when facebook dropped its kids project.oday the senate gets facebook's global head of safety and testimony happening right now on the hill and then there is this >> she left facebook concerned with copies of thousands of pages of research. what don't they want you to know the facebook twils blower, only on "60 minutes" sunday >> julia, one of the questions will instagram's alleged toxicity be the straw that finally breaks this camel's back shares are down more than 10% this month >> well, i think the real question is will this regulatory scrutiny of facebook's knowledge of that toxicity push facebook to pull back the way it targets teens and keeps teens engaged on instagram, and can that damage instagram's ability to grow? we've seen that facebook has lost ground with younger users, and instagram is really the place where facebook still has that stronghold on kids. but has a lot of competition instagram and facebook, the percentage of their user base that is those teens of both boys and girls is not as high as that of youtu

facebook dodged the question. quote, we are not aware of a consensus among studies or experts about how much screen time is too much. end quote. we are not aware. we all know now that representation was simply untrue. internal documents reported on by "the wall street journal" demonstrate that facebook has known for years that instagram harms children and young people and for years facebook studies have found clear links between instagram and mental health problems. and it was common knowledge in the company so that the response was a clear attempt to mislead congress, misinform parents. i ask that "the wall street journal" report of september 14 by george wells, jeff horowitz, and deepa sedahim be made part of the record madame chair. >> it will be. thank you. >> thank you. so the comparison to big tobacco made by senator lee is entirely apt. and i know something about big tobacco because i sued big tobacco. and i remember the revelation of the documents that showed big tobacco not only knew but had done experime

>> on facebook, they do.think that we need, by the way the companies are not coming to one privacy legislation after opposing it with various iterations after all the states have started to get into the act which is kind of a pattern we have seen in other areas here but, if you wat to respond to this quickly and then i should let the senator asked some questions. there are many that do not know they are sharing the data and i also think if they know about the data they are sharing, it's quite complicated to understand what it can be used for. it can be to figure out additional information so they may be making a decision to share some data not realizing what it actually could tell the company about who they are and theirr preferences. i also think -- i want to report on the point made that google doesn't sellll your data. it's to exploit without ever mselling it because they have e advertising system. so they can both collect the data and explain it to advertise so the necessity isn't there and they can still

facebook closing down 1/10 of 1%.o much focus on the senate hearing where executives were grilled. it was put to test with prioritizing growth over the health of users. emily: thank you. facebook facing heat again in washington. facebook's global head of safety testified before a senate subcommittee about leak research that showed its platform, instagram, are harmful to kids. davis argues this research was not bombshell in any way. >> this research is not a bombshell. it is not causal research -- >> i beg to differ. this research is a bombshell. it is. powerful, gripping, riveting evidence that facebook knows of the harmful effects of its site on children and that it has concealed those facts and findings. emily: senators blumenthal and blackburn are currently investigating facebook with the help of a whistleblower who sparked a wall street journal investigation into the social network's approach to kids and teens. joining me to catch up is kurt wagner. that exchange was representative of the tone of the hearing. lawm

i think the difference here is that you're talking about facebook and you're holding, it's a facebook property. you know, we always have our social media, new, public square. obviously the social media companies like look at it both ways. so what's really, this is a new world. we live in this, in the digital world. we put information out there and it's spread faster. obviously, it's read more more widely than, than just if your, you know, yelling from a soap box in a local post office. but if this is a new town where this is what we have to get used to and we have to start training, people believe we smarter about how they take information and what they read online . most intelligent, rational people. busy know when they're being misled, they know when putting a quick page they know what's going to comment section and maybe pull of it or the need to look into something more deeply, you know, as a pre speech. absolutely. i think that if you want to go down this route, the owner needs to go on the owner of the property, which is facebook, you know, in new york times, or someone has a fa

