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major escalation to more wars in on the ground that would lead to more alinea ating 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 and make some of the biggest brands in food including products made a threat at a tech conference on monday but the anglo dirt firm has been caught out itself in the past with its own misjudged marketing has done a whole can explain it 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 universe leading the charge even threatening to reduce and withdraw advertising from the social media platform if things don't improve. unilever will not invest in
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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 includes everybody 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 as he is with sexism culminating in a damning report on chauvinists that marketing.
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after apologising unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released 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 but 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 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. use book the platform has shown commitment to the battle against fake news and abuse
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but the floodgates have now been truly opened on the 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 then 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 putting marketplace pressure on facebook i'm a little bit skeptical that that will actually were 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 has called for emergency meetings on alleged russian meddling
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that's on top of the three major investigations already underway in the united states jerrold nadler 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 i made the continuing allegations of trump russia ties one of the investigators on the senate intelligence committee has found himself and brought in controversy. has the details on that. in case you haven't noticed the democratic party is very worried about big bad russia the film portals into our society the kremlin clay and 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
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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 wallman a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did the 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
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make the invitation to speak to seal officially in writing while at the same time telling weldon that the pair's efforts would be helping america and apparently in his mind the way to do that is to be in coos 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 further 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
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a one on one face to face with christopher steele then you should know who you're dealing with in trying to arrange that need. the fix was in the tas are 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 the seas over alleged russian meddling in french the us media to the homeland security department is accusing a major t.v. network of false reporting over moscow's perceived hacking activities during the twenty sixth presidential election and washington his samir khan 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 from the department's chief security official said that quote recent n.b.c. reporting has misrepresented facts and confuse the public with regard to the department of homeland security's efforts to combat election hacking but in the
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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 now the british government's been busy trying to link russia to the regs 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 u.s. 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 artsy has leave recovery operation continues the victims of sunday's deadly plane
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crash near moscow have been remembered at a vigil in the city mall mouth when we come back. but politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more some want to.
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that's a going to be for us to see what the full screen the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lawyers in the. first six. hello again the victims of sunday's air crash near moscow be mourned at the vigil outside the capital's manga phaedra seventy one candles were lit for each of the people who lost their lives in the tragedy their plane crashed minutes after taking off from the city's damage out of the airport killing everyone on board it was heading to or skipped a city near russia's border with kazakstan. but
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the solution for the first series. certainly. there are three. silicone one week justice scalia's disturbing experiment was already over and also this was a little late for a little just for certain substances. when it's now nearly forty eight hours since that plane came down and around a thousand people are now involved in the recovery operation that's already covering some thirty have as specialist vehicles are removing smaller pieces of the wreckage while work continues to recover and identify the remains of the victims both the plane's flight recorders are in the hands of investigators now but they
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yet to give any indications as to the calls of the crash. british court is expected to announce the result of an appeal by wiki leaks editor julian to songs against an arrest warrant for breaching bail in the u.k. a hearing a week ago held up that warrant now he's been stuck in the ecuadorian embassy in london for nearly six years after seeking asylum there on associate looks at his fight for freedom. when one door closes another door opens but not for julian a songe holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london for years on end he has heard all after hurdle to overcome to walk a free man without being forced to look over his shoulder but the seemingly endless international saga could be about to turn a new page as a judge in london continues to consider whether the arrest warrant against the weak you leaks founder could be dropped last week amidst a media frenzy it was decided that the suspension of an investigation into alleged crimes in sweden that first led to his arrest was not sufficient reason to drop the
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warrant but his sons and his defense team believe his freedom is long overdue new judgment on whether to lift the u.k. warrant for my arrest two issues one cover up by the u.k. government of its collusion to keep me to taint to already served over three times the max theoretical sentence even before seeking asylum the cover up of sondre first two is based on newly released confidential e-mails between prosecutors in sweden and the u.k. seen and reported on by the u.k.'s guardian newspaper swedish investigators who ended their inquiries into sexual assault allegations against the weekly leaks founder last year reportedly wanted to do so much earlier only to be told by the british side to hold on as costs shouldn't be an issue and that the case should not be treated as just another extradition the latter has always been a songes biggest fear he believes the united states want him for scandalous revelations weiqi leaks published about their activities around the world this case
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is and has always been about the risk of extradition chain united states and that risk remains real he needs an issuance and he will not be extra to the united states to face prosecution and those are assurances that won't come from inside a courtroom what happens there is significant in terms of potentially opening legal doors one by one but the end game is much trickier than that because it's what. happens even if assad walks out these doors that's going to decide his future in the long run and if that's what you're going our. of this all stems back to twenty ten when sweden launched a sexual assault case against julian assange in june twenty twelve the wiki leaks editor entered the ecuadorian embassy and asked for asylum a day later a u.k. court issued an arrest warrant for breaching bail conditions last year though sweden dropped its case against him so the u.k. to arrest warrant is the last legal challenge the prevents a song from leaving the embassy and we're across it and we'll let you know the
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court's decision as soon as it's now. for now that's the way the world looks at this hour thanks very much for watching i'll be back in thirty minutes or so to update you again in the meantime dotcoms got you covered. these from a solution in the east but. this news of this thing in the book which is this is. a little bit. just from us trying. to get.
