if people are so concerned about others trying to influence the election, like facebook, and facebook is a minority when it comes to younger voters who did not vote. concerned about people trying to influence the election, then why aren't you taking a look at our network news and the things that work coming out that were false news, from the americans, not from russia, but from the americans. i do not understand that. you're putting such an emphasis on the russians, whereas the americans had as much influence on what was happening with our election, and it was fake news, too. you find a lot of these influence efforts began on social media. ofy would have a network fake accounts on twitter, i'll share the same identical language, some new story with the #. suddenly the hashtag starts to trend. journalists on twitter use it to get leads for stories. trendingthis hashtag and suddenly you have a russian effort to influence the news influencing the news. there are incidents where the american media follows the wrong leads and gets the story wrong. we have to be conscious where that misinfo

but if i'm on facebook now, i probably have a friend on facebook from another country.would you ever consider showing people news or information from the other side of the aisle? like, you know, what about people who think differently than me thinking? sheryl: an we do that. i think people worry that facebook puts you in a news feed that is all the people of the same views as you. that's not what happens. because of facebook, you can hear from more voices, and on average, by extending to more voices, you actually see broader views than you otherwise would see. now that doesn't mean everyone is being blasted by views from the other side all day, they're not. but on average, i still think we -- facebook broadens the views. i still think we all can do more to learn more about what other people think and what their experiences are. emily: whatsapp is now partially blocked in china. is mark's dream of connecting the world now highly unlikely? sheryl: we always said the whole world includes china. and facebook remains blocked there. emily: mark told us facebook is -- our frie

but if i am on facebook now, i probably have a friend on facebook from another country.: would you ever consider showing people news or information from the other side of the aisle? what about people who think differently than me? sheryl: and we do that. i think people worry that facebook puts you in a news feed is all the people of the same views as you. that is not what happens. because with facebook, you can hear from more voices, and on average, by extending to more voices, you see broader views than you otherwise would see. that doesn't mean everyone is being blasted by views from the other side, they aren't. but on average, i still think we all can do more to learn more about what other people think and what their experiences are. emily: whatsapp is now partially blocked in china. is mark's dream of connecting the world now highly unlikely? sheryl: we always have the whole world includes china. and facebook is blocked there. emily: mark said facebook is more like a government then -- than a company. how this facebook manage the spoke of its policy media, and all th

facebook stopped doing that. was no longert scraping this information that users were self reporting. it's stopped doing that temporarily. cleanhey say they can that process up but they are adding in an extra layer fo human moeration. -- moderation. any human being will see that there is no place for that category unfazed look, civil leave it will catch more abuses of the system. they say they are also working on a system where they are asking people to self-report issues they with their advertising toll and potential abuses they see. host: why haven't we heard from mark zuckerberg on this issue? guest: we heard a lot. we heard after the election that we thought the issue of fake news was overblown. chimese heard that she and regularly on the election. i would say he hasn't said very much about this issue of the anti-semitic as the russian linked ads. that has been left to spokespeople and what information they have shared has been limited and shared with robert mueller's team. host: if the investigators holding

should facebook political advertisements be regulated, facebook, google, twitter, other social medialatforms? line for republicans, good morning. to call inust wanted and make a statement. the speaker there was talking about donations made to facebook. it is actually $150,000, and those were only the advertisements paid for in russian currency. anyone that listens to your program knows that people have been affected by the lies that are being told. these people call it all the time repeating exactly what they heard that are lies. host: on the first part of your question, you think this is just the tip of the iceberg? there will be a whole a more than 3000 advertisements? caller: yes. absolutely. do you think facebook is going to turn over everything the first time around? they are going to fight this for years. we will not know for years how many as were placed on -- ads were placed on facebook. host: what do you think should happen? should it go through the federal election commission? should that spend their scope into all these other areas? caller: yes. it has to be. we should not

