what is your take on zuckerberg's decision? it's doubling down seems to be the right way to describe it. it is a rare example you can find where zuckerberg has done anything that donald trump doesn't like in the recent past, which is ironic considering that trump continues to pressure thebook to do even more and general view on the right is that social media is unfavorable to the right. to believe that zuckerberg has concluded that the cost to him of crossing donald trump is greater than what would be the value of exceeding to the wishes of so many of his employees and so many people in the public to apply some kind of standard of basic decency of rhetoric on the service. emily: it is interesting that you would draw a direct line from trump to zuckerberg. we know that the president called mark zuckerberg on friday. supposedly, zuckerberg told the president that he was disappointed in the tone, putting facebook in a difficult decision. meantime, you have facebook employees walking out this week in the first, to my knowledge, pub

julia boorstin so basically mark zuckerberg has pleased no one, karen. but as a shareholder, are you pleased? >> well, i'm pleased with how the stock has traded this year and how well they have done. he's in a really tough spot. and now at this point he will continue to displease everyone, no matter what he does i don't know what -- i mean, you know, i guess we're going to have to see what businesses -- actually we've seen just a tiny bit of it, how do businesses react, and is he weighing in his mind what business does he lose by keeping this stance versus what business will he lose by changing this stance and also wanting to keep important employees. so it's a very fine line i'm staying long the stock i believe in the story but i'm not sure the way out for him right now. >> the calculus of mark zuckerberg right now, guy, i would imagine is very complicated because not only is he weighing what karen outlined but also probably thinking about protection under section 230 of the communications decency act he's also thinking perhaps about being a target of a

for the chan-zuckerberg initiative protesting. the idea that facebook does engage in content moderation already for its users, why hold the president to a different and perhaps lower standard? what is your take on zuckerberg's decision in this instance to let the president's post stand? paul: the company spends a lot of time outlining standards that they are supposed to enforce against all of their users. then, when one particular user comes along, who happens to send his posts from 1600 pennsylvania avenue, there seems to be a very different standard. and view that as unfair inappropriate outside the company and crucially inside the company as well. emily: meantime, there are all of these cascading issues in part potentially as a result of zuckerberg's decision here but also the fact that these are happening on facebook. you have facebook groups splintering because of different views, different political views on the black lives matter movement. cityup in new york reportedly broke up because of discussion on these issues. talk to

zuckerberg responded along in a joint letter with his wife that cnn obtained. and here's what it said. he said, we are deeply shaken and disgusted by president trump's divisive and incendiary rhetoric at a time when our nation so desperately needs unit tip in t ty. this is an inprotection point in our nation's story particularly for the black community and our black colleagues who have lived with the effects of systemic racism for generations. and although the charity and facebook are separate and independent organizations with different missions an teams, we do share the same coleader, that being zuckerberg. facebook's policies are not the decision of the czi, the chan zuckerberg initiative, as an organization and nor will facebook policies ever dictate how the foundation approaches its work. now, we have heard from one of the scientists who signed that initial letter raising concerns to mark zuckerberg. his name is jason sheppard. last night when the letter was -- began circulating publicly, he said this response from the zuckerberg -- zuckerberg and his wife

i don't think and i could be wrong because the expert on this i don't think zuckerberg is fearing or twitters fearing losing conservatives i think they would be very much happier in their employees are you much happier without it and ribs are better and all i mean today the president today that for barack obama said make people in power uncomfortable in the context of everything that's going on twitter might be wise to say hey that's that's urging violence that's how i would interpret it. you have now you have them going after trouble because he says he wants law and order you know what ever most americans want law and order. there's nothing racist about that or feel about that twitter's picked a war based books to lay their war they couldn't care less about conservatives if they all disappeared and last word on all of this what i would push back on is i think they do care about conservatives more than they pretend to they want to control the narrative and the problem is that competition in a free market is what they spoke and twitter fear the most competition is coming to them and c

i don't think and i could be wrong because the expert on this i don't think zuckerberg is fearing or twitters fearing losing conservatives i think they would be very much happier in their employees are you much happier without it and ribs are better at all i mean today the president today that for obama said make people in power uncomfortable in the context of everything that's going on twitter might be wise to say hey that's that's urging violence that's how i would interpret it context you have now you have them going after trouble because he says he wants law and order you know what ever most americans want law and order there's nothing racist about better feel about that twitter's pick the war facebook's delay their war they couldn't care less about conservatives if they all disappeared and last word on all of this what i would push back on is i think they do care about conservatives more than they pretend to they want to control the narrative and the problem is that competition in a free market is what they spoke and twitter fear the most competition is coming to them and conser