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this. here's what people have been saying about redacted in night with us exactly the full on awesome deal the show i go out of my way to launch you know a lot of the really packed a punch. yampa is the john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than to fast see people you've never heard of love back to the night my president of the world bank though kate was really seriously send us an e-mail.
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you are going to have. to give. me. your your medical reason her. clothes. these are. all of you good missteps in. the past. to get the degree which will get them their dream job young americans no longer hesitate to put their health at stake is the first day of term of the columbia campus one of the most prestigious universities in the world more than eighty nobel prize winners have either studied to torture him. just as in many other ivy league american schools some students take drugs to boost their academic results thanks to
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fit to mean divot if they can study through the night without showing any signs of tiredness i did my friend say did. break we're going to libya and there are hours to. be. in the united states the study drugs have become a public health issue more than a third of american students take them regularly. go to colombia thanks to an exam she took under the influence of infection. to avoid a disciplinary sanction she will hide her identity i didn't have any expectations of getting in the essay i wrote was an autobiography five pages i ended up taking a ph d. in medicine it just it puts you. in a mental space where you can focus entirely why not take a pill if everyone else is doing it to give you that compared to batch you haven't heard of her. being had that she got hold of very easily. a friend of mine
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prescription for a concert and he gave it to us for free probably down like a dozen times or so. and you will see how these pills are almost sold us over the counter drugs on campus. we walk through the streets around new york university with a hidden camera. after twenty minutes of searching become across this student we'll call him jobs. seriously. believe. it. just doesn't seem to be shocked we ask him if he can soldiers out. friends. like. people like. the student got to three scription from a fairly unobservant doctor. the million or so using.
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it. so josh deals the twenty five milligrams that he doesn't use and sell. after a few minutes of negotiation he lets us buy one of his pills ten dollars for thirty milligrams of amphetamines you can't go until they get here you lose. ten percent of students who take drugs become addicted. island is very familiar with this phenomena of journalists at the new york times he was one of the first people to raise the alarm. but i have to succeed i have to get an a i have to get into the best law school i have to be in the in the cream of the prop if average is no longer acceptable we're all in very big trouble among the most fragile students these pills can cause violence elucidations and suicidal thoughts. despite the
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risks a real traffic of these trucks has developed over the internet. this classified ad site well known by americans has dozens of office full study trucks. to attract students these miracle pills have even been renamed study aids. in order to get hold of them a simple phone call will to. one point. zero or. the police have been looking at these new internet dealers for quite some time. oktober two thousand and twelve operation dot com led to the arrest of twenty one new yorkers who were operating on this site. among them a student at n.y.u. . the aim of the authorities is to break up any traffic where doctors may be involved. on campus the addresses of these specialists are being exchanged illicitly we went to interview one of them. and it was like this because this is
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what is going you know before i take a test or something and i pretend to be a student who is having difficulties over the years were true and said exactly. no no health scan no verification of my student status instead of any medical examination he just hands me a sheet. with a. distance do you have problems organizing yourself or concentrating do you have memory problems you know that this questionnaire put together by the world health organization helps diagnose attention deficit disorders among adults. a two also works as a medical guarantee for this doctor is that you will be able to. read your report but there's. so over the bridge and return to
