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Us now. is it clear republicans were targeted? >> that is certainly what is being presented here through the twitter files, people i think might argue that it is just a selection and potentially what is being presented is selective. i think also people who have worked at twitter at the time would say that the reason we have to take action or we thought we had to take action is against people who happen to be republicans is they are people who are sharing misinformation, disinformation, or hate. all that being said, there are revelations in this that are being presented as brand new, which we a...

Sources that hadn't been repeatedly docked for sharing misinformation. so it put those sources higher on people's news feeds and it found misinformation went down. when people were shown news sources that didn't spread lies, that fact checked, that verified what they were publishing, they were less likely to see disinformation. they could have kept that change through the inauguration in january but they did not. this is their own researchers, their own academics telling them these kinds of changes are really important. >> the thing that makes me have no empathy at all for this company at all ...

Serious about fighting disinformation and fake news, yet this doctored video that i think your own fact checkers acknowledge is doctored of speaker pelosi remains on your platform. why? >> well, you know, first off, i think the suggestion there is we haven't taken action, and that's not right. we have acted. anybody who is seeing this video in news feed, anybody who is going to share it to somebody else, anybody who has shared it in the past, they are being alerted that this video is false. and this is part of the way that we deal with misinformation. we work with internationally certified fac...

With alcohol, that's okay on facebook? >> no, again, i want to be really clear here, because the suggestion here is that we're not acting. >> would you take that down? would you take down that video of the president of the united states that's been slowed down and manipulated by russia, say, to make it look like he's drunk and impaired? >> we would remove content that's created by fake accounts. we would remove misinformation that's created by fake accounts. and we would remove misinformation if it is related to a threat of safety on the grounds. when -- >> so if a russian individual -- >> -- ...

Certified fact checking organizations that are independent from facebook, and we think these are the right organizations to be making decisions about whether something is true or false. and as soon as we get -- and we did in this case, as soon as we get a rating from them that content is false, then we dramatically reduce the distribution of that content, and we -- >> but you keep it up? >> -- let people know that it's false. so they can make an informed choice. >> why keep it up? >> we think people make their own informed choice about what to believe. our job is to make sure we're getting the...