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But first, Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Washington. Well, at least to the Washington

Post. So Facebook CEO wrote a 969 word op-ed yesterday for Jeff Bezos's media venture, trying to head

off growing criticism of his company, and in short, seem to be arguing for new government regulations,

particularly in areas like data privacy, election integrity, and even

speech. He writes, quote, lawmakers often tell me we have too much power over speech, and

frankly, I agree. I've come to believe that we shouldn't make so many important decisions about

speech on our own, end quote. Okay, so either government or quasi-government bodies who create standards, including on things like data portability, are what Facebook wants, and it makes some sense since regulation often benefits big incumbents, particularly if they get ahead of the train and help shape the tracks. What's a bit more confusing, though, are comments made by Facebook policy executive Kevin Martin to Axios this morning, in which he argues against Senator Elizabeth Warren's plan to break up companies like Facebook, arguing that the company can do a better job on areas like user privacy if it's unified, if it's big.

But didn't Zuckerberg just say Facebook is too big, too scaled to do it without regulation?

In a word, confusing.

So we'll go deeper in 20 seconds with Kim Hart, Axios managing editor.

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We're joined now by Axios managing editor Kim Hart. So Kim, why is Zuckerberg writing this op-ed now? Well, the writing is definitely

on the wall that lawmakers around the world are more and more nervous about just the large scale,

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