ah ah, facebook accused of spreading hates and weakening democracy by whistle blower the revelations of the u. s. senate hearing stand in stark contrast. those are just a few years ago. the social media platforms were hailed for bringing about the arab spring. facebook stuff is one of his worst ever outages for 7 hours. millions of people were disconnected from the world and biggest social network, as well as instagram and whatsapp, and even company engineers out there. electronic pass is denied and his student making a rush of film to arise at the international space station to make the 1st ever

feature length film in space. we discussed the unprecedented achievement with a russian puzzle. as far as i know that there were motivated, they have no choice except to successfully handle wide. can space that professional you just to shoot a movie. ah hi there. good evening. thanks for joining us on our weakening democracy by spreading hatred and division. those are the challenges leveled at facebook by a whistleblower former employees been testifying before you a senate hearing after leaking documents about how the firm operates. facebook exported teens. do you think that teams are profitable for their company? i would assume so those dangerous algorithms that they admit are picking up the extreme sentence, the division, their product,

it is often destructive facebook's products harm, children, stoke division, and we can 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. so very different pitch from just a few years ago and platforms like facebook and twitter were being lauded for bringing democracy to the arab world during the arab spring social media play. a role in social media is much broader than sending a 144 characters or twitter, or updating your status post on facebook. those are uses. you're giving facebook a lot of credit for this. or yeah, for sure, i want to meet mark zucker berg one day and thank him. actually indeed, social media did have some very pronounced impacts on the arab spring. discuss the change of opinion towards facebook with anti contributor nika, house. it does seem

a little bit peculiar that in 2011 with countries like tunisia, libby, an egypt. facebook was that only celebrated for put like for help and spread the news about the process. but the algorithm seemed to be for perpetuating the protests and propelling them for that millions of people are able to reactive notice what was going on. now, interestingly enough, about 3 of those countries to protest there actually benefited united states in true. so what it seems like is on the rush like now that the script has been flipped 10 years later, the science, censorship actually benefits the united states. so i guess you could say it's pro democracy, i guess if you wanna call facebook or you know, a democratic institution, i guess you could call it that because the government seemed to be on the side of censorship. facebook as readily pushes the ship. is it a very different base these days thought it was years ago? 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 her opinions have much more influence. i mean, just a couple of weeks ago, jennifer sack keith was actually saying that it was time to come down harder on facebook and regulate them more fast forward 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, kids now frankly sitting in front of the senate after going on 60 minutes, i'm 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 the average working class individual and maybe potentially activists organizing 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. i think the thing that they need to do the and

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 like their editorial list of what day, but the federal government hadn't done anything about it. now on the other side of that fence, they do have the capability to force in the sensor more to what it does seem like they've had 2 dates that every time one of these is, this is happen. facebook seems to sensor more on their own. so even though they have the power, they haven't exercised it and they've been able to get face with the kind of do what they want more and more without ever having to hold them accountable. any legal matter for the hearing us senators have been clear, congress must make use of more regulation against facebook and other social media platforms. if they won't act in a big tech won't act, congress has to intervene out urgent. it is for congress to act against powerful tech companies. we should consider narrowing this sweeping

immunity when platforms algorithms amplified illegal conduct. this was spoke with thought he has spend swung on the topic of the congressional hearing. i think that this entire facebook whistleblower story has been created. it's been crafted. i'm not saying that in authentic, i think this woman certainly worked for facebook. francis hug. and she, she worked for facebook. she did collect documents of their internal research. but what's happened is there's been a slow trickle of this information, 1st of the wall street journal, now to 60 minutes, and then of course in front of congress. and the, and the goal here is to take all this and to share this. i agree with the concept that companies like facebook are doing a poor job of regulating themselves of obviously these, you know, documents that show instagram and the effect it's having on teams and, and young girls, especially when it comes to their mental health. those are all very concerning, but what is the directed outcome of this?

