minister the take away from that face to face regulation of social media will soon be a reality and now the european commission is asking facebook's c.e.o. sheryl sandberg to answer questions over the alleged harvesting of data of more than fifty million facebook users the e.u.'s justice minister has given sandberg two weeks to respond to his series of questions for example have either you citizens been affected how will facebook inform authorities and users and how is facebook planning to prevent a repeat in the future well one person is answering lots of questions about the data scandal the whistleblower christopher wiley the former employee of the u.k. data mining company cambridge analytic today he testified before a u.k. parliamentary committee and he told lawmakers that cambridge analytic has data research may have violated u.k. campaign finance laws and may have help sway the outcome of the bright city referendum. our next focus is building carrie he is the public face of the world's biggest social network but mark zuckerberg isn't feeling sociable when it comes to taking questions especially not from european politicians. as inq

al-jazeera well the exposed the life and why of maisie adda at this time on al-jazeera. facebook's c.e.o. mark zuckerberg admits the firm made mistakes and promises to do more to stop misuse of personal data. container this is al jazeera live from london also coming up former french president nicolas sarkozy is placed under formal investigation over alleged campaign funding from libya. there is president has resigned hours before congress was set to impeach him over corruption allegations. and book around releases more than a hundred girls kidnapped last month from a school in nigeria. and the head of facebook has admitted his company made mistakes in its data protection after revelations a u.k. firm had misused information from the social media platform c.e.o. mark zuckerberg finally broke his silence four days after british media exposed the actions of cambridge analytical mike hanna as the latest after a dramatic day of developments hit the nail on the head a hearing on election security by the senate intelligence committee john discussion about how to protect the electoral process fr

c.e.o. of facebook mark zuckerberg has reportedly agreed to testify before a u.s.congressional committee it's not yet known when such a hearing would take place reports say sometime in april perhaps earlier today zuckerberg refused an invitation to appear before a british parliamentary committee lawmakers on both sides of the atlantic want to question him about how millions of users details got into the hands of a firm that was hired to influence voters our next focus is building community he is the public face of the social network. isn't feeling sociable when it comes to taking questions especially not from european politicians. as inquiry's mom to face big news is the data of its two billion users he told this british parliamentary committee he would not be giving evidence we believe given the serious nature of the allegations that have been made around the access and use of facebook user data that it is appropriate the money should give evidence to the committee. one man who did want to talk with the pink haired whistleblower at the heart of this data scandal i

of you tube and has served as you tube c.e.o. since two thousand and six today she has her own channel to share her perspective. number one sheryl sandberg c.e.o. of facebook and one of founder mark zuckerberg close associates and author and activist she's committed to advancing women's empowerment also in talks with the french president. that was ranking not programmed prejudiced by. if you google secretary. stereotypical. secretary. even in finnish. for example. it's not only algorithms that are to blame because they are still programmed. by human. or. are. translation software millions of text. a picture recognition algorithms learn from large picture. you can find pictures of women in. another problem. the point even though they falsely identified this man as a woman. changing ballot is difficult time consuming. one important thing is to know all of the sources of your data so to be very aware that if you're going to collect a lot of data over a period of years that perhaps you should have a human look through some of that or a group of humans and mark or remove the content that perhaps carries these harmful or unfair treatment of groups or people the

c.e.o. of facebook has admitted that his social media company made mistakes which allowed data about users joined up with the analytics firm cambridge analytical mark zuckerberg made a post on his own facebook page adding the company would make changes and ridge analytical legibly explosion data from fifty million users to help donald trump's presidential campaign so join mike hanna who's in washington to talk us through what else he post and. well it is a lengthy statement from mark zuckerberg and follows this ongoing crisis as it were within facebook itself following the fact emerging that cambridge analytic are farm to data from facebook servers to use in the two thousand and sixteen election campaign well mark zuckerberg has said is that he apologizes to facebook users for what happens he says that our responsibility is to protect your data and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you then continues to explain the circumstances that happened around the twenty fourteen. vent in which cambridge analytical took all the data from these servers and he says that there was a betrayal of trust

after days of silence facebook c.e.o. addresses privacy concerns of taken tens of billions of dollars off the companies that. follow him down jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up as strikes in syria's every province kill at least twenty two people most of them children. french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya . and three months after barely surviving an impeachment vote peru's president has resigned. the head of facebook says he's committed to stop the use of these social media platform to interfere in elections including the upcoming votes in brazil india and the u.s. midterms c.e.o. mark zuckerberg finally broke his silence five days after a u.k. firm cambridge analytical was accused of improperly accessing information to manipulate u.s. voters zuckerberg has confirmed facebook had been issued warrants and was cooperating with ongoing investigations but he says no link was found between cambridge analytical and russia's internet resea

