the state of our politics at this moment. even though some republican leaders have condemned the attack, news has been flooded with a what about and conspiracy theories and disinformation from a whole host of right-winged media figures. all of this happening while he s still in intensive care. and while an active investigation is underway, a little more than an hour ago, federal prosecutors filed two charges, attempting to challenge a federal official. federal officials allege the attacker broke into the home intending to kidnap and hurt speaker pelosi and he came armed with a hammer and brought a rope, white tape, and zip ties. he told paul pelosi, he wanted to speaker to, quote, tell the truth. political reports that the attacker had, quote, inhabited a vifd and resentment-fueled world of conspiracy while living a fringed existence, even by the standards of the san francisco bay area, that he appears to embrace falsehoods about the without outcome of the 2020 election. the
Takeover? you know, publicly we were cautiously optimistic that elon could come in, put in place the appropriate technology and reforms that twitter and other social media companies really needed. the metaverse, youtube, et cetera. there is a need to monitor and take down anti-semitic, hateful and bigoted content. and he with see this across the spectrum. we ve been cautiously optimistic. the initial signs that we see in the early days in his ownership of twitter have not been promising. but we re going to remain optimistic and engaged that the ship can be turned around and that this hateful and inciteful rhetoric can be appropriately taken down from these platforms. molly? as a facebook user i saw a radical shift on thursday. i mean, just absolutely sort of shocking. it was like maybe there wasn t a tech issue but trolls were emboldened. there were facebook or twitter? on twitter. once elon bought the platform.