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>> we think people make their own informed choice about what to believe. our job is to make sure we're getting them accurate information. that's why we work with more than 50 fact checking organizations around the world. if there were misinformation that was, let's say, tide to an ongoing riot or the threat of some physical violence somewhere in the world, we would work with safety organizations on the ground to confirm falsity and the link to violence and then we actually would remove that misinformation. but from what we're talking about here -- >> misinformation that doesn't promote violenc...

They've added comments from independent fact checkers to inform people who watch it, and have made it less prominent and it is still up there. youtube took it down, but it's still up on twitter. they're not even commenting about it. facebook, however, was good enough to provide us with a spokesperson. she's monica bikert, the company's vice president for global policy management. i spoke to her a short time ago. monica, in the wake of the 2016 election, facebook has repeatedly told congress and the american people that you're serious about fighting disinformation and fake news, yet this doctor...

When it comes to other types of misinformation we work with the fact checking nearbies and we put that information actively in front of people -- so they can make their own decisions. >> so if it's a real person, not a fake account, which i know you're concerned about fake accounts, because that gets to the legitimacy of facebook, but if it's actually just a real account, but somebody just doing that, they're not doing it even to make money, just putting it out there, that video would stay up on facebook? >> look, we're -- we have rolled out over the past few years all sorts of products and to...

Related to safety we can and we do remove it and we work with safety groups to do that. but when we're talking about political discourse and misinformation around that we think the right approach is to let people make an informed choice. >> so if somebody makes a video of president trump and slows it down and makes it seem like he's drunk, which he's never had a drink in his life, that's okay with you? if that video is on and it makes people believe that the commander in chief is impaired with alcohol, that's okay on facebook? >> no, again, i want to be really clear here, because the suggestio...