tell donald trump, if anything, about what cambridge analytica was doing. that is crucial because then that ties into -- back into the russian efforts. you know, this is an important little dot being connected here, i think. >> and then we have to remember that kilimnick is also charged in the same case as paul manafort now in the two witness tampering charges. but that gets you -- that gets you back to russian intelligence. and then this guy, patton, basically one of the charges in there that i guess he didn't plead guilty for or did but they're not going to charge him for is the campaign donation to the presidential inaugural committee. someone from ukraine wanted to come, couldn't buy the tickets because that's illegal, had a straw purchaser, so that gets us back to what did the presidential inaugural committee know. >> remember, rick gates was a big part of the inaugural committee. >> exactly. so it becomes the mafia investigation. little things, little things, little things, to get to the big fish. >> matthew, i still to this day am not sure, if there

cambridge analytica got deep data on 150 million american voters. that is a lot of voters, almost all of the actual voters and that was a massive scandal. this researcher at university of cambridge got the data and handed it to facebook because facebook had no control over who took the data out and it seems the way the story ran out, this was a massive meltdown. it really wasn't. this was a reflection of facebook policy from 2010-2015. facebook encouraged application developers to take all the data about all of us out of facebook and use it to target ads and use facebook and more creative way. it thoroughly encouraged other websites and applications to connect itself to the facebook ecosystem and be dependent on facebook. it was policy from 2010-2015, everyone who follows social media new this. a lot of us raise questions and got no response. in 2012, the obama campaign had an application on people's phones that you could use if you were a volunteer and you login with facebook credentials and not only would your facebook data be shared with the obama

this line was lost in the storm over cambridge analytica. bybridge analytica was run bond villains. they look evil, they work for evil people. steve bannon helped run the company, it is paid for by robert mercer, one of the more evil hedgege fund managers in te united states. cruz'srked for ted campaign and then for the breakfast campaign and for campaign,mp -- brexitt and for donald trump's campaign. the fact is that cambridge analytica is kind of a joke. it did not actually accomplish anything. push this weird psychometric model for voter behavior prediction, which no one believes works. the fact is the trump campaign, the ted cruz campaign, and the duterte campaign in the philippines, and the modi campaign in india used facebook itself to target voters, either to persuade them to vote or dissuade them from voting. this was the basic campaign. the facebook advertising platform allows you to target people quite precisely in groups as small as 20. you can base it on ethnicity, gender, interest, education level, zip code, or other location markers. you can base it on people intereste

work in the data context because once the data is out there and misused as we have seen in cambridge analytica is hard to get it back, maybe more guidance on the front end is what's called for here in the united states. >> host: do you agree with that? >> that's sort of what i was alluding to before when i said interesting decisions happening in places other than europe, one of the places is here in the united states, it's happening both in california but also starting to happen in a real way here in washington in terms a move toward federal privacy law and i think that's a really interesting set of discussions and i think there's real value there but, you know, again, we as an organization are global and companies are global and we are looking and following closer the discussions in latin america, asia, recently big milestone in japan, i consider big milestone between japan and european union coming to an agreement that japan's system is what's called adequate but essentially is recognized by the european union as a really strong system which it is. the japanese system is different from the e

cambridge analytica, declining active users, in europe, now the launch of facebook watch, beyond thehere it has had a disappointing first year, us, where it has had a disappointing first yea r, allows us, where it has had a disappointing first year, allows them to re—engage with the battle to attract the next billion on line users who will be in markets such as india and south east asia. over the last two months, facebook has been acquiring premium at video rights such as la liga writes for south asia, english premier league rights for south east asia, these are perfect contents to be distributed through don mcgahn because it allows the use case for consumers in these markets. it will not translate into revenues now but it creates the team plan to which facebook and then take back to develop markets in the horizon over the next five years. facebook has been tried to make its way into india ina been tried to make its way into india in a significant way sometime and it has been a struggle. south east asia is very much in its view. what you are saying is facebook watch is not really wha