or should it be left to facebook and google and other online platforms. >> but google and facebook success is at the expense of traditional media. >> well i wouldn't necessarily agree with that. i think that google and facebook and other advertising plat forms, they thrive when people click on ads. i don't think they see it as a good thing when people click on low quality content. let's say you google about a particular news event that just happened, chances are at the top of the feed is going to link to a well respected source. i think that's a good thing for democracy and consumers can get information that they can reply upon. i think we have to look at when that breaks down. consumers left with information that may be fake or not sourced the way it should be and it leaves consumers with information that frankly is wrong and can hurt our democracy. so what role do google and facebook play. it's a very valid question. on the other hand you can't ignore the fact that they have huge market power and they're a place that millions of americans go to every day as a portal for their news. i thi

election, even on facebook adds. this is direct evidence by facebook of a discreet clear crime committed in the course of the russian attack on the election. good luck bringing in the russian military service to face the music for that particular crime, but it's a crime clearly. and if any american knew that crime was happening, if any american was part of the effort to make that happen, that american could absolutely be criminally charged on that matter. this all finally gets confirmed today when the mueller investigation is actually under strange new kind of pressure from camp trump. a republican congressman, he appears to have now basically unrecused himself from the russia investigation, he has started unilaterally threatening the fbi and the justice department with subpoenas and possible contempt charges if they don't hand over to him information on the mueller investigation. nun nez has been president white house's best friend in trying to avert the investigation from the beginning. it'll to find out whether he

david wrote the book on facebook.: thank you -- they always said that we are just a neutral platform for content created by others. what it suggests to me maybe that user behaviors, tweeting and facebooking about our families, brushing our teeth and notorious things that used to characterize it, maybe that is happening less. maybe they have to boost traffic with traditional means, and maybe they are slowly becoming a regular media company. emily: lucas, what is in it for them? if others have the rights to those clips? there is no programming more valuable in the united states than the nfl. they tried to get the thursday night football rights, but they lost to amazon. this is like a consolation prize, but still, if you are facebook and you want to tell all your users that you havethey this new video section to watch and it is not a bunch of your friends posting or your uncle sharing a photo, it is good video, getting highlights from the nfl is one way to try to bring them in. but it is also one way to signal the advert

, among others facebook shares are down 3.5%.arly, the political backlash is building, but broader tech weakness overall, john, as you mentioned earlier, and for the month so far to date it's been a weak one for technology, down almost 2%. just notable, because it's still the best performing group of the year, up more than 20% so context there is key. >> and facebook, as you mentioned, down about a full percent for the month, and others are down, as well nvidia, as i mentioned, twitter also down more than 3% this morning, a lot worse than the nasdaq number would lead you to believe in tech right now. >> we're going to zero in on facebook, as john mentioned and as we just talked about, falling hard this morning. the company actually folded on plans to reclassify its stock shares the planned issuance of new nonvoting stock was the focus of a lawsuit that would have required mark zuckerberg to testify in a dallas court tomorrow the lead lawyer, stewart grant, thank you so much for joining us i'm sure you're thrilled about the fact t

these facebook ads are not sold through salespeople.hey are being sold through this self-serve advertising system on the platform. emily: to be clear, they found connection between these ads and russia, but they don't know who in russia, whether it is tied to the government. sarah: and they are continuing to look into this. they are looking into other state actors and other potential russian groups. this story may not be over yet. cory: sorry to interrupt. they were caught in this bind where they want to say, we did not have that much effect, it was only $100,000. but we will give you 3000 ads. as if the number wasn't 2999 or 30,000. they put a big number out there. they put a small number out there. they are trying to play both sides of this. emily: you are out with a new story about mark zuckerberg's political aspirations, of which he tells you there are none. he's not running for office, even though it looks like he is. what is your takeaway? sarah: whether or not he is running for president, because only he knows, there are a host o

