that i had to face was not having a face at a low expectation of life. i accepted that i accept the fact that my bow its work. we had no fears, general change pre fashion, 4 shots, different stories behind the bullets they spoke. the key is the spreading hates and weakening democracy bar wisant global revelation to the u. s. senate hearing standard, stark contrast to just to come years ago, the social media platforms were held for bringing about the arab spring base books of us, one of its worst ever outages for 7 hours. millions of people were disconnected from the world's biggest social network, as well as instagram and what's up even company engineers and the electronic passes denied in history in the making, a russian film crew arrives at the international space station to make the 1st ever

feature length film in space, we discussed the unprecedented achievements with the russian cousin. as far as i know that there were motivated, they have no choice except to successfully handle whiten space. and that professional uses to shoot to move ah evening. thanks for joining me here on our t internet weakening democracy by spreading hatred on division. these are the charges that have been leveled at facebook by whistle blower. the former employees been testifying before you a senate hearing after leaked documents about the how the firm operates. facebook exported teens. do you think that teens are profitable for their company? i would assume so those dangerous algorithms that they admit are picking up the they stream sentence, the division,

their product. it is often destructive. facebook's products, harm, children, stocum to vision and weak in our democracy. the damage to self interest and self worth of inflicted by facebook to day will haunt a generation. it is pulling families apart. and in places like ethiopia, it's literally fanning ethnic violence. it's a very different picture from just a few years ago and platforms like facebook and twitter were being loaded for bringing democracy to the arab world is doing it. arab spring, social media play a role. social media is much broader than sending a $144.00 characters or twitter for updating your styles. post on facebook. those are use your giving facebook a lot of credit for this for yeah, for sure. i want to meet mark zuckerberg one day and thank him. actually indeed, social media did have some very pronounced impacts on the arab spring.

ok, let's go live now to auntie. contribute to nick our house. good afternoon, scenic. how does this process mean that facebook is no longer considered to be a friend of democracy? would you say? i'm not exactly showing a friend of democracy, me his in the united states right now, but as far as the reference to the arab spring, it does seem a little bit peculiar that in 2011 with countries like denisia libby on egypt, facebook was not only celebrated for put like for helping spread the news about the protests, but the algorithm seemed to be a perpetuating the protests and propelling them for that millions of people were able to react and noticed what was going on. now, interestingly enough, about 3 of those countries to protest there actually benefited united states in truth. so what it seems like is on the like. now that the script has been flipped 10 years later. censorship actually benefits the united states. so i guess you could say it's pro democracy, i guess if you want to call facebook, you know, a democratic institution,

i guess you could call it that because the government seems to be on the side of censorship. facebook as readily pushes the ship. it doesn't seem like this whistleblowers diverging from that consistency. social reid has been around for many, many years. it's taken an awful long time for people to decide me. something needs to be done about it. is it it very different based these days what it was years ago? oh, i would say that it's, it's far less free, right? it's far less does less freedom of conversation, freedom of exchange, freedom of discourse. ah, there seems to be no consistent application of rules or principles or guidelines on any of these platforms. and i would say that at least on the surface now, it looks like the government, at least their opinions have much more influence. i mean, just a couple of weeks ago jim saggy was actually saying that it was time to come down harder on facebook and regulate them more fast for this whistleblower who's actually represented by a firm that the sac he actually worked for. or as a senior advisor, not even not even a year ago,

is now sitting in front of the senate after going on 60 minutes getting a lot of air time. so i would say at the bare minimum, what it looks like is there is a lot of coordination going on behind the scenes in one way or another that everybody seems to be involved in, except for the people who are most afflicted by which i would say is the average working class individual and maybe potentially activist organizes in protesters. a, do you think you ask of an festival has the, has it the powers at its disposal to, to limit to rain in facebook and will it be able to find consensus within congress if it will? and if people agree on what needs to be done, i may have you asked me, i feel like the u. s. government is pretty much the measure that has the power to do whatever wants to they if they choose to actually exercise their powers in a way that actually would benefit the rigidity of the country than yet they do heavy. but obviously people would have different definitions of rain. if you ask some people like myself,

i think the thing that they need to do the rain facebook in is to hold them to the standards of a publisher. ah, whereas enable escaping a lot of accountability for the for the how they selectively apply their rules. i like their editorial list, but they, but the federal government hadn't done anything about it. now on the other side of that fence, they do have the capability, the force of the sensor more to but it does seem like they've had to. they fit every time. one of these is, this is happened. facebook seems to sensor more on their own. so even though they have a power, they have an exercise it and they've been able to get pace with the kind of do what they want more and more without ever having to hold them accountable. and in legal matter, nick, i appreciate your time and your opinions, auntie contributed nika, house my guest will throughout the hearing you said this is having clear, congress must make use of more regulation against facebook and other social media platforms. if they won't, and, and a big tech won't, and congress has to intervene. how urgent it is for congress to

