ah, so facebook's parent company admits in courts that it's 3rd party fact checks are nothing more than opinions fueling further allegations of bias and censorship on social media. journalist and lawmakers say that they're being treated like suspected terrorists. southwest reveal the u. s. government run checks on the music, some of the country's most sensitive database and jailed for trying to protect young girls, denmark's and former immigration minister against 2 months behind bars for separating refugee child wife from that as if she were so worried about them, then she put the minister would have been something more humane. ready,

talking about 23 feet or so. i have done with our achievements junctions and with the us inflation re setting new records, americans are being advised by the media to splash their savings before they d value. further into that has angered still ready, harder pretty much everything universally cost smart. there's hard it again, like even little products like napkins and cups and all those stuff. so it's kind of bad. ah hi that very good morning to you. great. have your company here on our team, right. let's not this news out with the story come out of hong kong where hundreds of people are reportedly trapped on the roof of a shopping center. this is after a fire, reportedly broke out, firefighters are attending at this scene. and a video posted on social media seems to show dozens of people waiting on the roof.

some reports claim as many as 350 people could be trapped inside that building will bring you updates as the information comes in. facebook is, is, may have to reassess the information they've been getting from the sites after its parent company matter admitted in cool. so cool fact checks. well, in reality, that just based on opinion, revelation came during a legal battle initiated by journalist after his post have been flagged up as misleading anti correspondence, husky, a tailor brings us the story. turns out the famous fact checkers who are busy labeling things falls apart and false misleading. i've actually been a bit loose with well, the facts. facebook yet again found itself in court. this time up against a john list. he didn't like the bay slapped partly full sticker on one of his post . so he food for defamation because facebook's already spent millions of dollars on

legal fees over the years. it got creative this time and claimed that front checkers don't decide what's false or not based on fact. not ridiculous idea, but on their opinion. hence the title. fact checkup on because opinion in america is sacred. you've gone through it. it's a very, very nifty loophole. but just to really escape any liability. what so was facebook double down on how it gives it fact checkers a very long leash so matter identifies potential misinformation, for fact checkers to review and rate. it leaves the ultimate determination whether information is false or misleading, to the fact checkers. and though meta has designed its platforms so that fact checker ratings appear next to content that the fact checkers have reviewed and rated. it does not contribute to the substance of those ratings. now, you won't find any of these details in the giant fac tech inspection on facebook

dot com. instead, you'll learn about how they interview thought, says and consult data and look for facts you know, to really drive home the point about how it's all based on opinion. i think some of it's 3000000000 users worldwide, one, sorry, pleased. after all, many of them had probably used these facts when arguing with their friends. and now it's turned out they were just quoting some random person's opinion and then embarrassing railing, so that campaigning for faith might not be let off the hook. court filing, facebook admits its fact checkers. don't check facts. is facebook admitted here that it's fact checks are not really fat checks at all, but merely peniman assertions also by facebook claim in its labels constitute opinions than doesn't that make it a publisher. facebook, your opinion piece is not exempt from being fact checked, even when they are clearly labeled as all peds or editorials. also, facebook are fact check labels can not be false or defamatory, because they concede sheet protected opinion,

even though we present them. as fact. my question though is, what does facebook need these opinionated fact checkers for anyway, after all, over the years, it's proved, it's committed to free speech. it loves giving people a voice, especially donald trump. it's dedicated to openness, transparency, and of course democracy. i mean, it says all the time your democracy can't tolerate the speech of people. i'm not sure what kind of democracy it is. i do believe in giving people more access to information and more access to connect with one another and not reserving those as tools for some small number of ally people. i don't feel comfortable at all saying they don't get to have a voice because i don't agree with. they said our ability to know what is misinformation is itself in question. and i think reasonably so fact checkers. facebook favorite friends protecting it from defamation, setting it free for accountability, someone to hide behind and times of trouble, but most importantly, always ready to get their opinion. facebook has found themselves back against the

