tv Documentary RT June 17, 2018 1:30pm-2:00pm EDT
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the game in question is the online multiplayer survival game fortnights which has taken the world by storm one hundred players that dropped onto a virtual island but only one can make it off is incredibly popular with over forty million downloads since it was launched last july but the parents of the nine year old are calling for its ban. we had no idea when we let her play the game of this addictive nature or the impact it will have on her mental health this is a serious issue which is destroying our little girl's life and someone needs to step in to ban it before it becomes an epidemic the developers behind fortnights have yet to comment on the incident it's not the first case of gaming addiction the world health organization has already classified the condition as
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a mental disorder and said many are addicted to video games we put the issue up for debate with psychology expert gina loudon and former hacker. son who's fourteen and josh actually plays for him and i see him played a lot the great thing about is i see him interacting with kids all over the world there are lots of ways to communicate with people around the world other than video games and our children are losing a little bit of a sight as to what's real and and what's maybe virtual i think video games are part of our culture now that the story that broke recently of annoying your old was how to have cared because of being informed i would not blame the parents i don't blame the children because putin games all bought i just don't see the use of them i don't see how they're productive there is such a tendency to spend so much time on the computer at least in studies show that the more time they spend in front of a computer or on their phones the more likely they are to have depression and other
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mental disorders experiences studies by the university of california for example in twenty fifteen where computer games are actually being found tarnishing increased memory especially in three d. games there are many ways to increase memory certainly pen to paper a pencil to paper all sorts of memory games that you can play with a book think games also can teach them what you can maybe they can be good at to be for a start it's all about being sensible you know if your kid's on it for many. there's a problem if a child rides a bicycle for ten hours it's going to be a problem so it's just about moderation i think it's just sensible use of the time interacting socially though is really important thing that children are losing you know they start to feel like their friends live in their computer when indeed those are real people those are real friends that are in their lives especially with children in their in their young formative years for their brains are still developing with the increased risks of mental problems because of it i see no
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reason to you know make video games part of that when they're just all together not necessary. facebook seems to be running out of options and it's a long battle with fake news the company has gone from human fact checkers to an automated system but now it's back to hiring real people again donald quarter explains why in the never ending crusade against fake news facebook has come full circle it's now hiring so-called news credibility specialists to presumably look through and determine the fake from the truth seeking individuals with a passion for journalism who believe in facebook's mission of making the world more connected as a member of the team you'll be told with developing a deep expertise in facebook's news credibility program after media outlets picked up on facebook's new position the social media giant took down that ad re uploading
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it with a few tweaks and a new title news publisher specialist yeah that raises less questions but wait a second a person deciding what info you should get on social media haven't we seen that before this is just a system that they put in place that allows people to inflate news sports news into the tranny topics and and also suppress news. that's the one in twenty sixteen facebook fired employees apparently after pressure over liberal bias in their trending feed every once and one of the red states to a conservative news source would have a story but we would have to go and find the same story from a moon neutral outlet then they put an algorithm in charge but that didn't go as planned either with the technology accused of being ineffective and biased within days fake news started trending and they even recently shut down the feature altogether from research we found that over time people found the product to be
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less and less useful perhaps in deciding what's credible and what's not it makes no difference whether an algorithm or a person does it especially if zuckerberg wants his brainchild to be more than a one sided platform i am i am very committed to making sure that facebook is a platform for all ideas that is a very important founding principle of what we do well then problem solved no need for a news credibility specialist after all donald quarter r.t. and the story is based on unidentified sources getting bigger headlines in the mainstream media that only important job of fact checking is getting even more difficult but it seems you can say what you like when you use those unnamed sources . latest headlines from a same anonymous sources network. can't watch porn according to someone and they say n.b.c. hosts i know someone who spoke to donald trump recently about life in the white
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a humanitarian but it's carrying over six hundred refugees has docked at the spanish port of the lengthier the vessel was turned away by italy and malta sparking a major migration route you can see here some of the migrants disembarking just in the past few hours they'll be assisted by aid agencies before spanish authorities begin assessing asylum claims france has also offered to take in some of the people rescued after the french president criticized rome's decision to turn away the migrants. there is a degree of cynicism and irresponsibility in the italian government's behavior with regards to this dramatic humanitarian situation there mark ignited a diplomatic spy. between paris and rome with italy threatening to counsel bilateral talks the french ambassador to the country was also recalled and asked to apologize. the french ambassador has been summoned by
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a foreign minister on behalf of the italian people will ask for an explanation for the insults directed not only against the government but also against the nation which is among the first in the world in terms of generosity solidarity and hospitality if the french have the humility to apologize the story will be closed and we will work in the interests of everyone the humanitarian vessel that was turned away by the it's hardly an authority as the aquarius was carrying six hundred twenty nine migrants those on board were rescued off the coast of libya we could go and were hoping to disembark in sicily before being refused entry italy has been one of the countries hardest hit by since the beginning of the crisis more than half a million people have reached the country by boat from north africa in five years in two thousand and eighteen alone italy has taken in over thirteen thousand migrants more than both spain and greece o'keefe best from the european council on
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refugees and exiles so the e.u. has shown itself incapable of finding a common solution to the crisis. i think there has been a serious failure among many of the countries of the european union to address this issue and particularly the itself in not being a fair burden sharing i i rather hope that the stance of the new very new spanish prime minister will begin to shame other countries in europe and say well we should also play a part as well but i do understand the attitude of the italian government in saying that we've already born an enormous influx of people who really long to migration flows in the migration crisis as it terms is to try to enable people to live in their countries of origin you you have to actually try to ensure through diplomatic
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and international efforts the peace at home for people so they don't feel the need to flee for their lives. become more football chat and news coming your way in about thirty minutes. i think. russia took a real blow to its sense of self during the yeltsin years and i remember even six years ago when i first came here people kept apologizing to me for help terrible everything was that this wasn't like america and for people to be ashamed of their country was so different and now i don't really see that i see people are
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