this week, the editor of the san francisco "chronicle" takes on facebook, audrey cooper versus mark zuckerberg over the future of news. fraternity brothers grow mushrooms and grounds for worry, solving coffee's black mark on the environment. our reporters take a word from al jazeera and the financial times, this week on "press here." >>>. >>> good morning, everyone, facebook screwed up. it's slowly realizing. that over the past few month, we seen facebook acknowledge their roll in the spread of propaganda in the last elections. you probably saw it. it didn't look like russian propaganda, of course. it looked like authentic news, the guardian connecting hillary clinton to the death of an fbi agent was shared over and over. not only is that article not true, there is no such thing as the denver guardian him facebook says 140 million people saw that on the news feed. >> that is more people than voted in the entire election. facebook has tried several solutions from flagging news articles to asking users to credit news agencies the simplest solution is to remove news articles, give up. but that, t

mark zuckerberg was influenced by the impact on children.acebook if it is interactive and has children on them for even longer than they are at the moment, how is that good for mental health? when we are looking at children, their brains are still developing, they have a considerable way to go until their brain has reached full maturity, we need to be careful in terms of technology use. american paediatricians are now really speaking of limiting the use of technology, including facebook, social media, etc, for children. especially at the years of two, three, four. we need to be careful. facebook is only allowed to be used by teenagers from the age of 13. this is for particular reasons. we need to be able to curb technology used to such an extent that the developing brain went been negatively affected. it's not really a problem. as long as we as parents and teachers are making children aware that there may be potential dangers associated with overuse and that we are very much aware of the benefits of social networking and social media use at

mark zuckerberg says it could cause user engagement to fall. abigail doolittle is with us as we are halfway into the trading day and stocks reach record highs yet again. >> the rally simply continues this year. take a look at the s&p 500, dow, nasdaq. major averages up more than half a percent, the dow up more than .8%. continued optimism about the effects of tax reform as earnings season gets underway. earnings on a year-over-year basis will grow 11.8%. it seems investors are feeling good about the current situation . as we have weekly gains, the best since last week, two solid weeks in a row. the dow almost 2% on the week. lots of bullish momentum. -- fromke a look at the a point and percentage standpoint. biggestp top 1.8%, the boost for the s&p 500. this as suntrust has raised its , saying $1400 per share shares are fundamentally very attractive. microsoft also higher up. one of the top boosts as bullish comments saying pc shipments have positive readthrough's for microsoft. as for the percentage performers, take a look at the retail space.

know mark zuckerberg announcing what he's calling church to your children if he left public on brand new york. are. you going to call they're going back a reminder a lot of criticism for the last two years over what facebook is doing. hello richard gere's bird and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories we're tracking this week facebook makes an about turn on news content what the new policy means for media organizations and you the news consumer a legal battle looms in the philippines where the authorities want to take down an online news site defectors from north korea and the treatment their stories get on south korean television and spending quality time online more please you need to have a well educated understanding of how bad things will get if you're not on your phone and facebook is taking a big chunk of the news out of its news feed and in so doing retreating from a crucial part of its business having transformed the way billions of people consume and share news online in some cases the way news organizations produce it facebook is junking that approach r

mark zuckerberg on a mission to fix facebook. one is not happy with what he has planned.s is bloomberg. ♪ >> you are watching bloomberg technology. here is a check of news. president trump says he is open for business. the playinged that field has to be leveled when it comes to trade. we cannot have: free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others. trade, but ite needs to be fair and it needs to because, and the end, unfair trade undermines us all. >> the u.s. will impose sanctions on 21 people over russia's actions in the ukraine. the announcement came after secretary of state rex tillerson met today with ukrainian president in davos. ukraine's move was not recognized by the u.s.. bill cosby's legal team says prosecutors withheld and destroyed evidence that may have helped his defense. was accused of dragging and molesting women in 2004. a assault butnied could she could make money suing. addressing members of parliament today, brexit secretary urged the eu not to take advantage of the u.k. during the transition. after britain exits the