wall and if they try to cling to the idea that they are fact checking in court, they're going to lose. and not only is it gonna cost them big time, but it's gonna open the door to a flood of similar lawsuit in the near future. and it could be more than they can handle. i think they're hoping that by admitting that fact, jack just means opinion jack, when facebook puts a label on there, hoping to get out of this lawsuit without harm. and then just sink the story into the daily fountain of news events and hope people forget about it. in due time and in the, in the future, you'll see changes in their labels. they'll stop using the word fact and they'll come up with some other way to express it where they still exercise their dictatorship right to control speech on their platform. but it won't be a false presentation like the word fact jack is off ah, and more analysis and insight into the facebook revelations coming out of the medical case. just a click away for you had to r t dot com in the u. s. jolissa pushing back against

government surveillance after it was revealed, the homeland security department secretly obtained information on reporters congress members. possibly even it's on staff by running database checks, normally wizard or suspected terrorists. the associated press, his reporter was one of those targeted is now demanding answers where deeply concerned about this apparent abusive power. this appears to be an example of journalists being targeted for simply doing their jobs, which is a violation of the 1st amendment. at the center of the uproar, a special unit inside customs and border protection called counter network division . it reportedly gather data on 20 journalists using sensitive databases. the revelation has prompted condemnation, not just from media workers, but also lawmakers if true, this abuse of government surveillance powers to target journalists,

elected officials, and their staff is deeply disturbing if multiple government agencies were aware of this conduct and took no action to stop it. there needs to be serious consequences for every official involved and department of homeland security and the justice department must explain what actions they're taking to prevent this unacceptable conduct in the future. the department of homeland security insist that is deeply committed to ensuring the protection of 1st amendment rights, namely freedom of speech and freedom of the press. journalist and commentator chadwick moore told us that americans have long been spied on by their governments deeply shocking and chilling. actually to put it more accurately, but this is also nothing really new and this is something that. a transcends administration that transcend democrat and republican administration, and there's absolutely no reason why someone from a government should be looking at your bank records, who you're emailing your travel records, it goes automatically against everything that this country stands,

floral. it's in our constitution. so it doesn't matter if you have something to hide or not, it's wrong and it should be a legal, probably legal, and it's not a representative of the values of this country. and the people in journalists are being deceived. and this is all being funded by our government. it seems like congress should be able to do something about it. they wrote, you put up quotes and congress people who are saying are deeply concerned. i don't think anything will happen. might be, i don't know if it's too far to say that maybe because these agencies have every bit of dirt, they get members of congress, maybe people are frightened to come out against these agencies and adult services in any kind of meaningful way that's possible. but congress could absolutely do something, but they haven't, and i don't think they will clash of cultures has seen denmark's ex immigration minister jailed. she was sentenced to 2 months for legally separating refugee couples. in 2016 on the danish law couples can only marry from

the age of 18 during the migrant crisis, girls as young as 50, who had legally married back at home. then arrived in denmark, the former minister ordered the young wives to be separated from their husbands. the danish court, though ruled that was unlawful as the decision was made, without consideration of individual circumstances. in story book says she was only trying to protect children and she has no regrets. yes ma'am. i see, i can only say that i'm very, very surprised by despair. and it is, as it were, the only scenario i had not prepared for before because i thought it was completely unrealistic. mean, but here we are. and i take my punishment and i do it without bending my neck. oh boy, agnes, i know there is nothing over that. so i mean, simply one has a moral and compassionate obligation to protect the girls. and that was what i did . oh guess debated whether the danish ex minister's decision was justified or not

to me. nobody is above the law is as simple as that. and she has been only sentence for 2 months, not for 2 years. and we also know that she will not go to the present. she can maybe get a strap on, on her leg, you know, and that is that with the dad. i think the lessons learned from the office say there is a lack of proportionality, a on behalf of the davis minister, also acting on behalf of the tool because we are talking about 23 people. so i don't think our mom's sentence, most of the girls who are in this 24 cases giver. 1617. so they were not child right. like 5 years, 6 years, 7 years and more girls were already married with the compass and to separate those people. i think that if she wanted to do something human,

