and i think is quite cynical what they've done in that, or what facebook has done in that facebook knows that if they keep taking down people's content in ukraine, those people and people embarrassing people in the rest of poland will start moving to other platforms. and if they move to other platforms, they probably won't come back. so i think in some ways this is quite a cynical news, a profit motivated to mentor, to agree with that. it may well be the case, the face, that is a cynical act. but i think the more cynical act is critically the kremlin. this is probably a policy that they wants to pursue anyway. they've been trying to essentially militate against facebook from the early days of conflict with facebook by fact checking. so that's state media organizations. and so this is given them absolutely an excuse to do it probably earlier than they would have done. but they were already looking for a reason to shutter facebook and, and similar outlets where you can gain access to information, which doesn't come from program and sources in russia. so they are effectively trying to win t

first of all on facebook. i think it's extremely difficult to find out what what what's going on and i also think you know, so one of the suggestions that that my organization has made is that the terms that facebook and youtube and others should should be inspired. you know, they should be inspired by you know, the only thing that approaches something at the universal level because we have to you know, there's always this danger but in free speech debates of what i call the tyranny of american parochialism, you know, everything is viewed through a us lens, but but these are global platforms and and and what's at stake in the us is not the same in russia or iran where social media is basically the only way that you can circumvent official propaganda and and and censorship. so what we argue, is that the terms at least an issues such as hate speech and disinformation should then be inspired by international human rights norms. that's what they that sort of the limit that they should try to to reach but when we a

thing it was allowing, russo phobia on it platforms, facebook and instagram. we're already blocked in russia after the countries media regulator said they were being used to call for violence against russian soldiers. the new court ruling also prevents matter from opening offices and doing business in russia. however, the judge said that whatsapp, which is also in by matter can still be accessed because it isn't used to post public things. but it's got more on this from financial correspondent in new york. he ends quarter young. thanks for joining us. just tell us young why russian prosecutors particularly targeting better is peers. well, i mean, the whole thing has been boiling for quite some time. i mean, the head, for example, been some claims that made a platform. so the mother company of the facebook had blocked access to russian media outlets. and then as you're already mentioned, so that facebook or a meta actually allowed some posts to call for violence against the russian soldiers, some facebook or actually had an answer to that to him. saying that it

let's get to julia boorstin. >> meta parent facebook, facebook parent meta responding to the news thatent of global affairs of meta saying soon millions of russians will be cut off of information, deprived to connect with families and friends and silenced from speaking out saying we'll restore the services to be available to people that safely express themselves and organize for action facebook has an estimated 7.5 million users in the country of russia according to insider intelligence much smaller than youtube and instagram. instagram has about 53 million estimated users in the country and youtube 77 million facebook very important platform you see shares down about 1.5% no word on whether the russian regulators plan to block instagram, as well. >> for those viewers wondering where the u.s. firms pulling out of russia and russia blocking access this is an information war in some ways and nina believes they try to control the information that the russian people get a about the conflict have we heard about twitter? >> facebook has made a big push to try to tamp down on misinformation a

so the mother company of the facebook had blocked access to russian and media outlets. and then as you're already mentioned, so that facebook or a meta actually allowed some posts to call for violence against the russian soldiers, some facebook or actually had an answer to that, to him saying that it actually relaxed some rules so that let me see here against violence speech only for people inside you were crane and only directed at a russian and military in that country. so now this ruling that we've seen here on monday. yes. so it's been all sorts of western companies reacting to the russian invasion of ukraine. but how i'm think you're a us tech firms approaching what's been happening that well, i mean, it's a pretty mix. i mean, some us tech companies want to avoid that in russia, you might to create information evacuation. so some services like what the, for example, you tube are and also some apple apps and still on. but we have mother tech companies, for example, some of the big chip makers. so qualcomm or intel, for instance, they definitely stopped an export to

emily: facebook has been banned in china since 2008. interesting implications for what happens after the war, hopefully there is an after, and how facebook will reevaluate its rules. thank you for the update. as more companies leave russia, we are going to talk to hayden brown about his decision to cut off gig workers in russia and belarus. and how they are helping freelancers trapped in ukraine. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: with the war and ukraine, many companies have been taking a stand by shutting down operations in russia to distance themselves from the invader and send a message to vladimir putin. one such company is upwork which decided to suspend business operations in russia and belarus. i want to bring in hayden brown. this was a controversial move because it means cutting off gig workers in these countries you may have nothing to do with this war, may not support this war why did you decide to do this? hayden: our hearts go out to everyone in ukraine and russia and belarus you have been impacted. this was a tough decision for