facebook. panel is back to discuss it. new to the panel is alex kantrowitz. he's a cnbc contributor and author of "of always day one, how the tech titans plan to stay on top forever." that is a scary title, alex, i'm not going to lie. i just teased a little bit about this relationship advice you're going to give me. you wrote about facebook survival dilemma. you said it would be misguided to argue the company is responsible for a lot of good in the world. i saw that in the middle east in the arab spring when facebook helped protesters organize their messages. facebook at the same time will always pick survival. talk to me about what you mean by that. >> i mean we see all this bad that facebook does. facebook, i do believe that it's a net good for society, but there's so many down sides. the question is what do you do with the down sides? we find this company in a very interesting moment. it is beset by competition, snapchat, youtube, all nipping at its heels. any changes it makes, it will open

i want to get more on the facebook headlines with facebook cto's announcing he will step down. it is the executive -- biggest executive departure at the company in years. this as they announced changes to apple's ad policy can have an impact on their revenue. let's start with this facebook news. what do we know? >> we know it is not going to be quick. he did announce intern early he will leave sometime next year. they had actually created a new position, a senior fellow position he is going to take at the company. i'm told it is part-time, it is advising, staying on a little bit, helping with technical stuff he oversees. it is a huge deal. not only has he been there a long time, he oversees so many important elements of facebook, including augmented reality, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, the hardware division. all of these different technical stuff that really drives a lot of what facebook wants to do in the future is under his purview. the fact he is leaving creates an issue. emily: andrew bosworth, who has been at facebook almost as long as mark zuckerberg will re

facebook knows. that look, facebook's goal is to make the user outraged.e like so much of the internet runs on outrage. let's be real. that's what clickbait is. i've done a lot of videos for facebook. if you don't make people puke, cry or scream in the first three seconds of video, you've field. and we all know that's bad. so the profit model is outrage. if that is it, what do we do? we have to eventually look to doing something that senator elizabeth warren is talking about and break up big tech. and make sure there are multiple people who are trying to get us to click. you know what i'm saying? >> there's a lot of outreach to go around is what you're seeing, right? >> exactly. >> no one should have a monopoly and outrage. it seems that facebook isn't just bad for our mental health, because here's the scary part. we joke around about some of the other stuff. but there is a real consequence on physical health, to. and this was something pointed out by our folks here at nbc news. they found that anti vaccine groups are encouraging patients to leave the icus

a 3rd party facebook uses rendered them publishers of those commons. the appellants attempts to betray themselves as passive and unwitting victims of facebook's functionality has an air of unreality. having take an action to secure the commercial benefit of the facebook functionality, the appellants bear the legal consequences. facebook has yet to comment on the court decision and the social network did add the ability to disable comments back in march of feature that australia news outlets may now be forced to use something may say restrict freedom of speech. this decision was time. the exchange of ideas encouraging facebook uses to turn off a put unit is for comment. i called on australia's attorney general to address this normally and bring australian law into line with comparable western democracies. my colleague neal harvey discussed the issue earlier with our panel of guests. we need some accountability. yeah. that needs to be accountability directly on those posting the comments. and if you want to pursue those people, you can. but at the same t

now what we find out through whistleblowers is that yes indeed facebook knew this, facebook did havethis, they chose to continue anyway marketing to children teens and kids are 40% of facebook users but they continued to do this marketing to pull the men and they made a choice not to block the drug cartels, the sex traffickers and they allow them to continue on their platform. maria: anything that we've done about this in terms of accountability, when would you expect, do not expect something like that when the democrats are in power. >> now that we know that they have the research and they have known what they were doing, they cannot deny it and they cannot say we know we are healthy and we are good we can begin to pinpoint some of this in moving forward with online privacy, data security section 230 reforms are going to be things we will approach and do it with a bipartisan manner and therefore get something done to reign in the big tech companies. maria: then there's the censorship issue where they censor things that are against the democrat party like the hunter biden story right

also, facebook can make money. i g stands for instagram, but it also stands by insta, greed. facebook had to postpone the rolling out of their new app directed at children under the age of $1313.00 and younger because of a wide spread outrage and the barrage of criticism that facebook was facing after the wall street journal revealed that facebook was well aware of the harmful effects caused by instagram. we make body image issues worse, one in 3 teen girls, teens blame instagram for increases in the rate of inside sea and depression. according to what is being reported among teenagers who are suicidal and contemplating killing themselves. 13 percent in britain and 6 percent in the united states actually listed instagram as having been a factor in their desire to commit suicide. now the tech giant has, you know, basically accused these reports of, quote, cherry picking facts on the eve of today's hearing. they did release 2 of their own internal reports, but many are looking on with disappointment because this is c

