author of "the facebook effect." sarah covers facebook for us. i want you to stick around. we will come back to these issues later this hour. coming up, spotify says apple is tilting the playing field. now the eu wants to take a look. what this means for the future of streaming apps. that is next. you can check us out on the radio. listen on the bloomberg cap, bloomberg.com, and in the u.s. on sirius xm. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: audio streaming platform spotify has asked the eu to investigate apple for taking a 30% cut in the app store. e.u. competition commissioner told bloomberg's matt miller that they are going to do just that. >> you have a specific apple product, apple music, who is a direct competitor to spotify in their services. this is of course such a dual market situation that we take very seriously. if you are but the host and competitor, well then how do you behave when you yourself have gained some status in the market? >> as a gearhead, i think of things in carmaker terms or motorcycle terms. for me, i'm thinking, is this like if bmw were to offer motorcyc

we were talking about facebook and this woman from mongolia is telling me their problem with facebook, which she described as -- described, is exactly the problem the ukrainians had on facebook. it had to do with a lot of people who were anti-democratic trying to suppress the pro-democracy voices by complaining en masse to facebook about something they were seeing that was hate speech. and facebook not having the capacity, because of the pinewood problem, to really know if it was hate speech or not. and buckling under the pressure of a lot of complaints. in mongolia, this woman described exactly that. it continues to expand and doesn't yet have the capacity -- one of the things we said, facebook did open up to some extent. i found the two most interesting things, they were the meetings. they let us sit in on two meetings. one was about content moderation. they now have slur lists for every country or they are developing them in every country they operate in. they recognize those lists change all the time, given the context of the slur. a slur today might not be a slur tomorrow. whoe a

that was in part happened because of facebook and others that the audience was on facebook and facebook knew more about the users or the readers of various publications or the audiences of news -- television news organizations than those organizations knew themselves, and so the whole revenue model of journalism has been hugely affected by facebook. this sounds like fill -- i don't know much about the details, sounds like philanthropy when what we really do probably need more is -- and i don't know what the percentages are of income sharing from ad revenue on facebook when it comes to articles, say "the washington post" publishes on facebook, i don't know what percentage of every dollar of ad revenue is going to the "post." but i know at first it was minuscule compared to what facebook would take from it. that was their prerogative, but it was also hugely detrimental to the news industry. if this is a band-aid fix on something that had happened, we basically need to address the revenue problem in journalism. that's the important thing. >> can i offer something completely different? why

it's a video still on facebook yeah. this video is used in facebook's training as an example of the kind of child abuse that should be marked as disturbing and left almost silent. if that's being used as an example for motivators of what is considered acceptable to say what is tolerated on facebook is is is is truly shocking this is just a haitian for why they allow. in or that a possible and occasion a rescue of victims of physical abuse we may not immediately remove this content from facebook it's perfectly possible for facebook to take down footage of child abuse and for that to be passed to the north or for copies of the tiriel to be retained if that will assist in a law enforcement in a police say investigation it's difficult to conclude why that material would need to stay on the site we know that for as long as that content command on a social media site then that exacerbates the trauma that children might feel not only has that child been subject to sustained physical abuse but unfortunately that child is being.

i mean, the nbc has called for facebook -- naacp has called for facebook boy cotts.- boycotts. how much pressure was facebook under here? >> there's been increasing pressure on this coming from the naacp, fair housing groups, members of the senate of both parties. the aclu. and this is something that's been going on for quite some time now. a series of lawsuits, equal employment opportunity commission, charges. and it's prumbly something -- presumeably something the company is glad to put behind it. emily: ad targeting like putting up signs in neighborhoods has been, you know, common practice for decades. what makes this different? >> facebook has argued that there are situations where it's helpful to target ads to particular audiences. the point that scholars make is, if an ad is put in a magazine you don't read or a neighborhood you don't live in, you could at least incidentally come across it. but on the internet, if you're digitally red-lined out of it, so to speak, if the job is only posted there, it could be impossible for you to ever even nope know about a job

top story -- facebook. you about the company usually -- losing its chief product officer and the head of whatsapp, but those are not the company's only concerns today. of the company's data practices is expanding. the justice department is subpoenaing companies facebook had partnerships with. joining us to discuss, david kirkpatrick back with us. we also have deborah also williamson and with me in the studio, sarah frier, who covers facebook. let's start with this federal investigation into facebook. that facebook allowed companies to see data about me and my friends that i did not give those companies permission to access, correct? >> yes. this is part of the broader probe into facebook practices, and they are joining this large municipalitiesnt , entities like the european commissioneron probing into facebook's practices right now trying to figure out what is going on. an escalationy is of a doj/fbi probe we have known about for a few months, but it seems like this is getting serious. emily: it seems like