act against powerful tech companies. we should consider narrowing this sweeping immunity when platforms algorithms amplify illegal conduct. let's bring in a guest. now mateo, donnie from tech travel geeks, mateo, good evening. see now you are to be the tech experts ah, from your perspective, is this a bad day for the social media industry? honestly, i don't think it is that these companies are now large enough to be able to weather the news cycle when it's about regulation. and most of them at this point have factored in any regulation and potential fines into the cost of doing business going forward. just recently, last month or facebook has had a large find from the european union. and individual states within the european union are considering fining and limiting their their reach if possible. but we

have to face the core issue that a lot of this legislation is just way too slow and facebook and all other. so not only social media, but technology companies are moving at such a pace that they can dodge most of the ill effects of any regulation or potential punishment from governments by just changing their business model or moving at their, their entities and their activities around. so i don't think this is a bad time for facebook. we saw that to they after their massive outage yesterday, their share price bounce back up and is almost back to where it was before the outage or facebook is now very, very important. within mostly western society. a lot of businesses as well as individuals depend on it. and while the may be considered by some to be a monopoly,

they are very, very important to some ands. they will continue to do well because ultimately they are now businesses which are not there to work on political activities to potentially guides society in one way or another. they're, they, they're to make money. and ultimately they're driving user behavior for them to do so. i'm is, is the problem here, perhaps a because of oversight because the i said these are businesses and they trying to make as much money as the camp. they're doing it and in, in ways and means the perhaps we wouldn't like if we knew about it. for example, looking at our, our search history, their websites, we go to then using that to then target is with adverts. a lot of people kind of shocked when they 1st saw that and is it because they've been allowed to sort of do whatever they wanted unchecked, they're overseeing themselves. is that the problem to winning some kind of independent oversight?

i'm those to be seen. i don't think it's actually feasible or the way these companies operate. they test at scale. so it's not that everyone is seeing the same results of an algorithm. the same results on their facebook or instagram feeds. it's all tailored to the individual. and different algorithms are spreads throughout the sample of users globally. in such a way that they collect data, they can refine that see what the impact of any changes are and drive user behavior towards them making, ultimately converting and making more money. i think the any form of oversights or woods ultimately fail, because it would either limit the business in such way that facebook or any other social media company would pivot some more profitable model. ultimately, i think that the oversight has to come from within. it needs to be that people at

the business who are driven to making the ultimately the correct ethical decision in the context of what they're doing. can we though trust the big tech companies to regulate themselves? the did the right thing because if we listen to the whistle blow, that's not happening. i'm ultimately, we have to remember that these entities, these companies are businesses though they're for profit. and ultimately, the responsibility of the management of those businesses is to work in shareholders interest. i believe that ultimately, if there's any way of changing their behaviors, it should come from a financial standpoint. and this needs to be some action to limit the amount of profit they're seeing or change user behavior in, in a manner that limits the profit they make. and they will move in and other direction to chase that profit. and everyone seen just how powerful, especially comes election time now, how influential social media companies have become,

they can be the difference makers in terms of he gets elected these days. do you think congress will take this opportunity now? they've got the door open, have a look inside, see how these companies are working and maybe get a foothold in everything else. they're really jammed themselves in the door now and make sure their presence stays within these is organizations. i'm to be honest. i doubt that will happen the at this point, these technology companies are operating as they do are ultimately, these politicians are trying to give lip service to parts of their constituents who want this action to be taken. this is free advertising for those politicians who are going up against the tech companies. but ultimately they will be using it in the same way as their competitors to run their election campaigns. and potentially, because this is the us get funding from our facebook and other social media companies, lobbying money. this is common practice in the u. s. i wouldn't be surprised to see

a lot of these companies financing at the, the, not only the parties, but the individual representatives to guides their actions in this arena. that is a pleasure to speak to him. i guess is our matter. don't he from tech travel gigs? thank you. thank you. now even before to day senate, sasha, facebook was already in the headlines after one of the biggest outages in the tech . john's history, la facebook, whatsapp, and instagram used locked out for 7 hours on monday. even engineers were blaming 8 technical era. the problem cost, facebook alone, tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue disrupting business and social interactions, right round the world. outage is also reported across a variety of sites and services, including bank of america, tick tock, and linked in journalist and compensated chadwick. more question, how such a vast company could be so vulnerable to a technical failure? facebook?