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facebook was providing genuine information in russia. yes it was banned but this new legal ruling is turning the screws even higher although we have to be aware in russia, there is no legal system of the type we know. the courts are simply a rubberstamp for whatever the government decides. it's true that advertisers could be in jeopardy, but if the government wanted to come down on those people, it could do so for whatever reason it shows. but facebook, the best thing that could happen to them would be another arab spring, which would show the world they could be used for good things. they are in the doghouse for all kinds of other reasons otherwise. emily: what are the chances this could lead to criminal charges against facebook and instagram employees? >> i think that's the idea. if you are an employee working at the company, you could then be accused of aiding this extremist activity. again, i spoke to someone at facebook earlier this morning. i was told they don't have employees in the country right now. . it does raise questions aro

the services from here, if you want to access facebook. from here, you have to go through a virtual private network. and you know, you have to do certain things in order to communicate with your friends and communicate what's happening in your life, to your friends around the world. well, actually a couple of weeks ago, and i said that it's set up a special team to deal with hate speech and misinformation related to ukraine. and it said it will do that for both side. that's according to a company's president of global affairs. nick, greg, but so that situation has certainly changed as we woke up this morning in moscow. now. hate speech towards russian presidents awards. russian military is allowed. it's hard to say who are those the fact checkers who's saying which information is correct? which information is wrong, but we know one thing is that ukrainian national guards are off a battalion who have been robbed as not fees by committing war crimes by the united nations and so many other monday around the world. well now they're no longer o

because they're beholden to google and facebook, and from those sites. the bill would do an attack the bargaining asymmetry would be to first allow the newspapers and news publishers and broadcasters to bargain collectively vis-a-vis the dominant platform. so i think to answer your question, yes, they're-- >> all right. i just want to ask one last question and that is you've heard from, i think it was mr. francis and my colleague over here with the use of the word news cartel about what this bill does and of course, there's been representative buck, conservative over in house, senator kennedy, not exactly liberal, both have just been added to the bill and there's a lot of interest to this bill and i think it's important as we're looking at the changes we're making to make clear that there isn't going to be any kind of bias here, but that also, could you address this argument they've made that this creates some kind of news cartel? i'm only knowing the supporters of this bill in terms of the news organizations that run the gamut from liberal to very conse

well, it clearly shows the political hypocrisy of facebook and its parent company meta facebook. let's not forget we're meta has numerous contracts with the u. s. government including the pentagon. so this is an organization that has a kind of revolving door with the u. s. government. in fact, many of the people on facebook security team, our former u. s. government officials, including people from the white house. so the reality is that facebook, in many ways serves the political interests of united states and we see this so clearly with facebook allowing users to praise a neo nazi group. a's off is explicitly neo nazi. it uses the neo nazi german wolf's angle symbol. this is a symbol that was used by nazi germany. it preaches at white supremacist ideology that portrays russians as a g attic and portrays ukrainians as a pure white race. this group is explicitly fascist, and the reality is that this group has also been armed and supported by the united states. you did mention that after several years, the u. s. congress did eventually take action against a's off, but early on whe

it's possible for google or facebook to check all the boxes. and abide by the good faith protections during the good faith negotiation period. it's very important that they look down the road and see if they do that, they are going to be faced with binding arbitration at which point a panel of three arbitrators would make a determination has to whose estimate of the fair market value was fairest of them all. approximated the value being cob fered by the news publishers on to the platform. >> unction that. i also would like to enter a set of more than three dozen letters from newspapers, news organization into the record. those focus on state of competition in journalism and the need for solutions like the journalism competition and preservation act, which is bipartisan both in the senate and the house. we also have a letter from lee enterprises, no relation, discussing the challenges the industry faces from those who would exploit it for a short-term profit opportunities as well as the few others. i want to thank you all for being here. local n

