to more wars in on the ground that would lead to more alinea eating and more isolating of the united states. facebook and google are at risk of losing one of the world's biggest advertisers if they fail to improve news transparency and tackle extremism on their platforms consumer products giant unilever which makes some of the biggest brands in food and cleaning products made the threat at a tech conference on monday but the anglo dutch firms being caught out in the past itself with its own misjudged marketing as daniel hawking to explained same news different day facebook is again in the firing line having faced pressure from governments and activists over failing to root out hate speech racism fake news divisive comments and whatnot this time its global joint union leading the charge even threatening to reduce and withdraw advertising from the social media platform if the things they don't improve. unilever will not invest in platforms or

environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and a new era of positivity unity and inclusive ety but a closer look at unilever's own p.r. record reveals a contentious history from this infamous dove soap placed on facebook triggering a storm of accusations of racism to fair lovely skin lightening products market across asia sporting allegations of perpetuating racist colonial there are types to control the seas with massage any and sexism culminating in a damning report on chauvinist that marketing.

after apologizing unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released a new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else let's face it though you leave out probably won't drop one of its biggest advertising platforms money talks and the story probably has generated some good p.r. that butyl uber as any company is primary responsibility is to make money for its shareholders to turn a profit and sometimes p.r. initiatives like this are part of it they're just an effort to elevate your brand i think it would be difficult for them as a company that makes consumer products to avoid advertising one of the most prominent platforms today but what about the central actor in the whole story. spoke the platform has shown commitment to the battle against fake news and abuse

but the floodgates have now been truly opened under pressure left right and center to moderate to censor to sanitize and seems to have buckled under the squeeze well it has made itself very vulnerable because it has made these promises and it's even done some things to try to filter misinformation out of its social network even though they have tried to do things it doesn't appear to be working we're going to see a lot of pressure increasing pressure on facebook at unilever thinks it could fix it by giving including marketplace pressure on facebook i'm a little bit skeptical that that will actually work facebook is tackling an ever growing list of calls and ultimatums first from politicians and security services now it seems corporations that shipping into facebook spending to dumond's could well backfire. a top u.s. democratic lawmaker is calling for emergency meetings on alleged russian meddling

that's on top of the three major investigations already underway in the united states gerald now thinks the current administration is not doing enough to address the threat which he describes as being equivalent to bombs and bullets we want to protect us so this is a very severe threat and this is as much an attack on the united states as if there were bombs and bullets this is an attack on our essential governing structure. and the continuing allegations of crushing ties one of the investigators on the senate intelligence committee has found himself and brought in controversy jacqueline who has the details on. in case you haven't noticed the democratic party is very worried about big bad russia the film portals into our society the kremlin clan russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media truly troubling evidence of the scope and reach of russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian

investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and clued in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steele the former spy behind the now infamous trump dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam walton a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon i had to do pasta and according to the text while mine is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppet now this is all way under the table warner repeatedly refused to

make the invitation to speak to seal officially in writing while at the same time telling weldon that the paris efforts would be helping america and apparently in his mind the way to do that is to be in cruise with a confidant of one of the richest men in russia and according to republican senator marco rubio the whole senate intelligence committee has known about the contacts for months so if the other the democrats nor the republicans care about warner's conduct is it just that collusion is a problem reserved for only one party or is the reality here that russia is just being used in a political game of chess one or said it one point we have to be careful of paraphrasing here i don't want a paper trail now if what he was doing was fine and dandy and innocuous and no big deal then why would he care if there was a paper trail he certainly should have or his staff should have known who he was communicating with who this lobbyist represented if you're going to talk to a lobbyist about getting a one on one face to face with christopher steele then you should know who you're

dealing with in trying to arrange that. eating the fix was in the toddies or between the democrats and russia more so than anything trump ever had to do with russia but it just shows what hypocrites they are and the american media just ignores these things control this is over alleged russian meddling a breach of the us media to the homeland security department is accusing a major t.v. network of false reporting of a moscow's perceived hiking activities during the twenty sixteen presidential election in washington his america. well the department of homeland security has discredited a n.b.c. news report claiming that russians hacked into voter registration rolls of prior to the election now in a statement jeannette man for the department's chief security official said that quote recent n.b.c. reporting has missed represented facts and confuse the public with regard to the department of homeland security's efforts to combat election hacking but in the

