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its the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." im alisyn camerota. >> im victor blackwell. good to be with you. more than 8,000 flights have been delayed just today after the faa made a rare move in the ground of safety. they grounded flights to work out major flights in a messaging system. pilots use this system to learn about safety hazards in realtime. >> somewhere overnight, there was an issue with irregularities in the messages that were going out that reflected a bigger systems issue...

Prior to the election, and this isnt the first time that has happened either, whether its censoring the "new york post," 100 different people, we obviously know doj was coordinating heavily, and they were coordinating with big tech in order to suppress certain things. >> yeah. >> my knee-jerk concern is the difference in timing. im hopeful we do something i dont feel like democrats did for my first two years. were going to investigate the conduct and take it where it goes, and were going to do i...

And i feel vindicated. i feel, im grateful for elon. if he wants free tech support he has got it. >> [laughter]. >> it is refreshing. it is obviously, you know, if he had bought twitter during the lawsuit i think things would work out better for me. it is what it is. im grateful that the truth is coming out now im vindicated. rachel: go ahead. pete: one of the tweets that came out from matt taibbi as part of exposure of twitter. twitters public policy executive, caroline strom, returned the answ...

Hunter biden laptop story was dismissed it was mocked. if you even thought it was a real story your account got locked on twitter and you were called a conspiracy theorist. here we are two years later everything in the laptop, all the emails have been verified. journalists you would think lets not do this again. elon musk puts out documents through matt taibbi, a real journalist. were seeing from same journalists mockery, dismissed or ignored. "washington post" has a story on the email dump by e...

Fray reign for tech is over. you wrote a terrific book, the square in the tower. what -- do you think were in a new age of regulating big tech in. >> well, the question is how. i agree with ronna that section 230 of the communications decency is the akillys heel of the tech companies. thats why they would rather washington went down the road of anti-trust. they can win that fight or at least protract it. its a far less serious threat than removing or removing section 230. just to be clear, becau...