didn't muhammad you go, harry has issued a directive to his government. oh, says, ah, a bronze. cockrell and a king's boast, the 2 works of art whose return is being celebrated. they once decorated beneath palace commissioned by ancient kings to remember their predecessors. the city was attacked and the palace ransacked in 18. 97. the king had refused to recognize britons claim on west africa, while 2 items are being returned. 900 pieces remain in the british museum in london, and the people have been in city or waiting for their return. and chappelle al jazeera ah, it's good around up. now. other headlines on al jazeera, the world's worst affected nation, has now seen more than 800000 deaths from covey. 19 members of the u. s. congress

held a moment of silence on the steps of the capital to honor those americans who died during the pandemic. the world health organization says the coven, 19 alma cron variant is spreading faster than any other strain. it's warning there'll be no end to the pandemic if wealthy countries or for vaccine boosters, while millions in poor nations wait for a 1st dose. 77 countries have no reported cases of or me cron. and the reality is that army cronies probably in most countries, even if it hasn't been detected yet, all micron is spreading at a rate we have not seen was any previous variant. we're concerned that people are dismissing army chron micron as mild surely we have lent by and now that we underestimate this virus at our pedal, even if or micron does cause less cbs,

this is the sheer number of cases could, once again overwhelm unprepared. health systems of thought for a candle factory in the us state of kentucky say bosses threatened to fire them if they left work as a tornado approach. management denies the allegations, at least 8 people died at the factory. state governor says an investigation will be conducted on the you and 2nd, security council has met to discuss salvaging the 2015 iran nuclear deal. ambassador st situation is grave and iran's nuclear program is more advanced than ever. the us house of representatives is voting on whether to hold former white house, chief of staff, mark meadows, in contempt of congress. last week, he attended a hearing on january 6 wise. those are the headlines war in afghanistan. now who will non taliban figures make up

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real and what is free, when facts don't matter, then voice with the loudest, mega phone gains more power than i'm facing 7 cases, some of which can put me to jail up to 15 years. now ruckel is both says a war of attrition is on the way when she and her colleagues determined to with guess what we know, we know that and the rest of the warrant issued obviously it makes you feel vulnerable, but i think that's the point, right. this is the time to fight. this is the time to tell people here. here's the right. and you have to make sure that our government doesn't for us. it because when it does, we're no longer the hulu . ah, ah,

i am a pretend millennial, but i'm turning 5555 years. oh wow. i've been a journalist for ah, more than 30 years. ah. alexa played best play list resuming spotify when our president rodrigo detector was elected the campaign machinery that helped elect him was weaponized and went after anyone who was critical of the drug war. and also journalists in particular were targeted. mm, this is a war for truce, and the biggest casualty in the war for truth is how many people have been killed in the truck more? i'm at the front lines. i feel it. i know it. i have the data to prove. here's what happened in the philippines when facebook we came to toxic. i watch alexa ranking every day, which is a website, ranking of, of olga where do people philipino school and before it's

alexa. oh, you have alexa. it doesn't record dish. i think this information and the use of your daughter, and you have alexa, how can you plan for the future of what we can become if you don't try it? part of the problem with old power right now is they don't understand new technology. and part of the problem with the people who build the new technology, they don't understand old power. that's what needs to merge. mm hm. facebook changed and in the philippines, it really is the internet. mm. the journalists role as gatekeepers, that's dead. in the end, it comes down to the tech platforms. social media in particular will determine what gets delivered to people. mm

hm. in january of 2018, the government of the philippines tried to shut raptor down, were being investigated. and then we're, we're pacing legal cases. one on ownership that could land me in prison for anywhere from 5 to 15 years. the court of appeals came out with a decision after midnight. they denied our appeal harassment. it is to distract this. it is to stop us from reporting. it's to intimidate us, so we don't so we don't challenge with i think the, the biggest waco call for the government was the day after they, they tried to shut down raptor. there was a global reaction to which i don't think they counted on that. they also didn't

count the raptor would fight rattler was a dream in 2011, a group of friends. and i kind of thought that there's this new technology that is, that we can't completely try out inside traditional networks because everything that made traditional media successful will go against what we wanted to do. can i please, can i tweak what's your post. 1 let's do that story next semester bateman. glenda. yeah. we started with 12 people. 4 or 5 of us were about 40 at that point. um. and then we hired the smartest 20 somethings we could find

is this a good luck with that with the mug? oh, what do you, how do i fix with? i think it's largely unfixable. i mean, i've been trying to fix it for 40 is to lose. why don't i start because you're here from the london school of economics. i will introduce you to palmer and settings done a lot of the groundbreaking work on looking at fresh and this information heater pomerantz of welcome to manila. let me just figure out we're being manipulated there. disinformation and misinformation campaigns by both state actors and private interests. what do we do about it? does a much deeper question? is that social media has kind of fueled a new type of what i might term papa. populism is much more emotional. and with an enemy very abstract one who is blocking your very private grievances,