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this saw that came out of a came out of aaga developer sharing information with cambridge analytica, then used to target people for the trump campaign during the 2016 election. apple has the same lack of visibility with how developers are using the information from even though users give that information with their consent. there is a lot to it we have not dubbed into as a society -- dug into as a society. around the same time as its developer conference, they quietly updated their roles in the terms of service to say they would no longer allow developers databases of your personal information or sell that to third parties. there was 10 years of not having this role. back in made this rule 2014. of a lackother issue of data security, with a platform that has told us to trust them with our privacy. off of theade money fact they are better stewards of our privacy. carol: we want to get worse perspective on apple -- more perspective on apple. taylor: apple is the first company to hit that $1 trillion evaluation. the $500 billion market cap in 2012, when the ipad mini was released. 2015,

has been a difficult year for facebook with a reputational hit over the data scandal round cambridge analytican america's democracy using facebook as a platform. this shows facebook trying to show it is being proactive rather than reactive in addressing the bad actors operating on its platform. 652 pages, groups or individuals on facebook and within one hour of facebook and within one hour of facebook making that announcement, twitter said they had also got rid of 284 accounts. what is interesting and new in this story rather than us this year is that this shows the companies are working very closely together to attack the same people trying to use their platforms to spread misinformation. the other fingers, it shifts the focus. we have had a lot of talk about russia this year, most of this bad activity came from iran, about three quarters of it, and much of it related to iranian state media. there is a sense the tension is shifting focus. we discover the problem is you get rid of someone here and they pop up elsewhere. this is a blunt that will be managed rather than salt, you can never get r

this whole facebook saga came out of a developer sharing information with cambridge analytica, whicho target people for the trump campaign during the 2016 election. that is the situation we got angry about. the same ingredients are present in apple's relationship with developers. apple has the same lack of visibility with how developers are using the information from users, even though users give that information with their consent. there is a lot to it we have not dug into as a society. around the same time as its developer conference, they updated -- they quietly updated this rule in their terms of service, saying they would no longer allow developers to keep databases of your personal information or sell that to third parties. there was 10 years of not having this role. facebook made this rule back in 2014. this is another issue of a lack of data security, with a platform that has told us to trust them with our privacy. they have made money off of the fact they are better stewards of our privacy. carol: we want to more perspective on apple. taylor: apple is the first company to hi

they took the hit over that cambridge analytica thing. >> and the momentum came back. we've seen a will the of stocks i think for various issues, take these hits yet they continue to earn money street looks back and says wait a minute, they're still growing. that's a 30% grower. >> i'm going to own it >> that's what i'm saying. i don't think it's justification to say okay, i'm going to sell out of my fang holdings. i think that's the wrong stuff because you think you're going to reach new highs in the market the s&p is less than 1.5% away from the all time high you're likely not going to get there and beyond without these stocks regaining their footing right? true facebook corrected a lot more, but that was more on a type of commentary and legitimate, but they've said hey, margins are going to be cut by almost 25%. that's real. so then you have to revaluate that netflix also talked about some issues, although i think they were not as significant as facebook which is why i'm puzzled >> i think facebook is doing a lot of the right things for growth and making investments

five months after the cambridge analytica scandal shook facebook, the social platform is pulling theillions of users data >> facebook announcing its banning an app called my personality for failing to agree to an audit and because the app shares information with researchers and companies with only limited protections in place. saying until notify the 4 million people which shared their information with the app this is only the second app to be banned since the cambridge analytica scandal resulted in the banning of this is your digital life facebook says the number of apps its suspended is now 400, up from 200 in may saying they've investigated thousands of apps for their use of data. this data headache comes on the heels of facebook announcing they've identitied more manipulation to russian accounts earlier this week. the question is how it will impact users and investors it's worth noting shares are down about 18%, but today shares are pretty much flat >> julia, i wonder if there's any way to know whether all of these, i guess, incursions by all these parties that are now being iden

