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Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Author, Activist, and Musician Roger McNamee and Yahoo News Senior Political Correspondent Jon Ward join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Ward weighs in on Trump's sinking poll numbers as well as the latest on next month's Republican National Convention in coronavirus stricken Florida. Then, McNamee discusses the advertiser boycott against Facebook in the light of the company's stance on taking down what a growing number of protesters are calling "hate speech."

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0:00.0

There's no newsworthy exemption to content that incites violence or suppresses voting.

0:09.0

Even if a politician or government official says it, if we determine the content may lead

0:16.2

to violence or deprive people of their right to vote, we're going to take that content

0:21.1

down no matter who says it.

0:23.3

That was Mark Zuckerberg seeking to reassure the public that Facebook is finally getting

0:27.7

serious about flagging false misleading or racist content that continues to proliferate

0:33.8

on its platform.

0:35.4

It comes amid a growing boycott by major advertisers protesting Facebook's policies, especially

0:41.0

its refusal to take down what many view as hate speech.

0:45.7

Is this a critical turning point for Facebook?

0:47.8

We'll discuss with one of the country's truest analysts of social media platforms, investor

0:53.0

and author Roger McNamey.

0:55.2

And we'll talk to Yahoo News political reporter John Ward about President Trump's sinking

0:59.7

poll numbers and the prospects for next month's Republican convention in a state, Florida,

1:05.9

grappling with soaring COVID-19 numbers on this episode of Skull Duggery.

1:12.2

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of Sikrook, well, I'm

1:21.4

not a crook.

1:22.4

For the American people, I did not trade arms for hostage.

1:25.6

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

1:30.3

tell me it is not.

1:31.5

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1:35.6

There will be no lies.

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