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and thats in large part because ron desantis, who was initially hyped up as the candidate has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis should come with its own slide whistle. hes almost 30 points behind trump and the average of the national poll. even a top official at a pro-desantis superpact recently conceded his campaign has been a bust so far. >> right now in national polling we are way behind. to be blunt and hon...

Speech platforms. doesnt strike me as crazy but this this case its focused on covid-19 a lot and it was interesting, heres fauci on msnbc talking about hydrox hydroxyc hydroxychloroquine. hydroxychloroquine. >> >> they show it is not effective in the treatment of correspondents disease. >> thats true and has been true and is actually importantly true because lots of people were trying it and it wasnt working. its important you know its not effective and the ruling by this judge says dr. fauci ma...

The story evolved because the thursday they announced it was just about covid misinformation. by friday they were talking about any content that went against the narrative about covid-19. so, its a very clear effort here by the white house to control speech on one of the biggest speech platforms in the world which really speaks to what facebook is. its an essential speech corridor. a market access point and all these things. of course the white house wants to control what can be said there you k...

Tracked and researched how facebook was serving up ads to its users. it was an extension that people downloaded to allow this data to be collected. now, this is an area where facebook does not want any scrutiny because we often think of these platforms as speech platforms and they are but what they really are is massive digital advertising agencies that make tons of money off of eyeballs, off of amplifying content and they refuse to talk about the algorithms how this works all of the things happ...

speaking out on controversial pardons, former mississippi governor, haley barbour defends his position to pardon 200 people. a convicted murderer who says he deserves to be free. it is almost there. two ships just off the coast of nome, alaska to bring precious fuel. we have been keeping an eye on a rescue operation taking place off the western coast of italy this morning. here is the emergency. a crowded cruise ship that is tipped over on its side. there are 4,000 passengers and cre...

Left-leaning bias. it goes into the algorithm programming as well. the key is, should the government be involved at all or should the company be allowed to say hey, were left leaning? >> charles -- >> charles: let zach answer and ill come back to you. >> a point of clarification is important here. the ceo said his employees have a left-leaning bias. hes not saying the process has a left-leaning bias. as a democrat, ive had plenty of doctors that are republicans and treated me great. i worked at ...