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a large vessel yeah exactly this is what goals was. to protect himself from any possible prosecution the psychiatry's made a sign a disclaimer. would fall for it ok that was the it was it was. in two thousand and nine almost six million prescriptions like this were issued to young americans every month in four years this figure has more than double the to succeed other students hedge their bets on another system of co-working which has stood the test of time. back at the university of kentucky. these great victorian like buildings are home to the famous fraternity house on the front of each building greek letters identify them. ronald reagan george w. bush steven spielberg mark zuckerberg all of them have been through these
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exclusively male secret brotherhoods. although they encourage support loyalty and integration as a code of conduct many americans consider them as violent and sectarian. after a few weeks of negotiations some of them allowed us to film them. it's rush week the week for selecting new members and tonight it's operation charm at the sigma alpha epsilon house. so they are just so good says. the aim to find future flatmates for this brand new house located in the heart of campus inside there's a fireplace a club armchair paintings of the former alumni you could almost forget their students live here is family attire so these are all before any real changes. tonight the fraternity will only be create the. the city's best pedigrees.
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graham has been an essay member since two thousand and ten he knows the selection ritual well. for the house of answer there are also events. we store in a short history. there you go. the atmosphere is rather relaxed everybody's trying to make a good impression you're going to take a look at the house in a couple guys together those are you. good for their candidates the first visit is only the beginning of a long process selection hazing initiations to get a place here they will have to get through what are sometimes violent challenges but not tonight discouraging the contenders is out of the question their attack is still focused on the competing for eternity a farmhouse right down the street their goal in this new house it's going to feel like one hundred square feet here in ours just to be bigger than ours but they're doing it like a two million dollar west budgets we're struggling here to for eternity is operate
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with huge budgets entry for the sposi students cost between one thousand to three thousand euros a year. the wealth of these fraternities is mainly gifted to them by former members it's you know kind of like a a sweet almost for two people but. benefactors who will become sponsors of these students once graduated found this is a fraternities main strength building a professional network to get re going door to their lives so i think there's a presence around it's kind of his role model. these fraternities are mainly hope to young white anglo-saxon americans. it's a great way of continuing a system of the elite and privileges spencer. are a very bad place to hang out if. this student in the red shirt gets a slightly warmer welcome spencer is a different kind of candidate to be at this. i mean you know that i feel it's i
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give a big head. you know. you know it's. right there at the s.a.e. house spencer is already a little at home. his place in the house is reserved it's a family heirloom. here. very secure. you prefer. their preferences. or its turf. at the university of kentucky twenty five fraternities share the campus and the pick of the students quite apart from their power to be to some they also indulge in fierce competition in terms of pot and alcohol. what's up. for in that this is what gives a fraternity its reputation these nights of heavy drinking at the end of the
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afternoon and on a campus delta sigma fi house has already started to coffee we need more pitchers. delta saying this is your channel twenty two he's organizing the feeling he's in charge of the fraternity social life his mission for the days to motivate those who are choosing the new members and they begin by going over the classics. a series of great joy sir. it is it was a good investment it made it is better says i i knew that it was just a little. booklet for turning it gets around and we chant this song and yeah we all rushing forward and hello. yeah but it's welcome like well well you know how it goes. for these much over. choose have only one objective she
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not the potus for life who i would post in my jail if there was it up by five guys it was even though i thought i would go they were just. aside from the camaraderie the fraternities also have another purpose to enable them of this to me go. this is mary gearin she's about to make out with t. ball. their favorite targets aren't waitresses but sorority students the female equivalent of fraternities on campus. nine pm in the delta is at a house the party is in full swing. throughout was among the thirty or so excited goes we see luciano delta six party guy. he's come on a scouting mission thanks. god was our doing. thank
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