and until recently, facebook counter calls for regulation in congress with the argument that facebooky, not a media company. facebook now tells nbc news quote we're open to reviewing any specific congressional proposals to regulate it. but times have changed. with many now claiming that facebook could hold the power to sway elections and some believe the fcc has failed to update its rules to take action and deal with new media. >> i would like to see it be a joint responsibility with the fec and an agency that is capable of doing the investigations, so that we cannot just rely on facebook or any other platform to be responsible for doing that. >> here's the question, what's the right amount of regulation? we know -- >> just say what you've been saying all week. hate the. >> hate the game, not the player. what do you expect facebook to police themselves? no one polices themselves. if they need to be regulated more put regulation in place but if you thought they were going to say -- no one does that. >> there is something going through congress, senator mark warner and amy klobuchar are

more than half of facebook users say they get their news from facebook.us stuff, who has it right? >> sadly conservatives are getting a shaft from facebook and you see it on conservative websites, postings on facebook very difficult to do. they've been cracking down on it. this is not extreme stuff, this is conservative stuff so there's bias there and zuckerberg ought to address it because he and other big tech companies are going to face more and more political pressures the bigger they get. so, heed the cries of conservatives. david: bruce, here is what the cry from president trump is, and i'm quoting a tweet. facebook was always anti-trump. the networks were always anti-trump, hence fake news, new york times apologized and washington post were anti-trump. collusion? question mark. what say you? >> oh, my goodness, i don't know where to begin here. he's such a whiner. i need a breath here. he's such a whiner. he had passes and showed all the rallies during the campaign. and he's president of the united states. come on, be president. david: but, rich, it

really interesting we're hearing about what he says but how has facebook responded to this fine so facebook has denied any wrongdoing and said they would also be appealing the fine and in response they issued a statement saying as we made clear to the d.p.a. you. choose which information they want to add to their profile and share with others such as their religion however we do not use this information to target adverts to people in the avid facebook has long complied with e.u. data protection law through our establishment in ireland so they kind of threw in there that are already established in the e.u. and they already follow the laws of ireland and the e.u. so it's fine there it should be fine in spain but you know the happen to facebook many times in europe in the us in south america and their argument is generally the same each time it's that maybe there are some loopholes or maybe some of these laws and rules and regulations are open to interpretation but ultimately we are not breaking any laws specifically so it's the same thing we've heard many times over and over again in such a h

i log into facebook. the data could also be used any time for canvassing voters in extreme cases facebook users would only see ads that suited their worldview standards want to see different kinds of data are used for example behavior related data such as which pages i like which articles i read on facebook and what other websites i go to on the internet side internet and is going to exist . donald trump employed targeted advertising but do german political parties also do it we set up a facebook account purporting to be right wing and over the course of weeks repeatedly like a f.t. items along with other things that came across as anti refugee or nationalist our facebook friends were made up of a hefty circles and groups even further to the right. a short while ago we came across this advertising message posted by a junior minister and leading c.d.u. member yens shop on safe external borders for a safe e.u. is that the way you see it too via facebook we learned that yen spawn was targeting a f.t. sympath

out a lot more. >> reporter: facebook refused to reveal who paid for political ads. zuckerberg says that will now change. >> we can do better. >> reporter: facebook at first denied to congress they had posted any ads placed by the russians. >> when i raised this issue last winter, couldn't happen. it was a crazy idea. they weren't crazy ideas. >> reporter: it wasn't just ads. they have also found huge numbers of fake facebook pages linked to the russians like this one, discovered by the "new york times," supposedly an anti-clinton father living in pennsylvania, but he didn't exist. the picture was actually of someone in brazil. only facebook knows who actually paid for the ads and against whom they were directed but a disproportionate amount of fake news was aimed dirtl brian ross, abc news, new york. >> and facebook's decision comes less than a day after twitter announced that it will cooperate with the russian probe. >> they have employed some 250 additional employees to help in the effort. >>> coming up, we are celebrating -- >> the bunny! >> international rabbit