she should have gone to the court and knock some competent expert who had given her some good advice. but she didn't do that. i think they didn't touch insert town or they, they sent us. there is a good faith trying to protect the diag describe why she might go slightly wrong about my food and how it got members. also having a come a time since syria which is contributing to so many of them coming to denmark, didn't know that, that they didn't know voted in. it became as asylum seeker didn't know. the last of the land they were renting from the lights are in the country. they were seeking asylum somewhere and they came to denmark. and if she was so worried about them, then she, the minister would have done something more humane. talk to them and explain to them. well, i think if you go by what she said, she said she is defending daily,

protecting child bodies. it is that the material one day or one is to just a matter of subjecting those poor people who are seeking hello and, and the government and the minister is subjecting them to come from unbearable pressure. and that is, i think, personally for me is absolutely terrible. so the main reason people come from sherry, i'd say to places like the denmark and the u. k. is the all for each make sanctions which literally agree on i'm, it's a nightmare. so passing me today would be to make sense. so then maybe a little bit more bearable consumer price isn't hitting new highs in america with inflation reaching a for decade peak early this year. recent media device for americans to spend spend, spend before the savings, the value will that hasn't gone down very well,

especially among already strapped for cash consumers overwhelmed by this soaring cost of living. everything costs more, the grocery stores of pretty much everything universally costs more. everything's got up gas, food, everything. so it's not good. i'm a small, you know, black home business owner and all the price of them or products have a coffee shop in brooklyn, in prime grand coffee and like all the, all the beans or more expensive. and it's harder to get like even little products like napkins and cups and oil stuff. so it's kind of bad, you know, with prices on almost all goods and services rising. some media have come up with some advice that isn't going down too well. they say copy inflation ravaged argentina and simply blow all your money before it evaporates in high inflation economy. money that sits in the bank is losing value each day. those $100.00 and

deposit by a little bit less. as a result, many argentines spend their paychecks as soon as they receive them, cards in a way, weeks worth of groceries in a single shopping trip. even if some of it excess me chicken fish will sit in the freezer for months. so won't burg offers asked to spend more. that's as consumer inflation costs of jumped 6.8 percent the highest and 41 years. it's not the only example in a recent washington post article, a leading columnist, aptly suggested. not expecting very much, rather than leaving constantly on the verge of throwing the fit and risking taken it out on the la well m service strong and shop owners later ivan delivered a pupil. we do ourselves a favor by consciously lowering expectations. a recent article from walks recommended reducing holiday requests in order to not field a crunch of by nomics. the mission to my last with more intention is achievable for everyone, especially affluent shoppers. it's incumbent and americans, the wealthiest people in the well to come back,

come and be critical of their consumption. many c biden's policies as being directly to blame job seems bored, of explaining how he sees it, not too interested in defending his action. if we were all going out and have lunch together and i said, let's ask whoever the, whoever's in the next table, no matter how, what restaurant we're in, haven't had explained the supply chain to us. can understand what's, what we're talking about. at this point, 60 percent of americans blame joe biden for the crisis, but mainstream media seems to disagree and tell them they should blame themselves, not the people leading the country. there's nothing that upsets american voters more than having to pay for ever higher prices that are going up dramatically. vitamins efficient can try to blame the energy companies and private. it's all they want, but it's all happening for his watch. and i expect that the mac rats are going to pay a very serious price for this. and the next election,

if we make it that long, we don't know what inflation is going to be at. by that time, i'm very much afraid that, that we're going to be facing a reckoning of, of without any kind of historical precedent and anybody's lifetimes. the inner practica annual science and business form kicks off for the 8th time in moscow on tuesday brings together industry reps and scientists from round the country with the aim of boosting collaboration between the 2 sectors. the main thing of issues of end is how covert has affected the global economy and people's values. the events will run for 3 days and includes a series of addresses and discussions with some of russia's most eminent business leaders. we managed to catch up with a few of them that old kevin is cove. it has forced many changes in economic development to be made. it has given us additional impetus to move towards further digitalization. now there's

