welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. meta has announced it will reinstate donald trump s facebook and instagram accounts, two years after he was suspended, following the capitol riots. nick clegg, the president of global affairs, has laid out the reasons for the decision on the meta website. he says: and that: well, the former us president has also given his reaction on his own social media platform, truth social. saying that: he goes on to say that: well, joining me now for some analysis is our north america correspondent, peter bowes. hi, peter. give us a background overview of the story and by donald trump got banned from meta in the first place. it trump got banned from meta in the first place. the first place. it goes back to january the first place. it goes back to january 6th, the first place. it goes back to january 6th, 2021, - the first place. it goes back to january 6th, 2021, the | the first place. it goes back. to january 6th, 2021,
we re back to president biden giving an update on the student loan forgiveness program. he will be speaking at that podium right there. we ll go there when he begins. first, candidates in some of the most crucial races of these midterms are starting to debate in a few hours. in georgia, brian kemp squares off with his democrat opponent stacey abrams for the first time in the gubernatorial rematch and what they will be telling voters. what will happen there in the first big election cycle since donald trump allegedly tried to overturn the 2020 election in that state. we have a report on what election officials are doing to stress test new security features meant to protect the process. and the senate race is tight in ohio, republican jd vance and congressman tim ryan will debate for the second time and what voters tell us they re looking to hear from the two men. and where it all stands, new numbers out today shows a lot has changed in the last month. can we trust those number
main political news from mainstream social media, facebook, instagram etc. so what this means is that by giving donald trump axis to the largest social media platform in the world, access, he has the most axis calls to action and this is simply a risky move with someone who has never apologised forjanuary 6th and on january 6th apologised forjanuary 6th and onjanuary 6th its obvious that he love the people who stormed the capitol. d0 he love the people who stormed the capitol- the capitol. do you think donald trump the capitol. do you think donald trump will - the capitol. do you think donald trump will use i the capitol. do you think donald trump will use it| the capitol. do you think - donald trump will use it meta because the same thing happened on twitter but he s yet to use that platform? on twitter but he s yet to use that platform? that s right but this is not that platform? that s right but this is not about that platform? that s right but this is not about what - th
the qanon conspiracy and add in their own claims and theories along the way. many of them have been banned from mainstream social media. but they re gathered in vegas this weekend. you ready to see some patriots? let s get this show on the road, woman. we got some patriots in the house! my people! this is like the first opportunity where i don t have to bite my tongue or hold my lips. i can just speak. patriots, 0, baby! dude, yes! i m just going to be very serious right now anything happens in there, you stay close to me, and we re getting the bleep out of there. we don t want no problems. ok, so what are you expecting? i m expecting a lot of really warm hearted patriots all in one place, all for one purpose. and where we go one, we go all.
ultimately it can lead to things like mobilizations. what the users don t realize is they re oftentimes giving up a tremendous amount of personal data. we already know this about social media. but when you look at what s going on with this app, how it s administered, how it s already been rolled out and essentially compromised instantaneously, we don t have any protections there, and it definitely won t be policed in a way that s sufficient to stop things like a mobilization we saw on january 6th. roger, we have ongoing grievances from conservatives that their voices are squelched on mainstream social media, and yet day after day, including tonight, there are more reports about what some of these social media companies, particularly facebook, actually knew about the extremism that they were spreading about the misinformation that they were spreading. but the bottom line as you write in your book is this is by design. it s not a bug. it s a feature. they make money out of this stuff,