covet nineteen is thrown into doubt the two people in europe are confirmed to have been re infected with the virus. seven belgium and the netherlands. it one increase not to escalate tensions in the eastern mediterranean itself say that threatened to do what is necessary. the head to head offshore gas resources. liamm l. messi hasas tolold barcecelona e wants to leave the club six time the current holder of the ballon d'or. debate tools that allows him to terminate and

leave as a free agent. the students i might go let's start with that story from the worldld of football the nmsc t tally barcelelona he wants to leave te club the argentinian has reportedly informed- barcelona he w wants to activate a clause that says he can terminate its contract at the end of the season which would be the six time ballon d'or winner regarded as one of the all time greats of the game. could be leaving on a free transfer simon harding how sports editor joins a simon this is quite a story given recent events and i'm talking about that eight to defeat att the hands of bayern munich and elimination of the champions league should perhaps we have seen ts s coming. it depends log on- t the s situatin and how you choose to look at it that eight to defeat to bayern munich which you mentioned certainly- just a brul the crisis of back on barcelona but people who follow. spanish what will closely will note that this has been brewing for quite some time actually within the ranks

of the catalan club at the sands. if truth be told lewis and re k. left he was replaced by a nest of all the eight day and ninety day session both had. very unimpressive ten years the idea that the fact. that leonel messi could leave barcelona club he's been with. since two thousand and four clubs made his debut with the club. the he's one six about on tools with our record is just unfathomable because a lot of football fans especially young football fans. associate leonel messi with a boss about him perhaps even associate barcelona with lionel messi just to show you. how big the personality is. but the recent events in- barcelona's club the stewardship it's being on the- would president chose it maria boss a man has been very rocky. and the results particularly in europe have angered messi the defeat against roma. when they collapsed at the olympic co in rome losing that game three nail to crash out in the

quarterfinals stand against liverpool. last season in the semi finals they were up three no lost for now the anfield and of course this year to cap it all off the eight to defeat. a blind munich. messy it has enough with the vision of the club. and the only thing that is rumored to be able to keep him out of barcelona. is for the club president so just that maria boston made to resign and- early elections. to be held at the helm of the club indeed a messy- certainly at the age of thirty three is. that the- while she was in the autumn of his career but he clearly has. things still to offer. clearly still of all singled for what might his pulse moved you think. well that can put the money on course meant this call and contract that we should probably address that a little bit said that lin l. messi. has been adding the schools into his contract year on year whenever he's had a renewed or extended the problem is it

expired on on may in may and he had to make a decision on june tenth so technically- this a free transfer i mean the whole legal battles surrounding it is what we're going to see whether barcelona. a willing to let it go considering he's such a legend or whether they're going to holold out for thatt seven hundred million euros kohl's which is insertrted in his contntract now if- they hold out for that feed that are veryy very few clubs in the world that are going to be able to afford to add a lot of people have been talking about a potential reunification with pep guardiola. at manchester city another club that springs to mind would be parasitism models with million i'm messy and he's attacking force a clear addition to the parisians to reach the final of this year's champions league and if not then it all depends on a well you know messi wants to go what future and how. he wants to finish his career. some of

the other thank you very much indeed. two patients in europe have been confirmed re infected with covered nineteen. doctors say this raise a huge doubts over the effectiveness of immumunity acquired from the infection. cases a are intelligent and nothing's. returning from a trip to spain this month the thirty three year old man from hong kong tested positive for the coronavirurus a second time for hoff months after recovering from its- genetic testing should heed calls a different strain of the virus the first evever proroof. of reinfection. nkem university's medical school says the results suggests immunity can behorts lasting. thihis pharmacist is very smart because it keepeps on you u taking. so that meaeans tt even though you have recover from natural infection you still need your vaccination- and you still need to- to where mas. the hong kong case isn't the only one a patient in the netherlands and another in belgium have also been re infected. the belgianan woman

caught the virus in march and then again in june and the dutch patients was an older peperson witith a weak immune system. dusseldorf's giggle does all of the- of old films on such good form of you stupid to be held. w without using that your f falcons- connection eighghties determination. scieientists s say thatt iff yoe relatively mild symptoms you will body might not creatate reinfectction. they'rere expectg to see more such cases e emerge in the coming days. africa is not free of the disease polio this. for the world health organization is the climax of decades of long campaigning many victims though a left to live with the effects of the virus. tech increase a locked in an escalating brown of the rights to offshore gas fields war of words threatens to become actual physical action took his threaten to do whatever necessary without hesitation they say. just a

