i checked your google.man. >> it's vultair. >> if we had a search company to look it up. >> to your question. you're right. the tech companies have gotten bigger. with more power comes more responsibility. the scrutiny is important. it's a big part of the democratic system. hold companies accountable. it's a healthy part of the relation which needs to happen. there is a part where we need to be careful. and you don't want to make -- you don't want people to reject technology. it's the source of progress. and i think how we drive this constructively forward will impact the u.s. andanity a lot more than we realize. >> your company and part company said they want to do the right thing. what does that mean? if american democracy requires some facts or objective truth. what does that mean to you? >> i mean, it does always meant a lot to us. google we work hard to bring you the right information. in fact working -- there are areas people don't agree what right information is. that's the active debate in society.

emily: you left google in 2009, google left china a few months later. what happened?ai-fu: i had no idea. i was surprised. "new york times" called me one morning and said, what is going on? can we get a quote from you? what and they said google just left china. i said, i have no idea. i can't give you a quote. then i read about it in the news. emily: google said they did not want to respond to the censorship demands of the chinese government. was that the right call? kai-fu: it is hard to say what is right or wrong. i think if, google is a very value-centric company, so it will do things according to its values, for which we all respect, but on the other hand that makes it impossible for the company to do business in china, and i would prefer to see engagement, and engagement would give users more choices, and that would ultimately i think lead to the competitiveness and better products, but that requires following the law, and if you choose not to, then i guess you would have to exit. emily: do you think google will ever return to china? kai-fu: i think it is difficu

well yesterday during his speech he said that facebook and google or obstacles to innovation and actually claims that their days are numbered let's take a listen to what he had to say the fact that the near monopoly distributors shoot subject him to more stringent regulations so he had a lot to say about adding regulations to facebook and google but that idea really doesn't mix well with a number of companies that he's actually tied to take the ngo freedom house for example who is rumored to be largely funded by george soros they have in the past been a huge adamant supporters of the power of social media especially when it came to the arab spring and the influence that the internet had during that the backlash against social media in the arab world and in turkey is the latest version of perennial systematic exams by authorities here in leading regimes to control their citizens through fear and repression however it only draws attention to the human rights abuses these governments seek to hide and reveals despots fear. of the growing power of citizen voices now the us media has even repor

emily: what is google's interest here? >> google is a lot in hardware this year.google wants to make sure they don't see the living room and a lot of the home spaces to competitors like amazon, apple, facebook. google is aware the future is moving to a world of using devices beyond the phone. emily: my question was going to be, does it seem like anyone is in the lead when it comes to the living room? amazon got a head start with echo. apple is coming to market soon. >> the market is still pretty young. amazon has a big lead with developers, which is key. they are having a lot more developers held apps. that is still pretty premature. i think this is a chance that school, apple, companies coming out of china, they can make a mark here. emily: when we say executives will be roaming the showroom, what does that mean? >> apple executives don't even wear name tags. this will become much more of a priority for companies. my colleague wrote a good story about this. down the supply chain, you need a specialized chip, you need a lot more hardware to keep up with expansion

really became google intelligence community fingerprints and now google's run in congress with that much money it's an interesting interesting change interesting snake right there. in that was filled with hate in their heart against other human beings ever truly see the light well it seems that a former executive member of the state legislative committee and brandenburg germany's far right anti islamic alternative for germany are a hefty party hats forty eight year old arthur wagner resigned from the party and his leadership position on january eleventh and he took his shot at the declaration of faith in islam as part of his conversion to becoming a member of the muslim faith wagner didn't just come to islam overnight though it seems that while as a member of the f.t. he worked for the refugee welcoming committee as an interpreter most of his work having been with muslim chechens fleeing persecution and while the party swears that his conversion was not to an issue for them and wagner says he left the party for personal reasons it's hard to imagine an islamic convert being welcomed

it's really hurting google's employees, and everyone that uses google's products because it seeps intotheir products. charles: on that note, is that a reflection of the people who work there? we have a lot of the people from foreign countries who work in silicon valley. i read nearly half the businesses being started there are people arriving from other countries. are they bringing their prejudice with them against white conservatives and does that hurt people's careers? >> a lot the of the criticism is from the activists that are bullying everyone. it's not theafort one final word for our viewers is biased against conservatives. if you look at internal polls at google, about half agreed with my document. but that's not what you would see if you asked people openly because there is so much shaming. if you ever open up with certain viewpoints your career will be sabotaged. charles: herme, i read this is a class action lawsuit. do you anticipate addition pal workers joining james? >> let me speak to that, charles. the situation we just filed this lawsuit today. we expect other people to