i don't think and i could be wrong because the expert on this i don't think zuckerberg is fearing or twitters fearing losing conservatives i think they would be very much happier in their employees are you much happier without it and ribs are better at all i mean today the president today that for barack obama said make people in power uncomfortable in the context of everything that's going on twitter might be wise to say hey that's that's urging violence that's not what i would interpret it context you have now you have them going after trouble because he says he wants law and order you know what ever most americans want law and order there's nothing racist about better feel about that twitter's pick the war facebook still a their war they couldn't care less about conservatives if they all disappeared and last word on all of this what i would push back on is i think they do care about conservatives more than they pretend to they want to control the narrative and the problem is that competition in a free market is what they spoke and twitter fear the most competition is coming to the

mark zuckerberg now says the platform will start flagging newsworthy posts that violate its policies and will block advertising content deemed to be hateful zuckerberg had previously refused to take action against divisive post by trump and other public figures. and joining us now to shed some light on this is d w reporter joel dull roy why are companies pulling us from facebook houses happening they're doing so in response to public pressure from a group called stop hate for profit which basically wants facebook to stop making money by selling ads alongside divisive content and this all started in response to some social media posed by us president donald trump back at the end of may in the middle of those major anti racism protests back then trump put out a post saying among other things when the losing shot starts the shooting starts we can see that there in his post now he put this post on facebook and twitter twitter decided to hide behind a warning saying that it contained content that could glorify violence facebook however took a very different decision it was a decision made

i know that you were in and listening to the call that mark zuckerberg had, how does it go? >> after a week of real turmoil zuckerberg had an emergency question and answer session and his point being that he really wanted to explain the position that facebook had, why they are not taking down any of the president's post on the network. it was pretty tense and to his credit, he allowed the employees to sort of directly question him and put their concerns to him on video chat, on air. but, a lot of his responses were basically in line with the idea that it didn't break our terms of service and basically on twitter they led to violence or voter suppression and that zuckerberg, even though he personally found his rhetoric distasteful and really uncomfortable, he felt he needed to keep the post up on the network . >> mike, how important is it that these companies are not regulated but they could be, facebook, twitter, social media companies, they could be the same as the telephone and now those are heavily regulated. do you think that regulation is coming and you think that mark

everything with facebook boils down to its ceo, mark zuckerberg. he makes the ultimate decisions. he is the person who approves the policies and is the person who, if the algorithm isn't aggressive enough to stop this speech, he can say let's make it more aggressive. facebook in the last few years has taken measures to respond to some of the complaints against it, but clearly it's not doing the job if its own employees are writing letters and walking off thejob, complaining writing letters and walking off the job, complaining that zuckerberg's zeal for free expression doesn't stop the toxic speech. so how serious is that pressure coming from employees and how effective could it be? in a way it's a bigger threat than even these advertisers that have decided to stay away for a month. ultimately they will have to come back because facebook is so powerful, if forced to sell their products. but the employees are something facebook cannot shrug off because if mark zuckerberg wa nts to because if mark zuckerberg wants to keep his company vital and viable, he is going to need the best peo

there was a conversation between zuckerberg and trump. i think these companies are going to have to navigate this more carefully as they get towards the election. one thing that covid-19 has demonstrated is that both companies are able to take some editorial view to try and help the people get the facts about what might impact their health. that then begs the question of, who judges what is for someone's health and safety and what isn't? francine: we saw a headline of twitter suspending hundreds of accounts associated with spreading a false claim about a communication failure during protests in washington. are we going to see a lot of these companies hiring a lot more people to monitor this kind of content? eileen: moderation has been a big area of investment for both companies. i do think they will have to continue to invest in that area. unfortunately, the toll on human .oderators is quite exhausting they are not going to be able to lessen the impact. they are going to have to continue to invest more and more as these cans officials iss

zuckerberg doesn't get it. we have -- we really need a board member that does and that's why last week we had a proposal at facebook's annual meeting asking them to add a new board member with human and civil rights expertise >> well, i think the question i would ask, though, from the investment side of this is despite what you may look at and argue are moral failings of the company or moral failings of the company's leadership, the company and the business unto itself has held up and the question i would ask you, are you surprised that advertisers have not pulled their money, therefore? are you surprised other businesses have not said okay i'm not going to do business with these people if you believe that the moral failing is as deep as you're suggesting? >> i think right now facebook has, you know, really has the opportunity to become a strong blue chip company. and there is from an investment standpoint a lot of reason to like facebook. the risks that we see and as you know, we look at environmental and soci

