ah who dares thinks we dare to ask ah, facebook's parents, country admits in court this 3rd party fact checks on nothing more than opinion is feeling further allegations of bias and censorship on social media jails. the trying to protect young girls, denmark, sex, immigration tickets, 2 months behind bars for separating refugee child wives from the husband. if

she were so worried about them, then she, the minister would have been something more humane. ready, talking about 23. people are going to get to our treatments under the us inflation rate setting. you records americans are being advised by that media to splash their savings before they put the d value. a tip though that is and get the all ready cargo. pretty much everything universally cost smart. it's harder to get like even little products like napkins and cups and all that stuff. so it's kind of bad. ah, why not very good afternoon. good to be company here on facebook uses may have to reassess the information that they've been getting from the site after its parent company matter admitted in courts. the so called fact checks are based

merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by journalist after his post had been flagged as misleading. as kit taylor has a story. turns out the famous fact checkers who are busy labeling things false partly 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 day slapped a partly full sticker on one of his post. so he food for defamation. and because facebook where he 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 . so not based on fact, what a ridiculous idea, but on their opinion, hence the title fact checker. and because opinion in america is sacred, you can't sue it. it's a very, very nifty loophole. but just to really escape any liability whatsoever. facebook

double down on how it gives it fact checkers. a very long leash, though meta identifies potential misinformation, for fact checkers to review and great. it leaves the ultimate determination whether information is full so 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 fact checking section on facebook talk. com. instead you'll learn about how they interview sources 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 uses worldwide, want very pleased. after all, many of them had probably used these facts one arguing with their friends. and now it's turned out they would just quoting some random person's opinion. i've been

embarrassing really, so that campaigning for facebook not to 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 fact checks at all, but merely opinion assertions also by facebook clement, its labels constitute opinions than doesn't that make it at publisher. facebook, your opinion piece is not exempt from being fact checked, even when they are clearly labeled as op eds or editorials. also, facebook are fact check labels can not be false or defamatory because they consist 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, if 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 a lead 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 favourite 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 false, ah, analysis and insight into the facebook revelations coming out of the letter. cool case. just a click away for you that and lots of us those available for darcy duncan. now in the us journalists there are pushing back against government surveillance. after it was revealed, the homeland security department secretly obtained information about reporters congress members and possibly even its own staff by running database checks, normally reserved for suspected terrorists. he says that he press his report or was among those targeted is demanding answers where he 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 law. the center of the uproar, a special unit inside customs and border protection named counter network division . it reportedly gather data on 20 journalists using sensitive databases. the revelation 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 insisted it is deeply

committed to ensuring the protection of 1st amendment rights, namely freedom of speech and freedom of the press. journalist and commented 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 was fun mentally against everything that this country stands for, that'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, it's end 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 won't, 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 cannot members of congress, maybe congress 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 as seen, denmark, sex, immigration minister, jail. she was sentenced to 2 months behind balls for legally separating refugee couples in 2016. under any slow couples can only marry from the age of 18 during the migrant crisis. skills is eunice just 50. legally married bucket. arrived in denmark, the then minister ordered the young wife to be separated from the husbands. the danish court ruled that that was unlawful if the decision was made without consideration of individual circumstances in the story book says, she was only trying to protect children and has no regrets. yes ma'am. i see i can

only say that i am very, very surprised by despair. entities as it were, the only scenario i had not prepared for before because i thought it was completely unrealistic. but here we are, and i take my punishment and i do it without bending my neck. oh boy agnes, i don't 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. well, i 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 would be that i think the lessons learned from this is offer, say there is a lack of proportionality, a on behalf of the davis minister. but also i think on behalf of your tool,

because we're talking about 23 people. so i don't think our sentence, most of the girls who are in this 24 cases give are 1617. so they were not child. right. like 5 years, 6 years, 7 years and more girls were already married with these campers and to separate those people. i think that if she wanted to do something human, she should have gone to the court and some come pretend expert who had given her some good advice. but she didn't do that. i think they didn't take it out. they, they sent us. there is a good time to check that i just read why she might go slightly wrong in my food and how i got members also having a common time since syria which is contributing to so many of them coming to