a couple months ago, we talked about facebook and cambridge analytica. today, it's google. might be another company. what we need are clear rules, a way for consumers to get the information they need, to make informed, real decisions, and we need a powerful fix from the government in cases where companies don't act the way they are expected to. emily: i should add, these google services according to the ap, are storing the data whether you are using an android phone or an iphone. do you think the u.s. needs its own version of gdpr? i mean, europe has taken certainly, a strong stance on the side of user privacy. gdpr, a sweeping new regulation. do you advocate something similar in the united states? neema: absolutely. we are really behind the eight ball, especially when you look at what's happening in the european union. the gdpr regulations, they are not perfect, but they create standards. they say consumers are entitled to have information about when their data is stored. they talk about the steps companies have to go through to get consent, before they can share user info

american people zero about the team, and now that the investigation has been closed, be learn that cambridge analytica working them. >> the american people have the power and in 74 days, they want to be protecting, the corruption to end, and their paychecks to go up. >> i want to ask you about republican duncan hunter. he is accused of, and his wife, of his handling lots and lots of campaign expensions. spending $14,000 on a family vacation in italy, $6500 in hawaii, $3700 in vegas. $350 for bachelor party drinks. steelers tickets, costco groceries, $11300, they did some damage there. here is who congressman hunter blames for the misuse of some of the funds. >> i gave heifer power of attorney and she handed my finances through my military career and it couldn'ted on in congress. she was also the campaign manager, so whatever she did, that will be looked at too, i'm sure, but i didn't do it, i didn't spend any money illegally, i did not use campaign money. >> if you're wondering who that rogue campaign manager is, it is his wife. what do you want to see happen to him? >> i'm already trying to make that

cambridge analytica unnatural (many will say what are we worried about? why not? the rules of the game say what? when at all cost losing isn't an option those that come to dominate and then deploy that very quickly to bring that all the information together will win. talking about a grade examination of that a few years ago but we are in a much different state now the extension of those filter bubbles it is not the social media companies fault. it is yours. you put yourself in that preference bubble they just provide you a service. you cannot participate but you won't do that because you are addicted and this is how you operate you spend a large part of your life on this three to five hours a day are on mobile devices of those are social media apps you spend more time engaging with those not with you than with you and more online than your neighbors it is a preference level kicking your own reality the virtual tail lags the dog the preference bubble the overture the al qaeda establishment they say don't do this we would never do this we would not approve of half o

host: cambridge analytica? guest: notwithstanding them specifically, i think that there is going to be an increasingly interesting area of research which is, how does what people are seeing and doing on social media both influence them and to what extent can we measure it or read it in a quantifiable way? at at first blush, you look for as much activity as there is on twitter, not everybody is on twitter. one thing that requests of with is it is not whether you are seeing a given tweet, but whether you are posting, whether you are writing back and forth to people on social media, we have asked people about that and we don't get very high numbers of people who are active on it. it, notthem are reading everyone is engaged. measuring the degree to which people are influenced is tricky. people can see something and they might be influenced by it. , they mighttime have already been in a social network with people who agree with them in the first place. some of the studies have shown that people on twitter, if you ar

we have the cambridge analytica data scandal happening facebook in its statement about this story madet clear this would be completely opt in the eddata would not be used for advertising. the key part is about keeping people information safe and secure i was in china a couple weeks ago it seems like facebook is borrowing something from tencent, which owns the messaging service wechat in china. where we have loads of different apps here, we go to a banking app, messaging app, everything is built into wechat ordering food. ordering a taxi. doing banking. that's been key for tencent to keep users in its ecosystem and sell them other services i think that's what facebook is trying to do, bringing banking into that. so trying to keep them in the facebook universe and hopefully make more money out of them. >> as big and powerful as facebook is, it's clear they have wechat money. paper money is used more in the uk and u.s. than in china. still a lot of things facebook would like to do better. i want to talk about something you've been talking about, cryptocurrencies specifically bitcoin it's