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medics say he wasn't poisoned but since the valley who as we say still in a coma was airlifted to berlin. a different a more sinisterer picture is emerging. a state of emergency has been declared in. the u. s. state of wisconsin the latest on jacob blake the black man shot seven times. in the back by police that his father says his son is paralyzed. authorities in the town of kenosha brace for third night of unrest. austin's torched much of the city's black business district following the shooting. blake was shot in the back as he apparently tried to get by into his own car. donald trump republican party convention continues to make the headlines. later mike pompeiiii will break with tradition to become the f first sititting u.. us secretary of state. to address the party gathering at least seventy five he's- the story so far hasn't been what was billed after promising to outline how optimistic. the u us woululd be under a seconond shop admin. that's just been mostly

dire warnings of the possible consequences of voting for the democrats. negative campaigning but trump fans seem to o be lapppping it up. there is seemingly no attempts to broaden the voter base to learn the one hundred million people who didn't bother voting. in twenty sixteen. for tpp we'll have more on that that convention that later nkosi on france twenty four. and of.. course more news stylulus. hello and welcome to this edition of ththe from twenty four interview on jessica the missouri and my guest today is brittany kaiser. a former employee of the british political consultancy firm cambridge analytica. the firm is of course a now notorious foror its involvementt in the election of donald trump and i in the brexit campaign she's just releleased a memo all about her time working for cambridge analytica. bush's

book is called t targeted thanak you very for b being with us thanank you for having me personallyly you workedd for s e three and a half years for cambridge analytica. then you decided to speak out about your time that can you tell us what exactly cambridge analytica did with the information of up to. eighty seven million facebook users in order to manipulatete them in the lead up to the election of donald trump. cambridge analytica was one of many company is that. in the political realm was buying and licensing as much data as you can possibly get on u. s. citizens and- unfortunately that's quite a lot we don't have laws and regulations that allow us to know how much data is being collected about us. what companies hold nor what they're going to use it for. an unfortunate unfortunately what i saw. at the end of the trump campaign was that. data had been used in n order to protect people's behavior so that

individuals could be manipulated. my family pleaded instead of persuaded because not everyone was persuaded to sign up to vote and come to the polls and- care about politics and engage in important issues. some people over unfortunately persuaded to not go to the polls. and t two inherently. hae a distrurust in politicscs. how cambriridge. you sorry all psyc. operations this is essentially a form of modern day warfare. psychological operations means that you use behavioral science in order to understand how people make their decisions how they can be persuaded. and that was can be generated because strategy soo what they did was work with behavioral clinical and experimental psychologists in order to. put together a survey is that tetested how people saw the world how they made their decisions everyday. and when you have that type of information you can target specific communications. just

all the way down to an individual or to specific groups of people that could include change their behavior or convince them to take an action that they might have nott taken without that. they divided people up into different groups but the great that they focused on was the new robotics can you explain. dale and why they decided it functioned best to manipulate those particular personality types yeah so there are a lot of different personality types buy it. when somebody is neurotic it means that you are persuaded by fear based messaging. and when cambridge analytica the trump campaign and the man trump super pac make an american number one was undertaking their testing. they saw that the most successful use cases of psychological data was to use fear based messaging and send that to people who are in iraq people that are emotionally unstable. people who might easily make snap decisions and that was so successful that they continue

to use the rest of the campaign budget especially for the super pacc on negativeve mesessaging . can you give me clear examples ofof the types of ads that was sent to ththese peoeople to tart them on that facebook accounts yes so. one of the examples that i was shown by my colleagues that ran the trump campaign and the trump super pac was. how they used. a group called the debtor it's the was a group that was labeled to deterring them. from voting. these are people that were shown to be hillary clinton supporters. that would never vote for donald trump. so the only way to spend money in order to talk to these people was to decide to make them disengaged f from the political prococess. in one of the exampls that i was shown was a a misquoe from michelle obama in two thousand seven. where she was saying. brock and i are spending a lot of time with sachin miglior with our daughter is taking care of our family while we're out on the campaign trail. and she said if you can't run your own house

you can't run the white house. now that was taken out of cocontext. and spliced with othr pieces of information about. bill clinton and monica lewiwinsky. in order to make it seem like michelle obama was saying that hillary clinton. could not take care of her own marital relationship. and therefore she can run the white house. this was sent. to conservative women where family values were considered. very number one issue. in this was made to turn them off from hillary clinton. who all of their data it said that they were going to support h her. and make t them think less of her. they used a form of advertising that was basically fan b be to promoted sexism racism all those sorts of things and his information. and disinformation. at what point. did you start t to question how ethical all of this was why didn't you. take action for the earlier owned and speak out what did it take you so long. i wish that i would have come out earlier i wish that i would have actually seen all of those ads and blown the whistle

before election day. i was shown one month after the election hi everybody that ran the campaign and the superpac. everything that they did is a two day long what they called a debriefing. and for eight hours each day they showed us all the data they collected how they divided people out how they were targeted. and examples of the messaging that they used. that w t the first time that everybody that didn't work onn the campaign's saga really the bare bones of what was going on behind the scenes. i wish i would've known earlier i wish i would have done something. butut it's never too l late to do the right thing. you were a democrat that yet you ended up working for some of the- most powerful people from the fall riright. in the unitedd states ultimately how did that happen. in a sense would you targeted. that's really why i have f four hundred pages of a book to explain what happens. i want everyone to know that everybody is vulnerable to being persuaded. everybody can be targeted that happened to meme.

