twilight s last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there . say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave . rachel: today the most festive and wonderful joyous day of the year. merry christmas, everybody. i hope everyone is looking forward to a great day with family and friends. we re also remembering the reason for the season which is the birth of jesus christ. i m lucky enough celebrating christmas on the couch with todd piro and griff jenkins. merry christmas to you, don t forget the little one inside of you. we ll share the holiday season with boy shimkus. this is thrill for me. i work with you every day. i can t wait to meet little one and meet griff. merry christmas, did santa come to the house. the cookie
the fbi was sending so many requests to twitter, twitter employees were overwhelmed by the amount of tweets that were being flagged. now we re getting a peek behind the kurtin what do you think, you think the fbi will back off when it comes to monitoring speech? i would guess that the fbi still feels they have an important role in foreign influence, making sure that at least social media platforms aren t used to harm the united states of america but obviously where that line is drawn have a hard time struggling with that i would imagine they will do some soul searching to make sure they are not infringing on american rights to free speech. carley: would be interesting to hear from the fbi director chris wray, himself where he stands on this. merry christmas to you and your beautiful family. merry christmas, carley, to you. griff, over to you. griff: thank you, carley, matt.
all right. democrats are having fun finding out where to turn. the party leaders all failing at their jobs currently so the dems are going to their old faithful, barack obama. yep. the former president was in california today at stanford, spreading the word about the dem s new boogie man misinformation. social media platforms aren t just our window into the internet. they serve as our primary source of news and information. happy diversifications and cat videos. fall along side lies, conspiracy theories, junk science, quackery, white supremacists, racist tracks. misogynist screeds. over time, we lose our capacity to distinguish between fact,
blame a handful of american social media companies. the fact is the vaccine acceptance among facebook users in the u.s. has increased. alice stewart is joining the conversation. this is to me extraordinary. for a number of reasons. but let s start with the first, tamara. the white house is frustrated, it is reflective in what you heard the president say. they re killing people. he literally said they re killing people. what is going on behind the scenes that has gotten us to this point. he s just putting a finer point on what the administration has come to believe. which is this idea that they re they have landed on that this is a pandemic of the un unvaccinated. that is the new phrase they re pushing out into the universe. part of that is to persuade people to get vaccinated. and part of it is a bit of distancing. it is to say, you know, we ve been trying to bet people
friday and last night again about all of this, it seems like a complete change of tone. the rhetoric has heightened to a great degree. i think we could all agree that we should all strive to put out factually accurate information on social media and owl social media platforms should strive for that as well. but we also have to realize, they re the defact or public square. they re people talking to friends an people that are like-manded and they will put out information that they truly believe in and to be honest, a lot of people don t trust the government and the fear is when we have the federal government taking attempts and taking steps to try and sensor what is being out there in free speech and out there in the public square and that is the concern. i think the question, though, is what happens when it is clearly not true. when they re just lies? well that certainly needs to be corrected. because we re seeing a lot of people as you say vaccine hesitant, for many reasons.