report n.b.c. interviewed man for and all she said was that twenty one states were targeted but somehow the articles headline was russians penetrated the us voter systems which according to you man for a statement she found incredibly misleading while the us has been accusing the kremlin of influencing the election for over a year and a half now but there have also been rumors floating around that russia influenced the brags that the now the british government's been busy trying to link russia to the dregs of folk but even you tube has gone on record saying that there's been no proof of that sort and across the pond the us has been searching relentlessly for anything to pin hillary's loss on russia so this is just yet another russian interference and it successfully debunked but the us establishment refuses to let go of this idea that russia supposedly hacked the election so i have to ask how many more times will this have to happen until they finally admit that there was no you know magical russian meddling. you're watching r t is the recovery operation continues the victims of sunday's deadly plane crash near moscow being remembered

at a vigil in the city with more on that when we come back. chokes seem wrong. but old clothes just don't hold. the world to get to shape out just because to add to it and gain tremendous equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. tens of billions hundreds of billions probably a trillion dollars of u.s. government subsidies a seat on the energy industry yes government can subsidize mining of big oil rather cryptic currencies and put those into wallets called american citizens going to each have an automatic wallet tied to this all security account and they can get

a daily and weekly or monthly air drop crypto coins that they can then years to boost the economy with the government can easily do that. welcome back the victims of sunday's air crash near moscow the moment at a vigil outside the capital's main cathedral seventy one candles were lit for each of the people who lost their lives in the tragedy that plane came down minutes after taking off from the city's domodedovo airport killing everyone on board was heading to or a city near russia's border with kazakhstan. to the east. but they truly believe that

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for the citizens of the earth first searchers. are least. sealers no one wakes up to the skies this terrorist or very rare earth minerals that are slid around. just for a surface of stone say. around a thousand people are now involved in the recovery operation that so ready covered thirty actors of land specialist lifting vehicles are expected at the scene later to remove some of the large objects of wreckage while we're continuing to recover and identify the remains of the victims both the plane's flight recorders are in the hands of investigators right now but they get to give any indications as to the cause of the crash.

an adviser to the polish president is under fire for what some are calling anti israeli comments he was defending a new law that prohibits statement about poland being responsible for the crimes the nazi regime committed against the jews in the second world war and supposed sentiments in israel comes from the feeling of shame and the passivity of the jews too in the holocaust the new lower also makes it illegal to refer to nazi death camps situated in the country as polish ones anyone violating the law could face up to three years in jail the presidential advisor went even further in defending the legislation. the religion of the holocaust has become a symbolic shield for their country which is used by israel to create for itself a special position in many places in the world many jews in gauged in denunciation collaboration during the war i think israel has still not worked through more than

three million jewish people lived in poland before the second world war most of them were killed during the conflict the auschwitz birkenau camp which was built in poland during the nazi occupation saw around one million jews lose their lives there newsweek magazine columnist mark shulman thinks the new law will affect poland relations with fellow e.u. members the problem with the law is not so much the fact it says you can't say polish death camps but the fact the law says you cannot diminish the role of the nazis which means that if you say that the poles had some part of it you are violating the law and by all accounts while the nazis were the ones who are ninety percent responsible for the holocaust what happened in poland clearly there were poles who were involved and clearly there are cases where the poles were part of the part of the problem and so it's a real problem of course the question of freedom of speech as well freedom of people to study the holocaust to talk about the holocaust and not to mention the fact that thousands and thousands of israelis go every year to visit many of them high schoolers and the question is when their guides go to poland do they have to be afraid to speak their truth and speak of what went on in poland i think this

will have an effect on poles relations with the western europe at this point and it's part of a series of actions that the polish government has taken their member of the e.u. and yet they are testing the e.u. and its ability to accept a much more nationalistic government in poland. britain's opposition labor party is facing claims of discrimination after it sent out a very specific invitation to an equality conference the invite from young labor says that you have to be under twenty seven and be from at least one of these groups minority ethnic helgi bt disabled people or women we talked to a director of a human rights group who was supporting the event. it's quite ironic that a conference that's focusing on discriminated groups. has now the focus has now become about people who are. who are in a dominant position there's obviously a feeling amongst those with the lived experience that they need

