Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: Facebook Disinformation Is “Extraordinarily Concerning” | The Last Word | MSNBC

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez questioned Mark Zuckerberg on why Facebook refuses to fact-check political advertising. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tells Lawrence that Congress needs to get to the bottom of what Facebook knew about the disinformation campaign into the 2016 election. Aired on 10/24/19.
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: Facebook Disinformation Is "Extraordinarily Concerning" | The Last Word | MSNBC

65 comments

  1. Man someone needs to do a major disinformation campaign about Facebook enough for the stock prices to fall. I bet that will change things quick.

    1. I think you mean an “information campaign”. Facts are damaging enough that you don’t even need to put a spin on it.

    1. Sophie Laurenti
      it is a business like any other. You do realize that all businesses sales your information. Try Googling
      for anything and the next time you log on you will see advertisements for what you searched for previously. Oh, do you use shopper saver cards
      from Grocery stores and other businesses to get the deals? They track your spending habits and you get coupons for those and similar items.
      How do you think Facebook, Twitter, Youtube make money? Advertisers.

    2. Business are usually regulated. You can’t do anything you want. Ex. a grocery store can’t sell you alcohol without a licence, and they must check your age, at least in the US. Same goes with ADVERTISING. On TV or Press, you can’t run ads with blatant lies (not talking of spinning, but actual lies), that’s the law. But Facebook, because It’s on the Internet, doesn’t consider itself as a medium, which is BS, as AOC demonstrated during this hearing.
      Facebook (and Internet outlets) should respect the same laws as TV, Radio and Press concerning political ads. These laws must be updated for our times, and that’s something Zuckerber does NOT want, because $$$. ofc Facebook and others lobbied hard in Congress so that any legislative update would never pass. This is the real issue here.

    3. These same questions should be addressed to mainstream media – CBS, Fox, Sony, News Corp, etc – that broadcast ludicrous, false and totally misleading political ads, simply because it pays big bucks. And there needs to be spending limits, so that little guys have a fighting chance against the fat cats.

    4. @Liberalovsky Fredo Moscowitch…what kind of CHUMP CRACK are you sniffing didn’t anyone tell you it’s only do you harm in the end …when the grand wizards speaks do you get on your knees and start slurping …..I think so !

  2. The saddest thing of all is the idea that to a certain demographic facebook has become the only news source.

    1. @Captain Teamwork NO!! 📣 AOC 🏆and ALL The NEW JUSTICE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS 🏆 are NOT sellouts!! 👏 Just the OPPOSITE!! 🏆 They are working FOR the American people NOT the CORPORATIONS!! 👏 However ALL The GROSS OLD PERVERTED REPULSIVES 😈🔥 are SELLOUTS to DRUMPF 😈 🔥 and the highest bidders!! That is a FACT!! Also, DRUMPF 😈 🔥 and ALL GOP 😈🔥 are DEMONS 😈 🔥 Only DEMONS 😈 🔥 would do the HORRIBLE EVIL things they do!! 😱 They ALL belong in front of a FIRING SQUAD 😈 🔥 for TREASON!! 😱

    2. Sellouts ? Since when did Facebook ever take a oath to sell in ? It’s a business , they make money . Get over it snowflake and grow up

    3. @Captain Teamwork did you see the picture of the Democrat congresswoman absolutely start naked with a nazi tatoo smoking a bong the hypocrisy of msm and lib dems is comic do you think if it was a male Republican media would be quiet about it.

    1. Bruce Cooper in other words: “we want to facebook to censor political ads we dont like”.
      In her own questioning of zuckerberg she smeared the daily caller as white supremacist. Its a conservative news outlet and she is a lunatic.

    2. @Jelly Belly So the logical thing is to let a tiny conlogmeration of technocrats leftists in silicone valley to censor people? Either you guys dont think far ahead or its exactly what you want them to do. Shut down dissent.

    3. @Wheat and Tares – I was commenting on the comment that CNN and msnbc should be taken off the air for lying. My comment was then so should fox. Fox omits the truth more than they lie and they lie all the time. I did not say anything about censorship, but to that point, Facebook should block all political ads thus making the conversation about censorship moot in this regard. They already admitted foreign actors in 2016 spreading political BS, so why not say no to all political ads? If they are not part of the solution, they are part of the problem, aren’t they?

    4. @Jelly Belly They dont want that obviously. They want Zuckerberg to have the authority to shut down whatever they deem “misleading”. That specifically targets everything trump or republicans do, because what they probably want is that facebook appoints a board that is unelected by the people, will be left leaning, which is the very nature of silicone valley, that will control what political ads run on their plattform. In other words shut down dissent.
      AOC is an authoritarian far left lunatic. She wanted steven crowder to be shut down by youtube because of his “homophobic” comments, which werent ofcourse homophobic. Also in this hearing she smeared the daily caller which is a conservative news website as white supremacist. She disgusts me.

    5. @STOP ABORTING BABIES START ABORTING LIBERALS Personally, I would 1st like to see a LAW banning ALL politicians from lying to the public. If the FBI deserves that respect, why doesn’t the citizens of this country get the same? smdh

    1. @Alex .Wallace Yeah sure. Lets give left wing technocrats in silicone valley the power to determine that. WHAT COULD GO WRONG???

    2. @Jeremy Fransen Ohhh man that’s a good one…. cause you were the one who inspected feet at the time😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

  3. Ethics do not compute with Zuckerberg, never has/ Lots of $$$ is his goal. It is what made him an Elite, a top 1%er.

  4. Utterly great questions to ask that lizard running FB. Bravo AOC. Zuckerberg is supposed to be a smart guy but his answers often fail to demonstrate real ethical thought or depth.

    1. @STOP ABORTING BABIES START ABORTING LIBERALS The threat of another civil war in the US is extremely disheartening. However we’ve fought 1 before and a steady diet of wars thereafter. At least another 1 will actually be about again saving our country.
      Be True. VOTE BLUE 2020

    1. Ana Maldonado you trust billionaires? Wow! I guess you vote for the 1% hoping they will get you a better life! Good for you but sorry, will never happen. Voting republican is a vote for the 1% if you and anyone else didn’t know,

    1. After seeing this, I’m saving my photos and deleting Facebook. I kept it to keep in touch with family that live far away, but I’ll just get everyone’s emails instead and send photos that way. Not worth it.

    2. @Lindsey Stein hello, you could try Threema – a Swiss page much like whatsapp, but without the facebook connection 😉
      Take care and have a nice weekend

  5. AOC handles bad actors and talks with the understanding and authority of a seasoned political veteran 30 years her senior.

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