed. facebook has flagged multiple posts for inaccurate information, including many from the president himself, but there's a big difference. ,hen trump claims victory twitter hides that behind a warning. flex the post, but -- facebook flags the posts, but they can ill be shared. what do you make of the way facebook and twitter have been handling the president's posts in the last few hours? david: there is a sea change since 2016. when zuckerberg said that, i think he believed what he was saying. clearly, the evidence that accumulated in the months and years afterward showed that he was

coordination with google on censorship. >> the platform reflects censorship input with google and twitter, facebook's teams communicate with their counterparts in google and enter those company suggestions for censorship on to the task platform so that facebook and follow up with them and effectively coordinate their efforts. esther zuckerberg, let me ask you directly under oath, does facebook moderate its moderation policies or an any way with gooe and twitter? >> we do signal on security related topics but that is the statement of content moderation policies that other policies have. >> senator ted cruz going after his dumb credit colleagues. >> there was a time when democrats embraced and defended the principles of free speech pair there is a time where democrats defended the pins of a free press. yet there is an absolute silence from democrats speaking up for the press athletes censored by big tech. >> what did you think? let me try to hone in a bit. normally -- >> don't push us in a box, one >> but typically that is conservative orthodoxy. you have people saying, wait a minute, that hunter biden

facebook. and i think that twitter shut down vine in 2016. mr. dorsey e, could you tell me about the actual impact of facebook's actions on vine's business, on vine's ability to compete and on your decision to shut down the service? and i know you're not a chinese company. >> well, i don't know about the intent on the other side, but i know our own experience was we found it extremely challenging to compete with vine. and so, ultimately, decided that the form had passed us, and we shut it down. againing i don't know the specifics and the tactics in what was done, but we did find it very, very challenging market to enter even though we existed prior to some of our peers doing the same thing. >> okay. i'm going to move to something else quickly. instagram and what's app, we have some released internal facebook e-mails in which you, mr. zuckerberg, wrote that instagram was nascent e, and if they grow to a large scale, they could be very disruptive to us. and in a later e-mail, you confirmed that one of the purposes of facebook acquiring instagram wou

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remind us what we had seen twitter and facebook doing to combat this information. d trump's tweets. 300,000 tweets that twitter had ta ken trump's tweets. 300,000 tweets that twitter had taken down. we learned that today. i not that was set today by republicans was this a grey area about what is and is not misinformation around voter fraud. so for example posts on a you vote by post and he said that was open to voterfraud. by post and he said that was open to voter fraud. without actually accusing anyone of voter fraud, should not be labelled? twitter has been labelling some of the streets. republicans said that went too far. meanwhile, facebook has had to take down a string of racist and misogynistic posts about the us vice president—elect kamala harris. the posts were removed after the bbc alerted facebook to three groups that regularly hosted such material. james clayton broke the story. you have written an article on the website about it. there misogynistic abuse that she got. some of it was absolutely terrible. facebook says it takes down 95% of all hate speech

other tech names on the day, twitter and facebook, of course those ceos testifying. itter upwn 1.4%, slightly. both saying they are open to some section 230 reforms. jack dorsey of twitter said they feel there was a bit of a mistake with how they handled that one story relative to the posts. yesterday, facebook was up twitter was down. it seems like we are seeing a little bit of reverse action on the day. emily: that seems to be a typical reaction after these hearings. abigail doolittle, thank you for rounding that up for us. the ceos of both facebook and twitter today, content moderation at their role in political discourse. againstpeech and bias conservative voices. the hearing came less than a month after both jack dorsey and mark zuckerberg appeared a long alongsidepeared google ceo sundar pichai in a hearing last month. kurt wagner was tracking the hearing for us today. second time in less than a month on the same topic. was this time any different? kurt: it was a little bit different. i felt that the tempers were a little bit lower. perhaps postelection, there w

twitter. the audit relsed by facebook in july has proven invaluable to key areas in which facebook does need to improve. will you follow through on your commission of thi independent audiof twitter? >> so, we work with civil rights groups all over the country and around the world. to get feedback and constant conversation with the. and we do believe being more transparent and making our transparency record a lot more robust which today we still have some gaps is important for any entity to auditndependently of us. we believe that's important because an audit like that could take away from the work we'd like to do. we'd rather provide the information so people can do that work. >> if i heard you right, you aren't going to pursue a civil rights audit but you are going to continue to release data and consult with civil rights groups. i'd welcome aore thorough answer, as to in whi way ving an outside audit would actually harm your transparency efforts? >> i don't mean it wuld harm it. i mean that we want to provide enough informatio so that people can do this work. and on their own te lines, thas w

