ah ah, this alice help headlines here on our team. facebook. some parent company admits in court that it's a 3rd party fact check. so nothing more than opinions is fueling further allegations of bias and censorship across social media. jail to trying to protect young girls, denmark's x immigration minister gets 2 months behind bars for separating a refugee child wife's from their husband. if she was so

worried about them, then she the diminished have would have been something more humane. ready? talking about 23 people, so i don't think it is that are mumps, shut it with us inflation rates setting new records, americans are being advised by the media to flash their savings before they deem value any further. it's a tip that i'm good. the already hot up pretty much everything universally cost smart. that's harder to get like even little products, like napkins and cups and all that stuff. so it's kind of bad. ah, i live in more than 100 countries worldwide. this is auntie international. i'm rural, re sushi and moscow on this wednesday in a very well, we'll continue. facebook users may have to reassess the information they've been

getting from the site. offers parent company matter admitted in court, but so called fact check. so based merely on opinion. the revelation came during a legal battle initiated by a john list offer as posts were flagged as misleading, investigating the story. ortiz saskia taylor, towns 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 and because opinion in america is sacred, you go on to 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 its fact checkers? a very long leash though 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, very 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 pin him assertions also by facebook clement it's 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 op eds or editorials. also, facebook are fact check labels cannot be false or defamatory because they conduct 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 proved it's committed to free speech. it is 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. really people, i don't feel comfortable at all saying they don't get to have a voice because i don't agree what they said. our ability to know what is misinformation is itself in question. and i think reasonably so fact checkers. facebook's 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 going to cost them big time, but it can 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 full of plenty more analysis and insight into other facebook revelations coming out of a meta port taste with a few clicks away. check out our website. thoughts, he thought in the united states, journalists to pushing back against the government surveillance after it was revealed that homeland security secretly obtain information on reporters, a congress members as well. and possibly even their own staff by running database checks normally reserved for get this suspected terrorists. the associated press

who's reporter was one of those targeted is the mining offices where deeply concerned about these 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 is a special unit inside customs and border protection called counter network division . it report, lee gathered data on 20 journalists using sensitive databases. the revelation has prompted condemnation, not just from media workers, but lawmakers as well. if true, this abuse of government surveillance powers to target journalists, elected officials, and their stuff 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 are

taking to prevent this unacceptable conduct in the future, the department of homeland security insist this deeply committed to ensuring the protection of 1st amendment rights, namely the freedom of speech and that of the press. a journalist and culminated chadwick. moore told us americans have long been spied upon by that government 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, that constitution. so if it doesn't matter if you have something to hide or not, it's wrong and it should be illegal, probably legal. and it's not. it's 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 elden services in any meaningful way. that's possible. but congress could absolutely do something, but they haven't, and i don't think they were a clash of cultures and so seen, denmark's ex immigration minister put behind bars. she was sentenced to 2 months for illegally separating refugee couples. this was back in 2016. now on the danish law couples can only marry from 18 during the migrant crisis. girls as young as 50 and who had legally married back at home, arrived in denmark, that the minister ordered the young wives to be separated from their husbands. a danish court ruled, but that was unlawful, as the decision was made without consideration of individual circumstances. inca

store bug says she was only trying to protect children and has 0 regrets. yes, many ac of icy idea. i can only see that on very, very surprised by this very day, and it is as it were, the only scenario i had not prepared for before. well, because i thought it was completely unrealistic. mean, but here we are, and i take my punishment and they do it without bending my no, no. oh boy, in argona said her, notable to let me know there is nothing over that i so i mean simply one has a moral and compassionate obligation to protect the girls. and that was what i did . we invited guest sir to debate 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 maybe get a strap on on her leg, you know, and that is,

that would be that i think the lessons learned is up a see there is a lack of proportionality on behalf of the davis minister, also acting on behalf of the tool because we are talking about $23.00 people. so i don't think our mom's 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 knock some competent expert who had given her some good advice. but she didn't do that. i think they didn't type in their service . there was a good faith trying to protect the diagnosis. why, why she might go to the wrong in my food and how it got members

also having a long 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 a challenge. you know, the last of the land they were renting for their lives in the country. they were seeking asylum somewhere and they came to the denmark. and if she was so worried about them, then she, the minister would have been 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 more people who are seeking asylum and under garment 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 to see places like denmark and the is the all for each make sanctions which literally agree on my passing today would be to make sense. and so then maybe a little bit more bearable. consumer prices are hitting new highs in the united states with inflation and reaching a near full decade peak earlier this year. and recent media advice for americans to spend before the savings div audi has not gone down to well, especially among those already strapped for cash. overwhelmed by the soaring costs of basic living? everything costs more, the grocery stores of 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 grand 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 burg offers asked to spend more. that's as consumer

