>> i can speak for facebook. we think it's important for people to be able to connect safely and with authentic information. my team is responsible for both so there's our approach to misinformation where we try to get people label competent that is false and get them accurate information and then there is everything that we also do to remove abusive content that violates our standard. >> thank you. dr. donovan, i saw you reacting to the fake trump rally aspect. could that still happen now under existing safeguards in social media? >> yeah. and the reason why it can still happen is because of the platfo platform's openness is now turning into a bit of a vulnerability for the rest of society. what's dangerous about events like that is the kind of research we do, we're often trying to understand what's happening online and what happens when the wires -- the interaction between the wires and the weeds. like when people start to be mobilized, start to show up places, that to us is one order of magnitude much more dan

and you pointed out that the russians used facebook just in the way that the facebook engineers had set. >> that's right. facebook -- and this came from decisions they made around 2008, 2009 when mark zuckerberg was obsessed with twitter. and he wanted the facebook platform, the newsfeed to have more viral content. and the sensational content spread a little more. it turns out a lie served to be the truth. to the russians in particular but also other purveyors of fake news -- >> doing it for profit? >> right. they did it for profit. what happens is they would make up a story or take a blog that some right-winger post and make ads. >> here's my example from your book. denver guardian. totally bogus. >> turns out the address was a parking lot. >> is that true? >> yes. >> fbi agent suspected in hillary email leaks found dead in apparent murder suicide. 500,000 shares, bogus from macedonia. >> people in macedonia were driving around in mercedes because of fake news on facebook. and it turned out that they found strictly as a profit matter they earned more than with anti-hillary than anti-tr

is a hairdresser who signed up as of into facebook's express why. he gets a commission on every dot a bundle he sells his customers say they look like they do his 1st book because even myself i use it and they find their bundle keep the cheaper. compared to other networks you get the 501100 in business for free yeah. you run. yes they do they find it cheaper to fund it when the book and then the docs don't express why fi has been an undeniable success here it has made web access cheaper for people living in underserved locations then just so many people are living i don't want a corner to be. however for those studying the activities of facebook and other big tech companies in kenya it's impossible to ignore the huge potential for data mining last year facebook was pushed to admit that it had added its own software to the wife i access points that enabled non facebook datta such as customer names and phone numbers to directly flow to the corporation while facebook says the purpose of the software eastern shore that hotspots of functioning well there

accommodation that is it desperately needed and after years of calls by politicians and the public facebook's regulation is boss mark zuckerberg presents a new oversight body for what stopped the world's most free social media. hello good evening just on 9 o'clock in moscow you're watching r.t. international now doctors from around the world have condemned british government over its handling of the case and claim that wiki leaks founder is under constant psychological torture while being held in prison more than $100.00 doctors have signed a joint letter urging the u.k. authorities to take action they also called on the straining government to intervene to protect its citizen it's the 4th doctor's letter since a sanch made his 1st court appearance when they noticed his bad condition. in our 2 documented the history of denial of access to health care and prolonged psychological torture it requested that the sons be transferred from belmarsh prison to university teaching hospital for medical assessment and treatment faced with evidence of untreated an ongoing torture would also raise the quest

us windows to them we're going to and the most to me on the current us the tweet at a time when facebook come in and instagram gets a dollar of the us dollars dollars but deals at the top of the money but since you're used to this only studio where you can there are more to the enable you can there are more showing fluency one of the most effective and powerful tools for those who want to push an agenda online is the draft now bots are essentially just pieces of software algorithms that run whatever tasks you set them and a lot of the internet runs of them however they've also become synonymous with fake social media accounts pushing political agendas or generating artificial likes shares will fall as the days of these fully automated spam bots a mostly over their actions were simply too obvious making them easy to detect by filters which meant they got purged and easy to spot by you. which meant they go to so now literally armies of people paid to act like dogs they're also called trolls the dicks i was so learned all don't know us mean to me but it's honest and i'll handle direct i mea

