guide for facebook and that shows to me another connection between you know politically motivated campaign driven by national security hardliners funded by western governments and the purges we're seeing on social media platforms like facebook and twitter which are obviously coordinated interesting to see if the social media poses do consider the future as well with all of us going to journalists thanks for your take on the story here today. well calls being in the u.s. for an investigation into the alleged activities of american muscle or ease any given we'll have more on that story after the short break. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. wanted. to do like to be close it's like the before katrina more people. interested in the walls of our. city. international a u.s. democratic senator has demanded an investigation into whether u.s. must regroup was hired by the united arab emirates to assassinate political opponents in yemen. i'm also disturbed by the possibility that the u.s. government may have indorsed or tacitly allow current or former service members to engage in this kind of mili

funded think tank and facebook's recent purge of alternative media sources sociologist jeb's brother claims that during a security conference in berlin he spoke to jamie fly a senior fellow at the german marshall fund about the crackdown during their conversation spark alleges that flight suggested facebook purge was not actually about spam prevention as the social media giant had claimed. russia or china and other foreign states take advantage of all open political system they can invent stories that get repeated and spread through different sites so we're just starting to push back just this last week facebook began starting to take down sites so this is just the beginning. following the conference progress an article with journalist mark blum and phone detailing the conversation we spoke to explain the full about the claims this is part and parcel of a campaign run by national security hardliners under the guise of civil society groups like the german marshall fund in the atlantic council to impose their control over social media platforms that really represent the digital commons

they are still facing more than 10,000 lawsuits over its talc products. >>> facebook says it purged moreages and accounts that spammed users. they say the spam was designed to mislead users and often spread, quote, sensational political content that send foam web sites outside of facebook. they says the pages it removed fell on both sides of the political spectrum. hena. >> thanks, diane. >> all right. thank you, hena. >>> still to come, failure to launch. the investigation into a rocket failure that forced an astronaut and cosmonaut to make an emergency landing.. and cosmo naut naut to make an emergency landing. so fearless, so rugged... he's tough as chuck. you replaced me with a truck? vroom, vroom. ♪ toyota. let's go places. unlike ordinary toothpaste, colgate total fights bacteria on teeth, tongue, cheeks and gums for 12 hours. so you're totally ready for that big moment. colgate total. be totally ready for life. now the search is on for another. the neighborhood network of surveillance cameras that's key to solving these crimes. plus: a shocking admission. a bay area undercover age

put on top of the great facebook purge our nation's voter rolls have also been purged before the coming midterms journalist greg palast has been able to find out how much purging has happened in some areas of the country five hundred ninety one thousand knocked off in georgia four hundred sixty nine thousand kicked off the rolls in the ana five hundred fifty four thousand in illinois brian kemp who is running for governor down in georgia where the most people have been criminally kicked off the rolls and brian camp also has the job of deciding who gets kicked off the rolls but he has nothing to hide all right greg palast asked him about the one in ten per voters mostly people of color ask him to his face and kemp kindly took the time to explain the situation is going to go is good for you removing black voters from the voter rolls are secure with this election are you are you heard you voters voted. for you lose his he loses you know her dream. jarrah here you. ask well black people why the black people are being persian part of a white man's grand kids. don't as young children here dad

. >>> with weeks to the midterms, facebook purging accounts. facebook removed 800 pages for spreading political misinformation like fake accounts and driving people to ad farms. facebook tells cnn the purge was about behavior, not content. banning political content regarding of the -- regardless of the political slant. facebook has faced harsh criticism for misinformation in the 2016 election. that criticism along with data privacy scandals hit the stock prices. shares down 30% since july. >>> ahead, cnn has learned the u.s. is working on the assumption that the missing "washington post" journalist was murdered in the consulate. we go live to istanbul next. >>> breaking news this morning. new evidence that missing "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi was killed at the consulate. the evidence shows that khashoggi was killed following some kind of assault and struggle. the source saying the turkish government told the foreign intelligence service the evidence is audio and video form. it includes voices speaking arabic and sounds of khashog

