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phang show this morning. with all of our live tv grand lands, ill see you tomorrow morning at 7 am eastern. velshi starts right now. >> good morning to you, particularly early morning here in arizona, it is saturday october the 29th. im ali velshi in phoenix, arizona for another edition of velshi across america. only ten days left in this midterm election, cycle this worst first nation -- since donald trump began spreading the big lie, following his lost of joe biden in 2020. that lie,...

First amendment approach. trying to adopt the constraints on government to a private platform like twitter. >> i think its important remember when the first memos written, you can supercharge the spread of disinformation. life just wasnt like that. now, you can put garbage out there and within a millisecond it is everywhere with a whole bunch of people retweeting it faster than you even knew it went out. suzanne, good to see you as always, thank you for writing that article. thank you so much fo...

Banned attacks will not be allowed back and tell a content moderation panel is formed. joining me now is susan, she is the ceo of pan america, she is the author of dare to speak, defending free speech for all. she has a new opinion piece in the los angeles times titled, how elon musks plans for twitter could threaten free speech. suzanne, good morning to you, thank you for being with us. >> hi, good morning. >> suzanne, elon musks whole point it is tickled for twitter, at least his whole stated ...

He just said over and over again, this is wrong. we could feel it all deepening, that impact, that idea that all of this stuff that is going on in our virtual lives, in our political sphere is all going to touch down in real violence here. >> jake, its playing out across the country, this is a stark example of what we are seeing. thank you my friend, i appreciate it. stay on the story for us, nbcs jake ward is live in san francisco. meanwhile, following a katic months long public saga, elon musk...

Elon musks had that in the name of upholding free speech he will dial back safeguards on the platform that are there to protect against disinformation. that would be a mistake, not just because disinformation has fueled a crisis of faith in democracy and impeded pandemic response at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. this information, the largely protected -- it can also imperil free speech itself. now, you just made that point but the distinction that a lot of people miss and i think s...

Anything can be said with no consequences exclamation point and a quote. but musk has said he wants twitter to pull back on content moderation. adding in thursdays post that his vision is to have a quote, common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence. there is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right -- into far right and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our so...

Be misused. if donald trump had had the power to punish and put journalists in jail, i think theres every reason to believe that he would have used that power. he had people thrown out of rallies. we dont want to afforded government with that power. when it comes to a social media platform that, as elon says, is trying to create an environment for public discourse, a place where people from different ideological persuasions can come together and can reason in order to talk. you need to create so...

Theres a reason it is protected under international law under the first amendment, it is because it gives us the opportunity to persuade one another, to engage, a given take, to reach an audience, to find better policies, to sort between fact and falsehood. if you have a platform like twitter that is so overrun with this information that you cannot discern who to believe, that you are inundated with propaganda and people trying to pull one over a new, that kind of environment, the value of free ...