the results of this experiment are staggering by studying 10 of your likes on facebook the algorithm knows you better than your call the box with a 100 likes it knows you better than your family. and with 230 likes it knows you better than your spouse now given how much food friends how many brains we are living every day while using internet and playing of our phones. it basically means that computers can clearly know us better in many ways than even our close family members. prediction of human behavior through the combination of personal data and psychological tests is shockingly accurate. david garrow is a media professor at parsons university in new york. modeled for months to retrieve the data that cambridge analytical had on him. he was amazed by what he discovered . this is the excel spreadsheet that they provided it is broken into 3 tabs core data election returns and models the model on the one hand personal data that the firm has gathered from the web and then my registered now this is all the voter data here and this is what would normally be public in voter records but i

for having one there's one oversight board just like there is why and like set of community standards and policies for all of facebook we don't have a balkanized internet and terms of like these platforms the reason they comply individually with laws within countries and they do that they're geo blocking so for example holocaust denial is illegal or sorry holocaust denial is illegal in france and germany and so they like they will geo lock certain types like speech in france and germany but it's legal in the united states and so they don't do it there. so there's not this isn't this isn't about geography it's but i just wanted to say something really quick because i think that like we're there's just there's just small amount of like and i know that a 30 minute talk on live t.v. is never the best place to really like break bread and like make me like kind of like inroads on things but i do want to say that like everything that has been said so far by the other guests i agree with i just don't think that what there is yet it is like a reason to be skeptical of the actual oversight board which is its own independent or

forward to change that so yes we can definitely expect more pressure on tech giants like google like facebook like amazon. but we will wait and see what actually will change if lawmakers will try to pressure those companies to break up if we might see fines if they have to change their business practices but yes there is definitely increased pressure on those tech giants google they can if they can't cut in new york thanks so much. the united states says it will remove sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism on condition the country pays more than a 300000000 dollars to american victims and their families the move could prove a major boost for the sudanese economy and they bring the country to access foreign loans and investments many in the capital khartoum see moves by the u.s. to ease tensions as a great opportunity perceived on the north african nation status as a state sponsor of terrorism and saddam was isolated internationally and margin in economic slump because of tough u.s. sanctions now it will become much easier for international companies and banks to resume doing business

facebook is trying to compete with them. is a greatbook success with marketplace, which has sort of been a sleeper hit, almost like facebook hasraigslist. other building on that with new features? kurt: i've been feeling the same way. marketplace is totally underrated. i've used it personally a few times and it is a far better experience in my mind. this plays into the same idea that facebook probably looked at marketplace and realized there is a lot to be said about people connecting with those in their immediate vicinity. buying do stuff around things, but also around safety, there is a safety element to this that would be beneficial. you are probably right that they have learned from marketplace and that this is one of the reasons this is suddenly coming out now. toly: interesting, something follow for sure, bloomberg's kurt lackner, thank you so much for your reporting. the price of bitcoin rose to the highest level since july 2019 after people announced it would allow customers to use cryptocurrency. one ceo called it biggest news of the year in crypto. he is going to join us tomorrow here on bloomberg technology. you don

he says it's time to reconsider roles that give platforms like facebook, twitter, and google protection from liability. he also answered questions about the possibility of passing coronavirus relief legislation. >> you are all out working. thank you for coming. with less than three weeks to go until the election, many americans are eager to learn about the candidates. it is imperative our information channels are open and americans can access stories by the press and their own social circles. congress believed in the power of information so much they created special liability protections for information platforms, technology companies like facebook, twitter and google. it is called section 230. i believe in the principles outlined in the law. it is clear section 230, it is not working. justice clarence thomas said the courts had sweeping new protections of 230 that congress never put in statute. it is time to scrap the law and start over. yesterday the new york post, one of the country's largest newspapers published a piece on hunter biden, and his work on the board of ukrainian energy

positions in the tech world if you're seeing companies like facebook like apple like amazon for instance so all of them they will very closely watch that case and if they google would lose that could make it easier for lawmakers to old also go after some of those other tech giants yes quarter reporting from new york thank you. what i have to see now is some of the other stories from around the world protesters in thailand spread out across the capital bangkok to sing the national anthem at 6 in the evening while sewing so we think or salute to this become the movement symbol was the latest action in the fines and bans on public gatherings purchasers want the government to resign the constitution and reforms to the market. french authorities have ordered the closure of a mosque in paris saying it helped provoke last week's murder of a teacher a mosque had shared a video railing against the teachers use of cartoons of the muslim prophet muhammad in class its director insists sharing the clip was not a call to violence. firefighters in the u.s. state of colorado are battling the state's lar

