conspiracy theories. that could have been mickey mouse. i m watching this is the craziest thing i ve ever seen, and then people just bought it. lawsuits. they tried to not have your votes counted. they did not want your vote to count. potentially illegal pressure campaigns. i just want to find 11,780 votes. what he was asking for wasn t supported by the facts, wasn t supported by the constitution. extraordinary scheming. let s talk about the memo. just breathtaking that you would have laid out such a clear game plan that so clearly violated the constitution. and all too many in the republican party do you believe this was a free and fair election? and maga media who followed along. unverifiable dumps of votes. stop the steal! and it all might have worked if not for a few people in key places. notably among them, brave republicans. in the moments of truth you need the right people to pass the most difficult tests. we had just enough peop
after trump. he has written a book called gop 2.0. it s not just elected officials were being pushed from public view. remember chris stier, the fox political editor who correctly called the state of arizona for biden? he was fired in january, 2021. fox blamed restructuring, his boss, retired. a source at fox news told the washington post that i was fired because my ratings weren t as good as on gmail, and audiences weren t responding to me as favorably as they were to dan, which, made me laugh, because, that s not my job, my job is not to tell you what you want to hear. he s a conservative pundit not a reporter. on top of all this, a number of states are ushering in integrity laws, that type access to the ballast to prevent
leader said that will change soon. since election day more and more information keeps trickling out of silicon valley, in addition to those russian-bought facebook ads we ve learned russia linked ads targeting voters in key swing states and revealed facebook enabled advertisers to reach anti-semitic users. and it goes beyond facebook. twitter found 200 accounts linked to the same russian acts agents on facebook and google uncovered russian bought ads on gmail and other platforms. why did it take so long to figure out what happened and are they closer to protecting their platforms before americans head to the polls next year? joining me now is the executive editor of the technology news website re/code and misnbc news contributor. let s start right there. why did it take so long for the tech giants of this country to figure out what happened?