Other, whose platform and has done more to protect the 2020 president ial election. Mark zuckerberg is going all in on the claim that facebooks moves have been historic. They have done more than any other country in history to make sure bad, fake information about this election is staying off of their platform. I will paraphrase something he said. They introduced new policies to combat Voter Suppression and misinformation and we worked with local Election Officials to remove hundreds of thousands of false claims about polling conditions. That he worried could have led to Voter Suppression. There is one thing so far in this hearing everyone agrees on, that is which posts stay up on these platforms, which come down and which get slapped with warning labels should definitely not be up to the u. S. Government. Take a listen. When it comes time to flag content as being reliable or not reliable do either one of you believe that the government should do that . I dont believe so. I think that
Christopher bedford, senator James Lankford, dr. Alveda king on the breaking headlines today. Big tech gone bad. Headlines, do they have the power to change elections, even stop probes of politicians in any way . Were finding out more what power they do have. Republican senator mike lee taking it neck level. The left is mad that twitter and facebook dont have more power to censor those they disagree with. Conservatives like senator josh hawley claiming that the two plus google are coordinating to do just that. Plus we bring you jack dorsey on the ropes, forced to confess that yes, twitter did censor that bombshell New York Post story on Hunter Bidens laptop without any substantial justification. Plus weve got more on top gop senators now vowing to continue probing the bidens business dealings. We have a new development there. Also tonight, democrat politicians and officials, they have got a new message for americans this holiday season. It is lockdowns for thee, hawaii for me. Ordering
Democratic politicians, examples how theyre breaking their own lockdowns. Americans lockdowns forethee, parties and trips for me. You will not believe who else is on the game. People and now more sheriffs pushing back on states from coast to coast breaking up basically the cities and states are breaking up large gatherings to stop covid19 from spreading but now sheriffs in four states are refusing to enforce these rules, including breaking up thanksgiving dinner parties under extreme covid19 lockdown measures that number of sheriffs doing that, the number of states where that is happening, that could grow. Also this, there is new hope. Pfizer says its vaccine is now more effective than realized. Maybe raising hopes of a vaccine in december. One top democrat governor is tossing cold water on that, and tossing cold water on the Trump Administrations operation warp speed coming to market. The fbi is launching a new counterintelligence probe into china nearly every 10 hours for replicating
School holidays. If we look at the map, we talk about schools open or closed, we do know its a holiday because of lighter traffic. I have my eye on discovery bay. The rest of your commute looks fine. Maybe a factor for 680. Back to you, laura. Thank you very much, mike. 6 01. We begin with live pictures from arlington, virginia. This is Arlington National cemetery where President Trump and the first lady will visit in just a few hours to honor our Fallen Heroes on this veterans day. It is the president s first public appearance since the election. Joe biden will take part in veterans day events. Today in the bays tracie potts is with us live in washington. I know these events happen as the struggle between biden and the Trump Administration continues. Reporter it does, marcus and laura, and we are seeing where republicans are lining up in that power struggle. A few acknowledging and congratulating joe biden on his win. Some lining up with the president saying he has absolute right to c
Over the counting of mailin ballots continues. The Supreme Court is allowing pennsylvania and North Carolina for now to count ballots received after election day, but the high court could still hear the pennsylvania case after the election and it could decide who wins the presidey. Nc we will speak to mother jones ari berman. Then we look at big techs role in the election as Senate Republicans accuse social Media Companies of favoring democrats. But is that true . If anything,e see ma sorts of thnology platforms throughout the past four years supporting the trump agenda and a conservative agenda. Millions plunged into pandemic poverty, the senate has adjourned before passing another stimulus bill. We will look at the spike in hunger across United States. These families are basically living like on a ticking time bomb when this starts up again, how theyre going to pay their rent. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im am