is sending a clear message that it google is sending a clear message thatitis google is sending a clearnd it can be more than just a search engine. to do that, google is going beyond the virtual world into the real world, by allowing customers to search and then purchase within its ecosystem. a number of companies are doing this like in many markets. we had done a number of investments like this. we tend to look at, are theyin like this. we tend to look at, are they in the right space, do they have the right product? in this case, we were really excited by all three factors. the deal has changed the fortunes of those working for dunzo whose regular income and job security are invaluable to them. are you feeling cold? and for dunzo customers like this woman, it is a service she has come to rely on, especially on days when the office is cold. it would have taken me an hour to get my jacket is cold. it would have taken me an hour to get myjacket but i got it in ten minutes. dunzo serves almost 3500 customers every day and is planning to expand. you can't put a price on convenient and that

, and it's really hurting google's employees, google and everyone that uses google's products becauseeps into their products. liz: that was former google engineer james damore sitting there with his lawyer saying we are suing google, alleging discrimination against white conservative men. that bias is common in silicon valley. they have evidence executives acted in violation of the law, roll tape. >> one of the main allegation says not only does the small cadre of extreme leftists running or managing google not tolerate viewpoints like james' or other legitimate viewpoints but threaten people with career sabotage like james said, they maintain black lists at google of people they refuse to work with and threatened james with career termination saying they will make sure they don't get jobs in silicon valley at all. that shame in atmospheres, james had no choice but to file the suit and we expect a lot of other people to hopefully come forward. liz: google has other problems, it is investigated for gender pay discrimination. let's take a look at alphabet, the parent of google. ended in

but as of right now, google, of course, is not a government entity. google is not a public utility.are a private for profit corporation, one that can make decisions as the corporation seems fit. >> tucker: google controls the overwhelming majority of digital advertising along with facebook. overwhelming majority. every news organization that relies on digital advertising, which are all of them that aren't on television, they are all dependent upon two companies that are wildly political and working against free speech. that's not a concern? that concerns me. >> i'm not saying that's not a concern. what i'm saying is not every concern rises to the level of market concentration coupled with consumer harm. i'm also saying that in this circumstance, what we have options that consumers have access to. they can use other search engins. they can avoid google if they want to. that does make a difference here. >> tucker: all right. senator, thank you for joining us. i used to be a libertarian until google. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: 95-yr-old comic book legend stan lee

it's google. no free speech at google.yes, this is silencing, wrote one googler, i intend to silence these views, they are violently offensive. another said, i will norv have a higher transfer you onto my team. ever. i don't care if you are perfect fit or technical or what have you, i will not work with you where the team is impacted by the decision. i'll communicate right to your manage fer it comes up. that's what happens when a silicon valley tech person comes across someone are with a different world view, their head explodes and ask questions like this. dear trump supporters, i keep hearing people feeling unsafe about supporting trump. help me understand how, as a googler anyone could support trump. that's right, half of america, how could you? don't get ideas about people in silicon valley to respect your political choice. if you feel uncomfortable about people who do not share your beliefs, you need to re-evaluate them not pressure others into assuaging you. re-evaluate? what kind of outfit are they running at googl

joining us now, mark ferguson who covers google.g to have a boost in, this year, what can we expect us to marect? mark: there are a lot more competitors, google is pushing out its own version of its home speakers, apple is working on one, samsung is there, a slow chinese companies, but we are seeing this year's a lot of the major tech companies both here and in china are working heavily on ai and they are working on ai features where you have software combining with hardware. >> what is google's interest? mark: they are investing in hardware. they bought a smart tv, google wants to make sure they don't see to the living room and home spaces to competitors like amazon, apple, facebook and google is aware that the base -- future is moving toward a world are movingre we beyond dices iphones. they have the big lead on the software side and we want to make sure that they are still involved in every once lives. >> -- everyone's lives. we know that amazon got a real head start with echo on home speakers but obviously apple will be coming t

