tech giants under scrutiny representatives of facebook google and twitter are facing questions of u.s. lawmakers over fake news fake events propaganda and other misinformation during the twenty sixteen presidential election also more turbulence there bus first corruption charges in europe now the plane maker admits to in accuracies in the united states and bogus bully ends canadian authorities are investigating how a fake gold bar could be sold at a branch of the country's biggest bank. this is the business i'm christopher kober welcome major tech companies have begun two days of hearings before u.s. lawmakers on how russia and legibly use their services to sway voters and last year's presidential election the world's largest social network facebook testified that one hundred twenty six million americans may have seen politically divisive posts that originated in russia under fake names. the white house caught in a web of black spiders for halloween the president and first lady confront the monsters in their garden. but trump may have even bigger fears especially since a former foreig

facebook, twitter and google forced onto the offensive -- the defensive this week on capitol hill afterising estimates several times on how many people were exposed to those russian-linked political posts. facebook says that at least 150 million americans -- >> say that again. >> 150 million americans on its site in the last two years leading up to the election saw these russian post ads. that's not a random 150, which is half of all americans, it's all targeted. >> targeted. >> twitter found nearly 37,000 automated accounts. >> automated accounts, bots. >> they tweeted 1.4 million times and got retweeted over and over again, eventually generating 288 million views. >> the president himself responded to a complimentary tweet sent by a known kremlin-linked troll account. >> members of congress had a lot to say, by the way, to the social media companies. here's a taste of it. >> your actions need to catch up to your responsibilities. >> you've created these platforms, and now they are being misused. and you have to be the ones to do something. >> in the past election you failed. >> the po

now facebook google and twitter and the spotlight of u.s. lawmakers that being questions about their political ads the companies have begun two days of hearings before legislative committees the question is has russia used the companies to sway american voters in last year's presidential elections and so discord afterwards facebook admitted that hundreds of millions of people may have been influenced by politically divisive posts from fake accounts that originated in russia. thousands and thousands of ads in comments on social networking sites during the presidential election in the u.s. favored u.s. president donald trump over his opponent hillary clinton up to one hundred twenty six million americans were served the messages originating from the russian troll farm the internet research agency u.s. lawmakers in washington are now trying to figure out how it could have happened the u.s. judiciary subcommittee grilled three social media representatives from facebook twitter and google for hours the questions were difficult like why was the pr

there are material ads from groups like black lives matter that are authentic and shared on facebook or twitter .ast year and we have pretty strong digital forensic evidence that russia created fake pages -- was one of them, for example, on facebook, where they did try to promote events as though they were americans or social organizers or other individuals, and doing so under that veneer, but it was a canard. it was someone in russia or st. petersburg or moscow on the computer pretending to be those people. has 2 billion people on it service and it has admitted as high as 200 million of those people are actually fake accounts. twitter has acknowledged that they have fake accounts on their platform as well. they say 5%. others say larger. there has been a mix of real and fake content on the internet and in the election, what occurred is a reflection of that. going forward, people need to understand what you see on the internet may not be from who it appears to be. journal"" wall street advised that there is a political aspect to this investigation. it cars them with the russia brush. -- a free

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facebook, twitter, and google go to washington. ecutives of all three firms discuss how their platforms were manipulated. facebook, google, and twitter told congress they were not sure they have measured the full extent of russia's manipulation of them. they don't yet have the technology to prevent this from happening again. i caught up with former twitter ceo and the cofounder of chorus to get his reaction. >> i think it would separate into two things. it would have responsibility once they understood the problem and issue to discover the scope of it and then go address it. i think they are doing that. i think it would be great to say they bear responsibility for missing it. this is stuff that has come to light after the election. it wasn't anything i think anyone new had happened in previous elections so we did not know about it this time. everyone has been seemingly surprised by it. it is now a matter of doing the detective work to determine how deep and brought it was, then attacking it as quickly as possible. emily: what change