. >>> still to come, mark zuckerberg's new year's resolution. what he says he is going to do to fix facebook. and why it may not be so easy. >> also ahead, the cold new twist affecting millions of people on the east coast and the bay area flights impacted today by the record freeze. east coast. from maryland to maine.... record- breaking freezing temperatures are forecast into the weekend. >>> the coldest is yet to come for the east coast. from maryland to maine, record- breaking freezing temperatures are forecast into the weekend. the region was already slammed this week with heavy snow, hurricane-force winds, and coastal flooding. the new arctic blast could make temperatures feel as low as minus 35 degrees in some parts of the northeast. freeze warnings extend down to south florida. >>> more than 4,000 flights canceled yesterday and thousands more will be canceled today. the storm is even affecting airports in the bay area. today sfo is reporting 109 delays and 23 cancellations. yesterday, there were almost 150 grounded flights. >>> okay. i ha

on whathis year based mark zuckerberg has said, that number might be even bigger. ily: zuckerberg speaking on the call right now. you can see what he is saying. reiterating the importance of personal connections and how actively consuming public content takes away from the time people spend connecting with each other. so, there you go again. david, to some extent, sort of moralizing the way we use facebook. going strong there. david: moralizing is an interesting word. clearly, the world wants facebook to have less of a toxic effect on society. i would argue, on balance, facebook still has a phenomenally beneficial effect on society, but there are some very toxic components that we have here it -- have been hearing about, whether it is addiction, but a legal -- addiction, political manipulation. ask yourselfing to whether the world wants these people with very little transparency to be the ones kind of telling us what's good for us. i think it is a very slippery slope. i think they could get some pushback for that itself. it just underscores what a challenging positi

that's awesome. >> that was facebook ceo mark zuckerberg's first oprah appearance in '09, wearing a tie year's resolution. long used his platform to share his resolutions. this show has reported on problems facing zuckerberg, but he's set big and laudable goals and achieved many. like learning mandarin. >> what -- do that woman. >>. [ speaking foreign language ] >> another goal was building artificial intelligence assistant voiced by morgan freeman and visiting all 50 states. >> helps me get ready in the morning. fresh shirt. >> fire in the hole. >> hell yeah. >> facebook ceo in ohio, surprise. dan moore, he and family knew were having a guest for dinner, obviously someone big but no idea who, before mark zuckerberg walked in their door. >> more he talked, the more i liked him and was inspired by him. >> resolutions includes vowing to read -- books in a year and running so many miles. many personal. this year his new announcement is challenge is professional. notes he usually takes on a personal challenge to learn something new but this year goal is prevent facebook's errors, enforcing

mark zuckerberg says it did increase user engagement.n monday extremism, congress was to hear what facebook, google and twitter are doing to fight it. all three tech titans are set to testify on the once again. , is of a public health crisis when it comes to children? we look at why some apple shareholders seem to think so. at first, to our lead, shares of facebook falling more than 4% on friday, turning in the worst performance since september. in a post on the thursday, mark zuckerberg said it is residing the newsfeed to them -- include friends and from 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. the ceo made a not too concerned over potential applications -- advertisement helping 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 p

coming up mark zuckerberg on a , mission to fix facebook.ews publisher is not happy about what he has planned. this is bloomberg. ♪ retail. under pressure like never before. and its connected technology that's moving companies forward fast. e-commerce. real time inventory. virtual changing rooms. that's why retailers rely on comcast business to deliver consistent network speed across multiple locations. every corporate office, warehouse and store near or far covered. leaving every competitor, threat and challenge outmaneuvered. comcast business outmaneuver. i'm alisa parenti, and you are watching "bloomberg technology." here is a check of news. president trump says he is open for business. in a speech of the world economic forum in davos, he also warned that the playing field has to be leveled when it comes to trade. president trump: we cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others. we support free trade, but it needs to be fair and it needs to be reciprocal, because, in the end, unfair trade u

mark zuckerberg says he is optimistic about a daca fix.been calling members of congress and added they want to fix this, but we need to keep the pressure on so they know we hold them accountable. coming up, regulators to protect the internet with regulations. we'll talk to one company that has petitioned the courts. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: facebook, twitter, and google told lawmakers that they support a legislative effort to restore net neutrality rules. this as the legal fight repeal of the regulations. various lawsuits have been filed include -- including one on behalf of 21 states attorney general's and protection groups like free press and public knowledge, and one by the company mozilla. joining us now from mozilla -- wrote the block post about this lawsuit -- blog post about this lawsuit. >> the notion is protecting the internet as a global resource accessible to all. we would like to reinstate those open internet principles, pencils we have all worked and lived under since the inception of the internet, and to get that so we can