of facebook mark zuckerberg spoke at the munich security conference. the coronavirus at the demick is also focusing minds of the conference china is that the foreign minister expressed confidence at the meeting that the epidemic will soon be over in china itself a court has threatened to impose the death penalty on people who hide symptoms of the virus more than 1500 people have died in the epidemic so far including in france which has recorded the outbreak 1st fatality in europe and the virus is making life difficult for many others. for one man in china quarantine is a marathon a way to cope with the boredom. much of china is on lockdown in beijing or thirties older people returning from their chinese new year holidays to self quarantine or face punishment but the w.h.o. sounds got beat when you talk about the old norms and there are many is what do we know what should we do that we have to be doing and i think if you ask those questions they were getting a lot will. be 2 different tribes. china right now everything from traditional medicine all the

free basics is just one of facebook's many initiatives across africa. facebook's latest push here in kenya is called express why 5 companies teamed up with local internet service providers to install y. 5 hotspots like here in the mass my town of eagle on the outskirts of nairobi. jerry in basia is a hairdresser who signed up as of into facebook's express why. he gets a commission on every dot a bundle he sells his customers say they love it they do his 1st book because even myself i use it i'm a friend of the band of keep it your book. compared to other networks you get a 501100 in business for free yeah. you run. yes they do they find it cheaper to fund it when the book and then the doctors don't express why fi has been an undeniable success here it is made web access cheap enough that people living in underserved locations when there's so many people living i don't want a corner to be. however for those studying the activities of facebook and other big tech companies in kenya it's impossible to ignore the huge potential for data mining last year face

microsoft facebook we chat all of them. with algorithms at that. one more than just uses or customers will these businesses would generate is a don they need us to like them for them to be indispensable because the more that we use them the more data we produce we're in the midst of a great race for dot and big tech companies are on the chase. for the past 3 years academics nichol dri analysts have been investigating a phenomenon they call data colonialism. while the modes scales and context may have changed they say colonialism same underlying functions of empire building extraction and appropriation remain the new lang grab going on there's not land that's being grabbed it's us it's human life the acquisition of the construction of data valuable data for corporate use out of the flow of our lives that's the lag read going on and that's why the workload is it's the only world that does justice to that let's think for instance of all the and use her license agreements or the terms of use that we read whenever we sign up for a new social media platf

last meal or medicine to spur him as a facebook get a person in the this is be the list with him but it's a little notice of locals you know mentor the lynch i mean to us in this accustomed you let on a little more of that style in this but it's in the way like it's a competitor no problem unless you're not going to sort of a duel in german to simply let them you know more to see intent or something of that place but a fellow by his can see i'm simply going to frighten us. but i had a clue to put a canary in the way in which social media platforms to distribute all kinds of fake news or dissent from a show and about politics or conspiracy theories about politics or any any other aspects of life is really really important because most people today use these platforms to find news and information and it's often a trusted source of news and information not as much as traditional t.v. or mainstream media but it's trusted in the sense that it's our friends and our family who are sharing this content and we tend to trust information that comes from people who are like minded there's all ki

at the munich security conference facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has told delegates that his company takes down more than a 1000000 fake accounts each day he also said that he was proud of the progress facebook was making on election security but he is still worried about domestic information operations targeting november's elections earlier u.s. secretary of state might come théo rejecting claims made by germany's president that the u.s. is backing away from its global leadership. and this is news i'll be back at the top of the hour don't forget you can get all the latest news around the clock on our web site at state of the doc top story we're following for you. at the munich security conference facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has told delegates that his company takes down more than a 1000000 fake accounts each day he also said that he was proud of the progress facebook was making on election security but is still worried about domestic information operations targeting november's elections earlier u.s. secretary of state might com

the next facebook.l like every year we are talking about what could be the next facebook, but the questions have become increasingly rare. facebook is not going away. it doesn't seem to be going anywhere, despite struggles. why is that? >> facebook has become almost infrastructure in our society now. we use it to plan events, we use it for groups. the company keeps trying to reinvent itself, but people keep going back to the original core purpose, to have it be the phone pic for everyone they know. -- phone book for everyone they know. that will change generationally. there are apps for those who don't consider facebook to be a key part of their social lives. maybe they have to join a facebook group for their language class in school or soccer team, but they don't necessarily need it for their friends. once that starts happening and that continues to go up, we might see a change in behavior. but they might move onto companies also owned by facebook like instagram and whatsapp. hqly: let's talk about tri

