google and facebook, we know they have self-service ad platforms. es and companies can come in, but what was not known is the degree to which google and facebook roll up their sleeves and actually help orchestrate these campaigns and better target ad dollars and get their messages out there more efficiently. they did this with this group, secure america now, as they were putting out these anti-islamic ads. emily: to what degree did they will up their sleeves and help this campaign? benjamin: so it ranges from troubleshooting how to better use the system and how to use targeting mechanisms. on facebook they were trying to target some of these anti-islamic refugee ads towards swing state voters. they wanted to go after he hispanic voters around the las vegas area. they needed help how to best utilize the system. facebook and google do this all the time for major advertisers. if you are procter & gamble, you will spend tens of billions on ads, they will help you. they will do it to the best of their ability. they were doing the same thing here with thes

algorithms were not made by people with guidelines as to as to what they should show and so if google facebook and twitter and others are going to make these adjustments we have to have to be more transparent about how they do it and if they're going to hire human editors to make choices we have to know what the guidelines under which they operate so that they can be held accountable by their audiences so. facebook sites business reasons to explain why that it doesn't talk about how it's algorithms work but who. what you're saying is that facebook's apparent lack of respect for transparency and ethical standards are eroding trust not just in it in it but but on other social media platforms too absolutely i mean the some of facebook's guidelines were leaked to the guardian a few months ago and they published some great reporting called the facebook files where they had examples of what facebook allows and and doesn't allow and some of it looking at it just doesn't doesn't make any sense and often in one context publishing a certain image of an extremist group or a terrorist or terrorism symbol

with see upon themselves what we've seen recently in in germany are laws being created to fine facebook google and others huge amounts of money for hate speech and fake news online and that will probably result in both of those companies removing content hastily and actually having a chilling effect on freedom of speech so self-regulation on an industry level and also on the individual level for those companies is is what we need and so far we've seen that without public pressure and without scandals searchers the misinformation broadcast after the recent las vegas shooting. we have to we have to find a way to address this now the arguments made that this is going to have a century effect on on freedom of speech i think is a bit of a. false argument to make when people go on facebook to find out news about a terrorist attack or a breaking news story they want to find accurate information and the fact that it took so long for misinformation to be removed from their algorithm is is very problematic but what we need to know is how is it removed from the algorithm what choices were made on the wha

the problem with this is, if the internet isn't a global network anymore, it's run by google, apple, amazon, facebook, whatever, why not the chinese communists? if google can have an internet, a couple nerds from michigan can start an internet, why not the chinese? why not the iranian mullahs? why not the europeans? and so what's happening is a result of this new top-down cloud computing base internet that google and all are creating is the breakdown of the business models of all these companies. europeans are cracking down. the chinese are cracking down, and so these companies no longer have an open future. so the internet has to change and get a new model of security that actually can protect your data and pay you for your contributions to the well of the internet companies, and that's happening right today with this efflorescence of block change companies. >> host: george gilder here at freedom fest, thank you for your time. >> guest: make you so much. i really appreciate it. >> booktv has attended freedom fest, a libertarian conference several times. if you're interested in hearing from other fre

google -- right now the problem is focused on facebook but google has a much bigger sprawling networkf advertising. there's a bunch of different channels that russian actors could use. cory: we talked about this on bloomberg radio a little while ago. people who wanted a preview of this conversation could have been listening to bloomberg radio in the last hour. but one of the interesting things is they have all kind of systems supposedly involved to make sure that their customers paid them. or to understand that the content gets there on time or gets delivered in a proper way. it looks like they didn't have any system either to vet the stuff before it went out, or even afterwards. we've been talking about russian interference in this election for more than a year now. google just coming with this information. mark: i think part of the issue is drawing the line. this morning, they were saying bucket, $50 uckepoll $53,000 worth of ads. these are either trolls or spreading misinformation or lies . this is just russian accounts that we're spending on. cory: the notion otherwise is that som

regarding the company's facebook twitter google coming before us in those committees that it really is time for them to step out 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. for more let's bring in our wall street correspondent. has been said in the hearing so far well i mean you mentioned facebook and those numbers but other companies other networks also have been affected even before the hearing twitter is saying that they actually canceled two thousand seven hundred accounts connected to the russian internet research agency months ago there was word out that it only would be a good two hundred accounts so obviously it is more widespread and if we look at google they are claiming that more than one thousand one hundred videos have been uploaded to you tube and those have been watched more than three hundred thousand times just here in the u.s. so the whole case seems to be pretty wide spread and we're also waiting for more information also what is going to happe

