well in 2016 they did this in 2016 and were actually able to get facebook to change walls that allowed for them to engage in suppressive advertisements so there really is an intentional strategy here and they re being pretty transparent about it and we could say that the social media summit is really just another form of a political rally for his base this taking place in the white house would you agree . i agree and i think that s exactly right and if you want package it with that base is you know i don t think it s a problem to pull together influencers on social media or online i know president obama did this when he got into office he you know did a meeting with the most progressive prominent progressive bloggers at that time and and it was good it was a way to sort of interact with a new form of media and i don t think there s anything objectionable on face with president engaging with part of the information landscape however when you want package who s there i mean some of the p
quality and then your tweets are no longer seen by as many people as they are before. we have definitive proof of that. rachel: first of all statement from twitter spokesperson we do not shadow ban. we are aware that some accounts are not automatically populating in search box and shipping a change to address this. to be clear our behavioral ranking doesn t make judgments based on political views or the substance of tweets as you said. so, here is my question. it s a private business, but why also know it s the town square, if you will. on for a lot of people. are they inviting the government to come in and regulate them? what s the answer here? security studies group put out a facts sheet on our website security studies.org that details how this is happening and the damage it s doing to information landscape. that public square you mentioned ant the political discourse because right now, conservatives and republican candidates are disproportionately affected by this limiting of thei
the way the election came out. do you agree? if you do, what are we doing ahead of this next election? can we change this or stop this? well, i agree there s absolutely no way to know here. what s happened and russians are good at this. they put a narrative out there that was already out there and pushed it. there s no way for us to untangle this and that s exactly what the russians want. they want us to question theirselves, what they want going forward in 2018, we wonder, is this election legitimate? is the information i m receiving accurate. is one piece of information better than any other piece of information. they have soiled the information landscape and that s perfect for them. if there s no way to untangle it, does it mean we re doomed in influence in our election coming up this year? probably. i think our intelligence agencies and our law enforcement agencies can look and better inform us and educate us. i think we re now better prepared because we re paying attention
there are advertisers that left in august and when the keurig thing flared up, came back and said you were right. fox news told me in a statement for this segment, this intimidation effort is nothing more than political opportunism based on deceit. because sean hannity hosts the number one program in cable news. because millions of americans make the decision to join him every night and the audience relationship is stronger than ever. fox news thinks i m the one intimidating them based off deceit. that s how they seem to function in the information landscape. let s see how hannity has been talking about you lately. i know it s uncomfortable to even put on the screen. he continues to call you racist,
many politicians, democrats and republicans alike, probably fall down this media it will ray is challenge. absolutely. it s not even just a political issue, right? as a country we are following down a little bit on a media it will literacy because we re not teaching it. it s not a mandate in our education system to make our kids media literate. that does them a disservice. and it s not just about news, it s about advertising. we re not teaching kids how to receive the message they re receiving. about news, i ve been thinking about media literacy when it comes to fake news. stories on facebook designed to deceive people. is media literacy is becoming more literate about news a solution to this fake news plague? well, i think i do take issue with the conversation about fake news just because i think it limits the broader issue that we re dealing with. because the conversation about fake news really makes it seem like the information landscape is about this is fiction or this