how much of an impact do you think facebook could have on this year's election. i think it could have tremendous impact if for example i'm posting things and this happens to me all the time especially i'll say on facebook it used to be that when i would post an article or for example a media appearance that i have on facebook i would get hundreds and hundreds of comments from my friends which are limited to $5000.00 on facebook now if i post something that i've specifically done an article i've written or a media appearance i've had all only get maybe between 10 to 20 hit a comment at the most that tells you that facebook is doing what we call shadow banning and in all likelihood of the only complaints i ever see about this are from conservatives why is that why is it that conservatives especially trump based conservatives are being shouted banned i want to know the answer to that i'd love to ask mark zuckerberg that question myself as long as that's the kind of regulating so-called regulating that mark zuckerberg and his team are doing i would say we need to loo

of facebook. thank you very much for analysis. or here's a check now of some of the other stories making headlines at this hour an 80 year old chinese tourists has died from the corona virus in a hospital in france it's the 1st in europe and just the 4th outside of mainland china where around 1500 people have died officials they are taking drastic steps now to combat the outbreak with a court threatening the death penalty for people who hi cindy. several 100 far rights demonstrators have rallied in the german city of dresden to mark the 75th anniversary of the world war 2. they were challenged by a larger group of anti-fascist counter protesters right wing extremists have traditionally co-opted the remembrance day to push a. agenda. hundreds of protesters have gathered in moscow to express their opposition to russian president vladimir putin's proposed changes to the constitution they would grant extra powers to parliament and are widely seen as an attempt by putin to extend his power yawned the end of his presidential term in 202

we breakdown numbers from facebook.nd tictoc with digital ad dollars producing eye-popping numbers. we will do deeper. but first, the spread of the coronavirus rattled global financial markets, bringing them to their lowest level since the financial crisis more than a decade ago. reporter: that's right. stocks with the worst week since 2008. it started as we saw the coronavirus fears really take over. as we see more investors repatriate their money pulling out of the u.s. haven assets, of big difference at the close, with the nasdaq turning positive. tag --as a last-minute tech bid for the nasdaq, if you can believe it. bank stocks have been driving the market, as we see. -- a big hitter i want to pay attention to is apple, apple up us the ceo coming out and saying the coronavirus should not make a huge difference in terms of moving supply chain, but still reading concerned about revenue guidance. this.a divergence from we have seen this as the supply chain really gets hit in south korea and china. but actually seeing i

which is where i got involved with facebook.e been blessed to be involved in some of the greatest tech companies in america for the last 37 years. maria: said you were a mentor to market zuckerberg and had a wonderful relationship. and then you thought things would not face but didn't fit your value. >> i thought this is where you could talk to friends was a great idea. in 2016, the beginning of that year i started seeing things going on inside facebook that just did not fit my rosy view of the company. in october i reached out to mark and sheryl sandberg denied also been an mentor to cheryl. i tried to warn them. saying there is something about the business model, the culture and the algorithms of the company that allows bad actors to harm innocent people. and i begged them to get on top of it. again this is nine days before the election of 2016. after the election, i continued to talk to them for three months. they just were not interested. they were polite, they talk to me, but they really were confident that they had it unde

s responsibility to adopt facebook it is facebook's responsibility to adapt to e.u. rules that is apparently the messaging coming from a short meeting on monday between facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg and that you industry commissioner bratton friend says that so far the social media giant proposed internet rules are insufficient he said quote it's not for us to adapt to this company it's where this company to adapt to us run a former c.e.o. of french telecom provider orange and french technology company told reporters after the meeting brad has also said that he would like to decide by the end of the year whether or not to adopt tough rules as part of the digital services act to regulate online platforms so now joining us again from atlanta is. one so that brenda essentially said that facebook maybe more so than most other social media tech companies has a responsibility to control what is on their platform so why does britain think that. facebook isn't taking this welfare say. well i think because facebook is not taken seriously look as you know you guys know i am