a visible acceleration of technological development. it's important that it's happening on 2 tracks. them will tenuously on the one hand, national demand for home grown tech is growing on the other, the government is acting. the driving force is opening up new markets and removing obstacles is theking of services. i believe may have been in a supported by experts that the technology sector can to convert, rather that can help the commentary. t'other medium sized tech companies are the most adaptive, and they're able to integrate quickly into the economy quickly and just their production systems. and like large business as well. yeah, we live in a fast paced world, and the pandemic has accelerated the processes of digitalization, while marketing and informational messages are becoming more personalized. this creates new requirements for content, which should become more and more diverse. russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart sheet in ping of held an online meeting with moscow. beijing publicly committed to strengthening their ties. meds

increasingly strained relations between east and west. let's go to our correspond. the thing is donna phase in our, of the student central moscow. inga at western critics, he don't like put in or she must be going to cardiac arrested. the idea of a meeting of co operation between the 2. what was discussed well, maybe maybe not. so not so radical, maybe not so dramatic this time because it wasn't a real, you know, face to face. it was more of a virtual summit. they video summit. so they met online via a video link and the meeting was rather brief, but long enough for both leaders to confirm that they are staying true to the very cordial, very friendly good relationship between the 2 nations. for example, it has been revealed that the trade turn of a between russia and china during 2021 has increased by 31 percent and has surpassed even the pre pandemic levels. 3 in general,

the to lead as they have been, they have been a sort of a bastion and sort of a bastin, a going up against the united states. sir, diplomatically wise and geopolitically wise, in general, their meeting comes amid a very tense situation when both nations have a very tense relationship with the united states. both nations have their own bones of contention. when it comes to the relation to the well to the trans atlantic superpower and the russian president, vladimir putin has an sort of am playing on the contrast of events. playing on the contrast of the state of affairs of lateral boon has said that essentially the way russia and china treat each other. it should be held as an example should a, it's a pleasure. i consider relations between russia and china to be a true model of interstate corporation in the 21st century. well, so you've heard the man there, but essentially the this video link cool. it comes up very shortly after both

leaders have had, have had their own private personal conversations with the u. s. president joe biden. and, well, both nations are they've face sanctions and they have faced threats of sanctions coming from washington with russia. it's, of course, in case russia decides to attack ukraine again. this is, this is an intention that rushes vehemently denied in the past couple of months. but nonetheless, joe biden has threatened some very serious measures will be taken if russia decides to take this step, which again, moscow has time and time again has said has no intention of doing and china. it faces a similar problem with taiwan and it, even while it has landed the united states into a bit of i'm into a bit of an embarrassing situation when basically, joe biden had to cut the taiwanese representative. sure. during the one over the video video conference calls in washington because their tie one was painted into a different color other than china. this, of course being

a very sensitive situation for b ging. so it seems that the relationship that the aligns between russia and china if not, grow stronger, but rather it stays as strong as it has. and there are no cracks, you know, to spider, through the relations between moscow and beijing. we have a diplomatically put thanks for the update english down of our correspondence rampant western speculation about a possible russian invasion of ukraine. it's prompted a french army p to tell this channel to shut up shop in europe saying there is no need for artes alleged propaganda, as there are enough, quote, useful idiots about to spread the kremlin message. good ladonna go say i would like to give a piece of advice to russia to day. you can save money and close your offices in europe. some european politicians are doing your work perfectly well by systematically pressing cramming propaganda. and i would like to tell you crane not

to worry because these useful idiots remain a minority in europe, and they must absolutely remain in minority. this message seems to be very much in tune. what we're hearing from many you politicians who are keen at the moment to show their teeth against a russia. this is in natalie luez. oh, who's also a member of emmanuel makins on the move party here in france. and this is somebody who'd probably describe herself as being thoroughly european to the core and anti russian. now on the one hand and natalie, you assume must be somebody who would say that she defends the idea of freedom of speech and expression to the core. but it does seem as if that only extends to the type of freedom of speech that she agrees with. and actually just a quick fact check here for madame luez or the name of the channel is r t at not russia today. so apart from the fact that she is unhappy with what she sees as politicians from the left and the right side of the political spectrum in europe

