overspent during the referendum campaign, there is an oxford professor that is the director of the internet institute. yes intensely researched these numbers and done some border modelling on it and has concluded that tens of millions of people were reached by the vote leave campaign and its last days of the spending had been breached and that was enough to change the outcome. his workings are premised on the information that 20 to 30% of the public decided to vote in the last week. and that the vote leaf campaign after its legal spending during that last week, and he says the voter modelling showed that 800,000 voters were converted by the vote league campaign. and a few thousand with the other way. and that his information has given. another story that i wanted to get quick look at, another facebook story talking about the scale of how facebook was, as the paper puts it, spied on you your pals. punchy headline based on the documents that headline based on the documents that he has unearthed on facebook, how it has been monetizing all the activity and data it collects on users in that way. it is str

institute. this woman the internet's consumption of electricity is growing by leaps and bounds. that's true in part to the huge amount of data transfer. here at the trade fair you can see that all of the machines are outfitted with sensors that collect data continuously. right now in germany our energy requirements for the internet and data centers at just under thirteen terawatt alice that's about as much energy as the city of berlin uses in an entire year. or the amount of off shore energy that's produced in the boat called no seeing. these numbers will increase perhaps by as much as twenty five percent over the next five or six years. yes woman but not of all. visitors to the trade fair contest augmented or virtual reality technology and find out more about the latest developments in robotics. this technology will soon be available just about everywhere and it too will require a lot of energy. towards increasingly larger data centers we call the hyperscale facility. there is because several football fields consume as much electricity is a town or small city. the corporations

understand that these two new reports focus on the data set accumulated from the internet research agency which is one institution we know about in russia. i suspect there's many other trolls that operate either dark web financing or other means that supplement the activities of the ira as it's called. >> just as with last week, the whole plea of maria butina. an extra agent and told by experts at the time there were probably many butinas throughout the system. >> this is how the russians operate. and by the way, in terms of the disinformation, we see them putting out all kinds of different efforts. some laughable. throwing stuff up on the wall, but they checked very carefully to see what would stick and they did their research this terms of how computational propaganda and sophisticated platforms on pinterest, instagram and we previously didn't understand were infiltrated by the russians. >> "the wall street journal" poll came out over the weekend. kristen welker, 62% of the polls say president trump has not been honest and truthful on the investigation into russian interference. this poll taken during a pretty

internet. sorry al gore. and a number of other amazing technology achievements. i want to begin by asking you to talk about this amazing institution that you run, and whether it it is adapting enough to the way the world has changed. in a sense, darpa and the internet created an intranet in which thinternet inwhich the olt fit right, people sometimes say. the private sector is so dominant and so quite cutting-edge science and technology used to be in the government and now it's outside. start us off by talking about how in this different world you want to manage and direct. >> thanks for having me. darpa is actually 60-years-old and we celebrated that over the past year had a conference last september. when it was created it was all about preventing technological surprise and we still look at that as the main charter. one of the ways we understand we can do that the commission hasn't really changed and we are still pursuing it robustly. we are focused on national security a department agency and department of defense. we focused on prominent programs and moved into developing things like the first stealth aircraft in the late 70s

as we experience more and more frequently how jews and jewish institutions are attacked physically and verbally face to face or on the internet in the. last year or been a former teacher from moscow now goes into schools to talk about her experience under national socialism it is important to her and as long as her health allies she will continue to tell young people about the holocaust we have started there's an infant so we're dying where eighty five ninety ninety two only a few of us will live to be one hundred and i wanted something good to remain in the memories and in the hearts of children so they know what happened before and that it should never happen again for coleman is the way of need that's less is so that. and as the a guardian is an optimistic person she is sure she'll be back for next year's festival of lights. you're watching the w. news live of from her when we'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news up to see if. her first day of school with. her first clinton lesson and then he sure is a grand moment around join the around the tank on her journey back home in our interactive documentary dor

as we experience more and more frequently how jews and jewish institutions are attacked physically and verbally face to face or on the internet in. asir garb and a former teacher from moscow now goes into schools to talk about her experience under national socialism it is important to her and as long as her health allies she will continue to tell young people about the holocaust we have staff there's an infant dying where eighty five nine hundred ninety two only a few of us will live to be one hundred. and i wanted something good to remain in the memories and in the hearts of children so they know what happened before and that it should never happen again or call my soulmate of need that's that's as far. and as the a guardian is an optimistic person she is sure she'll be back for next year's festival of lights. and they'll forget you can always get more of these and other stories that our web site that's good of you dot com you can also of course followers on twitter facebook from a brian thomas thanks so much for joining us and for the rest it was well and it was so me it kind of got the out. in march twenty fifteen a saudi

