can get to sixty five seventy percent accuracy brit this you can also buy up other d. does that including say electricity bills which give you a good idea of social comic status because you are the ritual usually has a higher electricity bill because they have air conditioning plus you have things like for not bush that are available surprisingly is illegal in the uk if you can back up back to the electoral roll then you basically have a direct to be to message people based on their past their religion that it's group and the board that belong to the lack of data protection laws in india means that such methods are not strictly illegal but was disturbed by the kind of an ethical micro-targeting he witnessed the problem arises when you start using the exact same of the liberty dollar to basically create a divided society into poor people what started happening is that there is a very concerted effort to create a divide between hindus and muslims to create a divide between groups b. to be as ready specific kind of messaging they're going to get across they want to

get across the messaging that muslims will overtake the population not of what this group but the thing is just because the messaging goes to such a small subset of people. who are but i am to believe that the us are sold because if you can profile people and i can defy what kind of messaging they're likely to believe you can skew the perception of reality least better fix it as best for kind of messaging campaign it doesn't happen instantly it's not one piece of news that's going to convince you of something but if you're bombarded with fake news pointed to a specific direction for months on and it does start to feel. these messages start get minority religious groups or individual politicians journalists and activists. but the problem of fake news it's not limited to whatsapp. its parent company facebook has nearly three hundred million users in india and that's by default plays host to an organized ecosystem for disseminating misinformation. in two

thousand and eighteen a b.b.c. analysis of some three thousand facebook pages from a town founded pre-term and tried to a narrative a nationalist ideology aligned with the b.g.p. on sites spreading fake names at the heart of the ecosystem up artists and influences like because. i started a facebook in which i mean. which is one point six which is world's biggest fan. and i've got more features which i don't want to name because they will. more than . with facebook now cracking down on pages that shame misleading information because careful not to reveal too much but with his boss reach he can often ensure that certain posts go viral while some experts insist he's part of the b.g. . he denies it i don't have any such formal role in the party but people nor me since i've been in wards last fifteen years or so in the same set up so it's

like ad hoc if you have done a hash tag i get a broadcast from others or a call from somebody in the party or was this is how we need to do and then i said . to achieve this he has an army of volunteers at his disposal mostly they're all the stewards so i normally see them for a six month. sensibility and home of their billing to help the cause if they're willing to help they're willing to learn also like. something to make graphics out of so i give them either from my pocket one or two thousand rupees something for the internet i asked some of my corporate friend to help give them a job. not create any content himself he has been accused of sharing misleading information and the dude is the right thing why is a. few dozen. just

. lost. in a mound which we were able to pull up with the help of a web tool called wayback machine because she had a claim that the number of refugees living in india had one hundred ten million people in fact the official figure is close to forty thousand but because the rohingya as are a refugee group that are largely muslim this fed into the preexisting bias in indian society against muslims so therefore there's over twenty one thousand times before it was officially taken off. for facebook proving its credibility in its largest market is crucial two weeks before the election began facebook banned hundreds of pages linked to the idea of the congress and the beaches. but the volume of misinformation on social media networks is so high that technology

companies just cannot keep up this explosion has led to the birth of a half a dozen fact checking networks like news founded by probably. for two years now since i am a small team have consistently debunked news in a nonpartizan way owning them more than a few enemies along the way. to make an office because we have a shoestring budget so the security cameras that you see. people if anything from being recorded for own safety. it's a few days after indian air force planes hit a target inside pakistani territory and pretty extreme is neck deep in verifying false claims circulating on social media about the attack. twenty six said. that it would i think.

devastation coursework after the essay there was a video was being circulated be found oh videos of video games call of duty and seventy that mean circulated and saying that you know this this is only a tactic. for old news following the money has become increasingly important one way of doing this is strict track how much individual pages are spending on facebook ads. from have to now they put how many. other comment about one point one point zero pros then in one week they have forced their voter to feel that. there's actually accelerating the amount as the elections approach one thing that we need to do that we need to go to some of the smaller pieces which are not you know which big thing they're not being sort of monitored and we want to see if there's any and that his book has approved which has an element of misinformation. news recently established that seventy percent of the money spent on political ads

in a particular week had come from pro b.g.p. pages nonetheless it's clear that not everyone is ideologically motivated the ones that are running a website making money the financial motivation is greater in my belief for example there's this guy his name is that we should measure and used to create probably more. videos and he saw that the bias to pull here so he jumped to the other side and started and i believe if there were different political circumstances in the country and if we had to create a different kind of content to make the same amount of money they would. rise amongst a handful of known fake news creators in india is wildly popular website by really in india often carries blatantly false stories with a decidedly anti b.g.p. stance the website was recently suspended but as this one was being made its associated page was. active on facebook and had over

a million foreigner was he agreed to meet us in new delhi and was confrontational from the start they don't. need to support a. little. money website. or who. is going to. use more than me he proudly posts pictures and social media with several leaders from the opposition congress including with the party's president raul gandhi but denies any formal association then i bring up allegations that he deliberately creates fake content up. to c b c to put website. up with a good example. so i do in may two thousand and eighteen one of his posts

