president of the coalition for a safer web. also former ambassador and white house foreign policy advisor. ambassador i appreciate your time you ve taken a lot of time to go through all of this to look at what s happening on tiktok on a day when the ceo of tiktok is being grilled on capitol hill, and we re learning so much more, you say. wagner has been exploiting tiktok and that it is a crucial recruitment tool for them. tell me more erin . they were just tens of thousands of accounts and video uploads that the wagner group has posted courtesy of tiktok. that s enabled it to recruit to vilify the ukrainians to show executions, all in the name of supporting the russian army offensive and the atrocities that the ukrainian creative covered by the wagner group. have been featured on these tiktok videos. right now we re gonna show a video of a wagner fighter. this this person is fighting a guitar playing a guitar. i m sorry on the mobile rocket launcher with a caption
before the supreme court about google spreading propaganda for terrorists, allegedly, the justices didn t really seem to be siding with the plaintiff. they seemed to be very skeptical of the argument. did we hear anything more along those lines today? reporter: yeah, if i were twitter i would be breathing a sigh of relief this afternoon. the justices poured a whole bunch of cold water on this argument that twitter should be held liable for essentially aiding and abetting an act of terrorism. for our viewers benefit, a little bit of background is necessary here because the act of terrorism in question is specific. it s a terrorist attack on a nightclub in turkey that happened back in 2017. a jordanian man was killed, along with dozens of others and that man s family brought suit against twitter saying that the social media giant has allowed the growth of isis, used as a recruitment tool for young men who want to join isis, and
watch. nbc s shaquille brewster is in chicago. we re joined by washington post political reporter isaac arnes door of. good to see you guys. shaq, this visit to elmhurst illinois for that law and order stop is causing quite a bit of controversy in the chicago mayor s race. what s going on there? reporter: definitely, chris. a lot of it goes to the message that you heard that you just played from florida s governor ron desantis. i m told the message we ll hear from him in chicago will be similar to what we heard from him in new york and about an hour or so ago in the philadelphia suburbs which is part of a recruitment tool. he s saying, hey, in these cities, it want you officers to come down to florida. you can move to florida. we have a welcome home for you. but it s also a chance for him to tout his agenda, his pro law enforcement agenda in his words, talking about different legislation that was passed over
the past few months ukraine has been locked in a fierce battle with russian forces from the wagner group, made up of mercenaries and convicts. the white house s john kirby saying that in december 90% of the deaths from wagner were convicts. a recruitment tool, he says, that shows no sign of abating. just a week from the first anniversary of the russian invasion, this is according to president volodymyr zelenskyy the toughest fight in ukraine right now. in the eastern city of bakhmut. called a meat grinder by both sides, russian troops from the wagner mercenary group, most of them convicts, continue to be sent in, wave after wave, to their deaths. men that he just plucked out of prisons and threw on the battlefield with no training, no equipping, no orthsal command. just throw them into the fight. 90% killed were convicts. we believe wagner continues to rely heavily on these convicts in the bakhmut fighting and that
wise the advance not fast enough? we could of taking control of it by the new year if we hadn t been hindered by our monstrous military bureaucracy and obstacles created on a daily basis. alex is outfront to begin our coverage. what is the latest on the ground there tonight? we are seeing the beginning stages of this new russian offensive and so far it is not going well. one official on thursday said it is very pathetic. we are getting that update on the fighting from the white house that city for the past few months ukraine has been locked in a fierce battle with russian forces from the wagner group made up of mercenaries and convicts. the white house is john kirby singh in december 90% of the debts were convicts, a recruitment tool he says that shows no sign of abating. just a week from the first anniversary of the russian