denmark didn't know that that they didn't know what became as a silent hold didn't know the loss of the land. they were running for their lives in the country. they were seeking asylum somewhere and it came to the 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. these are protecting child bodies. is that the material one day or one you, you suggest a matter of subjecting those more people who are seeking this hello and, and the government and the minister is subjecting them to cancel 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. j is the all for economic sanctions which hit literally on my so you never passing me today. repeat your name exceptions and then maybe a little bit more bearable. consumer prices are hitting new highs in america with inflation reaching a full decade peak early this year. and recent media advice for americans to spend spend, spend before the savings, the value of hasn't gone down well, especially among already strapped for cash. consumers overwhelmed by the soaring cost of living. everything costs more grocery stores. um, pretty much everything universally costs more. everything's got up gas. ah, food, everything. so it's not good. i'm a small, you know, black home business owner and all the prices are my products. i have a coffee shop in brooklyn, in prime going coffee. and like all the,

all the beans are 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 work offers asked to spend more. that's as consumer inflation costs of jump 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 risk and taken it out on the la welm service, struggling shop owners later ivan delivered a pupil. we'd do ourselves a favor by consciously lowering expectations. a recent article from walks recommended reducing holiday requests in order to not feel the 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, whoever's in the next team on the matter of how, what russia ran, haven't, haven't explained the supply chain to us. you 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 patricia can try to blame the energy companies and private is 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 without any kind of historical precedent and anybody's lifetimes. russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterparts sheet him ping of held an online meeting with moscow. beijing publicly committed to strengthening the

ty, submit increasing the strained relations between east and west. las vegas done for both. 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 turnover between russia and china during 2021 has increased by 31 percent and has surpassed even the pre pandemic levels in general. the to lead as they have been. they have been a sort of a bastion and sort of a bass stand, 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, 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 lampoon has said that essentially the way russia and china treat each other, it should be held as an example. so it's a machine. i consider relations between russia and china to be a true model of interstate corporation. in the 21st century, it comes very, very shortly after both leaders have had, have had their own private personal conversations with the u. s. president joe biden, both nations that they face are 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 rush as 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 had it face as a similar problem with taiwan. and it, even while it has landed the united states into a bit of a, into a bit of an embarrassing situation when basically joe biden, i had to cut the taiwanese representative. sure. during one over the video video conference calls in washington. because that tie one was painted into a different color other than china. this, of course being a very sensitive situation for bay gene. it seems that the relationship that the alliance between russia and china and 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. harry potter also j.

k. rowling. as once again angered the transgender community, this time by objecting to suspects of rapists, self identifying as women. more on that story after the break. ah ah, ah, ah. ah.

london love polls, particularly when poles 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 than why? oh, come back. harry potter also. jake, a routing has infuriated the transgender community by criticizing police in scotland for allowing rape suspects to identify as women, even if they haven't legally, or physically changed gender rallying channels, george or wells 1994 on twitter to make a point where is peace?

freedom of slavery, ignorance is strength. the meanest individual, her aim to you is a woman. a feminist activists share rawlings concerns saying that the new approach to rape suspects will distorts crime statistics and thereby render them useless. but the authors faced the heavy backlash will have use. vast majority of sexual souls are committed by men who don't identify as anything other than men. perhaps you might consider using your public profile to come by this. instead, you created an entire universe filled with wonderful characters, fantastical beasts, magic, and wonder, but can't fathom. the trans people exist. you've gone downhill from the inspiring woman who wrote harry potter from her car. why does it sound like you're more upset about trans people than rape? this feels like your priorities around here, baby. so the 1st time the rawlings been rounded on by trans activists back in

2020, she was accused of trans phobia. as to ridiculing an article that used the phrase, people who menstruate instead of women prompting protests outside her house. the writer insist that she has nothing against transgender people. bringing the guest, knock and speak to take coleman, who's the director of the keep prisons, single sex. ok. good morning to revenue, kate. kate wood doesn't need to be mentioned. this is extremely controversial subject. let's start with this new policy though in scotland, it seems that the police are recognizing people as being transgender, even if that's not perhaps legally recognized in that, in that case is why would they do that? they are considered the long on the law, but seems like the going so slowly outside of the law here. right, and we're 1st there like say that this is by no means a new polar say, we know the police forces throughout scotland and england. and wales have been recording gender identity in the place of sex for a number of years. now,