you've got a chance to change the law, change it. >> sean: you had twitter, facebook. thoughts on today? >> well, they've got the most power in the history of mankind, and they can often tell us what we see, mold how we think. they have no legal liability, they can take down your content, they can label what you say is fraudulent. you can't sue them, you have no recourse as an individual when it comes to them censoring your content. at the end of the day, section 230 is being abused. it is not time to make them like every other media organization. when you make editorial decisions you become an editor. if fox news has something against me or put somebody on television that slanders me, i cannot only sue the individual, i can sue fox news. in the world of social media, there is no accountability, legal liability, government regulation. with the wild, wild west and we need to fix it now because it will destroy conservatism if we don't get this right. >> sean: yeah. it was the media mob, big tech, candidate protection program, and they never ask him any questions, and he

is a lot of the conservatives who are posting on this news site are also still posting on facebook and twitter. they are crossposting to all these platforms. i have not seen a significant shift where someone totally lapsed facebook and twitter to go to one of these alternatives yet. it remains to be seen. i do think it will be interesting to watch next week when we are expecting the ceos of both twitter and facebook to testify, how they talk about the rise of this conservative alternative. one of the questions we hear from the right a lot is perhaps these companies have too much power and they point to these content moderation decisions. it will be interesting to hear next week during that hearing and whether the ceos of facebook and twitter point to that as competition in the industry. john: the biggest sign is president trump himself is actively tweeting every day on twitter. he could delete his own account at any point, but instead he really wants that engagement. he thrives on that. even if he has so many grievances with the company, he's not getting off there. he is not seeking parler or

times revealed that the us company clearview collected brace yourselves 3000000000 photos off twitter facebook and co the resulting database is used by us police forces to convict criminals but how does facial recognition technology actually work here are the basics in 50 seconds. most basic recognition systems use a 2 d. source like a photo or video and algorithm analyzes the relative position distance and location of basal features such as the eyes nose and mouth. alternatively the algorithm analyzes multiple images of a specific person and generates a data version of the face for comparison. 3 d. facial recognition technology uses sensors to capture information about the shape of a face like the exact depth of someone's eye sockets. texture analysis uses details of the skin such as unique lines patterns and spots to identify a face. how secure is facial recognition technology and how far could it potentially reach we asked me a check from taiwan she is a data scientist and expert for machine learning. the morning person that they're going to get this database is more about level for the hac

stand—off between the new york post and twitter in october over a story that made unverified claims about hunter biden, son of president—elect joe biden. both facebookead. here's senator lindsey graham. what i want to try to find out is if you're not a newspaper at twitter or facebook, then why do you have editorial control over the new york post? they decided — and maybe for a good reason, i don't know — that the new york post articles about hunter biden needed to be flagged, excluded from distribution or made hard to find. that to me seems like you're the ultimate editor. twitter‘s ceo jack dorsey told the hearing his company's decision to block links to the new york post article about hunter biden had been "wrong". here he is speaking to republican senatorjohn cornyn. and this was a policy around distribution of hacked materials. we did not want twitter to be a distribution point for hacked materials. well, you do realise that by taking down that story, you probably gave it more prominence and more visibility than it ever would've gotten had you left it alone. we realise that, and we recognise it as a mistake that we made, both in terms of the in

what is really behind this search is the crackdown on trump from the other platforms from twitter from facebook you know they've been hiding tweets they've been adding disclaimers to them so a lot of pundits lot of conservative pundits have have urged people to switch from twitter to do we know who is behind the party so the c.e.o. and co-founder his name is john mates he is a conservative he's a member of the republican party there are the conservative pundits behind the. poller accuses twitter and facebook of ideological suppression and lack of transparency and john mates says that whereas the other platforms act like publishes in what he says is censorship they. act like a town square where people can say what they want but what about donald trump i mean he is known as the twitterer in chief but he's not on parlor yet izzie is not people in his inner circle. his son is on there his attorney rudy giuliani is and there is a trump campaign poller account and we might see him this soon though twitter might be cracking down further on donald trump soon there is a policy at twitter that they won't

