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Yeah, it was a slightly different thing with i marjorie taylor greene than donald trump. i donald trump removed - from twitter because of his incitement of violence. marjorie taylor greene - had five strikes, i believe, for covid disinformation, which is obviously - vitally important now. and i think the role that twitter - and facebook and other social media platforms play in all of these conversations, both national| and international, _ really speaks to their power. you know, we are all repre...

That it was aggregating information amongst linked accounts that it - owns, although we dont really know and twitter has not definitively- really said, nor has the owner of politics for all actually- come out and spoken, really, to the press. . so that is this kind - of lack of transparency that we are all concerned about, given the outsized impact that l social media platforms have. but zings really interesting point there, in terms of this idea - of we are putting a lot of our eggs in terms of...

I do think at a time where there seems to be an asymmetrical... not that there is none on the left, but an asymmetrical level of misinformation, disinformation from certain kinds of right—wing figures about covid, for example. yhe platforms are struggling to deal with it. there are ways to deal with it without fully deplatforming that i think could perhaps be more fully explored. so questions remain for how the media interacts with the tech platforms. just to bring this discussion back to janu...

Are ways _ struggling to deal with it and there are ways to deal with it without which _ are ways to deal with it without which can — are ways to deal with it without which can be fully exploited. questions are mean for how the media interacts with the tech platforms ju5t interacts with the tech platforms just to bring this discussion back in the last few minutes we have heard how you have written a book and now you covered that story and alloys and days that followed the 5torming of the capit...

Well, its difficult - to actually know, ros. it seems as if it has - gone because of the fact that it was aggregating - information amongst linked accounts that it owns, - although we dont really know and twitter has not. definitively really said, nor has the owner of politics for all actually come out - and spoken, really, to the press. - so that is this kind - of lack of transparency that we are all concerned | about, given the outsized impact that social - media platforms have. but zings real...

Of covid misinformation id, and i feel like its caused a lot of people to question the fairness of these social media accounts. and, look, they are under the scrutiny — in america — of congress right now because they have got enemies, people angry at them on the right and the left, so i think that in the next year or two, youre going to see the government try to do more to manage this, to step in, because they dont have friends on either side of the aisle right now, so they actually truly ar...

We hope, gofundme doesnt conduct themselves like this again and allow their platform to be used the way it is supposed to so these types of organizations can be funded. >> joe: 30,000 foot view, this is latest example of big tech censorship, do you agree? >> absolutely. look, four yiers ago, i was one of the first attorney generals that rang the bell on big tech and power they were basically accumulating at the time. there are many others that are investigating tech platforms. you mentioned face...

There was a recognition that it was even harder to get on the ground, not just the security considerations was obscene but certainly our shelter in place order. there is so crazy is going on in some being exacerbated globally. really there was a short up and realising that nice to have for a lot of institutions. allison, one of the striking points about the whole approach is the extent thatjournalists are relying on tech platforms. we talked inspire from millie ties between silicon valley and ne...

America. normally weve seen this story before. where a big company faces a situation like this and they usually sever ties with someone like rogan. spotify not doing so. the question now is whether well see more artists, subscribers cancel, whether more pressure will come on spotify. this right wing service rumble which wants to present itself as an alternative to other big tech platforms has come out saying, rogan come join us. well pay you $100 million. not sure if thats a plausible claim or n...

Psychosis. yeah, thatss us . so of course they immediately set about encouraging tech platforms to ban that interview. dr. malone, again, one of, the inventors of mrna technology being used in over a billion doses of vaccine currently in peoples bodies. thats the manop who was talking credible. yeah, no one more credible than that and thats exactly why w they hated it. thats exactly what it said. you couldnt heart. now that same month there was this past december, rogen spoke toog dr. peter mccu...