first of all, within facebook, they can shuttle coming. and they're not particularly worried about having driving up a big item. i think for all that can simply go in and secondly, they told me directly if a comment is in against their all they have to be given the opportunity to take it down. and therefore if somebody points out, the defamatory comment has been published. and the public hit publish as a publisher to do so. if the publisher ignore this opportunity and doesn't take it down the very, very brightly, the publisher should buy the music you're watching our international. the messaging service whatsapp is again under fire for apparently ditching a pledge to protect its users private data. we breakdown the implications after this short break the the way the u. s. government funded is through the issuance of treasury bond and they pay the interest on those bonds by collecting taxes who owns most of those bonds? virtually all those bonds, the top 110th of one percent. so the government simply becomes a pastor mechanism for people to

facebook recommendation. people. and facebook also had the platform that the insurrection was organized. and we have documents to say that they knew that was going on, which means that they aided and abetted and insurrection. these things are all criminal. and we have to find out if facebook is guilty of criminal stuff. and i want to push back on brandy a little bit on the shaming. i think facebook is immune from shaming. i think we've had five years to determine that. i first went to mark and sheryl in october of 2016 to warn them as people i had previously advised that for their own good they needed to get ahead of the issues for democracy and civil rights. they chose not do so. and they have been essentially disassembling of since. and we cannot -- what we need is criminal investigations, we need new legislation, but what we most need to do is have action. our democracy is hanging on by a thread. and these guys play way too big a role in this and our kids having threatened. the problem with facebook is fac

where all voices can be heard equally, but recent revelations from facebook may show that some users while they're more equal than others impact. so today, plus, i've read it and we leave the program with the european union's counter to china's belton road initiative. european commission, president ursula, vendor land wide ranging state of the e would dress wednesday, covered a number of issues including the cobra. 1900 economic recovery, improving the black status and technology and developing defense capabilities. but another matter that stuck out was the push for the e. you to watch a global gateway. we're pretty good at financing rolls. but it does not make any sense for you up. if we build a perfect road between a copper that is chinese couple of mine that is chinese owned and a harbor that is chinese don't. we will build global gateway partnerships with countries around the world. we want investment in quality infrastructure, connecting people, goods and services around the world. we will take a values based approach, offering transparency and good governance to our partners. w

s. government requests information from all facebook affiliated platforms. it's plausible to assume there will be more of arrest based on may. the data in the near future. and while facebook promises but it cares about security and privacy of its users at the end of the day, it doesn't seem to have an issue collecting and giving out information to those who ask for it seems the company is more concerned with stopping the spread of what they call disinformation, and with trying to assert their influence in politics, instead of actually remembering that they started as a social media site, it's true to say that nothing is really private nowadays, but that doesn't change the fact that when a company assures and promises its users that something will be encrypted and they, they will not be able to review the content of their messages. when that trust is broke. i think that they should be entitled to, at least, frankly, at this point, some sort of compensation. there are different protections for consumers in every industry, but for some reason, tech companies se

that was chris talking to boz at facebook. how weird.reality glasses, weren't you? yes, it's not like the technology doesn't exist. there's even those smart swimming goggles where you get your data in real—time underwater. i know, right? so maybe the tech just isn't quite compact enough for real glasses just yet. i tell you what, though, in the full—length version of this week's programme you can see something that's even more sci—fi than the metaverse and augmented reality. go and watch it on iplayer right now. that's it from the short version. throughout the week, you can keep up with us on social media, find us on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we'll see you soon. bye— bye. it has been a fine day across much of the uk, very wet and northern scotland, using overnight, a lot of cloud, increasingly light and patchy rain and hill fog sinking south across scotland. elsewhere mainly dry, clear spells and temperatures a little lower in recent nights, fresher and easierfor sleeping. enter tomorrow

