i mean with artificial intelligence, real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence. with awe. facebook's accused of spreading hates and weakening democracy by whistleblower. the revelations that he was sen, sunday, stock contrast though too few years ago when social media platforms were hales for bringing about the arab spring. they spooks up as one of his 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. and even company engineers had that electronic pass is denied. and history of the making. a russian film crew arrives at the international space station to make the 1st ever feature length fill in space. we

discussed the unprecedented achievement of the russian customer. as far as i know that very motivated, they have no choice except to successfully handle wipe in space. that professional uses to shoot to movie. ah . oh, good evening. thanks for joining us here on naughty international weakening democracy by spreading hatred and division. those are the charges leveled at facebook by whistleblower. the former employee didn't testify before you. a senate tearing 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 dead that they stream 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. 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 during the arc spring. social media play a role. social media is much broader than sending a $144.00 characters or twitter for updating your stows posts on facebook. those are use your giving facebook a lot of credit for this or yeah, for sure. i want to me look at that one day and thank him. actually indeed, social media did have some very pronounced impacts on the arab spring. well, i discussed the change of opinion towards facebook with anti contributed nicko

house. it does seem a little bit peculiar that in 2011 with countries like tenicia libby and egypt, facebook was not only celebrated for put like for helping spread the news about the protest. but the algorithm seemed to be for perpetuating the protests and propelling them for that millions of people are able to react and noticed what was going on. now, interestingly enough, about 3 of those countries to protest there actually benefited united states interests. 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 to ship, is it a very different base these days? what 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 jim pa sack, he 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 at a senior adviser, not even, not even a year ago, is 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's 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 activists organizes and 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 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 in the sensor more to what it does seem like they've had to they fit 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 exercise 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. and in legal matter, let's rally hearing you senators, have been clear, congress must make use of more regulation against facebook and other social media platforms. if they won't act and a big tech won't and congress hasta intervene. co urgent duty is for congress to act against powerful tech companies. we should consider narrowing this

sweeping immunity when platforms algorithms amplified illegal conduct. i spoke to aunty ho, spend swan on the topic of the congressional hearing. 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 friends, a hug, and she, she worked for facebook. she did collect documents at 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, 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 same, 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 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 the 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 spare. and i think that's usually problematic in the full today senate session facebook was already making headline stuff to one of the biggest outages in the chance history left facebook. whatsapp and instagram use is locked out for 7 hours on monday. engineers have blamed a technical error, probably cost facebook alone, tens of millions of dollars in loss, revenue disrupting business and social interactions around the world. outages were also reported across a variety of sites. the services that included bank of america tick tock, unlinked, tin to unless than compensated chadwick mall questioned how such a huge company can 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 and june of just this year. you don't see 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 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 problem and 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 bigger problems and most tech companies with these issues and, and i would whistle blowers as well, could be acknowledging 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 our they are monopolies and look at how they can just wipe out revenue whether the checkout was intentional or it was

just the mistake. my colleagues will receive shit and he gets done of discussed that brief taste of a world without facebook and 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 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 site, 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 rebuild 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 radius hollands 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. well, either 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 or physical infrastructure like service of line. but one app seem to take advantage of it and mainly to take

advantage of whatsapp not work. and that's the telegram messenger. they eserman their social media team, even had their fun on twitter before twitter went down as well. and while they tried to attract new uses, i didn't did well, they successfully did. so because it is estimated some 50000000 new users 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 the parents aren't home. so yes, 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, accounting linked, which didn't appear to billing to facebook. that they experienced troubles, it really points out how much people on the general, massive massive companies rely on the infrastructure of one particular tech giant billions of businesses rely on facebook now and many other many others use facebook 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 saw 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. facebook insist the service outage didn't lead to any use a data being compromised, bought it's another setback. weeks after a form of product manager claimed that the social network knowingly allows uses to spread hate and misinformation our guests gave is of use on where facebook the brand currently stance. but 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 in decline. 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, but to any trust effort to break it up, coupled with now what these league 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 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 is 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. still ed bolstering is barricades online. the british government is looking to spend big on you cyber warfare center butts. will it be value for money for taxpayers? bringing that story more after the break.