facebook. i think that twitter shut down vine in 2016. mr. dorsey, you can tell me about the actual impact of facebook's actions on vine's business? on vine's ability to compete and your decision to shut down the service? and i know you're not a chinese company. >> well, i don't know about the intent on the other side, but i know our own experience was we found it extremely challenging to compete with vine. and ultimaty, it decided that the ball moved past us, and we shut it down. don't know the specificsand tactics d what was done, but we did find it very, very challenging market to enter, even though we existed prior to some of our peers doing the same thing. >> okay. i'm going to move to something else quickly. instagram and whatsapp and we've had terms that instagram was nascent and if they grow they could be disruptive to us. later, you write in an email, one of the purposes of facebook to acquire it would be to neutralize a competitor. you wrote those emails referenced in a house report, is that right, mrzuckerberg? >> senator, i believe

twitter and facebook, of course those ceo's testifying. facebook down 1.4%, twitter up slightly. both saying they are open to some section 230 reforms. jack dorsey of twitter said they feel there was a bit of a mistake in terms of how they handled that one story relative to the posts. not reacting much around that testimony. yesterday, facebook was up. twitter was down. it seems like we are seeing a little bit of reverse action on the day. emily: that seems to be a typical reaction after these hearings. not much of an impact for investors. abigail doolittle, thank you for rounding that up for us. more on the hearing now. top u.s. senators challenged the ceo's of both facebook and twitter today on questions of content moderation at their role in political discourse. the platforms once again accused of failing to moderate online speech bias against conservative voices. the hearing came less than a month after both jack dorsey and mark zuckerberg appeared alongside google ceo sundar pichai in a hearing last month. for more, i want to bring in bloomberg's kurt wagner, who was trackin

but in a blatant effort to defeat president trump in a tribute to joe, facebook, twitter, other tech giants actually censored verifiable claims about biden and his family corrupt business practices the terms would never get that consideration and in the weeks before the election twitter froze the accounts of prominent republicans that shared the story that included kaylee in that company blocked its users from sharing the stor in private messages. you couldn't even send it privately. more recently, silicon valley lids who weren't run twitter have been putting disclaimer on tweets for many conservatives including president trump pointing out that what they are deciding they believe is right and wrong and apparently the employees of twitter think they have a monopoly on truth. by the way, sidenote, you might want to switch to parlor. when you go to twitter say here is my new account on parlor. just an idea. today during a hearing on capitol hill senator cruz, senator graham, a grilled twitter the ceo of twitter to censor editorialized political content. take a look. >> they decided, an

we have the data feeds into facebook, twitter, youtube comments and those types of things. ends to be conservative. a much more conservative. also much more limited in the access we have from a public safety point of view for this type of analysis. tend to be reddit independent and liberal and younger. and some themselves out. i think the usage of them, twitter with limiting their voting to -- that has changed a lot of strategy and that channel. president trump is done well with his reach and his conservative figures on their the usage pool seems to be younger and more liberal. on the facebook site, strong platform for direct response. advertising, fundraising kind of campaigns. you've seen both campaigns really leverage facebook in dramatic ways in terms of dollars spent for those types of things. facebook would have taken the same approach as twitter and id advertising they would've had a much greater impact on campaigns that may be what twitter had there. emily: all right. fascinating stuff. we will be watching some of your analysis as the result -- thank you so much. for

i've asked twitter and facebook multiple times. how many times have you blocked republican candidates for office, there tweets or their pos in 2016 and 2018 and 2020? how many times have you blocked democratic candidates for office, how many times he you blocked republican officeholders, how many times ha youed bcked democratic officeholders? twitter has reptedly refusedpu to answer that question with specific hard data and cataloging the examples. in the interest of transparency, which you said you want to embrace, will you commit in the hearing ght nowo answer those questions in writing? [inaudible] >> i'm sry. i didn't hear you. >> that is exactly what we are pushing for as we think about building upon 230. >> is that a yes that you will answer those in writing? >> transparencyot just with outcomes but a process as well. >> is that a yes but you will answer in writing? >> we will certainly look into it. >> and answer them and not give a double speak about why you are not going to give a specific. will you commit to the committee