so it's facebook and twitter gun from rasa. it's very narrow, very limited options for us in public to get independent independent information from abroad. right. so what, what does that leave them? what options are there? or are russians just left with what the kremlin tells them? well, it's still possible to get independent information from, from independent sources, but it's a much more complicated than before because you need to deal with things like b p and so on. so no or not, everybody's ready to invest additional authority to get this information. basically the government has a very few grip and the public opinion and in the last hour and just read the news from the very small city of golf, which is a tiny, tiny city in gloucester. border read this tony with a police or a that the audio offices, a very small provisional newspaper, accusing them of spreading fake news about the russian army countries k that the whole, the computers in the, even the cell phone. so if you don't stop and shutting down the website of the, th

because they're beholden to google and facebook, and from those sites. the bill would do an attack the bargaining asymmetry would be to first allow the newspapers and news publishers and broadcasters to bargain collectively vis-a-vis the dominant platform. so i think to answer your question, yes, they're-- >> all right. i just want to ask one last question and that is you've heard from, i think it was mr. francis and my colleague over here with the use of the word news cartel about what this bill does and of course, there's been representative buck, conservative over in house, senator kennedy, not exactly liberal, both have just been added to the bill and there's a lot of interest to this bill and i think it's important as we're looking at the changes we're making to make clear that there isn't going to be any kind of bias here, but that also, could you address this argument they've made that this creates some kind of news cartel? i'm only knowing the supporters of this bill in terms of the news organizations that run the gamut from liberal to very conse

that is facebook.herently, they are not an innovative company, other than the very original social platform that was created many years ago. emily: so what do you think mark zuckerberg is getting wrong here? >> i believe that in order to be innovative, you really need to be thinking about the consumer first, and i don't think they do. i think you need to be looking at -- emily: what do they think about first? >> i think they think about advertising first because that is 90's -- 98% of their revenue. that's a fact. you have to think about your consumer and customer. you need to think about bringing new and different ideas into the marketplace. you need to reward that within your culture. these are the things that derive innovation. you need a culture of innovation. anything you do within an innovative company, whether you are in accounting, product development or marketing, you need to be challenging yourself to be doing things differently versus doing the same old or copying someone else's idea. so tha

in the coming days, russia opens a criminal case against facebook's parent company for changing its policy on hate speech to allow some user to cool for the death of the russian invaders. plus 2 marched k, the price. president biden says the g 7 is revoking rushes favored nation status, while the u. s. is banning at sea food, water and diamonds. ah, it stays 16 of russia's war in ukraine and its forces of expanded their attacks targeting new cities around the country and adding to the growing humanitarian crisis. russian voices appear to be regrouping for a possible assault on the capital cave. they've been circled, sumi and china have, as well as car cave and the besieged port city of mario pole, which have both come and a 5th bombardment. for the 1st time russia has attacked. denise pro, a central city once considered relatively safe people fleeing besieged areas in the east is also widened bits attacks to weston ukraine with air strikes, targeting military, our fields in looks and of angry francesca killing for people to haul it live begins, auto coverage. israel is called here today mi

. >>> facebook and instagram now banned in russia. we're talking about the crackdown on social media. >>> good evening. i'm raj mathai. not just monday, but this is the first week of spring. the pricey tickets this week at chase center and the flying tesla. those stories just ahead. >>> let's start with another step toward normal for us. no more showing that covid vaccination card or the digital card when it comes to going to a warriors game or concerts or big music festivals like bottle rock. we reported last week that california gave the go-ahead to relax the rules, but ultimately it's our local counties which have the final say. today it appears that every one of our local counties will drop the requirement and follow the state guidance. the new rules start april 1st. the new guidelines apply to all mega events, which are indoor events with more than 1,000 people or outdoor events with more 10,000 people. if you are not vaccinated, you will be required to wear a mask. state health leaders say covid cases and hospitalizations are si