that was, in part, happened ,ecause of facebook and others and the audience was on facebook, and facebook knew more about the users or the readers of the various publications or the audiences of television news organizations than they did themselves, and so the whole revenue model of journalism has been hugely affected by facebook. not know much about the details. it sounds like philanthropy. we probably do need more, and i do not know what the percentages from adme sharing revenue on facebook when it comes to articles. i know the washington post publishes on facebook. i do not know what percentage of every dollar of ad revenue is going to the post. know at first, it was minuscule compared to what facebook would take from it. that was their prerogative, but it was also hugely detrimental. this was a band-aid fix. we basically need to address the revenue problem in journalism. that is the important thing. and now for something completely different. why do we care about anti-democracy content, if that is the will of the users and is found on the platform? >> i think that is a really interes

outsiders and facebook itself.romsk from peering in -- peering in two whatsapp and facebook messenger. now.greenfield joins us thompson, whonick had an extensive q&a with mark zuckerberg right after he published the piece. uckerberg on facebook's future and what scares him most." sarah, walk us through the reaction to this stunning post from mark zuckerberg. sarah: some critics are calling it a victory after all this criticism that zuckerberg has faced over privacy. now he says it's really important. but the difference is really going to be in what we see facebook do with this. it doesn't change the fact their advertising business is built on personal user data. not a lot changes about how facebook's business works. he didn't talk about the advertising implications in his post the other day. you've been very bullish on facebook. he says the newsfeed will remain, but this will make ad targeting harder. does that concern you? rich: it's honestly absurd. what is facebook right now? you spend a lot of time browsing for

now facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says his company plans to shift its focus to private messaging services in a post on his own profile page said the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible he said people increasingly want to connect privately in the digital equivalent often livingroom. audition report and shattered drink is with us and welcome jad i'm not quite sure what mark sokolich is trying to do can you explain what his plans so what's he up to so we know facebook really has a networking tool that can mix people all around the world and now mark zuckerberg kind of has he's authorized it on what we say in private to each other on the messaging services that facebook owns so platforms like whatsapp facebook and facebook messenger and instagram and he wants to make those compatible with each other as you say so if you write to me on whatsapp i'd be able to write back to you on facebook i'm missing and he wants to add a layer of security to these

so facebook issues are not going away.oe: i want to go back to the narrative that mark zuckerberg posted to facebook, that chris cuts had come to him a few years ago and talked about leaving. they both -- chris cox had come to him. it doesn't sing like the issues have gone away. years,ack to last few have they made progress in the last few years on fixing some of the core issues with the product, or how far along are they on that? emily: facebook will tell you we've hired thousands of people to double down on safety and security. they have reprioritize personal information, a throwback to what made people love facebook initially. but if the scandals continue to happen, we are continuing to see new developments, bad press, you mediaigations, different organizations uncovering things facebook has been doing wrong or ways that have been misleading users. it clearly hasn't gone away. the question is, has he been responsible for fixing any of these issues, or is he leaving because he has not been ever to fix these issues? chang

which is why facebook is changing from the facebook has launched a high profile campaign to improve its image. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry. i started facebook i run it and i'm responsible for what happens here i understand why it's been hard for people to come to grips with all this but the incentives to do so now are really compelling and i just hope that as a consequence of this film that the tone of the debate becomes sharper more focused more persistent and that we stop accepting their excuses we stop accepting very sure incentives c.p.l. told is insuring all trainers and employees are always fully trained and up to date on facebook policy changes is critically important to us so we are investigating this matter as a priority and taking immediate steps with facebook this is included conducting extensive refresher training within the last week for all the train as we are one of the most heavily scrutinized companies in the world and that's right we have a lot of reach to people in many differe