h now, damore and another ex-google employee are suing that company they are suing google of systemict white employees, men, and conservatives. their 161-page lawsuit exposes a remarkable and terrifying climate at google. a place where biased, hateful, and even violent political rhetoric is totally acceptable, just as long as it's directed against the right targets. the suit contains documents that shows googlers openly maintain politically motivated employee blacklists. here is one. in 2015 google manager paul cowen wrote the following on google's internal networks for all employees to see: the blacklists were real and not just internal. they also applied to conservative figures from outside the company. blogger curtis yarvin, known online, once visited google to have lunch with an employee. according to the suit his arrival triggered a silent alarm at google. security arrived to escort him off campus. his mere presence was considered unacceptable. according to the lawsuit, google employees were awarded with bonuses by the company for publicly denouncing damore's memo. in april of 20

there is no googling. there . there will be. uniate center a month later it was of google inc.and they deposited that $100,000 check and the rest is history. maybe it's a little corny, sounds like corruption. i guess you call it selling out. for them and for facebook as well with a really had some idealism. they kind of work in all of part of the computer and do not necessarily tied to become billionaires. i think in the book you see there are other characters like peter and jeff basis for bakers and that's what they're trying to do was to figure out a way to make money. these idealistic hackers kind of led astray, that's my view anyway. >> sarah, he written extensively about a coming of the technology world has changed over time. can you explain how has the media theobald as a tech world has evolved? >> sure. so in the research report i did for the center for digital journalism at columbia, what are the things of time to look at was coverage from that kind of early almost breathless excitement about the silicon valley moment, the dot com boom and all of that kind of energy tha

company's proposed mega campus in downtown san jose as "google ville," met briefly with a google representaivevered a letter that spells out concerns that google's plans will lead to rent hikes and evicitions "....we're asking google to step up and respond to the needs of the people and to the entire region...."google's javier gonzales politely accepted the letter but offered nocomment on it's contents, which included a demand that google commit to setting aside 25 percent of any housing it might build in san jose,as affordable to the people who live there now. "...i know that when google comes to downtown san jose that my rent is going to go up and i will have to move out..." chava bustamante/latinos united for america"....google is welcome in san jose but it is going to have to be a good neighbor...."the activists are likewise calling on the city of san jose to drive ahard bargain with google, whose plans are said to include building some 6 million square feet of office space where some 20,000 people might one day be working. in mountain view rob fladeboe kron 4 news ( robin ) in the east ba

was ambassador for google for years. the google ceo has become much more the public face. with the hillary campaign so his standing the election -- standing since the election this fall a bit. from what i have heard, he has not been as active, you have the general counsel and government affairs team. you have a big gap there, google does not have a global policy chief. it is unclear if they are really thinking about reevaluating their larger strategy in d.c. and globally in politics. emily: interesting. glad to have you back. mark covers alphabet for us. thank you so much for stopping by. be sure to turn into our coverage of the world's biggest gadget show, including an interview with sony next tuesday. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technology." check us out livestreaming on twitter. that is all for now, this is bloomberg. ♪ >> the following is a paid advertisement for the traeger renegade elite. >> the traeger renegade elite is the most versatile grill you could ever own. you can grill, smoke, braise and barbecue. it is the superior woodfired grill that give

google and facebook to me are the easiest buys based upon valuation. in google's case and facebook's case, tremendous ad growth, 65% to 70% of the ad market. facebook's ad growth is growing at about 41% this is roughly a 25 times 2019 multiple at $9 a share so at this phase of a market where people are concerned, expectations are very low on facebook i actually think that's a very interesting call, and google to me is executing on all cylinders, but they have been rallying hard. >> steve, what's your play here? >> so just to push back a little bit on facebook, i think whenever you tweak with that news feed, there's a lot left to the unknown. it accounts for 85% of the revenue for facebook, any tweak

emily: what is google's interest here specifically? google invested a lot in hardware this year.pixel line. google wants to make sure they don't see the living room and a lot of the home spaces to competitors like amazon, apple, facebook. google is aware the future is moving to a world in which -- we are using devices beyond phones, talking to our devices. they have a big lead on the software. you want to make sure they are still involved in everyone's life. emily: my question was going to be, does it seem like anyone is in the lead when it comes to the living room? we know that amazon got a head start with echo. and obviously apple is coming to market with soon. one >> the market is still pretty young. amazon has a big lead with developers, which is key. they are having a lot more helpers build software and apps for the at -- developers build software and apps for the echo. that is still pretty premature. i think this is a chance that google, apple, companies coming out of china, they can make a market. emily: when we say executives will be roaming the showroom, what does that m

