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it's the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. more than 8,000 flights have been delayed just today after the faa made a rare move in the ground of safety. they grounded flights to work out major flights in a messaging system. pilots use this system to learn about safety hazards in realtime. >> somewhere overnight, there was an issue with irregularities in the messages that were going out that reflected a bigger systems issue, and this morning at about 7:00, there were still problems validating that the messages were goi...

Prior to the election, and this isn't the first time that has happened either, whether it's censoring the "new york post," 100 different people, we obviously know doj was coordinating heavily, and they were coordinating with big tech in order to suppress certain things. >> yeah. >> my knee-jerk concern is the difference in timing. i'm hopeful we do something i don't feel like democrats did for my first two years. we're going to investigate the conduct and take it where it goes, and we're going to do it in a serious way, and then prejudge any conclusions until we figure out what's going on. >> ...

And i feel vindicated. i feel, i'm grateful for elon. if he wants free tech support he has got it. >> [laughter]. >> it is refreshing. it is obviously, you know, if he had bought twitter during the lawsuit i think things would work out better for me. it is what it is. i'm grateful that the truth is coming out now i'm vindicated. rachel: go ahead. pete: one of the tweets that came out from matt taibbi as part of exposure of twitter. twitter's public policy executive, caroline strom, returned the answer that the laptop story was removed for the violation of the company's hacked materials policy....

Hunter biden laptop story was dismissed it was mocked. if you even thought it was a real story your account got locked on twitter and you were called a conspiracy theorist. here we are two years later everything in the laptop, all the emails have been verified. journalists you would think let's not do this again. elon musk puts out documents through matt taibbi, a real journalist. we're seeing from same journalists mockery, dismissed or ignored. "washington post" has a story on the email dump by elon musk. all they do is say there is no there there. this is no big deal. this is one of the most...

Fray reign for tech is over. you wrote a terrific book, the square in the tower. what -- do you think we're in a new age of regulating big tech in. >> well, the question is how. i agree with ronna that section 230 of the communications decency is the akilly's heel of the tech companies. that's why they would rather washington went down the road of anti-trust. they can win that fight or at least protract it. it's a far less serious threat than removing or removing section 230. just to be clear, because i think most viewers and legislators don't get this. the key is text 230 is it's the catch 22...