for example, facebook bought whatsapp. facebook bought instagram.ked about amazon and zappos. so she has got a list of deals that she would take a closer look at. and she is invoking at&t back in the 1980's, and some of the big trust busting cases in u.s. history. but she is also -- there is also a more nuanced argument, and that is where, when these companies start to operate like a platform, like a utility, and they are also competing as part of that platform or with those platform participants, that is where she also is looking for some kind of way to separate out those businesses. so, for example, amazon. amazon is the case that she keeps coming back to time and time again. that is the case where amazon has created this huge marketplace for millions of sellers to go and peddle their wares, but amazon is also a competitor in there. and she cited a story -- emily: right, amazon its selling -- is selling its own batteries, its own baby wipes. tom: exactly. and i noticed she cited our colleague spencer soper, a story he wrote about a couple years ag

for example facebook bought , whatsapp. facebook bought instagram. she talked about amazon. a list of deals that she would take a closer look at. and she is invoking at&t back in the 1980's, some of the big trust busting cases in u.s. history. but there is also a more nuanced argument, and that is where when these companies start to operate like a platform, like utility, and they are also competing as a part of that platform, as platform participants, that is where she also is looking for some kind of way to separate out those businesses. for example, amazon. amazon is the case she keeps coming back to. amazon has created a huge marketplace for millions of sellers to peddle their wares, but amazon is also a competitor in there. amazon at selling its own batteries, its own baby wipes. todd: exactly. and i noticed she cited our colleague spencer. once amazon sees your product is starting to gain traction on its platform, gaining popularity, amazon has a way of creating its own white label version of that, and creates this competitive atmosphere for its marketplace participants

gennie: we're always going at facebook to do better by facebook and privacy.king specifically for different protections on whatsapp and facebook about user control and choice about the phone number privacy. we don't have to look far to see phone numbers are not safe on facebook. they are not left where you put them. facebook has already messed that up with two-factor authentication. it is very important that is cleared up and those safeguards are put in place before we can trust facebook will do the right thing with merged messengers. emily: facebook actually had a strong earnings report last quarter. what are we expecting this quarter, aside from a lot of questions from analysts? jitendra: pricing will be the biggest uncertainty. last quarter, a lot of questions about pricing. as they transition to stories, the ad volume opens up but that helps them at a lower pricing. moving away from newsfeed is not a small thing. this year will be a transition year and we see risk and pricing continues to be the topic. emily: jitendra waral and gennie gebhart, you will hav

look forward to her revived facebook if a page has five pieces of content that violate facebook's rules our reporter was told it should be taken down to britain first was a highly popular facebook page these pages a shield it and can't be deleted by ordinary content moderators at c.p.l. . it was never met threshold before it was taken down. oh i think. it is just up to me from the feel good. to me. what is actually me. but when he said i shared it it goes to another if you have to use an image. for sometimes. you know just depends on what it is britain for if it's very right. but. when shielded pages have content that breaks the rules they're put into the shielded review queue so they can be assessed by facebook itself border. shooter of iraq main. computer from her home be prepared to go all the followers you don't want through your term you want to be one for sure there are girls who are eager to show her for fear. of them physical tools for triggers are yeah look like other prefer stuff. if it is a sure do they get so special consideration over to her. facebook special consideration

he says facebook's deserve executives take facebook into that era who are excited about the change. so he is saying he is not excited. emily: let's talk about chris daniels, head of whatsapp leaving. zuckerberg said he is not filling chris coxe's -- cox's position, but other services, tell us about chris daniels. >> chris daniels was formerly head of internet.org, zuckerberg's personal project try to get more people on the internet. sort of connected to whatsapp in that it was very international, but running a messaging product is a different deal. we don't know exactly why he left, but it is a very difficult time for whatsapp. they're facing all of the scrutiny around the world. there have been whatsapp lynchings in india of all of this information -- misinformation that has spread that is encrypted and so facebook cannot do much about it. that would be a very difficult job to do. emily: david kirkpatrick is joining us now from new york. you wrote the book on facebook, i'm sure you interviewed chris cox several times. what do you make that he is no leaving? >> i agree with everythi

different priorities was facebook to slow to stop the spread of video of last friday's much shooting at christchurch but also too swift to secretly silence accounts of political views savoring. if i put certain stories about serving a political issue i am shadow bad so. what my concern is when they continue to paint these kinds of things can be and this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadows. the venezuelan government still says the so-called occupation of its offices in the us after diplomats from the opposition for control of the consulate. and the story of the russian traitor queues of money laundering who's appealing for release from custody in greece has been held in now for more than nineteen months without charge. how many of these are you in the hunger strike. you took eighty day. and still no answer. sounds. good afternoon this is out international live with me kevin i just had a mid day here in moscow oh first and facebook's been criticised for allowing video to be spread of last week's mass shooting in new zealand while being quick when dealing with politica