it can happen to anybody and it really does on a d day to day basis we are not protected today from anything that happened in twenty sixteen. in your book y your narrator's voie almost feels at times. app schizophrenic i feel like you both extremely smart and savvy. but then at the same time you portray yourself as someone not evenen he was s in a way a victm he was used who is brittany kaiser. it's hard to quantify what happens all i can explain is. whwhat i i experience on a y to day b basis and the way thati view all of that now i think it's important for peoeople to understand how vulnerable they are i'm sure there's a lot of really amazing people at facebook right now that the thing that moving fast and breaking things w was great another questioning some of the decisions that mark zuckerberg is making. decisions that don't protect our democracy and i bet you they never thought they

would be in that position. so it's important for people as soon as they see something going wrong. in their companies actually start to question it tells about the role that you played. in the brexit referendum. so cambridge analytica- was working with levy you for a period of time. in order to ststart to analyzee data to figure out who in the united kingdom would be persuaded to vote to leave and this was an initial piece of data work using. u. k. independence party data and a survey that asks people about why they would want to leave or not and cambridge analytica found quite a few different groups of people who would be interested in voting to leave and identify those people. talked about their psychographics and what type of messaging would persuade them. and that was delivered so levy year which- whether they use that knowledge fully or not they created their own data company in order to. have a

full national campaign that as we know now use disinformation abuse data laws and even contravenes electoral spending regulations the united kingdom was really not their democracy was sold to the highest bidder. unfortunately the highest bidder was erin banks there's another very interesting episode in the book where you talk about your journey t to paris to o pitch to the sarkozy that team in twenty fifteen i believe it september twenty fifteen yoyou had that. you make your pitch but the french say nope. it was the first time that anyone had told alexander nix no i think inspire life. we made this presentatation- alexander makes the presentation and you could see the l looks on their face that they were shocked at the amount of data that's actually available not just on americans but on french citizens. and what could be done even under frenench law in order. to run

these data driven campaigns and elections. nice you know what. we don't have ananything to do with this we personally b beliee that no matter how effecective your campaigning is. if the french people found out that we were using their data in this way. to talk to them about politics that campaign would lose just because of that information. i'm white why is that do you think. i think there's a completely different culture in most european countries than in america where people know how bad it can get when data is abused again that's why germany has the strictest data laws because of what happened in world war two. national registries of people's personal data were used in order to commit atrocities of the holocaust and so that legacy of what happens when governments abuse data means that the laws and regulations in europe really to protect citizens in a different way cambridge analytica is defunct. yet there are many other new or pre existing perhaps came down is becausese out the company's doing exactly the same thing

right now we are not. any more protected than we were in twenty sixteen in fact i think people are probably more vulnerable this year for the twenty twenty elections now there's probably many different cambridgdge analytica is not jut in the united states but all over the world people understand more how to use advanced data science and micrototargeting. and mark zuckerberg has decided that facebook is not going to moderate political speech anything that comes out of a politician's mouth is not newsworthy and therefore they're not going to be held to the same community standards as you and i. i am not allowed to go on facebook and incite racism or sexism that type of discrimination. i'm not allowed to use fire suppression tactics. our laws save. but somomehow politicians are not being held to thosese standards and i think that's so dangerous and that face h has created the biggest threat to o our democracy this year than we could've imagined how can people stop themselveves from being manipulated how can people stop that data being

stolen or taken without them knowing should ever just leave facebook- put their phones away when they don't want anyone to know where they feed i did a study that how can they stop believing this trail of data everywhere. i think the first step is to become digitally literate and understand how much data you produce every day hello read the terms and conditions before you download your next act you know if we want to use a lot of apps and technology platforms we actually have to give our data away hopefully that's going to change we're gonna have more transparency into what data we are producing. who it's being shared with and for what purposes our data is going to be used and have the option to opt out would y you say that- democracy is under threat with ththe way the information is being used against us absolutely our democracy is under threat. and until we have big tech i understand that and invest in the solution we're still going to be vulnerable especially in election years brittany kaiser thank you very

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