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eamon javers joins us with more on that story. es looking for in this case with the so-called section 230? >> that's right, dom it starts with 23-year-old emmy gonzalez her family is arguing in court that youtube helped to spread isis message there is one thing that could be standing in the way here that is section 230 of the communications act of 1996 which says internet companies are not libel for content posted on the platforms by third party users the same law has gotten into the political fray here and come under fire from conservative from liberals who say social media companies the case started as a lawsuit in 2016 alleging youtube violated the anti-terrorism act the circuit of appeals revived in in 2021 the supreme court justice clarence thomas is criticizing the act. it is not clear, dom, how the 6 6-3 super majority is going to handle the case. this could call into question the user content which is why this case is intently watched in silicon valley the court is not expected to decide the case. they are taking it up now.

eamon javers has the details >> this case is all about 23-year-old noemi gonzalez, one of 130 peopleled in paris during an isis terrorist attack in 2015. her family is arguing in court that you tube helped to spread isis's violent messages because its algorithm suggested extreme content based on previous videos they had watched want the family wants to sue you tube owned by google there's one thing that could stand in the way, section 230 of the decency act, which says internet companies are not liable for content posted on their platforms by third party users. that same law has come under fire in washington and around the country from conservatives who say social media companies are squelching right wing content, and liberals who say the social media companies are doing the opposite, fomenting right wing messages. supreme court justice clarence thomas has been critical of section 230, and it's not clear how the 6-3 conservative super majority on the court will impact this case any ruling striking down the liability protection could call into question the fundamental economics of pos

tonight cnbc's eamon javers with part of the story.olen crypto and speaking out for the first time, in investors who lost big >> reporter: on a hot summer morning in fort worth, texas frankie logs into his computer and discovers some alarming news. >> the day of the hack on august 2nd, 2016, i hopped on to reddit and noticed people were posting that the platform had completely frozen and there was 15 bitcoins that were completely removed from my account. at the time $10,000, that was a small fortune for me i was crying and sweating. >> reporter: a few years before the hack frankie was working as a welder he saved up and bought bitcoin hoping the investment would help him pay for college. >> i decided to move my funds over there about six weeks before the hack. >> reporter: on the other side of the globe in poland, ra rafal belinia learns his bitcoins are gone. >> i got an email that there were some sort of security breach at the time i had 91 bitcoins, more than $60,000. it was gut wrenching i had a panic attack. >> reporter: at the he

the fbi warns russia is tryin s correspondent eamon javers joins us from sea island, georgia.use national cyber director, the so-called cyber czar, what are his biggest concerns as we head into elections? >> yeah, that's right. i spoke to him in sea island this morning. this is a cyber conference organized by a group called cipher brief. a lot of the top cyber and intelligence officials are here in georgia today. what they're saying is there's no viable threat right now to the u.s. election. they think that the mechanics of the election are going to go off just fine, but what he said is more important than the sort of physical infrastructure is our own reaction to whatever the opposing side tries to do. take a listen. >> i'm worried about our confidence. i think the greatest threat is whether they take a small swipe against something that's not well-defended, there are lots of choices. whether we go to the darkest corner of the room and whether that portends some actual disruption in the critical structure. we're considerably more resilience than i think we might imagine. we'l

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commission raising concerns among ethics experts about a conflict of interest situation here is eamon javers >> eric schmidt. >> reporter: now a shaper of government policy. in 2019, congress tasked him with chairing the committee on ai that federal commission produced this 700 page report advising the government on how to spend money on ai. >> the nation needs to be ai ready. >> reporter: a cnbc investigators found at the same time schmidt was investing in the future, he was investing in ai companies which stood to generate profits for himself there is no indication he did anything unlawful. records show he made five direct investments in ai companies during the time and more than 50 through others he invests in or controls the amount is not publicly available. >> it is absolutely a conflict >> reporter: walter is a senior ethics fellow on government oversight and former director of government ethics. >> his side will say he is a patriotic american why shouldn't he serve >> he may be the greatest person in the world and the right to be in the commission. he shouldn't be in the commission wh

would ramp up its cyberattacks amid its invasion of ukraine cnbc's senior washington correspondent eamon javersve from a cyber threat conference in sea island, georgia. i know you spoke with one of the top cybersecurity officials. what is the biden administration doing to try to prevent future cyberattacks >> one of the things that they are focused on are upcoming midterm elections. the fbi last week put out a warning saying we could see misinformation and decision information entering the media in the run up to the elections in a couple of weeks time. chris inglis, the director of the white house's cyber office, told me today he has a little bit more of an optimistic outlook whether it comes to the mechanics of the election itself here is what he said >> we know that there are foreign adversaries attempting to effect our confidence in the voting system. last week our department of homeland security and the fbi issued a communication broadly to the american people saying there is no evidence to date and into the future that there is any viable threat against the actual conduct of an election. >

. >>> a news alert out of washington, eamon javers has the details. >> that's right. over at the department of justice in washington they're holding a press conference announcing a slew of charges against chinese intelligence officials and other chinese officials here in a variety of cases including one new case that we're just learning the details of today that case involves two chinese intelligence agents who, according to the department of justice, tried to penetrate a u.s. law enforcement agency in order to get information about a prosecution of a company that we are told by a source familiar, huawei, the chinese telecommunications company according to this version of events the two chinese intelligence agents tried to get a u.s. official to flip and give them intel on what prosecutors were thinking in terms of their strategy against huawei, but instead the u.s. official became a double agent in this case and provided fake information to the chinese and sort of lured them into a trap in which the u.s. says they were able to prove that these intelligence agents wer