with the result that the, the date on crime have been corrupted and all ready in our opinion, no longer reliable. and as to why this is happening. i mean, i, i think this is another example of institutional catcher of our public and private institutions by the transgender lobby. we know that in scotland, there has been a concerted effort by transgender groups and to get say that the criminal justice service to get the police force him to get prison services in particular on side. and to start recognizing gender identity in the place of sex. i've got a quote from one of them here which shows that the efforts to do this, the intention was to then be able to roll out to other sectors. so is a quite hear from james motion from scottish trans alliance. he says that our key

priority was to push public services to always respect transgender people's identities, even if they've not changed all their official document. we strategize that by working intensively with the scottish prison service to support them to include trans women as women on self identification alone with inch very challenging circumstances. we then be able to roll out to other institutions. so i think the capturing of the criminal justice system, whether it's crime statistics or it's the prison service, has been a very key tactical move to then be able to expand these practices of data collection elsewhere. i mean, you say it's tactical is, it may be slightly out of its time. that may be something that's coming because that, i mean, there are plans to reform the gender recognition act, which would make it easier, quicker process for people to be legally recognized as trans gender you can use.

can you have any sympathy for transgender people who it was, it was saying that actually, you know, this, this could be a setback for what we're trying to achieve with this reformation. and well, i think it's not really a question of sin to say it's a question of accuracy and within the crime statistics, we know that sex is an incredibly important variable for analyzing the causes of crime and the response to crime. we know that males and females who offend different rates with males overall committing offending a far greater prevalence than females. and for certain offense categories, females only really very, very rarely commit those offences. so things like violent crime, sexual crime, females only very rarely commit days. so if your substituting gender identity for biological sex, you're really messing up the data right at the beginning and you can never

formulate an appropriate response to offending. so it's got nothing to do with gender identity and it's got everything to do with sex. and i think this is yet another example of a situation where we really have to stop pretending that biological effects, which is immutable, that biological sex is irrelevant, unimportant, and can simply be ignored. i mean, a lot about the statistics. ok, but you know, what's the most important thing which is actual real will danger to people's physical well being. and this is something that j. k. rowling brought up, she says she isn't transfer, but she says that she's been the victim of sexual abuse herself and she's concerned about female prisoners and the home that could be done to them. bye bye bye. right . is the impression i get is that she's concerned, you know, some men are just exploiting a loophole here to get themselves into female prisons and that there's great danger to the family make. i mean, how do you feel about that side of the argument?

well, i mean, i think she's absolutely correct is once we start pretending that biological sex doesn't matter, then we start opening up single sex faces for females, which we know, we all know why they exist. we all know why women and girls require spaces, which are free from men and boys. we know that, and i think it is completely ridiculous to start pretending that this isn't a real life thing and that is an important. so once you start pretending that biological sex doesn't mash up, then you start opening up spaces to mail to men into boys on the basis of what they believe about themselves on the basis of gender identity. and that puts women at risk. we know that that puts women at risk. we know that there are male prisoners who a house with female prisoners throughout the united kingdom. so you scottish prison service houses, prisoners on the basis of their gender identity. we know that women are at rest.

what nichol evidence that that is, it demonstrates consistently that this disadvantages women, that it puts women at re, that women feel afraid that women feel vulnerable and that women don't want this. so it is j. k. rowling says, this is fundamentally, it's about protecting the rights of women and girls is about protecting the safety of women and girls and, and to start saying that that is transferred back. i find absolutely remarkable. i find it remarkable that this appears to be the hail that so many people are prepared to die on the rights of male rapists and in youth halo in scot, this your and in law in england and was neutral law rate is defined as unwanted penetration by penis, so i know that different countries have different legal definitions of rate,

but in u. k law, it's very, very clear. if you commit rake, you must have a penis. if you have a penis, you're a man. and so this is the hill that people are prepared to die on to say that the rights of men who commit rape or who are arrested on suspicion of rape to define themselves as women. that, that, that, that's really what you, you're going to die the hill, you're going to die and i find an extra unless may be held that the laws. and although you know that every chance these things may change in the, in the near future, even love to wrap it up, i'm afraid i really appreciate your time and your perspective on this kate cobra. my guess director of the keep prisons, single sex project and and that wraps up another time i'm afraid in more news in.