are sometimes taken down by facebook because they violate a rule that facebook has about what you can post on their site. at that point it wasn't clear to most people. there have been moments that have gotten a lot of media attention. there was a picture of a 9-year-old girl fleeing a napalm attack in the vietnam war. facebook had removed it because it was sexually exploitative imagery of a child. of course it had huge historical impact and huge protest impact and huge educational impact but none of those things were considered and facebook came under fire for censoring all this type of content. that was the thing they got wrong because they took something down. similarly they get it wrong when they sometimes keep things up. a few months later there was a video that was posted on the site of a mentally ill man who had taken a video of himself shooting an old homeless man in the street, point blank, and posted it on facebook. and it stayed up for 2 1/2 hours before facebook had removed the video. and that got a lot of negative press. so these types of moments are moments in which we're

came out in the december quarter earnings we did see a little deceleration in the ad names like facebookoogle but we're going into a year, this is a very robust year for advertising because of the elections, the olympics, primarily because of those two factors. you want names you can buy that will give you exposure to that at a reasonable price. i continue to think that facebook and google offer you that you're paying 22, 23 times earnings for names that are growing earnings 20%, you know, plus clip. i think valuations are highly attractive if off big advertising year like this is. you want to be long with these stocks >> mark, the other side, a couple of surprises this week, zillow and dropbox anything to extrapolate from those? they're smaller stock, market cap around $10 billion for dropbox and a little bit more for zillow but they kind of outperformed in a way that saw them rise more than 20% on the week >> yeah. zillow is -- we're on the sidelines on zillow. it's had a wonderful move off the bottom we completely missed it. it's doubled i find this very interesting their core premier

of facebook. thank you very much then else. well turkish and russian officials have agreed to meet in moscow on monday after holding talks on the sidelines of the munich security conference it was the highest level meeting between turkish and russian officials since tensions over syria's province you can for earlier this month turkish foreign minister level of childish tolo described the discussion as positive and said differences over syria quote shouldn't affect relations with russia but those of thousands of civilians and it looked province are scrambling to escape the current government offensive there. are check now of some of the other stories making headlines around the world several 100 far right protesters have rallied in the german city of dresden to mark the 75th anniversary of the world war 2 allied bombings they were challenged by a larger group of anti-fascists counter protesters right wing extremists have traditionally co-opted the remembrance day to push their anti foreign agenda with. formal rescuers have been

of facebook. thank you very much for analysis. our votes take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world far right demonstrators have held a so-called funeral march in the german city of dresden to mark the 75th anniversary of the world war 2 allied bombings there they were challenged by a larger group of anti-fascist counter protesters some 25000 people were killed by the bombings in the final phase of world war 2. arrest warrants have been issued for 2 of the 12 men detained during yesterday's police raids on a suspected right wing terrorist organization in germany the suspects face court this morning they are accused of planning attacks on politicians and muslims magistrates will continue to assess the other detainees. women have marched in cities across mexico to protest murders of women and the way authorities deal with them in protests were sparked by a particularly gruesome killing in mexico city last week and the leaking of photos of the victim's body i believe it's. our bill the coronavirus epide

they are going after me on facebook.eady been taken down, because putin knows me and he does not want me to be president. emily: you wrote the book on facebook, you have in part covered the fallout from russia's interference in the 2016 election. how well-equipped is facebook and twitter now to counter potential interference and continued interference? roger: i feel like i am on a quadrennial version of groundhog day, because exactly the same things from 2016 have me focused on the danger that facebook post the ford -- posed elections, and they are happening again from the same people. the trump campaign has a sophisticated disinformation operation that runs internally. there is a network at george washington university, that they have been analyzing, of fans of bernie sanders. nothing happened after 2016 that -- after 2016 that shut these down, so they continue to operate without constraint. on top of that, you have michael bloomberg coming in with his own operation where he is flooding the zone with all kinds of things

facebook messages. at 9:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards in his latest book "america's expiration date" singer hated columbus à >> we are not each other's enemies as lincoln said. if we don't make this great experiment called democracy or constitutional republic we are seceding the generations. there is no guarantee, things are looking great when things are looking great it's time to shore up the foundations. >> watch offers april ryan and cal thomas sunday on booktv on c-span2 house minority leader kevin mccarthy senator josh hawley and donald trump junior share their experiences with tech companies that have regulated their social media posts. this is from the conservative political action conference in national harbor maryland. >> everyone is really excited for something, what is it? >> i don't know. >> thank you all so much for being here. great news for everyone that loves shark commentary we are running a discount. cpac code for 10% off your subscription. so thrilled to be joined on stage by don junior Ãb everyth