a space where they can discuss things that pertain to them and their demographic and then share with the world about how to make the world a better place the reason that discriminated groups are recognized as needing a space is because there is an imbalance there's an imbalance in politics if you look it's not representative well there already calls from m.p.'s in the ruling conservative party to investigate the event ed smith who's from active a britain which is a center right or thinks that an equality conference should be open to wall thing is that a lot of what has your males not only. you know what it is for males have got the lowest also the most under performing in compulsory education under the least represented in higher education but not only that it's more that they need for to hear what these people are facing and hear what the solutions to the problems going to be so that they can help contribute themselves the representative for your group

should be voted for by your group. white males should not be included in the. absence of voting present but it's about the discussions and all the things that are going to go on around the conference i think it's really important everybody to be included in and for everybody to be able to talk. that's the news about this i'll be back in just about thirty minutes to update you again c.n.n. . dot com. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. studying so hard it requires drugs just.

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i am an astrologer this is the welcome is done once again to get into the nitty gritty the fun and maybe they ultimately expression oh what station i have a confession to make we are actually in mexico right now. that's true we are in mexico for this the toshi round table and we have reprieve recorded this so we're at the social round table talking about decline with all our fellow big coiners and i'm predicting this so just in case the price has crashed zero or the price has gone to fifty thousand we don't know at the point that we're recording this but i do want to talk about the general headline here regarding decline and it reads nobody puts bitcoin in the corner this is from f.t.

alphaville skate i'm super. and he's written for queen telegraph and all these sorts on line wired as well about crypto currencies and stuff and this is gotten a lot of attention because of this opening these three paragraphs that i want to talk about very very fascinating way to put it suppose for a moment big question never existed and the theory i'm never existed and the whole crazy world of crypto currencies never happened someone comes along and tells you to imagine an electronic network for moving money anywhere in the world that no one owns it's an intriguing idea it's an unprecedented idea in the entirety of human history such a thing has literally never existed would your response really be l o l the true value of bitcoin is zero no no no this is the result of a lot of very smart people thinking about this for many many years about how to move value over the internet with encountering. what's called the double spend

problem that it censorship resistant that it's immutable it's goal two point zero and it takes advantage of the a some pot a curve and costs in technologies for processing band with and other elements chip speed all approaching that price of zero which means you can have the block chain moving around at ever cheaper cost even though it's expanding in size because the economics of the internet is crashing toward zero that's one of the phenomenon in economics that people like paul krugman don't understand as it applies to bitcoin because he is used to things like increased returns economics don diminishing returns and how that effects pricing and how that affects economic theory have increased returns where you have the basic raw material that is the say electrons in the processing and moving them around is constantly going to zero but

you're at the same time as infinite as that sounds the uniqueness of each bitcoin to there only being twenty one million is part of the intrigue that is this technology and this and this value system that is completely unique and the result of thousands of years of technological progress hundreds of years of economic thought and real true desirability to have a system that is completely outside social control well yeah it's important to understand who ever you're reading or what analysis to understand kind of where they're coming from and what their background is so paul krugman is neoclassical economists and ivory tower he lives in an ivory tower he's an academic there's nothing wrong with that there's been ivory tower dwellers throughout history in india they have it codified into a class system a caste system he is an academic and he believes in the. the right

of a hierarchy that you know one should. trained to a doctor it's level and then you can tell the people you could teach people these poor students ignorant students what what the truth is about economics so. he comes from that sort of background where he believes elite know more and they should govern the economy politics culture so that's his background that's how he comes to bit coin. on the other hand as this article points out there have been a lot of scams. but that's attached to anything that is a store of value look at any clint eastwood film for history it's all about some schmuck trying to steal some gold from somebody else and they all fight and kill each other and then you know some woman is gained as well during the whole thing and they make off with a gold somebody who gets the gold at the end of the show but here he says there's a lot of that's dumb about crypto currencies the dumb seems to increase

proportionally with the price every day some new idiot tries or a lock on the i c o roulette wheel and the hope of making a fortune of a lifetime for doing little more than writing a piece of paper and sticking a countdown clock on a website but there's a lot that's really profound and you need only look as far as big to see that so he goes into the actual issue which gives it so much value which the likes of paul graham asked and which you've just been calculated where he says the problem of transferring or holding value digitally without permission is not a trivial one the fact the solution requires huge amounts of energy is just one sign of the difficulty the upshot of solving it however as you get an electronic network for value that governments cannot control or destroy except with significant financial and social cost even they might not succeed i mean you saw that with remember during the arab spring when in egypt. when mubarak was

