facebook. >> but things got complicated. >> it was one of the first privacy scares. >> the site under fire. >> the era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end. >> sharing private data. >> the largest security breach in facebook history. >> manipulated by foreign governments. >> details about the extent of facebook's role in russia's election interference. >> used to spread hate and lies. >> fake news. >> leading questions about the platform. >> you have users asking maybe i should dloet it. >> what does it truly mean to connect the world? >> our mission has really always been to connect the world. >> we can connect the whole world. >> there's always a catch 22 whenever you're giving a voice to people who didn't have a voice before. >> did making money get in the the way of the mission to ultimately connect the world? >> we search for answers, rare interviews to facebook insiders. >> we pushed the boundaries too far. >> who feel powerless to tell the truth. >> politicians, critics a

the goal with the whole world on facebook and we all live in facebook. >> and the facebook we all liven has never seen a year like 2018. >> facebook took a major hit on wall street today losing over 40 billion dollars in market value after the revelations that cambridge analytica, a company tied to the trump campaign allegedly collected data from tens of millions of facebook profiles, all in the run up to the 2016 election. >> facebook was exposed for how it allowed cambridge analytica, a political consulting firm linked to the trump campaign, to harvest data of tens of millions of americans to an alleged effort to sway their votes. >> people were livid because they felt their personal information was used to power donald trump's campaign. >> but cambridge analytica turned out to be just the beginning. msnbc contributor nicholas spent a year probing how facebook deploys data. >> the fact that this company could get all that data actually was just an illustration of the bigger problem, which is that all of these platforms are basically trafficking in your data. and most people have no i

election forced facebook to delete our accounts but facebook listen could have refused facebook is so scared of being once again accused of helping the russians in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately deletes knock out the had forty million subscribers and two point five billion views no complaints against the video itself and the content on the whole were made by facebook but when c.n.n. called and said how can you let those russians talk to our people facebook just deleted the account obviously the situation is going to get worse no one now is even trying to believe in any freedom we even talk about it because it is an open geo political confrontation in which media space is loved by many and are made into real to use i don't know whether they were set up for this that's exactly what's happening now. r.t. also contacted a number of news freedom organizations we will let you know when they get back to us that we also spoke to a senior researcher from london metropolitan university's global policy institute he believes facebook is clearly

facebook has responded by saying it has changed. roger mcnamee joins us for an interview you'll see first on "cbs this morning." good morning. >> john, it's great to be back. >> thank you for being here with us. wow, that is a condemnation. and it's -- mark zuckerberg's 50th anniversary. this is quite a presence he's getting. catastrophe. why? >> so john, we've all trusted technology for really good reasons for the last 50 or 60 years. every new piece of technology made our lives better. the problem is that facebook and google have taken advantage of that. they've created products that essentially prey on the weakest elements of our psychologist to create first habits and then addictions. and then they didn't take the steps to safeguard us from what bad actors could do. and so you've seen a really long list of bad things happening on facebook and google that were fundamentally because they let the users find all the problems. they don't do any preparation. and the real challenge we face now is that new generations of technology like

facebook is so powerful. they have choked off almost all startup activity anywhere near their space. when i see snap, i worry because obviously, facebook has been snap like features in instagram. that has had a huge impact on audience growth whereas instagram is growing rapidly. i still think the snapchat situation is perilous. i worry about their vulnerability -- viability long-term. what do you think are the highlights of instagram versus snapchat? >> everyone is expecting a decline. the user growth story has not changed. we need to change the narrative at snapchat. this company went from 31 inlion to almost $5 billion december. in context of devaluation, three things are working for them. first is that the valuation is more reasonable. second, the usage by millennials is still intact. seeing that the cops have come down drastically in ad pricing. they have some revenue growth potential here. especially if they pitch themselves as a tv for millennials. expectations wise, i feel that they can outgrow the rev

facebook would dispute that.n a blog post yesterday, facebook said our tactics include to mitigate the problem blocking intermittent fake accounts, finding and removing bad actors, limiting the spread of false news and information, bringing unprecedented transparency to political advertising. we improved the machine learning capabilities which allows us to be more effective finding and removing violating behavior. our expert investigators manually detect more sophisticated networks roger, you say that their very business model and tactics are bad for democracy because of how they are manipulating users. >> user attention. >> and then user behavior. >> theadvertiser then manipulates the behavior >> right by what principle could regulation change that you look at advertising now, they've got competition, google, amazon is rising, et cetera. does there need to be a new doctrine to achieve what you think needs to be done >> possibly for some aspects of the problem. relative to the competition issue, i don't think it

