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Throughout all of it, "the times" says facebook's ceo, sheryl sandberg oversaw, quote, an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat facebook's critics, shift public anger toward rival companies, and ward off damaging regulations. facebook employed a republican opposition research firm to discredit activist protesters in part by linking them to liberal financier george soros. it also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-semitic. facebook said today that it did work with a pr company to look into protesters, but said t...

Shocking? >> it's the -- i would say the idea that they are publicly repetant and yet doing all of this stuff in the background. we have new reporting this morning, too. we talked to an ex-employee of this firm that they hired. and he said they have an in-house fake news shop. that's what they call it. it's a separate thing called ntk news network that pushes out stuff against the clients -- sorry, for their clients, that sort of models not fake news but stuff that is, you know -- bends the truth a little bit to help out their clients and one of their clients is facebook. they said they didn't...

And the problem for facebook is that the thing that they're under assault for is the same thing that makes them so much money. >> i have to ask you -- i'm sorry. >> it's their lifeblood. >> this is a piece you obviously were working on for a long time. what you were working on a long time. what's it like when you hit send? >> it is a good feeling to do good work and talk about it. >> a lot of people responding to your reporting. congratulations. the white house says the president will travel to the state to see the damage for himself. e to see the damage for himself. ♪

Can do in a positive way. they can help set an agenda. it's smart not to overpromise or do a victory dance. it's hard to do a victory dance when you have the senate and -- down a few seats. they are looking to see, how do we get from this election to the next. the senate back and the white house and they are focussed. for all the criticism of pelosi, they ran a very good campaign and are still very focused. >> i think they need to offer an alternative vision of the country or we're hearing plenty from the white house. what is it the democrats are going to stand for in 2020? they need to start ...

A media company. they keep defining themselves as a technology company because they don't want to have to deal with the regulatory universe that comes with being regulated as a media company, like making are sure people that advertise on your site are -- have good bona fides. >> there is no basic consumer privacy law in america. none. there is none. you have no protection. you have the protection these companies give you. use google, facebook, they say, here's the deal. this is a privacy we give you. take it or leave it. this is why that's important. the same thing that makes these companies p...