bibi netanyahu masterful handling of the pandemic as the prime minister proudly proclaimed on facebook israeleads the world in testing for the virus predictably the haters chimed in to point out that those statistics were isolated to one week and therefore his post only applies to a specific snapshot in time if one includes previous weeks in the calculation israel lags behind countries like australia norway and iceland in the number of tests and for 14th israeli police made sure none of the tests were being wasted on palestinians by raiding and shutting down a clinic in the still one section of east jerusalem the clinic was set up by neighborhood activists but there may have been some collaboration with the palestinian authority so israel shut it down in order to prevent any governmental activity by the p.a. in occupied east jerusalem preventing people from getting the care they need because of their nationality may seem a bit harsh during a deadly pandemic but the good news is a lot of those people are about to become israelis to whether they want to or not since covert broke out israel has

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israel to bring you. anything there. with 900000 followers robinson's facebook page is so popular it's been given the same protected status as governments and news organizations when they say freedom of speech what they're really saying is we really want to permit people to do whatever they want in this platform and we will do the bare minimum to make that socially acceptable their business model is really tied to being able to publish whatever they want and it once you understand that the nature of large internet networks is that the harshest meanest voices are going to dominate but you realize that the more open you make the platform inherently the more unpleasant inappropriate bad content you're going to get on. what you just told me robinson get a shielded account the same as the government of the b.b.c. high profile organizations that are respected if the content is indeed violating it will go to the very valuable accounts these all but you've got hundreds of thousands of followers again i want to be clear this is not a discussion about money this is a discussion about political speech and i think people would expect

israel. transparency transparency transparency. authoritative reporting of what is happening, intelligent responsible interpretation, question if they want but moderation of it has been very crucial. and and and vetting the information of its website. facebook is moving pretty soon now. toward an independent review board for its editorial decisions. i think that could help in moderating this content. >> host: are you concerned about the danger that private company's like youtube and facebook will be censoring information as opposed to conducting legitimate editorial activities? >> this brings us to the independent review board. facebook decides to take some post challenging. and floating the scientific idea that facebook decides his quackery. the thrust of david's question, isn't that dangerous, the value of where we are headed now with facebook's voluntary decision to create this independent review board is the facebook user if they have their material taken down, could file an appeal to the independent appeals board and they would assess it and there would be a noncorporate body of individuals weighing the evidence and making the decision. >> host: another important pillar of democracy is voting. the pandemic affect our physical ability t

and certainly twitter and facebook i've been banned from there for things i posted and you me you'd be shocked at the things up i think i posted one time that i went to israel had a great time and i got banned 3 months despite that so i'm going. to go after people that they know arks are conservatives you know right leaning people it's and it's blatant it's obvious you know up there in soccer or as guys can say all they want but they want to control everything out there right now i'm not saying we have to worry about the election coming up as well because they're there so there's. you know there's going to be there's going to be a lot of a lot of illegal voting go on our i couldn't agree with you more and the president as well i recently you tweeted this speaking of twitter what the hell is going on in our nursing homes and you know i just want to you showed a video of a 1 of the people getting punched it was a case in detroit where somebody got a 20 year old with a virus was in the nursing home planting a 75 year old patient in new york governor cuomo let order that sick people with the corona virus go into nursing homes we've got almost 6000 dead in new y

israel mapping team is reportedly working on outlining the details the scope and timing of any an extension is still unclear but it would make a future sovereign palestinian state even more elusive. facebook has agreed to pay out $52000000.00 in a settlement brought by workers who developed post-traumatic stress disorder while moderating disturbing content a social media company has not admitted causing harm but has agreed to provide counseling for content moderators more than 11000 workers are eligible to receive the compensation which could open the door to lawsuits against similar social media companies. and arthur sullivan from the business is with us for more on this story hi arthur thanks for joining us this decision is being called a landmark one why is it so significant well there is content moderation sumi is quite new there has never been a ruling of this kind of force so it's been quite an unregulated area and it has become increasingly important the last few years and what the ruling essentially means although facebook has not directly admitted that this work causes harm for users or has a night in either the. attendant emmons of it are a tacit acknowledgement of how harmful t