british government is to receive a helping hand from the media giants facebook and twitter to look into alleged russian interference in last year's briggs. i. am the. president has met with protests in turkey the fast while students also grilled him over the presence of french troops in the country. for joining us this evening my name's neil harvey you're watching our international . breaking news north korea has conducted a ballistic missile test for the first time since september japan says that the missile flew for fifty minutes and came down two hundred kilometers off its coast but did not pass over japanese territory. reports from seoul. it was deep into the night pretty much both koreas were asleep when we found out about what is the latest polish tech missile test by young yang according to estimates by the japanese military and also the pentagon the missile flew for about one thousand kilometers and landed in the sea of japan without causing any harm initially the location of where it touched down or the time was unclear but then the japanese prime minister's office tweeted that

the british government is to receive a helping hand from media giants facebook and twitter to look into alleged russian interference and last few sprigs of. i'm. president my call has met with protests and book you know fast so while students over the presence of french troops in the country. live from moscow global headlines every hour on. thanks for joining us tonight here on international a north korea has conducted a ballistic missile test for the first time since september japan says the missile flew for fifteen minutes and came down about two hundred kilometers off its coast but didn't pause so for japanese territory he set up a trunk of reports from so there was about two months of relative calm when it comes to the test. and then there you have it came well into the night while. both the north and the south war is the and then we found out about this latest missile launch by kim john and that is after the relative calm of over and november american and japanese military radars were quick to register the one thousand kilometer long flight of the north korean missile which ended s

facebook, google, and twitter go to washington. ecutives of all three firms discuss how their platforms were manipulated. facebook, google, and twitter told congress they were not sure forgetting the full extent of this. they don't yet have the technology to prevent this from happening again. with the cofounder of course to get his reaction. think it would separate into two things. it would have responsibility once they understood the problem and issue to discover the scope of it, then a trust it. sayink it would be great to they bear responsibility for missing it. this stuff has come to light after the election. it wasn't anything i think anyone new happened in previous elections. everyone has been seemingly surprised by it. the not a matter of doing work of how deep and brought it was, then attacking it as quickly as possible. >> what changes in twitter are necessary? >> they've made abroad and aggressive statement -- statement of where they need more transparency political asset purchases. steps. at those great i said when i was

facebook, google, and twitter go to washington. ecutives for all three firms appear before an executive committee this week to discuss how russia manipulated their platforms to manipulate the 2016 u.s. election. facebook, google, and twitter told congress they were not sure they had measured the full extent of russia's meddling in social networks. they do not yet have the technology to prevent it from happening again. with the up former twitter ceo in the core founder of chorus to get his reaction. >> i think it would separate into two things. it would have responsibility once they understood the problem and the issue to discover the it, then go address it. i think they are doing that. i think would be a mistake to say that they bear responsibility for missing it. this stuff has come to light after the election. it wasn't anything i think knewe new had happened -- had happened in previous elections. everyone has been seemingly surprised by it. it is now a matter of doing the detective work to find out how deep and broad it was then

. >> reporter: executives from facebook, twitter and google told senators today that russian trolls were than they initially believed. posting 80,000 pieces of content on facebook alone. between 2015 and this summer. >> so this continued after his election? >> it continued until we disabled the accounts. >> most of the posts and ads originated from one office building in saint petersberg, russia where an operation innocuously named the internet research agency, uploaded 1,100 videos to youtube and published more than 131,000 divisive messages on twitter. facebookest mates up to 126 % million users saw fake russian p posts like this one, falsifying hillary clinton's records with veterans scla claimed to come f for truth. all three tech giants say they have invested in staff and systems to keep bad actors out. >> we are committed to working every single day to get better at solving this problem. >> louisiana republican, john kennedy was skeptical. >> the truth of the matter is you have 5 million advertisers. that change every month. every minute. probably every second. you don't have the a

it's interesting that facebook concluded that did not happen. twitterwly than facebook, so it's not surprising they did not have an answer. emily: keith rabois, great to have you. selina wang, and mark bergen of "bloomberg technology." it's not over, i'm sure we will be debating this into the future. more reaction today, tech earnings results, including tesla. elon musk says the model three is a 10 year program, even though most cars stay on the market six to seven years before getting an overhaul. a quick programming note. tune into bloomberg tv this thursday with an exclusive conversation with a goldman sachs ceo. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: new york city could very well be home to amazon's second headquarters. according to a new study the big apple topped the most probable list. mainly due to its extensive mass transit network. the study scored cities based on outlined in their proposal. san francisco ranked washington, second. d.c. was third on the list read . earnings season is starting to wind down for tech companies and facebook reported another

