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With putin, even gave him a t-shirt. facebook's pressure campaign and the pressure it's facing is not letting up. the company has gone from denying responsibility from the russian meddling to admitting there's a fake news problem and they have proposed some vague reforms. some of the most shared items on facebook were fake news, it's now stu now studying how to play up factual journalism and deny conspiracies. many companies how they profit incentives, to play up the cl k clickyest thing. >> if you can make it trend, you can make it true. if you can gain that friending

Al -- >> they're now holding a vote among users for what sites are most popular. i'll show you this survey, it asks questions like do you recognize the following sites and how much do you trust each site. what? this media company that claims it's not a media company is now holding a popularity contest to decide which news is more credible? now we called facebook and i asked, which news outlets will people be able to vote on in this context? will it be a choice among factual sources, is it "new york times" versus "wall street journal," okay, or is facebook's solution to their fake news problem ...

>> 126 million people on facebook alone which is -- we only had 137 million who voted in the election. >> this is not like an incorrect bill board on the street or a bad article in the newspaper. facebook knows who saw it. >> not only that, they know every single thing the person saw. >> they could send me a customized thing to say you engaged with these articles. >> it's not just articles. it would be groups, it would be events, ads. ads were a tiny piece of it. all the other stuff was much, much more important. >> the changes that were made last week, we don't have to get into them, but your...

Amount of the content, influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea. >> crazy. mark, as we've reported, backtracked on that. and facebook did even hire fact checkers to deal with the fake news problem. but a new report today in "the guardian clothe notes that face refuses the disclose the data on the checker. and the fake information is still going viral. that's from someone speaking anonymously from inside facebook. so let's take a breath and let's note the huge contrast here for mark zuckerberg. in turkey, mark found a way to eliminatecensor posts at the government's request. in...

Fake things true and true things fake. >> among people who listened to those two conservative leaders, trump probably lost some credibility today. the question is whether he picked up two senate seats which would not exactly be a draw. the senior policy adviser for the reagan and george w. bush administrations. he is the author of the aptly titled, the truth matters. that followed your work and your conservatism for a long time. your view of what we saw today and the centrality from these conservatives about as you emphasize, truth in politics. >> i'm very glad to have them saying what they're...