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from the streets. >> if a kid >> if the kids fail the 9th she grade they are likely to fail high school. if she fails >> we are also meet the man she will likely behind the program that is school. >> the program that is changing the way millions of middle schoolers learn, and why the way it works. >> and the artist who gives women a voice against the words the khan that hurt. works. against the >> i'm talking about someone >> aggressively sexualizing me aggressively sexualizing me in a in a very very rude and unwelcome way. that's not a compliment. unwelcomed ♪ compliment. >> good evening, thanks for >> good evening, joining us, i'm joie chen. joining us, i'm joie tonight we consider how the tonight we consider internet as changed us for good internet and for evil. for evil, some ways if your life includes teenagers, never contemplated.

if you are aware how rapidly that can happen. one of the latest things in how rapidly that can happen. their world is called vine. one of the most recent things in their lives is called vine, and it is as the kids gay jie the kids morous. it has a 403% increase in less than a year, and five vines are tweeted every second. every second and as it grows it is proving to be vine is proving to be not just a powerful force, and as popular but a add as adam may reports, its own adam may found it is creating form of judgment its own life. >> reporter: curtis is a >> curtis la pour is tattooed rocker and comedian. jesse smiles is a comedian. a wit witty, bubbly blonde. they are a new kind of celebrity. >> they're a new kind of >> for all of you telling me i celebrity. >> all of you was ant real celebrity. in your face. wasn't >> reporter:

>> two of the most popular people on two of the most popular people on vine. site owned by at which timer, they each have around 3 million that limits followers, after meeting through vine and commenting on each videos. after meeting other's videos, they decided to commenting meet in person last august. videos, they decided >> i like this girl, her name is person. their jesse smiles. publicly on social media. this >> reporter: this youtube video their documented their first meeting thousands of fans. in new >> it just keeps playing over and over again? park. >> it keeps playing over and over again. >> if you >> yeah, if you don't stop it. play until the end >> college student followed the romance on vine. >> college he is a different kind of vine star. this video he their video on posted when the when u.s. supreme court ruling on same sex marriage are

same-sex marriage went viral. viral. vine is just one year vine already has 40 million also users, and is just one-year old. >> you can become a celebrity on fastest growing media app this platform very quickly. 2013. >> you >> who cruises vine? >> id would say it's a variety version activity. very there are people who are there are people who are superfans who latch on to superfans who personalities on vine. personalities on vine. >> super-fans who can turn >> reporter: super fans who can as far turn ugly. daniel was shocked to see jesse viral. shocked and curtis's on line curtis's viral video turn fairytale an allegation of rape. romance turn into an accusation jesse of rape. >> dave, i'm pregnant. assaulted by curtis in >> no, you are not. >> a shortly after the two detective tells "america tonight" about. >> babe, i'm curtis was arrested in september and charged with the >> curtis was arrested in september and charged with the rape rape of an unconscious person.

he has pleaded not guilty. he has pleaded not >> there are words here i can't >> there are words say on television. >> exactly. can't say on television. >> but she is being called a >> exactly. liar basically -- >> but she's being called a liar basically by some >> yeah, in much worse terms. >> and much worse terms. >> when >> when the news broke this month, wine vine's support superfans vicious attacks. boat released a [ technical difficulties ] supporters. video, >> they have people that are loyal to one or another. >> they have people who are and it has almost become kind of loyal to one another, it is a duelling at most tier. almost become a kind of >> do you think there's something about this platform? atmosphere. >> how serious with allegations of rape. do you think there is something >> one of the things that vine about this platform? allows for is video. >> one of the things that vine allows is video. and video is perhaps the best and video is perhaps medium for people to feel like

someone. medium for someone to >> more personal. know someone. >> it's >> much more personal. >> it's much more personal. >> personal but not >> personal, but not always reality. reality. where followers have become judge as a rape case plays out in the plays newest corner of cyberspace. >> "america tonight"'s adam may of is up with us. >> "america where is the legal part of the case now? up with us. where does the legal part >> slowly making its way through this stand the justice system. >> making its way through the justice he posted $100,000 bond so he is la pour free, and shortly after the story broke on tnz he posted a he is free. he tweet claiming that this whole claiming thing was a second publicity stuff on behalf of jesse smiles. second publicity stunt on >> so in terms of what judgment of is made, the social media >> in community is already making its judge and jury, right? made, the >> and that's really already making interesting, because there are jury right? no facts in this case so far. >> it's very interesting because there are no facts we don't know if there is any the case so far. physical evidence. we don't know if there's not much documentation has been released. physical evidence, police the fans are going back through very tight those old feeds on vine. what the fans are doing is