our conversation about the current status of tech giants like facebook and google. listen. >> nowadays, facebook and amazon in particular are so and powerfuleative that they could stymie competition and it's always difficult to know how to deal with that. jeff bezos has a wonderful line steve jobs and others have said as well is that you shouldn't be obsessed with your competitors. you should be obsessed with your customers and the rest will follow. snap isink that's what going to do is follow the lead of the customers as okay i want to tell stories, okay i want this new feature and as long as i keep innovating, they'll stay a step ahead of facebook. a young mark spiegel?g in evan >> i think they're deeply creative people who have a real what users would want. spiegel to be deeply philosophical, start, and great sense of leadership, which is to me the thing. i mean, to lead a public company, that's even more difficult than creating a product. greatjobs created really products, but in 1985, he was publictrouble leading a company, and i think evan spiegel is getting ov

coming out of this committee, from this press conference, is, get ready, silicon valley, because google, facebook, and twitter are all going to be -- have been invited and will likely now all testify on november 1. facebook saying they will be participating in that panel. cory: it's remarkable to me also that -- how focused these efforts were, how technologically savvy these russian hackers or emissaries of russian hackers were in their ability to target -- use the very latest in advertising technology and get these things out there to have an effect on the u.s. electorate. kevin: 700% increase in digital social media ads from 2012 two o 2016. those numbers only expected increase ahead of the 2020 cycle. two points that i would make. first and foremost, i remember on the campaign trail, every time an ad was released, you had to know who was paying for it. the notion that these ads can be published on social media sites and no one has -- knows who is pushing for them raises a lot of questions. we wouldn't accept these ads on billboards on interstates. the second point i would raise just quickly is

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with any referencing of ai technology, some say i facebook is behind on the ai game, alexa, google atts, using facebook and facebook messenger have some catching up to do here? david: i think we are having a very different approach here because the current experience that you have that basically to dots things you want in conversation is really popping up at the right time, and so as a result, we tend to not disappoint when we have an intent that you want to complete because we only surface suggestions when we feel pretty confident that this is what you want to do. the model that we have been working on right now is the one that we have been talking about with suggestions and conversations, and we are continuing to invest in bringing a more full-fledged assistant to market. we have been working on it for a wild. shift really want to something that is valuable and will not let people down. it is really important. we do not want to rush to market. we want to get it right. once we get it right, we will shift it to the now 1.3 billion people on messenger and counting. facebook, along with

facebook, google, twitter?this notion of people being able to sort of be fed whatever's going make them feel good, because that's what people are really doing. people want to feed whatever the instincts are. i think the goal has to be to say, this is how it looks. you can see it any way you want to. but some place you have to come and be able to take a look at stuff objectively. i'm not sure you can say that's facebook's job. they're not in the news business. they pass along other people's news. same thing with google. that's part of the issue here. things can look authentic. we did a u.s.a. facts poll and when surveyed people would say, i find my information most often on social media and i trust it the least. reporter: do you think facebook and google and twitter should be policing this more or that's not their job? >> they can't much it's not in the nature of what's going on. i think over time there needs to be something that's the equivalent of authenticated user on twitter where you get the little bullet t

which has been quite a lot of us like and just on the counterfeit stories tech giants like facebook and google really seem to be struggling with this epidemic of fake news just recently after the las vegas shooting stories about fake suspects and fake motives were trending on facebook were coming top of the search results for google news it does seem to be the case that even today these multibillion dollar search companies and social media companies all failing and failing miserably at stopping the spread of false information of disinformation. yeah that's true i mean i'm sympathetic to the problem that for example facebook faces because if people are sharing things without properly looking at themselves and it things are circulating very quickly through networks of very naive consumers people aren't sophisticated about the news well it's a tough problem for facebook and i think in a slightly different set of historical circumstances we would be all very upset if facebook had announced two years ago we're going to decide what's good quality enough for you to share we're going to decide if the

it's time google and facebook and other platforms do their part as well and while they profited greatly from the market power, they have yet to accept the responsibility that comes with that position. but it comes to political advertising congress also needs to make the same adjustments. on desktops, print, mobile devices if congress sees fit on certain speech those who shouldn't be defined by the delivery platform and as a corollary they should revisit the need for the current platform specific requirements to see if they appropriately applied to the converged digital world. if congress continues to legislate by platform, then technology will simply continue to outpace the rules. the alliance believes that the rules should be updated to require disclosures within an internet advertisement to identify the sponsor, google and facebook should also update their models and be algorithms that accelerate the distribution of the so-called fake news and viral messaging so that the reputable content is elevated in the search and news feed. i believe that these changes would lead to a healthier i