inflation costs of jumps 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 throw in the fit and risk and taken it out on the la whelmed service, struggling shop, own as a late arriving delivered pupil, we do ourselves a favor by consciously lowering expectations. a recent article from locks recommended reducing holiday requests in order to not feel the crunch of bide nomics. the mission to my last with more intention is achievable for everyone. especially aflac shop is 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. i didn't seems bored of explaining how he sees it. not too interested in defending his actions. if we were all going out and have lunch together and i said, let's ask whoever, whoever's in the next table,

no matter how were what restaurant rinn, haven't had them explained the supply chain to us. we can't understand what's what we're talking about at this point. 60 percent of americans blamed 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 by to mr. trisha can try to blame the energy companies and private is all they want. but it's all happening on his watch. and i expect that the democrats 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 in anybody's life times

where we have plenty more still to come here on the program on our t, including this about text from an amazon worker killed during a tornado reveal the company refused to let him go home despite the imminent risk of the online, john is now being investigated for misconduct. that story and many more went back in just to mine. ah ah ah ah ah ah a

ah, i long when else shoot seemed wrong. when all things just don't hold me, you will have to seek out the theme because the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. oh, it is good to have you with us today. at the retail joined amazon could be in trouble over questionable preparations against a threat of tornadoes. a 6 of its workers were killed. this week,

off to one of its warehouses in illinois was torn apart by extreme, whether a federal investigation into what place safety has been opened. employees accused the company of failing to provide enough training on how to act during a tornado incident. how one of the victims apparently notified his girlfriend that the company wouldn't let him leave. the woman said she received a text message 16 minutes before the storm hit, which might have been enough time for him to get home to safety. it was the last text that she received from him. now amazon says it's assisting the investigation of the training is mandatory at all. facilities critic say not enough. time is spent when preparing workers, especially during the busy holiday season. the company has promised to donate a $1000000.00 to help rebuild the devastated local community. and political commentator nico house says amazon should do more by amazon managerial staff and ad were vill, illinois knew that the tornadoes were coming because, well,

they admitted they got alerts. us through various apparatuses like text messages and phone calls and even more so even more so they had advance notice not that day, but days ahead. it also probably means that the amazon managerial st staff should have been taking precaution, given that the national weather service made it perfectly clear that there was a valid 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. seemed 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, days, not hours date. they could have close early. they could have,

as they could have made an escape plan and say, hey workers, where are you at and the proximity to amazon's facility. in this particular case, larry was only 30 minutes away in an area that didn't get hit hard according to his girlfriend. and why do they keep his facilities open exactly to, to what to get the packages were the 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 of for lost his life for the amazon, could get you your packages on time. instead of a day or 2 late, the newly appointed german foreign minister has coal on the e. u to slap sanctions on bosnian serb lita milan at bo, dick of pushing for so be a dominated areas of bosnia to separate the sanctions proposal has gained the

support of most members of the block with oh the decision that requires a consensus as being blocked right now by hungary and slovenia, and the bosnian serb leader wants to pull the autonomous soap republic out of boston is key is the 2 sions, including the army, along with security, tax and legal systems. the initiative violates the dayton peace agreement reached the end of the bosnian war in 1995. despite that, the bosnian, so parliament has already adopted a package of measures that would help the soap republics withdrawal from the state . will. so be an canadian film director, boris. my legacy has been looking font deeper into the story for us. the west has called the move is very dangerous for the dayton agreement itself. saying that this could destabilized, bought the herd, sabina and the region that it could threaten republica, ships because economy and it could essentially threaten. but here's the meanest path towards the, you know, republic. a strip sca is an entity of bosnia herzegovina which was established in

the 1995 dayton accords which ended the bloody war in bosnia herzegovina between serbs, croats, and bought the ex or body muslims, as they used to be called for a fully kosicki leadership. miller at duddy has said that, in fact, the dayton agreement has been changed by the west many times since 1995. now it is very hypocritical of the west saying that they are against the succession of republicans. there's going to just a couple of 100 kilometers away in kosovo. they are the ones that have pushed for the succession of co civil from serbia and they recognized coastal was in pendants . i think it's about time for the west to start respecting its own principles and what they say. and what they do serves are not guests in bosnia herzegovina. they've been living there for centuries and centuries, and they deserve to have the rights that any other nation should have. russian president vladimir putin on his chinese count about g. king pin have held

