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A rare statement calling buzzfeed's reporting inaccurate. talk about a bombshell. [laughter] you might say. the mueller team almost always refuses to comment publicly about things it is doing. it was a humbling moment for the press. they were not humbled though. how do we know? on meet the press, chuck todd the host said the problem wasn't that the press was foolish andhe reckless and bad at their job of reporting. and the story wound up being untrue. o that wasn't the real problem. no. the real problem was that having an untrue story exposed might help conservatives. >> the problem is the fak...

We're tired. this is like the slowest, longest, most drawn-out drama. and whatever story is going to make this end, i think a lot of people are kind of eager for. the buzzfeed story kind of has that patina. it's the smoke from the smoking gun. and if, indeed, it leads to the gun from whence the smoke ori n originated, boom, we can start this story and time to start "game of thrones" in april and we only have one drama to deal with. first of all, it's a good thing the larger media establishment was able to talk about this. we all read our own different papers from our own political silos. there...

Seriously. they are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck. they clearly don't care. i'm joined now by nbc senior media reporter dylan byers. one former fact checker had these harsh words for the company, in part, quote, i strongly believe that they are spreading fake news on behalf of hostile foreign powers and authoritarian governments as part of their business model. that is a pretty bold statement. what are your sources telling you? >> well, look, the criticism there, no one doubts that facebook has had a fake news problem. no one doubts that that has led to ma...

Age divide but the information gap about what happened with cambridge analytica. i bet if you asked most people on the street, they have no idea how to articulate what actually happened. and looking to mark zuckerberg to explain that or to clarify the issue, and if they don't get it, how could we possibly legislative -- find a legislative way to solve this problem going forward. one thing that he did mention when testified, it is not just us, facebook. there are social media platforms being used and probably exploited and the fact that mueller is looking into all of these things falls right in...

Look at what tv networks make on campaigns. every four years it's a huge growth in revenues for tv campaigns. facebook should say this is our business, stop stealing our data, we're going to leverage it ourselves. i look at it as a positive, as a new business opportunity. >> paul: their model has been we'll get content for free, they'll get andy kessler's column and run advertising against it. they don't pay andy kessler. they don't pay the wall street journal. is that basic model, free content and putting advertising against it, is that going to be in jeopardy because of this is a little diff...