i started our conversation about the current status of tech giants like facebook and google. ten. walter: nowadays, facebook, amazon, and google in particular, are so big and creative and powerful that they could stymie competition. it is always difficult to know how to deal with that. jeff bezos has a wonderful line that steve jobs and others have said as well, that you should not be assessed with your -- obsessed with your competitors. you should be obsessed with your customer, and the rest will follow. as long as they keep innovating, they will stay a step ahead of facebook. emily: do you see a young mark zuckerberg in evan spiegel? or are they not on the same plane? >> i think both of them are deeply creative people who have a real feel for what users want. i found evan spiegel to be deeply philosophical, smart, and have a great sense of leadership which is, to me, the hardest thing. to lead a public company is even more difficult than creating a product. that is where steve jobs stumbled at one point. he created really great products, but in 1985, he was having trouble le

firms like facebook and google not at all. l the companies and say whatever filters the government puts on them are probably going to be applicable to facebook and google as well. that will have a negative effect on content and advertising dollars. that comes from those sources. mark: thanks a lot. he is a columnist for bloomberg gadfly. to find his commentary on the bloomberg. stay tuned for our live coverage of big tech testimony. vonnie: thank you. now to the latest buzz on bitcoin it. announced they are planning bitcoin futures. scarlet fu spoke with the ceo about going and joins us. birthday,t's a nice $6,416 per bitcoin. this is the biggest futures exchange operator. it's launching a bitcoin futures product. this is the biggest inducible -- institutional endorsement. the cma has launched an index the tractor real-time price and stock price of that coin. when i spoke to the ceo and chairman last week, i asked him where the cme was in terms of introducing bitcoin futures. >> if we decide to get into the dough business -- cr

flip side, if you look at facebook and google, the advertiser results are incrementally more bullish , especially on roi, where we know pricing is going up if roi perceptions are relatively neutral, that's a good position for facebook to be in that means pricing can rise, but advertising see compelling roi there. very bullish for a facebook. >> mark, did you see anything in the survey results that suggested advertisers are paying attention to this political blowback and some of the attribution issues with these ad platforms? do they care at all, or is it just other things, the bottom line they are focused on >> i think it's the bottom line, john i remember 12 months ago we were debating whether the controversy over facebook metrics and they had to rereport some metrics, whether that would push off advertisers. we didn't see it we haven't seen it no change in advertisers perceptions of roi on these platforms or intentions to spend and they keep allocating more budgets, so i don't think there's -- i'm skeptical we'll see a real advertiser change in mind because of the political blowback

facebook, twitter and google are set to face some tough questions about their role in last year's us election. samsung announces record profits when the chips are down! despite the jailing of its defacto boss, the company's semiconductor business continues to go from strength to strength. and on the markets: you can see that asia is following the lead from wall street. we will talk you through why you can expect a day of declines. in a few hours' time facebook, twitter and google‘s parent alphabet will answer questions about how their platforms were exploited during last year's us presidential election. their lawyers testimony to congressional committees in washington could eventually lead to tighter regulation of online advertising. one example of what's being questioned is the 3,000 adverts which facebook said were focused on "divisive social and political messages" around the election and were bought in russia. facebook has shared them with congress. in terms of their influence, facebook estimates that they were seen by about ten million people before and after november's poll. te

we know that facebook has shared information with google. that the development of fake news and propaganda, facebook and google kind of playoff each other. the stories that do really well on facebook tend to do really well on google search. the tweets that google has an agreement to index certain tweets, so there are a lot of viral tweets that may appear top of search results. congress may be looking at the interchange there. we don't know if they will plumb the depths of google's fairly expansive online advertising network. we don't have a lot of information right now. emily: we know that in the aftermath of the las vegas shooting that fake news and misinformation ricocheted across the internet. google especially apologized for it, blamed it on the algorithm. are you aware of any internal initiatives underway to make sure things like that don't happen in the future? reporter: they have put in some protocols. that was a really fascinating issue because the search term was around a particular name whose name was not in any news prior to that.

