facebook admits classifying thousands of russians as interested in treason supposedly for advertising purposes raising concerns about who might really want to target such users. donald trump hilton healthy summit with lot american success unleashing a storm of criticism from all ends of the us political spectrum and the american media. are i don't know which side is the bride and which side of that is the groom enters a bit of sort of feels like we're at a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president today's press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. of this our full french honors the victorious world cup team returned home soil

hero's welcome. this is our two international coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program. three social media giants facebook google and twitter are facing the u.s. congress at the moment over alleged political bias on their platforms the hearing is also expected to address advertising practices and fake news it comes as facebook admits that its algorithm labeled thousands of russian users as quote interested in treason supposedly for advertising purposes and that's raising concerns over who might really want to target these users are explains.

it's simple facebook exists to serve advertisers not users not you and i said a rerun of its. advertisers pay money they want direct access to the right users the target audience you might fall into the interested in islam category or interested in homosexuality group it depends on the things you click on line which facebook tracks and then advertisers or governments can tag you but one of those categories was treason interested in treason officially russian people who facebook deemed as anti government to the russian and facebook confirmed it to us treason was included as a category given its historical significance given it is an illegal activity we

have removed it as an interest category that is their official statement they added that the key word was hardly ever used by advertisers which means that it was used there were people out there searching for treason inclined russians and serving them with presumably propaganda encouraging them to commit treason against russia months it was found out facebook removed the category but the pundits managed to twist even vat this isn't about sixty five thousand russians being targeted with foreign propaganda meddling in internal russian politics they don't see they say the real control over see is that these people could be targeted by russian authorities imagine if ace book categorize americans as potential traitors fact advertisers that blog zuckerberg op have expressed how upset i am that the

russians tried to use our tool to sow distrust what they did is room and we're not going to stand for it. and that's the meat of it when it's russians being targeted by propaganda to soon distrusted russia abs five until you get caught our team has sent a request to a number of human rights and journalist groups asking for comment as to whether such a practice constitutes meddling in the country's internal affairs four of them including human rights watch and transparency international have responded to our requests so far saying they are not in a position to comment now saying with facebook the social media giants targeted ads were also apparently used by some in the u.k. labor party to deceive their own leader that's according to a recently published book control delete whole politics and the media crush our democracy by tom baldwin when they were told to pay for nationwide regarded as

such as one voter registration they made sure that few saw such messages except it's on his songs so if left wing activists it was there for them they thought it must be everyone it was and that's how it all get to. senior labor party members tasked with spreading corbin's campaign messages through facebook ads head of the two thousand and seventeen general election selected only jeremy corbyn himself and his closest aides as the target group this was to ensure that as few people as possible in the u.k. would see those messages at the same time following the party leader and the thinking his order had been carried out. joining me live is radio host and journalist john gaunt now john facebook is under increased pressure over political bias what could it do to ease those concerns if possible. well i should be completely transparent about their algorithm shouldn't completely transparent about how they tag him in this latest story about russia which was broken by i understand

denmark news agency is very worrying i can see why it's worrying to russia but you've got also asked the question are they already asking those questions of targeting people in britain because your right to bring up the job because of the story of the already doing in america why would they want to have a tag called treason or to talk about traitors i think zuckerberg is desperately overreaching himself and we need more transparency transparency and we need it now this is frightening stuff because in the hands of the wrong people and following on so quickly from the cambridge analytical story i just think we're giving too much power to people like twitter and people like facebook well exactly as you're saying this idea that people certain people were labelled as interested in trees then who do you think would actually be interested in advertising directly at such a group. well i don't think there'd be avatars in i think it would be more

propaganda as you say it would be people trying to spread dissent within russia how long it was the other way round if it was people here in this country i just don't think this is facebook's job a tool and i worry that would this also be given to government spot so that governments could enforce their will against the people we already know the algorithms are biased against anybody who's got a slightly right of center view we know about shadow of a cap shadow accounts i just think we've all been rather foolish came along facebook and twitter facebook in particular and we gave all our information all our history all our pictures all our significant events he's got all this and now with him zuckerberg and his company are worse than any media oligarchy in history in a sense because they then turn that into mega money but they've also meddled in politics and then they have a go at the russians and try and make out there was some kind of russian collusion

