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Funding from Tech Companies, foundations, and private individuals. Reportt put out a new called the crisis of social media. What is the main take away in this report . The main take away is that the internet is becoming less free around the world. There are many trends we have seen around how Free Expression and privacy are under threat. The main thing we look at this year is how governments around the world are using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their own citizens. To help us dig into this issues as our guest, sarah. I want to dive into that dynamic. You say some governmen...

Politics basically falling apart. For years, behindthescenes, he had been giving to candidates. He had several contracts coming huge contracts with the city, one worth 322 million a year. No one really knew who he was until things came to light in 2011 over problems with the current mayor vincent c grays campaign for mayor in 2010. Here, and i do, you see we have one former City Council Member in prison, one who had a plea and did not have to go to prison but had to pay money who was a City Council Member, Michael Brown, the son of ron brown the former head of the committee, and we have marion...

Very serious legal trouble in the span of two years. How did you go about covering Jeffrey Thompson . Well, that began with i the mayor. Er i used to cover the mayors office. Mayoral ered the 2010 campaign. Assigned to ually cover the daytoday, the campaign and that was the at the time. And he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So, you know, covered the mall campaign. I was most interested in watching kind of downfalls ecause, you know, everyone saw it coming. And that was my job. Shortly after the after won, iok off, because he eard from Sulaiman Brown would r...

The daytoday of the Fenty Campaign and that was the current mayor the time and he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So it covered the normal campaign. I was interested in watching fentys downfall. Everyone saw it coming. And it was my job. Shortly after gray took office, i heard from the gentleman suleimon brown, who had run for mayor. He had a job in the administration, which was odd. The next thing you knew, he was fired. Then he was calling and saying do you want to talk . Next thing you knew, he disclosed serious corruption about being paid during the camp...

>> there are several republicans though bill, who have voiced objections to biden 's commitment to nominate a black woman. ted cruz called it offensive and insulting. one of those network contributors, our friend michael steele, had a pretty powerful response to those objections today, take a listen. >> you've got in front of you, a group of women, who have survived a whole lot of crap to get to that point. try being a black woman in law school. a black woman working her way through a law firm, to become a partner, let alone and associate. go through the process, and understand what these wome...