. >> all these headlines on facebook cambridge analytica and nobody seems to care. >> right i am surprised stock was up on the news today and we are having a bus tour. >> are you surprised >> nobody seems to care about facebook >> it is down 24%. >> it is down more you are telling me facebook was the same story it was. >> because i am talking about privacy. that was an earnings related >> here is the issue >> until we get back there next week and next month. that high, that wednesday of july 25th, and it dropped like that 24% you go twill not recover like tt >> what they told us on the call is effectively their core products, guess what, your data. they can't tell you what it costs to secure it that is something that their cost production is significantly different than you thought forget the credibility and the threat of centralized platform which i think people are going to get sick and tired of they can't tell you what the multiples are and the costs of good soldiers. this is the biggest advertising venues in the world. their reach is unprecedented and the value of that alone is well kn

how much do you think this increase has to do with what's been happening with cambridge analytica, russiantroversies in myanmar? posts that many say have led to violence? >> it could definitely have an impact. if a company gets bad press, typically it is executives that can be targeted for threats. we saw that in the aftermath of the financial crisis when many banks started upping their security. when herbalife was targeted by bill ackman. its ceoe also equipped with more security. there are also totally personal reasons for this. mark zuckerberg now has two young kids. he had his second daughter last year. it could be that he just wants to up his security for his little family. it could be that relatives or extended family members have gotten threats or are just not feeling comfortable. it could fall on him to pick up the bill for that. emily: and you go into great detail about what these costs actually are, right down to bulletproof windows. tell us where the money is spent. >> it's quite interesting. i had conversations with a lot of people that work in the private security industry. g

the numbers weren't that bad for facebook, that it was sort of this karmic retribution for cambridge analyticad for some of that what were perceived as misdeeds of the company. is it starting to trickle through to zuckerberg at all? max: you have two things going on. number one, facebook is not as cool as it used to be. you are seeing declines in the u.s. and europe. this more mature market. facebook is dealing with that by making investments in instagram. julie: instagram is still cool. max: instagram is the coolest thing out there. internally, that is how they think of it. well, instagram is the future of this thing. that, combined with this sort of inability to manage the information on facebook, and more importantly, to articulate what facebook's policies are and how they want to deal with that information, it kind of creates feedback where it is contributing to the lack of coolness. if you are already feeling that facebook is not that great, and you do not want to go there, and then you read another story, one came out just this week about another misinformation effort on the platform, th

a huge piece of this is social media and the work they did through cambridge analytica and the leaks of those facts through wikileaks. we know roger stone has a lot of tentacles in those worlds. he's done a hot of work in england. he's tied to the trump campaign. we have to look carefully at the way they're painting these characters. these are people who have been in republican politics for a long time. these aren't the people who were carrying the moral backbone of the party. they were really in it. he believe the ends justify the means. i think by the pointed questions you have reported on, the interviews you have done with sam nunberg it's so obvious mueller is really targeting those essential questions. >> roger stone was not in mainstream politics, neither was sam nunberg, neither was paul manafort yet they managed to find donald trump's team. was it because there was no one else available? thanks for starting us off tonight, guys. >>> coming up, the "washington post" is alleging mariia butina cozies up to a trump adviser weeks after the campaign. >>> later, a federal judge says

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of course cambridge analytica, we know 87 million facebook users had their information taken, essentiallynd we know in the run-up to our presidential election 125 million facebook users, so half of our voting population saw an ad that was either manipulated or created by a russian bot. so there is a lot of banks and other institutions saying we maybe don't want to be associated with facebook at this time. our colleagues at the journal said actually one big bank that they chose. >> shepard: didn't name. >> did not name has actually pulled back from. this to me though the big sort of sum up is that essentially technology is coming for banking. so the banks need to be a little bit more on their toes. we have amazon looking to do the same thing. google as well, alpha bets google doing the same thing as well. when you say hey, alexa, i would like to buy more snacks for my pup. your banking data is already there. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: word of a new clue in the search for the missing college student mollie tibbets. we will tell what you a witness reported seeing in the are