mark zuckerberg's social network has become of the biggest distributors of news in history.to its social roots. he said, one of our big focus areas for 2018 is making sure the time we all spend on facebook is time well spent. facebook‘s founder admits users are being fed a heavy diet of news and adverts, together with the more personal posts from friends and family. in bristol today, many young facebook users agreed. it's quite clogged up with adverts for shopping and baby things at the moment, stuff i search on google. so i think it would be a lot better if it was just based around friends and family, without any adverts. ijust feel like i'm being sold to the whole time. people are making assumptions about my opinions, my tastes, the things i'm interested in. zuckerberg says, i'm changing the goal i give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content, to helping you have more meaningful social interactions. this is the biggest change to facebook for many years. it follows controversy over the promotion of fake news, with fears the platform has been use

strong year for facebook but also a hard one according to mark zuckerberg.k isn't just fun to use but good for people's well-being -- but reducing time spent on facebook by 68 million hours every day -- 50 million our reduction every day. advertisers, critical questions to be asked. scarlet: that talks about the scale of facebook. it is pretty much matching the consensus estimate. let's bring in david kirkpatrick take give us a deeper look at the numbers. he is the company founder and ceo and author of the facebook effect, and every quarter we bring you on to talk about facebook and do not get out of the park. this quarter they are acknowledging a struggle. >> i was thinking the great aikens line that is the great -- the great charles dickens line. placeok is the de facto because of the extraordinary target ability. the last year to have gone through an extraordinary shift to be viewed, even now on wall street as a dangerous place that is harmful for society. i am not the slightest bit surprised in the earnings per share because if they hadn't shown a declin

after saying his personal challenge for 2018 was fixing facebook, ceo mark zuckerberg revealed a big overhaul today to the news feed. and if the changes mean you spend less time on facebook, zuckerberg says he's okay with that. our business correspondent jo ling kent, who covers social media extensively for us, has the story. >> reporter: tonight after more than a year under fire for how it delivers information to users, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg announcing what he's calling a major change to your news feed. here's what you can expect to see. more posts, photos and videos from your friends and family. that means less content from businesses, brands and fewer news articles, too. zuckerberg predicts you'll spend less time on facebook as a result and says, this will be, quote, good for people's well-being. the move comes after a barrage of criticism including facebook's founding president accusing the company of creating an intentionally addictive product. >> it probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. god only knows what it's doing to our children's brains. >> reporter: a

. >> reporter: earlier this month, mark zuckerberg announced they would change their algorithm so

mark zuckerberg accept that is not all news is of equal damage but his changes could damage reputable news providers that have come to rely on his platform for eyeballs and income. >> >> the elephant in the room is fake news and how they're trying to clean up the time lines and the fear for publishers for us is the baby is thrown out with the bath water and we lose important real journalism along with the fake news. >> google is often described as part of a duopoly swallowing the advertising and news industries together with facebook. today, google's senior british executive seemed to see this as an opportunity. >> there's an upside moving to the digital world. you can reach five billion people on any device. you know yourself as a journalist there's a huge ability to tell the important stories in new ways and people are turning to the digital world more than ever before to understand the news. >> for facebook's young missionitary founder, a short-term hit in revenues is worth it to allay accusations that it's becoming the anti-social network. anchor: stay with us. still to come, a ne

mark zuckerberg is talking about spending more quality time on facebook.for your company to be more quality time the people and will we be using it less? i think people use facebook for a lot of reasons. and one of the reasons is to talk to friends and family soi reasons is to talk to friends and family so i think it's primarily going to be a different experience on facebook. it's going to be more ofa on facebook. it's going to be more of a social network, less of a news platform but we really don't know what we are going to see. there are changes that will roll out slowly over the next couple of months but it's kind of an open question at this point. given the concern over fa ke this point. given the concern over fake news, is this not positive? should we not be thinking about getting our news from places like facebook? facebook has become the central repository for news. they have faced a lot of pressure in the united states over the russia scandal and tampering with the us election. a lot of that news is shared by people, not necessarily by news organis

mark zuckerberg's social network has become of the biggest distributors of news in history. roots. he said: facebook‘s founder admits users are being fed a heavy diet of news and adverts, together with the more personal posts from friends and family. in bristol today, many young facebook users agreed. it's quite clogged up with adverts for shopping and baby things at the moment, stuff i search on google. so i think it would be a lot better if it was just based around friends and family, without any adverts. ijust feel like i'm being sold to the whole time. people are making assumptions about my opinions, my tastes, the things i'm interested in. zuckerberg says: this is the biggest change to facebook for many years. it follows controversy over the promotion of fake news, with fears the platform has been used by foreign powers to subvert democracy. today's changes aren't driven by those concerns over disinformation, but they're clearly an attempt to restore trust in a global brand and the impact on our news ecosystem could be huge. mark zuckerberg clearly accepts that not all

