there are constant threats as we head into the midterm elections and we must remain vigilant in order to prevent future attacks first it looked like just another meddling story in the endless stream of meddling reports that we've come across lately and the democratic party said that it had detected an attempt to hack its voter base and of course total panic ensued in the media check it out d.n.c. just confirmed n.b.c. news it has alerted authorities to an attempt to have all of their voter file the take away really is is this continues to be a major issue democratic party's voter database targeted with a sophisticated hacking attempt to target really was the voter database any attack on a political party or campaign is important for us all to take seriously but there is a twist here it wasn't meddling or hacking it was just a test according to a source the democratic party or the democratic party of michigan used to volunteer hackers to test its systems security while this was confirmed by the national

committee the source also said that the state department did not notify the d.n.c. the national committee before hand let's take a look at what was said we along with the partners who reports at the sites now believe it was built by a third party as part of a simulated fishing test the test which mimics several attributes of actual attacks on the democratic party's votes to follow was not authorized by the d.n.c. vote builder nor any other vendors now the timing of all of this is worth noting it's coming just as we're getting closer and closer to midterm elections and the media is going crazy frantically searching for external factors but they've turned a blind eye to domestic factors which could be where their answers are investigative reporter dave lindorff says the election tampering claims are being exaggerated. the middling issue is. first of all i think has been

overblown in the first case you know when they found evidence of. russian based. organizations that were buying ads and things on facebook it was such a tiny amount during the two thousand and sixteen election that it was laughable so you know i think most people most sensible people realize that the election in two thousand and sixteen was not significantly impacted by meddling it was affected dramatically by a really bad candidate running a really bad campaign in. facebook's upping the ante in its crusade against fake news it's now banned hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion is art he's only trying to with commentary. thanks for joining us franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts spewing

fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. that this by. them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian balls and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of so-called russian took over twitter and facebook some stories never seem to die well this facebook slash twitter online police raid is an actual news story this week yeah you can take plenty of the earlier reports replace the word rush with iran and get pretty much identical stuff all right speaking of facebook this. i made bad six hundred twenty five pages traced to iran and an unknown number of

pages linked to russia it just wouldn't work if russia didn't get mentioned and the reason for this verdict is we removed multiple pages groups and accounts for coordinated in authentic behavior on facebook and instagram what kind of sin is this enough behavior let's hear from zax people they use similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing we ban this kind of behavior because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make on facebook. the issue of trusting what pops out at you from the internet it's almost as old as i am asking where we should meet. it seems like you're chatting with somebody just like yourself not only even if they show a picture of themselves it may not really be who they say they are it could be somebody

dangerous i'm not trying to say criminals who take advantage of online platforms shouldn't be banned or prosecuted but dear facebook the way the internet and social networks have worked for years is that users can be who they want to be online who said they must stick to what someone thinks is authentic behavior what if i want to be an elf or santa or a real news hound and my now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later. university. will come to the us just for all the things they can do i. say stay because of all the things they can well looks like online platforms will force us to adjust to a new reality where a step away from your genuine behavior may lead to

a ban or some distinguished fact checkers will tell you who you should or shouldn't trust how's this for a policy update facebook's just announced it will assess how good or how bad their users are at flagging fake news we developed a process to protect against people indiscriminately flagging news is fake and attempting to game the system the reason we do this is to make sure that our fight against misinformation is as effective as possible so next time when he choose to complain about a post online think twice what if the fact checkers disagree in fact whatever you do they're better think twice. statistics meanwhile suggested the social media side might be losing some of its sparkle one ranking service has calculated that the amount of time visitors spent on the platform is down ten percent this month it also reveals that visitors interest is slipping facebook has yet to respond to our

requests for comment media lawyer steve couldn't serve it which told us what he could be behind the trend i think the reasons for people walking away facebook a lot stick with what's going on with the same using best again but issawi stats say that it's going to be even the platform that people are going to see if they want to use so this might be just an evolution people may think that facebook is bits you corporate now maybe they are going to be a trust issue with them but certainly there are an awful lot smaller social networks that starts getting more traction so we'll see more of this time goes by but i think facebook still going to be around as ground. britain's opposition leader says the public's a losing trust with the news media and says well he's got big plans to revamp the b.b.c. in general jeremy corbyn added that the broadcaster should be freed of government control as he lambasted other media bosses for skewing the news agenda. all and

offline often serves the broadcast agenda even though it is washed and serves the broadcast agenda even though it is weighted so firmly to the tories politically and to corporate interests more generally the cozy relationship between senior press and broadcasting executives media owners and indeed senior politicians b.b.c. could be and is i believe tacitly influenced by government u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbyn there presenting his views on the state of the media today and how exactly it should move forward now in terms of what he had to say about the b.b.c. despite praising this is a very important british institution he did go want to see that he believes it's time for some changes including the reduction of political influence and the b.b.c. being freed from government control he said it needs to be democratized more independent and more representative and this was part of the bigger picture he was