facebook and google, worth over $2.6 trillion combined aste i speak became digital advertising tightens during that same time. just yesterday, google reports 61 billion in advertising revenue in a single three month period. a 33% njump. i say to my colleagues a 33% jump from the same period just lastr year. look at those, numbers. 61 billion in just three months for one company. 61 billion and you have u.s. newspaper revenue from '08 to 2020 going from 37 billion to nine billion. as one of my colleagues said during the n presidential race,o the math. it's not a that hard to figure out. do the math. these big tech companies are not friends o to journalism. they're raking in ad dollars while taking news content, feeding it to user and see refusing toh offer fair compensation, and they're makine money on consumer's backs by usings the content produced by news outlets to suck up as much data about each reader as they can. so it's kind of a daubl whammy, right, they're the big guys, bringing in the content, not compensating forre it as they should andhe at the same time ty are getting the re

so it's facebook in 3 are gone from rasa . it's very narrow, very limited options for us in the public to get independent independent information from abroad. right. so what, what does that leave them? what options are there, or are russians just left with what the kremlin tell them? well, it's still possible to get independent information from, from independent sources. but it's a much more complicated than before because you need to deal with things like v p and so on. so no or not, everybody's ready to invest additional authority to get this information. basically the government has a very few grip and the public opinion and in the last hour and just read the news from the very small city of golf, which is a tiny, tiny city in gloucester. border read the story here with a police or a that the audio offices, a very small provisional newspaper, accusing them of spreading fake news about the russian army countries k that the whole, the computers in the, even the cell phone. so if you don't stop and shutting down the website of

julia, new head winds for facebook >> we are seeing red flags around facebook, user and ad challengeses after last month meta reported the first ever daily decline in users. today it said it sees audiences spending less time on the platform we were told -- and with user decline, ads come under pressure as well insider intelligence tell cnbc exclusively that it's lowering its forecast for meta. it's slashing the expected revenue for the company by about $2.5 billion both for this year and next year, and it is projecting that a fall ad will be down 25%, down from the 22% in 2020. meta revealed that one in five businesses are closed, more than were closed in july and more than a third of small and medium sized businesses globally reported that they reduced employment as a result of the pandemic today a crictical note was issued -- but on the flip side atlantic equities equities issued a far more bullish aassessment -- so right now met is a shares are down about half a percent. it will be interesting what comes out of the next quarterly earnings for meta. seems like it will be a crucial o

facebook is not an innovative company.'m not sure that is something mark zuckerberg would want to hear. kurt: not at all. but it is hard to dispute in some cases because a lot of the stuff facebook has done really well has been inventions created by other people. they acquired instagram should they acquired whatsapp. they acquired oculus. while they helped build those services into what they are today, a lot of the stories, which is reels on facebook, which is kind of a tiktok clone facebook has been known for a , lot of things other people came up with. maybe that is the difference between inventing something and making it massively popular, which is something they are capable of doing. emily: kurt wagner, thanks for breaking it down. last week bloomberg news reported affirm delayed a asset-backed bond sale. after a major investor backed out last minute due to market volatility. i spoke about this with the affirm founder and ceo but started by asking about the conflict in ukraine, a country he fled as a child. >> i have p

thank you for watching- _ facebook and twitter. thank you for watching. see _ facebook and twitter.k you for watching. see you soon. - for watching. see you soon. bye—bye. hello and welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed. why did the bbc suspend its journalists' work in russia a week ago and then resume broadcasting from there on tuesday? should we be hearing more the russian point of view in this conflict or less of putin's false propaganda? there impartiality is the cornerstone

matt: facebook would be a great tool if the u.s. could promote fake news articles about russia, for their consumption, you know? abigail: i believe that to your thinking, but it is interesting because there is not a lot of clarity. russia want to designate certain information and images as extremist, especially showing violence against their soldiers. whatsapp is the biggest piece in russia, instagram, and then facebook. investors at least today are nervous. we don't know if it is headline risk or if it could hit financials. jon: thanks very much. coming up, canada's jobs market blowing past expectations in february after the nation lifted its covid-19 restrictions. insight from frances donald. this is bloomberg. ♪ jon: this is bloomberg markets. i'm jon erlichman. here in canada, we got a job support for the month of february. one in the u.s. a week ago that showed some pretty healthy numbers. the numbers here blew past expectations. there were covid-19 restrictions they started to lift. at the end of the day, 336,000 jobs added, w