google does. can't be fired for their political views, private sector employees are all the time. the trump administration can't end your ability to publicly communicate your ideas. twitter and facebook can do that. and they do do it all the time. thor wellian future is increasingly the present. and tech barrons are becoming our new tell czars. opposition to opposition to corporate power have been thoroughly co-opted. they are getting rich from it. james demuir has seen it all from the inside firsthand. he joins us now with his lawyer harmid dillon. welcome to you both. >> happy to be here. >> tucker: so, james, in reading these documents, what is so striking is not that you just got fired for expressing your views and i want to restate the piece that got you fired, you weren't attacking anybody, you were raising questions. you got fired for that google seemed to feel the need to vilify you after you got fired to discredit you to attack your character and tone courage others to do the same. that s

they destroyed innovation they destroyed small companies google and amazon while they are innovators in their own way are also against innovation because they're trying to dominate their markets like any company would let's also mean that's a good thing working on i mean that row and drabness cars aren't the innovators maybe they're doing they are innovators but they're doing it in the context of their business they're doing it to make sure that we use their drugs their driverless because the idea for example that google. already essentially is the big data business own. owns many of the other categories of the digital market should also the control the self driving car business is terrified google already knows everything we do through of and i think is eighty six percent of all users use the android platform if we all get in our self driving cars and they know where we are all the time they're not evil they're big they're not big brother but what they'll do is continually. so the idea that google should control that entire platform i think is is is not only dangerous but also doesn

google through youtube has been trying to do that.ting way, smaller companies, even though spotify is not small, have a better opportunity. there has been concern from the big record companies to align themselves to tightly with apple and google. so that is why spotify is well-established. speakers are the hottest category there is. spotify works great with that. emily: would you agree? >> absolutely. keep in mind amazon is not the only player. people have the echo. it is certainly gaining popularity, but there are a lot of companies that are trying to innovate around how can we integrate music into their product. what is interesting is we start moving -- obviously spotify is a subscription-based model. these hardware companies, once you buy the product, it is one and done. now there is an opportunity to inject a subscription-based thesis. it might be music or other content, to drive revenues and as a growth opportunity for older companies. emily: what is the biggest threat to spotify? >> i think obviously they have significant challe

>> google earnings on the long side sgchlt wi >> mike? >> buy call spreads in google and sell them in volume. >> dan >> what he said. >> i am melissa lee. see you back here next friday. our time has expired the following program is a paid commercial presentation for total gym fitness. [music] everybody work out. feel the energy. build a better body. the best you can be. another body easy as 123. oh. ahh. better body as easy as 123 with total gym. i feel fab

company's proposed mega campus in downtown san jose as "google ville," met briefly with a google representaivetter that spells out concerns that google's plans will lead to rent hikes and evicitions "....we're asking google to step up and respond to the needs of the people and to the entire region...."google's javier gonzales politely accepted the letter but offered nocomment on it's contents, which included a demand that google commit to setting aside 25 percent of any housing it might build in san jose,as affordable to the people who live there now. "...i know that when google comes to downtown san jose that my rent is going to go up and i will have to move out..." chava bustamante/latinos united for america"....google is welcome in san jose but it is going to have to be a good neighbor...."the activists are likewise calling on the city of dan calling on the city of dan jose to drive ahard bargain with google, whose plans are said to include building some 6 million square feet of office space where some 20,000 people might one day be working. in mountain view rob fladeboe kron 4 news (pam) m

i think what we was he is google assisted functionality and optionalitye corp.cles, apple has car play, that we have alexa and android auto, this will be hundreds of different cars, you have android facing your car, you have more of this technology so think i've for the third or fourth year in a row, it will be the connected car strategy. >> what is to come in 2018? what are marker men looking most forward to? it will be interesting to see what apple does in the. they pioneered this back in 2014 but i think they have since blown that lead to both amazon and google, who had this home pot delay. in the home pot comes out, we will see if the conversation backed to appa -- apple be on top. i'm really excited to see and we will find out what they have up their sleeves because they have to be doing something in the connected home market. alisa: thank you so much for that roundup and your great covers this week and surviving the blackout, thank you, i know it was not painless. that doesn't for this addition of bloomberg technology, we are live streaming twitter, check

carter. >> google into earnings. i want to be on the long side. >> mike. >> call spreads on google. sell them in bond. >> dan. >> what he said. i forgot what i was going to say. >> excellent our time has expired i'm melissa lee. we'll see you next friday. - [narrator] the following is a paid advertisement for the 3 week yoga retreat. brought to you by beachbody. - are you a woman of a certain age? if you are, pull up a chair and sit with me, because this is for you. i'm leeza gibbons and it was a big year for me, i turned 60, and i'm all about aging gracefully with empowerment, and all of that, but let's be real, there are some parts about getting older that are just hard. - all the symptoms of menopause from a to z, i have them. - my body is changing. - i'm not as flexible as i used to be. - i'm anxious, i don't sleep.

