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Of past sexual misconduct. tronc is slated to keep paying farrell. donald trump, jr.n't a great speller. that's obvious. >> you have to actually hit the keys to spell the word right. >> i assume he can spell. but he's sitting there in what they jokingly call executive time watching cable television. the president of the united states needs supervision? howie: it seems there might be more presidential qualities than being able to win a spelling bee. that's it for this edition of "mediabuzz." i'm howard kurtz. we hope you like our facebook page. and check out our new home page.

They violated facebook policies in getting information of americans. they purchased a ton of facebook data from a researcher who unlawfully obtained it. they are saying they used this information to target americans in the election and use psychographic methods to get out the vote in swing states. howie: cambridge analytics broke the rules, i understand that. how different is that from other firms that try to get information about people so they can target them for advertising and what the barack obama campaign did in 2012. >> that's a good question. what campaigns do.

They work with facebook above board openly to target voters to help get out the vote. there are useful things you can do on facebook. what cambridge analytics did was go behind

Impression this was once again as with the russian meddling a situation where after the fact, after the damage has been done, he does a facebook post or does a couple interviews and says he's going to fix it but offers only vague promises about that. >> it was very reminiscent. for people who don't know mark, it's hard to feel i am i think off of him -- to feel any sympathy for him. there are not a lot of people who feel bad for mark zuckerberg today. but as someone who has talked to him multiple times in the past. he comes out and he wants to fix things. a lot of this started because as he sa...

Bad about what happened. but there are not a lot of people who feel bad for him because facebook does this over and over again. howie: he was asked in the cnn interview about the possibility of the feds stepping in. >> why shouldn't facebook be regulated. >> i am not sure we shouldn't be regulated. howie: here he's opening the door to government regulation i think because of the failings of social media giants like facebook. >> i think he knows it's coming. facebook has started to put some stuff in place around its political advertising business. saying we want to get ahead of this regulation....