i'm hold on a 2nd button to reset people the world over d, w on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch. follow us. some are driven by merciless greed. others are fighting the destruction. forget to limp and readers came to prison. they shut down the next 2 days ago, ferment is trying to destroy the indigenous people with a large scale. burton and grabbers are exploiting b, amazon rain forest. indigenous peoples are now briefly opposing them because it's not only the earth's brains loans that are dying to the rain forest. we cease to exist and or people die out. a long term report from the heart of brazil starts march 9th on d. w. ah, facebook kicked out of russia, microsoft says it's left for tech companies in particular, the past few days have been a balancing act and they satisfy pressure from western nations while keeping perhaps critical services going in russia. also in the show as show as sanctions start to bite and the value of the rubel collapses, russians are starting to feel their countries isolation. and the war is having a ripple effect on commodities around the world

everyone is talking about tiktok but there is a problem with tiktok because with facebook, what theywere putting these ads on, it was like a nice pick and text. people would click on it like crazy, it made sense, we had the same people creating content for facebook move over to tiktok everyone knows it's a different culture and environment there. you have to ramp up to speak that language. i think it's going to be slow. so in the meantime, we will see a lot more red ink on the balance sheets of these companies, which lost cheap advertising on social media to reach their customers. >> i will take you up on power cruise 2 with facebook not doing what it was. is it the likes of you know an amazon that has a third party retailer marketplace and people sort of know how you have to try to gain the system there to get yourself to the top of the rankings, or does it go back to more traditional settings, aggregators, not like department stores the modern version, older school brand advertising. what happens >> i think am zorn has already started to take advantage of this may made 31 billion i

one more question on facebook live. when we come back, we will talk to michael f kristen: tax time is once again around the corner. on monday, april 18th this year. michael f. is here to answer your text questions. partnered with the united way. >> hey, kristin. we haven't done this for a year. we skipped last year because of the pandemic. we are back. we do this every single year. we are doing things a little different this year. here's a deal. you cannot call in this year, you have to go to social media, #askfinney, abc seven.com, or to the abc7 facebook page and ask your question there. we have experts, like cpa's and united way bay bringing me to this guy right here, he's an expert and volunteer with the united way bay area. i wanted to talk to you about a child tax credit. it's different this year than last year, correct? >> correct. >> what is the tax credit? >> the most basic is a credit if you have children that are on your tax return. a child is anyone under 17 years of age. you get a credit. if you have a chil

we have to remember that facebook and instagram and the i facebook and instagram and the platforms that by one case—by—case so by imposing these rules they create a situation where they keep some users are safe but in this case that has broken down because you have entire countries where people are so discontented with the russian military action in ukraine that they are calling for violence and protection from invading forces. that has left meta and a difficult place where effectively effort sticks to its own rules then it has no option but to ban huge swathes of users. significant populations within these countries so faced with this dilemma of kicking out the victims of the aggression they have taken the decision which has been communicated badly because it was leaked from the company and writers broke the news so they do not have the opportunity to be negated effectively. —— communicated effectively. -- communicated effectively-— effectively. the state media watchdog — effectively. the state media watchdog putting _ effectively. the state media | watchdog putting restrictions effect

so ben, facebook, tiktok say they're also taking action. talk about the breadth of what's going on and what do we know about the impact that these trolls are having. >> sure, so, you know, russian propaganda has targeted ukraine for a long time. specifically in this case, with those fake faces that you just saw, the entire point is to make it look like ukraine is a failed state. and that they would be welcomed -- russia would be welcomed as liberators in ukraine. that's obviously not what's happening. as you can tell by the reality on the ground. russia is sort of losing the threat with its propaganda right now. both internally in russia. they're not getting the sort of widespread support that they thought they would get.