people on facebook's payroll.to have the creativity of independent academics asking, what can we ask? a post that is filled with hate speech suddenly sticks and goes further and takes off in a way that we didn't realize it did and in a way that is perhaps far more effective than a post about puppies or a post about kids. if in doing so we understand, oh, there is a pattern to the way this stuff blossoms across a for-profit social media platform, maybe a way those policies should change. until now, we have been entirely hostage as roger says. you know, the profit motive of these companies even though at the same time they can go in and look at any data they want about you and i on an individual basis. now, in this case, the researchers are saying we're a little frustrated that we don't get that kind of data, that we can't draw the same kind of granular conclusions that people within facebook can, but we'll take this differential analysis and this higher level, more statistically noisy stuff and be able to do some c

and instagram now, the facebook made this work and what is interesting is that facebook is under sotiny when it comes to acquisitions, the fact that now the ftc is looking, reexamining all of the acquisitions and under $90 million, facebook really needs to find new ways to innovate and not able to go out and buy another instagram or whatsapp like in the past and benefits them for an internal innovation lab, what the lab that this hobbi app came out of but in the past their attempts to have an internal skunk works to yield the apps have not yielded any success in terms of standalone apps and might have helped in other ways. >> that internal skunk works project, a good retention thing. they don't want the engineers run away to google or something or starting their own start-ups and disrupting them. we'll put you in the cool lab and experiment and play around and most of the apps that cop out are clones of other stuff. there's no origin no vags. they still look to other competitors for the apps. >> finally, if they're not able to buy some of the companies that they once might have, if

before we get to facebook. a comment on apple >> i agree with what krish was talking about relative to apple. the one thing we have to watch ow v out for as investors is what is going on inside china because there's restricted movement and a great deal of fear, legitimate fear about what this means inside china. and i think it's put a lot of pressure on the government and right now they're trying to isolate people, trying to protect the country from further outbreaks. but i think the lack of information is almost certainly going to' e v create issues. that's why if i were apple, i would be cautious about the demand side of this because i think people are going to be legitimately concerned about, you know, social interaction >> even after they get the okay. >> i just think the okay will initially be something they may be skeptical about simply because there hasn't been transparency, right? i just think this is the issue with president trump's whole nationalist strategy, is that it reduces trust and we need trust

this dashboard was a place where facebook engineers, free speech regulators and facebook and journalists all had to figure out how should we work together when we think about this circulation of speech of platform. what i want to think about that is how is this an infrastructure of free speech. how is this arrangement between organizations that works through this dashboard whether it works or not. a dashboard that none of us have seen probably. it is largely invisible but incredibly powerful for thinking of how it circulates. what assumption does this infrastructure make? are the lems something that we can use or something of government. >> i want the offer three ways as potential opportunities or potential objects of focus for us to think about what would it mean to regulate a partnership like that, that was using an infrastructure like that, that had that kind of impact. i will go through them and q&a that we can talk more about them. first is assume people talking of the informational idea of citizenship. facebook to the feedbaacebook t feedback checker, it had the information and thi

break but stay there because when we come back facebook is headed to court with the i.r.s. over a possible $9000000000.00 tax bill that hasn't been paid well explain what both sides are saying and why this case will have a huge impact on other tech companies. much more on the other side of the break. 24 to you know bloody revolution. the demonstrations going to be relatively peaceful political protests to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a little here but i mean you know liz to do it through me in the new bill is that i do believe that over the former ukrainian president recalls the of the ems of $24.00. who took. this to do over 5000000000 dollars to assist ukraine in these enough to ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. presidential candidates. of the u.s. . every week. student. money. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront cation let it be an arms race based on offense very dramatic and developing the only way i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful ve