facebook, how can you not like snap?i just wish we owned it. >> that's my point we own - >> is it time to buy snap, for all of the reasons you would want to own a facebook, maybe snap is in the stages of giving you a facebook-like advantage in your portfolio they have a unique audience that's highly engaged. it's a way for advertisers to reach young people maybe it's an early fb >> sure. i think it's a fantastic company. augmented reality is what they're selling and advertisers love it and in an environment where people are looking at their phones and their screens all the time, it obviously has hit a home run we have to do the work and decide at what price we buy it that's what we did with twilio, with many of the growth stocks we own, the smaller cap names it's more important because they've had this phenomenal run. and if there's a price where we come to it and we see that snap -- we're not going to buy it today, but if it pulls back and we say, we'll buy it 20% below this or 15%, you never know when that might happen

what the hearing was meant to be about of course section $230.00 that's what keeps that companies like facebook google and twitter from being held liable for user posted come for user posted content now what will change for these businesses should that law be revoked that's something that we've heard that both sides say that they want or at least some of them. what we shouldn't forget is that the section $230.00 actually was sick created in the late ninety's of a not mistaken so at that time companies like facebook or twitter did not even exist at this point still if you look at both parties is there is some agreement that changes would be necessary actually mark zuckerberg from facebook has and himself is saying there should be changes and that the government so that washington should take more responsibility to get involved when it comes to content on those sites but to me that sounds a bit like they have trying to push the rest sponsibility away from facebook over to congress or to washington so a big question mark also is how congress will change after the elections if congress should remai

here is that question turn from the other side for instance to co-creator of the facebook like button tells us in the silm that his team just wanted to create something that will be good that would will foster good will enable people to reassure each other and those that hadn't expected ange depression or the like addiction to come out of it right but a decision is being liked one way or another and once again nothing to do with instagram it's human nature right. so i'm just wondering are we start of scapegoating the big tech because we're just too embarrassed to admit that our behavior is ugly at times urges blaming our ages old vanity and facebook. i think it's a good i think it's a good point i mean my takeaway from the film is is twofold one is that maybe 3 full the companies need to take more responsibility and accountability that governments may need to step in if they don't do that quickly enough in in we as individuals. are responsible to we're making choices that are not in our best interests and we've lost control of our phones and we need it for a number of the reasons that

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washington post and a biden victory could see the social media company being broken up facebook along with the likes of google and amazon have been forewarned by the democrats that they're abusing their market positions facebook has been accused of being a monopoly and pretty much competing against itself after the 2012 acquisition of instagram and the company has been accused of tinkering with its algorithms to give more prominence to right wing sites zuckerberg has even courted right wing commentators and regularly talks to trump's son in law jared cushion a facebook was used to promote genocide in me and mob and it's india operations have been accused of allowing right wing politicians to spread hate all to curry favor with prime minister narendra modi's ruling party and let's not forget the site was used to broadcast live the murder of scores of muslim worshippers in 2 new zealand mosques so far only google has been hit by a us lawsuit for anti competitive behavior the case focuses on payment it gives to phone makers to make sure its search engine is the preferred choice the european union has s

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positions in the tech world if you're seeing companies like facebook like apple like amazon for instance so all of them they will very closely watch the case and it's a google would lose that could make it easier for lawmakers to old also go after some of those other tech giants yes quarter reporting from new york thank you. so when i bring up to speed now with some of the stories making news around the world . protesters in thailand spread out across the capital bangkok to sing the national anthem at 6 in the evening while showing so we think our salute has become a movement symbol well it was the latest action in defiance of bans on public gatherings protesters want the government to resign constitution and reforms to the monarchy. french authorities have ordered the closure of a mosque in paris saying it helped provoke last week's murder of a teacher the mosque had shared a video railing against a teacher's use of cartoons of the muslim prophet muhammad in class its director insists that sharing a clip was not a call to violence. around $1000.00 prisoners have from a jail in eastern d