but when you're talking about, you know, a user ship over a 1000000000 people on facebook, now you're talking about a percentage of people. it's very small. but here's, here's the main story. so there's this program, essentially that was created by facebook called cross check or x check is how it looks when you read it. but it's called cross check. essentially, it was set up as a way of kind of protecting against, you know, celebrities utilizing information or saying things in and being attacked wrongfully right. and what it's turned into now is basically a white list, where if you are a celebrity who gets onto this list, or a well known person who gets on this list, you're free to essentially do whatever you want. you can say whatever you want, all the terms of service and the rules and, and the heavy moderation. that all the rest of us have to undergo every single time or on facebook does not apply to these groups of people who essentially, as i said, are able to kind of operate without any checks and balances. ok, so there's 5800000 people on this one list. well, what about the oth

if you installed the facebook. these are, these are really big questions and underlying all of these big questions around social media, democracy is our, our right to privacy and what that actually means in the digital age. it's the, i'm in the deepest kick it okay. when's that? when he says he has to get so close to the so most but with animals, the local fisher faculty, the meaning console by that no sort of but a pc, pc we endless day continue to move, fussiness move the well, kill the needle. good thing on that car lisa. they must seattle. you gotta get them when that a extra see what, but i get a 100 level that he says he both those maybe you'll get to know maybe a little seals and to go money that just in time of these ladies, tell us whether it's time which us packing of my stuff, kate, that they think will never late, but i will. they will not be this. the said yes, the commune, i will not go see but he cut the enemy. so he took a look at them in anti level that not a mika say. listen for the most on their

well, that's where the facebook comes in. with the 2000000000 users, it's one of the most powerful distribution tools for sharing content. yes into you can go look at it. but of course she did little element. lucas and i said news because porton sharon was sent to us in ranch. i mean, if that are my 6, mr. gus. so you said that i'm the middle goodness, mickey. quite let me, let me look into speaking of the facebook get a pollution in. this is read our list on campus, but it's over at the local mental levine channels in this. so you learn a little better, a little more of excel, but it's in the way it's a computer problem. i'm not sure. but what i meant origin mental simply a little more to see dentist. but if i don't ask if we can figure that out at least. but i can, you know, the way in which social media platforms distribute all kinds of fake news or disinformation about politics or conspiracy theories about politics or any, any other aspects of life. it's really, really important because most people today use these platfor

for facebook to try to blame families. and in the case of miss davids testimony that she was even blaming kids who have the practice of using since the accounts. you know, it's facebook that is loring them. parents needing that says, especially in the past year, parents have had to juggle so much with the pandemic and with so many kids needing to be on their devices much more than they used to be. parents need an assist right now. there are no guard rails, there are no in the united states. there is very little regulatory help for parents that would encourage companies to do the right thing. and so it's, it's certainly not appropriate to say, well, parents, it's your fault. when parents, we believe parents are doing everything that they can to trying to maximize the ability of their children, to use the internet safely and not not be exposed to harmful content or harmful manipulative practices. april advertising their targets kids that, that kind of thing. david mon and is from fair play in boston. great talking to you . t

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under facebook's rules does not apply to this group of people. but i think this is the big question. i'm not sure that there's an answer to it. but if the report said anything about why, why certain celebrities, how it select which celebrities which high profile people can go on this list, and more importantly, why they would say that they need that little benefit of the doubt from the cross check system. well, essentially i don't think it's an algorithm that even flags them, in fact, the program continues to grow and continue to add people to it. but it's actual physical employees that facebook who add people to this list. and it really comes down to how well known you are or kind of protecting, so athletes, or on their comedians are on there. believe it or not guys, even some celebrity animals are on their right. famous cats and pugs that have their own facebook channels. yes. even they are on this white list for being allowed to do what they want. and again, i think the idea here is that facebook says the program was originally started for a d