. >>> welcome back, let's get over to eamon javers, who has a sit down with the biden administration's psycher stock >> we're here in sea island, georgia, a threat conference organized by a media organization focused on cyber security i'm joined by chris ingles, a former air force brigadier general and former deputy director of the nsa. you have seen this problem from every aspect thank you for being with us this morning. >> good to be with you. >> we saw airports being defaced this morning, what do you know about that, it seems like it's coming from a pro russian group. >> it's a developing situation, and so we know more about what the assertions, the allegations are on the hackers than we had seen underneath in terms of the actual offense i t i think the airlines and airports have shown it's a defacement, a disruption, the person is trying to get create information about what's happening in the airport there's no disruption to the critical services under that i think what we have seen so far is that the airports have prepared themselves for situations like this they're working their

i'm eamon javers in washington here's the latest from the ongoing january 6th hearing.resentative kinzinger ob obtob obtained an email saying former president trump was pissed the supreme court had denied his challenge to biden's win an aide to mark meadows described chump's reaction >> he said something to the effect of, i don't want people to know we lost. figure it out. i don't want people to know we lost >> the panel also showed documentary footage of roger stone before election day urging violence if trump didn't win re-election. >> i suspect it will be up in the air. when that happens, the key thing to do is to claim victory. possession is nine-tenths of the law. no, we won, [ bleep ] you. >> representative luria added new evidence of trump personally trying to overturn his election losses in multiple swing states. she said trump knew he was telling lies and ignored evidence that his voting claims were wrong tyler, back over to you. >> thank you very much >> we have less than 90 minutes left in the trading day and as we have seen today, a lot can change in 90 minu

eamon javers has been digging into eccentric figures at the s center of this >> this is a crypto who story that starts with a mysterious hack of a crypto exchange in 2016 no one has been charged with that hack, but the years-long investigation to find the stolen crypto led the feds to a young married couple in manhattan, heather morgan, an aspiring rapper, and her husband, ilya lichtenstein, shared hundreds of bizarre videos on social media that make it hard to imagine this couple could be charged with conspiring to launder billions of dollars worth of bit bitcoin. >> videos of heather on social media give us a peek into the private life of a mystery woman accused of a multi-billion dollar crime >> i made this really dope orange balaclava, which is inspired by joe exotic >> she posts videos showing off art projects where her medium was taxidermy. >> it's a camel skull. pretty dope, right >> and shows off quirky talents like using chopsticks to eat with her toes. also, they found her alter ego she describes as something tweeg an acid trip and a delightful nightmare that combined her f

. >> big story eamon javers, appreciate it. >>> we'll see you tomorrow that does it for us here on the exchange i'll see you on fast minoney at 5:00 p.m., but "power lunch" starts right now ♪ >>> all right, good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to "power lunch. i'm tyler mathisen along with con at the contessa brewer, the dow back over 30,000. how about that earnings season, so far, not turning out as bad as expected bank of america reporting better-than-expected results, the stock higher by 5% the company's ceo, brian moynihan, is about to join us. >>> plus, china communist party national congress taking place, xi jinping laying out aggressive targets for economic growth. would those ambitions have to come at the expense of u.s. technology what it all means for u.s.-china relations, contessa. >> good to see you, everybody. stocks starting this week again with strong gains. tyler mentioned the dow is back above the 30,000 mark, up 2.1%, s&p 500 up 2.85% right now and the nasdaq composite, the big winner today, up 3.5%. financials among the leaders helped by those bank of america earni

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eamon javers has the latest on this good morning, eamon. >> becky, good morning this case is 23-year-old she was one of 130 people killed in paris in the isis mateterrit terr terrorist attack in 2013 the family wants to sue youtube owned by google section 230 of 1996 says internet companies are not libel for the third party using posting on the platform. that law is coming under fire from conservatives who say social media companies are squelching content the case here began as a lawsuit in federal court in california in 2016 alleging youtube vi violated the anti-terrorism act. the court of appeals revived it in 2021. supreme court justice clarence thomas is against this issue it is not clear how the supermajority in the court will impact the case. this could call into question the economics of posting user generated content on social media at all which is why the case is intently watched in silicon valley the court is not expected to decide the case for months there is still a long way to go. guys, back to you. >> eamon, we had questions if the legislature would step in and congress to

. >>> let's turn to eamon javers, looking at a rare warning from u.s.hreat that beijing represents for american business. >> that's right. with that news out of beijing over the weekend, leading intelligence officials and business analysts are focused on the threat now, the possibility of a chinese invasion of taiwan, given what xi jinping said about the island over the weekend and what it means for the u.s. economy. i spoke to michael orlando, top counterintelligence official in the office of national intelligence he gave us a rare warning from the u.s. intelligence community directly to corporate america. >> i think the one issue that causes me concern and others is semiconductors, given how much is produced there and how hard it is to reshore that, the amount of money it takes and the time it takes. that's why i think it's important we start thinking about those contingency plans now because it would be tough for both economies >> so i asked him if companies should start canceling their contracts in taiwan. >> contracts in taiwan, but working with ou