facebook, we made a request, they sent a team in, we're talking about facebook where -- which over halfamericans use every day. we'd made these inquires back last winter saying that we'd heard, we thought facebook was both being manipulated by some of the russians, there were fake accounts, they were using it to geo target ads, facebook's initial reaction was that's crazy, there's nothing there. again now we find that half of americans use facebook to get their news from, everything was true, and more, they made a presentation, there was $100,000 plus in advertising, 3,000 plus ads purchased. in the presentation they showed the staff certain of that -- certain of those ads but they didn't allow the staff to keep any of that material. and i went back, i figured you'd have this question, to my knowledge, they made no reference to this effort to try to bring about protestors to a anti-muslim, anti-immigrant rally. i think we're at the tip of the iceberg. i don't think facebook has put the resources and time. i think there's a lot more. they discovered one of the troll farms that came out o

david wrote the book on facebook.: thank you -- they always said that we are just a neutral platform for content created by others. what it suggests to me maybe that user behaviors, tweeting and facebooking about our families, brushing her teeth, the notorious kinds of things that used to characterize it, maybe that is happening less. maybe they have to boost traffic with traditional means, and maybe they are slowly becoming a regular media, the. regular media company. --regular media company. emily: lucas, what is in it for them? lucas: there is no program more valuable in the united states that it -- that the nfl. lucas:this is like a consolation prize, but still, if you are facebook and you want to tell all your users that you have this section you can watch and it is not a bunch of your friends posting or your uncle showing a photo, it is good video you need to see, getting highlights the nfl is one way to bring them in, and one way to signal to advertisers that what you are offering is high-quality and not a cap

facebook's russian revelation.he social media giant said they found political ad spending linked to fake accounts from russia in the run-up to the presidential election. but first, dell completed the biggest tech acquisition in history of emc. the historic deal created the new dell technology. which included dell, vmware, and secure works. dell faced several major legal hurdles along with emc stockholder skepticism. i sat down with michael dell and asked him for the one-year report card. michael: i am very pleased with how it's going. reaction has been strongly positive, our teams are very engaged. our customer nps scores have continued to improve. our employee engagement scores, our record high levels of synergies are coming to your -- they are coming bigger and faster than we thought. we are paying down debt and aggressive pace. a lot of things that could go wrong did go wrong. the big surprise is we have not had a lot of surprises. you see the success, vmware is a very important part that the family is enjoying

grandparents are on facebook, their kids are on facebook. it goes to show you what the russians were thinking when they decided to do this. they reached every generation that you could possibly reach in american society with these ads, presumably anybody who had a facebook page was exposed to this. >> people share news articles and, as you say, it's a place where people post articles and associate with people they went to high school with. this has now become a vehicle for a foreign adversary or rival to try to infiltrate or -- the word i'm liking for is sort of influence -- that's it -- our election is something that people are going to have to think about. >> rebecca, as you're scrolling through, your friend posted about getting married, engaged, people having kids. there's an ad that scrolls by. that could have been purchased with rubles, not dollars. what should we make of this? and you heard a democratic congressman say today there should be hearings about this. >> and this is part of the hearings that we're already having on capitol hi

i mean, specifically with regard to facebook, could facebook like somehow bless the election? because one of the things that mark zuckerberg said after the election was they had looked at all the results, and they, you know, thought that the -- they looked at all their data, and they thought that the results matched up with, you know, all of the data that they had, that facebook had about how people were talking about the elections. if there are entities in this country, google and facebook, that sort of know everything, could they, you know, do some kind of, you know, investigation of the election? ms. angwin: oh my god. i mean-- [laughter] mr. carlin: i do think it is -- there are -- you can have paper ballots, you can have an auditable trail in terms of the actual vote count. not every state has implemented in every region would -- look, one of the reasons we were safer against a foreign power's attempts to change our vote count is we are incredibly inefficient. we have 70,000 different voting systems, and so not all of them have put in a paper trail. but you can, that woul