mark zuckerberg's social network has become of the biggest distributors of news in history.s. he said, one of our big focus areas for 2018 is making sure the time we all spend on facebook is time well spent. facebook‘s founder admits users are being fed a heavy diet of news and adverts, together with the more personal posts from friends and family. in bristol today, many young facebook users agreed. it's quite clogged up with adverts for shopping and baby things at the moment, stuff i search on google. so i think it would be a lot better if it was just based around friends and family, without any adverts. ijust feel like i'm being sold to the whole time. people are making assumptions about my opinions, my tastes, the things i'm interested in. zuckerberg says, i'm changing the goal i give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content, to helping you have more meaningful social interactions. this is the biggest change to facebook for many years. it follows controversy over the promotion of fake news, with fears the platform has been used by foreign power

mark zuckerberg's social network has become of the biggest distributors of news in history.ants to make sure the time we spend on facebook is time well spent. facebook‘s founder admits users are being fed a heavy diet of news and adverts. together with the more personal posts from friends and family. in bristol today, many young facebook users agreed. it's full of adverts for shopping and baby things at the moment, stuff i search on google. so i think it would be a lot better if it was just based around friends and family without any adverts. it was just based around friends and family without any advertslj it was just based around friends and family without any adverts. i just feel like i'm being sold to the whole time. people are making assumptions about my opinions, my tastes, things i'm interested in. mark zuckerberg says he's changing the goal to make you have more meaningful social interactions. that means meaningful social interactions. that m ea ns less meaningful social interactions. that means less news and more friends and family. this is the biggest change to fac

mark zuckerberg says the changes should make people spend less time on facebook but that the time spent will be more valuable the company is responding to a growing tide of criticism about its role in society. and what is its role let's talk about that with federico of baggio from our social media desk and stephen beardsley from our business desk federico get to you in a second steve starting with you this sounds like a really shrewd move it sounds like all that free content the media companies got that they're going to now have to spend a lot more money i think that's one way of looking at have been definitely is that you see organizations and businesses that were able to tailor make a lot of their content and basically get advertising out of it without having to pay for it are now being told those spots don't really exist anymore and you're being demoted what exist ad spots still exists or they all going to go and crowd in and try and get those out spots facebook says there's not making any more or that it's not increasing the number of bad spots i should say you could also see this a

me roger mcnamee from elevation parters, an early investor in facebook and an early mentor to mark zuckerberg. good to have you here. could i read part of the letter that they wrote. if these rorpts are accurate, we are witnessing an ongoing attack by the russian government through kremlin-linked social media act kbrors directly acting to intervene and influence our democratic process. do you find it at all surprising if, indeed, they are trying to influence the mueller investigation? >> no i think that is exactly this is what we feared. my small team and i got involved in this thing in part because facebook's initial reaction was that this was a one-time event. it would never happen again. and our fear was that what the russians were really doing is being -- using the tools of facebook exactly as they are being designed to be used and until somebody tops them, they will keep doing it. and the example is right in front of your eyes. it didn't stop in 2016, it is going on through today and it will continue through this election and future ones. >> and is it not just going on, but are they gett

mark zuckerberg as to announce russia's fake news agencylj mark zuckerberg as to announce russia's fake of the problem. we are conflating terms like propaganda, misinformation, disinformation... they are notably much more subjective and vague than something like fake news. and they are used to dismiss and discredit any kind of dissenting, any kind of inconvenient opinion, or even just fa ct, inconvenient opinion, or even just fact, any kind of reporting. but when presidential candidates or his team presents without evidence of this kind of accusation of false news, and all the media this kind of accusation of false news, and allthe media in this kind of accusation of false news, and all the media in the this kind of accusation of false news, and allthe media in the us, and the mainstream media in the west, they are very happy to point to any kind of statement... intelligence agencies in germany and france have provided the evidence. we talking specifically about scrutiny of statement by donald trump, but not of people like emmanuel macron. brokers did not see a single example of a false

feel well maybe not jeff bezos but certainly mark zuckerberg talks about how he cares about all the people and stuff like that well did you know that california is also has the highest rate of poverty in cross the whole us if you add in the cost of living to what the incomes are you know many measures will say oh it's like mississippi or alabama those are the poorest people because the average income is like fifteen thousand dollars but then the costs there of a trailer is like twenty bucks a month sort of thing in california however real estate prices and rent prices have been soaring soaring soaring and it's complicated a lot to do with regulation so. there's a wheel estate because people are moving into their cars. upper middle class people actually a lot of people they say who work in silicon valley are living in r.v.'s are cars and now there's a you know. sort of a sort of new market like all these commercial space that their parking lots are empty overnight they're now starting to like lease out this sort of space to people who park their cars have a safe space there was reall

