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>> shannon: brand-new allegations of a massive cover-up at a major broadcast network involving one of its top news stars in one of hollywood's most powerful figures. gillian turner has the story for us tonight. >> in an exclusive interview tonight with fox news bret baier, ronan farrow is doubling down on claims in his new book "catch and kill," he talks about harvey weinstein and more recent allegations against former nbc news anchor matt lauer. >> ronan farrow claims when he first brought his weinstein reporting to nbc news, he already had an admission of guilt from the man himself, plus nam...

Trish regan had been tweeting this letter this evening, i hope your viewers will take a look at it. >> shannon: our viewers can check it out. thank you both. a major broadcast network in the cross hairs of new bombshell allegations. linda esther who says she was sexually harassed at the network as well, joins us next. that life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look

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In so many ways facebook does not want to be considered a media platform. right? they don't want -- you know, section 230, right, lays out they're not responsible for what's on their platform differentiates them from us airing something here on cnn. but now, it seems like they're saying with statement they want to be viewed as a broadcast network. >> exactly. media law experts say this actually undercuts facebook's argument that it isn't a media company and raises big questions about just what are the policies to apply to large online platforms like facebook given that in the past for decades ...

Written in 1996 before facebook was created gives the platform companies that publish third party content immunity from liability for any of that content. >> because they say they're platforms. >> they're platforms and not publishers. one of the mistakes i would say facebook made is likening themselves to a broadcast network which has no immunity. you can't come here and defame somebody without being sued but facebook can publish something that's defamatory without being sued because they're protected by that law. >> is he making an argument that facebook and other social media platforms would...