my original facebook came pre-ipo but when it got hit when all the cambridge analytica stuff happenedark was on trial i bought a ton. and obviously, the missing numbers or news recently, i have been buying up a little bit more because i think in the next 4, 7, 9, 13, 26 years, it is a good buy. emily: it is interesting, and that is a big bet. roger mcnamee a very public critic of facebook compared facebook to philip morris in terms of facebook's negative impact on the world. what about concerns about fake news? what about online hate? what about concerns about our privacy? gary: i think there is a stunning non-conversation about taking on some sense of responsibility, meaning, sure, but choosing cnn or fox or msnbc has as many dynamics as what you are seeing in your feed, and then more importantly what you are choosing to consume as real. i mean, to me the thought that facebook is any different than twitter or instagram, which obviously they own, or websites or a million different ways we consume is kind of laughable and silly. i mean, visa and target and the american government itsel

it could be tough to overcome privacy and data security concerns, following the cambridge analytica scandalt gave access to 87 million facebook users' data without consent. guys, back to you. >> julia, thank you very much. kara, facebook is a topic you have been writing about in the last few days. >> yeah. >> i have to ask you how much reaction you got to the michiin column in the times. >> quite a lot i was voicing things a lot of people feel, the price we're paying for social networks and something i talked about here a lot as you know, carl, the idea of responsibility, of accountability, the idea of being more mature when you think of these things. then you look at apple looking at a decision on info wars clearly. i talk about the idea you can make value judgments at the companies without aggregating values you have around free speech and ability to communicate. >> kara, you made the argument it seems to me in this column that facebook and other social networks like it are not on balance good for society mark zuckerberg says there are bad actors, but look at all we've done for you, we co

we had christopher wiley back, the gentleman who was at cambridge analytica. but the truth of the matter is what congress ought to be focused on when we get back is passing a budget and not closing down the federal government as the president threatened to do over a failure for congress to an appropriate the funds to bid the border wall which he campaigned on would be 100% paid for by the government of mexico. >> denny heck, thank you. coming up with guilty verdicts, guilty pleas closing in, the president lashes out at the doj. jeff sessions is having none of it. what happens if the president fires the ag. those stories in two minutes. and it's time to get outside. pack in even more adventure with audible. with the largest selection of audiobooks. audible lets you follow plot twists off the beaten track. or discover magic when you hit the open road. with the free audible app, your stories go wherever you do. and for just $14.95 a month you get a credit, good for any audiobook. if you don't like it exchange it any time. no questions asked. you can also roll you

is not the only problem in this election i fear it's the only one we're looking for and the cambridge analyticaill out there and the trump administration still has it, presumably, other republicans have access to it. so the ability to do bad things with bad data on facebook in particular is still there and you know, i don't know that anybody's even trying to prevent that and so i worry a lot. i think these companies have insinuated themselves into the public square and they didn't prepare for the responsibility to come with that, so even if they wanted to be really good citizens on this and until recently, they didn't show any on that and even if they wanted to be good citizen, this would be a hard problem to solve and our democracy depends on them. >> thank you very much for joining us >> my pleasure >> everybody go out and vote >> of elevation partners how much of a concern is this as a facebook shareholder >> it's definitely a concern i do think it's doing a right thing trying to weed out what they call bad actors and that's been weighing on the stock, right? when he was on the hill. you kno

a company under a lot of fire because of hits handling cambridge analytica and harvesting user information them. of course, there are pressures on facebook to expand revenues's this is one way to do it. fetting involved in the financial services as well. amazon is also having those discusses. >> making an argument in a bid to block the at&t-time warner merger. what the doj is saying about the judge that initially approved the deal missed things. especially misjudged the economic impact of this deal, especially time warner's bargaining power. what more can you tell us? >> exactly it. recap a little. back in june the u.s. district court judge richard leon gave approval for at&t to acquire time warner. second largest media merger of all-time. the government appealed the order. that the judge didn't properly understand and ignored economic theory saying time warner wasn't have increased bargaining power over pay tv distributors and argued on the back of the deal, rising fees. if they win, the merger would need to be unwound. very tricky. >> great have you with us. talk to you tomorrow. >>> com