what is mark zuckerberg been saying in his own defence? his defence for keeping donald trump's comments on facebook without warnings or hiding them all without misleading labels which is what twitter has done come he hasn't wanted to touch any of that and his defence, which is fairness to him a defence he has had had right from the beginning of facebook is that he wants the site to be committed to free expression and he sees serious issues with him as an individual having censorship rights over millions of people and billions of businesses and political groups and what they can freely publish on his site. and he has a point at that. i think when we look at accountability for free speech and who decides if something is problematic if something is dangerous or hate speech, you would like it to go through very clear channels and i just like it to go through very clear channels and ijust rest with one individual. whereas twitter is taking the opposite approach and finally it now after much debate about it, seems to have decided that their poli

zuckerberg has control of the company. and so i think ultimately this comes back to painful topic, a lot of focus on it today, it makes a ton of sense ultimately, the best thing for facebook to do, all the employees longer term. they're going to upset a portion of that, that portion will be heard. but ultimately the best thing for the platform, in respect to the business of facebook, if you are in a for profitbusiness, which facebook is, the best thing, i believe, is for them to hold the lining, because at the core essence of this, you cannot legislate or regulate truth. >> gene, great to speak with you. >> loop ventures jeff, you agree with gene? >> i do. i think the pandora's box analogy is a good one. you're also seeing some of what he's talking about manifest in the way some of these companies are functioning from a business perspective. you look at what has happened between some of the major ad players, what's held up where companies have pulled back ad spending are these direct response ads when you're driven immedia

coming up, an hour-long call with mark zuckerberg left some frustrated. we will speak to one of the civil rights leaders on that call next. this is bloomberg. ♪ save hundreds on your wireless bill without even leaving your house. just keep your phone and switch to xfinity mobile. you can get it by ordering a free sim card online. once you activate, you'll only have to pay for the data you need- starting at just $15 a month. there are no term contracts, no activation fees, and no credit check on the first two lines. get a $50 prepaid card when you switch. it's the most reliable wireless network. and it could save you hundreds. xfinity mobile. emily: welcome back to bloomberg technology. mark zuckerberg's inaction about one of the president's posts on facebook has angered employees, former employees and civil rights leaders alike. participants on a call with the facebook ceo this week said zuckerberg cannot fully understand why a hands-off approach is a problem. one person adjoined that call is vanita gupta, president and ceo of the leadership conference

trump called zuckerberg and zuckerberg tells him he is disappointed in the tone, rhetoric of the post. and he is putting facebook in a difficult position. there was no sort of transparency into what else was said. and a lot of employees have told me that they are concerned about that. about whether each time facebook has to deal with a tweet -- sorry, facebook post from trump that they are concerned about, they will go by it softly. they will go to the white house and talk to the white house. or as you mentioned with dorsey, he is talking to his team, deliberating with them. we have not heard about a twitter deliberation with the white house. emily: that said, to be fair, jack dorsey has met with president trump the past. talk to us about how twitter is going to approach -- they will have to make several difficult decisions as long as the president keeps tweeting towards election day. now that twitter has taken this stance, it is likely they will have to take it again. what is the process in place for that? sarah: both companies are going to have to be consistent with whatever they de

tim o'brien is weighing in on this, saying that zuckerberg has now reached a tipping point. your lineit to hear of thinking. this is the first time that we can remember that facebook employees have so publicly called out their ceo. simmeringas been beneath the surface at facebook for the past four years. they became concerned with what role the platform played. it was the cambridge analytical scandal. some seniors have left the company. reallyckerberg has reasserted himself at the company. he shuffled his board. he put in people that are more friendly to his leadership and point of view on the board. social come to this crisis by the pandemic. people really scrutinized facebook, the employees are scrutinizing facebook in terms of the role of the platform plays on the world. >> i don't know what to do, i know that doing nothing is not acceptable. i am not alone inside of facebook, there is not a neutral position on racism. zuckerberg is trying to say that facebook doesn't take a stand on space where a normal facebook user might take action on that speech. why should politicia

not everybody, however, is against zuckerberg on this. some employees admire him for taking the stand that he did. zuckerberg has said at least publicly that he doesn't agree with trump's posts here. and that this one employee, i was speaking to said they found it admirable that he's standing up for free speech. that same employee said those with the position at the company are afraid to speak out or to say so publicly because they've seen the blowback internally and around the country against zuckerberg's actions. i want to show you ads on facebook today. facebook has a powerful system that the president loves. there are ads being targeted on facebook at facebook staff trying to encourage them to stand up to mark zuckerberg. they're being run by a nonprofit that fights online information. they're using some of his own words against him. one quote from 2018 talking about how they need to build tools for good. >> look, he has made statements in the past. he has made promises in the past and facebook employees themselves are holding those s