on facebook looking in the mirror here on nuking it i think that facebook in many respects a bit of a villain simply because it's it takes your dates are very valuable data and the fact of the serves it up to its customers and charges money for it look i don't want to sound like some sort of i don't know conspiratorial communist here i absolutely support capitalism but when you've got an organization which is such a big monopoly the has to be protections in place and i think that facebook you know policing a billion users you know the truth the matter is people keep reporting content that they found on acceptable that's not the issue the issue is a can.

varying priorities was facebook to church but to swift to secretly silence icons of political views it deems on slavery. if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow bad so that's what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that only going to compel shadow. also coming up on the program the government announces this so-called occupation of its offices in the us as opposition members for control of diplomatic buildings in washington. a russian bitcoin trader accused of money laundering appeals for released from custody after being held for more than one. how many days are you in the hunger strike. eighty today. and still no answer. so it's. just four in the afternoon here in moscow this tuesday march the nineteen hello and welcome to our to international i mean in our top story facebook is facing sharp criticism for failing to prevent the live streaming of friday's mosque shootings in new zealand and the subsequent circulation of the footage the country's prime minister just sent to our turn said media sites need t

very priorities facebook to slow to stop the spread of. christ church. to secretly silence. i put certain stories about certain political issues. but my concern is when they continue to these kinds of this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadows. international news this hour first off the brazilian president has made his first foreign trip since taking office is headed to the united states has met with donald trump and currently given a joint media conference a key part of the talks from brazil participating in a military operation in neighboring venezuela on monday an agreement was signed allowing washington to launch rockets and satellites from brazil. the u.s. to reduce fuel consumption by thirty percent for its launch is also on the agenda was an apparent trip to the cia for who some has been active about the spy agency on twitter. back home the brazilian media's primary focus isn't on the u.s. visit instead it's on reports of the presidential family's alleged ties to violent gangs let's get up to speed on that now live to new york our correspondent caleb m

it's a rapidly growing part of facebook, that for mark zuckerberg and facebook, this is trying to reclaim messaging. they want to dominate messaging and combine it with what they already do with instagram stories, facebook stories, whatsapp stories. they want to capture more of your daily time spent. the one big place they are missing is messaging. i think that is a big opportunity, not just to drive their content business over time, but to drive the commerce business, which is in the early stages but i think they are taking very seriously on how to between marketing and commerce. emily: net, mark zuckerberg says he sees private messaging fastest.he it is unclear whether he meant on facebook platform or other platforms. this raises a lot of questions. did he answer those questions when you spoke with him? nick: he answered some of the questions. he answered the question, my central question was that the post was unclear about whether he is a new network or owing to evolve the tools facebook has. he was clear about that is that -- in that facebook's tools will exist and they will be buildi

morgan and goldman sachs but i want to turn to facebook and compare it to what facebook is doing facebook filed a patent for quote civil political debate form facebook has applied to patent a system where people would comment on laws that might affect them then have that feedback worked into a formal political proposal creating a way for people to quote meaningfully engage in civil discourse online the concept would build on facebook's earlier attempts at promoting civic engagement and it sounds similar to other existing crowdsource democracy tools but facebook's vast scale could put tremendous weight behind any kind of private political form they already have their reputation scores you could be de platform so it's more again it's a it's a corporate private business was shareholders it's not government ron and so if you get shut out from if you get pulled from the political system it's not the government doing it it's facebook and their shareholders. right you know i suppose all developed wolf packs of gangs kind of roaming the streets and tipped them off in terms of which homes are bein

emily: can we trust facebook to make facebook more try that -- more private? >> zuckerberg wants to go from the digital town hall to the digital home. he says this because he recognizes this trust challenge, but in reality, they are talking about detecting the privacy of people in a broader conversation, but not necessarily the privacy versus facebook. facebook is ultimately in the advertising business. emily: you will still be giving all of your information to facebook. michael: the battleground will be around messaging. if you look at facebook and trolls between messenger, whatsapp, and instagram, they control the messaging -- majority of the messaging around the world. that doesn't mean people worried about privacy are not going to go to other platforms like telegram and signal. let's not forget we chat, which will dominate other parts that don't have the others in china. these are merely defensive actions, and users will be skeptical. emily: sarah, talk about what he said. he said services would be opt in, and if you want your messages to disappear, maybe