and then there's the other piece of it, which bloomberg mentioned in their article about cambridge analytica. do those relationships endure throughout the campaign? i think his involvement was earlier? >> yeah. it's very interesting to see the threads overlapping here with all these various aspects. guy, i want your reaction. rudy giuliani talked about this plea deal today. take a listen to this. >> nothing to do with the president, nothing to do with collusion, everything to do with a lobbyist who acted improperly who the president doesn't know. so far every indictment is unrelated to the president. we went through an entire manafort trial, and there wasn't a single mention of the president. >> this is related directly to the inauguration. >> not to the president of giuliani here saying this has nothing to do with the president. when you're listening to the point that ken made earlier, which is that we don't know why these men pay $50,000 to attend the inauguration. were they just paying to party it up with d.c. politicians or get access to incoming administration so they could ultimately s

as we know it is facing several investigations into its ties over cambridge analytica, which accessed data on as many as 87 million facebook users without consent. prior to that of course, 125 million americans, so half of our voting population, saw an ad either created or manipulated by russian bots prior to our presidential election in 2016. "the wall street journal" has reported that these high-profile pr problems made at least one large bank which the journal did not name pull away from talks with facebook because they just do not want to be part of this pr problem. now worth noting other analysts point out that alphabet google, amazon, they have also asked banks to share data in order to provide basic banking services on applications, google es alexa or google's assistant rather or amazon's alexa. my takeaway is tech changed pretty much every single industry we talked about and banking may be next. facebook will tie up with these banks, it obviously will have to address its trust issues, melissa. a little shaky at the moment. melissa: i'm not, a little bit different. >> a lot of

>> well, after cambridge analytica and 87 million people's data given to a third party we have the rightconcerned about what facebook wants to do. they say it is opt in. from a political pr aspect this is horrible idea especially now. the stock tanked 19 points, facebook is on the rise looking for new markets. liz: do you think people will unplug once they see the bank account on facebook? i know you can opt in? it is not trending so great in terms of user count, kelsey, quickly. >> facebook needs ton transparent whatever it wants to do. needs people to opt in when they're sharing sensitive information. liz: you will be right back with us. antifa day live and well on the west coast. dozens of arrests over the weekend. coming up we talk about the protests and hough damage they caused. first democratic gubernatorial candidate, cynthia nixon, democrats start embracing socialism like i do. our next guest will take that on. former george w. bush deputy assistant brad blakeman. we'll explain the story after the break coming up. >> i am proud to be one of a small but growing number of candidate

i want to get your thought i remember back in march you tweeted in response to cambridge analytica. i remember you said something to the effect of regulation is coming >> yeah. >> and probably for the best since then, obviously, more evidence of platform abuse, twitter taking criticism for alex jones, president trump going after google regularly now. how is your thinking evolving since the tweet about tech and potential regulation on the way? >> i think the president's tweets aside, i think it is really important that whether it is businesses or consumers use the internet, they have full control of their data, know how their information is used, whether for advertising purpose or news that they're seeing, and whether that is modern forms of regulation or the industry sort of adopting standards across the board how they're using information or gdpr from europe. i think there needs to be updated ways of thinking about privacy, data security, and protection in the digital age, and this is fundamental to box but also fundamental right for any internet user. >> quick response, aaron, we

this comes in the wake of the cambridge analytica scandal this year >>> a bill to restore net neutralityn california is now moving to a final committee vote. the legislation passed yesterday. it's been amended numerous times. it prohibits service providers from throttling traffic to certain websites or from charging access fees. in other words, it brings us back to the rules that we hadpld the industry last year. lawmakers say they're confident that bill will make it to the governor's desk next week >>> to a special story, disney was part of a special delivery in the east bay. abc 7 news was at ucsf children's hospital oakland when our colleague spencer christian helped bring smiles to young patients by passing out toys from a disney care package. that care package included princess dolls and marvel super hero figures. disney is the parent company of marvel and abc 7 news. look at that, so sweet. >> these kids are the cutest. >> they are. >> so glad we got to be a part of that. >>> coming up next, someone tried to hack the democratic national committee but it didn't happen thanks to a sa

