flying off the shelves, diapers, detergent, coffee pods, ice cream, and carbonated drinks but online delivery may mean bad news for big grocery chains. what does this mean for your traditional grocery store that s just a grocery store if there is a very specific brand you want, amazon can get it for you, and you aren t going to be able to get that at your average local grocery chain. reporter: online ordering with in-store or curbside pickup is also surging in popularity, as companies try to bring down the cost of convenience. jo ling kent, nbc news, new york and we ve got more on our top story, right after this.
whether or not facebook should be launching a cryptocurrency. the major news is that he would not launch libra, as it s called, unless all u.s. regulators are behind it and sign off on it. looking ahead to the 2020 election, zuckerberg says facebook is better prepared. he says they re better prepared for the threats that are to come. again, those threats continue to evolve. yesterday definitely a checking the box. facebook now has testified here in congress for i believe about 17 hearings is what the team is saying at facebook. they re trying to answer questions. he s certainly not out of the woods yet, hallie. there s 47 state attorneys general who are going to be investigating facebook now for antitrust. so a long way to go forward for zuckerberg. jo ling kent, safe travels back home. thank you. thank you for joining us for another busy hour of msnbc live. happy to turn it over to chris jansing in new york. chris, i m going to head over to
more intense on facebook. set to clamp down on online interference ahead of the 2020 election. lester holt sat down with mark zuckerberg who admits the company was caught on its back foot in 2016 but zuckerberg says they have no safeguards to fight interference. when it comes to potential disinformation from actors at home zuckerberg seems to be on defense. do you feel like you re giving a green light to politicians that no, look lie, lie, lie. i believe that it is important for people to be able to hear and see what politicians are saying. i think that when they do that that speech will be heavily scrutinized by other journalists, by other people. nbc s jo ling kent, zuckerberg seemed to get fired up on that point. reporter: what zuckerberg is referencing is the company s
decided who to support for president and the campaign for mayor pete buttigieg telling nbc news they can confirm this report. but certainly a lot of scrutiny, of every single move of this billionaire facebook ceo who is trying to do as much as he can to protect 2020. hal? jo ling kent with that statement. thanks for bringing that to us. from california, alex stamos, the chief security officer for facebook, now an nbc cybersecurity analyst. a little bit more of what zuckerberg had to say to lester here. part of growing up for me has just been realizing that it is more important to be understood than it is to be liked. and i believe that very strongly. i do think that people can make up their own minds about me or the work that we re doing but this is who i am. what do you think, alex, is that the right attitude to have
lfall right. as 2020 approaches, lawmakers from both parties are united in their suspicions about big tech s role in our elections. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg will testify before the house financial services committee next week. his testimony comes as he just laid out his plan for facebook s policy on political ads. jo ling kent joins us, jo ling, great to have you with us. what does this say about mark zuckerberg s testimony on capitol hill? ayman, critics say zuckerberg doesn t fully understand the ability and his magnitude of his platform, almost 2.5 billion people use facebook on a monthly basis. what he put forward at georgetown university yesterday has both republicans and democrats firing back. listen to this.