that's not what we stand for. >> that was mark zuckerberg from facebook. these people will attend: the hearing starts at 10:00 et. live in menlo park, anne makevoc, kpix 5. >>> time now 6:32. let's check the forecast and traffic. >> looking foggy. >> tomorrow morning the live shot will show rain for a wet morning commute tomorrow. we'll see dense fog tomorrow as well as right now. we have high pressure in place with warmer conditions and partly cloudy conditions later on but some sunshine as well for the south bay. coit tower is covered in fog. golden gate is covered in and out of fog as it works its way around the bay. visibility definitely is low. you can see all that fog around the bay area. it's low in the valleys. half moon bay at three miles. san jose dropping down to three miles. it's improved. concord is dense. same with fairfield and santa rosa. you can see it throughout the central valley so it's the valley fog that's laying low and no wind in sight to push it out. but the wind will pick up with the storm by tomorrow. in the 50s right now. partly

this person says mark zuckerberg pledges to do the job he already has.r twitter user points out facebook is still a thing? what is this? 2011? julie on twitter says he would have to delete the whole thing to fix it. next year's new year's resolution, talk to people from all 50 states, this year, focusing on his day job. heather: did he keep his resolution last your? >> yes he did. heather: interesting to see what happens. howard dean says joe biden is too old. heather: telling older members of parties to get out of the way to make room for fresh blood. joe biden is fighting back literally, listen to this. >> tell howard i can take him. come on. running against a man who is going to be 75 years old, 76 years old at the time, whatever his age is. >> howard dean responded the point is we need a new way of thinking, our party and younger generation can supply that. happy to arm wrestle joe, though. finally, this picture donald trump tweeted out and sent to the nfl, picture everyone must see according to the president, take a look at this heartbreaking image

mark zuckerberg has revealed his wishes andrew for a twenty eight what are they and why should we care about this well mark zuckerberg in the years past his focus on learning mandarin or reading twenty five books in a year but this year twenty eighteen he says he wants to fix facebook the company's c.e.o. says that facebook has a lot of work to do whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hates or defending against interference by nation states he also says he will dedicate twenty eight thousand sustaining ways to reinstate facebook's original motto which is to give people the power now comments follow a damning report that came out the other day which found that facebook is deleting content and blocking users at the orders of the israeli and u.s. governments. facebook now collaborating with the most powerful governments on the planet and the israelis and the americans in particular to determine who is allowed to speak and who isn't and what messages are allowed to be conveyed and what you ones aren't in to you can go on to twitter or you can go on facebook pretty much every

when it comes to mark zuckerberg and the winklevoss brothers. a wedge doesn't do justice to the bad blood that may be boiling between the harvard grads. a new move by the social network against cryptocurrencies and the rest has us at "countdown" wondering if zuck is holding a grudge over having to settle with bitcoin billionaires over who really created facebook? facebook and microsoft earnings on tap. why millennials may be more financially savvy than we thought. how can you cash in on the government's infrastructure push. >>> and president trump versus alan greenspan? charlie is about to break that hour next. you're in the right place. let's start the "countdown." we need to get to that very scary situation right now in virginia. that passenger of a truck that was struck by a train which happened to be carrying hundreds of lawmakers is clinging to life after sustaining serious injuries. the driver of the truck was killed. the amtrak train had been carrying hundreds of gop lawmakers and families who were heading to the republicans' annual retre

>> and third-quarter earnings, mark zuckerberg is not afraid to say facebook messed up. the last earnings call useogizing for the russian of facebook to manipulate users around the u.s. presidential election. this quarter, i think he will try to bring a more positive these new see changes and try to make facebook a more positive thing for society. ,n the last couple of months they have said that social media may not be good for democracy and may not be get four people's mental health. that's good for people's mental health. when it comes to other businesses, instagram, it will help their bottom line. they are expected to have strong earnings. >> absolutely, the company has so much room for growth. they dominate the mobile advertising market with google and instrument is a huge part of that. as he grows in popularity, they get closer to one billion users around the world. that moneymaking opportunity is growing. i have seen a lot of advertisements on my instagram lately. on facebook, there is so much made on mobile phones as they get into new markets around the world. esp