looking at videos, tweets, and back through the trying to get into the minds, i vine, they are would say of these two online celebrities, and they are super tweets, getting fans, and they have drawn a law in so to say of these online celebrities. they are divided. team >> joining us now via skype is neve shulman who explored the being idea of people not being who they seem to be online. >> exploring you, though, were also a witness to the first face-to-face being who they seem to meeting between jesse and curtis. and as adam's talked about here the let's talk more broodly about let's what all of this means. about it is a social community that a social community has made judgment here. judgment >> yeah, i became very >> yeah, interested in vine early on, when i saw the intense community interested in vine early on when i saw the intense community that was that was building, the meet-ups, the meet-ups, the the fact that people were using people were this new platform to bring platform to bring people together, and as you together. and as you mentioned, i was at that first that first meet-up

meet-up where jesse and curtis and curtis met and met, and it was overwhelming, it overwhelming. there had had to be a couple thousand thousand younger to older younger to older people there there excited to excited to see them. and i don't know >> a couple of thousand people >> consume. a get together to essentially go together to essentially go on the first date of couple. quasicouple? >> yes, in >> yeah, in that case you could say it was a say it was a first date. and then in and then in other cases which are happening all over the are happening all across the country and even country and even internationally, internationally, it's really a chance to chance to meet your favorite viner. and i see viner, and i see a in that and in a tremendous potential sort of focus in that. and i would like to harness it that to for something good, unfortunately, as we have seen, meaningful. that's where people make mistakes things unfortunately happen, there are misunderstandings, that has mistakes, things happen, there always been the case vine or not. has been misunderstandings, that has been >> when you first met that couple, did they seem genuine, >> i'm curious or are we talking about a couple when you first saw

of actors that are really driven by celebrity? were >> i get asked a lot how for real i am in my experience with are they the documentary cat fish and >> i'm asked how then subsequently how real or the tv show fake the tv show is. tell people and i tell people my experience is real. was real, the show the show is real. the feelings that these the feelings these people have have are are real. are there. of the relationships are there. of course when you introduce a camera or camera or social media following, there is an following there is an interaction that exists, interaction that exists that isn't natural. isn't natural. but i spoke with curtis for the two days but i spoke with curtis for the meet-up and he two days leading up to that nervous. he was genuine reply meet-up, and he was extremely love with nervous, he was genuinely, i think in love with jesse, and and very excited to meet her very excited to meet her for the the first time. that felt very real first time. and i had a little bit of a and that felt very real to me. behind-the-scenes look >> so even know in cat fish what that. >> so you are talking about is people you're being somebody different online than what the reality is, this being somebody different online

than is kind of like two separate worlds here, you are creating has come like two separates worlds images of people off of you're creating six-second videos, and that off six-second videos and that becomes sort becomes their defining identity identity in a worldwide community. community. >> what is so >> well, what's exciting about about vine is that it's vine is it has given another you know another platform, out let for people who outlet for people who are creative, musical talented creative, musical, talented funny to promote and funny to put their talent out there. put their it it doesn't doesn't .matter how famous were, you were, all that matters is make good that you make good and people will follow vines. will revine you, as a result you and people will revine you and will become vine famous you will become vine famous. excited by that because i'm so i'm interested in interested empowering young and people young and old wherever they are with whatever access or with whatever access or means they have means they have to express themselves. and that's why i think vine >> then there are risks as well, is -- >> then there are and that's one of the things we and that's one of have talked about as well. we've talked about here. we appreciate

we appreciate you being with us. thank you both. are and now to another example the power of online tools and responsibility. this one before the supreme court. who should pay the price for child pornography. you. who should pay the price for this case involved a woman who child pornography? this involves a woman was raped by her uncle when she raped by her uncle was just eight years old. just eight pictures of the rape have circulated online. of that the woman is seeking to have one of the men convicted of po online. saying some of the pictures pay amy, has tried her more than $3 million in restitution. men to pay her $3 million but should one offender pay the restitution. the question is should the entire amount, or should the man pay the entire compensation be split among should every viewer caught with the images. justice steven breyer asked antonin

about fairness and responsibility . . . seem fair. terrible crime you don't require a person to pay for what he didn't cause. this is called the national center for missing it and exploited children is the national center for supporting the victim missing and exploited children is known as a amy yota in what you heard, what did you learn and what was the thinking, if you could read court for oral arguments. from what between the lines on what the the thinking if justices were asking? between lines in what >> most significant was the justices were asking? court's recognition that this is >> most significant is the not a victimless crime. court's recognition that this is not that there is a real child there behind every image, and that every child that child is harmed, and some restitution should be awarded to child is the victim. >> so the question is really who severe and should pay that restitution. should be it assigned to one person or everyone. >> exactly. should be assigned to that how much restitution should one

