crack down more on quote, unquote, misinformation from the right. and that her own preferences if applied could potentially skew things in a particular direction. howie: why only misinformation from the right, why not crack down on misinformation from the left. she is part of the same team that cracked down on the hunter biden story in the days approaching the november election of last year. you obviously had a crackdown across facebook and twitter. howie: twitter especially. that was trying to silence the story. twitter took the step of preventing people from sending it in direct messages. that indicates to right center observers this woman just wants to silence us, she wants to silence people who are sharing things that she doesn t like from an ideological perspective. whether that s true or not, the point that mara made is important, who does the deciding in this situation. that s a critical question. i think that s one of the reasons why you re going to i believe hear increasin
it. people should be weary of the dynamic. this is an industry rivalry that doesn t often make the headlines. howie: facebook has stolen the lunch of a lot of mainstream media. they use facebook to publicize and get clicks for their stories. now that mark zuckerberg is taking a more defiant stance. has he created a monster that he and his fellow tech moguls can t control? that s exactly what they ve created, howie. i think what makes the problem worse is in the media s attempt to provide accountability to social media platforms exist in the absence of the federal government and our lawmakers, republicans and democrats have expressed consternation about social media but neither seems to be willing or ready to actually provide some regulatory reforms to ensure that social media doesn t get away with what they re currently getting away with. howie: i think that might be
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statements, blaming the fact. what do you think of his tactic to say the coverage, we don t recognize this company. he s pushing back, being defensive. i don t know who his friends are. i mean, who is going to come to the defense of facebook? it seems like facebook itself is in a defensive crouch. there have been reports about facebook is kind of over-the-hill, it s on the decline. but this is a company that has tremendous issues to face and we ve kind of never seen mark zuckerberg actually face them. howie: the political world is defriending facebook, is that what s going on here. maybe. i think there is something like that going on. in the larger perspective, all of these different silicon valley companies, they were all started with some kind of ambition to make the world a better place. howie: don t be meville. evil. exactly. i think many of them are grab grappling with the fact that