behind the surge there has been you know a crackdown on voting related misinformation from twitter from facebook in recent times a lot of this against donald trump the platforms are. warning labels or disclaimers hiding his tweets for example so a lot of conservative pundits have called for people to migrate from twitter to pala ok and who is behind potus so the c.e.o. and co-founder co-founder his name is john mates he is a conservative himself he's a republican party a member on their website they say that this platform was created to quote you know after after being exhausted with the lack of transparency in big tech logical suppression and privacy abuse there are also other conservative pundits who are in the kind of ownership structure here but they do say the c.e.o. has said himself that of course anyone is welcome on the platform and one of president trump of this he's a he's quite a trois. poller is that the word is that what they call well the platform is pronounced pala it's but what you send out a tweet is a pall a thank you so no he's not on there yet but other people in his circle a

well today senators grilled the ceo's of facebook and twitter on precisely that issue our washington correspondent alexandra le mon reports senators continue to weigh what additional internet regulations may be needed. >>many democrats and republicans are in rare agreement that social media companies need new rules on how to operate and facebook ceo mark zuckerberg think so too i believe we're well overdue to update the rules for the internet specifically lawmakers question whether new regulations should address how social media companies handle users personal information and privacy social media addiction and how those platforms handle elections facebook and twitter said they took unprecedented steps this year to fight election misinformation. many times those policies resulted in flags on president trump's posts do you believe that label goes far enough to prevent the tweets harms when the tweet is still visible and not accurate. >>i do because it's not just the surface level level your points to a collection. news articles of information and conversation. >>while democrats questio

but two weeks ago to a lesser extent twitter and facebook crossed a threshold that is fundamental in the country. two weeks ago twitter made the unilateral decision to censor "the new york post" in a series of two articles both alleging evidence of corruption against joe biden. first concerning ukraine and second, communist china and the twitter made the decision to prevent users from sharing the stories and number two you went even further and blocked the post from sharing its own reporting. why did twitter make the decision to censor the post? >> we had a material policy. >> when was the policy adopted? >> 2018. the policy is around limiting the spread of materials. we didn't want t twitter to be a distributor of hacked material. we found "the new york post" because it showed the direct materials and screenshots of the materials it's clear how they were obtained. the source in this instance "the new york post" documented what it said the source was which it is said was a laptop owned by hunter biden turned into a repair store so they were not hiding the source. is it your decision t

bannon's twitter account after he said things about act of violence against dr. fauci and wray. why would facebook not take a similar stand? mr. zuckerberg, could you talk about the speed issue? your platforms diverge. i wonder why twitter saw that as a standard to remove but you left up -- you are not following that decision. >> thanks, senator. i am happy to address both of those. on speed you are right that's important. part of what we focussed on is figuring out which times of messages or things will go viral quickest. because it's not just about trying to get to everything within 5 hours, for example. it's much more important to get to the parts going viral quickly within an hour. even for some groups that don't much distribution, it might take longer. staying on top of the hashtags spreading this content. we are able to move faster as well. we are very focussed on that. >> thank you, very much. >> mr. chairman. >> the second part of the question i would love to get on the record. mentioned earlier and you said chairman graham will be chairman again. you said something about social media's ef

well facebook and twitter are preparing measures to counter u.s. election candidates and campaigns that claim victory ahead of official results the move comes as the high number of mail in ballots this year could cause a delay in final results social media companies are under pressure to combat misinformation disinformation in this highly contested election i think the news on x. 4 is whiting can tell us will welcome alex so what are the social media companies saying they'll do well just remember that they have been under enormous pressure because of what happened in the last u.s. election of 2016 where it was claimed that particularly foreign agents were able to spread misinformation and even false hoods this year though there are more concerns that it could be more domestic players who will be able to do that so both twitter and facebook are promising to put warning labels on posts and facebook has explained it strategy using twitter we can see it there for example it will flag up posts if a candidate or party declares premature victory it's also