of conversion pipeline thanks so much for coming and talk about their trip me facebook we got a facebook. it's become one of the main go to places for digital ads and just last week it did announce brand safety strategies to protect advertisers to so that they can control the content. they're cross posting cross-platform and it's more difficult for facebook to fact check in for advertisers to fact check if they're actually even making money on these efforts it's expensive that is i think one of the fundamental issues for most advertisers is that they can't control where the videos are going to be shown you can't control that it's hard to really get a hold of your brand the facebook is not only just if you think of facebook ads the videos within your news stream on the right hand side of the audience network that you know what you may not know that your ads may be shown on some websites that your brand may not be acceptable with if you have an adult branding you're showing it on a teenager's page or vice versa you know you're showing you're showing and add and a page or something totally

facebook said, "the vast majority of ads didn't specifically reference the u.s. presidential election or a particular candidate, but sppeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages." the ads have not been made public but will now be turned over to congressional investigators. for months, however, facebook denied there was any evidence that russians had paid for election-related advertising. senator mark warner is vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee. >> i feel like facebook finally has been responsive, but the proof will be in the extent of the materials they give us next week, and then will they continue to work with us to identify other sites that may have originated in russia. they've identified one russian troll farm. >> reporter: the identity of ad buyers should not have been a mystery to facebook says this security expert. >> they should know those addresses are coming from in this case an enemy nation state, russia. >> reporter: zuckerberg will make it easier for users to identify who is paying for political advertising

no facebook employee involved.>> drew griffin, thank you so much. >>> and we're back with the republican senator james langford of oklahoma, he serves on the senate intelligence and homeland security committees. senator, facebook sold ad space to russians last year, and much of that was used to boost or spread fake news, attacking hillary clinton. and we have no idea how this effected the election, but it happened. how serious a problem is this and what do you think should be done to combat it if anything? >> yeah, it is incredibly serious. it's one of the issues that facebook is trying to walk through the process on how do they handle this on the future? it wasn't just fake news to attack hillary clinton. it was fake news to attack everything. it was the most divisive issues they could find in the american culture and they would spread it as fast and far as they could. facebook has been very outspoken to talk about it. started the process on it, we need to continue the process dealing with facebook and to try to f

i have a few questions about this facebook issue. >> sure. >> did facebook disclose to your committeeact that in addition to russia funding ads related to the election, they also used facebook to try to organize real events? did they disclose that they've confirmed that when they met with your committee? >> no, they did not. facebook -- we had made a request. they sent a team in. and remember, we're talking about facebook which over half of americans use every day. we made these inquiries back last winter saying that we had heard and we thought that facebook was both being manipulated by some of the russians, that there were fake accounts, they were using this to in effect gee oh target ads at certain communities to try to depress vote in the election. and facebook's initial reaction was that's crazy, there's nothing there. well, we now come to find, fab that half the americans use to get their news from every day, that everything we said and more was true. they came in, made a presentation, said there was $100,000 plus of paid advertising, there were 3,000 plus ads purchased and in t

facebook laughed that off. from ukraine and their president. but "daily beast" interviewed the activists who were shut up by facebook because russian operatives targeted them to be shut up. around the time that russian troops were literally invading ukraine and taking over the country, facebook was helping russian government shut down opposition voices from the country they were invading. one of the activities said i posted a picture of my city with a picture of a rainbow over it and the picture said everything will be okay. that's what he posted. russian operatives swarmed that and reported it over and over and over again as porn. and that activist was blocked from facebook for a month while russia invaded his country. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg put out a new statement tonight. expressing regret for having made dismissive comments about the power of online misinformation and potentially shaping the outcome of the presidential election last year. but the more we learn about what russia did in our election last year, clear it becomes that russ