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forward to change that so yes we can definitely expect more pressure on tech giants like google like facebook like amazon. but we will wait and see what actually will change if lawmakers will try to pressure those companies to break up if we might see fines if they have to change their business practices but yes there is definitely increased pressure on those tech giants google mckinney if they can't cut in new york thanks so much. the united states says it will remove sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism on conditions the country pays more than $300000000.00 to american victims and their families the move could prove a major boost for the sudanese economy and neighboring the country to access foreign loans and investments. many in the capital khartoum see moves by the u.s. to ease tensions as a great opportunity for sudan the north african nation status as a state sponsor of terrorism meant sudan was isolated internationally and margin in economic slump because of tough u.s. sanctions now it would become much easier for international companies and banks to resume doing business in s

adjusting the stance and now facebook like everybody is having to read some political tea leaves notabout the election but about how congress views them, how the public views them and when we see every day some of the top trending pieces of engagement on their platform. >> they're facing krit succritin so many different fronts there is this question of not only are they being fair in the way they're treating different types of content but it is really an open platform or one that needs to really take stock and fact check the kund ind of content that is being shared and in ads. jon, what are you watching now >> i'm wondering whether that .6% of revenue that i think zuckerburg said he expected political ads to be was just way off on the estimate other what is going on there? but moving on, take a look at airlines as we just mentioned, house speaker pelosi just saying there won't be any stand alone aid for airlines without a comprehensive deal attached. that, of course, wouldn't be stand alone. american airlines ceo doug parker is going to weigh in on that next. so stay with us. some co

there is no other company like google or like facebook or like apple.ck, great to see you tonight, thanks for doing this. >> thank you. >> tucker: so democrats are very outraged today because amy coney barrett doesn't seem quite as enthusiastic about abortion as they are. why this issue? why the single-minded focus on it? what does it tell you about them? we will tell you after the break. ♪ >> tucker: well, throughout today's confirmation hearings, democrats warned that one thing is absolutely certain. amy is going to overrule the ruling and once that happens the nation is going to collapse. >> it would actually be wrong in violation for me to do that as a sitting judge. if i have a view on a precedent one way or another it signals to people that i may tilt one way or another in a pending case. >> on something that is a major cause with major effect on over half the population in this country it's distressing to not get a straight answer. i don't know if you are going to answer this either. you believe the decision that it can and should be overturned b

your digital services do you would like to see a range of rules imposed on big tech companies like facebook and google and apple rules like making them share their data with smaller rivals what is it that you think that they're doing that is so wrong. while the last time when our democracy's sort of said things you can do things you cannot do that was back in the digital stone age that was the year 2000 and no one back then imagined what's what what would be the case of our reality today so when you then grow up and you become stronger then of course comes responsibility. and we need to say to some of these service providers you have a responsibility for the way you do business to make sure that people feel comfortable when they are online as well as when they are off line and that i think is very important and also for this business is the internment of is that member states they make their own legislation i think i would still prefer to have one set of rules to live by but can it keep up with the breakneck speed of tech well not unknown the didn't so services act will not do it alone i al

two years later, he acknowledges the impact, acknowledges that facebook likely did tip the election and front of congress. that is two years later. emily: what do you think about mark, the google founders who recently left the company? are they bad guys? >> i think i agree with tim that they are negligent. i think even if they were as enlightened as they could be, when they speak, they sound like hostages trap in a hostage video. nothing that a hostage is saying makes any sense until you see a person offstage holding a gun to their head which is their business model. jack dorsey appears to be doing the best he can, but in a very complex, unfortunate circumstance. that is why we need a global cultural movement to address these problems because the state has the buy in the market. this film is exciting to me because it is the first time we have 190 countries in 30 languages all becoming awake to these problems at a massive scale. valley,ere in silicon we often glorify the founders of these companies. as an outsider, how do you think we can hold them accountable? >> i think we have to have

information so much their special liability protections and platforms such as technology companies like facebooknd twitter and google it is called section 230 and i believed in the principles outlined in the law but it is clear section 230 in its current form is no longer working. just last week, justice thomas said the courts had sweeping new protections in 230 that congress never put into statute it is time to scrap the law and start over yesterday the near post one of the largest newspapers in the country published a piece on hunter biden and his work on the board of the ukrainian energy company which of what she had no qualifications for it is an important story most americans would be appalled by the vice president son using his father's position to earn the enormous contract with one company for the response from many bring to light a bigger concern . . . . the answer to ae questions is no. social media companies intend to use the protections provided by congress for some americans but not others. we should remove those special standards altogether. ranking member jim jordan had of legisla