as we experience more and more frequently how jews and jewish institutions are attacked physically and verbally face to face or on the internet in. asir garb and a former teacher from moscow now goes into schools to talk about her experience under national socialism it is important to her and as long as her health allies she will continue to tell young people about the holocaust we have started there's an infant with dying where eighty five nine hundred ninety two only a few of us will live to be one hundred. and i wanted something good to remain in the memories and in the hearts of children so they know what happened before and that it should never happen again or coleman is all may have need that's less as bad. and as the a guardian is an optimistic person she is sure she'll be back for next year's festival of lights. time to get our business done with mark and the u.s. and china may have called a cease fire on the trade front the mar to its aren't quite so convinced now primed the markets are somewhat cautious let's put it this way certainly asian markets are trading lower today as investors worry about the fate of a tarif

institutions. i think seeing that the internet has a dark side, no answer to it yet but that has got to be the beginning: i will add my miss, shootings at parkland and high school there and the synagogue in pittsburgh not only murderist evil but end up leading to bad laws, regulate guns for law abiding, we have to take one more break, when we come back the panel's i'm ken jacobus and i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. which i used to offer health insurance to my employees. what's in your wallet? paul: time for hits of the year, kim, start us off. >> so my hit of the year is on the news that the u.s. this year became a net exporter of petroleum products for the first time in decades and, again, take you back a decade ago everyone, the doomer and gloomers, even president bush saying alternative fuel heading toward energy independ anticipates thanks to technological revolution that includes horizontal drilling and fracking, we are experiencing shell revolution, u.s. -- this is great for the eco

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internet. sorry al gore. and an awful lot of other amazing tech knowledge he achievements. so, i want to begin by asking you to talk about this amazing institution that you run. and whether it is adapting enough to the way the world has changed. in a sense, darpa and the internet created a new world in which darpa was own mission doesn't fit white, people sometimes say. the private sector is now so dominant and so quick, cutting edge science and technology used to be in the government and now it's really outside. so start us off by talking about how in this very different world, you want to manage and direct darpa. >> thanks for having me. darpa is actually 60 years old this year and we celebrated that over the past year. we had a big conference last september. darpa, when it was created was all about preventing technological surprises. it was created out of the sputnik era , and we still look at that as our main charter to prevent technological surprises. one of the ways we understand we can do that best is by creating technological surprise for the united states. so that mission really hasn't changed, and i don't think it i think we are still

institutions. i think seeing that the internet has a dark side, there's no onswer to it yet, but that has got to beeginning of wisdom. >> paul: my miss is the shootings of parkland and high school there andar the synagogue in pittsburgh, not only for their murderous evil because because they may end up leading to bad laws in the future that regulate guns for the law abiding. we have to take one more break. when we come back, our pa panels picks for hits of the year. >>got it. ran out of ink and i have a big meeting today >>and 2 boxes of twizzlers... yeah, uh...for the team... >>the team? gooo team.... know what's better than overnight shipping? free one hour pickup when you order online... or on our app. at office depot officemax . . maria ramirez? hi. maria ramirez! mom! maria! maria ramirez... mcdonald's is committing 150 million dollars in tuition assistance, education, and career advising programs... prof: maria ramirez mom and dad: maria ramirez!!! to help more employees achieve their dreams. paul: time for hits of the year, kim, start us off. >> so my hit of the year is on the news that the

today as we experience more and more frequently how jews and jewish institutions are attacked physically and face to face or on the internet. or been a former teacher from moscow now goes into schools to talk about her experience under national socialism it is important to her and as long as her health allies she will continue to tell young people about the holocaust we have started there's an infant dying where eighty five nine hundred ninety two only a few of us will live to be one hundred. and i wanted something good to remain and the memories and in the hearts of children so they know what happened before and that it should never happen again for the call men who still may have need that's rest as slack. and as the a guardian is an optimistic person she is sure she'll be back for next year's festival of lights. or the governing body of board of what excess decided to extend the ban on russia competing in international track and field the suspension was imposed three years ago after allegations of a state run doping program in russian athletics the i double a f has prevented russia from coming back into the fold after i