victim. the defendant be ordered to pay to the victim? restitution should one defendant >> so in this particular case, be ordered to pay to the victim. the courts have identified >> so in this particular case the courts figure? million as an >> $3.4 million is the restitution figure? request. >> 3.4 million is the >> so the question isn't whether restitution request. >> the question is it one person -- although as it's one person, although as we noted there are thousands of notethere thousands of people who may have downloaded this image who may have this in their possession. >> exactly. thousands of people who may have this >> so what is the thinking? why does it make sense to assign >> exactly. it to one person? >> where is the think? why does it make sense >> the mandatory victim it to one restitution act is very clear. >> the and that's statute basically calls for courts to award full is very clear. that statute basically calls for courts losses. >> but why one person if you are to victims for their losses. aware that there are at least >> why one person? if you are aware that there are thousands? at least some >> what has been happening now many thousands. >> what has been in the lower courts is that some in the lower courts courts have been awarding no restitution. courts have been awarding no some have been awarding token

restitution. some have restitution. $50 a month, a few thousand dollars as a set fee. restitution. $50 a month, a few thousand dollars as a set what that puts victims like amy puts in the position of doing is doing is litigating hundreds of thousands of thousands of of cases in order to regain the to restitution amount. >> so she and her lawyers would amount. >> what happens here as a have to identify each and every practical matter, she and her person who possess these images lawyers would have to identify each and then go after them in a separate case? possess these images and go after >> yes, it would create a continuous stream of litigation >> yes, it would that the victim would have to suffer through. continuous dream of litigation that the >> is there any likelihood that suffer she would collect $3 million >> is it likely that from one individual. collect $3 i don't know who that person is, individual? i don't know who that individual but is it likely they have the is but resources to return it to her. person has the resources to return to >> in the case of mr. >> in the case perilline, from from what i understand that not be possible with would not be possible. mr. paraline. but viewers

but viewers who view child pornography cut across the economic continuum. >> something that could only happen because of the internet world. >> absolutely. pornography, >> thank you for being with us and helping this. ♪ after is endless. the break, frozen up, >> thank you for joining but still a heated protest. after the break, why ukrainians are keeping the but still a heated protest. pressure on, and why the u.s. is why the ukrainians are finally stepping in. up the protest and why the later in the program, "america is final reply tonight" in depth, we continue our focus on education in later, america. talk about education we look at a methamphetamine odd we could look at that could add up to success. that could end >> now it's more important to graduate. >> being doing this program make me feel feel like i like i had more potential than i actually thought i had. than i actually had. so feels kind of so i feel kind of smart now. >> how algebra >> how algebra might make a difference, from the kids who difference from the kids who are

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nobody in my family has ever been diagnosed with breast cancer... >> techknow on al jazeera america >> for the first time since antigovernment protests began in koran two months ago, clashes between government and protestors turned deadly. leaving several dead. police beating a protest orwas stripped down in freezing temperatures. protestors occupy government buildings. al jazeera's jennifer glasse brings her viewpoint. in kiev. >> i walked across the square. if you go sort of a block that way, everything seems like normal. seems like a normal day in kiev.

but in the square, they were preparing for battle. they had dug up the pavement, there were stones by the barricades, they had reinforced the barricades overnight. there were two men standing by those barriers that had makeshift molotov cocktails at their feet and across the sky black smoke and those were from burning barricades. that barricade made of burning tires, to obscure police vision. on wednesday things turned violent here and two protestors were shot and killed by the police. to speak to the ukrainians as i have in the square, they talk about their democracy when they gained independence from the soviet union. that is why there's so much determination here. it's been impressive to see in these freezing cold temperatures protestors outs here day and

night. there are tens of thousands in this square behind me right now. you know, watching and waiting to see what will happen next after an uneasy truce today. really, a historical, potentially, many people here think it's a turning point. as i walk down near the metro, you see people walking through some of them going to work, and you can tell the men who the had come back from the battle front, blackened faces from the barricades. really a mixture as people try to balance their life with the bald battle of their country that they feel is going on from the square behind me. many will.watching to see what happens here.