much they created special liability protections for information platforms, technology companies like facebook, twitter and google. it is called section 230. i believe in the principles outlined in the law. it is clear section 230, it is not working. justice clarence thomas said the courts had sweeping new protections of 230 that congress never put in statute. it is time to scrap the law and start over. yesterday the new york post, one of the country's largest newspapers published a piece on hunter biden, and his work on the board of ukrainian energy company burisma. she had no qualifications. it is an important story as most americans would be appalled by the press -- vice president using his father's position to earn an enormous contract. the response from many in the media and twitter and facebook bring to light an even bigger concern, the biggest social networks censoring information. if you are a citizen and posted information in the story, your account was locked. last night republican house judiciary committee posted the story on their website. a government website. twitter has censored

the crime has been committed but this is really interesting particularly with facebook because facebook is like a family restaurant so it's it is a family product it is something with a lot of children there in mom and dad and grandpa and grandma and and and be joe at everybody's there in the suddenly what facebook is doing it is introducing all those very evaleen groups and. is this really suitable for the type of company it is because what seems to be the case is now once facebook has gathered all those members followers user which way you want to call them now he's taking them to a darker place and i think this is where the governments are concerned the most peter we are talking about commercial entities here or there weren't we with shareholders and the bottom line what's are is owned by facebook it's encrypted but surely at facebook for instance were to give spy agencies access people would just switch to another up like telegram. to a certain extent yes book there are only so many apps and communication methods available at any particular time and there's nothing to say the governments wo

facebook is like the bar that decides to hire a bouncer after the 223rd stabbing. that, basically, every group is a qanon group now. even your grandma's knitting group is like, "today we're learning a new needlepoint pattern. do you like it?" now, of course, for qanon followers, this will just reinforce their belief that big tech is censoring them because they're also in on the conspiracy. which is ridiculous. no one at facebook is eating babies, okay? because without babies-- boom!-- that's 90% of facebook posts, gone. so, look, i'm glad that facebook is trying to shut down these groups, but to be honest, i'm skeptical it's going to work, because when it comes to monitoring content on their platform, they don't have the best track record. >> facebook apparently thinks this ad is to risque for users. gaze seed company in canada got this notification about its onions. according to facebook, the placement of the vegetable was overtly sexual. >> trevor: okay, what clearly happened here is that the algorithm that's supposed to detect sexy stuff got confused. or who kno

but there's another thing that, you know, facebook should be like "the washington post."write an article and somebody says that's not true, our paper can get sued if we publish it. should that case apply as well to a social media company like facebook which is going to have to be liable for what it posts on its site? bart, what do you think? >> well, that's a really interesting question. there are two issues there among probably many others that come to mind for me. one is that these internet companies have vigorously resisted that role for legal and regulatory reasons. if they are a public utility, if they are, essentially, a neutral conveyor of information the same as a phone company, you don't hold the phone company liable for the fact that people make telephone calls or say untrue things or make damaging forms of speech. so that's the place they want to be for legal and regulatory reasons. if you ask them to be, as facebook says it does not want to be, an arbiter of truth, you have to try to imagine how that could be done at scale with well over a billion can -- billi

your digital services do you would like to see a range of rules imposed on big tech companies like facebook and google and apple rules like making them share their data with smaller rivals what is it that you think that they're doing that is so wrong. well the last time when when our democracy sort of said things you can do things you cannot do that was back in the digital stone age that was the year 2000 and no one back then imagined what's what what would be the case of our reality today so when you then grow up and you become stronger then of course comes responsibility. and we need to say to some of these service providers you have a responsibility for the way you do business to make sure that people feel after. it's comfortable when they are online as well as when they are all flying and that i think is very important and also for this business is the internment of is that member states they make their own legislation i think i would still prefer to have one set of rules to live by but can it keep up with the breakneck speed of tech well not unknown the digital services act will not do

that mark zuckerberg is preparing for civil unrest and working on things facebook could do in this scenario. what does that look like actually mostly worried about disinformation targeting journalists, because the economic incentives of journalists of today are driven by the same things that drive facebook and youtube, which is to say they need attention, they need to grab that attention and hold it as long as they can. so, everyone will be looking for that moment where they can start to either declare a winner or just as importantly declare some important piece of news along the way. i do expect that there will be lots of players attempting to exploit that. i'm really relieved how effective the inoculation of journalism has been in the last couple weeks with the hunter biden nonsense and the proud boys email s cam -- scam that came up. it will be a difficult phenomenon after the election because that is a different kind of environment. for facebook, for youtube, for instagram, for twitter, the issue is their ability to enforce their own rules has not been good. and the rules themselves have carveouts that will allo