saying that russia has a right to a point to view that russia has a right to question. when nato doesn't keep its promise, is that begs a question. does she think that if need to renew legs on commitment, said it's made that that should be swept under the carpet. and all of this comes at a time when the e was ramping up. the threats against russia, including increasing sanctions against individuals, and it claims that the country is primed to make an invasion of ukraine. now for weeks, if not months, there has been speculation and allegations that russia is amassing troops on its border, but not much. if anything said about the fact that ukraine has also been amassing many troops on its border to this also comes at a time when nato is suggesting, once again, that ukraine could be about to ascend to the alliance. something that russia has warned time and time again that it sees as being a clear threat. moscow has also accused key f of not just

a massive troops on its border, but also beefing up its army with modern technology. and it says the key ev, at the moment, is purposely exacerbating the situation because it's richard me. as for the of a round of threats towards russia, warnings or threats, we absolutely understand the position and there is no need to repeat it 10 times. what we would like their position to be more balanced. if we're talking about the need for the escalation, ukraine, we want to see calls for kia to stop the provocative activities on the demarcation line. now, while the hawks are soaring and squawking about this idea that there is a war brewing right now, some you leaders counseling at that that could be a self fulfilling prophecy. and that comes with a big warning, particularly from french president, a manual mac one who says that that could come to pass if it's something that we keep speculating about. and he said that the primary goal right now should be to

avoid any unnecessary tensions. it seems that natalie luez though, didn't get that memo. american e commerce giant amazon could be in trouble over questionable tornado preparation. 6 of its workers were left dead after disaster hit a warehouse in illinois last week. a federal investigation into workplace safety has been opened. employees are accusing the company of failing to find enough training on how to act during a tornado. one victim apparently notified his girlfriend or the company would not let him leave. the woman said she received the text message 16 minutes before the storm head, which might have been enough time for him to get home to safety. it was the last text she received from him. and i was on says that it is assisting with the investigation and says also training is mandatory and this facilities critic so say not enough time is spent on preparing workers and

especially so during the busy holiday season company has promised those to donate a $1000000.00 to help rebuild the devastated local community. political commentator nika house nonetheless says that amazon should have done more. the amazon managerial staff at edward vill, illinois knew that the tornadoes were coming, because, well, they admitted they got alerts. through various apparatus is like text messages and phone calls in even more so even more so they had advance notice not that day, but days ahead. it also probably means that the amazon manager of the staff should have been taking precaution, given that the national weather service made it perfectly clear that there was a balance storm system for me in that area. now they did not close the facility that day. they didn't even close the facility early that day. this seems to be emblematic of a major problem that has been consistent with amazon working conditions seem to be

unbearable for amazon workers to the point where they are now banding together across the world to combat them. this is not a one off situation. they were given a couple of days. notice about the volunteer needles in the area base. not hours day. they could have close early. they could have, as they could have made an escape plan and say, hey workers, where are you and the proximity to amazon's facility? in this particular case, larry was only 13 minutes away in an area that didn't get hit hard according to his girlfriend. and why do they keep the facilities openings actually, to what to get the packages where they need to get to on time that's. that's what a life was law for. that's what people were put in danger for people. larry virgin, partner of 13 years with his girlfriend, father or for lost his life for the amazon could get you your packages on

time instead of a day or 2 late. get wraps it up now. i'll see in half an hour. mm hm. london, just love polls, particularly when polls further a certain political agenda, but polling has a check her history as of late the last 2 election cycles. tell us as much, should we put much stock into polling any more. it so then why? no one else? sure thing wrong when i just don't hold any new world. yes. to say proud disdain becomes the advocate an engagement. it was the trail.

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