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difference in chicago and in math, but no matter the subject there's one big inveigh tor who is making a terrific impact online, if you have not heard about the con academy, you have to see what it's doing and hear about it's impact, take a look. >> time six time six, or 216. >> i am told the humidity makes it feel hotter why

is this in. >> excellent question. >> just like make it 11. >> get a moves. >> function as a bridge rectifier. >> one, two, three, four, five, six. >> this does not blow your mind, then you have no emotion. >> the founder and director of the academy he joins us now, thank you so much for being with us, you know, this is a remarkable program, it is taking place all over is world. i heard from so many middle schoolers middle schoolteachers as well as others that they are using the con academy as part of their normal program. you began with math, as we with saw real focus on math, is it because you saw that as being an opportunity to make a real impact on kids lives. >> yeah, i think most parents or family members in my case cousins will tell you when you see a family member having

difficulty, usually around middle school, it's often -- it's often math. in my case it was my cousin nadia. she was entering the 7th grade, she lad done badly on a math placement test. and i thought that was not good indicator for what she was -- for her own potential, so i decided to start tutoring her, then i started making videos to help her, and other cousins and then they took off with the exercises became what we now call the con academy. >> so it wasn't your intention to revolutionize education, you were just doing this? >> yeah. whenever you work on anything, you always day team that maybe someone may use it more broadly, at the time it was just fulfilling a need, now it has grown. now we are reaching 10,000 student as month, and a whole seedries of subjects. the focus of the organization, is still a

math primarily, but now we are branching off, you saw in that video, science, art history, the humanities whatever else. >> what makes a difference in these videos? her quite animated some of them, they are quite entertaining is that what makes the connection? >> you know, we're not 100% sure, we always try to think about so it we with don't lose our secret sauce, most of our videos look like the later ones where it is often times me with kind of pastel colored on a digital blackboard, and i think why people like it is it is very -- they feel close -- it feels authentic, it doesn't feel scripted textbook explanation, you can hear the person and often times me think through it, but at the same time, it is focused on the intuition, and on a lot of subjects people have trouble with with. >> so that does go to the program we saw in chicago, where it is very

much a one on one with relationship to try to help these kids move forward, in a sense you rah building a one on one relationship, although it is with with millions of people. >> yeah, a certain ironny. we are 24 web with thing, you are right. a lot of people say the videos feel like we are sitting next to each other, all the software is really to try to personallize the learning so it can meet them where they are, so even if you are in 9th grade, but you are having trouble with decimals the software will meet you there. move you ahead, suggest the right videos so we are trying to mimic that personal connection, and then on top of that, if you do have a parents, siblings, cousins in your life, we give all that data to them so they can go a revel further. >> i have totem you when my son started seeing your spread is owes he is an 8th grader now, the first thing that struck me is how do we with know they are right.

this is just some guy in california with a bunch of videos some of which are pretty casual. how do we know they are accurate? >> yeah, well with that's -- i have a little bit of a background in math, and commuter science, or pretty big one with. but the -- the main answer is it's incredibly vetted process. obviously just putting it out there for everybody to see, most of that has been viewed by 200,000 people, and if there's an error we find out about it within a few minutes and on top of that we with have a rigorous process where we with get educators and experts to review it, mark thins that seem unclear, not even just incorrect, but inning that may be unclear. what is net about the web interfate, it isn't just me in a classroom and if i make a mistake, it is out there for everybody to make thursday it is add goose as possible.

>> i guess you can answer the age old question, and what is it that makes math so hard? >> well, you know, i think -- math actually isn't hard. it is much more about. >> so you say. >> the way we with teach -- >> i think it is much more about the way we teach math. math is really depend on having a strong foundation. if you understand exponents really well, then lock rhythms will make sense. if you don't understand basic exponents ton logarithms are seeing really hard. and so what we with say is instead of shephards everybody together at a set payable, so you kind of got arithmetic, algebra becomes even more superficial, make sure you really understand the algebra, if you really understand algebra, a strong foundation, then the trigonometry, the al cue list will be pretty intuitive. >> well, hopefully there's potential even

for me, i appreciate you being with us. founder of the kahn academy, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next time on america tonight, we will continue our look at american education. >> let me make sure this is something you work on as a team. >> physics professor had north carolina state university may have the solution. he has come one a blueprint for producing more stem graduates. >> okay, this is what i want you to do. >> he teach intros ductry physics in a classroom he designed himself, he called it a flipped classroom, think of it as higher ed turned on its head, no more lectures students rhen the facts outside of class. >> there's videos available on the web that they can watch, they can find things on youtube, they can do searches on wikipedia, i don't care where they get the information. >> adam may with a revolutionary way of learning that is proving