an online meeting with moscow and beijing publicly committed to strengthening that ties amid increasingly strained relations between the east and west authorized ecos down off. now joining us live here on the program to give us a more detail on this and eager this is, this is, i mean, it's a timely and a symbolic meeting as well with western partners sending weapons to ukraine, the russian president demanding security assurances. then putin's recent meeting in india, and now this with china. well indeed, rory, this was a bit of a, like a virtual summit. and this meeting, if i may call it that, it comes amid as both nations, they face very similar geopolitical challenges, and most of them are coming from half the world away from the united states, both nations, both russia and china, are no stranger to nato, bolstering its military presence, either close to the national borders or when it comes to china in the asia pacific, hence in an area, the china that be ging views as its own backyard. here,

both vladimir putin and ching ping. they criticize the so called all cause deal saying that while essentially it undermines the well, the global nuclear stability and that it is essentially a threat to global security. have a listen concern was expressed by the activity of the americans in re configuring the current situation in the asia pacific region. and in this regard, both from our side and from the chinese side. a negative assessment was expressed about the creation of new alliances such as the indo pacific chord and the american anglo australian union orcus. basically this orkin deal is the united states and the u. k. uniting and helping a stranger create its own basically expand its nuclear capabilities, expand the nuclear capabilities of its fleet. so this is an attempt by washington and london to make us trailer, into more into more of an atomic superpower. in fact,

on the side note at this deal has already caused quite a scandal between the allies, because initially, france was about to do more or less the same, but washington and london, well, they muscled out their partner, their ally, paris, out of a very lucrative contract but going back to the meeting between our own, going back to this virtual conference between vladimir putin itching peng, they also expressed a desire to move further away from exchanges in dollars when it comes to bilateral trade and well increase the volume of deals or in our local currencies, in fact, staying with their the subject of economy. vladimir putin has revealed that more than a 150000000 of doses of russia's vaccines against covered sputnik v and sputnik light will be produced in china as contracts with 6 chinese firms have been signed . and in general, during 2021. the are the amount,

the volume of bilateral trade has increased by 31 percent, which is basically it has reached to levels higher than before the pandemic. so are there you have it? it seems both leaders, they, well they see i to i and this meeting, this virtual summit seems to have lamented the alliance between moscow and beijing . now you talk about a bilateral alliance, when it comes to trade and so on and so forth as well. you know, you talk about china's b r, either the bell road initiative that ukraine is actually going to be a part of. so the more we learned about the story though, the stranger, the bedfellows seemed to be unties acreage down of thank you. of spaniards could be in for a bit of a shock when they get their next electricity bill. a power prices are set to hit a new record, despite government assurances to rein them back to 2018 levels. the cost of a megawatt hour is forecast to be $7.00 times higher than last december. experts

say that's partially due to surgeon gas. prices are spanish electricity bills in november. we're up 50 percent year on year and people across the country are really feeling it in their pockets. now i'm dental at home. well it valerie's. mm hm. and it changes every tune. if you have a salary that only cover certain things, it affects you and everything. else, if you how 500 euros and spend t 100 another through city, he barely have anything left over. what are people going to do them in the if i were in church, i would eat people in government, a low salary and see how the corporate controller shawl is reached this level because no one regulates it or go glad of. okay, of course if you pay a lot for electricity and charge you climb to low price, it's effect he a lot. if you charged lions 15 euros and you have to pay rounds, electricity cetera. what do you have left being so we're struggling to make ends meet, but hopefully things will be fixed good. the reason i gave them the chief investment officer at sucks. so buying stain jakob so no disgust or europe energy was on the

latest edition of sophie co visionaries. you can catch it on friday for now though, is a quick preview. what we are doing right now with the way we are executing east at we are executing on getting more money, more flow at taxonomy in terms of the you, which is entirely billed and green transformation and investments. but when you are d cup and icing, you are metalized in economy. and then on top of that, which is the single most i outstanding issue is going to be colder. and the storage of energy is low again. also, which means that the inflationary pressure, the energy crisis, as a concept is already there, the ability to do a base load energy generation in europe is of all time low. this week alone, we had the highest energy prices ever in france, basically for the europeans, a sector right now, we ha, more dependent on the flow from russia than ever before. the sang in among the says, the best way to get lower prices is to get higher prices. what, what, what we,

what, what the market means by that is that when the market price, it gets high enough. the marginal cost of energy gets so high that supply needs to be unable to problem. we half specifically for energy is that it is under the guidance under the sort of the containment of the u. s. g. label, no professional invest a nov sovereign well fun, no pension fund is to day able to actually invest into the fossil energy sector at a time where it is the most needed. we'll need that. the at the capital available, the march of cost of capital available for energy sector needs to come down. and that is the big fight that the politicians will have to have with the climate groups in your program returns to the top of the hour.