went viral on facebook it claimed that former indian prime minister manmohan singh who belongs to the congress party had been declared the first of fifty most honest leaders in the world in an american survey. many. many. many. many are people who have side. bush i thought it would have you again it doesn't work this doesn't work that if. i may go manic the other side. of the environment. how much like a big shake peddlers of misinformation continue to operate with impunity in india

the easier we'll ability of datasets with personal information ensures that their content is talking to their audiences who are already primed to believe it to be over six hundred million indians are connected to the internet as politicians started this rapidly growing constitution see the country's laws have not kept pace successive governments have failed to bring in a personal data protection law believe us draft of this law will now only be discussed in parliament after the ongoing polls. houses of kilometers from new delhi in the french city of toulouse security analyst baptist roberts has given indians yet another reason to demand more stringent protection laws. better known through his twitter pseudonym eliot alderson he describes himself as the worst nightmare of the beach a piece. me to.

pull in to finish the open. question a year ago that the prime minister's. with same day uses personal details without their consent to an american behavioral analysis company called clever tap this included specific such as age profession and other voter id details. quickly. don't. give up on the play just one more. signal to see. in a very big company place. where you move will. push me. and do very scary.

duties. shortly after baptists revelations the b.g.p. confirmed directly to him that clever tap was using the data from the normal app for. the company remains elusive about the nature of this analysis all our emails and calls to them went unanswered. their website provides a few clues. lived up to all approach is to make relationship marketing. simple and easy for marketers for example that would be. in a campaign who. should receive the message the when you know what what the why is that the message should go to and what the actual message is being automating all three of these. baptist such behavioral analysis raises a few important questions after pill for. you to do.

because he's known for. his information and i don't snoop i can't force the present on just the. information i don't know the. question. there is a sure loser protest group a powerful some control criminal who secured first by due to no tolls on the check and all one quick point on the mean down as it is shown in johor crippen don't don't miss it a child in your will one day i will feel sure if creep her uncle john boehner the president is he sure is that.

it's nearly impossible to quantify the damage that such social media manipulation may inflict on india's democratic process but if we are to protect and preserve our constitutional right to freely elected does without fia all favor then my fellow citizens will have to demand accountability from those who lead us and from those who mislead us. bank.

talk to a local. politician . the current president and a popular comedian a heading for the second round of the presidential election with no official plan yet promising a change the comedian won the biggest share of the vote in the first round who will lead the country after this historic connection ukraine votes twenty nineteen on al-jazeera. in australia more women a big locked up than ever before but what's driving this alarming development one

on one east mates two x. inmates who live long behind bars on al-jazeera. in the heart of the amazon believe me in families this man lives in peril to harvest brazil nuts. which can sing the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it to believe be out. on al-jazeera. fighting intensifies in the battle for tripoli as the war pushes to capture the libyan capital.

joe however when i'm come all santamaria with the world news from al jazeera voters in egypt deciding whether to change the constitution and possibly allow the president to remain in office to the twenty thirty also police in over non-interest two men in connection with the murder of a journalist. columbine was twenty years ago. people who were born after columbine are now voting and that matters and two decades since that high school tragedy in littleton colorado we're looking at what if anything has changed. libya first stop where there is heavy fighting near the capital as the wall as forces continue to attack tripoli battling the un recognized the libyan government

south of the city in the town of call sort of a gusher. fighting is happening near the international airport which is under his control government forces are preparing to launch an operation in the coming days to retake the area well the spokesman for. the l a n a force has held a media conference on the battle a short time ago. forces providing fire support to our ground operations the enemy is trying to flank our forces from the back but they have failed in the face of the strength of our fight is and the experience of our fight is it has become a war of attrition so the city is as good as controlled by the alien a lot more from our correspondent and up the one he's in tripoli. forces loyal to the u.n. recognized government have been gaining ground trying to push have to us forces back beyond the southern borders of the capital tripoli military commanders with the government of national accord say that they are now besieging military units

loyal to the world for have to individual cities of the disused international airport that is the active international airport which is around thirty kilometers do this from tripoli city center but meanwhile what planes were the government of national accord targeted civil locations what have those forces are positioned near the city of that again around eighty kilometers to the south from tripoli also the government warplanes targeted air base that's around two hundred fifty kilometers to the west from the capital tripoli word have to his forces take off from that air base and target government forces locations south of tripoli also government sources say that the government forces have taken control of the area of the ends of the neighborhood which was taken control of a by have to his forces a week ago concerning the humanitarian situation on the ground their health

ministry says that the red crescent in tripoli is trying to help families who are stuck near the fighting areas and sources south of tripoli government sources say that electricity plant was hit by heavy weapons and that is going to result in a blackout in several neighborhoods south of the capital tripoli to other news an egyptian voting in a referendum that could open the door to president sisi staying in office to a year twenty thirty voters also deciding whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and to expand the role of the military fifty five million egyptians are eligible to take part. but rights groups are concerned the referendum won't be free or fair is proposed changes widely described as a step towards more autocracy under presidency has the details. president i'll deliver to has sisi was sworn in last year after winning his second