in both our referendum vote early indeed any american election i think zuckerberg should put his own house in order before he starts attacking national states like russia and facebook officials are again in front of congress do you expect u.s. lawmakers to address facebook targeting russians interested in treason no no they won't care will there therefore it is they only care about america just libre and we only care about what's happening here which is why we've had this ridiculous story about the script which is completely now a no ravelling no they won't care and the other problem is congress just as evidenced by the last year in the two they don't understand his business model i mean i should think they don't hardly know how to turn a computer on the old people who are in charge of congress in the senate so no i don't think they will i think they should because i think any organization is targets. people and saying these people are interested in treason doesn't matter

which country they're doing in their overstepping the mark it is not facebook's job to do this and they have literally got too much power and that's scary on every level whether you're living in russia america or indeed in western europe well but do you think there might be more of an uproar if these this tags and people being interested in treason were happening in america or the u.k. for instance oh yeah oh undoubtedly undoubtedly if they if this was americans who were being targeted there would be absolute outrage in congress and across the whole of the american media but i don't think the story's over i think that will probably come out as time goes on to be absolutely honest with you because if they're using it with russian users i would imagine they've been using it on others as well they say they've taken off now but really the essential question has to be why did his team think the question was valid or the tagging was valid in the first

place and clearly the it was looks like it was being used to spread dissent in russia and that's wrong if it's wrong to to a lead or if they allege that the russians are being doing that in america you can't have it both ways americans should be outraged by this of course be following what comes of this john gallant radio host and journalist thank you so much for your time today thank you thank you. donald trump has completed his european trip which began at a nato summit and ended in a historic meeting with lot of mere putin positive steps and real progress those are the words both leaders used to describe their talks but their detente is sparking outrage in the media. he went on to attack his own people and institutions while standing next to the russian president i don't know which side is the bride and which side of it is the groom anderson but it sort of feels like we're at a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances

by an american president in this case when it comes to putin the president's taking a pass american politicians joined the media and denouncing trump after he vouch for putin when election meddling came up at their news conference. president putin did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that why should americans and why should president trump believe your statement that russia did not intervene in the twenty six thousand election do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular president putin denied having anything to do with the election your fair answer twenty sixteen every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did who do you believe i have great confidence in my intelligence people but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the

twelve people i think that's an incredible. i was an intelligence officer myself and i do know how does compiled. what conclusions can only be made by a court and not by an intelligence service. and when that didn't happen to you outright his behavior is so inexplicable and so against the interests of the united states i never would have. a u.s. president would get duped by. you know former k.g.b. and i. don't want trump should be arrested for threes and the moment he sets foot on american soil. look traits in trees in a very serious words i have avoided them from the early two years but today's john put in some it cannot be sugar coated with. this was the day in american president stood on foreign soil next to

a motorist lying thug and refused to back his own country patriots need to stand up and reject the behavior of this president john brennan former cia boss and now media darling even went as far as to brand trump's appearance treason donald trump's press conference performance in helsinki rises to exceed the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of treasonous not only would trump's comments in this silly who's who in the pocket of putin republican patriots were you not only does the department of justice fail to provide any conclusive evidence linking the kremlin to the alleged crime it actually admits that the suppose it conspiracy did not affect the vote count or the election so a confrontation with putin over meddling was clearly the desired result trump defended himself from the attacks and perhaps his favorite way through twitter he stressed that he has great confidence in u.s. intelligence which has repeatedly stated that russia meddled in the two thousand