i think facebook underestimates its own power.omments like that from zuckerberg, facebook will come out and not take blame for something and then after public outcry will revisit -- what is our impact on society actually? then they will start to think about how it can be better. we have seen it with fake news in trending topics, violent live videos. this is another example of facebook realizing we had a huge impact here and maybe we should think about our role. it does seem extremely naive. the company is trying to get smarter about this. certainly zuckerberg is trying to demonstrate that he understands or is trying to understand facebook's impact by going on this cross-country tour , and interviewing people in various states he has never been to, and trying to understand how facebook and directs with their lives. a lot of people have said it's a very political move. we explore that in the story, but it is also something about zuckerberg trying to be a relentless self improver. he is really trying to grasp what facebook's impact o

and buying ads on facebook, there's more that facebook can do. don't think it is facebook putting profit above patriotic duty but i think it was not on facebook's radar screen. >> so not malicious. they just didn't know about it. >> i was in charge of the ads quality team during last presidential election and this was so far from our minds and not something we would have thought about i think doesn't surprise me that facebook was blind sided by this. >> did you ever hear about these ads in idaho that were from russia and you thought it looked little hingy? >> at this point we were trying get the campaigns to use facebook to begin with. >> what should zuckerberg do now and there are cause for him to testify? do you think he should? >> i think it will be a great show. but zuckerberg talking to senators who don't know much about tech won't teach us much. what i think they need to do, like wall street banks know their customer and have to understand who opens accounts, i think facebook needs understand who opens these accounts, why, and it is not som

everybody's on facebook. >> you bet. start with one thing that can be true that trump supporters seem to think can't be in the presence, it can be true that russia aggressively sought to interfere in the election on behalf of donald trump and donald trump won. those two things don't -- you can believe both of those things and believe donald trump is rightfully the president of the united states. donald trump seems to think if you accept premise a which is russia sought to interfere in the election, therefore he is not a legitimate president in the same way he thought, if i don't have the biggest crowd -- you're still the president. that doesn't take away. to your point, i think rebecca hits it. it speaks to the breath of the efforts here. i feel like every couple days we learn more about the information we've learned about paul manafort, the information about mike flynn, the information we learned yesterday about bob mueller and what he's asked donald trump for. and we were talking off air, but my guess, and i think it's

the whole world is addicted to facebook yet these giant take companies, facebook and google and othersder a lot of scrutiny for good reasons. you've reported on these hateful ads that you can use facebook or google or twitter or other companies to target hateful ads to people? >> i would mention when we're looking at the question of media literacy, the company doesn't give users information by which they can reasonably adjudicate what's legitimate and what's not, what's coming from other americans and what's not. it's up to you even though you don't the tools as a facebook user to make this determination and it becomes either on the one hand a default assumption that you are seeing credible investigation from other americans or alternatively it's up to you to say this whole thing is fake, i don't trust whatever i'm giving you. >> and fake news came from a lot of sources before election day. it wasn't just russian propagandists in moscow putting up bs stories on the internet. but the point is mueller honing in on to what extent russia was responsible for some of the lies and propaganda

facebook as a what? been the head of our product policies for more than four years now at facebook.hat entails overseeing our people candors, what advertise, how people can advertise and target it. basically, any way people can use our products. but about a year and a half ago, when people can we were trying to double down on terrorist content, propaganda and terrorists attempting to use social media, we felt as a company that we needed when leader of those efforts. because what you have our on technicalrking tools to remove terrorist content. and reviewers, who have to be specialists in recognizing terror propaganda, and the groups pushing this. you have government requests and former law enforcement agents, that in the wake of an attack, they were all working on counterterrorism but it was not unified team. so we decided to launch that position. i became interested it in it and asked if i could do both, and i was really lucky and i am now eating both of those. though i have product policy and counterterrorism, separately. little at thes a outset, about facebook's mission to make t

