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Us now. is it clear republicans were targeted? >> that is certainly what is being presented here through the twitter files, people i think might argue that it is just a selection and potentially what is being presented is selective. i think also people who have worked at twitter at the time would say that the reason we have to take action or we thought we had to take action is against people who happen to be republicans is they are people who are sharing misinformation, disinformation, or hate. ...

Sources that hadnt been repeatedly docked for sharing misinformation. so it put those sources higher on peoples news feeds and it found misinformation went down. when people were shown news sources that didnt spread lies, that fact checked, that verified what they were publishing, they were less likely to see disinformation. they could have kept that change through the inauguration in january but they did not. this is their own researchers, their own academics telling them these kinds of changes...

Serious about fighting disinformation and fake news, yet this doctored video that i think your own fact checkers acknowledge is doctored of speaker pelosi remains on your platform. why? >> well, you know, first off, i think the suggestion there is we havent taken action, and thats not right. we have acted. anybody who is seeing this video in news feed, anybody who is going to share it to somebody else, anybody who has shared it in the past, they are being alerted that this video is false. and th...

With alcohol, thats okay on facebook? >> no, again, i want to be really clear here, because the suggestion here is that were not acting. >> would you take that down? would you take down that video of the president of the united states thats been slowed down and manipulated by russia, say, to make it look like hes drunk and impaired? >> we would remove content thats created by fake accounts. we would remove misinformation thats created by fake accounts. and we would remove misinformation if it is...

Certified fact checking organizations that are independent from facebook, and we think these are the right organizations to be making decisions about whether something is true or false. and as soon as we get -- and we did in this case, as soon as we get a rating from them that content is false, then we dramatically reduce the distribution of that content, and we -- >> but you keep it up? >> -- let people know that its false. so they can make an informed choice. >> why keep it up? >> we think peo...

False information you are spreading. >> we have a site where people can come and share what they think whats important to them, the news that they find relevant. and when they do that, we want to make sure that they have access to accurate information. if there is a threat of safety, if were talking about terror propaganda, thats something where we can actually assess that on its face and say, yes, this is terror propaganda and we can pull it down. when youre talking about political discourse --...

Is working. >> if you have the scale, though, to be able to remove over the course of six months, 3.39 billion fake accounts and you have the scale to remove, i think -- you i.d.d -- in that six-month period, 83% of accounts or comments that were selling drugs or doing something illegal or promoting something illegal, you certainly have the scale to decide something that you know is clearly fake. its not even a question. i guess i still just dont logically understand -- i understand its a big bu...

Come to facebook, you have to use your real identity. thats always been our rule. and we do see that accounts that are fake are engaged in safety violations more than authentic accounts. and by the way, and this is probably not shocking, fake accounts are also more likely to distribute misinformation or fake news. and so part of our effort to combat misinformation, its not just about working with third party fact checkers. when we remove fake accounts, we are also reducing the chance that these ...

But its not okay to remove a clearly fake video? >> because were focused -- when we look at our community standards, those are about keeping the community safe. >> well, how are fake facebook accounts dangerous? >> fake accounts -- we do see that fake accounts engage in safety violations more than accounts that are real. >> 3.39 billion of them are promoting violence? i mean -- >> its a fundamental -- no, thats not what i said. its a fundamental rule when you come to facebook, you have to use yo...

Its not even a question. i guess i still just dont logically understand -- i understand its a big business to get into of trying to figure out whats true or not, but youre makie ing money by being the news business. if you cant do it well, shouldnt you just get out of the news business? >> look, i reject the notion that were not doing a lot to counter misinformation -- >> i didnt say youre not doing a lot, im just saying, if you are -- you are in this particular case, spreading and allowing the ...