Is Meta Done Fighting Disinformation?
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
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Summary
In a letter to Republican Rep. Jim Jordan released on Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed the Biden Administration "repeatedly pressured" the company to crack down on COVID-19 disinformation on its platforms and that he regrets not being more outspoken about it. Zuckerberg also said Meta was wrong to temporarily suppress a 2020 New York Post story about a laptop belonging to then-candidate Joe Biden's son, Hunter. Zuckerberg said Meta would no longer downgrade potentially false stories while it waits for fact-checkers to weigh in. Washington Post tech reporter Will Oremus explains what this means for the potential spread of misinformation this election cycle.
And in headlines: Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a new indictment against former President Donald Trump over his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz will sit for their first joint interview on CNN this week, and a federal judge in Texas halted a new Biden administration program designed to give undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens a more direct path to citizenship.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, August 28th. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm Priyanka Aibindi. |
| 0:04.8 | And I'm Juanita Tolliver, and this is what a day, |
| 0:06.9 | the show where we just learned that thanks to a special electronic ballot, |
| 0:10.4 | astronauts are able to vote from space, Prianka. |
| 0:14.0 | This is great news for the two Americans who are currently stranded in space until next year. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't know, I mean they're stuck there, but they still get to decide what they're coming |
| 0:23.7 | back to maybe that's how we should be voting what kind of world we want them to come back to. |
| 0:27.2 | Oh my gosh yeah. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show Ukrainian president Valon Vladimir Zelensky said that he will meet |
| 0:35.1 | with President Biden next month to discuss a plan to end the war with Russia. |
| 0:38.6 | Plus, Special Counsel Jack Smith is at it again. He filed a new indictment against former |
| 0:44.2 | President Donald Trump for efforts to overturn the 2020 election. But first, |
| 0:48.1 | with just about two months to go until election day, the majority of Americans |
| 0:52.2 | say that they are worried |
| 0:53.6 | about the potential for misinformation to spread online and influence the way |
| 0:58.2 | that people vote. So it came as a surprise on Tuesday when Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released |
| 1:04.4 | a letter from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in which he said that he regretted some of the previous |
| 1:10.2 | efforts that the company has taken to combat disinformation on |
| 1:13.2 | Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, you heard that correctly. |
| 1:16.7 | He regrets the efforts they took to combat disinformation. |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah, in his letter to Republican congressman Jim Jordan, |
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