sector rotation here on wall street for most of the year we had those big tech names like amazon google facebook netflix actually driving stocks higher but now we see this it would take into financial stocks and also in industrial heavyweights alike as we've just talked about or also three m. three m. and caterpillar alone here on tuesday were responsible for good one hundred points to drive the dull jones industrial average to a new records but no the focus will be again on technology companies we will get earnings results from microsoft from intel from google and also from amazon all on thursday after hours and it probably would also depend on those numbers if we can continue this breast taking a really new high here on wall street the dow jones industrial average almost twenty three thousand five hundred points absolutely incredible all men all of wall street yes quarter thank you very much. if you want in a small only dim sized enterprise here in germany your job looks fairly safe for the time being the country's economy has always relied on highly specialized small and medium sized firms in

are the biggest destinations for our media spending five years ago google was number four, and facebookebook are the two biggest. >> people find that to be a much more efficient play. they might just get rid of it to spend. >> overall media spending overall over that period of time is up. right? if i looked at the last 30 years, the only years when media spending in number terms has been down 91 -- in the recessions what's happening now is the sort of quasi-recession in the sense, dwikly in package goods, because the pressure on the top line is so intense, the cost reduction is so intense it's putting pressure >> i'm sorry can you back up, sir martin? when you say media spend is up overall, but we're seeing a sort of mini-recession in packaged goods, what are we actually seeing because it seems like everything should be coming up roses for you if the total media spend is up, and if spending on google and facebook -- >> if you look at what's happening to package goods companies in terms of the volumes that they are achieving -- if you look at their revenue growth, which are made up of pr

with fair taxation of all the activities we want google, facebook and amazon to be in france and europe, but we want google, amazon and apple paying due taxes in europe. because we cannot explain to companies, to our people that google and amazon can be in europe without paying fair taxes to europe. >> the americans -- [ applause ] the americans may have a trick up their sleeve. a lot of money is trapped offshore congress is deciding on tax reform in the next few weeks and months if that money is repatriated, doesn't that take away this honey pot that regulators have been going after >>. >> i don't want to criticize tax reform within the eyes i'm trying to introduce an important tax reform in france and i can tell you that it is not an easy task because when you want to introduce tax reforms, you are changing not only the tax system, you are also changing the culture. for instance, this is necessary now to reduce the taxes on companies, so-called corporate tax. you have to explain to the people that we are not doing that for rich people we're not doing that only for companies. we're doi

google and facebook dominating that. it is a matter of how much is taking up the market. d to testify before congress, david, you recently wrote a column about amazon and google, "too big to tolerate, too big to stop." passes, itas time becomes more evident that these companies are an entity we have never seen before in any economy. it is a new phenomenon in capitalism that companies would have such an amazing global weight across the economy of the power, andso much yet be so completely ungoverned by any entity aside from their own management. i think that is fundamentally strange. inch company situation is slightly different. i think we will see over the coming -- each company situation is slightly different. i think we will see over the coming decades a major shift in social attitudes where it will be evident the companies have to not onlyed by society, by themselves, because they are utilities of the classic sort that cannot be allowed to make decisions on their own. emily: twitter has been in the spotlight in particular around harassment, sexual harassment issues. we

sorkin sitting down with saudi prince alwaleed bin talal the prince sharing his thoughts on google and facebook like google, amazon, facebook, apple, microsoft, these are giants. their combined market cap is above $2.5 trillion, so these are really giants, and we have seen right now a lot of voices in the united states about the need to regulate what's happening on facebook and twitter. so these are bandwidth companies, but each one is mo no monopo listic. >> you believe thermonoplies >> who is going to get into online shopping against amazon and who's going to go against these two giants they are giants. and good luck for them, frankly speaking so, these are really bandwidth companies right now and i think because they had good business model that proved to be successful in the market >> prince alwaleed later saying he's not in favor of breaking up big tech, this coming off headlines that amazon, facebook, and google are pouring millions into federal lobbying spending this quarter ahead of their november 1st trip to capitol hill for more we're joined by long-time silicon valley critic and obse

which has been quite a lot of us like and just on the counterfeit stories tech giants like facebook and google really seem to be struggling with this epidemic of fake news just recently after the las vegas shooting stories about fake suspects and fake motives were trending on facebook were coming top of the search results for google news it does seem to be the case that even today these multibillion dollar search companies and social media companies all failing and failing miserably at stopping the spread of false information of dissent from ation. yeah that's true i mean i'm sympathetic to the problem that for example facebook faces because if people are sharing things without properly looking at themselves and it things are circulating very quickly through networks of very naive consumers people aren't sophisticated about the news well it's a tough problem for facebook and i think in a slightly different set of historical circumstances we would be all very upset if facebook had announced two years ago we're going to decide what's good quality enough for you to share we're going to decide if