questioning the integrity of information, distrust of the internet and ultimately, disengagement from it if we keep building on an insecure foundation. institutions are under attack, applying consistent approaches to expose activity of those targeting those institutions, that's the only way we can hope to defend and render ineffective those attacks. i think we need look no further than the public documents from the special counsel exposing the russian efforts to attack our elections to prove this point. so to borrow a phrase from historian and writer jon meacham and his latest book, "the soul of america" one of the points of reflecting on the past is to prepare us for action in the present. i think that's exceptionally good advice that jon has taken and followed in writing "dawn of the code war." this book reflects on the past work of a great many people and not only prepares us, but i think implores us for action in the present. we would do well to listen. i'm grateful, john, to you for writing this book. thank you for having me here today. i look forward to the conversation. [ applause ] >> well, thank you, lisa. thank you, john. and thanks to

institution of the presidency. and that clearly george h w bush dead. and this picture again breaking the internet.ervice dog to yellow lab in the air at the funeral home keeping much over the casket. they will also travel with the family the president wanted him to go back into service he got solely after a former first lady barbara bush passed away to help him and serve as a companion. he does 33 different commands. and so the presidents family though they won't miss him greatly they want him to help another family. back to you. for a look at george's legacy. we know he hated the word legacy. he hated the word dynasty but his dynasty but his mark on foreign policy is undeniable. i think you will be a great president in history historians will look back and say he saved the union. but reagan and bush saved humanity. it was a very dire time. there was teachers telling them it doesn't matter what university you go to because the world is not going to survive. we talk about terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons they have their hands on nuclear weapons so they brought that to an end. he wo

internet now allows us to stream all kinds of content. even our cars are linked to the net but is that all help us to be more sustainable. at the institute for ecological economy research in berlin two months from terry asus trying to find out how green digitalisation really is. many people believe digitalisation automatically reconciles environment. leads to savings. about how many devices a small phone can replace seems great like it should definitely lead to a reduction in resources. for the manufacture and distribution of digital devices the infrastructure cables data set. and someone also a huge amount of energy. with his interdisciplinary research groups ontario's has for the first time modeled an eco balance sheet for digitalisation. his results are surprising. just one example the internet is a huge energy goes a lot it accounts for eight percent of all german electricity use that's a lot of internet. so it's a significant factor. if the internet was a country it would be third in terms of power consumption globally after china in the u.s. . smartphone obsession is a common condition nowadays. even here more energy is being used

institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] host: tarleton gillespie is an author of "custodians of the internet." before we get into that however, what is your day job? tarleton: currently, i work for microsoft research but the academic side of microsoft. i'm an affiliated professor of cornell. host: are we going to be reading about microsoft at all? tarleton: well, i started this book in 2018 when it seemed that we needed a book that said do you think people need to moderate. most of them are on facebook and twitter. i did talk to people from microsoft to make sure i understood search engines and gaming worlds. but it focuses on a handful of big ones. host: well, you open a book about a photograph taken by nick back in the early 1970's. tarleton: the photo is the terror of war. almost everyone's seen it, from vietnam. children walking down the street being burned. it was written by a norwegian journalist. and when you posted the photo, it got removed. it started off as a discussion in norway and then in europe and in the united states press as well as to whether it makes sense if facebook had re

internet changed our world. i see, because we are dealing with companies, i see progress being made with technology, on the entrepreneur side, and the institutionalnfrastructure side. when i look ahead i am constructive. >> which is to say you are certain this is not going to be a petard that you are hoisted by? >> you're never 100% certain but i'm 98% certain. >> it was strongly year ago, where is it now? >> high. it always timing and these things, not destination. i am certainly will have a digital store of wealth, i think it will be bitcoin. i'm certainly will have web 3.0, eight decentralized with -- worldwide computing system that processes and authenticates data. i'm certainly will have tokenized objects. so many people have lost so much money, you have made money and you have lost money as well. there is a good reason that crypto is as unloved. have you ever loved anything that is unloved as a macro trader? >> you get paid lots of money to love the loved. if you look at the financial crisis, i earned my stripes in the financial crisis in the late 90's. up, in 98 alows blows up worse. a 20,000, angs pick year later it was 10,000. when thing

internet double felt -- it changed our world. in therogress being made technology. progress being made on entrepreneur side. i see progress being made on the institutionalstructure side. when i look ahead, i am pretty constructive. is to say you are 100% certain this will not be the petard you are hoisted by. never 100% sure, i am 98 certain this will not be the petard i'm hosted by. >> your conviction level, i know it was strong one year ago. where is it now? >> it is high. it is timing, it is not destination. i am certain we will have a digital store of wealth, i think it will be bitcoin. i'm certain we will have web 3.0 , this decentralized worldwide computing system that processes and authenticates data appeared i am certain we will have lots of tokenized objects from funds to art to all kinds of things. >> so many people have lost so much money, you have made some money, you have lost money. there is a good reason crypto is as unloved. it is unloved. have you ever come in your career, have you ever loved anything that is unloved? of money toaid lots love the unloved and unloved the love. >> can you think anything that is like this? look at the age