which frances, how going leak to the whistleblower from facebook. they only deal with 0.6 percent of all violence and intimidation on their platform. so $99.00 out of a 100 times if you wrote something which was inciting violence and or intimidation, it wouldn't be dealt with on any journalist. for example, in the united states would laugh hollowly if they were told that mattered as a marvelous job of cleaning up the violence and intimidation on their platform. any politician would to. so in reality, they're saying we're, we're losing a policy that we barely managed to enforce to even one percent anyway. but i think more fundamentally it x is really big question. do they have a list of autocrats and dictators that if you aren't allowed to call for hom on to them? it's a bizarre situation where an arbitrary set of rules have been invented by mark zak, a bug and nick leg. i suspect to the, to, to distract attention from one key fundamental. they are still allowing russia to send ra, english language propaganda via r t on that platform. and this call t

well, it's the same game. facebook goes this way as off was forbidden on facebook. and now since august operation started, it's allowed to have a nice as office, and these are neo nazi. so what, what, what to say? and that's what i mean. they're really showing who they are. we right now, see who they are until well, 2 weeks ago it was a conspiracy, syria theory, and so on. but we, they showed themselves, there is nothing to discuss. we see who they are. who are they? as i said, it's, it's ca of an instrument of the american propaganda. and i wrote several articles about that on the horn internet. google was founded with ca, money. the algorithm did. the technology for google was founded was, was developed by these 2 founders when they are students by ca, i'm, they reported to see a and this is public american documents. you can see this. you can see it with paypal, paypal if the paper found, are the same. people like plenty of phone quality is the spice spice software. that may be the best one in the world. i don't know, but, but it's, it's sometimes in the media an

you work at facebook editors pr headache after pr headache. people who believe in the missions of the amazons, googles and facebooks, these companies with tens of thousands of employees, it is a harder sell. when something like ukraine is going on, something that is a real world issue, it puts a lot of other stuff interspersed -- into perspective for people who might not have bought into that mission to begin with. emily: i'm sure the story will continue to evolve. the massive list of companies helping -- list of companies growing as they take a stand on ukraine. michelle, great to have you with us. you have to be thinking about the macroeconomic picture. what are you bracing for any terms of how this global tunnel could impact consumer behavior? >> it is a great point. we are navigating unprecedented times like we have the last couple of years. there is a lot of uncertainty and concern for sure. i would say from a club standpoint, we are staying close to the -- from the coals standpoint, we are staying close to the customer. we demonstrated w

so what did facebook do? they refine the algorithm to make it that you see more photographs in your news feed. and that also helped them sell more ads because it allowed them to create more, wider, more graphic ad layouts where people would see the ads interspersed with the photographs in their feed. and i talk about this in the book. why do i bring this up? because the algorithms are a dialogical process, right? it's us giving them information and telling them what our preferences are, and then they refining and fine-tuning it in order to campus on the site longer and sell us more advertising. and it becomes a cycle. so, i feel like -- and this is my opinion, people can disagree -- that we still have a lot of power in this. because ultimately, they're looking for signals and cues from us about what will get us to spend time on the platform now. and the more time we spend on the platform, the more data they can extract from us, the more advertising they can sell, the more revenue they can make. so, we need to

you know, when jessica has facebook explained why exactly they took down your account? no, they didn't explain anything. they didn't even reply to my questions. and this is really, you know, dreadful because i'm a member of the european vitamin. i'm not to come in and i use the my facebook for my information for my communication to italian and european people. and this is very big damage for the whole or democracy could a system of europe because we already in the europe, you are working about the system to regulate, to be good media, social media enterprise this and prevented them to act us. so in such it and to democracy way, violating private rights and you know, fundamental human rights are like freedom of expression. but what we're seeing is that all the western establishment that have agreed on the line a political line that is far more than irrational. mr. pursued that correctly said it's worse than irrational. it's really a cream, you know? i think it's crazy man that we never so something like these in our history. and i, i'm really worried about the status of

the firm which owns instagram, watch stuff, and facebook will also reportedly let users call for the death of the russian and bill of russian presidents. the move has shocked even the un human white's office, which says it will talk to the american multi national. and there's already been a massive online backlash. we don't allow hate speech except against certain people from a certain country. is one hell of a can of worms. when hate speech calls for violence, death, threats, and praise for neo nazis are considered acceptable by matter because of war, but only against the enemy. then they are clearly state affiliated media. they're also directly promoting and encouraging conflict violence and war. facebook is changing its hate speech policy so that some users can call for violence against russians. and you can support the good nazis to the company claims. the decision is temporary and comes in connection with russia's special operation in ukraine. matter will reportedly lift its hate speech restrictions for users only from some european states, including russia and ukraine. the tech