c.e.o. of facebook was so great he had to do something he told the american media he was sorry about the security breach the compromise the private data of fifty million facebook users in a statement he had knowledge there were failures in facebook's protection of data i started facebook he writes and at the end of the day i am responsible for what happens on our platform i'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community while this specific issue in bobby cambridge analytic i should no longer happen with new apps today that doesn't change what happened in the past we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone going forward. those steps include a review of all apps that had similar brought access to user data further data restrictions and making it easier for users to rescind permissions suburbs carefully choreographed response of the cambridge analytical scandal is not what do u.s. lawmakers are asking for they were rather have him testify in person before congress minnesota senator amy klobuchar has formally asked her to

c.e.o. of facebook the u.s. congress wants him to come to congress what does berlin want from mr zuckerberg i think there are a lot of questions questions what alexandr covens firm really did how he's financed his research work how he finance the application of that gained all the data so that a lot of questions and i think facebook tests to do these answers. it's not a question is the second or third row will give these answers i think it's time for mark to stand in front of the committees do you think the german government the german parliament are you going to ask mr zuckerberg to come to berlin and explain what has happened i think not yet i think london is first in but i think mark zuckerberg won't come to london. he just came to congress in the usa. i think it's not a sign of strength of mexico right now but he gets away with it i wonder if he'll get away in the end if you see how the stocks go down today and i think facebook has a problem with data protection and has a problem with reliability already ther

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c.e.o. of facebook was so great he had to do something he told the american media he was sorry about the security breach the compromise of private data of fifty million facebook users in a statement he had knowledge there were failures in facebook's protection of data i started facebook he writes and at the end of the day i am responsible for what happens on our platform i'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community while this specific issue in bobby cambridge analytic i should no longer have been with new apps today that doesn't change what happened in the past we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone going forward. those steps include a review of all apps that had similar brought access to user data further data restrictions and making it easier for users to rescind permissions suckers carefully choreographed response of the cambridge analytical scandal is not what u.s. lawmakers are asking for they were rather have him testify in person before congress minnesota senator amy klobuchar has formally asked her to d

of that. stormy daniels story goes one further alleging a cover up complete with physical threats allegations the white house says are without merit shall not ballasts his era. now facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has taken on full page newspaper ads in the u.s. and the u.k. to apologize for what he calls a breach of trust say he's sorry more wasn't done when millions of profiles were leaked in twenty fourteen to cambridge analytical which is accused of misusing the data but he says limits of being placed on the data that apps can collect from users who sign in with their facebook. the firm is also investigating every that had access to large amounts of data so promises to do better and says everyone will be informed when the band technology journalist mark saltzman says facebook is clearly in full crisis mode they're doing what they can to plug in the holes they need more transparency they need to review and over you know totally over you know redo their entire security and privacy protocols look them over and if they wanted to you know keep this you know what close to two billion user accounts they have to have more transparency and perhaps more importantly you know once the

c.e.o. of facebook is doing to calling sanity over the cambridge and lunatic a scandal those stories on the other side of the break to stay with us. from long flowing on in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now starting in europe you see another area of low pressure pushing across southeastern areas and this is likely produce more rain deede some snow and higher elevations look at the forecast again big temperature contrast athens at twenty bucharest two so that will be some thawing taking place across this region as well of snow which is previously fallen elsewhere we've got to find conditions there for rome quite across central parts of europe and across western areas looking quite moderate moment temperatures well on into the teens but we have got this frontal system pushing towards the u.k. and then through france during the course of choose day twenty one degrees the high in madrid at that stage and then dry conditions across southeastern parts of europe now as we head into north africa with a little circulation of low pressure

c.e.o. of facebook was so great he had to do something he told the american media he was sorry about the security breach the compromise of private data of fifty million facebook users in a statement he had knowledge there were failures in facebook's protection of data i started facebook he writes and at the end of the day i am responsible for what happens on our platform i'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community while this specific issue in bobby cambridge analytic i should no longer have been with new apps today that doesn't change what happened in the past we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone going forward those steps include a review of all apps that had similar brought access to user data further data restrictions and making it easier for users to resend permissions suckers carefully choreographed response of the cambridge analytical scandal is not what do u.s. lawmakers are asking for they were rather have him testify in person before congress minnesota senator amy klobuchar has formally asked her to

