Im not going to make the obvious joke right now. Thank you, my friend, much appreciated. Thank you at home for joining us this hour. It was November 12th, last year, November 12th, 2020. Election day had been a week and a half earlier, november 3rd, and we all know how that resolved. November 3rd was election day. By november 7th, every major news outlet had called the president ial race for joe biden. Presidentelect biden and Vice President elect harris gave their acceptance speeches on the night of november 7. On november 12, five days after that, the level of desperation from Trump Supporters who really did not want to believe this had happened, it was kicking up a new notches every day. By November 12th, things got publicly quite weird. At almost a new level quite quickly. Republican governor gohmert participated in an Election Integrity event. That happened on facebook. They brought to bat all their best stories, all their best fantasies about what had really happened that showed
Every day. And by november 12 we things got publicly quite weird, at almost a new level very quickly. Louis gohmert of texas on November 12th participated in something called a global prayer for u. S. Election integrity, and where did that happen . Where else, said with me now, obviously that happened on facebook. But on that facebook broadcast, they sort of went one by one, they brought up all their best stories, their best fantasies about what had really happened that showed that joe biden hasnt really won, and showed how nefarious forces had made it look like biden won but the real patriots were not fooled because they knew the real story, because they heard it on facebook. On that facebook broadcast, these guys tried out the theory first that there was a Secret Supercomputer called, the hammer, operated by the deep state, i think the idea of maybe operated by the nsa, i can never really figure it out, anyway. Per theyre telling, the hammer was a supercomputer that had the ability,
Critics are saying you kicked the can. Whats the point of having a board if youre not going to have a clearcut call. The decision about donald trump and facebook. Our role at facebook is to access and oversight. You look at the Facebook Content moderation, what it leaves up, what it takes down and decide whether its been done in a fair and just way. And, in fact, in this case, we decided that in the original decision, facebook had decided to uphold the law, a rule, at the time and so thats a process. And since facebook itself is the both rule maker and enforcer, its their job to enforce the rules and so in a sense, we were telling them that they have these and decided to follow the concept and what theyve got with the international norm. How are you going to hold them accountable . I mean, you asked facebook in six months to sort of of adjust the policies to meet your expectations of what you think is right. Do you have any power to actually hold them accountable . And well, we made se
Members looking at the ban on President Trump. This is just the beginning. Hi, and welcome to axios event. Welcome to audience on facebook, twitter, linkedin and axios. Com. Over the next 30 minutes ill be joined by my colleague, cofounder mike allen as we explore the facebook decision over president Donald Trumps suspension. Joining us vicepresident of the cato institute, welcome, john. Thanks for having me, sara. Critics are saying you kicked the can. Whats the point of having a board if youre not going to have a clearcut call. The decision about donald trump and facebook. Our role at facebook is to access and oversight. You look at the Facebook Content moderation, what it leaves up, what it takes down and decide whether its been done in a fair and just way. And, in fact, in this case, we decided that in the original decision, facebook had decided to uphold the law, a rule, at the time and so thats a process. And since facebook itself is the both rule maker and enforcer, its their jo
Welcome to audience on facebook, twitter, linkedin and axios. Com. Over the next 30 minutes ill be joined by my colleague, cofounder mike allen as we explore the facebook decision over president Donald Trumps suspension. Joining us vicepresident of the cato institute, welcome, john. Thanks for having me, sara. Critics are saying you kicked the can. Whats the point of having a board if youre not going to have a clearcut call. The decision about donald trump and facebook. Our role at facebook is to access and oversight. You look at the Facebook Content moderation, what it leaves up, what it takes down and decide whether its been done in a fair and just way. And, in fact, in this case, we decided that in the original decision, facebook had decided to uphold the law, a rule, at the time and so thats a process. And since facebook itself is the both rule maker and enforcer, its their job to enforce the rules and so in a sense, we were telling them that they have these and decided to follow t