bad situation. worse when walking to the show, i'm seeing currency in berlin. russia has blocked facebook and restricted access to twitter across the country, saying the social media sites were discriminating against russia. news outlets. earlier in the day, microsoft announced it was spinning new sales and services in the country. it's just the latest you as tech company to make the move it's i phone went off limits several days ago. but apple's app store and other services are still available in russia like other tech companies. it's walking a tightrope, responding to western pressure, while trying to stay afloat in rushes, tightening information sphere. the tech platforms right now are really doing a delicate dance in terms of i think it's important for them to stay operational in russia as it's one of the few tools that russian activists can use. that is not controlled by state media. it's one of the few ways of trying to get information out to counter what is coming from the rushing government. and so they are trying to both stand up to the country, but also not go so far that to and

are facebook and instagram users safe as this invasion continues on your platforms? >> i think everyone needs to take steps to make sure that they're safe online. we're taking every step that we can to make sure our users and our platforms are safe. >> reporter: meta says it doesn't know how long the users behind these accounts have been active but believes the group is linked to other trolls who spread misinformation about the 2020 u.s. presidential election and the covid vaccine. despite tech giants taking action, bad actors often work across platforms like this account, called ukraine today, removed by facebook but still active on google news. google did not respond to our request for comment. >> the challenge is they oftentimes don't know what they're looking for. the only way to really figure that out is with public/private partnerships, social media companies working with governments to try to figure out who's really behind the accounts. >> jo, speaking of concerns about what's happening online, ukraine received a major delivery from elon musk today. what was i

find us on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter.— find us on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitterthank you for watching- _ facebook and twitter. thank you for watching. see _ facebook and twitter. thank you for watching. see you _ facebook and twitter. thank you for watching. see you soon. - for watching. see you soon. bye—bye. hello and welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed. why did the bbc suspend its journalists�* work in russia a week ago and then resume broadcasting from there on tuesday? should we be hearing more the russian point of view in this conflict or less of putin�*s false propaganda? there impartiality is the cornerstone of bbcjournalism, but should it apply in reporting on a wall where it is quite clear which side the uk and the west are on? spenceradams side the uk and the west are on? spencer adams thinks we are being given to one—sided view of the conflict, e—mailing e—mailing: a number of viewers have expressed the opposite opinion, too much time has been given a guess defending the invasion. here are a couple of examples, and interview nick robinson had

facebook's campaign to turn the public against ticket yok. the biden administration lifting a major border restriction, and just in from the academy what, will smith refused to do after he slapped chris rock. >> live from cnbc, the facts, the truth, the news with shepard smith. >>> good evening vladimir putin's top advise remembers lying to him about the invasion they aren't telling him how terribly it's really going because they are afraid to give him the truth. that's according to a new u.s. intelligence assessment from the pentagon of course, the rest of the world has seen the outgunned and outnumbered ukranians make mince meat out of the mighty russian war machine and push invaders back in some key areas we're seen images like these near the city of kyiv today of destroyed and abandoned russian armored vehicles, the bodies of russian soldiers left behind to rot on the streets all the while vladimir putin, the ex-kgb intelligence officer, has been apparently left in the dark a u.s. official says accurate information about russia's failures

well if you look at a thing like facebook in the early days of facebook it was a little bit of a combination of like frenster which was like, you know finding your friends online a little bit of combination of like hot or not, right? who's this person's picture and then like poking people on walls. and then what happened was? camera phones got better. and mobile service got better and we as users started posting photos to facebook. a lot so much so that over 50% of the content on facebook at one point was people uploading photographs. so what at facebook to they refined the algorithm to make it that you'd see more photographs in your newsfeed. and that also helped them sell more ads because it allowed them to create more wider more graphic ad layouts where people would see the ads interspersed with the photographs in their feed. and i talk about this in the book. why do i bring this up? because the algorithms are a dialogical process right? it's us giving them information and telling them what our preferences are and then they refine and fine-tune in order to keep us on the site longer and s