party investigates the links between the u.s. government and facebook is the social media giant introduces its new general council which includes a legal advisor at the u.s. state department also to come up. with ready to cut and kill if they haven't gone the route to shoot and kill a famous bodyguard from germany reveals how berlin has become an epi center for criminal ethnic clans and why it is so difficult to deal with the issue plus the death toll from sri lanka's sunday forming attacks climbs to three hundred ten the country's government trying to prevent the spread of false information over the atrocity by temporarily blocking social media.

hello they're just gone eleven am here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now questions are being raised over the growing links between facebook and the us government that is the social media giant announced it's hired the state department's legal advisor as its general counsel and vice president of communications according to the company's statement jennifer knew stead will oversee facebook's global legal functions she has already enjoyed a long career in the u.s. administration serving in the state and justice departments and was also part of the team which drafted the controversial patriot act which expanded government surveillance powers are to the nine eleven attacks or the new appointment comes amid unprecedented pressure on facebook to tackle the spread of misinformation and fake news on its platform r.t.g. goshdarn of takes a closer look now at the firm's fact checking and also fears over its

trustworthiness. for the past two years facebook has been trying to convince the public it is taking a stand against fake news the program has been battered by controversies from criticism over how it's implemented to claims the impact it makes is little to none so how does facebook fact check news books well it doesn't instead it effectively has outsourced this function to a seemingly obscure journalism school. the pointer institute is a nonprofit based in florida it's nondescript anonymous in almost every way except for the fact that any fact checking service willing to partner with facebook has to get pointers approval and this is the type of testimonies they uploaded on their you tube channel paternalist to this important point or does for journalists is

invaluable it's just so hard to separate. who i am as a reporter from. your point it was down for me. the. world spends so much time. training researching and for journalists to look at journalism as a true wow i wonder how many more journalism students out there talking about their school like it's a sect they joined but so far pointer has licensed around sixty partners from all over the world good to go to fact check for facebook and many of them have a bit more in common than appetite for truth the thing they share is who they get their money from fact checkers from the u.s. the u.k. africa latin america the philippines and the pointer itself have been funded by the open society foundation and

a media network either. one of them or both together they've donated millions to fact checkers so what are they and why are they so eager to invest. now the open society foundation was founded and is run by none other than george soros who invested more than thirty two billion dollars into the foundation and this open society foundation is known to do exactly that open societies or meddle in the affairs of countries all over the world having proven to be a political weapon of saurus as for the the media network it belongs to another billionaire pierre media the creator of e-bay and just like soros is brainchild the network has been deeply involved in geo politics providing a steady flow of money for america's soft power ventures from funding opposition in

other countries to creating puppet media outlets and there are plenty of other donors bestowing their wealth upon point and co not excluding the u.s. state department i expect to be there will be a very close interplay between the facebook checkers and the state department and that they will be really very respectful of the state department's point of view after all they're one of their paymasters so i think they will go out of their way not to contradict anything the state department says and to basically try to then discredit anybody who might be criticizing them so fortunately this is the antithesis of what most people think of when they think of freedom of media or freedom freedom of information now point and it's platoon or fact checkers say that one of their binding values is impartiality but sometimes that veil is quite easy to see through and i mean let me bring up one chart for you it was showcased at

a separating fact. from fake news panel by point or i mean by different nisshin here the mainstream media and mainstream nubes are presented here as a victim and it's presented as an inherently one hundred percent truthful entity just cannot be fake news here and that's despite the fact that mainstream outlets have repeatedly embarrassed themselves with faulty reporting from c.n.n. to buzz feed ironically the outlet behind this graph but after all the story record suggests neither the u.s. government nor the sorest like bunch spend their billions out of pure philanthropy and what this is clearly aimed at is to restrict the availability of alternative sources of information what they do is defend the establishment narrative and try to discredit alternative a distant point of views which then they will declare to be non-factual or fake

news according to their own fact checkers which are very very biased meanwhile reports claim that government and force me to agencies have been using facebook to their advantage leading digital rights group called the electronic frontier foundation is urging facebook to crack down on u.s. immigration and customs enforcement which has been creating false accounts facebook's practice of taking down these individual accounts when they learn about them from the press or from is insufficient to discern what would believe is a much larger iceberg beneath the surface we often only discovered the existence of law enforcement fake profiles months if not years after investigation has concluded . well it comes after the law enforcement body reportedly used facebook in a sting operation to catch illegal migrants agents created a fictional college called the university of farmington which promoted the enrollment of foreign students after checking the background of those that applied

it ended up arresting around one hundred thirty people when u.s. agencies argue the use of social media can be essential for investigations or they facebook disagrees. law enforcement or thirty's like everyone else are required to use their real names on facebook and we make this policy clear on our public facing law enforcement guidelines page or brits in fake accounts is not allowed and we swiftly act on any violating accounts but we discussed the issue with a social activist who says that human rights have been violated. the united states alliance horsemeat does not only buy only facebook lies it in it by elites our own federal state local municipal lots the federal government the local government even vigilante groups on the on the in the border states continuous violent.