so for instance, what jim saki is saying, what this facebook whistleblower, who's testifying the saying, what they're essentially saying is government needs to get involved and government needs to decide what content is allowed. and not a lot on social media in order to make it the word they like to use. safe problem is, is that there are so many tens of millions of americans who do not believe that government is trying to keep them safe, but is instead trying to manipulate them and push political messages on to them. should social media b of a public square where people are allowed to get up and speak and into voice their opinions and their worldviews and where rigorous debate can take place as you would have in a public square, or is social media supposed to be contrived and controlled to the point where a few government entities and bureaucrats decide what is acceptable thought and acceptable belief. and i think that's the real core problem here. when government bureaucracy decides what is dangerous and what is not in the public interest, it breeds all kinds of corruption. and it reads

a situation where the average person doesn't have a right to speak or to think in any kind of public scare. and i think that's hugely problematic. even before to day senate session, facebook was already making headline stuff to one of the biggest outages in the tech. john's history. there's a facebook, what's up, and instagram uses a long town for 7 hours on monday and janisa blamed a technical era. the problem cost facebook alone, tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue disrupting business and social interactions around the world. outages were also reported across a variety of sites and services, including bank of america, tick tock and linkedin. genesis and compensated chandra mall. question how such a vast company can be so vulnerable to a technical failure? facebook. oh is a one trillion dollar company and i always outages happen a watts. it happened in april and june of just this year. you actually google outages or any other big companies. apple 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 basement 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 to have bigger problems than most tech companies with these issues. and, and i would whistle blowers as well. the academic impact. 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 took these companies have it so much control, so much power. they are monopolies and look at how they could just wipe out revenue, whether the check that was intentional or it was just the mistake that my

colleagues were research shayhan decreased on us, discuss that brief taste of a world without facebook on whatsapp was quite a, quite an experience 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 well, well, 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 they have 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 and messenger are 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 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 the lots of sites, a lot of services that were used to using they, well they went offline. but one app seem to take advantage over it and mainly to take advantage of whatsapp not work. and that's the telegram messenger. they estimate their social media team even had their fun on twitter before twitter went down as well. and well, they try to attract new uses and 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 mayhem 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, but probably well capitalizing on the whole situation. but in general, this whole thing, it underlines especially the fact that other businesses not not well upon, can linked which didn't appear to billing to facebook. that they experience 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 whole 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 intrinsic infrastructural, so 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 we're relying on also spoke insist the service outage didn't lead to any use a day to being compromised. but it's just in the setback, weeks after a form of product manager claim, the social network knowingly allows uses to spread hate and misinformation, i guess, gave is obvious on where facebook the brand currently stands. but what's interesting about the leak documents of the wall street journal published is that they show quite clearly with facebook is in decline, and knows it's in decline. and so you see all these desperate measures of attempting to attract pre teens 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 lead documents show is and understanding by facebook officials, that crest of the wave is now headed downwards. that facebook is not infallible. and what's app is definitely not infallible. what's that also came under scrutiny because there were reports that even though they claim that the 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 was absolutely that we should be very skeptical of the claims that facebook whatsapp, your, 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. the lad bolstering is barricades online. the british government is looking to spend big on and you cyber warfare center that will improve value for money for the taxpayer store in law after the break.

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dares sinks. we dare to ask oh, look back, bringing you meaning to the terms. star studded caster russian film trees docked to the international space station hoping to create the 1st ever feature length movie shot entirely in space. so the spacecraft crew members to the 1st steps on board the isis early today, not is donald quarter, can tell us more. 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 about aboard. the international space station was a better been cut up with the spacecraft. has been reconfigured for it to be managed without an on board 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 eulley a paras,