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growing numbers of -- [ technical difficulties ] >> reporter: in this turkish border town there are 60,000 syrian refugees. abdul is one of them. this is their only clinic. he is their only internal medicine doctor. every day he sees 60 patients. >> this clinic is not enough. we need another clinic like this one, we need a

[ technical difficulties ] >> reporter: he does his best, but has no instruments beyond the basics. are you frustrated you cannot help these patients more? >> i am frustrated and disappointed. i feel fail because my ability is less than my duty. >> reporter: for two years he has been running for his life. first he fled the syrian government because he treated rebel soldiers, then he fled radical fighters who said he wasn't religious enough. like so many he was caught between war and pride. help. >> reporter: the clinic is privatelydrugs

[ technical difficulties ] >> he tries to save his own. >> because i can do anything in this case. >> their 14-year-old son tried to kill himself. then he tried to kill his younger brother. his family fears the war trau matized him. >> and how are your brothers doing? >> i think [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: [ technical difficulties ]

>> but he don't come back. >> he understands everything we're saying, and he understands that he is sick. >> he is trying to be kind to me, and that will make me better. that's good. >> reporter: can you tell me what you saw in syria? >> a lot of things. a lot of bad things. >> reporter: both brothers want to follow in their father's footsteps, but they fear they are losing the opportunity. >> i don't have a good school to study in. we don't have any university to study in. i think i'm losing my future. i can't -- i have always wanted my -- my simplest dream is to be a doctor. done. >> reporter: and so what do you hope for your future? >> i hope i can get out of here. get out of turkey. >> and go where? >> anywhere. >> back to syria?

>> no, i don't want to die. >> reporter: he hoped his family would thrive here, but he doesn't know if they will survive or if his patients will survive either. why do you stay here? >> help me. i am trying daily to leave from here. get me away, i will give you thanks for humanity. >> reporter: to save his patients he needs to stay, but to save his family, he needs to leave. nick schifrin al jazeera, turkey. and ahead in our final thoughts this hour, a true body

while you were asleep news was happening.

[ technical difficulties ] >> we traveled to brooklyn to see how this artist is quite literally putting a face to street harassment. >> street harassment to me is the unwanted attention, and interaction and behavior that a woman receives outside on the street, and it is something as simple as requesting a smile from a woman, or, you know, [ inaudible ] a woman. you are outside in a public space and you feel like you are people. like

[ technical difficulties ] >> so you are outside all the time, and everybody is outside, and i'm coming in direct contact with men all the time, and that's when i started to notice, like, okay, this isn't flattering anymore. this is happening consistently, and it's annoying and sometimes scary. the piece started out by interviewing women i know. we had a conversation about street harassment. what do you go through? what have you experienced?

what is your story? from there i shoot our portrait. so i take my camera, shoot her photograph, and from that photograph i do the drawing, and it's a simple black and white graphite drawing, i come up with the text, inspired by what she told me. i go out and find wall spaces and i paste them. [ technical difficulties ] >> she told me about this idea she had about telling a woman to smile campaign, and it wasn't until i actually experienced feeling uncome forable, walking

down a street, going towards our house, and it was during that time that i was like wow, this is what she means. >> i think people don't realize that something as seemingly harmless as a request to smile can instantly become something harmful and dangerous. if you don't respond to a man in the way he wants you to respond to him, then he can quickly curse you out, throw something violent. >> i literally felt like a piece of meat. and i'm not there for your entertainment, please leave me alone, and give me my space. >> whenever someone says that to me, it is just a compliment as some type of defense, i take offense to that. they are sexualizing me in a very rude unwelcome way, and

that's not a compliment. i am the one that perceives what a compliment is or isn't. i'm not talking about someone coming up to me and saying hey, your sweater is really nice, and saying thank you, that's a compliment. >> the most profound thing that has happened from this, is it created conversation for conversations to change the society. >> i have had a few people who didn't know what street harassment was or didn't understand it, and it's just like five-minute conversation. and they quickly got what street harassment was. i talked to a couple of guys who said i have six sisters, i guess it. i see this all the time. i have had a lot of conversations with men i didn't know. and they have been very open and

willing to talk about this and learn about it. which is really all i'm asking for with anyone is just look at this work and consider this work, to think about it, and consider what someone other than yourself goes to. >> it's just a way to take up space for a woman. because a lot of times we feel like we are treated as though we don't have a right to the outdoor space. so is [ technical difficulties ] >> the project has become bigger than just myself and what i go through, and i'm okay with that. i'm okay with, you know, being this tool for other women to use to get their stories out. i'm happy with that. >> from the streets of brooklyn and indeed for women everywhere on the street. that's it for us here on

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