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c.e.o. of facebook was so great he had to do something he told the american media he was sorry about the security breach the compromise of private data of fifty million facebook users in a statement he had knowledge there were failures in facebook's protection of data i started facebook he writes and at the end of the day i am responsible for what happens on our platform i'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community while this specific issue in bobby cambridge analytic i should no longer have been with new apps today that doesn't change what happened in the past we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone going forward those steps include a review of all apps that had similar brought access to user data further data restrictions and making it easier for users to resend permissions suckers carefully choreographed response of the cambridge analytical scandal is not what do u.s. lawmakers are asking for they were rather have him testify in person before congress minnesota senator amy klobuchar has formally asked for a t

china i can't believe we've been able to take advantage of the united states for so long so those days are over. also coming up tonight facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg finally talking germany's government wants him in berlin testify. i'm demanding an explanation of why this could have happened with a chairman users in accounts very fact it and what facebook intends to to stop anything like this from happening again. we begin the day with the end of the abuse of the american economy that is how u.s. president donald trump today described that moment at the white house when he announced fifty billion dollars in trade tariffs on chinese goods trump said more terrorists could come within two weeks moves which he says are intended to defend the u.s. economy against economic aggression tonight the target is china but trump also put the european union and the nafta free trade agreement on notice saying he's willing to negotiate better deals comprised of trade reciprocity and while europe can breathe a sigh of relief for now beijing is expected to retaliate soon with its own tariffs and that has equity markets and governments around the wor

after days of silence facebook c.e.o. ddresses privacy concerns that have taken tens of billions of dollars off the company's value.

after days of silence facebook c.e.o. addresses privacy concerns that have taken tens of millions of dollars off the company's value. and welcome to al-jazeera life by headquarters in doha with me and the parana also ahead air strikes and serious problems killed at least twenty two people most of them children. french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya and. three months after barely surviving an impeachment president has resigned. the head of facebook has promised to restrict developers access to information after admitting that it mishandled belonging to fifty million of its uses. finally broke his silence five days off that the u.k. media expose the actions of cambridge and aletta the firm accused of improperly access and use information to manipulate u.s. voices and a post on facebook sokoban admitted that his. company made a mistake since data protection is promising an investigation into apps on the platform after a quote is allowed cambridge and other

facebook users a whistleblower has revealed a british company called cambridge analytic you stayed out of about fifty million facebook accounts to support donald trump's presidential campaign in two of the sixteen c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is now facing some serious questions facebook's mark zuckerberg enjoys the limelight at least when the news is good but as far as the latest data scandal is concerned he's keeping a low profile. more than two years ago his company discovered that cambridge analytical was using data taken from fifty million facebook users yet the company failed to inform those affected cambridge analytical it was simply told to delete the data which according to media reports never happened instead facebook has opted to delete the accounts of those who brought the scandal to light. people like chris wiley former research director at cambridge analytics he described the investigative team at u.k.'s channel four how the company worked a magic in i go and i ask you i say hey if i give you a dollar two dollars could you fill out this survey for me just do it on this app and you say fine i don't just capture what your responses are i capture all of the information about you from facebook bu

after days of silence facebook c.e.o. addresses privacy concerns that have taken tens of but he is of dollars off the company's a value. airstrikes in syria as a live problems kill at least twenty two people most of them children. french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya and three months off to bed he surviving an impeachment vote president has resigned . the head of facebook says he would welcome regulation of the social media platform if it was the right kind mark zuckerberg is promising tough the steps to restrict developers access to information after admitting facebook mishandle dot of belonging to fifteen million of its uses. finally broke his silence five days. after the u.k. media expose the actions of cambridge and a lot of her the fervent use of improperly accessing use information to manipulate us voices in a post on facebook is like a big admits that his company made mistakes that its data protection is promising an investigation into apps on th

of not reaching a final deal on britain's exit from the e.u. . plus facebook losing face trust and users governments on both sides of the atlantic demanding answers from facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg do or say anything now to the company's biggest ever bryce. golf it's good to have you with us tonight u.s. president donald trump is keeping his word on trade and could be starting a global trade war in the process today he unveiled up to sixty billion dollars in trade tariffs targeting china for alleged theft of u.s. intellectual property of that package comes on top of tariffs on steel and aluminum that go into effect tomorrow in say broadside beijing has already said that it will retaliate against despite trump's claims the move is justified. it's the largest deficit of any country in the history of our world it's out of control we have a tremendous intellectual property theft situation going on we're doing things for this country that should have been done for many many years are going to go now to washington our correspondent claire richardson is on the story for us tonight good evening to you claire so we know president trump is already and i so iran steel tari

some kind of nefarious person but what what they what they're not saying is like i'm the wind that was practically working with the information commissioner's office. well tonight facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has released a statement on the cambridge analytical scandal the statement published of course on facebook now here's part of what he wrote i started facebook and at the end of the day i'm responsible for what happens on our platform we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our communities safer for everyone going forward on tonight's i'm joined by ian robertson he's an expert in cyber security from borg university in england in it's good to have you on the show one to just get your reaction to this statement that has come out from mark zuckerberg what do you make of. well thank you for inviting me to the show yes clearly new controls could be introduced into most of the social media platforms. that past. form and so on putting in new controls hasn't necessarily greatly improved the quality of the security and indeed i'm not sure that many of the people who use social media would necessarily trust it with even when improved controls b

of the days of silence facebook c.e.o. addresses privacy concerns have taken tens of millions of dollars off the company's .