frustrated lawmakers have asked executives from google, facebook and twitter to testify on capitol hill hearing, twitter has given congress 201 russian linked accounts, and facebook has turned over 3000 ads ought by entities linked to the russian government. it sounds like, in the case of facebook, you don't think they have gone far enough. the jury is out. i would love them to be all over this and be proven wrong. i don't think we should rely on the providers themselves. i will be back in about five minutes to talk about the newspapers with ben bland. the reporting of crime such as cyber bullying, trolling and online harassment has increased by 85 cents in the last two years, according to figures obtained by bbc yorkshire. -- 85%. figures obtained by bbc yorkshire. —— 85%. more than 200 malicious comedic haitian offences are recorded every day by police forces in england and wales. ash back malicious communication offences. this is live.me, a video streaming out. in victoria from leeds uses it to chat online, but last year she started getting abuse and threats. photos of her home were

is is "bloomberg technology coming up with google, facebook, and twitter are smelling to hold washingtonegulation and they as a result of the russian political ad scandal. for thethe game plan tech giants ahead of being called to congress next month? also, we will cover how seattle has transformed into a tech hub and one of the centers of innovation.one of seattle's biggest players is microsoft . we will sit down with the list was of interview with the company's president, brad smith.but first, to our lead. tech giants are bracing themselves in the face of congressional regulation coming their way. paid --velation thatds the revelation that adds paid for by russia on their platforms to influence the 2016 presidential election has sent them into a crisis. they get ready for a public hearing on capitol hill. joining me now is so many who has been covering this story from bloomberg, a longtime computer science professor. thank you for joining us. you just wrote a story about the great lengths that these companies are taking to minimize the damage, if you will, including calling lawmakers pe

facebook, twitter, and google are having their day on capitol hill. p 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 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 to the election and vi

facebook, google, twitter? notion of people being able to the fed whatever is going to make them feel good, because that is what people are doing. people want to feed whatever the instincts are. the goal has to be to say you can see it anyway you want to, but someplace you have to be able to take a look at stuff objectively. i'm not sure you can say that is facebook's job. they are not in the news business. they pass on other people's news. same thing with google. that is part of the issue. things can look authentic. we did a poll. when surveyed, people would say i find my information most often on social media and i trust it the least. emily: do you think facebook and google and twitter should be policing this more? steve: they can't. it's not in the nature of what going on. i think over time there needs to be something the equivalent of authenticated user on twitter, where you get a little bullet that says you really are for you -- who you say you are. i think it would be nice to have authenticated sources so

tech giants google facebook and twitter have all joined in the hunt for the increasingly elusive looking alleged russian election medalist with twitter also taking aim at this channel plus. i. do.

>> that's when there will be a senate hearing on this featuring at least facebook and twitter, google has been ainvited. there's also expected be house hearing that day. details are abstract. you will see these companies respond directly to lawmaker questions about this and particularly for facebook which has had this real ascendance over the past five or ten years. this is a seminal moment for them. they don't testify on capitol hill often so it's a big deal that they are. >> mr. mccabe, we have talked a lot about facebook, and we talk about julia about facebook, but this is not just facebook's issue, is it, with the add button? >> it is not. it is obviously partially google's issue. google is the other big player in the online ad market. they found some ads associated wish with this effort. they have less problems because things can't go viral as easily on google like they can on facebook and twitter. just today we saw story that said out brain, which is a big advertising content referral company is also looking into these questions. certainly, it is one that is starting to consume

elsewhere this week tech giants google facebook and twitter all joined in the hunt for the elusive alleged russian election medal is. the euphrates river and across it is isis it's from there that they shelled the city.

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and on nicky aaron with a roundup of the week's news including tech giants google facebook and twitter are joining in the hunt for the increasingly elusive lucking alleged russian election mandalas plugs. the euphrates river and close it is just it's. the shelled with c.t.e. . chronic states that days in serial numbers as they are driven out of the city of dia hours ago and across the euphrates river. flows are you watching the weekly here on r.t. international the latest headlines on the stories that shaped the week but first to catalonia where voting on independence from spain is underway but i see eight people have been injured in the standoff with military police that's according to canceling all thora sees civil guard officers have forced their way in supposing stations across the region they broke down doors as activists inside tried to prevent them from entering with a number of people dragged away offices. thank you oh. all right thank god. thank you thank. you god god. god. god. the city can see spanish police detaining protesters who were blocking the way for police vehicles