these are the first facebook glasses, a partnership with the luxury eyewear brand ray ban.ng on augmented reality glasses that can project images into your eyes, and these glasses... ..do none of that. these are basicallyjust a pair of glasses with cameras in. they are actually very similar to the snapchat spectacles that were released in 2016, although every time i mentioned that to facebook they insisted this is a very different product. to use them you press the button to take a video, press and hold to take a photo and you can also use voice commands like, "hey, facebook, take a video". there are also built in speakers so you can use them to listen to music or make phone calls, though when i tried that on the noisy high street, they were nowhere near loud enough to be remotely useful. so i'm going to focus on the cameras. the idea behind these is that you can leave your phone in your bag but still have a way to capture little moments hands—free as and when they arise and i quite like that as a concept so taking it at face value i tried them out over the weekend. i met u

so i called facebook�*s had a vr to ask him about privacy. privacy. i think we deal with us today. we have got mobile phones that people all have cameras on them. and so there is a degree to which our goal is to be, you know, at least more overt than what people are doing today with their phones and i think we have achieved that goal. i mean, if you have your phone out you could be taking pictures, there's no way for bystanders to know that you're doing that and people known to have the phones out. so i think the glasses are quite a bit more overt than that. you have the led, an audio sound and have to take an explicit action is over i move my hand on my temple and press the button or have to use my voice to say, take a picture. if i have enabled that feature. so i think there is a lot more opportunity is really for bystanders to know and this isn't something we left to chance. we knew this was one of the most important thing is to get right. one thing that makes me feel really old is that they say when you ask people our age take a photo, an

that is why platforms like facebook, instagram, also owned by facebook, youtube, and a lesser degree putter are so lucrative. advertisers are eager to put their ads in front of people who are staring at their screens and are engaged. for better or for worse, i would think for worse, the type of material that engages people the most tens to be sensationalistic and likely to provoke strong negative emotional reactions. all of that is almost set up for. i don't think it was done intentionally. to promote the spread of divisive material. can they do something about it? i think they can. a report we discussed, instances where we know the platforms have addressed the degree of this kind of highly provocative and divisive content. time will tell if they are doing that. they won't tell us how they do it exactly. in the emotional days after the 2020 elections, facebook let it be known that they had a turn the dial such that they were tamping down the amount of angry, divisive content, similarly in the days leading up to the verdict in the trial of derek chauvin, ultimately convicted of killin

what do pop star ariana grande, facebook ceo mark suckerberg ——facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and epiceney and video games all have in common? they have all recently been cited as heralds of the metaverse. the metaverse has been described as what comes after the internet. in its simplest terms, it's a social hardware users can interact with each other as avatars across a host of digital worlds. is any of this starting to sound familiar? a lot of companies are talking about creating a metaverse in that they want to become a platform where people can exist at all times. they want to create social spaces where people can come and hang out with their friends, they can watch movies, they can do everything that they would do in normal life but within that platform. almost like the movie ready player one, in a way. this is the oasis. it's a place where the limits of reality are your own imagination. stephen spielberg's 2018 adaptation of ernest cline�*s novel of the same name tells the tale of a downtrodden teen hero who escapes the dystopian sprawl of a near future america by spending as muc

facebook is like a government.al government has that i think we just simply as a democracy have to ask the question whether that is appropriate. but the second part of this is that we're not talking about free speech here. i am not in favor as a generalization of banning people. what i am against is using algorithms to amplify the most dangerous voices in our society. that is a business choice facebook is making for profit. it is not something they're doing in the national interest. it is not in the interest of the users. and so i just believe this is much clearer than many people realize because it is really about whether we prioritize the people of the united states, whether we prioritize our way of life, or whether we allow companies like facebook, like google, to have their way and set the rules by which we live. >> joyce, i want to ask you about another topic we've been discussing and that is the texas law and the supreme court's response to it. we've heard the term a lot, shadow docket. can you tell me a bit

well, that's where the facebook comes in. with the 2000000000 users, it's one of the most powerful distribution tools for sharing content. yes into you can go look at it. but she did that element in the news guess put them sharon will send that to us. but ellen ranch, i mean you can that are my 6, mr. gus or you can in the middle goodness, if you could let me, let me look into speaking of the facebook get a person in the store in temple, but it's a lot of pieces. okay. you know, mental the local channels and if you don't have a little more expensive, but it's in the way, it's a computer problem or not sooner. but again, that's what i meant orange, i'm innocent. i'm in a little more st. dental's face. but if i don't see him, probably kind of figured yes, but i had at least, but i don't really know the way in which social media platforms distribute all kinds of fake news or just information about politics or conspiracy theories about politics or any, any other aspects of life, it's really, really important because most people t

