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Im a little bit baffled by the way that this story is being covered, particularly when i saw "the new york times" report on it last night. what facebook is doing here is theyre getting a lot of pressure for it from the biden campaign. theyve gotten pressure from elizabeth warrens campaign. what theyre doing here is totally in step with how every other media organization handles political advertising. you had to read the second to the last paragraph of that "the new york times" report, but what y...

Of disinformation in this country. we the right tweets more disinformation and when they go after it, they get rid of speech from the right. the right screams and they threaten to pass laws to regulate internet, which is going to regulate your speech and mine. so, lets be careful. >> okay. but then, dylan, you said the conversation is about cnn. if were talking freedom of speech, the greatest advertisements are free ones, and thats cable tv. kellyanne conway is the one who, what was it, two year...

Extraordinarily consistent with how the media has treated political advertising for so long. so i for one, you know, and i may be in the minority, i for one dont entirely see what the problem is here. if anything, i think the discussion to be had is about cnn. >> is one of the issues maybe the advertising, jeff, the advertising has become so big, sponsored advertising -- you know, paid advertising that people dont always know is an ad. you might think its news. so, how complicated has this lands...

Going to try to stonewall until hes forced by the courts to produce information. of course, the strategy that president trump might be employing here is to delay, delay, delay, and if he can delay long enough to get past the election, he may consider that a victory. >> congresswoman, i want to get back to something you said. you said democrats really need to play hardball here. is it hardball or is it a completely different game? because republicans now have a counterattack, an offensive where t...

Valley or in new york or in d.c. should step up and draw, you know, set a higher bar for what can be said in political advertising, thats a fair conversation to have. i just think what were what wes falling into this weird thing where because theres been so much anti-facebook sentiment built up over the last few years, were using facebook as the whipping boy. and i dont begrudge cnn the decision to ban the ads. theyre fully within their rights to do that. i dont know if thats a moral, righteous ...

This election cycle, facebook is taking a hands-off approach to politics by staying out of the moderation game. in the first election test for the social media giant, they decided not to remove a 30-second ad released by the trump campaign accusing joe biden and his son, hunter, of bribery in ukraine, one of two attack ads cnn refused to run for being false. for more, lets bring in nbc senior media reporter dylan byers and jeff jarvis, professor at the new marks journalism school at cuny. its no...