zuckerberg said he's committed to free expression. one employee told cnn that zuckerberg's remarks were, quote, lacking, and that he risked alienating more of his staff, rather than addressing their concerns. cnn's john defterios is with me now from abu dhabi, looking at this story for us. you know, zuckerberg is trying to strike a balance to protect free speech and also be active against posts that incite violence, but apparently, some facebook employees aren't having his stance. >> reporter: yeah, this is a heck of a global story as well, natalie, because of the 2.6 billion active users on facebook. zuckerberg called this town hall to try to create some unity amongst the 48,000 staff members. nearly half tuned into this town hall. and you heard some of the comments here. zuckerberg said he took a tough decision after being pretty thorough about the process going forward, why not to take down the content, in particular from president trump, even though he thought it incited violence. this is particularly sensitive, because six months

zuckerberg unveiling a voting information center hub to explain how to register, vote by mail and how to vote early this hub will appear at the top of the facebook and instagram apps zuckerberg saying between july and november, he expects more than 160 million people in the u.s. to see information on facebook about how to vote calling this the largest voting information campaign in american history. he also announced that all of facebook's users will have the ability to turn off political advertising. this comes after zuckerberg drew criticism for defending the company's decision to allow political ads that contain false information. saying allowing political ads is in the interest of free speech, not profits. now, in contrast, twitter last fall banned all political advertising. with so much scrutiny on facebook's power coming from washington, including on going ftc anti-trust inquiry, the pressure is on for facebook to not just prevent voter manipulation but also show it can be transparent and actually help democracy zuckerberg saying that they are prepared to prevent election interf

mark zuckerberg took the stance that that should remain untouched. employees,n facebook former facebook employees not happy with it now, the vice president himself. what is your take? david: there is no question that facebook is not done a lot to stop this information from spreading. they have really failed in that department. what is interesting is to see vice president biden, democratic presidential candidate, coming out and basically pointing his guns at facebook, blaming it for, to some degree, what we have seen with the empowerment of donald trump. facebook is really vulnerable to this because even though, as you pointed out earlier -- president trump has been critical of social media. in reality, facebook has done literally nothing he could complain about. they have tended to really favor his messaging over any other messaging and really bent over backwards to enable him to do whatever he wants. the most notable thing about what facebook is doing right now is it has an explicit policy that an advertising, politicians are allowed to live. -- all

zuckerberg doesn't take any action. what he said friday is he's going to review the policies and maybe they'll implement new policies and that will allow them to take action, but staffers seem at facebook, a lot of them, to have lost a lot of confidence in the leadership's, you know, ability to take action or will to take action, i should say. >> this weekend 140 plus scientists who had been funded by the zuckerberg initiative from the family, they wrote a letter to zuckerberg yesterday speaking out against his inaction on this particular post. however, this is bigger than any particular post. look at the most popular content on facebook the other day. the top performing post of the week was this post by candace owens, far-right wing commentator denigrating george floyd. she was in a meeting with mike pence. she goes on there denigrating george floyd and she gets tens of millions of views on facebook. it shows how this is a radicalization engine. >> zuckerberg talks about how he wants facebook to elevate good voices in

bankruptcies facebook is facing backlash over the content policies will all this pressure make mark zuckerberg change the tune will more advertisers vanish but first, we pop over to dom chu with a look at today's markets. >> our socially acceptably distant 12 feet from each other, kelly. we have a mixed picture. dow industrials posting a solid gain 152 points there the s&p up 8 points. and just marginal declines for the nasdaq off the session lows there. an industry and sector group in focus is energy. oil price is a huge story in the first half of the year but for this particular etf, xle, a roughly 39% gain justso far this quarter today putting on pace for its best quarter ever since inception and then look at a stock in particular. zoom communication zoom video that big ipo from last year, remember, $36 a share is now up 154% in a year and reports earnings after the closing bell and just so you know, the options market right now is currently pricing in what could be a 10% move in the stock higher or lower, it could be a volatile day after the closing bell. >> dom, not confusing but we have

mark zuckerberg says the social media unit is implementing a number of new strategies to combat both hate speech and voter suppression. >> if we determine the content may lead to violence or deprive people of their right to vote, we're going to take that content down, no matter who says it. >> reporter: zuckerberg has been criticized for not removing a post from president trump earlier this month where the president appeared to threaten to start shooting looters during mass protests over george floyd's killing. since then, civil rights groups, including the antidefamation league, and the n.a.a.c.p. pushed for an advertising boycott. verizon and unilever joined the growing list of companies that announced they would stop buying ads on facebook. in may, zuckerberg told norah why he's been reluctant to censor controversial posts. >> i think you want to have a pretty high bar for telling people if they can't say something. >> reporter: today, zuckerberg says there will be exceptions. >> we're going to start labeling cotent that we find newsworthy, that might otherwise violate our policie

ceo mark zuckerberg stood behind his position to allow president trump's post. it said when the looting starts the shooting starts and hundreds of workers staged a walkout and one tech analyst believes facebook will be forced to make a change. >> his staff and the huge amount of the staff are fed up with it. this is the biggest test zuckerberg will have to go through. >> in a statement facebook said it encourages people to speak openly when they disagree and civil rights leaders spoke with mark zuckerberg and charles center on monday and expressed their frustration with the company's stance. facebook replied it's an important moment to listen. >>> textbased civil liberty groups are suing to block the president's executive order to regulate social media sites. this comes after twitter put some fact checking on some tweets including the president's account. the lawsuit claims the president is violating first amendment rights. president trump's order signed last week could allow for more lawsuits against internet companies for what the user's post, tweet and stream