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 rolls in this movie, like oleg 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

a some interesting news coming out of biking or, and the international space station we discussed this unique space mission with another russian cosmonaut under, i bought a sankey who shed his opinion at that yet. oh, i know that now. well, this is the 1st experience of the space. white had been just one cousin that specialist on to non professionals. the screw members from this perspective, this white as the 1st of many similar wants 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 off to the so you space grub detached from the rocket carrier. yes, in the spirit usual way last few days and give some complications on the everyday life of an astronaut. because one experiences, so cold motion sickness and the 2nd unpleasant nuisance is that the blood stream is redistributed around the budget, which means the block flows from your feet to the hat and it feels like you're standing upside down. these 2 factors will bring some difficulty, sir. yes,

they're not professionals, but they took short term training. the 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 forth. 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 meter. the british government is preparing to fun of billions of pounds into a new cyber warfare and to capable of attacking states. the cave used to be hostile . with more, almost known about the plans is anti shandey edwards dashti. 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, of 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 sideboard 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, a 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 in 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, a gang stead. but still the united can. the kingdom continues and is indeed setting

up this new headquarters. and it seems as though the u. k is not as ramping up as rhetoric, but it's clearly a ramping up its capabilities as while the killers bringing jojo co and now he's an incident law expert at social media solicitor. good evening tea. a good a we've, we've been hearing from top u. k. officials over the last few months that that, that this u. k. national cyber force are gonna focus mostly in china and russia. ah, i surprised that the focusing on countries as opposed to non state actors. some of these criminal groups that we hear about a lot. i think that there has been little a change of strategy here and it's only a small change. it appears to be much big. and we've actually ease the, the, the previous perception was that a cyber warfare was some sort of almost a low level criminal activity that these it is, is being deployed. bye bye,

bye bye sponsor. a state sponsored terrorism organization almost almost degrading the entire operation. and i think that what you, he government is now a saying is that we're going to take a gloves off a and we are going to now declare our intention of our being very clear about what we are going after. very clear about our military intentions, and we want to be a, one of the leading nations are when it comes to the future wolf, her. ah, so we are no longer going to treated as some sort of on the ground, a semi semi terrorist activity. ah, this is officially now are going to be the way that wars are going to be false in the future. and the u. k. government is simply declared something that the should have possibly declared a very long time ago. russia seems that britain hasn't presented any solid evidence

that that has come under attack from a cyber and stated that involved. busy the russian government and does it need to put food, this kind of evidence before it launches attacks, because as i understand, this is even just going to be at a defense if cyber unit, it's all about being offensive. well i, my background is, is a military background a so what i do know for certain a day it is very difficult, almost impossible to defend a properly inaccurately if you're not able to to a dock if you're not able to, to be on the offense. so think again the u. k is moving away from my characterization ends in act, the old defensive about it to say actually, you know, from now on, this is the way we going to be building up our military style strategy. so it, it,

it is probably going to be no longer making all those can accusations. and i was a child now as a dresser is going to be, in fact, we acknowledged that this is how wars are going to be for in the future. and we're going to make sure that we are ready. our end date are we know we, we are no longer going to be defensive about it. in fact, we're going to start the game, the initiative we going to be taking, possibly even some pre emptive strikes against our various. so our countries that are, that we feel that um you know, our, our, our perhaps are planning attacks against us. so it could be a tax against a military facilities. it could be a thanks. again, nuclear facility could be all sorts of law a fact that a mole could have surgical and it will be aiming to um, to create the big barrel defensive or shield for the u. k. so i think it is no

longer at the defensive approach. it is now our cars on the table. we are ready to to take the lead. it's, let's say a fully fledged cyber was the breakout between some of these major nations, how that impacts the, the lives every day. people do things on one hand, walter bassette cyber wool, for his most surgical, or it could be more accurate or you can target very accurately, ah, your, you know, whatever you wish to destroy, without a hurting, ah, a people innocent people and without destroying lives in the same time when you do attack, i said them facilities such as nuclear facilities are there could be an impact on, on the lives of, of people who might be around the surrender surroundings. oh,

or wrong, this area. so, so it is very difficult to say personally, i think that it is a, it is going to be a much safer way. oh, fighting wars, i appreciate your time, i guess. yeah. cohen, internet law expert. thank you. ok. then i wraps it up for they sour, i'll return with more, not up stories in 30 minutes. now look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence at the point obviously is to race trust rather than fear like take on various

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