reporter carl nasman joins us now. what do they want youtube to do in this case? rl: they were a big deal, 60,000 protesters and 200 arrested, including the woman we saw in the disturbing video. russia's communications watchdog sends a letter to google, youtube's parent company and it says stop promoting the rallies or else. it specifificallyy says the site was sending pusush notificatitis toto youtube users to helplp pre what it is callining these unlawful demonstrations. it says if google doesn't respond it would be regarded as "interference in the sovereign affairs of the state, hostile influence of the democratic elections." it doesn't say specifically what pressure might do in response to those are strong words. google has not publicly responded to that letter. interesting to see russia trying to crack down on the push notifications and what they think is promoting the videos. laila: why does russia want youtube to stop the push notifications? carl: it didn't specifically say which site was sending the notifications but it is clear that russia is not necessari

dw reporter carl nasman is here with me. shock, horror, who would have thought? ll us, what have you found out? carl: there were all those rumors that facebook was listening to our conversations. it turns out in a way that was true. it wasn't quite what we thought was. there were rumors they were listening to our phones, giving us these creepy personal advertisements based on our conversations. it was actually for a different purpose. according to bloomberg, facebook hired an outside company to listen to and transcribe audio clips from users' conversations. facebook says this was done to improve its artificial intelligence. and this was basically something that would automatically change your audio into text inside of facebook messenger. this is the feature we are talking about right here. you can see how this works. if you turned on v voice transcription anand sent a fried an audio message, your message would automatically be turned into text. just like here, in this case it is a grocery list. of course we know artificial intelligence is not always very accurate.