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>> well, quickly, we also said mark zuckerberg was in a lose-lose situation in terms of how he set up and that the president and it is not political, but, you any, there was a genius to this, because if somehow he gets -- if the president gets flagged by facebook, he's going to use that as a battle cry and if he doesn't, he has the platform at his disposal win-win for the president, lose-lose for mark zuckerberg. in terms of the stock, though, until advertisers start to flee, which you have not seen, you have to stay with this name, and i think we have been pretty -- somewhat steadfast in that belief i am not a huge fan of facebook. and at a certain point, it probably is getting expensive. but in terms of the advertisers and the users, nobody seems to be going anyplace anytime soon >> i'm not a huge fan either i will say that this is pretty extraordinary because mark zuckerberg and facebook look like they're digging in during a difficult time of pressure after basically saying last year that they were not going to be political hasher eharbors. there are a lot of people that just belie

zuckerberg respond now? kurt: i don't think there is anyway he can walk back his decision at this point, even though he has employees pressuring him to do so, even quitting in protest. , he has thought a lot about this, made up his mind. i don't foresee him walking this pack. i think it will be the first of probably many tough decisions that he and executives have to make. we are five months from the election and i don't anticipate things will get quieter until then. taylor: our thanks to kurt wagner. stay with us, we are speaking with rebecca felton from riverfront investment's on this could -- disconnect that we are seeing in the markets. this is bloomberg. ♪ karina: i'm karina mitchell with bloomberg first word news. joe is slamming president , saying he isse fanning the flames of hate. the present of democratic nominee spoke at city hall today, accusing the president of being more interested in power than principle. biden called on congress not to wait for the november election to address inequities in

zuckerberg told staffers he will not change his mind on it. cnn's sullivan spoke exclusively with a facebook software engineer who quit in protest and donie joins us now. what did he tell you? >> that's right. facebook employees are now speaking out publicly against the company and mark zuckerberg. but no employee has gone as far as 22-year-old facebook software engineer timothy. he announced in a facebook post he was quitting his job in protest. in his first interview since that post went viral, he spoke exclusively to cnn. i asked him why he quit. >> i've seen a couple times now that mark doesn't uphold his principles. zuk has told us over and over that calls to violence would not be tolerated on the platform even if they were by the president of the united states. but on friday he decided to do nothing in response to the president's post. >> mark zuckerberg's position here is that he doesn't want to have the power to basically shut down speech from the president of the united states. do you see any merits to that argument? >> mark hears a l

works zuckerberg wasn't silent. he said something that went against the tide of what everybody seems to be thinking. the difficulty here is he has made ill considered comments and now in this stage, he's trying desperately to -- as far as we can tell, given the conversations he has had with leaders in the u.s., those comments are falling flat right now. navigating this better than others? what are these companies? we often say they are publishers. what does that actually mean? today need to put comments like twitter have when things are fake and falls? >> i think you have to get twitter credit here. over the years, they've taken a lot of criticism for the way they managed their platform. the ceo jack dorsey said they're going to take time and try to come up with a thoughtful response. the thoughtful risk -- response they came up with is when something is indicated it is false by fact checking, essentially, seems to be the right one to do. they're not taking the content down. the difficulty is you don't know to what

zuckerberg's position is i need to protect free expression. and it is a balancing act that is not easy to solve. even being forthright in a virtual town hall. >> we'll continue to see if he stands his ground on his philosophy there. well, let's talk about something else, and that's the markets, john. we're seeing nationwide protests in the u.s., record unemployment with 40 million people filing for claims in the midst of the pandemic, but wall street keeps moving higher. what's going on here? >> it is an extraordinary trend. people are making comparisons of course to 1968 and the violence that we saw in the united states against martin luther king and then robert kennedy. 1992 with the l.a. riots. and now something that's spread to better than 40 cities. wall street has a tendency, natalie, to kind of park this in a different category because they don't think it will be long lasting like the occupy wall street movement, for example. as a result they're looking at $3 trillion of the stimulus package and saying what's it going to look like in 20

