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On today's show, Democrat debate prep and a real problem with fake news.

But first, Zuckerberg versus Warren, round two.

So it was just a couple weeks ago here that we were discussing leaked audio from a Facebook

employees meeting in which Mark Zuckerberg suggested that an Elizabeth Warren presidency

could create a, quote, existential threat to his company, including through

possible antitrust investigations. Now the two are at odds again, but this time over Facebook's

decision to forego fact-checking when it comes to political ads on its platform. The flashpoint

here is a 32nd Trump re-election ad that makes factually false statements about Joe Biden's time as vice president.

The Biden campaign asked Facebook to pull it down, citing its general fact-checking requirements on ads,

plus its broader effort to fight misinformation that plagued Facebook during the 2016 election.

But Facebook, led by Zuckerberg, refused to remove the video, basically saying the

political candidates are free to say what they like in paid ads, truthful or not. So enter

Elizabeth Warren, who posted her own paid ad to Facebook, which begins, quote, breaking news. Mark Zuckerberg

and Facebook just endorsed Donald Trump for president, end quote. Now, obviously, that's not true, which really was Warren's point.

She quickly acknowledged the deception, saying that her aim was to highlight how Facebook

is letting Trump, quote, deliberately lie to the American people.

The bottom line is that Facebook has talked a big game over the past two years about protecting

elections, including clamping down

on voter suppression and foreign interference. But when it comes to domestic ad dollars, it's

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