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testify in front of three commit year inside we're not sure. >> before we leave facebook and talk about google and twitter, let's hear from senator john kennedy, republican from louisiana. >> how many advertiserses to facebook have? >> we have approximately five million advertisers on a monthly basis. >> did china run ads in the last election cycle? that tried to impact our election? >> not that i'm aware of, senator. >> not that you're aware of. did turkmistan. >> not that i'm aware of. >> how about north korea? i'm not aware of other foreign actors running the same -- >> how can you be aware? you have five million advertisers? and you're going to tell me that you're able to trace the origins of all of those advertisements? if i want to hire a lawyer, i wanted to hire you when you were in private practice and, and say late go through four shell corporations i want to run some ads' and i want to use shell corporations because i wouldn't hide my identity. you have the ability to go to trace through all of these corporations and find the true eight of every one of your advertisers? you're not telling me tha

stations of the newspapers they are the public square now facebook and twitter and everyone else they they always try to resist regulation partly because they argue that any regulation gets in the way of.

election sitting before them the lawyers as sent by america's top tech and social media firms facebook twitter and google what has emerged is a troubling picture that involves close to half the world's population i have more than a little bit of frustration that many of us on this committee have been raising this issue since the beginning of this year and our claims were frankly blown off by the leaderships of your companies it's pains us as a company it pains me personally to see that we were that our platform was abused in this way does it trouble you that it took this committee to get you to look at the the authentic nature of the users in the content i went home last night i would prefer around disappointment i have questions i got very good answers and that just won't do the united states is going to be the first of the countries to bring it to your attention and others are going to follow i'm sure because you bear this responsibility. well some thoughts now about tech social media and all of us it has been a years since the u.s. presidential election and the world is still asking what ha

facebook and twitter and google testimonies in washington.awyer's from each tech giant answer questions on what one senator calls the national security question of the 21st century. plus, apple and qualcomm's legal battle takes another nasty turn. we consider the beef from both sides and the implications for future iphones and ipads. what a woman for bitcoin. reversing course today, plenty to introduce bitcoin future by the end of the year. first to our lead. facebook, twitter, and google are having their day on capitol hill. top lawyers from all three appeared before the senate judiciary committee to answer how russia manipulated their platforms to influence the 2016 u.s. presidential election. facebook, google, and twitter executives told congress they are not sure they measured the full extent of russia's manipulation in last year's u.s. presidential campaign, and they do not yet have the technology to prevent it from happening again. >> we have found that foreign actors used fake accounts to place ads on facebook and instagram that reache

facebook said no. twitterave an answer but did not provide the answer. >> that is questionable and remains to be seen. it seems like twitter did find something. they were not ready to prepare it in front of the public hearing. this was the main purpose, to find out if there was collusion . we did not find out that much if there was any sophisticated collusion. >> i think it would be interesting and it is an angle the government should investigate. it is different from someone buying ads or friends sharing something that might be true or false. twitter executes more slowly than facebook. great to have you. it is not over. i am sure we will be debating this many months into the future. >> coming up, more reaction today. .ig earnings including tesla elon musk saying the model three is a 10 year program, even though most cars stay on the market six to seven years before getting a overhaul. one programming note, tune in for an interview with lloyd blankfein. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: new york city could very well

twitter and facebook from using twitter and facebook. or maybe or maybe and i'm just spit balling here we could we could grow up and realize that this red scare mccarthy is enough bull but bull is childish and millionaires and billionaires around the world invest in all kinds of because they're richest and they want to be rich are they and. for example last week saudi arabia arrested billionaire prince all will lead to bin talal who owns or has owned major stakes in news corp owner of fox news citi group owner of citibank twitter and many other well known companies let's add them to the good to the list let's add all those companies to the big board of foreign agents also this week china energy investment course the world's largest power company has signed a memorandum of understanding to invest eighty three point seven billion dollars in shale gas power and chemical projects projects in west virginia west virginia. where there are a lot overall wearing through two with banjo players who are going to be none too pleased to learn they are