this completely now under the guise of being anti spam hundreds of anarchists pages shut down facebook purge. now as you mentioned this so-called purge is coming right on the back of upcoming u.s. midterm elections what's seen as a make or break for the democrats for republicans very crucial time in american politics this is another example of social media giants really stepping into a minefield of that battle between free speech versus fake news and many are seeing this movement itself as a form of meddling in the political process so it remains to be seen if any of those accounts perhaps will be on block there's a little as a result of this backlash or if facebook and other social media giants will go further by adding other pages from social media political discourse yes certainly turning into a big battle hawkins brings us right up there thank you very much. well indeed has done it was just alluding to the united states midterm elections are less than a month away with both the democrats and republicans appearing to grow increasingly animated and spoken and there's a lot at stake now you

and the page owners are scathing facebook page with over two point one million followers has been published along with eight hundred other pages and accounts the purge of old media is upon us i've been memory hold from facebook three hundred fifty thousand followers who've gone there is a dangerous precedent been sat here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers are political thought an opinion this intervention comes ahead of crucial midterm elections in the united states it's a sign of social media giants waiting even further into the minefield of free speech versus fake news and could be seen by many as a sign of meddling in itself. we've spoken to some of those who have been affected by facebook's latest purge they say the tech giant is taking aim at dissenting voices. this is clearly a political move when you have these major tech companies appointing themselves as the gatekeepers of political thought i was told that this was because of spamming that we are mass collectively pushing our information on people or that it was operated from a fake account all of these things are on true the information that i've use

facebook purging. the social network is trying to weed out political bad actors on the platform. s bloomberg. ♪ caroline: facebook says it is removing nearly 800 pages and accounts that have consistently broken rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior. this comes right before the u.s. midterm elections, of course. for more on the story, let's bring in sarah frier, who covers the social network. what were these pages trying to do? sarah: this is different than the kind of interference in our politics we have heard russia and iran coordinating. this is actually people in the u.s., these domestic accounts that have been trying to use incendiary shocking political news to get people to click on their sites and into the ads they are trying to run. it's more of a financial operation to try to make sure they can hook people, the same way they do with health news that is a little scary or celebrity news that is a little shocking. now politics is in the same category of things people click on. it has become a target for spammers. caroline: do we have any idea as to whether t

pages and a coincidence accuses of being misleading we spoke to some of those affected by facebook's latest purge they say the tech giant is policing people who speak are against the status quo. this is clearly a political move when you have these major tech companies appointing themselves as the gatekeepers of political thought i was told that this was because of spamming that we are mass collectively pushing our information on people or that it was operated from a fake account all of these things are on true the information that i've used to post on facebook was information that i produced on my website which goes against the government it goes against the status quo we've been experiencing self-censorship throttling. everything you needed and i've been banned back to back thirty days damn small times so facebook is slowly but surely going trying to push us out. our. ideology the information that we're putting out there even though it's based in peace and liberty they're trying to eradicate it from their platform it threatens the status quo this is nothing more than fake news on facebook mislea

pages on the consulates accuses of being misleading but we spoke to some of those affected by facebook's latest purge they say the tech giant is policing people who speak out against the status quo. we've been experiencing self-censorship throttling. everything you need to be going there and you can stand back to back thirty days barron's multiple times so facebook is slowly but surely going trying to push this out. our ideology use the information that we're putting out there even though it's space to use and liberty to try to eradicate it from the platform threatens the status quo. contradicts the mainstream media very slow because kind of blur the lines that. to go from inclusion. as well as pressure from government specialists in the last few months so i don't think it's safe to say that their private entity completely in that sense. you have these major tech companies appointing themselves as the gatekeepers of political thought well that is clearly a political move i was told that this was because of spamming. you know we are mass collectively. pushing our information on people or that it was o