very well known to facebook we have spent money boosting content through facebook for over two years so clearly the hysteria that's built up in the states around all things having anything to do with russia and especially at facebook i have the ties with facebook because they're in a tough position needing to respond quickly to getting kinds of these reports how. ever see and then really kind of lead them to panic and make a bad decision which which was to shut down pages with millions of fans that completely singles out russia as a government. when ignoring the fact that every state media operation from a to b b c two n.p.r. receives government funding and they need to come up with a policy that deals with everyone in a fair way whether it's singling out state funded media categorically and making r t as well as b.b.c. a.b.c. c.n.n. and everyone else state the entire chain of their funding source it's on their facebook pages. you said you didn't know you'll be saying you were warned of this before they took the pages all would these rules you know anyway this was this was a complete

thank you for the analysis on facebook. we thank you.the biggest take away of the amazon earnings results. the earnings call is underway. the cfo weighing in on the company's performance. >> we feel good about the growth in the quarter. q4 was a great quarter for customers. retail, a lot of strength in the retail part of the business. preparing, planning, and executing on the corner -- quarter. a very strong growth rate. continuing to deliver for customers. ♪ asthere is much uncertainty to what the impact of the government role changes are going to have on the e-commerce sector. we remain committed to complying with laws and regulations and we will, but we are evaluating the situation. the main issue and concern is trying to impact the concern to customers and sellers in india. caroline: the amazon ceo -- cfo discussing the quarter. what for your key takeaways? >> if you look at the quarter, everything was fine. obviously, the profit shows that they are managing cost. they are worried about wages obviously, thehampering expansit they see

facebook suspends the pages of several highly successful t.v. news projects without warning we go over the rules and check what may be behind the move. and adding to the pressure on the social media platform british lawmakers accuse facebook of not reigning in political life the ties it and leaving people open to online data breaches. a senior french military officer could be set to face punishment and the damning critique of the u.s. led coalition's campaign against islamic state in syria. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me the care and our top story this hour a burlington base to be suspended a number of mass media's pages which produces online shows which c.n.n. is accusing of a deliberate attempt to hide ties to russia one of those shows that is in the now viewed over two and a half billion times on the social networking platform a producer and presenter filmed this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in pressure from various forces to suppress this or that conten

is facebook page doesn't do it al-jazeera facebook page doesn't do it it's just not standard industry practice to disclose your funding on facebook you can't help but feel for the food think media i know many of them to make quality stuff funny videos serious videos investigations the poor the sauls into their work only because the side the winds the thesis censors personally i'm surprisingly calm because i've spent in the now was a project that i created from scratch it's in the now because the names that he's in now way like this is my baby. i spent the last four and a half five years of my life growing this channel. the last year trying to build the team young professionals that really want to make good important contacts. so it's pretty big for me in terms of the broad. it's huge huge all right their crime it appears was being too russian and this now seemingly is a crime enough to get your bad and the result questioned whether facebook should have the power to decide what people see and hear i mean the theory beyond the internet was if more people wanted to see something than we

election forced facebook didn't our accounts but facebook in this one could have refused facebook is so scared of being once again accused of helping the russians out in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately. leads no counter had forty million subscribers and two point five billion views no complaints against the video itself and the content on the whole were made by facebook but when c.n.n. called you said how can you let those russians talk to our people facebook just deleted the account obviously the situation is going to get worse no one now is even trying to believe in any freedom we even talk about it like it is an open geo political confrontation in which media space is loved by many and made into real to you so that's i don't know whether they were set up for this that's exactly what's happening now. margarita simonyan well arty's requested comment from a number of press freedom organizations to decide what they thought about it we had to get their responses early in the day george similarly senior research fellow at london metrop

facebook suspends the pages of several highly successful r.t. linked news projects without warning we find out what could be behind the move. and british lawmakers accuse facebook of failing to regulate political advertising and leaving people open to online data breaches. a senior french military officer writes a damning critique of the u.s. led coalition's campaign against islamic state in syria. by broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right now a berlin based media company has hit out at facebook accusing the platform of unprecedented censorship that is after they suspended a number of media pages which produces online shows and which c.n.n. is accusing of a deliberate attempt to hide ties to russia one of those shows is in the now viewed over two and a half billion times on the social network and producer ad and presenter at magic filmed this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in then pressure from var

serves no use a purpose well that's reassuring what has facebook said about this if anything well facebook have responded and they are saying that we require after developers to be clear with the use to be clear with the users about the information they are sharing with us. and we prohibit after developers from sending us sensitive dogs so we also take steps to detect and remove that should not be shared with us so that is basically the opposite of what this investigation has found now there is there is reason to believe that the practice violates european previously law there is an investigation going on already in new york looking into this and i guess in the meantime if you're worried about your privacy should maybe to be some of those if you fire or not use facebook as if that were an office and yeah like i thank you so much. and onward to sports here are the results from match day twenty three in the in this league so far byron munich edged out heritability in gladbach dropped points at home to wolfsburg minds to feed shaka freiburg thumbs augsburg and kicking off soon dose of the awf