is a: section 230 decades-old law that came about when mark zuckerberg was a boy. should section 230 remain untouched? >> absolutely. it is important for expression online. here's what i know. it is up to congress to write the law. that's congress's job. emily: facebook and twitter have taken very different approaches to speech on their platforms. your colleague has said jack insey is weaponizing twitter favor of his own partisan political beliefs. what is your reaction to that? >> so much of washington has it exactly backward. to first amendment is there protect social media from the president. thes not there to protect president from social media. emily: do you think twitter and facebook have lived up to their responsibilities? they are taking different approaches to the president's speech. >> listen, social media is frustrating, and we all know that because we all look for information there every day. we also see misinformation. but i don't think you want the government or an agency like becoming that online. emily: what is the role of private companies in handl

the question that continues to be asked, does mark zuckerberg have too much power? i want to bring in kurt wagner. give us the latest. target added insult to the list, which is a huge advertiser for facebook. >> it is. i believe last year, target was a top 30 advertiser across facebook's companies spending million in0 $7 facebook ads. definitely a notable name. we have seen a number of notable names. but i think really what this comes down to come i have been speaking with a lot of the organizers of this boycott, they keep saying that they want facebook to be accountable and they are saying that mark zuckerberg has too much power. these are issues that cannot be resolved because mark zuckerberg is not going to give up any of that control. that is why am not convinced that this boycott will lead to the middle ground that i am sure some advertisers would like. emily: you wonder how much it will impact the business. you saieh huge drop on friday but the last couple of days, shares have risen. is there any indication that mark zuckerberg is reconsidering any of his posi

but mark zuckerberg is promoting the extremism, because mark zuckerberg is actually -- his site, the zuckerberg site, has actually set up! set up! like, ad promotions that actually push people towards extremist sites that kill federal officers! and mark zuckerberg becomes a billionaire! how many times over? because he's pushing people towards extremist sites that gun down and murder federal officials. mark zuckerberg's site, sheryl sandberg's site. they were warned in 2016 that foreign powers were going to use their site to interfere with american democracy, the american democracy that so many men and women have fought and died for to protect. they scaled the cliffs of normandy to protect american democracy. they have fought across the world against islamic terrorism to protect american democracy. they have been fighting for 240 years to protect american democracy. and when sheryl sandberg found out that mark zuckerberg's website was being used by foreign powers to interfere in the 2016 election, what did she do? she got angry at the mark zuckerberg employee that came to her and came

not an absurd argument on zuckerberg's part. on friday, he tried to put some of the genie back in the bottle, sort of marginal changes to facebook posts, but still, it's not enough and you keep seeing corporate america boycott facebook. what's interesting is a couple things. it's considered, from what i understand, a lot of this is my producer's reporting, she did a great job getting this story, it's considered a global boycott so you know, all their subsidiaries, i guess that means across the world, they didn't put a press release out on this which was very strange. i don't know why. maybe they want to negotiate with zuckerberg on this. it's interesting. they have the type of brand power to negotiate and i have heard it's apparently going to last july and august and who knows what happens after that. that's pepsi. as you know, pepsi's a big iconic brand. we will see. i would watch the pepsi story. the fact they didn't announce it makes me think they are trying to negotiate something with zuckerberg and then announce something.

mark zuckerberg says the social media unit is implementing a number of new strategies to combat both hate speech and voter suppression. >> if we determine the content may lead to violence or deprive people of their right to vote, we're going to take that content down, no matter who says it. >> reporter: zuckerberg has been criticized for not removing a post from president trump earlier this month where the president appeared to threaten to start shooting looters during mass protests over george floyd's killing. since then, civil rights groups, including the antidefamation league, and the n.a.a.c.p. pushed for anitation boycott. s havverizon and unilever joinee growing list of companies that announced they would stop buying ads on facebook. >> i think you want to have a pretty high bar for telling people if they can't say something. >> reporter: today, zuckerberg says there will be exceptions. >> we're going to start labeling content that we find newsworthy, that might oghter wise violate our policies. >> reporter: the antidefamation league told us zuckerberg's moves today are a good