those ads were the subject of a high-profile congressional hearing with executives from facebook, twittergoogle. facebook executives estimate more than 150 million americans -- over a third of the population -- saw content from kremlin-backed troll farm, on -- troll farm. there is an important story behind that hearing. a small group of about a dozen self-made experts advised co campaigns, and helped prepare them to question the social media giants. renee diresta is a tech entrepreneur who works with an online volunteer community called "data for democracy." she is in san francisco today. it is so nice to talk to you, renee. thanks for being with one of your jobs is to look at fake news stories and watch in real-time how it spreads or . what can you tell us from just literally sitting there watching that? renee: so, it is really fascinating to watch it happen. you know, we know that journalists ac this is one way that you can get your little blog post into prime time -- by attracting a critical mass of attention. we call it manufactured consensus. soledad: give me a good example of manufa

representatives of tech giants facebook, twitter and google testified before house senate committees about russia's attempts to influence the 2016 campaign and what should be done to prevent it from happening again. alexandra suich bass joins me from san francisco where she covers the tech industry for the "economist." alexandra, what were the main questions senators wanted answered during this testimony? >> this senators are interested in the extent of the russian campaign and trying to get their heads around it. initially, the tech giants were very evasive and really underplayed the threat russians nip late nerns in the 2016 election. they found fake accounts and bots, et cetera, targeting americans that might have influenced their votes. the senate was pressuring tech giants for how widespread the manipulation went and what the giants will do to make sure nothing like this happens again particularly in the 2018 election. >> stewart: did the tech giants offer details? >> the tech giants showed us some of the ads and fake accounts for the first time. there were some really fascinati

ejecutivos de facebook, twitter y google testificaron lado a lado en el senado sobre como el gobiernos para influenciar las elecciones presidenciales. s/colin stretch, secretario juridico de facebook el secretario jurídico de facebook aseguró que grupos extranjeros usaron cuentas falsas para publicar contenido con el fin de crear división y discordia durante la elección que llegó a ser visto por millones de personas y compartido por muchas otras. s/eduard lavilla, experto en informática "filtrar una información falsa, no tienen ellos los mecanismos en su infraestructura para detectar eso. y los anuncios se hacen automáticamente disponibles. no hay alguien personalmente filtrando esa información". políticos de ambos partidos querían saber lo mismo: s/sen. chuch grassley, que están hacienda las compañías para hacerle frente a esa actividad. los ejecutivos de las tres empresas aseguraron estar comprometidos con la transparencia e implementando medidas para identificar contenido publicado por grupos que buscan influenciar la política en estados unidos. la audiencia en el comité judicial d

. >>> plus russia and social media were in the spotlight on capitol hill as facebook, twitter and google were questioned about ads from russian agents used to confuse voters. >>> and wendy williams was in the middle of a live broadcast when she collapsed on air. we'll show you on this wednesday, november 1st. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> we do say good morning on this wednesday. we start with the terror on the streets of new york. >> a man who claim to the u.s. seven years ago and worked as a uber driver is now believed to have use add rented vehicle to kill eight people. >> and here is the suspect holding what turned out to be fake guns moment after the attack. >> here's the latest. at least eight people we're told are dead. of those, five were from aer argentina. one was from belgium. >> more details on his past in just a moment. but law enforcement say a note in the truck said this was inspired by isis. >> it's less than half a mile from the world trade center memorial. let's start with >> reporter: terror in downtown manhattan. this man accused of turning a truck i

executives from facebook, twitter and google are set to appear before u.s. lawmakers they faced the first round yesterday. the hearings are focused on how russia allegedly used tech services to influence the 2016 election joining us from washington is tony rahm from recode. what will you be looking for as far as answers from these executives today that you didn't get yesterday? >> i'm looking to get a lot of answers that we didn't get yesterday. surprisingly facebook and google and twitter fielded a lot of tough questions from the senate judiciary committee, but it wasn't the tough grilling that i i had some folks had expected to see from this hearing. and in many cases lawmakers maybe didn't have the technical details to assess the extent to which the kremlin had used social media platforms to spread disinformation around the 2016 presidential election. that's not the case today when the senate intelligence committee holds its hearing in the morning and the house follows this afternoon they'll have all the details in front of them, they'll press companies l

