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E-cigarettes. juul is "following big tobacco's playbook." and now, juul is pushing prop c to overturn e-cigarette protections. vote no on juul. no on big tobacco. no on prop c. facebook is making it harder to know what's true. case in point, the company's policy letting politicians lie in ads. this weekend, the joe biden campaign is calling on facebook for a second time, saying that facebook's policy is deeply flawed and allowing misinformation to spread on the platform. this is something that's been bubbling up for several weeks now and it comes at the same time that mark zuckerberg, head o...

Draw the line, where to draw the line, and how to make sure free expression reigns on the site. joining me now is the co-director of harvard's platform accountability project, who after his time in the obama white house, worked for facebook as a private and public policy adviser. ghosh quit in 2016 and wrote this paper calling on companies like facebook to acknowledge their role in misinformation. he wrote a column on this about on cnn.com that we will talk about. and here mo illithy. he moderated the q&a portion. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> i would love to know what you...

>> ethics. >> and the ethics of, what is facebook's responsibility when foreign actors, bad actors are using the platform to facilitate violence against its own people or even genocide. what is facebook's responsibility when it comes to protecting privacy? what is facebook's responsibility when it comes to misinformation, disinformation? those types of ethical questions are what the students were grappling with and were hoping he would talk about. >> let's put on screen some of the bullet points from this speech, especially around political ads. because ultimately, zuckerberg said, when it com...

There's a big gray area. having said that, most people walked away from the speech wanting something more. there was something in that speech that offended just about everybody on the ideological spectrum. conservatives who feel like he did not go far enough in addressing arguments or allegations of an anti-conservative algorithmic bias. and progressives who are going at him for allowing trump campaign misinformation to appear on their platform. whether it's in ads or in other ways. i don't think a lot of people walked out of there feeling satisfied by what he said. >> and is that just because...

Conservatives, social conservatives, people who used to criticize video games, rap music, whatever. now, to be like cheering on and supporting this sort of perverse, disgusting video, it's just a complete reversal. and it shows you the state of conservatism today. >> the words i'm taking away, empathy gap. that's what missing. to the panel, thank you. quick break here. and then mark zuckerberg's free speech speech getting flack from multiple directions. the joe biden campaign just issued a brand-new challenge to facebook. you'll hear about it, next. so bob, what do you take for back pain? befo...