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carter. >> google into earnings. i want to be on the long side. >> mike. >> call spreads on google. sell them in bond. >> dan. >> what make you money

mily: some observers would say google is taking a long time.s it take so long to get to market? day, soive cars every we taken for granted. the getting to the point where vehicles are better than humans, it takes a lot of work. 99.999 percentng of the time. a self-drivingn car in 2011 and i rated one a muchago, i did not see difference. what would you say? >> the hard part is the tricky things happen rarely. what we are doing with this technology is, we are trying to save life on the road. you have to drive about 81 million miles before someone dies. if you drive around the city for an hour, the vehicle may seem thatit is doing well, but may not be the case. happenans, rare events -- an accident is reported to police one in every 100,000 miles. self driving cars, we are still assessing where they are. people are pushing to get to these big numbers for performance. can eliminate all of these accidents. the key will be finding a threshold where we can have them on the road so they cans start to save lives. we need to find an appropriate and safet

tackling online extremism, congress wants to hear what facebook, google and twitter are doing to fightll three tech titans are set to testify on the hill once again. and screen time, is of a public health crisis when it comes to children? we look at why some apple shareholders seem to think so. but to our lead, shares of first, facebook falling more than 4% on friday, turning in the worst performance since september. in a post on late mark thursday, zuckerberg said it is residing the newsfeed to them -- include more content from friends and family ms from business, print and media and any by making these changes i spent the time people spend on facebook will go down but i also expect the time you do spent on facebook will be more valuable. concernmade a nod to over social media. walk us through what happened, what mark zuckerberg broke and what led us to this moment. >> this is all about mark zuckerberg bringing race but back to his roots. that is reprioritizing posts from friends and family. he is trying to tweak the algorithms so the stuff you see first will convince you to share, li

there are conservative black lists inside of google it's alleged.a manager said, "i'm considering creating a public inside google document of people who make diversity difficult," which she defined as people who repeatedly make public statements unsupportive of diversity. in a follow-up she wrote that managers could use that list to "take action within their teams" and she may use it to "insure that committees are aware of their behavior and take that into account when deciding whether to promote them," so some very inflammatory things in this lawsuit contained in this attachment. i think there will be a lot of follow-up. >> is there a response yet from google? >> we reached out to google who are notoriously tight lipped and they as usual said nothing but, " we are looking forward to defending against this lawsuit." so more to come. >> thank you, melissa. >>> a jury awarded more than half a million dollars in punitive damages against an oakland city councilwoman. desley brooks must pay $550,000 to former black panther leader elaine brown stemming fr

in google's response.-y're still waiting for twitter's transparency center. in terms of terrorism, company say they have been collaborating or some time to come up with a digitalatabase of fingerprints that could collaborate and more quickly catch these videos. they cite significant numbers ort they are capturing 99 98% of this content before it is flagged. google said they have 10,000 people dedicated to this issue. facebook wants to up that from 10,000 to 20,000. there are so many instances where these videos are still being uploaded and re-upload it. until lawmakers can see that this is stopping -- the question is that there is more to be done. emily: selina wang who covers twitter for us, and facebook. and for the counter extremism project. thank you, tara, for your input. emily: how to fix social media is one of mark zuckerberg's mentors. he shook his ideas on what can be done. upcomingsten for our bloomberg studio 1.0 interview. is it not enough, it is completely irrelevant. you cannot fix this damag