facebook. and i think that twitter shut down vine in 2016. mr. dorsey, could you tell me about the actual impact of facebook's actions on vine's business on vine's ability to compete and on your decision to shut down the service? and i know you are not a chinese company. >> well, i don't know about the intent on the other side, but i know our own experience was we found it extremely challenging to compete with vine and ultimately decided that the ball moved past us and we shut it down. again, i don't know the specifics and the tactics and what was done, but we did find it very, very challenging market to enter even though we existed prior to some of our peers doing the same thing. >> okay. i'm going to move to something else quickly. instagram and what's app. we have some released internal facebook emails in which you, mr. zuckerberg, wrote that instagram was -- if they grow to a large scale they could be very disruptive to us. and in a later email you confirmed that one of the purposes of facebook acquiring instagram would be to neutralize the co

s of facebook and twitter were in the hot seat once again in a senate hearing over how they chose to handle content related to the 2020 election . this includes, of course tweets from president trump and whether they should have been taken down all together. will artie's rachel? just the latest. rachel, what did we hear about these social media platforms from them and how they handled the election? well, there was a lot of division, specifically between democrats and republicans in how they responded to these new policies that were introduced by facebook and twitter. on one hand, you had republicans saying that they went too far with the restrictions that they added to content that they said was false or misleading. and then on the other hand, you had democrats saying that they didn't go nearly far enough. now one of the topics that came up were of course, president trump's tweet soon as election day. and the fact that he has repeatedly tweeted saying he won the election or saying that it was rigged. and twitter's choice to then put labels on those tweets or to restrict access to the

i haven't seen a significant shift where someone has totally left facebook and twitter twito to one of these alternatives yet. it's still really remains to be seen but but i do think it wile really interesting to wat next week when we are expecting that ceos above facebook and twitter to testify, how they talk about the rise of this new conservative alternative. one of the questions we hear from the right a lot is perhaps these companies have too much power and they point to these content moderation decisions as they talk about antitrust issues. it will be interesting to see how this comes up next week during that hearing and whether or not the ceos of facebook and twitter .2 this is assigned a sign the competition in the industry. >> guest: i totally agree with your point and i think the biggest sign of that is president trump himself is still actively tweeting every day on twitter. he could delete his own account at any point but instead he really wants to be there. he wants that engagement. he thrives on that. even if yes so many grievances with the company, he's not getting off the

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is this like a twitter, facebook or inextra gram? >> it's probably close to a twitter, which is making people angry coming over from facebook. they're saying where are the events? where are the groups? it doesn't really work that way. that's the issue with parlor. there's many issues with parlor but it's not very intuitive or user friendly. people are having a hard time making passwords, creating accounts. at one point they ask for a driver's license date on there. you know, there are a lot of roadblocks on there. once you're on there, it's not very useful. the other issue is they are filing with hate speech and racism, but they're not fine with all other sorts of things. you know, swearing is not really allowed in some cases. nudity is not really allowed. it's a free speech platform in racism only really. >> is porelor something that the everyday social media does and should be worried about? far fewer people know about parlor than facebook, instagram and tiktok. how big of a deal is it really? >> we're going to live in a new future,

twitter in terms of its sort of limiting of information, some calling it censorship. alleging that this is cherry picked and disproportionately affects conservatives. well, they have defended both facebook and twitter that they are treating both conservatives and liberals on the platform. equally, they have acknowledged, at least in the case of twitter, that there are times that they have made mistakes. now, noticeably absent from this hearing is google, and that is also coming under the radar in terms of the scrutiny on capitol hill. in fact, they made a statement that google is doing even less than twitter and facebook to live up to its responsibilities in terms of the free flowing information on the internet, or at least what's purported to be. so this is just part of the back and forth that is going on as these hearings take place. but overall, what this is really about is why there were a limiting of information according to republicans, prior to the u.s. election and how moving forward this can be changed. so that upcoming elections, that users can be confident, not only of the information, but that it is being fully censored even editorialized committee. they are talking about a

you can reach me on twitter, facebook and instagram. from all of us at kqed newsroom.thanks for joining us, good night. robert: the election is over. but the faceoff continues. bind this is the team to heal in -- president-elect biden: this is the time to heal in america. robert: biden and harris win the white house. but days later, the president refuses to aept the result. with support from republicans. >> there will be a smooth transition to a second trump administration. robert: but there are some cracks. >> we need to consider joe biden as the president-elect. robert: beyond the election, a record-breaking spike threatens the nation. president-elect biden: mask is not a political statement. but it is a good way to start pulling the country together. robert: next.

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