cambridge analytica, and then we have the russia hacking in 2016 and the election votes and then it haske accounts and, yeah, misinformation. so that has people thinking why am i even on this. >> shepard: they are not turning away from all social media? >> no. they are using what's app. what's app. just crossed 1.5 billion monthly users. stain gram has 1 billion accounts. youtube 1.8 billion monthly people that go on the website to actually watch some of the videos that they have on. let's put these in perspective. facebook lost a million users in europe. they are not growing in the u.s. or carntiond. 2.3 billion people still go on facebook each and every month. >> shepard: not really kids though, right? my niece and nephew they don't open it. >> no. i think snap is more for the younger audience, the teenagers. but, you know, there are studies out there if you use social media less, you are less prone to depression. that's a note for you. good for your health. mental health. >> shepard: i don't too evil. >> you don't want people to know where you are. >> shepard: i don't need to share w

we had christopher wiley back, the gentleman who was at cambridge analytica. but the truth of the matter is what congress ought to be focused on when we get back is passing a budget and not closing down the federal government as the president threatened to do over a failure for congress to an appropriate the funds to bid the border wall which he campaigned on would be 100% paid for by the government of mexico. >> denny heck, thank you. coming up with guilty verdicts, guilty pleas closing in, the president lashes out at the doj. jeff sessions is having none of it. what happens if the president fires the ag. those stories in two minutes. the fact is, there are over ninety-six hundred roads named "park" in the u.s. it's america's most popular street name. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your siding. and that's very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. but no matter what park you live

but when you have the misuse of data by cambridge analytica, people who are inciting violence, who have denied the murder of children in school shootings -- >> 5-year-old children. >> these guys better get their act together because the rest of us are watching our country go up in flames because the social media is eating public -- >> you better get your act together or else. nobody's canceling their twitter account. nobody's getting off fa inting . what do we think the right course is here? >> we should be giving a big shout-out to the newtown parents who have forced these changes because they decided to take alex jones to court. because alex jones docks them. because he gave their addresses. because these grieving parents who were forced to move multiple times. >> can you imagine, can you imagine if you lost your 5-year-old, if that wasn't destroying your life enough, you have to continue to move, live in hiding, because of this lunatic and the threats put forth. >> and relive the hell every day. >> every day. >> accused of having some role in the most devastating thing that's ever ha

one of the things that people have forgotten about is the cambridge analytica data set that was used so successfully by the trump campaign. that is a weapon with a symmetrical advantage, particularly when facebook provides support to people who use it. i think you have to expect that that will be put back into use aggressively in the midterms. >> so you're looking at interest groups in the united states -- well, maybe 20 some odd of people belong barack obama is a kenyan born muslim. i have said i actually am a kenyan born muslim and he was never at the meetings. the fact is facebook goes narrower and narrower. these people who abuse it go narrower and narrower. if you are one of those people and share one of those views and all of a sudden you see facebook pages that validate those views, they have got you and then they can transfer your attention to other things. >> they start with you when you're just curious about these ideas. what happens is they encourage you to join groups of like-minded people. when you're in groups that share curiosity about an idea, the exchange of informat

this does come in the wake of the cambridge analytica scandal this year >>> a bill authored by politicians to restore net neutrality protections in california is moving to a final committee vote. the legislation passed the assembly communications committee yesterday. it's been amended a lot of times. the measure prohibits service providers from throttling traffic to certain websites or charging access fees. in other words, essentially restores the rules in place before the fcc deregulated the industry last year. lawmakers say they're confident the bill will make it to the governor's desk next week >>> it's been two months to the day since 12 boys and their soccer coach in thailandot uc cave. >> abc news has an interview with the team describing the 17 days that followed. people around the and their coach one by one. all of them survived. after the rescue, the team spent time at a temple and that's where abc news reporter james longman spoke with them about the ordeal. is life back to normal again? >> 11-year-old titan says i feel the love, i feel warm. the 25-year-old coach describing the