not google or alexa. bill: do you think it has anything to to with placal correctness, we heard this time again with the big companies, a lot of left wingers, a lot of people negative on religion, would it surprise you if a tech said we don't know that. >> nothing surprises me any more, that would be foolish on their part, i am going to go with a glitch. so, sometime the technology is fouled up. bill: in my car, same problem with my blue tooth, it calls towing services. >> but suri knows who jesus christ is. bill: she is the ball. >> thank you. >> great to see you. happy birthday bill. and we check in with your meteorologist dan zarrow. reporter: wintertime recipe setting up, clear skies, try air, cold air mass, leading to frigid temperatures, into teens for most of us friday morning. we have a nice warming trend, this map last night, chilly thursday, temperatures below normal with wind. and transition to friday. the wins switch, to come from west andmoving in, we'll see the temperatures recover to normal

de vista sin embargo,dicen que google deberÍa estar haciendo mucho mÁs.alaciones del gigante de la tecnologÍa para exigir lo siguiente: " queremos que google se reÚna con la comunidad, para lo han hecho de manera efectiva y hagan compromisos reales." flavio: quiere construir un mega complejo pero activistas comunitariospiden que la ciudad cobra impuestos debidos y le exija a google, entre otras cosas, viviendas para familias de bajos recursos. " google estÁ viviendo de nosotros. tiene que ser responsable. tiene que asegurar que el 30% de todas la viviendas quese van a desarrollar san josÉ, sean accesibles para familias de medios y bajos recursos". flavio: tambiÉn exigen que ofrezcan fondos para que las familiasaplastados por la construcciÓn de condominios multimillonarios, reciban asesorÍa para defender derechos como inquilinos. >>yo no puedo pagar esas rentas. flavio: esto lo que los activistas quieren evitar. >>estoy afectada porque las rentas de san josÉ ya son imposibles. ya se van a poner peores. >>yo trabajo en cool pero no tengo los mismos derechos

company's proposed mega campus in downtown san jose as "google ville," met briefly with a google representaiveivered a letter that spells out concerns that google's plans will lead to rent hikes and evicitions "....we're asking google to step up and respond to the needs of the people and to the entire region...."google's javier gonzales politely accepted the letter but offered nocomment on it's contents, which included a demand that google commit to setting aside 25 percent of any housing it might build in san jose,as affordable to the people who live there now. "...i know that when google comes to downtown san jose that my rent is going to go up and i will have to move out..." chava bustamante/latinos united for america"....google is welcome in san jose but it is going to have to be a good neighbor...."the activists are likewise calling on the city of dan jose to drive ahard bargain with google, whose plans are said to include building some 6 million square feet of office space where some 20,000 people might one day be working. in mountain view rob fladeboe kron 4 news ... (pam) berkeley scho

the city council will do negotiations with google. reporting live from mountain view, nbc 7 news. >> thank you. >>> we have new details this morning on the three alarm fire that burned several businesses in san francisco. fire officials say the roof collapsed in the end of the fire fight. we were at west portal avenue this morning, and you can see the caution tape in front of the damaged businesses there. investigators are still trying fire. it started around 10:45 last night. flames quickly spread through four buildings. in the end, a hardware store, salon, and newspaper store burned including a vacant building. >>> will president trump have to answer questions about the russian investigation? the southern california couple accused of torturing their children are in court. >>> toys "r" us plans to close dozens of >>> kentucky police have not released a motive behind the high school shooting that left two students dead and 18 hurt yesterday morning at marshall county high school in benton, 120 miles northwest of nashville. a first res

he was the author of the google memo that got submitted internally on a google message board.it was specifically rubbing some people the wrong way. they thought it was sexist. whether you think that or don't think that, he and his attorney say that's not grounds for dismass sal. >> reporter: five months from his firing, james demoore wants a legal reckoning with his former employer. and he his lawyer say the beef is not over free speech in the workplace but fair employment. >> james would not be communicating with me and sitting here if he hadn't been fired. >> reporter: the class-action lawsuit involving damore describes the open hostility for conservative thought leaving some employees to be singled out, mistreated and systematically punished and dismissed from google. he was asked what diversity means to him. >> just having a diverse set of people and a diverse set of views and having people feel comfortable and not be so harshly punished for just expressing themselv themselves. >> reporter: google has not responded but did say in an e-mail right after the firing, "to sugge

