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>> i can see the pain on mika's face. i yield my time to you, mika. >> thank you. >> oh, okay. speaking of algorithms, we'll have the latest on facebook in a moment. big news there. the testimony. first, former vice president mike pence once again downplaying the january 6th attack on the capitol. you remember, the one where rioters were threatening his life, chanting, "hang mike pence." here's what he said in an interview on fox news monday night. >> i know the media wants to distract from the biden administration's failed agenda by focusing on one day in january. they want to use that on...

Government. it's time chuck schumer. >> they've done that. >> it's time chuck schumer starts playing tough. >> absolutely. >> "politico's" sam stein, thank you very much. >> thanks, guys. coming up, after testimony on capitol hill from a facebook whistle employeer, the naacp is demanding a meeting with the social media company to discuss hate speech on its platform. more on "morning joe." act, congress can tackle it head on. with tax credits for clean energy companies that create millions of new jobs... ...and ramp up new technology and clean energy manufacturing. it means families pay les...

Southeast asian country was actually chased out of the country because of the lies the government started spreading on facebook about him. >> yeah, i think that's right. what's interesting, joe, we've always had fringe elements of society that didn't buy into, you know, the common consensus. whether it be on science, whether it be on democracy, truth and information. today, that fringe has been empowered and emboldened and expanded by the reach of social media, right? the ability to both spread this menacing information broader and further than ever before. to be able to bring people together ...

Algorithms with regulators. >> if facebook is serious and honest, there will be legislation for them to support on privacy, on oversight, on protecting children. we'll see whether they are serious. i hope they are. because big tech is facing its big tobacco moment. it is a moment of reckoning. >> hallie jackson reporting there. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg shared publicly an internal memo to staff on tuesday. he wrote, quote, we care deeply about issues like safety, well-being, and mental health. it is difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motivmotives. at the most basi...

Of an incoming president of the united states. that is with us today much more so than it was on january 7th. out there in this country of ours, there are millions of people, unfortunately, who have been fed this lie, who believe this lie, and now this lie is of such proportion that in state after state we've seen it play out. not just in arizona. in state after state, it threatens the very fundamentals of how we govern ourselves, of how we elect our leaders, and how we propose to go forward as a nation. >> yeah. disgraceful comments there from vice president mike pence. we'll come back to tha...