painting about the state of affairs when it comes to the media and the press in the u.k. he did talk quite a bit about this relationship that he sees as a little bit too close for comfort he did see that he believes much of the press isn't very free at all the british press is the least trusted in europe including normally e.u. countries like north macedonia and serbia the worry about new forms of news and we've heard plenty of that we've ignored the fact that most of our citizens think our newspapers churn out what they believe to be fake news every day well apart from proposals about putting in place a revamp for the b.b.c. opposition leader corben also work talked about the need to increase the influence of public interest journalism as well as local newspapers that he sees as now being quite underfunded and not being able to properly function while they're an important part of communities around this country he also said there should be

a creation of a british digital. corporation and overall said he believes that the public should have more control of the press and the media as opposed to those in power in terms of his statements on the b.b.c. we did reach out to them for commentary and they told us they are not commenting on this topic we heard from political analyst chris bambery he says jimmy corbin's ideas about the media resonate with the british public you know the b.b.c. in particular been seen as being biased in representing those views so i think particular among young people there is a growing view that the b.b.c. and the established media is on the side of the elite is on the side of the corporations who after all or most of the newspapers and the media in this country was in the interest of proving how is the b.b.c.'s finances come from are a license that every viewer has to buy but the government sets the cost of that

license and what corbin street is saying is really and the government control over that because that can be used to influence the b.b.c. direct way of or i think we're proposing is very interesting and really hiving the b.b.c. or from any direct government depending. donald trump's a presidency enters perhaps its most precarious period he has hit back at those calling for his impeachment over his implication in a hush money scheme in an interview with fox news the us leader claimed such a move would be catastrophic for the economy i don't hate him if somebody who's done a great job if i ever got a ph i think the market would crash i think everybody would be very poor. on tuesday donald trump's formal former lawyer implicated the us leader in breaking campaign finance law in two thousand and sixteen michael cohen said he was instructed to pay hush money to alleged mistresses of trump on trump's orders in

order to influence the election but despite being in deep legal trouble it seems cohen may have found a way of capitalizing on a situation is a lawyer has launched a crowdfunding campaign aiming to raise half a million dollars now so far over a quarter of the target money has already been raised with more than two thousand people donating in just one day the petition says the money will go towards paying cohen's legal fees and allow him to continue telling the truth political analyst charles or tell believe. that. it's a mute issue. this is the double standard that is in evidence here of a rating michael cohen muller's rating michael cohen's office is to get what arguably is privileged information between cohen and his client donald trump. as it were trumped up charges that really are non-crimes that cohen has felt such pressure to admit stand

a stark contrast to the approach taken by loretta lynch komi and others to go after the couldn't foundation over actual public corruption actual fraud actually actual mishandling of classified information there's a clear double standard here well i draw your attention further back into history in ny in one thousand nine hundred five and afterwards the clintons themselves were basically bankrupt they race over ten million dollars to pay their legal expenses nobody seems to be bringing that up. washington has voiced concern over turkey's decision to purchase russian made as four hundred missile systems and hinted at the possibility of sanctions against any nato allies making such moves. you know it goes against our policy to have a nato allies such as turkey use an asse four hundred system part of the problem with that is that it is not in iraq robel with other nato systems and so we are against the having some of our partners and allies around the world potentially

purchase s. four hundred seven would trigger katz's action i'm not going to get into that but we have made very clear what could trigger sanctions for other countries and entities around the world russian made s. four hundred missile system is capable of hitting multiple high speed aerial targets within a range of about four hundred kilometers the deal signed by turkey in russia last year is worth two point five billion dollars tricky has been looking to bolster its air defenses since the u.s. withdrew its patriot missiles from the syrian border region back in two thousand and fifteen former u.s. diplomat jim john trust told us the primary reason for washington's anger over on crowe's purchase of as for hundreds is that it undermines america's attempts to isolate russia. the people behind these policies do not look at russia as a partner at all they look at it as an adversary and that their goal is essentially regime change in russia buying russian weapons is not bad because they're

a competitor for business they're bad because there is essentially a full scale political warfare being carried on against the russian federation by the agency is that the american government i don't know that this is nationally what president trump wants but it certainly wanted hartman of state department of treasury and other organs of the government want and the purchase of russian weapons is bad because russia is bad i think that not only with regard to arms purchases but every other excuse we can think of we will find ways to put new sanctions on russia or countries and companies the deal with russia. in french a journalist has been speaking out about the issue of discrimination on accommodation rental signs like air b.n. b. he has claimed that.