. >>> a big protest against google and its plans for a new mega campus in san jose, google is eyeing the area near deardon station. its vision? a near 7 million square foot development. protesters say the mega campus will only make the housing crisis worse. len ramirez now at the scene. >> reporter: google is coming to downtown san jose. the only question now is will it only benefit hi-tech workers or will it benefit the city as a whole? now members of the group silicon valley rising staged a protest at downtown city hall this evening asking google to do the right thing, provide more low income housing as well as the lead to a situation where the community would be gentrified. earlier they brought that same message to google headquarters. >> what do we want? >> housing. >> when do we want it? >> now. >> reporter: they traveled from san jose to the doorstep of google in mountain view demanding the tech giant deliver more low income housing and not drive poor people out when it comes to town. >> we want google to come to san jose, but we want them to come in a responsible way that is g

yes twenty seventeen was a banner year for google as the tech giant spent a record breaking eighteen million to lobby congress federal agencies and the white house on issues such as immigration tax reform and antitrust and according to disclosures filed with the senate office of public records google also spent a considerable amount of money to influence efforts by lawmakers looking to regulate on line advertising google's bread and butter i hope shocking shocking but what you but what might be more shocking to many of you was google's rather fascinating early connections to u.s. intelligence agencies like the cia in the n.s.a. writing for quartz jeff mez but the former director of legislative and public affairs for the national science foundation points out that in google's origins story what is often left out is that some of the research that led to google's ambitious creation was funded and coordinate by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online and that the cia and n.s.a. funded an unclassified compartmentalise

internet to spread malicious propaganda and fake news so how and why a platform such as facebook google and twitter so wide open to abuse in a two part special report we sent paul babe sounds to investigate. san francisco and silicon valley tech companies driving the digital revolution see themselves as positive agents of political and social change facebook's mission is all about giving people a voice and bring people closer together those are democratic values and we're proud of google's mission to store going to growth information and make it universally accessible and useful the more you learn about technology the more you learn what's possible. at twitter arc and if. we want to be a democracy it's up to us to make sure that we have our giving better. russia's manipulation of these platforms during the two thousand and sixteen us presidential election has raised fundamental questions about their systemic vulnerabilities you solemnly swear to tell the truth last november the companies were summoned to appear before the u.s. senate intelligence committee that's right it's not new russ

it's really hurting google's employees, google and everyone that uses google's products. >> they are seeking class-action status incomes less than week after for female google employees filed a lawsuit also seeking class-action status alleging google pays and promotes men more than women. cheryl: interesting. he's making a lot of waves because they been stowed politically correct. the golden globes, talking about oprah, how are the ratings? >> not as good as they hoped. 19 million tuned in sunday night to attend a three-hour long golden globes, the ratings are down from last year it had a six-year low of 18-49 demographic. this is hollywood's first of a show since the revelations of harvey weinstein sexual-harassment and sexual assault shook the industry and confronted what has become an exposed widespread problem in hollywood in a seaside oprah gave iranian lifetime achievement award. lauren: speaking of the speech everyone's been talking about sense, it is doing wonders for her brand, weight watchers. >> this is interesting here. this beach oprah gave about sexual harassment and ab

he's using a google bicycle. the thing is, he is not a google employee. >> you could be walking along and you see one, there it is. you pick it up and take it to where you are going. and then you leave it and someone else takes it. >> reporter: john is not the only resident who has taken advantage of this bicycle system.>> this would be really handy.>> reporter: even the city's mayor has borrowed one of these colorful bicycles for a trip to a meeting at google to the movie theater. >> they are all over mountain view quite frankly. i had a friend from out of town and was excited to see the google bicycle. it's part of mountain view lore.>> reporter: the mayor made sure to turn it into the campus but says not everyone does. they tell us, from july- november they were covered 70- 190 bikes a week. they have 1100 of them in circulation. >> people come to the library and leave it there. >> reporter: google put trackers on a third of their bikes but can't say how many actually are stolen. >> it's not just for the emplo

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and it's really hurting google's employees, google and everyone that uses google's products becauses into their products. stuart: okay, you heard it right there. bring on hamid dylan, that is damore's lawyer. she joins us now. what is your client alleging that google did? discrimination because he is a male or he is a white or is conservative or all three? >> well it is actually all three, stuart, and it is on behalf of a class. james is one of the named plaintiffs. there is a second named plaintiff who fits the same criteria. so actually you could be a woman and part of this class if you're conservative or be a person of color and part of this class if you're a man who is not one of the favored categories. it isn't just a white man's lawsuit as some in the media wrongfully put it. this is what we're looking for the equal application of the discrimination laws in the united states and california specifically applied to everybody and in silicon valley it is become legitimate to discriminate against one class of people and that is the class james represents and that is not acceptable