the issue is that the average facebook person has 700 followers. so 700 people, not all of them see the algorithm but some people have the ability to see these corrections happening in realtime. same thing on twitter, the average person on twitter has 200 followers. the ability for this to spread and be seen by a lot of people is really powerful so we think it is scalable in that way and takes the homeless off the platform in a way that is ethically beneficial for deciding what is true and what is good evidence and all sorts of things. i will stop there. thank you. >> hi, i am so happy to be here. thank you for inviting me and thank you for listening and being willing to travel through the rain. today i'm going to be focusing on the idea that light disinfect's an assertion often attributed to supreme court justices in 1913 although he was speaking about financial crimes, his argument that sunlight is set to be the best of disinfectants, which is shortened to -- becoming ubiquitous really questioning the assumption when confronting social harms like

don gets oppressed on twitter or facebook we ought to be able to sue them.ght to be able to say, if we have rights here we ought to be able to say, why are you doing that? those are rights we should expect to have. let's talk about china. we've seen how the coronavirus has an impact on medical supply chain but a lot of people don't know there's a really cozy relationship between china and these big tech companies. you have google running behind america's back working with communist china. >> they will give them whatever it is they want. we will do that because we will take the money and that's the reality. besides this all the issue with coronavirus in many cases trumps platform have been right about trade and control and supply chain about immigration and borders because of everything that's going on but china and the fact that big tech is more comfortable working with china to allow them in Ãbto do what it is what they want with the data but in america they walked get people who want to express their religious freedoms that same platform is truly scary. th

but stay there because when we come back facebook is headed to court with the i.r.s. over a possible $9000000000.00 tax bill that hasn't been paid well explain what both sides are saying and why this case will have a huge impact on other tech companies. much more on the other side of the break. world is driven by shaped by. military thinks. we dare to ask. in 2040 you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going to be relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it your goal here i mean your list book to do with redeeming the neighborly is that i'm spoiling you to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. those who took boat invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. the holder doctrine eric holder former attorney general under obama this is the idea that banks are systemically important they can't be process because this would be a danger to the society as a whole but what's remarkable is that this id

had a facebook has visited the e.u. to call for more state regulation of social media companies mark zuckerberg speech was seen as an attempt to find a compromise with brussels which says it's introducing rules requiring a more ethical approach by technology firms facebook has also announced an independent oversight body that questions are already being raised over its impartiality that a quarter has more. for years political scandals and government pressure to regulate content have been a thorn in facebook's side does not just about innovation you need the regulation we get facebook can and then again what do we tell our constituents given what's happened here while we should let you self regulate i don't want to vote to have to regulate facebook but my god i will as the social media giant straight away from its roots of connecting friends and family over the internet and began playing politics to grow its influence things started to get a bit hairy for the company facebook's fight against so-called russian bots and it

on facebook also long sack of books a social media trying to save more regulation from governments to tackle harmful calls and. i will welcome you watching r.t. international with me making arun. doctors from around the world have condemned the british government's handling of the julian i songs case they claim the wiki leaks founder is being subjected to psychological torture in prison more than $100.00 doctors have signed a joint letter urging the u.k. authorities to take action they also called on the australian government to intervene to protect its citizens is the 4th doctor's letter since the songs made his 1st court appearance and documented a history of denial of access to health care and prolonged psychological torture it requested that the songs be transferred from beaumont prison to university teaching hospital for medical assessment and treatment faced with evidence of untreated i'm only going to or should we also raise the question is dishonest fitness to participate in us extradition proceedings. next week a staunch faces a hearing on his possible extradition to the us w

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, what i did on facebook.esearchers won't be able to do that. >> we generally think policies like that are good and more advanced than what we have in the united states. now we have an instance where that law may stand in the way of researchers getting all the information they need to make the world a safer place? >> this is the difficulty of the moment we're in. we're insistent on the need for privacy across the world and it's creating new, better standards about privacy and it's also giving cover -- certainly creating a legal liability for a company like facebook to turn over individualized data to academic researchers. i was speaking to one of the two heads of social science one and he said governments should be forcing them to open up to academic researchers. not to everybody. what we want instead is for people who do a responsible job with this stuff and in charge of figuring out whether we're being polarized by a platform like this, whether hate speech is finding flower in a place like failk. we need peo