human rights were undocumented people in people seeking asylum here in this country i think it's become a period the united states of america wants to be the owner controller of the internet but when you have an organization such great magnitude as facebook that seems to be complying secretly with u.s. spy agencies and law enforcement agencies you are going to get a bad out there are no good big in there there's only the. well the issue of immigration is once again making headlines in germany michael coerce the country's most famous bodyguard after being able to kick boxing champion he says he's in favor of multiculturalism but is worried that current migration policies have led to criminal clans thriving in the capital our sister channel in germany spent a day with him in berlin have a knife there ready to cut and kill if they have a gun they're ready to shoot and kill. it to their resume or everyone has to

abide by. it i don't mean there are families like ours that are. remote. checker. doesn't always a big family. well known in the criminal world but you call them all of them all criminals and many have nothing to do with it. oh. it will be. because i was. because i was present a lot of. i've been in this is in the since nine hundred eighty two there's one though almost every family even if i don't know someone they've heard about me they know i'm a fan of multiculturalism i always be all very positively about it wasn't because many found themselves in the criminal world in tears the result was. we have to

give these guys some credit the german government hadn't done enough to integrate and then obvious going to many of them couldn't get a job license for years and that's why they resorted to criminality so. these clans are closely tied together they're like a hole you won't see anything like that in germany. they can bring together forty to fifty people in just half an hour before they are. found a business in one thousand nine hundred ninety four that's when the clan started expanding and their influence pushing aside local german groups and taking.

control they lost godfathers now totally controlling or including drugs prostitution and she has a lot of money. because if one only has an investigative group for the deals primarily with organized crime among families of arab origin or individual members of these families as well as a group conducting intelligence activities including coming into contact with potentially dangerous criminal elements. government policy completely filled your thirty's totally under the situation it's all they're trying to minimize the damage but it's not an easy thing to do.

i cooperate with police given the opportunity to be independent i don't depend on any clan my class. as a. national day of mourning has been declared in sri lanka following the spate of bombings on easter sunday which left three hundred ten people dead officials say they believe an islamist group allegedly behind the atrocity received support from abroad also apologized for failing to prevent the attacks after receiving several warnings. that lead to the intelligentsia on the fourth of april international intelligence agencies informed us that such an incident could take place there detailed reports named christian churches and tourist destinations as the main targets as the government we are responsible for all the story and we apologize to everybody. but on monday there was a further explosion in the capital colombo special forces had been trying to defuse

explosives in a van used by the attackers it's not clear whether anyone was hurt here it came after police discovered almost ninety detonators at a bus stop in the city the government temporarily blocked social media in the wake of the attack saying it was done to stop the spread of false information my colleague neil harvey discussed the move and its implications but journalists instead part how and their it pros. a lot of show use are happening with the social mobile apps all over the world more and more going to a concert and what could happen. to. all of these noble it's all over the tool of social media over the last decade has been used in a number of great ways you can look at the arab spring you can look at the growth of the independent alternative media in the united states and really around the world governments of the world as well as the tech companies and some of the media are promoting and portray in social media i have difficulty accepting that they are

simply doing this out of the kindness of their hearts and out of to keep the you know the people from having access to graphic content i do think that it benefits governments of the world once they start censoring certain parts of the internet companies all are going to happen to. create. some government but want to prevent. speech to explore after one or two situations we can't just say the government is making it up can we have seen the darker side of humanity does emerge in in the wake of terrorist attacks and we saw it in christ church people have been charged for posting what was considered to be the offensive material that was the live streaming it was a hateful deliberate posting of material in some cases and even with the not a damn fire we saw a lot of you know positivity and condolences expressed but we also saw people mocking the tragedy the negative element it is

a reality isn't it. i mean sure it's a reality but i mean i feel like i don't know if we have quite right yet reached adulthood if people are so afraid of reading offensive things or angry mean comments on the internet you can see much more graphic things on hollywood films and on you know the nightly news but those things are allowed to continue to be on the web i think that this is really for my take a. the bigger picture is that this is various governments around the world you know and we're seeing new zealand maybe we'll see it in the u.s. and u.k. and elsewhere they're taking the opportunity when they see the opportunity to seize more power of the internet make the argument that increasingly deliberately fake information is being spread now how on earth do you try and organize control these situations and filter the information but there's nothing different law in that we have seen all the time. people trying to create three information about any

feeling that happens. even once went through you know it's a goal it's not nothing new for journalists journalists always do the same thing when trust check you do see real or not so that we can do the same job. still to come for you this hour the u.s. has warned it will now sanction any country buying oil from iran after scrapping its previous wave as well have a look at the ramifications of that just after the break.

