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good afternoon. i m peter alexander in for chris jansing. as we come on the air, we are following that breaking news out of memphis. all five police officers involved this the fatal confrontation case of 29-year-old tyre nichols are behind bars. in a few hours, we re expecting a live update from the shelby county da. former prosecutor paul butler is joining us. we have a reporter on the ground who is there. we ll the get to her in a moment too. paul, i want to walk tokes through what happened. we know about the death of of tyre nichols. he was attacked by these officers. the family has seen video of what happened. this happened earlier in the month on january 7th. he ended up dying three days later. the police chief this memphis there has called the actions of the five officers, all of whom happen to be black, saying that it was heinous, reckless and inhumane and making a plea to the residents of that city to protest peacefully when video of the arrest is released to th ....
Vitally important, and per trump, good timing here, because he has launched a 2024 campaign, which sort of stalled for a few months, but he s got a couple of events coming up and it finally looks like he will be up and going. and nbc news has reported that he is indeed planning a return to twitter soon as well. he hasn t posted yet but on both twitter and facebook, he has tens of millions of more followers than he ever obtained on truth social, so that s why those things matter as he starts to launch a campaign, as for guardrails, we ll wait and see. i don t know what more evidence facebook/meta needs that this could potentially be problematic. the effort of guardrails is clearly failed in every turn here but to that point i want to bring into the conversation that my colleague hallie jackson had with nick kleg, head of global affairs and describing why they made this decision right now. listen. so i m not saying that everything is perfect, no one is but we re saying if you compare ....
Nick kleg, the facebook executive told staff this weekend to basically prepare for some more bad headlines as he described it. of course, these documents coming out, officially they were reported by the wall street journal, but now a consortium of 17 news organizations. there are tens of thousands it of page here, including cnn going through these. kleg seemed to suggest yesterday in this internal note that we obtained at cnn that media in some ways were upset with facebook. he said in the past public discourse was largely curated by established gatekeepers in the media who decide what had people could see, read and digest and he suggested that media are hangering after the top-down controls of the past which facebook has taken away from them, so really, you know, sort of i think typical of facebook trying to deflect and distract, trying to suggest that journalists who are covering these very serious issues of what facebook is enabling in the united states and around the ....
Things are true. but what frances is providing is more documentation from inside the company that in some cases they did research about what impacts their platform were having on people and there were employees who said maybe we should change some things. the company often decided to scale things back, but not all the way to maybe make changes, but not quite fast enough. and frances is saying, and she has many documents to back up some of her claims including research from inside the company that facebook did make a lot of decisions based purely on profit rather than the well-being of its billions of users. that big tobacco comparison is compelling. listen to facebook s nick kleg dismiss it. the big tobacco comparison is everywhere right now. how do you feel about those comparisons too big tobacco? i think they re profoundly false. why? well, because i don t think it s remotely like tobacco. ....
I mean, social media apps, they re apps. people download them on their phones. why do they do that? it has to be a reason why a third of the world s population enjoys using these apps. back in 94 when there was a similar moment with testimony for big tobacco, right, back then a third of people around the world were smoking. so there is kind of a compelling comparison. yeah, absolutely. there s questions of do we actually enjoy all the time we spend on our social apps. especially opening instagram and waking up maybe half an hour later and realize you spent all that time scrolling. i think nick kleg argues people use it. of course, facebook is an important vital communication tool for billions of people around the world. when they went down yesterday, i couldn t what s app my family in canada, and so it s very important, you know, this company does provide a lot of value. but i think the arguments that the whistleblower frances is making is not that facebook should go away complete ....