and sixteen election but trump added he can't focus on the past as the two nuclear superpowers must get along we spoke to former congressman ron paul who believes that american media are used to portraying russia as an enemy. but you also mentioned so far in this program about the american media and that is a big problem because for some reason they're almost unanimously endorsing the idea that we have to have an enemy and at this point especially for the last twenty years they've been working very hard to make russia the enemy and i think this is this is wrong and it's not the democrats alone that do this it's the democrats and along with some disgruntled republicans who just they just don't like trump but no i was very pleased with what went on and it's a step in the right direction they i think the biggest thing that if they ever had a serious discussion i guess it would come out on how much we've been involved when we should be involved for instance in ukraine and how that occurred but if they

don't have want to concentrate on those problem they want to look forward i think that is great but i would like to i think the next best a step ever would be for us to reassess this and say that trump is going in the right direction and talk i'm into getting rid of the sanctions on russia are to go has been following the much anticipated and now hotly debated summit he looks at why it turned into such a drama. so i just made it to the area intended for the media very close to where donald trump will be meeting lot of our group and i see this so the hosts are setting the rules straight and perhaps that's a. security precaution very soon we'll find out whether the arrows can be put in the same direction when the presidents meet so the head to head meeting lasted two times longer than originally expected and we were only allowed to film the first forty seconds of the launch the only words that we heard from mr putin donald trump

actually was only trump who said that there was a good start to the summit there's something else i pointed out for myself the microphones for both theaters are different for some reason the one for donald trump looks to be much bigger and a bit more complicated because when president bush to go to. the president is just remarks that we hosted the successful football world cup i'm not going to give this to you mr president so the pool is in your court. given the u.s. is due to host the world cup in twenty twenty six. soon it will be two years since donald trump was elected but guess what still worries the entire u.s. presidential press poll allegations of meddling and collusion there were sitting right here and almost all the questions from this part of the room were about that

and it was rather fascinating to see how the two leaders almost teamed up to dodge these kind of questions however none of this seemed to convince american journalists and while it was looking at them when they were leaving the room they seemed to be even more for straighted then before the leaders met donald trump and vladimir putin though when they were heading towards the doors i could only see smiles on their faces. meanwhile vladimir putin took part in a heated interview with the american channel fox news in which he was pressed on key issues relating to russia. firstly russia is a state that has never meddled in the internal affairs of the us and in particular has never meddled in its elections that or secondly but. what you just let me answer have some patience to distinguish between being. that it was possible to meddle in the us elections or even territory of russia and to influence the choice

of the millions of americans to people yet it's ridiculous city council. at the prosperous mission but i'm not asking whether they influenced i'm asking whether they try i will answer what. the hackers are about whom everyone was talking about i will turn to it do not warrant. emails as they told us and there was information that inside the democratic party but there were manipulations in favor of one of the candidates and that is all and that the leadership of the executive body of the party resigned this fact and that was the most important thing in all it that the manipulations of the us public opinion must be stopped and they had to apologize to the voters what now mr mr president. you're indicating if you don't like miles we'll tell you then and i will stay silent but if you want to americans to hear my opinion and have more patience they

are going to be that being mr miller and his colleagues. but why mr miller and his colleagues let me finish speaking of the disrespectful this time you won't stop me to delete. the relations between the u.s. and russia the hostages all of you internal political struggles. we want to be given some documents on this issue at least some material as you see no one is saying anything specific that it's like in the case of the accusations against us over the meddling in the us a political process to be had not given. and now we see that people became the victims of the so-called but i love you have the names of these people before you are these people they suffer and why. they picked up the bottle that was used to attack scrupled i can't say i ask you one last question sir but let us handle this

issue first. who picks it up and from where and what is its chemical. you know whether there are different reasons for which these people have suffered and maybe these reasons are inside the u.k. . but no one wants to investigate this properly just through empty accusations and for what you say why worsen the relations between our countries when russia wants to build them with the u.k. properly so look at it then you can work with. do you see this as a turning point then by effort of the effort by the west in recent years to isolate russia. we see that these efforts do not see any success and they could never have seen it given the size of the violence and russia on the scale of global security and in economics and i mean energy costs are part of the world's economic system in that the understanding of what is uniting us and on what we have

