cambridge analytica took leave.eu, and aiq, which was cambridge analytica's esessentially digital l partner before cambridge analytica could run our own digital campaigns, they were running the vote leave side, both funded by the mercers, both with the same access to this giant database on american voters. amy: the mercers funded brexit? >> there was cambridge analytica work, as well as aiq work, in both of the leave campaigns. so a lot of that money, in order to collect that data and in order to build the infrastructure of both of those companies, came from mercer-funded campaigns, yes. amy: and again, explain what aiq is. >> aiq was a company that actually ran all of cambridge analytica's digital campaigns until january 2016, when molly schweickert, our head of digital, was hired in order to build ad tech internally within the company. aiq was based in canada and was a partner that had access to cambridge analytica data the entire time that they were running the vote leave campaign, which was the designated and main campaign in brexit. amy: so when did you see the connection between brexi

we started to look at this company cambridge analytica.nd what we found was fascinating because we realized there was this invisible story that is happening inside our computer screens come inside our heads, which is leading to everybody having a completely different understanding of reality based on their newsfeeds. that is when we met brittany kaiser, who at the time w was jt about to become a whistleblower and come out about what she knew. she was basically saying, i'm going to thailand and if you want to talk to me, then come meet me here. i can't tell you exactly where it is going to be, where i'm going, but land at this airport. we met her there and that is where the film began. amy: i want to go to a clip of "the great hack." brittany kaiser explains the concept of the persuadables. rememr those cebook quizzes we stilll form personitity mols f forll ters in the u.s.? is, we did not taetet eryy american teter equally thbulk of r resources went to targeting tse whoseinds thought we could change. we called th the persuadable. they are

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following the hearings on cambridge analytica. eades the used to years to control and delete information, took down malicious entities and promoting like local news operations and during that hearing, representative mckinley pushed m-zuckerberg hard on ayes selling opioids without prescriptions on facebook and facebook removed the ads and get a call because he was head to the afternoon, those had been taken down. notable through the global internet forum to counterterrorism, platforms such as facebook, twitter and youtube have been working together to tackle terrorist content and sharing propaganda and exploding digital platforms. not to suggest the online ecosystem is perfect. it's far from it. could the companies be doing more? of course and i expect them to and i think you're working on that. let me be clear the hearing should serve as an important reminder to all online platforms we are watching closely and want to ensure we do not harm innovation but when we see issues or identify clear harms to consumers we do not see online

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built -- the obama campaign in 2012 created a voter outreach have very similar to what cambridge analyticabenefited our republican, it benefited from, the sky is falling. facebook, they were allowing people through the live stream video to commit suicide, commit murder, even a child was murdered. where was she when that was happening? >> jessica: it's not just about political ads. >> dagen: she should've set it when it was happening, she didn't. >> jessica: it's certainly not nancy pelosi's fault. >> melissa: i think she makes decisions and comments, i was listening to that news conference live and i was so surprised and thought wow, she's giving a lot of feedback from her polling and everything else that facebook is so wildly unpopular in her district and she's just lashing out at them on television. >> jessica: and facebook is in her district. i think she was genuinely surprised to get a facebook question. >> bill: i hear that the electronics show in las vegas, the number one issue righ out te is privacy. >> jessica: privacy and health tech. >> bill: the privacy is a big deal. >> jessica

. ♪ taylor: facebook remains under fire after the cambridge analytica scandal, which came to light in then, it was revealed the firm had harvested the personal data of millions of people's facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political advertising purposes. as you can imagine, it remains a sensitive topic going into the 2020 election. but facebook's emea vice president nicola mendelsohn assured leaders the scandal was a thing of the past. she spoke to bloomberg's francine lacqua in davos. nicola: i think the mood is different this year. i think the reason it is different is because there is a much more thoughtful conversation going around now about how globally, business, governments can be working together with the tech companies. i also think there is an acknowledgment of the investment that facebook has been making across so many different areas, that we have had a lot of scrutiny. sometimes, in the past, that scrutiny has been deserved. so i think it has been good. there has also been a lot around the economic impact. what is the economic impact of the tech comp

made during the 2018 cambridge analytica scandal. zuckerberg writes in part other businesses send us information and we use that information to show you ads that are relevant to you. now you can see a summary of that information and clear it from your account if you want to. the new tool does allow you to clear some of that information but it does not allow you to delete your entire history with facebook itself which still has the ability to monitor your future activity. >> i hope what this means is that everyday users of facebook will have more insight into what the company collects about them and the pervasiveness of tracking across the internet. >> facebook's tracking is not a violation but critics say it shows the need for better privacy legislation and by the way even if you're not a facebook user, the network can monitor your activity through partnered websites. in chicago fox news. >>> well happening today a one hour spernl special on prince harry and megan markle. the royals in crisis looks into what me executive producer say