. >>> and mark zuckerberg breaks his silence. what he had to say about a controversial tweet from president trump. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri tracking a slight chance of showers lingering in the forecast. we'll get you all ready to go for that weekend coming up in about seven minutes. >>> the trump administration has overturned protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care. the department of health and human services says it will now be enforcing sex discrimination protections according to the plain meaning of the word "sex" as male or female and as determined by biology. changes are being applauded by many of the president's conservative religious base. critics say it's a big step back for those seeking sex reassignment treatment or even transgender people who need care for common illnesses. >>> mark zuckerberg is responding to scrutiny over facebook's management of president trump's account. at issue, last month's tweet in which the president called minneapolis protesters thugs, addi

mark zuckerberg decided to allow freedom of expression on facebook. here's what he told his employees today. >> reporter: mark zuckerberg stood behind his position to allow president trump's controversial post when the looting starts the shooting starts under freedom of expression. twitter flagged it with all warning. on tuesday according to the new york times, he told facebook employees that he made a tough decision but that it was pretty thorough. his employee address comes after a facebook first. hundreds of workers stage oh virtual walkout as a majority of employees work from home. it marks the first time facebook workers have taken such action against mark zuckerberg. >> his staff and a huge amount of people inside facebook are fed up with them. >> reporter: several tweeted i work at facebook and i'm not proud of how are showing up. another writing, censoring information that might help people see the whole picture is wrong. giving a platform to spread violence is unacceptable regardless of who you are. in one facebook software engineer for sign

ceo mark zuckerberg feels the heat from his own employees and civil rights leaders. his response, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: facebook ceo mark zuckerberg is feeling the heat right now from civil rights leaders and his own employees over controversial posts from president trump and the ceo's own response. kurt wagner joins us now. zuckerberg appears to be doubling down, defending his stance on president trump's recent posts. what is his defense at the moment? all handsad an meeting with facebook employees today over video, and he told them that when he looks back at that post and when he looked at it with facebook's policy team, it did not feel it clearly incited violence, which is what facebook's policy calls for in order to remove a post. so he just reiterated that he did not feel like this post from trump crossed a line. he did say that perhaps the company needs to reevaluate that policy or come up with something in the middle, because right now either the post stays up or it comes down. there is no middle ground like what we have seen in

i just call upon mark zuckerberg and his executive team to take the action that many of us a.g.'s have been demanding. emily: as you mentioned, there are a number of different attorney general looking at facebook, along with the federal government. do you think facebook needs to be broken up? a.g. healey: i think it deserves a hardluck. -- hard look. all of these major platforms, when you look at the extent and how much they control so much of our discourse, they have tremendous power in their ability to aggregate or personal information and data. i think they need real close watching and a regulatory regime that protects the public and protects the market as well. so, i think that is really important. our investigations will continue, but we certainly don't want a situation where one company becomes so powerful that it does harm to public. emily: would you say the same about apple, amazon, google? a.g. healey: i would. i think they are category companies who really many have talked about and some in congress have talked about deserve that hard look. for me, as a state attorney g

ceo mark zuckerberg says the social network will ban ads with hateful content. it will also label posts from politicians that break its rules including those prident zuckerberg says people deserve to hear unfiltered statements from politicians. >> there's no news worthy exemption to content that incites violence or suppresses voting. even if a government official says it, if we determine the content may lead to violence or deprive people of their right to vote, we'll take that content down no matter who says it. >> the announcement comes as a growing list of companies like verizon, ben & jerry's and the north face joined an advertising boycott of facebook called the stop hate for profit campaign. we posted the full video of zuckerberg's announcement on kpix.net. let's go live to washington. the white house coronavirus task force spoke for the first time in two months today to discuss the rising cases of all over the country. >> as we are reminded as we utsi wel havework to do. >> we want to end this outbreak, really tend and hopefully when a vaccine comes and pu

matt haney is pushing to remove facebook ceo mark zuckerberg's name from san francisco general hospital. haney posted a long thread on the issue on twitter and he questioned whether it was appropriate to keep the name of zuckerberg on the hospital given all the recent criticism of facebook for failing to regulate hate speech. the hospital was renamed after zuckerberg and his wife, priscilla chan, donated $75 billion to the hospital's foundation back in 2015. >>> president trump is facing backlash this morning after retreating and then deleting a video of an apparent supporter yelling white power. the video was in a retirement community in florida and a caravan of seniors and golf carts holding trump 2020 science when one yelled white power to antitrust post rather protesters. they thank the quote in the great people in the video. the video appeared on the twitter feed for three hours before it was deleted. later the white house said the president did not hear the words white power comment on the video when he shared it. joe biden is looking to capitalize on the president's controversial

facebook ceo mark zuckerberg left scrambling after employees staged a virtual walkout. joe biden addressing nationwide protest in philadelphia. new data shows he may have an uphill battle when it comes to black voters. we'll examine that after the break. this is an athlete, twenty reps deep, sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. she's confident, protected, her strength respected. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. just for healthcare workers fighting covid-19. learn more at massmutual.com/healthbridge ♪ ♪. charles: democratic presidential candidate joe biden addressing philadelphia today, this in the wake of unrests across the nation while contrasting his leadership style with that of president trump but you know there is new data out there finds young black americans are not as enthusiastic about biden or about trump as their elders. want to bring in liz harrington. liz, biden is struggling, if you listen to the message, sounds like speeches i heard 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, i'm not sure it is resonating with youn