. >>> and facebook has purged 800 accounts for misinformation and click bait. they're guilty of coordinated inauthentic behavior. they misled users about who they are and what they're doing. fahas vowed to crackdown on misinformation and election meddling after it was manipulated by the russians in to 16. >>> and texas ceo elon musk is looking at building a giant factory in nevada, and he said the housing shortage is one of the biggest problems to expand his factory. the area needs more schools, roads and affordable housing to accommodate its work jeers we're coming up now on our 6:00 hour, the transit bay terminal remains closed this morning, what it will take to get it back open and why that not happen until the end of the year. >>> plus. >> the storm has left town, but now comes the cleanup. i'm near mexico beach florida, a coastal town almost entirely wiped away by michael. >>> good morning right now, traffic will be slow on some freeways, highway 4 getting crowded coming up to the willow pass grave. >>> and temperatures will be bumped up and what about the

that's following the news that facebook has purged 700 accounts that were politically inflammatory. . >> hackers accessed names, email address and phone numbers of 29 million users in facebook's recent security breach. 14 million accounts, hackers also got birthdays, hometowns, and searches. the fbi is investigating but has asked facebook not to comment on who may be behind the attack. the hacking revelation comes as facebook continues to crack down on it considers to be fake political news accounts. it has shut down pages and accounts for using sensational political content regardless of political slant to build an audience and drive traffic to the website. earning money for every visitor to the site. >> they are really proactive because they understood they had to go before congress and they had so much controversy regarding what happened on facebook leading up to the last election, they had no choice but to be proactive. >> the social media company has previously been accused of targeting conservative pages and accounts but facebook says the pages shut down or on both sides of the

than a couple of russians taking out facebook ads i think at this point it's less about russians i think it's about criminalizing dissent in america was a massive purged of facebook and twitter websites this past week a very large chunk of them were very reputable alternative media sites that question the state and if you look at facebook statement about why they were banning them they said ok well these are american sites but they're exhibiting behavior reminiscent of the russian sites that we banned so i think the russian bogeyman is out there to provide for the elimination of any political dissent where they're left right libertarian progressive in america that's the real target. brett kavanaugh may have been confirmed as a u.s. supreme court justice but a certain grouping are determined to get their revenge on the divisive figure who was recently involved in a high profile sexual assault court case it seems they're willing to go to some quite good michelin's. lists. the letter. underwent that. it says it took two next year but they have cast iron stomach. it is a scary time right now i mean and there's a list of things going on now you've got witc

than a couple of russians taking out facebook ads think at this point it's less about russians i think it's about criminalizing dissent in america was a massive purged of facebook and twitter websites this past week a very large chunk of them were very reputable alternative media sites that question the state and if you look at facebook statement about why they were banning them they said ok well these are american sites but they're exhibiting behavior reminiscent of the russian sites that we've banned so i think the russian bogeyman is out there to provide for the elimination of any political dissent where they're left right libertarian progressive in america that's the real target. switching gears now an op market british grocery chain has apologized for selling a supposedly sexist sun which waitrose is not a renaming it after complaints that they'd appeared to be men only snark. i never knew sandwiches were gender specific and female but thankfully we chose that he preaches the sandy way. is there for our intention to cause offense when we are planning to change the name of the salmon suit. for madam prefer unisex relish. i never knew what gender

than a couple of russians taking out facebook ads think at this point it's less about russians i think it's about criminalizing dissent in america was a massive purge of facebook and twitter websites this past week a very large chunk of them were very reputable alternative media sites that question the state and if you look at facebook statement about why they were banning them they said ok well these are american sites but they're exhibiting behavior reminiscent of the russian sites that we've banned so i think the russian bogeyman is out there to provide for the elimination of any political dissent where they're left or right libertarian progressive in america that's the real target. clean your room pay the bills on look after your cut there are just some of the strict new harsh rules being imposed on julian the songe while he's a living guest of the ecuadorian embassy in london but the wiki leaks founder say's the rules violate his he. and right so the ecuadorian government which has been sheltering him for the past dozen years wiki leaks has confirmed that a lawyer has filed a case against ecuador has internet access cut off several months ago

some of those that have been banned facebook page with over two point one million followers has been unpublished along with eight hundred other pages and accounts the purge of all the media is upon us i've been mammary hold from facebook three hundred. a few thousand followers poof gone there is a dangerous precedent being set here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers after the ticket thought an opinion rich with this if you care about free speech so as well as being political accounts that oppose the support of donald trump some of them of also given you know alternative meaning media monitor police corruption looked at political corruption as well as the scale here is quite big and what's interesting in this of course comes ahead of the u.s. midterm elections every vote seen as very crucial the parties are neck and neck according to latest polls. this leads into the bait about free speech versus fake news that endless stories that we've heard over the past few months with zero but i mean some of the congress etc it's been very much in the news and by many this step by facebook will be viewed as some sort of meddling