to work together is leading us to the idea that it is necessary to stop the attempts to fight each other and on the contrary to unite our efforts for overcoming common difficulties and problems i think it is a good start. on that i'm cautious just just hours after put an interim wrapped up their talks new accusations appeared of moscow interfering and american affairs a russian woman was charged by the department of justice with conspiracy to act as a russian agent twenty nine year old maria abortion the recently graduated from american university and washington d.c. was arrested on sunday she is accused of developing relations with those who have influence in american politics to advance russia's interests her attorney made a statement denying she is an agent he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but the office showed no interest in speaking to her we brought up the issue with political analyst. you're going to hear we guarding this this russian citizen she is called

a russian agent what is missed completely is that agent should be referred to as a lobbyist and agent in law in american law means a representative of when american media say agent they think secret agent. i speak in eyes agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes something illegal or something that is other than an agent this particular person was charged with basically being a lobbyist and asons without having registered with the department of justice could more indictments happen absolutely will the media american media clarify what that means absolutely not. hundreds of thousands of people packed into the seans it is a comparison to give a hero's welcome to the victorious world cup squad the winners were taken to the

presidential residence where they were greeted by a man run across to the a with the. he said he was thank you both so that was she said i wasn't seeing her so i think the only thing she was right was she was nice i was going. i. was extremely phrase right and she was flying over with the colors of the french the only truly lucky ones these winners of the broke up she was in a come down the street people have been watching us. for the last month hi thing i'm praying that they would win the world cup i may have done it in other words

like it's just a feeling incredible though that the energy everything soon the coming years was incredibly was but your boat the sea was a sense of unity and everything was absolutely incredible i'm an american and i'm living here this is such a joy to see all of us you know find it's really just great to embody the spirit this is what france is all about we do study here all their words grow closer seeing the world the realizes is beautiful. to see only the good on the show joel room rose so excited he says the city of paris is actually renamed some of the metro stations you know not all of these places including are not trained to want to show up as being renamed does not take did the additional thing oh no over the manager of that will cup team the course he was also the captain of front says it will cup winning team back in ninety ninety eight i did not say oh my god there are five standing ecstatic.

eruptions for suction also awaited the croatia squad as they returned home the team was driven through the capital in an open top bus chaired by around one hundred thousand people getting to the final with the country's best ever performance at the world cup after having reached the semifinals back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight captain luca more church was also named player of the tournament meanwhile some young fans inspired by the world cup final decided to recreate it. let's let. her live

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you take those away and you have essentially greece on steroids and all those banks and the e.u. and america are going to attack the plate and drive into bankruptcy. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm sorry children thank you very much courage. joining us coming up on the program today we jumped right in with coverage of president from not only to the nato meeting in meetings last week in london but to the meeting completed today with russian president vladimir putin in helsinki finland will go to finland in just a moment where our team is america's on your farm bill is on the scene and we'll talk about that nord stream pipeline system the president trying to criticize germany over last week archies peter oliver joins us from germany plus the c.e.o. of strong market record which encourages target of t.v. and radio commentators to help us get varying perspectives on the trump trip and the impact on business finance and former relations and r.t. correspondent ashley banks takes

a look at amazon which actually all time stock by today of seven hundred eighty six for share and some due diligence it has at least to this point not been done related to hate product that they offer for sale let's get right to it president donald trump and russian president vladimir putin have wrapped up their two day summit in helsinki finland with typical self centered bombast mr trump said in a press conference with the russian president that relations have been between the two nuclear armed nations have been quote never been worse than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago mr trump pushed back on questions about the indictment by special prosecutor robert muller on the eve of the summit of twelve russians alleged for election interference and dismissed the judgments of some current and former intelligence officials on the investigation while the two presidents seem determined to create a display of cordial and correct the paul nitze it's not clear where any good will the two leaders might develop could lead.