films this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in men's pressure from various forces to suppress this or that content based on political reasoning but do not succumb to censorship do not succumb to complying with various government funded outfits regardless of what government they're funded by to censor let your users decide what's good and what's bad early my colleagues you know neal could discuss why muffet media has been put under the microscope. it began with c.n.n. shedding light on the fact that a number of media pages with posts of snappy videos had links to russia but what people watching these videos may not realize is that the russian government is paying for this soapbox wasted that then are three new facebook pages and all part of a growing brand of russian backed influence campaigns maffet runs for pages they are indeed very popular with billions of views as their creators are saying but it wasn't indicated on the pages themselves where their money came from an

roger: also last week, facebook kicked off propublica from doing an audit of facebook's website -- theying sure facebook was doing a complete job -- they stop letting them to do that. also, last week, snopes gave up working with facebook and said they are impossible to work with. i would suggest that facebook is not making progress in a material way. and there are real issues that affect facebook and others, related to say smart speakers, smart radio devices come with what televisions, smart cards, which suggests the problems we have today with privacy are tiny compared to what are coming when you put alexa-based devices into your house. emily: roger, i sat down with sheryl sandberg last week and asked, why should anyone trust facebook, or trust her? listen to what she had to say. >> it has been a challenging time for facebook. we need to earn back people's trust with the steps we take. we have changed our profitability because we want to take the hard steps to protect people on the platform. and you see what happens with elections come up midterms around the world, accounts, decreasing

if that is not enough, what should facebook be doing, and if facebook isn't doing it, what should usersvernment be doing? roger: here is the way i think about the problem. i have studied this for three years, to try to understand why this stuff happens on facebook . remember, i am still a shareholder. this was one of the crowning achievements of a long, long career. i am proud of facebook and it bothers me that this is not going well. it is obviously not in my economic interest to be a critic. i am convinced that the business model is the problem. it is the problem at facebook. it is a problem at google. they essentially have an advertising business model that depends on monopolizing the attention and manipulating the attention of the user. in order to do that, the algorithms are tuned to focus on emotional things that trigger outrage, trigger fear, or tickle people with rewards of some kind. and when you are doing that for long enough, people first develop a habit, then they develop an addiction. and once they develop an addiction, they are vulnerable to manipulation by bad actors on t

in many thousands of apps there are facebook analytics software installed facebook use that so they can you know get your dots and then they use that to create it's targeted advertising we know we know about this for for a long time now you know typically it's on. well you know you go online to buy a flight to. spain and then the next day you go on facebook and there is adverts for you know hire cars and buses i know for example here now the. test finds that this. software is also being used to send sensitive data to. facebook and the software company that actually did this research with the wall street journal they say there are you know it serves no useful purpose for this. shit ok facebook seeing a lot more about us than we knew what is the company saying well they have released a statement they say we were quiet after vela has to be clear with the uses about the information they are sharing with us and we prohibit prohibit app developers from sending us sensitive data we also take steps to detect and remove data that should not be shared with us so that's basically the opposite

to delete our accounts but facebook listen could have refused facebook is so scared of being once again accused of helping the russians out in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately deletes knock out there have only and subscribers of two point five million viewers no complaints against the video itself and the content on the whole were made by the boss when he and i'm quoting here said how can you let those russians to it to our people as these pictures deleted the account which obviously the situation is going to get worse than no one now is even trying to believe in any freedom all we can talk about it was like it is an open and geo political confrontation in which media space is loved by many and made into real to use of i don't know whether they were set up for this is not exactly what's happening now. there's a great margarita simonyan meantime he's also requested comment for a number of press freedom organizations if we get a thing about from him we will let you know we also spoke to said george. he's a phrase from the london metropoli

that facebook is silence in the far right is laughable what facebook is doing is saying if you peddle hate and lies about a community then action will be taken and that's what's been done when you read the facebook reasons for banning him they're drawn in very vague and under to kill a language which i think should make any defender of free speech very uncomfortable . it's sixty minutes past one of the afternoon this thursday thanks for watching out c international with your two did around the world i'm kevin now and when we come back after this break controversy sparks a made plans to sell a sports version of the hijab in france. warren buffett you know these doing the stock buybacks which is you know used to be illegal so recently that's completely fraudulent and yes no governance or oversight whatsoever you know he's a more than one of the biggest are the biggest shareholder of wells fargo for example during that period when they were engaged in serial criminality when they were engaged in absolute fraud and he's a party to that so here's a guy who given unlimited credit at zero pe