institutions. we are better at covering politics and policy. both there is a tendency brought forth by the acceleration of everything, thanks to the internet can muster your deadline -- you do not have time to reflect on stories very much. of not beingessure that deeply educated in the subject. there is a tendency to oversimplify. and that leads to stereotyping. i do think the media generally has gotten better. and having been part of the problem for so long, it is about time we were part of the solution. takeld of course like to credit for the martial project having stimulated this interest, but i think ferguson had something to do with it. a lot of highly publicized episodes of videos of cops shooting black men and boys had something to do with it. who are the activists represented on this panel had something to do with it. is, ie news coverage think incrementally better than it was five or 10 years ago. claudia: you said one of the prevailing problems is that -- andrimes are reported they are crime stories as opposed to some of the stories focusing on the more macro issues involved. bill: historically, and it is easy to pick on local news,

internet. sorry al gore, but it was really an awful lot of other amazing technology achievements. so i want to begin by asking you to talk about this amazing institution that you run and whether it is adapting enough to the ways the world has changed. since darpa and the internet created a new world in which darpa's old mission doesn't fit right, people sometimes say. the private sector now is so dominant, so quick, cutting edge science and technology used to be in the government. now it's really outside. so start us off by talking about how in this very different world you want to manage and director darpa. >> thanks for having me. darpa is actually 60 years old this year, and we celebrated that over the past year. had a big conference last september. darpa when it was created was all about preventing te technological surprised. it was created out of the sputnik era, and we still look at that as our maine charter to prevent technological vise. and one of the ways we understand that best is by creating technological surprise for the united states. that mission hasn't changed and i still think we're pursuing it robustly. the mission really of darpa is

internet changed our world. because we are dealing with companies all the time, progress is being made in technology. made on thess being institutionaltructure side. when i look ahead, i'm constructive. blue apron has seen 90% of its market value disappear since summer 2017. the share plunge by the new york-based delivery service gives it the dubious honor of being the third worst u.s. ipo this decade. beenther four spots have energy companies. that's your bloomberg business flash. nejra: thank you. tells bloomberg the u.s. and china are planning to hold meetings in january to negotiate a truce for the trade war. this follows talks over the phone today. with uncertainty surrounding the relationship between the world's two biggest economies, how are investors positioning for 2019? our guest is still with us. you talk about the fact that investors should be focusing on operating margins in the u.s.. what is that telling you about how companies are doing so far with the threat we have had? >> companies are doing quite well. however they going to be doing over the course of 2019? we are only just beginning to see the cost of tariffs. the

internet world. watch the communicators tonight on c-span2. >>> up next, a senate panel looks at the effect that multilateral institutions have on foreign policy. treasury and state department official officials at the senate foreign relations committee hearing. >> again, i want to welcome our witnesses. know that your full written statements can be included in the record. i thank you for the thoughtfulness so we can engage in a more extended question and answer period. let's go in

internet. the european commission's vice president spoke to reporters today in brussels. report on alleged hacking into eu communication a that's communication system seriously, but it impossible to comment on leaks. that noclear is institutionis immune to this type of attack. all communication systems have on abilities. mark: the associated press reports that california firms cofounder says the hackers are working for china's people's liberation army. spentment he said was based on eight years of observing the group. theresa may disguised -- decided not to respond to jeremy corbyn after he was caught on tape referring to her as a "stupid inside the house of commons. may urged all politicians to take the incident as assigned they should pull back on divisive rhetoric. >> i think we should all be careful about the language we use. thatarticularly concerned is the year that we celebrate -- -- 100 yearhat anniversary of women voting. mark: addressing lawmakers later, he denied making the comments and his spokesmen insisted corbin had said stupid people in reference to lawmakers on the conservative side of parliament. global news, 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts

scale, all the way from the largest healthcare institution in the country, down to very small providers, who are just figuring out how to use the internetto come back for a followup appoint. which i have to tell you in many mall plays occupies an enormous amount of time and this advanced instrument, called the telephone. which is probably not the best way to do that. just to give you an idea on the scale because we have the very -- large companies here like cvs-aetna, we process 14 billion tran servings every year and at one point one of the senior executives of adobe said, how many transactions do you think we saw from consumers in adobe experience cloud last year? i didn't think this would go well for me but nevertheless i said, i don't know. tsunami he said 233 billion. so you can please shut the heck up about your stupid 14 billion tran satisfactions. consumer experience is a lot bigger than health care, although you healthcare people don't seem to have fir its it out. we're excited about rolling this out. a gifting a lot of traction in the market. the other area i want to talk about briefly is around efforts around data and price t

