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Deadline: White House

“The perils of platforming”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses the implications of the ex-president’s first town hall aired on CNN and the potential legal fallout for the network, Fox News’ latest lawsuit from a former federal employee who allegedly faced death threats after their coverage targeted her role, a Republican senator’s comments seemingly claiming that white nationalists should be allowed in the U.S. military, the role of the internet in the age of disinformation, and more. Joined by: Andrew Weissmann, Charlie Sykes, Donna Edwards, Eddie Glaude, Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, David Folkenflik, Paul Rieckhoff, Basil Smikle, Frank Figliuzzi, Mary McCord, Ben Smith, and Donny Deutsch.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there everyone it's Vorknark in New York, a special two hour program today focused

0:11.7

on extremism and hate and the perils of platforming it.

0:16.0

In a post-Dominion versus Fox World we know that news organizations take on enormous

0:21.1

risk when they platform or the legal word as we all learned is publish things that they

0:26.6

know to be false.

0:28.4

They risk their reputations and in the rare instances where actual malice can be established

0:34.2

they also face legal exposure.

0:36.4

This knowledge of falsity on Fox's part was established through mountains of internal

0:41.6

communications that proved that the producers, the executives and the anchors knew that claims

0:47.7

of massive voter fraud were false ahead of time and then they broadcast them anyway.

0:53.3

The case Dominion had against Fox was so strong that by the time the trial commenced

0:58.0

the only thing the jury was going to have to determine was whether Fox met that really

1:03.1

really high legal bar of acting with actual malice when it knowingly published falsities

1:09.8

about Dominion.

1:10.8

Now as we all know instead of standing trial Fox decided to settle for close to $800

1:15.5

million.

1:17.3

What we all know from that discovery process is that Dominion established from the top

1:21.8

of that company to the bottom from Rupert Murdoch to Tucker Carlson to the fact checkers

1:26.6

to the reporters and the news managers.

1:28.8

They all knew ahead of time pre broadcast that the content was false.

1:35.6

So what does that do?

1:36.6

Well for today's purposes it reframes our questions today about the risk involved to one's reputation

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