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>> we think people make their own informed choice about what to believe. our job is to make sure were getting them accurate information. thats why we work with more than 50 fact checking organizations around the world. if there were misinformation that was, lets say, tide to an ongoing riot or the threat of some physical violence somewhere in the world, we would work with safety organizations on the ground to confirm falsity and the link to violence and then we actually would remove that misinfo...

Theyve added comments from independent fact checkers to inform people who watch it, and have made it less prominent and it is still up there. youtube took it down, but its still up on twitter. theyre not even commenting about it. facebook, however, was good enough to provide us with a spokesperson. shes monica bikert, the companys vice president for global policy management. i spoke to her a short time ago. monica, in the wake of the 2016 election, facebook has repeatedly told congress and the a...

When it comes to other types of misinformation we work with the fact checking nearbies and we put that information actively in front of people -- so they can make their own decisions. >> so if its a real person, not a fake account, which i know youre concerned about fake accounts, because that gets to the legitimacy of facebook, but if its actually just a real account, but somebody just doing that, theyre not doing it even to make money, just putting it out there, that video would stay up on fac...

Related to safety we can and we do remove it and we work with safety groups to do that. but when were talking about political discourse and misinformation around that we think the right approach is to let people make an informed choice. >> so if somebody makes a video of president trump and slows it down and makes it seem like hes drunk, which hes never had a drink in his life, thats okay with you? if that video is on and it makes people believe that the commander in chief is impaired with alcoh...