here to discuss is kurt wagner.ow does this all, part where you have elon musk on a video screen live in front of twitter employees? offside --is at an off-site, a global off-site. he faced times elon musk. they have some issues getting the audio to work and eventually, voila they are talking and elon musk's face is on this big screen. taylor: what is the advice? >> you should do a better job of identifying real people on twitter versus bots or fake users on twitter. he says it can be really hard to get real feedback. are people who are complaining actual customers? people who have issues with tesla cars -- are they bots or competitors? and you cannot tell a bot versus a real person on the network. taylor: i feel a lot of hate mail we get, the negative trolling comes on twitter. i don't get as much of that on instagram or facebook. how has twitter not been able to control that as much as some of the other social media companies? >> it comes back to real identities. in order to create a profile, you have to use your

here to tell us more about musk advice is kurt wagner. before we get to the advice how did this come apart what where you have elon musk on a video screen? >> kind of a fun story, right? twitter was at this off-site in houston. they flew all of their employees in. jack dorsey from the video i saw looks like he pulls up an ipad. and he literally facetimes elon musk. they have some actual issues getting the audio to work. and voila they're talking on this big screen above jack dorsey's head and the employee base are watching. >> so what's the advice? >> the advice is hey, you should do a better job of identifying eal people on twitter versus bots or real face users. he said it will be really hard to get real feedback. are people that are complaining real customers? are people who are complaining have issues with tesla cars? what is that? when you can't tell a bot from a real person on the network it can make things difficult. >> there does seem to be a real issue. i feel like a lot of the hate mail, a lot of the negative comes on twitter. d

discuss, laso jean-claude, and with me in studio is kurt wagner, who has been covering facebook for us do we know about these new policies today about the deepfake videos and what happens if a politician uses them? kurt: they are treating it in the same way as like hate speech, for example. this is the kind of thing that anyone on the network ma including politicians, is not ,llowed to ship -- network including politicians, is not allowed to share. they cannot share deepfake videos as ads or regular content or a will be removed. but it gets more complicated. facebook has a specific policy around newsworthiness. bethey deem something to completely newsworthy, they might leave it up. taylor: does this go far enough in your opinion for facebook to come out and say they will be removing some of the deepfake videos? >> every time with facebook, it is not going far enough. it is always too little, too late. i am sitting here in las vegas, a year ago, we saw fake doctored crash,f a tesla supposedly crash, that went around the world in a matter of minutes. vegas doess in las not stay in las ve

to discuss, we have kurt wagner here. why now and why the change? perhaps you've heard over the last three months that everyone is very upset with facebook's ads policies. so they've been kind of saying routinely that they're looking at different options around ad targeting. they were not really committing to revisiting their fact checking ads. there's been a lot of discussion. they came out with this blog post and they didn't really actually change any of the policies people are upset about. they said here's a new setting for users. if you want to see fewer political ads, you can check this new box in your settings and we'll show you fewer ads. that's on you, the user. our policies are not changing. taylor: frankly, from the user perspective, i wonder if there has been positive reception. if i go on to wish my cousin a happy birthday, and not going toi'm not going to go on have political dialogue. does that help with the user's perspective, that they can ignore political ads? kurt: i think that's what facebook would argue and there's a very valid ar

taylor: that was kurt wagner.up, the united nations links the saudi crown prince the 2018 hacking of jeff bezos's phone. we will have details next. tesla hits another milestone, trailing only toyota. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> taylor: the united nations called for an investigation into if the saudi crown prince was involved in the hacking of jeff bezos's cell phone. officials suggest it was hacked following an exchange with the crown prince. saudi arabia's finance minister spoke with bloomberg on the sidelines of the world economic forum in davos. >> i think the saudi embassy in washington issued a statement last night saying this is absurd. they called for an investigation so they will know what happened. taylor: a report by u.n. experts says the alleged attack may have been an effort to influence or even silence the reporting of the washington post, which bezos owns. for more, i spoke to bloomberg's alyza sebenius. alyza: speaking to sources today, i have been hearing this call for understanding what actually went

to discuss, we are joined by kurt wagner. why the new potential ceo? : tiktok is under a lot of regulatory pressure in the united states. its ties to china have led some to believe it is may be a security risk, and there are some who think having a larger security presence on the ground in the u.s. may help with regulators. taylor: they talk about the product, the engineering from the ceo of china, to be in the u.s. to help the regulation part of all this. kurt: the way it was described to us, this role may not be everything you would think of as a usual ceo. this person would see more the business and operations side. that would include policy, pr, marketing, advertising. that is the big reason i was told they want someone on the ground. in asia, it is hard to build a big business in the u.s. from asia. they want people on the ground who are going to help shepherd this potential advertising business through. taylor: why do we know about the advertising business so far? kurt: it is still growing, but when you look at tiktok, hundreds of millions of user