than a couple of russians taking out facebook ads think at this point it's less about russians i think it's about criminalizing dissent in america was a massive purged of facebook and twitter websites this past week a very large chunk of them were very reputable alternative media sites that question the state and if you look at facebook statement about why they were banning them they said ok well these are american sites but they're exhibiting behavior reminiscent of the russian sites that we've banned so i think the russian bogeyman is out there to provide for the elimination of any political dissent where they're left right libertarian progressive in america that's the real target. so much more on the inside out team working round the clock to bring you the latest as it happens i can get you all those headlines straight to mobile devices two for now here in moscow this early saturday evening is kevin knowing saying thanks for watching this update and have a great weekend. and that. being the. season and. you know. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars crimes happen eac

. >>> facebook says it has purged more than 800 accounts for spamming users with political misinformation. they were guilty of coordinated behavior. the profile spread sensational content and misled users. facebook has vowed to crack down on misinformation after the platform was manipulated in 2016. >>> more than 67 million americans can anticipate larger social security checks. the cost of listing adjustment will be 2.8%. those collecting get $39 a month. the agency uses data to figure out how much to collect. >>> san mateo county is rolling out a new program allowing people to tex 911 in case of emergency. dispatch centers are equipped to receive the message. the service is a benefit to the deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired. there's situations where it may be safer to text. >> they can't speak for whatever reason, if you're a hostage or active shooter situation or deaf, we are here to say there's a way to communicate to get law and first responders to you as soon as possible. >> the location service must be enabled to text 911 in san mateo county and include your location in the

about criminalizing dissent in america because as you as your viewers know there was a massive purge of facebook and twitter websites this past week a very large chunk of them were very reputable alternative media sites that question the state and if you look at facebook statement about why they were banning them they said ok well these are american sites but they're exhibiting behavior reminiscent of the russian sites that we've banned so i think the russian bogeyman is out there to provide for the elimination of any political dissent where they're left right libertarian progressive in america that's the real target i am absolutely convinced ok danny i'm accountable is executive director of the ron paul institute of peace and prosperity always good to have you on the program thanks daniel. three days of mourning are being held in crimea for the victims of wednesday's college massacre a student killed twenty people before turning the gun on himself our senior correspondent mike castor is in the city of carriage where a public ceremony for the victims has been held. thousands and thousands of loc

and facebook says it purged more than 800 pages and accounts that spammed users. the giant says the spam was designed to mislead users and often spread, quote, sensational political content. that sent people to websites outside of facebook. the company says the pages it removed fell on conservatives and liberals. >> it seems like there's a day for everything these days. apparently today is national savings day. what are the rules of thumb about saving? >> yeah. so experts still say the rule of thumb is people should be saving 10% of their paycheck in a rainy day fund to cover at least three to six months of living expenses in the event of an emergency. capital one is created national savings day an unofficial holiday. i hope it sticks to help people to save. >> throw it in your retirement funds. hopefully the dow does well today. >> exactly. >> for all those people saving. >> to bring back the 401(k)s. >> need it to go back up. iane king hall of "cbsmone ywatch" from new york city, thank you. >>> a new report from delta airlines shows the company beat profit expect

and the page owners are scathing facebook page with over two point one million followers has been published along with eight hundred other pages and accounts the purge of old media is upon us i've been memory hold from facebook three hundred fifty thousand followers. there is a dangerous precedent been sat here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers our political thought in opinion this intervention comes ahead of crucial midterm elections in the united states it's a sign of social media giants wading even further into the minefield of free speech versus fake news and could be seen by many as a sign of meddling in itself. discuss this further with investigative journalist dan dan welcome to the program now and if we look at the facebook bans do you think . it's making the company too involved in politics and should their social media platform even be deciding which information. fake all real. well there is no doubt about this that this is political as i said in that tweet that you read this is clearly a political move when you have these major tech companies appointing themselves as the gate keepers of political th

