campaigning in the apologize for that but i think it feels terribly stay managed, all on their own terms and i ve been looking into this for months and i wrote a big article in a magazine about the trump campaign and conservatives in the campaign kept saying to me why have you not found this woman. [inaudible] facebook s representative on the trump campaign. i have sent her numerous e-mails, numerous. steve: what about the trump s representative? facebook asked if they would like to have representative in the clinton campaign said no, trump campaign said yes. tracy went and sat in and she was there and these adverts and advertising came on her watch and i thought we would all like to hear from katie. steve: have you heard about this? yeah, here s the thing.
campaigning in the apologize for that but i think it feels terribly stay managed, all on their own terms and i ve been looking into this for months and i wrote a big article in a magazine about the trump campaign and conservatives in the campaign kept saying to me why have you not found this woman. [inaudible] facebook s representative on the trump campaign. i have sent her numerous e-mails, numerous. steve: what about the trump s representative? facebook asked if they would like to have representative in the clinton campaign said no, trump campaign said yes. tracy went and sat in and she was there and these adverts and advertising came on her watch and i thought we would all like to hear from katie. steve: have you heard about this? yeah, here s the thing.
news, music and entertainment from a few massive tech companies poses a real threat to democracy. here is jonathan director emeritus at the annenberg university. how they cornered culture and undermines democracy but before we get into the subject i should say that we reached out to google and facebook to participate in our program but they didn t want to do that. also, in the spirit of full disclosure you should know that my wife was one of the senior pr executives at google and is now at facebook. you can see what kind of night i will have when i get home. i ll be sleeping on the couch. jonathan, we have seen, if you like the case against the tech giants, the thing that you hear over and over again in the conversation about what we should do about it are two things. one is that basically utilities and they should be regulated like utilities and the other thing you hear is they should they are too big and broken up. i never understood what they meant by either of those. can you illumi
their search patterns and their autonomous car patents and all the tens of thousands but i think there s -. steve: is that a version of what people say they would regulate in a utility. yes, that is one way to look at it. there are other similar ways to go about this. you re mentioned the facebook ad thing. why shouldn t facebook and google have to disclose who bought the ads, the dark post ads on their services. that is what you have to do on tv when someone puts an ad on fox. they have to say who paid for it. you never have to say that. steve: so that gets into the russian election argument but it doesn t get to the dominance. on the dominant argument one really clear thing that might need to happen which is maybe these companies have to be split up. facebook just like we have to
their search patterns and their autonomous car patents and all the tens of thousands but i think there s -. steve: is that a version of what people say they would regulate in a utility. yes, that is one way to look at it. there are other similar ways to go about this. you re mentioned the facebook ad thing. why shouldn t facebook and google have to disclose who bought the ads, the dark post ads on their services. that is what you have to do on tv when someone puts an ad on fox. they have to say who paid for it. you never have to say that. steve: so that gets into the russian election argument but it doesn t get to the dominance. on the dominant argument one really clear thing that might need to happen which is maybe these companies have to be split up. facebook just like we have to