overthrown he tried to turn off the internet and it worked for two or three days and all his cronies every would like that he had to turn it back on he had to connect them back to the internet because it was it became impossible he was he was going to be ousted no matter what at that point because he was either going to crash the economy take everything down with it and all his friends and all his cronies or he was going to have to turn it back on this barrier to entry for creating a coin is almost zero over a thousand coins and. hundreds of probably more than a thousand i.c.'s and you know i think i liken it to i remember i don't even have this anymore but they used to have a form of a cosmetic. product where you put this tape on your skin and blackheads and you know the ease with which you can create a currency out of nothing as is pulled out the black kids that are a lot of dodgy characters and projects out there. alongside the

internet just like you know there are many false prophets and then there was let's say a jesus for example you know enter of being worth something but you know let's go back to. the secular world yes toshi is a problem a lot of people are seeking profits but here you know again the internet paul krugman meston every time he tries to offer his opinion on twitter about bitcoin of course if you look at the tweet tweet responses as all pictures of fax machines because of course he said the internet would have no impact on the global economy as much only as the fax machine ever did so he just thought it was a communication not a network and he clearly has some sort of blind spots in network effects and network impacts and changing of the mind and and certainly you were around during the first dot com boom and. at that time people you know the markets investors

went crazy and people thought pets. dot com ty's dot com shirt dot com you know that was where it was all going to go that was the way to make fortunes and they didn't see social media they didn't see twitter facebook there was all came along later right thing the basic as i point out that that's missed is that the underlying fundamental building blocks of this economy are becoming cheaper every single day and it's a lot different than traditionally going to makes where you have diminishing returns or you have the need you know if you're digging gold out of the ground it takes ever more energy to dig gold out of the ground now it does require more energy to mine coins but the ancillary markets themselves are popping up in a way that's almost exponential and dwarfing that underlying cost is such a such a degree that the free money that's appearing in people's accounts that they can use then to go and do battle with the money that is the result of coercion by

a corrupt state is quite remarkable i just want to also point out something about the first dot com bubble didn't you have some like seven year old pitcher and a knock knock joke say yeah i was that's right the the height of the dot com bubble went to a conference i sat next to as a seven or ten year old kid who was launching knock knock joke dot com for a multi-million dollar valuation and it was the you know the supreme knock knock jokes that one could find and there was also a duty dot com as a daily drawing of. def occasion essentially and drawn def a catering duty dot com but there's i see oh it's a quick yes jason calacanis about this jason remember duty dot com knock knock joke dot com i mean that was jason was of course the king of the dot com back then he's been come out he's against not against but even trying to sound the alert on the parallels between the dot com and the i.c. which is ok it's a fine analysis there is total access in this space but the underlying technology

like there were survivors of the dot com like google and. facebook a little later but. another those lows this whole awful yeah there's another thing going around which. who is the founder of the theory i'm has been talking about this is an ocean a fair coin people are trying to figure a way to distribute coins better that was also an issue up at a meeting i heard some analysis saying that there was a lot of talk about sovereign currencies because at that point at the time of. venezuela has it just announced petro currency. so this is something going forward that could be a possibility as the sovereign currencies i don't know i haven't read the white paper on the petro but i don't know if that's workable but i think in the future there could be something that is like you know the alas alas if you're a resident of lasky receive some money every year it's like a thousand two thousand three thousand dollars check that comes in because you live

in the state and the oil in the state produces a lot of oil so they get a share of that so there could be a way to distribute instead of having oligarchs and all they sort of very wealthy few where they're you know you're in an oil rich country or mineral rich country if it just goes to a handful of people they get to you know for some reason get the exclusive access to the assets of the nation that happened to lie under the nation you know this is a fair way to distribute the coins or a mention of the government in america subsidizes the energy industry tens of billions hundreds of billions probably a trillion dollars of u.s. government subsidies ation of the energy industry u.s. government could subsidize mining of big oil or other crypto currencies and put those into wall it's called american citizens going to each have an automatic wallet tied to their social security account and they can get a daily weekly or monthly airdrop of crypto coins that they can then use to boost the economy with the government can easily do that they never should do that many to.