the page owners are scathing out facebook page with over two point one million followers has been unpublished along with eight hundred other pages in accounts the purge of old media is upon us i've been memory hold from facebook three hundred fifty thousand followers. there is a dangerous precedent been said here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers are political thought an opinion rich with this if you care about free speech this latest intervention comes ahead of crucial midterm elections in the u.s. it's a sign of social media giants waiting even further into the minefield of free speech versus fake news and could be seen by many as a sign of meddling in itself. thanks dan no elsewhere today those two astronauts are no doubt thinking their lucky stars after successfully escaping the failed launch of their soyuz spacecraft thursday booster rocket motor function just minutes into their flight less than three minutes into it causing them to abort dramatically or return to earth again it was a huge rescue and after they went through that of the medical tests there was big relief from friends and family of course as

and the page owners are scathing facebook page with over two point one million followers has been unpublished along with eight hundred other pages and accounts the purge of old media is upon us i've been memory hold from facebook three hundred fifty thousand followers. there is a dangerous precedent been sat here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers are political thought in opinion this intervention comes ahead of crucial midterm elections in the united states it's a sign of social media giants waiting even further into the minefield of free speech versus fake news and could be seen by many as a sign of meddling in itself joining me now it's matt birk went from punk rock a libertarian pod cast that was also banned by facebook thanks for joining us on the program here mad now when did you realize your account had been suspended and did facebook provide an explanation as to why it was done. yeah it's sounded like they thought they were being run by fake profiles and we were doing spam but they didn't really say anything specific about it yesterday our page was just down and i was my account was actually deleted off f

and the page owners ask a thing out facebook page with over two point one million followers has been unpublished along with eight hundred other pages in accounts the purge of old media is upon us i've been mammary hold from facebook three hundred fifty thousand followers who've gone there is a dangerous precedent been sat here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers are political thought an opinion of this intervention comes ahead of crucial midterm elections in the united states it's a sign of social media giants wading further into the minefield of free speech versus fake news and could be seen by many as a sign of meddling in itself. well let's talk weather for their with their ben-hur for the bow groupies strong got strong feelings on this the bow group of course they depended on so if you think back there. so what facebook and others like it doing here they say the humanity from themselves or are they the right people to be filtering out what they think is fake news or not or not no i don't think so and i think the best metric for what people want to see is what they are looking at and when you've got very popular

and yesterday facebook announced it has purged sempblg hn dread accounts that were politically inflammatoryf correspondent jonathan hunt takes a look. >> hackers accessed names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of 29 million facebook users in the social media giant's most recent security breach. for 14 million accounts, hackers also got birth dates, home towns, recent check-in locations and searchs of the fbi is investigating but is asking facebook not to comment on who may be behind the attack. the hacking revelations come as facebook cracks down on what interest considers fake political and news accounts. announcing in a shutdown more than 800 pages and accounts for using what it it calls quote sensational political content regardless of its political slant to build an audience and drive traffic to their websites. earning money for every visitors to the site. >> they're really proactive. they understood, based on the fact that they had to go before congress, they had so much controversy regarding what happened on facebook leading up to the last election. they had no choice but to be pro

and the page owners are scathing facebook page with over two point one million followers has been published along with eight hundred other pages and accounts the purge of old media is upon us i've been memory hold from facebook three hundred fifty thousand followers. there is a dangerous precedent been said here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers are political thought an opinion this intervention comes out of crucial midterm elections in the united states it's a sign of social media giants waiting even further into the minefield of free speech versus fake news and could be seen by many as a sign of meddling in itself. well we're now joined by matt savoy co-founder of the free thought project the second biggest and by facebook thanks for joining us here on our team at let's start with you talking us through what happened when did you realize your account had been suspended. well facebook is normally glitchy all the time you know we have rough times trying to post things to different pages all the time and yesterday around twelve thirty pm we started trying to post some of the articles that were written on the we