content moderation is to reveal how facebook decides what you can see that plan. it's good for you to refer to them so their birth for them go to school. so. it's pretty says with billions of pieces of combs and it's uploaded every day these decisions how far reaching consequences. of the woods on you is not necessarily your beliefs but how they're made has been shrouded in secrecy until now you shouldn't be speaking about record basis of topics ok you know just goes on probation it does not. from violence. to hate speech we reveal how facebook deals with extreme forms of. relief for through three. or four. k. through her mother who for schools with graphic videos routinely left homeless sites she has to change it especially for the face of a selfless. and far right groups getting special protection over sort of loaf all over switcheroo the reversers which is facebook pushing profits before safety if you start censoring trigger some people lose interest in the growth process it's all it's all a big one of the. this isn't even a facebook to bring the hotels that ar

inside facebook now. facebook is all you believe the most powerful company in the world one point four billion people use it every day more than the population of any country on earth except china the story that you created represent the american dream you know that our mission at facebook is to help connect everyone in the world we take that responsibility very seriously but a series of recent scandals has exposed hope blooms of the haunts of the social network ministers that coburg i think we all agree that what happened here was bag of knowledge she was a breach of trust and i just want to be clear that you're going to take early action in this film we go into companies with facebook's content moderation is to reveal how facebook decides what you can see that plan. it's good for you to report of them so their birthright go to school. so. it's pretty but. with billions of pieces of comb sends uploaded every day these decisions how far reaching consequences. of the woods on you is not necessary. but how

after the break the focus on facebook for live streaming terrorism. you know world's big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufactured consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. again facebook is facing sharp criticism for failing to prevent the live streaming of friday's mosque shootings in new zealand and the subsequent circulation of the footage the prime minister says social media sites need to do far more to tackle the spread of extremist content. i would call on our social media platforms of all variety to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that both lead to these have been a

facebook attempting to curb racism. how they are cracking down on white nationalism and hate speech. boosteding company lyft the price for its ipo. it will offer 30.7 7 million , upes at 72 dollars a piece from the $68 per share in the original filing. they are aiming to raise as much as $2.2 billion. eric is in new york. i assume this suggests demand was strong. >> we already reported that lyft was telling investors they were oversubscribed at the original price range, there was plenty of appetite. it's sort of follows if you have too many people at the lower price, you raise the price and squeeze some of them out and get more money out of them. moving the price range up, good news for lyft. your conversations with investors, have they expressed concerns about the revenue situation? it is clearly a momentum story. revenue doubling as the focus. $911 million annual loss last focus.s been less of a people talked about amazon, a company that lost a lot of money at one point. it has gained a lot of market share, is eating

for and seventeen minutes the gunmen live stream the must occur on facebook shortly after really feeds of the video appeared on other social media outlets the platforms did try to block the content but not before widespread public eye creature. in the first twenty four hour was removed one point five million views of the attack globally of which over one point two million were blocked and upload we continue to work around the clock to remove violating content using a combination of technology and people please know we are working vigilantly to remove any violent footage. or facebook did during the video after a warning from police and authorities have said the distribution of such content is punishable by imprisonment we are cunter terrorism expert jennifer braden media and legal analyst lionel whether tech giant should and could have acted quicker to block the footage. i respectfully submit that when you show violence a good human being it's a form of pornography we have to as a society say no facebook you can do much better for kids for people who would see this not necessarily becau

facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says it will focus on private messages that even facebook will be able to see but will that help the platform chad past scandals and ward off government regulators. and china's far way goes on the offensive the tech company is challenging the u.s. law that limits its access to the american market for security reasons it says the law is unconstitutional. i'm sunni so it's got to thank you for joining us. the european union says it hopes venezuela will reconsider its decision to expel the german ambassador daniel cleena president nicolas maduro has accused cleena of interfering in venezuela's internal affairs after expressed support for opposition leader though she has said the ambassador should stay germany is one of several countries back in by those bid to oust muslim. lonely freedom says this lawmaker thanking germany his words applauded by deputies in venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly with. germany backs one quite venezuela's legitimate leader. it

