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Jake Auchincloss: “Until we get a handle on these social media corporations…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Jeffrey Goldberg, Meghna Chakrabarti, and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in Boston on America at 250

Published | Video Starts at 48:38

You had mentioned sort of this flood the zone strategy from Steve Bannon. You know, Democrats have a flood the zone problem as well. That zone is social media. And Until we get a handle on these social media corporations, our politics is going to continue to be polluted. Well, get a handle on social media corporations that doesn't abolish the police from 2020 hurt the Democrats. That hashtag abolish ICE, now, free Palestine. (48:38–48:44)

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Asserts that social media corporations contribute to the pollution of politics.

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