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or remain in the shallows. ah, we'll go back, bringing new meeting to the term star studded cast russian film. true has docked to the international space station now hoping to create the 1st of a feature length movie showed entirely in space. so the spacecraft crew members took the 1st steps on board the ice sicily to day ortiz on core to has 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 cassock. stand 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 will do better 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 foam 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 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 a bonus anchor, who shed his opinion as yet, oh, i know that now. well, this is the 1st experience of a space wide,

hadn't just one cousin that specialist on to non professionals. the screw members from this perspective, this white as the 1st of many simila wants coming in the future. the 1st challenge, the move, the crew members will come across in spaces, adapting to 0 gravity. something they started to experience right off to the. so you spacecraft detached from the rocket, carry the spirit usually last few days and give some complications on the everyday life of an astronaut because one experiences, so cold motion sickness, 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 it feels like you're standing upside down. these 2 fact us will bring some difficulties here. yes, they're not professionals, but they took short term training for space flight members. in the spot of the training they were taught to take care of themselves in space. how to warm up food, put on the space suit, 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 hundreds of thousands of children have been abused by catholic clergyman in france since the 1950s. that's the claim of a report that was released today by an independent commission describes a culture of quote, cruel indifference within the church to what was a systemic problem. this report rocking the foundations of the catholic church here in france. this is just the latest scandal to hit the church world wide, but showing the depths of depravity of those who were in positions of authority and positions of trust. let's have a look at some of the main points now in that report, some 3000 feet of files uncovered, acting within the french church since 1950. and that is said to be a minimum estimate, some $330000.00 children who are abused by those who are affiliated with the

church includes priests and the clergy. 80 percent of the victims were boys between the ages of 10 to 13, the head of the commission of that independent report said that the church was to blame for not doing enough sheesh good debbie did until the 2000 there was a profound and even grew indifference towards the victims they were not believed, not heard, the church did not know how to see or hear. they did not pick up on signals or take the rigorous measures which were necessary. the institutions responsibility has to be recognized on shore marie. so they warned that the problems had not yet being overcome each full. should the puck deal, we must get rid of the idea that sexual violence in the catholic church has been completely eradicated. that the problem is behind us. the problem remains. so this report that lines $45.00 recommendations, this includes listening to victims and also

a psychological assessment report of those who wish to join the church in the feature as well as looking at the governance of the church itself. as that report is being released. some of the heads of victims, associations describe how they were feeling to the role fit. i know you've been through hell, you have explored the darkest and most object state. the man sometimes creates in his i'm the president of the conference of bishop, so frauds reacting to that report. in the moments off, the it was revealed, he said the time from begin t, the time for naivety was over and he described the report as being overwhelming. he asked for, for keep from this for the church, for what had happened to these hundreds of thousands of children on social media. there has been angry reaction to that report with many saying that the time had come for reckoning within the church. this organization, the catholic church,

must be dissolved and had no other association company structure would not be dissolved, dismantled after such crimes, 330000 victims in churches. they should be dissolved chemical castration for all priests to take vows of chastity that has been a long list of scandals involving the catholic church now for the last 20 old years or more. we've had scandals in places like australia or in australia in the us, in germany and now he in problems. but no matter how many times we get reports that are exposing what happened for decades. what was known by senior members of the church when you see the sheer scale of what happened to people, the numbers and how they were abused. people are still extremely shocked. the british governments preparing to funnel billions of pounds into a new side, the wolfish santa, capable of attacking states. the cave uses hostile with rome. what's known about

those plans? his aunties shadowed, was dashing well as being described to head, find the government in britain 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, it's been on this trajectory for some time now. in fact, the national side, the 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, at 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, 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 ramping up its capabilities as well. and i rub, so for this, so busy news, our all be back with updates for you in 30 minutes. ah ah

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