headline stories russia's foreign minister a harsh words for a facebook claiming the social network is attempting. to respond to the company's decision to suspend the several. projects the head of the international federation of journalists. or the german chancellor. suggesting the kremlin. may change also ahead this hour. the u.s. . warning. consequences if they don't. trouble president. welcome to our team international from moscow every hour of the day my names you know. our top story. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has said he views facebook's recent suspension of several are. being part of a broader campaign to clamp down on russian news outlets. yes without a doubt i think this is another example of the suppression of russian media and of freedom of speech it's very sad speaking to the press this tuesday russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov common to listen to facebook's suspension of several r.t. affiliates it counts including in the now page which originally was a show aired by r.t. and as you heard the minister called the situation and no other example of internati

but they are up against facebook, really instagram -- which is part of facebook -- and facebook has investedo much money in burying snap, and i just don't see a long-term success path for snap here. when you look at the facebook earnings, what you're seeing is a company that is the most important platform for advertisers. advertisers have to go there. but the other thing you see is because, as nielsen reports, the time on the site is declining for users, facebook's having to load more and more advertisements into everyone's news feed, and the result is very soon we're going to run out of space to put ads, and facebook's going to have a much, much tougher set of comparisons going forward. maria: yeah. i mean, there were other things too. when you saw the twitter number, first people thought they were strong numbers, and then we thought the number of users was do do -- was a disappointment. >> twitter's situation is that they dominate the media industry, politics and entertainment. but as a business, it's always been touch and go. they've really never had the kind of focused monetization strat

facebook suspends the pages to several news projects as c.n.n. claims that they are attempting to conceal their ties to this party while the manager of the project has blasted the move calling it an unprecedented discrimination a co-sponsor across it will tell you all about it coming. to the headlines this monday a warning from the white house president trump alarms america's european allies by calling on them to repatriate hundreds of i still fighters and put them on trial he says if that doesn't happen u.s. backed forces in syria will release the militants. and you use a government report suggests the country is breaking the law by selling arms to saudi arabia and is helping therefore to fuel the devastating ongoing humanitarian crisis. management even dimitri wouldn't have anything to feed her. morning on a monday morning in moscow life kevin owen with you well you can spend the next twenty five minutes or so with me for this latest update starting with a story than i thought this morning the head of a media company behind several successful n

facebook this is. bringing up to speak. german chancellor. suggesting that the kremlin the wave of student protests against climate change also. helping. the u.s. intensifies its efforts. country's president. revealed that a compensation fund for victims of the nine eleven terror attacks is dramatically reducing payments in some cases seventy percent. this is a very good afternoon for me. with the latest update stay with me then first an act of censorship so the president of the international federation of journalists has described facebook suspension of several. accounts the social networking giant block four pages belonging to math inc media which produces online news and which a c.n.n. report recently suggested was attempting something to conceal to russia is a little bit of truth to say about the. closing a facebook account or any internet link from the media without prior warning can be considered as an act of censorship opposed by the i.f.j. it's a complicated story trying to work out what's really happening here a good man to do it r.t

percenter filmed this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under immense pressure from various forces to suppress this or that content based on political reasoning but do not succumb to censorship do not succumb to complying with various government funded outlets regardless of what government they're funded by to censor let your users decide what's good and what's bad. joining me now in the studio is ilya trying to to go through the story a little bit further high either. so what has actually brought mafeking media right into the spotlight all of this began with facebook revealing yes indeed the told was very emotional was they were revealing something that used to be a top secret c.n.n. shed light on the fact that a number of math media pages with posts of snappy videos on facebook have links to russia but what people watching these videos may not realize is that the russian government is paying for this soapbox wasted back then are three new facebook pages and all part of a growing brand o

continuing to damage facebook's reputation or is that not what's happening. well there was really interesting to see for the past couple of months that besides all the scandals on controversies facebook had a record quarter and neither did the users shy away nor the advertising clients and to wall street journal reacted in a very positive fashion the stock was up by almost eleven percent here in the thursday as session after the c.e.o. mark zuckerberg past summer hinted that to actually deal with all those it shows was cambridge an undertaker and other scandals and he mentioned that it might become costly to change some of the company's doings but obviously that heads so far no impact at all at the profit stream of facebook facebook staying strong there now it's also the last trading day of what's been a very eventful month on the markets so what stood out for you well it was quite amazing to see what's happened in the past couple of weeks and just remember especially in early december when stocks tanked and then fed chairman powell hinted that the federal re