term in office the vote was marred by claims of irregularities a crackdown on activists and potential challengers a few months earlier sisi had said he would not seek a third term by the egyptian leader seems to have changed his mind beginning on saturday voters will take part in a referendum that could extend cc's term in office by two years and allow him to stand for another six year mandate effectively keeping him in office until twenty thirty the movie's a departure from the two thousand and eleven constitutional declaration that limits presidents to two four year terms egypt has completely eliminated opposition it's an environment of repression and fear people are terrified to to to vote to express dissent just in this in the lead up to this vote more than one hundred twenty

people have been arrested for campaigning for the for the no vote sees heroes of prominence after the two thousand and eleven uprising in two thousand and twelve he was appointed minister of defense by egypt's first democratically elected president mohamed morsi a year later sisi deposed morsi in a military coup and eventually became president while consider dating his grip on power his government has a rusted thousands of activists and opponents many facing death penalties the trials were widely condemned by human rights groups as a travesty. over the last few years a predominantly loyal parliament has introduced a series of reforms expanding the militarist influence the referendum is also asking people to vote for a provision that declares the military the guardian and protector of the state the

opposition is calling for boycott our dream to have a president elected once every two terms i can't and but since his will is not without challenges he faces armed groups in the sinai peninsula who have launched attacks against security forces and international calls for political reforms but the general turned politician seems defiant he's launching mega projects across the country and hoping to be able to fix an economy in tatters and win the trust of the people. the chairman of the african union commission is meeting sudan's military leaders in the khartoum. is also scheduled to hold consultations with opposition groups the african union has warned sudan's military rulers to hand over power to a civilian body by the end of april or risk suspension with mohamed violent. he held

a meeting this morning with the leadership of the military council and we learnt that he gave a statement to the sudan news agency in which he praised the sudanese military idea praised the position of so that for all of sudan geopolitically in the african continent and he particularly stressed that all of the military in maintaining stability in the country and he asked once again the military council. presided over a handover a peaceful and small handover of power to the government we understand that the african union just so we could go give an ultimatum of two weeks to the military council to cede power to the civilians but right now it's not clear what is meant exactly by that do they want the military council to move away completely from the top leadership of the country and leave it for a civilian president and the civilian cabinet all whether they just want a sharing of power in which the running of the real affairs of the country is held

by is done by civilians while the military maintain a position like a kind of presidential military council that's not clear so far but we know that there are consultations going on for days now for the opposition groups particularly those behind the protest to come with a list of suggested members of the cabinet they were supposed to announce it tomorrow in a press but now we're hearing that it might be postponed because they have not yet to really agreed with all the components of the opposition and the political class on the names of those people some of the parties the islamist leaning parties particularly the popular congress party led by and it has asked for the extension of the ultimatum given by the african union and more time to be given to the military and he also opposed the analysing of any needs tomorrow because he said some of the parties are not yet on the same page with the opposition with the

protestant leaders on the list of names. police in northern ireland have arrested two teenagers in connection with the killing of a journalist vigils been held for lara mckay she was shot on thursday just days before the anniversary of the uprising of irish republicans against british rule back in one nine hundred sixteen politicians from all sides of the region which is of course part of the u.k. have condemned the killing more from bernard smith in london terry. it was quiet overnight friday into saturday here in derry there remains out of shock disbelief and revulsion over the murder of lyra mackay there have been growing support for these dissident republican groups in this area these are groups that are opposed to the now twenty one year old good friday agreement that brought peace to northern ireland gave it self rule but kept it part of the united kingdom these distant republican groups no british connection here and they want a united ireland but those groups have been particularly seen support growing

amongst younger people eighteen nineteen twenty one year olds who have no memory of the troubles in northern ireland and those are the groups of those of people who say they've seen no benefit from the last twenty one years of peace here they remain economically deprived and they say there is little opportunity but the outbreak of violence from thursday night prompted by a police raid in this area properties where they were looking for power for petrol bombs are sort of thing that might have been used in a march planned on monday a police raid prompted. rioting on thursday night that led to lara mickey's death and now the revulsion but has come as a consequence of that serves as a reminder to young people here particularly all the violence what northern ireland was like before the good friday agreement with sun certainly many older people here are been reminded of the troubles that there were in northern ireland some twenty

one years ago. for civilians and three sold. and killed in a gunfight in the afghan capital kabul the attackers appear to have detonated an explosive device before storming the communications ministry has been relative calm in kabul in recent weeks coinciding with talks between the u.s. and taliban officials the taliban though denies responsibility for this attack here in kabul. this attack began around eleven thirty am local time a loud explosion was heard reverberated across central kabul following that there was three to four minutes of heavy gunfire. that it was inside the ministry of communications building ministry of interior came out they said we understand this is a complex attack there was a suicide bomber and then gunmen into the premises it took about five hours for security forces to get in and get control of the situation and they have just they've managed to secure the scene and we've seen security forces coming in going as intelligence people come in and try to assess what happened here the whole.

people could not come and go cordons are still in place a lot of these people here are very frustrated that they haven't been able to get inside. very high was very difficult to move on.