the page owners are scathing our facebook page with over two point one million followers has been published along with eight hundred other pages and accounts the purge of old media is upon us i've been memory hold from facebook three hundred fifty thousand followers. there is a dangerous precedent being set here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers are political thought an opinion this intervention comes ahead of crucial midterm elections in the united states it's a sign of social media giants waiting even further into the minefield of free speech versus fake news and could be seen by many as a sign of meddling in itself the founders have to ban news have their faith or project on and dot com tell us that these latest developments and very worrying. we've been experiencing self-censorship throttling. everything you need if we can bear arms and band back to back thirty days small times so facebook is slowly but surely going trying to push us out. our ideology information that we're putting out there even though it's based in truth and liberty they're trying to eradicate it from their platform it threatens the stat

. ♪ >> bret: facebook says it has purged more than 800 u.s. and accounts for spamming users with garbage links and clickbait. the company accuses the offenders of setting up networks of pages and accounts designed to mislead users about who they are and what they are actually doing. facebook has been working to weed out misinformation and election meddling, since it acknowledged that russian asians abused at service in 2016. the face of health care in america is about to undergo some big changes. one of those has now been green-lighted by the u.s. government. correspondent gillian turner takes a look at what it means to you. >> is $69 billion merger between cvs and insurance giant aetna is poised to change how, where and when millions of american patients received medical care. not all of it will be for the good of patients, though, according to some financial analysts who specialize in health care. >> it could lead to fewer options for patients who are looking to buy insurance. >> how? other than my part of this merger is the entrance of data

facebook announced it was purging 800 accounts because of inauthentic behavior.next guest never imagined it could happen to him. ryan cole forrest page had a verified check mark and he said that 3.5 million fans -- all taken away in an instant. goins is now about it brian, thank you for your heroism and sacrifice in this country. you are amazing. i have to ask you, has facebook been in touch with you at all? >> no. first, thanks for having me on. no, facebook has not been in touch with us. i want to start this off and just get it out here. i want you to know that i sacrificed three limbs for everybody, your freedoms, your family freedoms because that's why i believe in. that's why i joined the military. if i can get everybody to go to thefightforfreespeech.com, we'll take this fight to facebook. go ahead, laura. >> laura: what was the reasoning, you think? you raised $300,000 in the kavanaugh fight, i know that. it was after that your facebook page was, bingo, gone. >> there is no real reason. spent nine months begging them when they rolled out the new rule chang

and the page owners are scathing facebook page with over two point one million followers has been published along with eight hundred other pages and accounts the purge of old media is upon us i've been memory hold from facebook three hundred fifty thousand followers prove there is a dangerous precedent being set here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers of political thought and opinion this intervention comes ahead of crucial midterm elections in the united states it's a sign of social media giants waiting even further into the minefield of free speech versus fake news and could be seen by many as a sign of meddling in itself. and anyone could be a target we're joined now by r.t. america correspondent rachel blevins whose own facebook account has been banned as well rachel hi there when did you realize your account had been suspended that was to come as a huge surprise. it absolutely was i went to check my news feed yesterday and saw that i was completely locked out i was locked out of my personal account for about four hours and then when i finally got back in i saw that my public page which is what i used to sh

facebook is eliminating the accounts of hundreds of publishers worldwide. coming up here what the social media giant is saying that's behind the massive efforts to purge hundreds of accounts from facebook. >>> after two days of huge losses on wall street, you can see here that stocks are rebounding here on this friday. the dow jones is up 170 points, i can tell you that the nasdaq is up 129 and the s&p 500 is up 25, it's good news to purged mo than 800 us pages and users and bait. the profiles and pages spread sensational political content and misled users on who they are and what they're doing. facebook has vowed to get rid of election meddling and false information since it was attacked in 2016 and the russian meddling in 2016. >>> get out and buy a ticket, maybe you have a rotary pool. someone will win half a billion dollars. it will be one of the biggest lottery jackpot ever. sarah is joining us in the studio with more on this 548 million prize, a big one? >> it's a big one, and it's an exciting one, and a fun fact of the top ten biggest jackpots in ticket. 3 have been sold in california. we have luck here. tonight's drawing is the 9th largest and we'll se