facebook on the metaverse.comes on the news today they said they expect to have a bigger impact in the third quarter than the second quarter, noting that they have underreported web conversions, people who act after seeing an ad they have underreported it by 15%. they say -- the business outcome may have increased and makes it harder to measure the campaign on the platform. this could make them think that they need to spend more. facebook says it is working to find new ways to improve its ad measurement, to -- analysts tell us it is possible the market is overreacting the stock dropped on this news they said this is because it's directed at advertisers. we will see what happens next quarter. >> in the last earnings call facebook already said they would see a greater impact from this change in the third quarter than second quarter is it the level of detail scaring investors at this point? we've heard this before. >> we have heard this before it's unusual for them to reiterate this kind of warning as we near the

that was chris talking about facebook. i really wasn't expecting us glasses. a smart swimming goggles that give you real—time data under water. i guess the tech is not quite compact enough to fit inside normal glass quite yet. but maybe one day they will be good enough to interact with the metaverse, and speaking of interacting, we've been trying a whole new way of controlling things with his mind. so here i am with a strange band trapped in my head looking very proud of myself switching on a toy lightsaber. but, so what? well, whilst it looks like a poor man's comic con, i am actually here to experience a feature of tech. it is all part of a new industry that wants technology to interface with our brains. what could go wrong? but whilst i'm playing with star wars toys, elon musk is planning to create humans by surgically implanting chips in their brains. they've already released footage of a monkey playing a video game with its mind and a real—time link to the neural activity picked up from a chip implanted in a pig's brain. you don't need brain implants to c

so 1st of all, within facebook, they can shuttle coming. they're not particularly worried about having driving up a big i think for rule they can simply go in. and secondly, they told me directly, if a comment appears in against their all, they have to be given the opportunity to take it down. and therefore if somebody points out, the defamatory comment is being published. i'm the public it publish as a publisher to do so. it's a publisher, ignore this opportunity and doesn't take down the very, very brightly the publisher should buy for music. finally, a military exercise in kurdistan, between russia and 3, the central asian allies has come to an action packed conclusion. 1000 soldiers and over a 100 vehicles took part in frontier 2021. displaying pri, wes and cooperation artes constantine gross gulf wrote into battle with occurred goose armed forces. so we're about a board on our vehicle right here. that will drive us across the firing range. and according to the drill scenario, the terrorists have captured a village and now our mission i

and facebook should know that to this is a long standing problem with facebook in 2 ways. one is that they never take ownership of things that are proven to be true about facebook that are negative. they often say that people are misconstruing when in fact the evidence shows differently. and secondly, their system is designed to attract the greatest number of viewers to get the greatest number of advertisements. so. ready it's all about profit, there's nothing wrong with profit, except when extra profit is had at the expense of children and they should really change their practices. the main thing to seem to come out of the report was obviously the impact, especially on young girls, on their body image and mental health due to being bombarded with these images. and also a question was asked during the senate hearing about the site was also being used to facilitate facilitate sex trafficking, which obviously are 2 different issues. but do you think that there is anything that can be changed in the algorithm, for example, to make children or young people less susceptible to

plus, taking the stand against facebook. whistleblower who gave the wall street journal internal facebook documents showing the company was aware of social and mental health risks of its products is not willing to testify before congress. we have all details. will travel level get back to pre-pandemic levels? we ask the expedia ceo later this hour. all that in a moment, but first a look at markets kr withiti gupta. look at markets with kriti. kriti: it is a story of tech. mega cap stocks leading the upside. the new york faang index which holds tech stocks rallying 1%. what isn't in the rally is chinese stocks. ever grande macro risks, they are rebounding as you see the evergrande story contained in china. the nasdaq golden dragon index not on the rally, ending up flat. all the action was in the stock market, but more in the bond market. yields, a 13 basis point move in 10-year treasury yields after the fomc meeting, giving investors confidence that what the fed says they're going to do, tapering by november, is what is going