And the media are highly receptive to her atasks after years of frustration in conservative and liberal media circles over bias, misinformation, the spread of hate and anger, the effects of Instagram On Teenage Girls and years of Zuckerberg Apologieses and belated promises to do better. Heres the thing. These arent just her opinions. Its the Tens Of Thousands of internal documents, proving that the facebook brass is fully aware of its increasingly toxic impact and hasnt done much about it that provides the storys power. And the challenge for pundits and politicians alike is to keep after perhaps the worlds most powerful media company. Im howard kurtz and this is media buzz. Howie the story kicked into overdrive when the Facebook Whistleblower revealed her identity to cbs scott pelley. The version of facebook thats with us today is tearing society apart and causing Ethnic Violence around the world. Howie her testimony drew praise from republican and Democratic Senators alike. You are a
Overdrive when the facebook whistleblower revealed her identity to cbs scott pelley. the version of facebook that s with us today is tearing society apart and causing ethnic violence around the world. howie: her testimony drew praise from republican and democratic senators alike. you are a 21st century american hero. thanks for coming forward and thanks for coming forward in the manner that you want todd have positive change. howie: most pundits are embracing her indictment of facebook. there is substantial suspicion on the right. there s a widespread understanding and particularly around the issue of kids that this is an extraordinarily harmful company. you think that this is any less pernicious than cigarettes? it s everywhere. it s everything. look at your kids. look at your life. facebook is faced with choices between getting more eyeballs on the platform, more
Engage in more what you would call censorship of content that liberals find unaccept table. that banned and continue to ban donald trump. if that s true and you say say they re uncontinue next-unintentional allies. why do they need the dog and pony show,. i think that s what they re going to continue to do. and i think that in the absence howie: all of this uproar. i think you re going to continue to see the kind of of stories we ve seen over the past couple years, even outside of political actors themselves where people are often accidentally being shadow banned or accidentally having situations where the things that they re sharing are being silenced. i mean, i look at humorous site like babylon bee which insults the biases of the left.
Make changes and policies decisions like the one she maid in south carolina to take down the confederate flag in the pursuit to make america a more just and equal place. howie: new york magazine, quoting from a piece, trump s republican party is an authoritarian project, there is no form of republican politics that is consistent with democracy. so in other words, unless you attack trump, everyone in the party is complicit. the media s view on this is far outside the mainstream voter. especially that s why it that s why it goes to race so often in the mainstream media. they want to talk about race in a way that even moderate democratic voters don t agree. they re changing latino people to latinx, that kind of thing. the media has a far progressive approach to all these issues and to demonizing trump people, making them out to be the worst people on earth when that s just and that makes them i think not understand these voters very
If you come together, then that kind of defeats, i don t know, the narrative or the ongoing battle, the war of words and so, look, mitch mcconnell, my understanding is, was talking to financial people who said, you know, don t spook the markets. if so, you ll be blamed for it. howie: you don t have to wait for the day of the default. he did blink after president biden called him out in a speech. it s striking to me, look at the stakes here. you spook the markets, you can lead to a government shutdown, could lead to a default all of which has real consequences, not just a game. plus, one of mitch mcconnell s top priorities right now is to do nothing to jeopardize the midterm elections. howie: yeah. you look at the democrats right now. they re struggling on a variety of fronts from the border, to afghanistan and inflation and so on. stay out of the way and see what the democrats do and by the midterms you may be rewarded. howie: here s another mitch mcconnell critic. take a look. m