spread propaganda on their platforms. using the #releasethememo. with the impact on face book, joining us now, blake, good to have you here. walk us through the facebook spin that it s dropping usership isn t actually all bad. they re trying to spin these numbers as a good thing, saying it s because of changes they made to the newsfeed. instead of emphasizing things like viral videos and these political ads, they ll be emphasizing more friend posts and family posts. daily users in the u.s. and canada, people who log on each day that number is down 700,000. first drop in facebook history. time spent on facebook has also fallen 5%, equating to an cumulative 15 hours a day less spent on facebook. mark zuckerberg defended those numbers to investors yesterday