welcome back to early start. bill gates weighed in on political ads on social media. he said the problem isn t fact-checking, it s targeting. it s the targeting where you don t see the hate ad that just appeals to that one person. it s the targeting that s really screwing this thing up. joining in to discuss the pressure on facebook and twitter, we have matt egan. great to have you with us. good morning, guys. what do we think of this? this debate is so fascinating. we re three years after the 2016 election. and we have business leaders, social media companies, lawmakers, they don t know how to grapple with this problem. and it is a legitimate one, that some say it s a threat to democracy. and so, we ve seen facebook and twitter take very different approaches here. twitter, just last week, they say they would ban political advertising. facebook has said that it does not want to do that.
it s been resistant to do that. it doesn t want to police the ads, either, even though it represents just a small fraction of their overall revenue. now, we should listen to what gates said. he said that he thinks that, you know, they should not be targeting these ads, which i think is interesting. we should also remember that facebook, one of the things that makes their ad platform so powerful, is the ability to narrowly target the ads. to say a woman in her 30s, married in ohio i don t think want to necessarily give that up. and hillary clinton weighed in on this, at the same conference yesterday. she knows a little something about the dangers of misinformation on social media. she gave twitter a lot of credit. she says they did the right thing. she called on facebook to do the same. targeting is why they make their money. not just on politics, an online shopping and on and on. here s what i found interesting from bill gates, regarding the fact-checking of these political ads. li
ago today, with six republicans already in the race. how the president reacts to sessi sessions reaction, could mean returning the seat to republican happeneds or losing to incumbent democrat doug jones. bill gates weighed in on political ads on social media. he said the problem isn t fact-checking, it s targeting. it s the targeting where you don t see the hate ad that just appeals to that one person. it s the targeting that s really screwing this thing up. facebook and twitter have been under scrutiny how they handle misleading or false political ads. gates says targeting should not be allowed, he doesn t think the platform should be responsible for policing the content. i disagree with people who think that a corporation should sit there and do fact-checking against those things. it yes, there are extreme cases. somebody can come up with
what this fix are and that the president did something that is impeachable alexander of our nominee our washington bureau chief for thank you for your reporting. social media giant twitter has announced it will ban all political advertising on his platforms starting at the end of november or explaining the decision twitter s c.e.o. jack dorsey said that political ads quote force highly optimized and targeted political messages on people while this sea said bring significant risks to politics where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions. well it s a decision that is much debated around the world joining me now on this story is the reporter. other great to have you here with us ok so a lot of people are saying this is long overdue explain to us why political ads
our policy is we do not fact check politicians speech and the reason for that is we believe in a democracy it is important people can see for themselves what politicians are saying. next the water slamming zuckerberg saying he should worry about fixing many failures. the republican lawmakers, with house democrats, no republicans voted for the bill which aims to prevent foreign election interference with political ads on social media. nebraska senator ben sass says this is a pile of hot garbage that would give federal bureaucrats what is or isn t a political speech. the aclu criticized the bill faces a difficult fight in the republican senate.