facebook, twitter, and google are having their day on capitol hill.op lawyers from all three appeared before the senate judiciary committee to answer how russia manipulated their platforms to influence the 2016 u.s. presidential election. facebook, google, and twitter executives told congress they are not sure they measured the full extent of russia's manipulation of social networks in last year's u.s. presidential campaign, and they do not yet have the technology to prevent it from happening again. >> we have found that foreign actors used fake accounts to place ads on facebook and instagram that reached millions of americans over a two-year period and that those ads were used to promote pages that in turn posted more content. people shared these posts, spreading them still further. many of these ads and posts are inflammatory. some are downright offensive. >> we have uncovered more accounts linked to the russian-based internet research industry based on our review and we determined that advertising by russia today in seven small accounts was related

time for them to step up and recognize that we have a problem facebook twitter and google have been responding to lawmakers questions and back to back hearings in both the senate and the house. after allegations of sexual harassment against kevin spacey netflix now says it's suspending production of the sixth season off of its company has announced early other season in production would be the last series about a fictional u.s. president played by spacey has been a cash cow for the video on demand service. for years house of cards has been netflix's most popular show since the video on demand service launched the groundbreaking political drama series in twenty thirteen the number of subscribers has grown sharply to one hundred ten million worldwide now netflix says it's pausing production in order to review the situation the company was reacting to sexual abuse charges leveled by anthony rapp a former child actor raps and spacey tried to seduce him in one nine hundred eighty six when he was fourteen on twitter stacey apologized for the incident which he claims he couldn't remember n

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representatives from facebook, twitter and google faced tough questions from a senate judiciary subcommiteeck schifrin reports. >> reporter: for the first time, social media giants came to congress to admit publicly their platforms have a political dark side. facebook general counsel colin stretch: >> the foreign interference we saw is reprehensible. >> reporter: acting twitter general counsel sean edgett: >> the abuse of our platform by sophisticated foreign actors to attempt state-sponsored manipulation of elections is a new challenge for us, and one that we are determined to meet. >> reporter: that foreign actor is russia, and facebook, twitter and google today admitted russia used the american technology giants to try to manipulate how americans voted. >> that foreign actors, hiding behind fake accounts, abused our platform and other internet services to try to sow division and discord, and to try to undermine the election, is directly contrary to our values, and goes against everything facebook stands for. >> reporter: on facebook, from june 2015 to august 2017, 120 fake accounts poste

stations in the newspapers they are the public square now facebook and twitter and everyone else they they always try to resist regulation partially because they argue that any regulation gets in the way of innovation when you hear a company general counsel or a c.e.o. say we take this or that very seriously like they did in the hearings today it means are trying very hard to to avoid having something imposed upon them and so i don't i think the political will is there's definitely strengthening will be interesting is if congress can pass this bill in whether or not the president will sign it because of the president signs it it goes to this it gives support to the narrative that he doesn't like that that he was the benefactor of this illegal. this illegal in this information campaign carried out by russia all right eric has it all a tech analyst joining us tonight from new york talking about these hearings in the u.s. senate the tech titans of silicon valley being grilled by u.s. senators as always thank you for your insights we appreciate you being on the day. where will a man named

election sitting before them the lawyers as sent by america's top tech and social media firms facebook twitter and google what has emerged is a troubling picture that involves close to half the world's population i have more than a little bit of frustration that many of us on this committee have been raising this issue since the beginning of this year and our claims were frankly blown off by the leaderships of your companies it's pains us as a company it pains me personally to see that we were that our platform was abused in this way does it trouble you that it took this committee to get you to look at the the authentic nature of the users and the content but i went home last night with profound disappointment i have questions i got very good answers and that just won't do the united states is going to be the first of the countries to bring it to your attention and others are going to follow i'm sure because you bear this responsibility. well some thoughts now about tech social media and all of us it has been a years since the u.s. presidential election and the world is still asking what happe

