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Yeah, it was a slightly different thing with i marjorie taylor greene than donald trump. i donald trump removed - from twitter because of his incitement of violence. marjorie taylor greene - had five strikes, i believe, for covid disinformation, which is obviously - vitally important now. and i think the role that twitter - and facebook and other social media platforms play in all of these conversations, both national| and international, _ really speaks to their power. you know, we are all representatives of kind of the old media, _ and zing has talked a lot - about the way that websites are k...

That it was aggregating information amongst linked accounts that it - owns, although we don't really know and twitter has not definitively- really said, nor has the owner of politics for all actually- come out and spoken, really, to the press. . so that is this kind - of lack of transparency that we are all concerned about, given the outsized impact that l social media platforms have. but zing's really interesting point there, in terms of this idea - of we are putting a lot of our eggs in terms of the media in baskets. that we don't have control of, - and those of us with long memories will re...

I do think at a time where there seems to be an asymmetrical... not that there is none on the left, but an asymmetrical level of misinformation, disinformation from certain kinds of right—wing figures about covid, for example. yhe platforms are struggling to deal with it. there are ways to deal with it without fully deplatforming that i think could perhaps be more fully explored. so questions remain for how the media interacts with the tech platforms. just to bring this discussion back to january 6 in the last few minutes, robert costa, we have heard how you have written a book, we've heard ...

Are ways _ struggling to deal with it and there are ways to deal with it without which _ are ways to deal with it without which can — are ways to deal with it without which can be fully exploited. questions are mean for how the media interacts with the tech platforms ju5t interacts with the tech platforms just to bring this discussion back in the last few minutes we have heard how you have written a book and now you covered that story and alloys and days that followed the 5torming of the capital say you've done a number of different types of determinism, and i wonder whether you think there ...

Well, it's difficult - to actually know, ros. it seems as if it has - gone because of the fact that it was aggregating - information amongst linked accounts that it owns, - although we don't really know and twitter has not. definitively really said, nor has the owner of politics for all actually come out - and spoken, really, to the press. - so that is this kind - of lack of transparency that we are all concerned | about, given the outsized impact that social - media platforms have. but zing's really interesting| point there, in terms of this idea of we are putting a lot of our eggs in terms -...