millions of facebook users, most of those hundreds of millions of users were using the facebook litepp, which is for emerging markets. millions of user accounts, and thousands of instagram users also impacted. brian krebs says it could be up to 600 million accounts we are talking about. sarah: that is bigger than most apps we use. that's a lot of passwords. facebook will be letting users know if their password was involved. emily: but they found out about this in january. they didn't admit to it until now. at least for four months, facebook has known about it. shouldn't they have told users four months ago? sarah: absolutely. they are clearly saying after krebs on security reported first. krebs was writing about it from the perspective of a source. it's unclear to me, if that source hadn't told him about it, would we ever find out about this breach? it goes back to what i've been saying. facebook doesn't think of security in terms of security from itself. they think about security in terms of third parties, breaches, attempts to share ersonal information from site developers. but whe

varying priorities was facebook to slow to stop the spread of footage of friday's mass shooting at mosques in christ church but too swift to secretly silence accounts of political views it deems unsavory. i put certain stories about certain political issues. so. that's what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things and ban this kind of stuff that potentially. i learned thanks for choosing r.t. international news this hour on moscow right now six pm in washington d.c. that's where we're starting this president welcomes his brazilian counterpart to the white house for a wide ranging talks on tuesday with the details his r.t. america's. trump and maddow did focus a lot of their meeting on venezuela talking about the importance of them working together in order to bring down a president what are some other one power now it's important to note that brazil was one of the first country after the u.s. to your knowledge. claim president as the only legitimate leader of venice well now when trump and what's the matter we're talking about focusing on their meeting on venezuela he

varying priorities was facebook too slow to stop the spread of footage of friday's shooting at mosques in christchurch but too swift to secretly silence accounts of political views unsavory . i put certain stories about certain political issues in shadow so. what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that's only going to catch a wave shadow. there and thanks for choosing r.t. international for your world news this hour on calling brainwashed to where it's now midnight it's five pm in washington d.c. that's where we're starting this hour president donald trump welcomed his brazilian counterpart also naro to the white house for wide ranging talks on tuesday with details his r.t. america's. trump and maddow did focus a lot of their meeting on venezuela talking about the importance of them working together in order to bring down a president who are on power now it's important to note that brazil was one of the first country after the u.s. to your knowledge. claim president as the only legitimate leader of men in. well now when it turns out

this morning different priorities it was facebook to slow to stop the spread of video of last friday's mass shooting. but. to deal with political views. if i put certain stories about certain political issues i can shout all bad so. that's what my concern is when we continue to ban these kinds of things can they end this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadows. the venezuelan government announces the so-called occupation of its offices in the us up to diplomats from the opposition vie for control of the. under russian traitor accused of money laundering appeals for release from custody in greece after being held for more than nineteen months. how many of these are you know hundreds straight. a day. and still no answer. to. their life they are to networks international h.q. here in moscow is kevin always with me this morning bring you this world news update we choose the morning is going well reviewed soon didn't run the world first the facebook spring criticized video to be spread of awful shooting up mass shooting in new zealand last week while being quick of the market

in the headlines today different priorities was facebook too slow to stop the spread of video of last friday's matching to those mosques in christ church but at the same time too swift to secretly silence accounts of political views it deemed unsafe or. if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow bad so. what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadow. house where the venezuelan government announces the so-called occupation of its offices in the us after diplomats for the opposition vie for control of the consulate. the story of a russian trader accused of money laundering appealing for at least eleven custody in greece being held for more than nineteen months without charge. how many days are you in the hunger strike. you ate the day. and still no answer. to the. other good afternoon just one of the afternoon moscow time my name is kevin zero in this is r t international first facebook spring criticized for allowing video to be spread of last week's mass shooting in the well b

all right so the prime minister of new zealand says she intends to talk to facebook about this there are many others there are saying these social media platforms have to be accountable but how is it possible to make them accountable i guess my answer to this will be pressure more pressure from the government more pressure from the consumer legislations have to be in place we have an example actually from germany it's about hate speech so we know that it's a big problem globally and facebook's that it did everything to combat hate speech problem people weren't seeing any changes and so in germany there was this hate speech law and it's been passed and then so rapidly facebook just hired all of a sudden it hired a lot of moderate just and it also deployed new technology to combat this problem so that's an example of how pressure could actually change a company's stands. and so we have to make facebook to prioritize that to prioritize to fight of spread of terrorists terrorism or extremist concerns and thoughts well so i guess is a question of investment investing in actual human being