they get all their news from facebook.ink the american public has a right to know what ads were published, where were they published and what influence did they have. i can't imagine that they won't be ultimately released in full. >> all right. we'll have to wait and see what happens. guys, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> and up next, we are keeping our eyes on mexico as search teams race to save survivors still trapped in the rubble. also, a dire situation unfolding right now in puerto rico, now getting pounded by heavy rains after hurricane maria devastated the region. cnn is on the ground and we have a live report in just a moment. ♪ hey grandpa. hey, kid. really good to see you. you too. you tell grandma you were going fishing again? maybe. (vo) the best things in life keep going. that's why i got a subaru, too. introducing the all-new crosstrek. love is out there. find it in a subaru crosstrek. we believe in food that's anaturally beautiful,, fresh and nutritious. so there are no artificial colors, no artificia

senate as interested in hillary's campaign manager working with facebook to elect hillary as they are in the alleged russian meddling in these elections as well and by the way that spy name means it the wiki leaks tweet also highlights a personal e-mail back written back in twenty fifteen by the oh of facebook among. it's to john podesta that's clinton's campaign manager says that enjoyed spending time with her desk and that his conversation with him gave a lot to think about infer from that what you will but i think a pretty straight up reading will lead many to assume that protest was that. trying to low be the c.e.o. of facebook and in fact it's safe to assume that pretty much the whole of the silicon valley was on hillary's side in the run up to the u.s. election if you remember google was accused of sort of calibrating its search results in order to well with preference for stuff about hillary to come out and subsequent leaks have revealed that eric schmidt had rary close ties to hillary's campaign team of course eric schmidt he's the executive chairman of the alphabet which is g

joins us for more on that bianca tell me a little bit more about what facebook is facing while facebook is facing a lot of privacy concerns from spain very similar to ones that the e.u. has already find them. hundreds of millions of dollars for in the past according to spain's data protection agency facebook made a series of privacy violations through its data collection practices and one of those violations was so serious that the regulator ended up issuing a one point two million euro fine it made the decision after learning that facebook stores data based on ideology religious belief navigation and more through the web site and third party pages the problem is that it doesn't believe users are aware of that and that's a serious offense under local law the agency also took issue with the way the site uses web browsing cookies users allegedly aren't told that their information will be processed anon facebook pages that have the like button plug in regulators didn't know about some of the data has been declared for advertising purposes but argues that facebook uses it for other him ones

now ads on facebook. it's important as an american citizen to the president of the united states, don't ignore this. this is an attack on our democratic institutions. this is not partisan. this is serious, mr. president. you need to take this seriously. >> these kind of attacks are no different from guns. >> right. >> they're more sophisticated. i just wan't to say one more thing, mr. president. last week vladimir putin said whomever owns artificial intelligence is going to own the world. china's thinking about it. you should think about it. >> thanks to both of you for an important conversation. >> is risotto gluten free? >> it is. >>> and we've got breaking news. we're going to take a live look at mexico city where we're seeing a dramatic scene at a collapsed glass factory. survivors were pulled out late last night and there's hope more could be found alive today. thousands are still unaccounts for. >>> plus the house-to-house rescue mission in puerto rico. tammy leitner is there. you're watching "velsh

facebook says pachulia the -- facebook says they are deleting the account and are providing information officials. what happened? >> facebook has been looking into what they called information campaign. which is -- they have this sort of malicious element to them where they are fake accounts and fake pages. they try to spread propaganda one way or the other. they had a report come out that detailed that and linked it vaguely to russia. this said money is involved in wide -- 12 $100,000 may not seem like a lot taken by a lot in facebook advertisements. there were about 300 as that -- 3000 ads that were purchased were targeted to certain geographic areas which we know is very important for a election. while most of the ads did not name a candidate or talk specifically about voting. they did talk about very divisive issues in the united states. like the lgbt rights and gun rights. race relations and immigration. they were trying to spark or whoever was trying behind this effort whether it was the government or a different actor was trying to spark americans ahead of the election. emily: i