but also in this week's headlines tech giant google facebook and twitter have all joined in the hunt for increasingly allusive looking alleged russian election madness. germany sees a wave of protests after the alternative for germany party enter the national parliament for the first time cuts. you for cheese river cross it is. shelled the city islamic states days in syria look numb that has been driven out of the city of d.m. reso and across the euphrates river. allowing welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international the latest headlines on the stories that shaped the week. well it's decision time the spanish region of confidence in less than an hour people that will start voting on whether to break away from spain madrid has threatened to shut down polling stations and branding the referendum illegal that's prompted some locals to stage sit ins to make sure the ballots casting goes ahead. police offices have visited several theaters to let activists know that they must leave the premises by six am local time a deadline which has now expired but we can now cross live to

elsewhere this week tech giants google facebook and twitter have all joined in the hunt for the elusive alleged russian election medlars. that's the river cross it says it's there that they shelled the city. and islamic states days in syria look numbered as they're driven out of the eastern city of debtors or and across the euphrates river . you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international with me kate partridge thank you for joining us but first some other breaking news from canada police say that minton are treating the ramming down and stabbing of a fellow officer as a terror incident the thirty year old driver has been apprehended and an iso flag was found in his vehicle a manhunt followed the running of the police officer and the driver was finally stopped in the truck after a knock down at least four pedestrians and a high speed police chase through the center of the city no fatalities have been reported but the condition of the victims is unknown and we'll have more news on this as we get it. or be while voting is underway in catalonia in the historic referendum on independe

tech giants google facebook and twitter have all joined in the hunt for the increasingly elusive looking alleged russian election meddlers with twitter also taking aim at this channel plus. thank you thank you. thank. you. jimmy did a wave of protests after the alternative for germany party and to the national parliament for the first time you have. allowed that this is r.t. international you're watching the weekly here all the latest headlines and the stories that shape the week. well it's decision time in the spanish region of catalonia in just a few hours people there will start voting on whether to break away from space in madrid though threatened to shut down polling stations branding the referendum illegal has prompted some locals to stage sit ins to make sure the ballot casting goes ahead. thank police officers the visited several facilities to let activists know that they must leave the premises by six am local time with the deadline which is now expired. but it's not because live to our correspondent dana koch you have a near one of those occupied polling stations in boston alon

facebook has been very proactive about their communication. companies like googlewitter came and gave closed-door testimony, which mark warner said was fully insufficient to show they were on top of things. the companies have kind of taken their own tack. several of them say they are going to need to work together on whatever the future of this looks like, whether that is legislation or simply sharing notes on what is going on in their platforms to stop these foreign actors from influencing future elections. david: there's a sense of time wasting. this issue has been kicking around. congress is going to get inpatient at some point. sarah frier, thank you for joining us. still with us is tom lee. let me ask you a broader question about tech and regulation. some of these tech giants have gotten awfully big. regulation,titrust, is there a sense this will constrain the growth of these businesses that have been such a big driver in the stock market? tom: some reform is overdue because social media has benefited from essentially no touch regulation while industries they

the job plea of google and facebook have completely undercut the the financial the of the way that journalism used to fund itself which we used to nourish good reporting and going back to las vegas incident one for the new york times or washington post found their first amendment rights or their their wish for free speech in any way in inhibited by the values of journalism by making sure they were accurate they were independent they were impartial and and to make sure that they that they were correct in what their reporters so i think there's a lot that the if they wanted to that these tech companies could learn from journalism and and from journalists if if they were willing to to listen more and not hide behind these these arguments around. intellectual property and and and freedom of speech online tom who should be accountable for the lies a fraud like law lies published on social media what penalty should be paid and by whom i mean you can't hold an algorithm or a piece of code to account can you. no you can't but the often these algorithms are gains by people who know exactly how to make

emily: google, facebook, and twitter are the fire in the u.s.ws and spreading misinformation. what is baidu's responsibility here and baidu's plan to combat that kind of thing? ya-qin: fake news is a global challenge and is no exception in china. every year we received somewhere around 3 billion claims our requests that we need to verify that might turn out to be fake news. it is a huge challenge. we are using a combination of technology and also content authorization to minimize the fake news. emily: i understand you have hundreds of cyber cops, actual people who are looking at information. is that correct? ya-qin: firstly use technology. a lot of things we talk about ai able to help us do the screening. after you do the screening, you have to make sure the source is authentic. we work with different organizations and associations with technology and the cyber authority to make sure the contents are authentic and real and of high quality. we have an obligation to make sure the user gets good content, but it continues to be a challenge for us an