oh is a one trillion dollar company and i like these outages happen a lot. it happened in april in june of just this year. you don't see google outages or any of the big tech companies apple. busy happening quite so frequently, so it's a bit bizarre that facebook has a problem with this. it seems to be that all of their, these properties oculus, instagram, whatsapp, and basically all run through some sort of similar server. facebook is now sort of saying they were making upgrades and, and, and program or gotten locked out or something. sounds fishy sounds really strange. the fact that this and facebook always a privacy problems and they always have problems there and they always go offline. it went down to one. so it's, it's very suspicious. and it's also suspicious that facebook seems that they are problems and most tech companies with these issues. and, and i would whistle blowers as well. i cannot get back. this has a look at the dangers of these monopolies, if they can blink out of existence so quickly. hundreds of millions of dollars in

revenue was lost in 6 hours today till these companies have it so much control, so much power. they are monopolies and look at how they can just wipe out revenue, whether the ship that was intentional or it was just the mistake that my colleagues who received a and a guest on of discuss, on brief taste of a world without facebook. good. what's up? was quite and quite inexperienced now was in and it was like going in some version of a cyber and a co chamber if you like. and just, you know, completely, you know, muting out the rest of the, the rest of the world. yeah. it was again, it was quite an experience and in fact, it was one of the longest outages that facebook has experienced in its history. so yet it was long and there were long, tense hours because nobody seemed to know what caused the outage. how long it will last and world will what we should all do with it. so well, it seems all seems back to normal now, but it wasn't easy because apparently when facebook service went down, they took along with themselves the so the infrastructure inside the, the,

the facebook headquarters or wherever their services are located. so engine is when they tried to get in, they found out that their electronic cards, their passes simply did not work. so they had to literally forced their way into the server room to manually reboot them. so, and it took mark zuckerberg also hours to come forward and explain what was going on. facebook, instagram, whatsapp, a messenger coming back online now. sorry for the disruption today. i know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about. so again, there were hours of radio silence before that statement. maybe because mark was trying to, well, put out a statement on facebook, not realizing it was down, but that's just my well guess. we'll eagle it 11 window closes perhaps another window opens any other services out there. taking advantage of this historic crash for facebook. well, short answer, yes, but it's not that simple because you might think that it was just facebook, instagram and, you know, facebook says to companies essentially, but no,

a lot of other companies, a lot of other businesses that do not necessarily rely on facebook as a social platform but rely rather on their technical physical infrastructure like service. they all went down to from well tended to netflix to zoom, to literally websites of airline companies and well, bank apps as well. so a lot of a lot of sites, a lot of services that were used to using they, well they went off line, but one app seemed to take advantage over it and mainly to take advantage of whatsapp not work. and that's the telegram messenger. the s m m, their social media team even had their fun on twitter before twitter went down as well. and while they try to attract new uses out, i did well, they successfully did. so because it is estimated some 50000000 new uses join telegram and it almost went down as well, but not because of the facebook thing, but because you had to process so many new accounts being registered. so yeah,

and there were a few funny reactions on line to this whole may hm. unfolding have a look. we're working to get things back to normal. telegram you single come over, the servers are up and my parents aren't home. so yeah, being a little tongue in cheek, the s m. m team there by probably, well, capitalizing on the whole situation. but in general, this whole thing and underlines, especially the fact that other businesses not, not well, apparently linked which didn't appear to billing to facebook. that they experienced troubles, it really points out how much people and in general, massive massive companies rely on the infrastructure of one particular tech giant. millions of businesses rely on facebook now and many other, many others use, say, spoke in order to, to connect to other apps. it sends a huge warning across the bile because here we have a major social network site. but you know,

this shows us the extent to which we rely on digital technology across the board. and cyber attacks of sorts can bring down all systems. and facebook is just one. it's a social networking platform, but a lot of businesses as we've said, relying on it. but imagine a much more in trend sick infrastructure also attack, i'm not saying this was a a cyber attack. in fact, i have a theory about what happened. but ah, this shows you the fragility of the entire digital infrastructure that were relying on a facebook assist. the service outage didn't lead to any use a data being compromised, but it's another set back weeks after form of product manager claim that the social network knowingly allows uses to spend hate and misinformation, i guess, gave is at ease on why facebook. the brand currently stands after recent events. what's interesting about the leak documents of the wall street journal published,

is that they show quite clearly that facebook is in decline and knows it's into court. and so you see all these desperate measures of attempting to attract preteens and children, i mean even children. so there is a kind of convergence of several bad instances. i mean, not just to shut down by any trust effort to break it up, coupled with now what these leak documents show is and understanding by facebook officials, that crest of the wave is now headed downwards. a facebook is not infallible, and what's up is definitely not infallible. what's that also came under scrutiny because there were reports that even though they claim that user messages were encrypted, that they were actually sending some user data to authorities in order to help with different types of prosecution. so if there's a message to take away from this, i think it is absolutely that we should be very skeptical the claims that facebook, what's that you, all the subsidiaries are making about their ability to keep your, your data private. because clearly it seems like they can't,

at least for the moment, i keep their sites even online to lead. both thing is barricades online, the british governments looking to spend big on a new cyber warfare that will improve valuable full taxpayers story more after the break. ah ah