people looking at facebook, twitter, e-mailing?britain has a problem with productivity. living standards are depressed and will continue to be that way because we are not productive enough. they‘ re be that way because we are not productive enough. they're having all sorts of explanations. is it to in -- is it all sorts of explanations. is it to in —— is it down to under investments? or is it that we spend too much time at work on our phones on social media and shopping. a senior analyst that the bank of england who wrote on the blog said that people are spending too much time at work checking the devices which leads to a crisis of attention which leads to a crisis of attention which is leading to a drop in productivity. you are not checking your phone now, are you? it does make me a bit cross a story like this because we note that productivity has that line. we know that we are looking at lost decades where wages can't grow and indeed they are currently at levels lower than they were ten years ago before the crash. people up and d

to getting russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential poll representatives from facebook twitter and alphabet have been testifying at back to back hearings in both the congress and senate with facebook being the first to announce it had evidence of russian meddling on social media lawmakers have slammed the companies for failing to rein in russian use of their sites to manipulate the american political process. and it's going to get its quota standing by the new york stock exchange on this one even facebook says russia's influence was reprehensible yes shouldn't these companies have been hindering outside interference of any sort. legally probably not morally probably yes i mean this whole situation is a rather new and we didn't have to deal with problems like that in the past is really the big question should facebook have a block at those polls and should they have been aware of it i do not believe that there is a law any rule there facebook broke at this point but if they knew about it if there were warning signs then morally facebook probably should have acted and then again

facebook has identified 470 accounts tied to the internet research agency. twitter has identified 2,752 i.r.a.-related accounts. and almost 37,000 russian linked accounts that generated automated election content. from what we have seen so far, russian-backed trolls use fake accounts on facebook for more than 3,000 paid advertisements. and those ads sought to sow discord and amplify racial and social divisions among american voters. they exploited hot button topics such as immigration, gun rights, lgbt and racial issues, to target both conservative and progressive audiences. so, mr. chairman, and ranking member, this is really a critical hearing. because it's the first time we will have heard, at least to my knowledge, from the three agencies about exactly what is going on. and most importantly, what they are prepared to do to stop it. thank you very much. [inaudible] mr. graham: i want to thank you all for coming. you've been very helpful and cooperative and we appreciate it. to my left, mr. collins is the general counsel for facebook. thank you very much for comin

yesterday those executives from facebook, twitter, and google said an internet troll farm set up 120 facebook pages where it posted more than 80,000 pieces of content over 2 1/ 2 years and here's what happened next. all of that was delivered directly to the news feeds of 29 million american users and shared it with millions more, russia. minnesota senator al franken wanted to know why they couldn't put it together. >> those two data points spell out something bad. >> in hindsight it's one we missed. >> okay, okay. yeah. >> facebook said the russian ads and posts did not stop after the election. in fact, they just changed their focus and were aimed at sowing discord in the country and raising doubts about president trump's legitimacy. they say this is a sign these trolls were more intent on creating chaos in the united states than they were on focusing on one particular candidate. >> thanks, nancy. >>> newly released documents show t the two men are expected to appear in federal court tomorrow. paula reid has more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. both men are under house arres

the senators overall quizzing facebook, google, twitter. r lawyers and relatively not pleased with the answers they have. we do have new information for you. 150 million americans, according to facebook, have now been exposed to russian-backed content in the last two years leading up to the election. we can also show you new data from twitter as well. about 37,000 tweets were generated by those bots we've been telling you about. they were seen -- they were tweeting content 1.2 million times. then they turned around and retweeted and shared over and over, exposed to 288 million views. then you have the new data coming out of google as well and what is going on at youtube, which google owns. there were 18 youtube channels, very likely linked to russia and 1100 different videos in the lead up to the election that were posted on the youtube platform. and we also want to show you some ads that have been coming out of this facebook, google, twitter intel committee. we can show you from senator byrd's office. you can see some images backed by russi