and what does zuckerberg do? he gave them months ago the middle finger and went off to have a private dinner with donald trump. look, he is an autocrat. he has one of your own cnn analysts says he has total voting control over facebook. even the shareholders can't fire him. so, if you believe that injustice, when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty, you have to admit the organizers of the boycott were left no other way to defend democracy against the hate and b bigotry that facebook was dumping like garbage into the public square. >> they're hitting them at the bottom line. that's what's so notable. this is all about profits. they're going after the profits from facebook's ad revenue. let's turn from facebook to twitter because in the past couple of hours the perfect the united states shared another offensive post. he shared this video from the villages in florida where this man you see in his golf cart shouted, white power, white power. the president said, thank you to the great people of the villages

zuckerberg has not backed off his general position of the platform or voice as he puts it. there is attention here and something has to give in concern to the platform. >> how far does this go against facebook and other platforms we've seen in the past where many people were horrified around privacy breeches but they didn't switch off their facebook accounts because it was controversial to do so is this time any different for advertisers lining up for changes? >> what is impressive so far is the large number of companies. more than 160 so far that have lined up to say that they will swar off facebook advertising for various periods of time. some through the month of july and others through the end of the year the question is how many companies have lined up. if it turns out to be a one-month or six-month affair, that will not bring facebook to heel if it turns out to be more substantial, than mark zuckerberg will feel it in his pocket book. >> you can see the major advertisers carry weight one mentioned its pause at facebook and then reacted. if you look at the overall numb

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but zuckerberg says, listen, we don't want to be arbiters of right or wrong. a're just trying to be platform where people can see updates from people they care about. say he ists leaders ignoring the fact that facebook systematically rewards content that will rile people up. shery: and it has caused some platforms to postpone announcements. what is the latest? -- itis a bit difficult is a difficult time to announce product because a lot of people think this is a moment we should be listening to underserved communities in america. for companies especially is a difficult time to say look over here. at people tried to get their messages out and trying to be heard, especially at the black lives matter protest. this is something a lot of corporations are saying, let's take a step back. let them have their moment to really communicate this to the country to avoid this having to happen again. sarah flyer, are louvered tech reporter there with the latest on facebook and how big tech is responding. let's get you a quick check of the latest headlines. the coronavirus up

that's how you get mark zuckerberg to the table. and we will not stop until he takes concrete steps to once and for all push prejudice out of the platform, because it has no place, no place in the public conversation. >> all right. derek johnson and jonathan greenblatt, i thank both of you for being with us this evening. >>> since the killing of george floyd and other black men and women, there has been a heightened push to reform the nation's police departments. joining that fight are the country's teachers unions. the american federation of teachers is calling on school districts to handle school safety and security without the help of police, but instead training school security personnel as peace officers focused on nonviolent conflict resolution. joining me now is randy randi weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers. randi, this is a bold step for the aft. explain it. >> as you know, rev, we've spent how many years fighting hate and fighting discrimination. we think that what has happened in the last month o

but actually, mark zuckerberg's on the record now criticizing twitter for the steps that they took. there's a lot that has to change. facebook has such a huge platform, such a huge reach, 2.3 billion users. and we need to make sure that they platform has to operate by of rules. >> no, it is, the reach is extraordinary. rashad robinson, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> we are awaiting an imminent announcement on possible additional charges in george floyd's death involving the officers who where seen on that tape standing around as floyd died. >>> plus, we're expecting floyd's family to meet with the nypd commissioner any moment. stand by for that. now is the time for a new bath from bath fitter. every bath fitter bath is installed quickly, safely, and beautifully, with a lifetime warranty. go from old to new. from worn to wow. the beautiful bath you've always wanted, done right, installed by one expert technician, all in one day. we've been creating moments like these for 35 years, and we're here to help you get started. book your free virtual or in-home design consultation today

that is facebook and it is google so no doubt about that well if you look at the response from mark zuckerberg and facebook it seems to be very reactive and we've seen that before also when it came to the cambridge analytic scandal a couple of years to go so we will see how sincere mark zuckerberg really is to change things and a lot might depends how much of the pressure even increases not just in the united states but maybe also on the global market i mentioned so far $100.00 companies have joined overall as far as i know globally and facebook has about 8000000 partners because one of the. airports in new york and vienna have set up coronavirus to send his emirates office passengers a 10 minute test in dubai. is offering something similar in frankfurt for those who want or need to prove they're healthy before taking off the results can be linked to individual tickets in an effort to allow travelers to avoid quarantine a few months ago this would have seemed like a bizarre start to your holiday now it could hire old as the new normal of air travel germany busiest airports have become the 1st