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board the i assess earlier today, artes donald quarter has the story. well, the psy use m. s 19 just successfully docked at the international space station after blasting off from the bike and or cosmo jerome and kaz extend early on tuesday. now as you can see on your screen, this is the docking procedure taking place. usually it's done by an automatic docking system, but this time the commander of the flight and the actress on board took manual control to complete the procedure for part of a film that they're, that they're filming. now before the launch of the rocket, we heard from the commander at a press conference, he talked a little bit about what it's going to take to accommodate these new crew members of bar aboard. the international space station was a better been cut up with the spacecraft. has been reconfigured for it to be managed without an own boat engineer. but i think that as soon as we get to the space station, a lot will change there because we've got so much vital equipment for shooting the

movie. a lot of photo video equipment lights, et cetera. the international space station will be transformed significantly. the russian unit will turn into a film set for these 2 weeks. now, there is a unique thing about this specific space flight. actually, the russian film director clim chapin co and russian actress eula, paris hilde are tagging along. they're going to spend a 12 days aboard the international space station where they're going to be filming parts for a fictional space drama movie called the challenge. and this is actually going to be the 1st professional team of movie makers that will be filming in space. now. several cosmo knots on board. actually in these scenes, i wanted to say that paris sealed will be playing a surgeon that was sent to the international space station to actually save the life of a cosmonaut. and several of the cars, not already on board. the i assess, are actually playing roles in this movie like, oh, leg novit sky, who actually sent his greetings over twitter right after watching the launch from space. now,

the movie itself is even set to make history as the 1st feature film filmed in space. this is something that the russian team has been locked in, a literal space race to accomplish for a while. now, with the american actor, i'm tom cruz and the director, doug lehman. so i, this is certainly as some interesting news coming out of biking or, and the international space station really discussed this unique space mission with another russian cosmonaut. and that i bought a sankey, he shed his opinion on the case at that ghetto. on look at my will, this is the 1st experience of the space white had been just one cousin that specialist and to non professionals, the screw members from this perspective, this white as the 1st of many similar ones coming in the future on the 1st challenge, the move the crew members will come across some spaces, adapting to 0 gravity, something they started to experience right up to the so you space scrub detached from the rocket. carry of yes, this spirit usually last for a few days and gives some complications on the everyday life. of an astronaut,

you see because one experience is so cold motion sickness and the 2nd unpleasant nuisance is that the blood stream is redistributed around the budget, which means the blot flows from your feet to the hat and that feels like you're standing upside down. these 2 fact us will bring some difficulties, sir. yes than not professionals, but they took short term training for space flight members. in a spot of the training they were taught to take care of themselves in space. how to warm up food, put on the space suit, you use a restroom and so full. as far as i know that there were motivated, they have no choice except to successfully handle life and space and that professional duties to should, to moving meters. the british government is preparing to fun of billions of pounds into a new cyber warfare, sent a capable of attacking states that the u. cavies to be hostile, was more almost known about the plans is not a shadier edwards dashed well as being described to hare buying the government in

a breton as a once in a generation opportunity and a real game changer and placing brits and back on the map as a global leader, an influence there in terms of cyber security. in fact, it's so much of a priority for the government that it's setting aside a whopping finds a 1000000000 pounds to set up this new headquarters for cyber warfare in the united kingdom. many eyebrows, though, raised at that amount of money, particularly during all of this time we've seen in the kind of pandemic, very difficult, a financial past 20 months. not least looking at current affairs to like the fuel shortage here in the u. k as well. so that's a huge amount of money, but the defense secretary is defending this amount of money on the move in general, saying that the u. k. must be better equipped to defend itself, but also must be in a better position to launch these cyber attacks as well. some foreign states are

waging cyber warfare not every single day, and we have a right on to international law and among ourselves to defend ourselves. and one of the way see can do that is to dismantle the tools that i used against you. for example, with the hostile state is using a server to deploy ransomware against you spyware. using disinformation, you could use offensive side, but to deal with those servers as being on this trajectory for some time. now, in fact, the national cyber force has been in operation. it was established since at least november of 2020, but what we do know is in the past few months now in 2021, our british officials have been hinting at who these hostile states really are. namely russia and china. russia has combined military and non military means to alter the map, attempting to change the balance of power and undermining the cohesion of all societies through disinformation, russia, and china winning a decisive advantage in information

h military technologies. we know that russia has consistently denied any involvement and cyber attacks here in the united kingdom and says that london has time and time again failed to provide any solid evidence to back up its claims against it. but still, the united can kingdom continues and is indeed setting up this new headquarters. and it seems as though the u. k is not, is ramping up as director it, but it's clearly ramping up its capabilities as well. and that brings you rather today, don't forget to check out to have more news available on our website. go to all t dot com. mm. ah ah ah ah

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