what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be for us this is what the before three of them or ten people get. interested in the waters in the. first six. welcome back now oil prices have soared to a six month high it comes after the u.s.

announced it will scrap all exemptions on iran oil imports and sanction those who failed to abide by the new rules slamming the sanctions is illegal they were ran friends abroad the strait of hormuz the world's. key oil route which transports the fifth of all all international oil and added that if threatened it would not hesitate to protect and defend the strait this comes after secretary of state might bomb confirmed washington would not extend the way visit had previously granted to eight countries. today announcing that we will no longer grant any exemptions we're going to zero going to zero across the board any nation or entity interacting with iran should use its diligence and err on the side of caution the risks are simply not going to be worth the benefits if you don't abide by the stop the sanctions both the kingdom of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates of assured us they will ensure an appropriate supply for the markets and of course the united states

is now a significant producer as well i can confirm that each of those suppliers are working directly with iran's former customers to make the transition away from really in crude less disruptive until now eight countries had been allowed to continue buying iranian oil with that threat of sanctions from washington it was previously claimed these waivers would be a way of avoiding volatility in the oil market then i says that ending these waves is as is designed to deny the islamic republic its principal source of revenue turkey has come out strongly against the u.s. decision it says the move will only jeopardize regional stability and bring harm to local iranians china has also criticised the unilateral sanctions maintaining that its dealings with iran had always been open and transparent meanwhile japan says it's not overly concerned and doesn't believe it will impact its economy iranian

foreign affairs expert c.r.b. believes washington is forcing taran to adopt a more aggressive stance. the u.s. is seriously escalating this unilateral economic warfare against iran jeopardizing economic well being of union and uranian people. putting iran against the wall and therefore one should naturally expect a stiffer reaction from you ron which me in the form of implementing their threats industry out of or more saw the us is edging courser to war we do year on using all kinds of excuses. and alleged member of a far right militia group which has been detaining migrants at gunpoint near the u.s. border with mexico has appeared before a federal court the great plains its mission is to help border patrol guards protect the u.s.

in the past week alone it's detained more than three hundred migrants. still coming this is crazy a little break here in a camp. thank you for larry mitchell hopkins he was arrested on saturday by the f.b.i. over allegations he is a convicted felon in possession of firearms and ammunition the agency also claims he had previously planned assassination attempts on barack obama hillary clinton and billionaire george soros all of which though he denies is being claimed hopkins was part of a group called the united constitutional patriots it said to be predominantly comprised of military veterans armed with guns and tactical gear which operates in new mexico the group claims it has done nothing wrong though and that there is a crisis at the border the lawyer for hopkins also questioned why the f.b.i. only got involved after the video's release the actions of the militia group there

have provoked widespread ag regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone. this individual should not attempt to exercise authority in results for law enforcement we do not condone private groups that take in force went into their own hands interference by civilians in law enforcement could have safety and legal consequences their actions undermine efforts of our state to get new mexico families safe this is no place in our state we cannot allow racist armed to the july to kidnap people sick in the silane artie's down hawkins area discuss the difference between protection and prosecution in international affairs expert george the merely and also the political analyst day perkins. how is this a situation that's to be encouraged or defended in any way well it all basic on be courage then defend it on the other hand it is an understandable response

to an on except it will situation in each of waking us to the fact that the law and also little carriages are not doing the job that they are supposed to do it's not necessary to come here and step across the border in order to get an asylum claim considered much comfort and ease is given to them to do that without crossing the border so my problem with the whole issue is is that they are being its own leads to do it they're being encouraged to do it by those left by the democrat party in america it's political something has to be done about this asylum i mean it is it is absolutely ridiculous that people come in illegally they borrow a child somewhere use that child as a problem apply for asylum and then because children we also raid. that you simply walk across into the country i mean this is this is

a this is nonsensical someone said the militia might shoot guys running around with guns is dangerous a lot of people in america have been shot by illegal aliens so what's next here you know vigilante groups in cities vigilante groups in other places take you'll throw to into their own hands without any sort of training without any sort of. experience be of about forty million military veterans with firearms training and combat experience are many of them trained in managing groups of hostile people one way or another we have as citizens people who are willing and able to do what the government is unwilling and apparently unable because of gridlock to do i don't worry about the american people i'm an optimist we have three hundred or four hundred million guns in the hands. one hundred twenty to one hundred fifty million american citizens no one was shot in america today no one was shot in america yesterday likely no one will be shocked america tomorrow the american people i'm

talking about of the people who know and revere and understand the constitution they haven't really done anything terrible i mean all they have done is they've apprehended people crossing the border illegally and then having a free and the. cold in the professional bolduc which role discussion we had to. say so that's how things are looking so far today we're back again in thirty five. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than

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