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Research. look, what they've said they accused us of having things wrong in the story. they did not identify anything in the story that's wrong so far. they are under a lot of flack. there's a lot of outrage for people who work for george sore jobs for example, who are outraged george soros was used to try to discredit this story. >> how sleazy is it that facebook, one of the top corporations in america, is doing what the sleaziest republicans did regarding the caravan trying to pin a conspiracy theory on george soros. and at the same time trashing apple, trashing google on right-wing sites. t...

Extension our democracy. who survives that? >> joe, it is a really -- i mean the allegations of nick and the team found here are damning. but this is a complicated question because mark zuckerberg controls 60% of the voting shares of facebook. one of the best examples of how founders are controlling their companies these days, everyone seems to think he's going to stay. nick, my question to you is that still the case? today do you think that's still the case? it's very hard for that not to be the case because of his control of the company. what do you think will be the fallout here in terms of...

Forward with that information it reportedly sought to deflect blame and mask the extent of the problem. while zuckerberg apologized in public, facebook's chief operating officer allegedly was on a different mission, combat the company's private foes in private. the social networking site hired republican opposition research firm to depict george soros as the force behind a broad anti-facebook movement and published stories praysing facebook while criticizing google and apple on a conservative news site. let's bring in the political writer for "new york times" nicholas co nicholas. nick, for yo...

It that's when the company was in trouble. they didn't have any allies. as you look at this new congress and you look just at the political landscape in general going forward is facebook about to get in that place where they are facing equal criticism or similar criticism from both sides of the partisan aisle. >> yes. conservatives think they are being censored on facebook. liberals think facebook handed the election to donald trump. we saw a press release yesterday from the incoming chair of the antitrust committee in congress from the house blistering press release that suggests there's more...

Anything to clean house, what about the board? does anybody have power to bring accountability to this corporation? >> well, he and sandberg picked most of the board. i don't think we'll see much accountability there. peter teal a board member said he agrees with zuckerberg's past statement that the russian information on facebook was not a big deal in the election. i will point out two things, joe. the research conducted on soros does not appear to be made up or a conspiracy theory. they are basically saying some of the groups that are protesting facebook have gotten some money from soros phi...