which you would publish as an e-mail exchange between hillary clinton's campaign chief and a facebook official allegedly pledged to support in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election. spain's catalonia is poised to vote on independence from madrid with the authorities increasing pressure by moving in thousands of police to the region un human rights experts are voicing their concerns. and there are few a terrorist group is exploiting the fate of myanmar's persecuted minority to raise money for its activities. this is r t international coming to you live from moscow where it's just turned five pm. thank you for joining us this hour twitter has unveiled a report on how it battled alleged russian interference and the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election taking aim at r.t. in the process according to the statement the social network giant revealed the u.s. senate confidential information on r.t.s. add outlay twitter claims a little vaguely that over a thousand tweets quote definitely or potentially targeted the u.s. market artie's either in chief margarita s

customers of facebook.our traffic comes from facebook. that's where so many people get their news. we're at the mercy of this sort of opaque machine that controls what people get to see. they tweak the algorithm and it changes the economics of the news business. they've always wanted to have that power without the responsibility. >> we'll have more from the panel. including a possible new catch of documents from sean spicer. details on that next. just like the people who own them, every business is different. but every one of those businesses will need legal help as they age and grow. whether it be help starting your business, vendor contracts or employment agreements. legalzoom's network of attorneys can help you every step of the way so you can focus on what you do. we'll handle the legal stuff that comes up along the way. legalzoom. legal help is here. 83% try to eat healthy, yet up to 90% fall short on getting key nutrients. let's do more. one-a-day 50 plus. complete with 100% daily value of more than 1

senate know for example also from these leaked e-mails that mark zuckerberg facebook c.e.o. wrote a personal e-mail to protest back in august twenty fifty saying that he enjoyed spending time with podesta and that their conversation gave zaka bug quote a lot to think about now infer what you will from that but that all read like text broke lobbying to a lot of people i think it's safe to assume that the silicon valley or the giant tech companies that were all gunning for hillary in the run up to the u.s. elections. many viewers will remember was accused of calibrating their search results in favor of hillary clinton's campaign and subsequent leaks have revealed that eric schmidt who's the chairman of alphabet that is the parent come. me and google he had close personal ties with the clinton campaign take a listen to a memo written about schmidt by clinton's digital strategist i have been kept apprised of the work being done by eric schmidt's group and others working directly and indirectly with your team on the whole i am comfortable with where we stand and confident in our

at facebook headquarters in menlo park, 11:00 a.m. on wall street, and "squawk alley" is live ♪ ♪ >>> good friday morning, welcome to "squawk alley." i'm carl quintanilla also with us, jean muenster and in san francisco, steve vasella. >> tech under fire from all sides, and it starts from facebook new report from propublica says the social network enabled ads to target people who expressed interest in topics like jew hater or history on why jews ruined the world so-called promoted posts and news feeds of about 2,300 people facebook has since removed that feature, pending review. then there's google today, now the subject of the class action lawsuit from former employees claiming the tech giant discriminated against women in pay and promotions this comes on the heels of a labor department investigation alleging the company systemically underpays its female employees and also new this morning, online lender announcing the ceo will step down and give up his board seat effective immediately. he immediately planned to oversee transition of

emily: the heat is on for facebook.e watching to see how the russia investigation proceeds. sarah frier, thank you so much. coming up, ellen pao opens up about her public fight against sexism in silicon valley. we will hear about life after the court case and progress or lack thereof for women in tech. this is bloomberg. ♪ so we need tablets installed... with the menu app ready to roll. in 12 weeks. yeah. ♪ ♪ the world of fast food is being changed by faster networks. ♪ ♪ data, applications, customer experience. ♪ ♪ which is why comcast business delivers consistent network performance and speed across all your locations. fast connections everywhere. that's how you outmaneuver. ♪ parenti in alisa washington and you are watching "bloomberg technology." the tension and rhetoric between pyongyang and washington escalated further today with a direct threat on u.s. warplanes by north korea's foreign minister. >> since the u.s. has made a declaration of war, we will have every right to make countermeasures, including the right