priorities was facebook to slow to stop the spread of footage of shooting at mosques church. political views. i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow and so. what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things and this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadow. is the so-called occupation of its offices in the us as opposition members for control of buildings in washington. every year tuning in from right around the world this hour welcome to mosque international your company. our top story the republican. first and only leader. has resigned as president of the country after almost three decades with a correspondent for more. just thinking there's a whole suite a whole generation of never known any other leader but. there. was this is shock to them how did this come about. you have to understand that this is not just a random presidential resignation. you just said it is marking the end of a new year and just a few facts for you to support this idea not a sore thumb as above has announced his resignation after twenty nine jus

international good to have your company i mean and o'neil our top story facebook has been criticized for allowing video to be spread out from last week's shooting in new zealand while being quick off the mark when dealing with political content it doesn't like the country's prime minister has demanded dancers from. media platforms over live streaming of the terror attack on two mosques in christ church that left fifty worshippers dead. i would call on our social media platforms of all variety to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that both lead to these have been and that includes stars who pitch the messages in the aftermath there is a lot of work that needs to be down. for around seventeen minutes that gunman live streamed the massacre on facebook shortly after we feeds of the video appeared on other social media outlets the platforms did try to block the content but not before widespread public outrage. in the first twenty four hour was that removed one point five million views of the attack globally of which over one point two million were blocked and apply we continue to wor

another day, another facebook controversy. social network admits the passwords of hundreds of millions of facebook users were visible to employees at the company from as early as january. the login credentials stored in a non-encrypted, readable format that any facebook employee could read. facebook disclose the flaw after the security blog krebs on security reported on it based on a so-called internal source, and thursday facebook said the problem has been resolved and "to be clear, the passwords were never visible to anyone outside facebook, and we found no evidence anyone improperly accessed them." joining us now. what? >> just another hit at the trust people have for facebook. this follows the major breaches we talked about last year, when taken,s log-ins were getting personal information from their accounts, and then of course cambridge analytica, which we talked about a year ago to this day. firmolitical consulting that got data on millions of facebook users without permission. it just keeps coming. emily: facebook isn't

in the end, is the way to really do this, and i'm sure facebook does not wa nt this, and i'm sure facebooks to adhere to the rules that the traditional media countries have to adhere to when it comes to content? that is another important bit of content that is another important bit of co nte nt for that is another important bit of content for what mark zuckerberg is talking about. he talks about hate speech and controlling harmful content. he is proposing self—regulation in which all editions celtic companies what they had to do and that companies do it. rather than tech companies being directly responsible. that would entail the repeal of safe harbour laws which basically say tech companies are like phone companies are not responsible for what you say over the phone. there is clearly a strong case for that. i would say that comes with huge risks as well because what it would do is incentivise all the tech companies, google and facebook, to be more sincere. if they are sued for everything you say to them, then we would be king into a new world where even more that is already the case, face

and a new future for facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says it will focus on private messages but even free spoke will not be able to see but critics are skeptical. that china goes on the offensive the tech company is challenging a u.s. law that limits its access to the american market for security reasons it says the law is unconstitutional. in a warm welcome to you. the european union has said it hopes that his venom would reconsider its decision to expel the german ambassador daniel cleena president nicolas maduro has accused embassador crean of interfering in venezuela's internal affairs often he expressed support for opposition leader one by bill why this is the german ambassador should stay on and has called on europe to tighten sanctions against the regime why there was speaking during ash wednesday mouse in caracas. this regime the disease power has no right to declare any one persona non-grata this is simply a threat and that's how it should be sane by the free world the german ambassador and his country have help

it's not something facebook wants to be into.ying to get the western — the first world in general to coalesce a little bit. there is a risk right now of a splinter net. broadly speaking, facebook is never going to be able to achieve any kind of regulatory harmonisation between, say, the usa and china or russia, which are both fully trying to create their own independent internets. but as far as the first world goes — and, again, these are facebook‘s most lucrative markets — there are some potential. many, many countries have said that they want to copy gdpr, britain has said it wants to copy gdpr after brexit, and even in the usa, a lot of discussion around whatever privacy regime eventually emerges is looking at gdpr and saying, "why don't we do it like that?" now, in the end, is the way to really do this — and i'm sure facebook does not want this to happen — to just say that facebook is a media company and it needs to adhere to the rules that the traditional media countries have to adhere to when it comes to content? —— traditi