the stablish with the elite, foreigners, doesn't matter. so you, you actually wrote a lot about russian dis, information. how would you define, think about it from the point of view of a leader with author. it's harry and sentences. so back in the 20th century, you could, you could shut off your population with censorship, right? you could just block off tv channels, they can't do that anymore, right? so instead of trying to send the things you spread as much cynicism as possible, you undermined the idea of trust. you say, yeah, maybe our media isn't buffer the b, b, c, cnn. right? plan, they're all bought and once you undermine the idea that there's any kind of truth out there, that all this kind of left his emotion and the so only the most emotional and vickery emotional leader wins. it seemed like in the short term, only the tech giants have the ability to quickly fix certain things. if we start uniting. right, the forces of good know that something we can be tomorrow,

it is truly our resume. yeah. that pooler tech me is that started, it started ya, and we need a little bit maybe some resources to help us out. so we start acting sort of strategically, new facebook has admitted that the philippines is patient 0 in the war against this information. 2016, the campaign machinery of now president detective used facebook and social media to win an election, but they didn't stop there. we began to see these vicious attacks on facebook against anyone who questioned the killings in the drug war. and in october, i wrote this 3 part series on the propaganda war. when we released it, i was attacked. the propaganda machine came after us with our bag in then it was immediate. you know, i've been called every animal you can think of. i've, my sexual life has been dissected and at the beginning i faced it like

a traditional journalist where you try to fight it. then you realize, no, you can't. it's not built that way. you, you don't fight this by looking at content. you fight this by looking at networks and looking at algorithms. that's when i realized something news going on. and we began gathering data. we call it the shark tank. but what it is is it's truly big. data created a bit of social networks that spread this information that have been huge than attack. so we have more than 350000000 comments more than 15000000 accounts. so it's a big data set. it is probably the largest outside of facebook. the key thing here is to go back to the way the new tear to campaign ran, the social media campaigns. this. so organize that they have a content creator for the elite, then there's a content creator,

a blogger for the middle class, and then the blogger for the mass base is now the head of the social media for the presidential alan, looking at that database, you can pull out keywords, you can pull out attack, and you can get to exactly how the attack began and the velocity sprint took the shark tank. we connected it to a slack channel. if something is spreading beyond a certain frequency, it will send us all an alert. once we fact check it, we can send it to facebook and facebook with the press it in. ready in august of 2016, i gave facebook the data that we had. and i said, you really have to look at this because, you know, you have us elections coming up and this is so alarming that trump could win. and we all laughed. we laughed. and then one from one in november, they asked me for the data and in the french elections, that data helped pulled down 30000 homes. this database,

this big data is, is the story of how a robust democracy became a dictatorship. that's certainly where we seem to be headed and so we can still fight it and we're using the data to that ah ha, blue is in the color is gonna that this is grease g are you, is legal processes are being used against us. that does have impact on the business because the minute an advertiser now signed a contract with rapper. there's a risk involved for them. so what we need is very quickly when we saw the trend and that, that advertisers were scared. we then came up with a whole slew of different products that we could offer. so, discovering the propaganda machine led us to our new business model. if you think

about it, is a specific thing we're selling here locally. it is what we did building community for what we did for rapper is what we're, we're offering to do for them. but it is data driven links with social media, narrative strategy and, and distribution strategy. when i look at what cambridge analytics did and whoa, you know, certain political parties use social media to understand and then 5 and then create messaging and then target. in essence, that's a lot of what this is. and i'm just wondering what interested a. so i can talk and then carla can also talk. so from this because the cynical view is, or this is psychological, manipulation using technology or marketing in general, which is actually a you go, remember what was wrong and team which analytical, it wasn't the psychological analysis. it was the way they got their data breach the

breach and the data so, so you're the senses. it's okay to think influence your psychological outlook, but it's not okay to steal data. is that really we as world ending up companies don't know how to use social media? well, except to put ads in facebook and they're realizing that that's not a good thing. a mom and dad are a week. yeah, we should it's their anniversary. right? yeah. hi, mom. i was going to send you the photo from florida. you gotta seen doctor talk to mom and dad. i'm going to show you the have been we're having dinner. the kids are here in the notes here. i bye guys. love you love me, mom and dad. my lord, thank you for this meal. we put

a hedge of protection around all of us and those that we love than those that we care for. so that we can walk in your life a min one is mine alone. anyone touch? you see the case? yeah, i feel whatever i need to get. i am not going to get emotional about you guys. do you guys worry about you to maria all the time? don't worry about me. i worry about you all. so i think you just tell me what you think i need to know, which is probably okay to what the end goal of all of this is to actually take up space. so the less space it takes up, the better. right? i guess for me, i think that was a lot of pressure to do after hearing, but i really feel like maybe i can finish by

when the case came and they were threatening to shut us down. we were like, we're not gonna talk. that's like an old way. thanks for. yeah. i'm connect thing was connecting, i mean, we are looking for new products that raptor can build. right. obviously we're working on it, but we'd like to work with you because every person in this room has not just displayed great talent at what they do, but is also committed in a different way. so that's our end goal. this is my really yes, i mean, so i don't have kids. right. i realized my, my longest relationship is with journalism guys, you will get, i will send an email of all of the awards that you got there because they've been

incredible. ah, it's been a good year that even if it's been a bad, a difficult bar to the year. okay. but i think the energy of the folks are one of the reasons he survive and we continue barreling. so there's nothing it feels like when we act like a teen, nothing will get in our day. we can barrow through it, people are throwing their lives into it, right. people that just me it's are, it's raptors. look at their faces off my cup. so you make me emotional armed paper leave. so i, but you know, going to with it anyways. actually the easy part is the rational rank is free. we've taken care of the team.