internet revolution. >> the merger of time warner and aol wasn't really a merger. it was a purchase. >> i am struck by this image today of the upstart aol gobbling up this media institutionwarner. shouldn't it be the other way around? >> well, it's sort of startling that a company that couldn't even buy beer is now buying one of the oldest media companies in the country that took a century to get this big. >> we're just scratching the surface in terms of how great these products can become. whether it's the internet, the way you communicate with people. software is in its early stage. there are some real advances that are going to make a big difference. >> microsoft in the beginning of the decade with their operating system and their productivity software was still very, very strong. >> microsoft chairman bill gates calls windows xp the most important tool that's ever been created. >> at the time microsoft was 33 times larger than apple. apple was seen as a second or even third-tier technology player that had essentially lost the way. >> we have a 5% market share. and you could say that doesn't sound like too much. but we look at it as saying kind of 5 down, 95 to go. >>

internet and the light. -- like. would beavanaugh consistent with the opinion i just read to you. caseore compelled speech that's interesting, the american meat institute went to court, protesting regulations on meat packaging, which required the meat companies to put down what country the meat came from. if it came from a country abroad. the meat company objected to that, saying you should not be able to force us to put that on our product. kavanaugh, this was a deeply divided ruling, said on the one hand the government doesn't have a free pass to spread its preferred messages on the backs of others. but, he would vote to affirm the limitations based on the historically rooted interest of supporting american manufacturers, farmers, and ranchers as they compete with foreign ones. sustaining the requirement that the location if it's foreign been set forth to further the interests of american meatpackers. that leads to my final assertion. kavanaugh has been across the board highly protective of first amendment rights. when it comes to other constitutional provisions, the aclu has said that he has as a judge a well-developed record of showing extreme defe

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internet world. watch the communicators tonight on c-span2. >>> up next, a senate panel looks at the effect that multilateral institutions have on foreign policy. treasury and state department official officials at the senate foreign relations committee hearing. >> again, i want to welcome our witnesses. know that your full written statements can be included in the record. i thank you for the thoughtfulness so we can engage in a more extended question and answer period. let's go in order that i ask you, second malpass. >> thank you, senator murkily. while there's been substantial progress in the united states, growth abroad has softened materially, causing challenges for international economic policy many our goal is to achieve global growth in ways that improve after tax wages for american workers, i'd like to describe some of our major 2018 international policies in order to create context for the institutions. we've engaged repeatedly with china on our trade and investment concerns. and the problems caused by their one belt, one road initiative. it often leaves countries with excessive debt and poor quality projects. if countries default on

scale, all the way to the largest healthcare institutions in the country, all the way down to very small providers who are just figuring out how to use the internetto get people to come back to their follow-up appointments which i got to tell you in many small places, occupies the numbers amount of their time and there is an advanced industry that you may have heard of which is called the telephone which is not always the best way to do that, we have a large scale, and companies here, we process i mentioned 14 billion transactions each year and i one point where the senior executives of adobe listen begone about this said how many transactions do you think we saw from consumers in adobe experience cloud last year? i didn't think this was going to go well for me but nevertheless i said i don't know, how many? he said 233 billion. could you please shut the heck up about your 13 billion transactions, consumer experience is a lot bigger than healthcare but some people have not figured that out yet, so this is something we are excited about rolling out, we announced it last year and is getting a lot of traction in the market. the other area i wanted t

institute. what is that? guest: the foundation. they run a youtube channel called weave the internet tv.a politics and comedy to breakhat tries these need partisan tribal divisions that have become standard issue in american politics. when i was making this documentary i would tell people that if i'm doing my job i will piss people off of every partisan political persuasion. because frankly really doesn't fit into the little travel narratives. it's not as simple as people think it is an pointed out certain nuances inevitably makes people uncomfortable. host: when did you start making documentaries? agot: five or six years through the moving picture institute. my first documentary was about the mechanics of the north korean propaganda apparatus. so i only do crowdpleasing topics. the first one was in january. i have a production company in washington, d.c. refused interview was with gene book who wrote a brilliant before barack obama took office. it was an extraordinarily precedent diagnosis of certain trends holding in american politics. the: bring us back to american politics -- did you