. ♪ taylor: facebook remains under fire after the cambridge analytica scandal, which came to light int was revealed the firm had harvested the personal data of millions of people's facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political advertising purposes. as you can imagine, it remains a sensitive topic going into the 2020 election. facebook emea vice president nicola mendelsohn assured leaders that the scandal was the thing of the past. she spoke to francine lacqua in davos. nicola: i think the mood is different this year. i think the reason it is different is because there is a more thoughtful conversation going on around how globally business, governments can be working together with the tech companies. i also think there is an acknowledgment of the investment that facebook has been making across many different areas, that we have had a lot of scrutiny. sometimes in the past, that scrutiny has been deserved. i think it has been good. there has also been a lot around the economic impact. what is the economic impact of the tech company? actually, there has been a lot of

trump didn't get elect because of russia, misinformation, cambridge analytica, he got elected because he ran the single best digital campaign i seen from any advertiser. boss worth is confidante of the ceo of facebook, a former advertising executive there i will tell you about another stock. that is beyond meat which is up 12% at the end of the day after impossible foods said it is no longer trying to win a coveted deal to supply mcdonald's corporation with plant based burgsers. they don't have the capacity. they can't produce enough meat to make that work. this opens big opportunities for beyond. melissa: gerri, thank you. best digital campaign on facebook? i know the twitter thing. connell: i think during the campaign use of facebook. you remember the campaigns facebook wept out to hillary clinton's campaign and president trump, we'll help you out. hillary clinton didn't take the help. president trump, brad parscale they did. they used facebook effectively. melissa: thank you for reminding me of that. i forgot about that. you're so smart. thank you, connell. connell: every once in a

cambridge analytica then used the data to sway voters to support president trump during the 2016 campaign. the most recent leak began on new year's day through an anonymous twitter account with links to documents on elections in brazil, malaysia, and kenya.. "the new york times" reports boeing has discovered yet another massive flaw with its troubled 737 max jets. a december audit of the plane's safety, ordered by the federal aviation administration, or the faa, found previously unreported concerns with the wiring in 737 max airplanes which could potentntially cause a short circuit and d a crash if p pilos did not rerespond adequately. last month, boeing ceo dennis -- the boeing ceo was fired just weeks after the corporation halted production of the jet, following outrage over two crashes in ethiopia and indonesia that killed all 346 people on board. and in new york city, the trial against disgraced hollywood mogul and accused sexual predator harvey weinstein begins today in a manhattan court. he faces life in prison. the trial comes more than two years after initial accusations against t

tracker is in part a deliberate promise from ceo mark zuckerberg, made during the 2018 cambridge analyticasday, mark zuckerberg writes, "other businesses send us your activity on site and we use that information to show ads that are relevant to you. now you can see a summary of that information and clear it from your account if you want to." the new tool does allow you to clear some of that information but it does not allow you to delete your entire history with facebook itself, which still has the ability to monitor your future activity. >> i hope what this means is that every day users of facebook will have more insight into what the company collects about them, and pervasiveness of tracking acrosacross the internet. >> facebook's tracking is not a violation but critics say it shows the need for better privacy legislation and by the way, even if you are not a facebook user, the network and monitor your activity through partnered websites. >> bret: from chicago, thank you. next up, the panel with tonight's impeachment. the breaking news. plus, the president's new middle east peace plan. o

was adge analytica scandal. it was not just an individual that was harmed, it was our society. we see some of the remnants of it to this day. i heard someone say to me yesterday that they hope to this hearing was not just a hearing but a real wake-up call. a wake-up call to our country. my first question is to mr. harris. do you believe the oversight of dark patterns and oversight of manipulative practices are well-suited to industry self-regulation? mr. harris: absolutely not. >> i would like to follow up with ms. bickert. aes facebook have responsibility to develop interfaces that are transparent and fair to its users? ms. bickert: we definitely want that. yes, i think we are working on new ways to be transparent all the time. 230 provideion immunity to facebook over these issues? ms. bickert: section 230 is an important part of my team being able to do it we do. it gives our team the ability to proactively look for abuse. does it provide immunity? yes. section 230 does provide certain protections. the most important from my standpoint is to go after abuse on the platform but

because of a loss of trust in some of the platform providers of the past few years, like the cambridge analytica scandal and spreading information, algorithmically and there's concern but conversations been cast for long periods 0 time, other data being checked from years across different platforms and the other side of the coin from the standpoint of asking facebook to not use end-to-enencryption, doesn't that just push the people who would use end to end encryption on facebook off to another 0 platforms, signal, key baste, that have features similar to facebook in terms of the ability to share a large number of people and end to end encringes capability so why -- encryption capable. i would would you specifically go after facebook and i understand there's a major contributor to reports to enmick, but done that creation a situation where people who are aware of this debate, in that -- perpetrators of those crimes move into another place where they can already go dark. >> if could i address that lost point first. on your question whether people move platforms, we obviously haven't seep -- seen t