ah, you gotta look for home in collaboration. it's hope in solidarity. i came to paris to join this commission, but it's an inaugural meeting of about 20 people who are working on this information in different parts of the world. hesitant mac crohn will meet with us and it's something that is it's really an initiative by the reporters. r s f. put your sense frontiers. i think the technology platforms, the social media platforms,

are forced to confront what they've created. what they've done now is allowed evil networks to take over. and that has actually had an impact on democracies around the world. so it's going to be interesting with us here to nice at the scene. get a why fi here? yes. okay. i will, i will set up cuz i'll try to live stream the event on rap with a if, if a n f f, a 217. thank you. yes for some he's on the classroom,

you just need a solution or i'm doing this with let's say you were for disease. you mentioned. yeah. could you do a whole guy? you know, what's horrible with that? it'll be contra lighting. you know, what did he will you see like to watch community that's. that's what i found that it won't let me do by go over you the civil so it's 349 was more somehow with 2 animal. that's horrible. i don't have many choices because he saw them from us, from eagle, on the palm of the government. you don't get the money. that's perfect. so i'm on you to leave it with this person. she received a note with her eyes shooting that while she is one of the chairs of us along with ours. thank you with thought to the list of all the small round table about situations as well as the fisher to her to with goes with her us years

of journalist and ceo of the rosler, you know, almost 97 percent of filipinos or on the internet or on facebook for rattler social media is both a positive and negative. it is both good and evil depending on how it's used. but free speech is being used to stifle free speech. whole is used to power you into silence and for all of our countries, how do we give free speech without the excesses of people who want to manipulate this new technology? the condition in the philippines is offering us a capsule into the future. where things go really terrible. ah, this is and pawn from r s of sheer in a body to nobel prize where you and zia for moscow watch,

man and that you will. oh, thank you sir. i do think the french understand that if facebook hadn't taken down to 30000 take accounts that from may not present or they don't really think that that some back in spec they don't really think that 2nd order. actually, it's an interesting question whether it is or is. so, oh, that's interesting, you know, based on the actual behavior. yeah. turns out to be a very, very important study. you said you have to come to our country. how would you describe journalism and tracy today with kim dentures? professional development, emergent concrete. people have a chance to reach the truth. it's like going on. so we need to

find the solutions to globally with we have an hour when the president mccraney. i want to understand how one head of state, who's holding the line for it and the way he looks at it and what he thinks it's even possible. i want to ask him, what can be done? what are other leaders in democracies talking about well, do you leave him money in manila? yeah. i had been in one of the many, many years ago. oh, please. if you ever come, i love to show you city, how long have you been in since 2009 and your family is with

i hope i know have to go into exile. i yes, this, i will sign it with what did you say? what did you think that meeting i knew sufficiently cynical, but my normal expectation for a meeting with i head of state is that will be a problem. that essentially will be a performance for all political purposes. but it was a remarkable sounds that you were actually having conversation with somebody who had to influence a political relation. so we'll see what actually comes with it. it was an off the record discussion with him on that cron is one of the leaders that was targeted by

these bad actors on social media. is he a leader with liberal values? does he stand for things that the geopolitical actors did not want? who is behind those 30000 fake accounts. that's interesting to me. he probably knows he certainly didn't say anything about it. the constitution of the philippines gives me certain rights to protect my ability to do my job. all of that was stripped away by the social media platforms. there is absolutely no accountability for the platforms to spread lies exponentially. you should not allow it to spread. that's what i'm looking for, that you get the once

upon a time, a family fled from one. and so to silence in the snowy land. the sisters were so scared of being sent back, that they disappeared within themselves. the little boy had different states and mas shit make square. how will that story and witness wake up? what mom's an out there? ah, each and every one of us have to go to responsibilities to change our personal space for a we could do this experiment and if by diversity could increase just

a little bit and that wouldn't be worth doing. anybody had any idea that it would become a magnet, who is incredibly rough for women to get 50 percent representation in the constituent assembly here in getting these people to pick up to collect the signature, a extremely important service that they provide to the city. i think we need to take america to try to bring people together and trying to deal with people who left behind the listening post cuts through the noise. we're talking about competing narrative, the modern day tools being used to perpetuate those competing narrative separating spin from fuck all 3 versions of the story and some element of the true. but the full story remains and unpacking the stories you're being told. it's not

a science story at all. it's a story about how much the listening post your guide to the media on a just 0 ah, a grim milestone as the united states marks 800000 co with 19 deaths. and the w h. o warns on the current is spreading faster than any earlier coded barriers ah, on hasn't seek of this is live from the also coming up. wealthy nations are criticized for giving covered 19 boosters to their citizens while millions in poor countries all yet to get a 1st dose. workers say they were prevent.