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>> laura: boy has it been a rough week for silicon valley. twitter in hot water for shadow banning conservatives, something they had to reluctantly admit and their stock is down 20%. facebook's stock has cratered after they missed their earning estimates for the first time in three years. to make matters worse, the social media giant is accused of banning this ad from a florida republican because of the second amendment message. watch. >> i'm mack caldwell. i like guns. i love the second amendment. i support our president. that's why i'm endorsed by the nra. i'm matt caldwell. that's all there...

Representative caldwell, how did you find out this was, you know, banned on facebook? >> yeah, absolutely, laura. we have been obviously running statewide over a year now and running multiple ads every day just run of the mill stuff. like this, like that. we post this mom and apple pie pro president trump, pro nra endorsement ad and gets flagged immediately. we do what it tells you to. appeal it. let us know why you don't think it should be flagged. we wait and wait. no response. here we are five weeks out from the primary, two million voters and we're losing time while they review it. it gets...

>> laura: boy has it been a rough week for silicon valley. twitner hot water for shadow banning users. facebook's stock has cratered after they missed their earning estimates for the first time in three years. to make matters worse, the social media giant is accused of banning this ad from a florida republican because of the second amendment message. watch. >> i'm mack caldwell. i like guns. i love the second amendment. i support our president. that's why i'm endorsed by the nra. i'm matt caldwell. that's all there is to it. >> laura: i like that ad. here to respond, the candidate himself, sta...

Representative caldwell, how did you find out this was, you know, banned on facebook? >> yeah, absolutely, laura. we have been obviously running statewide over a year now and running multiple ads every day just run of the mill stuff. like this, like that. we post this mom and apple pie pro president trump, pro nra endorsement ad and gets flagged immediately. we do what it tells you to. appeal it. let us know why you don't think it should be flagged. we wait and wait. no response. here we are five weeks out from the primary, two million voters and we're losing time while they review it. it gets...

>> reporter: the young russian gun lover twice applied for visas. twice she says she was denied. then the nra came to moscow. she hosted a gun conference and charmed nra board member and his associate political operative paul erickson. by april 2014 she was on her way to indianapolis for the nra's 2014 annual meeting. there she snapped a pic with executive director and began blazing a path in what authorities alleged was a covert russian operation. her relationship with erickson quickly turned romantic. whether he was duped by his young lover or wittingly lured into a spy operation to influenc...