jillian: mark zuckerberg's new year's resolution making big news, promising to try hard to do his job, not a lot of likes on this. >> did you guys make one. the three of us are perfect. each year facebook ceo mark zuckerberg makes a big new year's resolution and this year might be the most challenging yet, he is vowing to fix facebook and a post written on facebook he said my personal challenge is fixing these important issues, we will prevent all mistakes or abuse, and preventing misuse. and blamed for helping fake news aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election. and maia says the personal challenge, as facebook ceo anyway, and to be over and marked wes the personal challenge for 2018 is to build a spaceship to lunch zuckerberg into the sun. zuckerberg did make a new year's resolution to visit people in all 50 states, now focusing on his day job. rob: don't worry about it. >> donald trump tweeted about voter id laws are saying as americans you need identification sometimes in a strong and accurate form for almost everything you do except the most important thing, voting for

mark: mark zuckerberg said his resolution for this year was to fix the social network that he cofounded. what are the measures and 2018? >> increasing investments to fake news and content security issues. all of the steps, like fake news and what they are doing with audience engagement, this is geared towards long-term. it might depress revenue growth a little, let's not forget the rapid growth instagram is facing. they have some offset. julie: covering the internet and electronics for bloomberg intelligence on the facebook story as it falls. thanks, earning season underway. 30 7% whileported wells fargo's earnings took a hit from litigation. the question is how tax cuts will affect profits. jamie morgan addressed that issue in today's conference call. the effect of retained capital and increasing competitive american companies that drive jobs. there's no question we will be better off year after year for having done this. julie: joining us is allison williams. thank you for joining us. argument? the how much of a boost will this be for the banks? in the short term they took a hit. how

emily: how to fix social media is one of mark zuckerberg's mentors.e 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 damage after the fact with people policing it. these things are embedded in the outdoor rhythms. hytythms -- algor you can only fix thisms. problem by fixing the outdoor algorithms. . and fear are not the predominant ways that people are motivated to act on facebook. without advertising, if you don't depend on advertising or not as dependent on advertising, you don't need people to be addicted. you'll need to make them angry. need to make them fearful. person -- to pay a subscription. saying,king at this and name the price. my point is, if you want to have asked for certain people, fine, give me the option of having a different thing. they're doing now is the lazy way out. people are smarter than that. emily: you can catch more of our full interview that there's later this month. bring up, apple plans to back billions. all of the

in 2017 is, mark zuckerberg was in denial about that.ark zuckerberg now says he's working on real refors. we here at the beat" are going to cover facebook's attempts to fix these problems. one new change shows people more content from friends and family and less from publishers. they it out the plan as good for users and better for the goal of fostering positive community and going beyond voice. >> i used to think that if we just gave people a voice and helped some people connect, that that would make the world a lot better all by itself. in a lot of ways it has. but today when we look around, our society is still very divided. so now i believe we have a responsibility to do even more. >> that's the vision. how does it work? "the new york times" reporting facebook is try anning this. when it did it overseas there were problems in six different countries when facebook tried to adjust the news feed, it ended up limiting the audiences and amplifying the impact of impact or sensational sfoerpz lesson being this is hard. i'm joined by an earl

mark zuckerberg considers him a mentor. he talked with google founders, he did pay it forward but bob noyce called it restocking the stream that i fished from. that is something that really motivates, of course there are financial incentives but motivates those angel investors and venture capitalists to pay back into the system what you got out of it. that has happened a number of ways. formal ways through formal investment or through hiring people. there have been informal networks of people taking other people under their wing. one of the nicest things anybody said to me was that the problem with the analogy is there is one baton. i can't go to mark zuckerberg in say give me the baton. this person said your book can be a baton for people. i really like that idea and it is incumbent on us to figure out to figure out the valley's great strength which is handing things off within a tight network. how do we make sure that people that are in this network right now who are able to get folded into the stream? >> being at the cen

hearing from the ceos of these social media companies in particular facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg. i have heard from a source that he is willing to cooperate in the future but we are waiting to see if perhaps the next big step is mark zucker berg hitting the hill. we do not have that confirmed but that's something 2018 could bring. >> we will be watching for that fantastic interview. thank you for that. >>> lexi and zeke are back with me to break this all down. just your general reaction to what you just heard and that point that jolene makes that mark zuckerberg might be called to testify about? >> i think we can certainly continue to see them testifying on the hill and she mentioned that they're hiring 20,000 humans by the end of 2018. that's a big jump. i think they're starting to see that we didn't figure it out in the moment and it's unprecedented, so how could they have gotten it right the first time. saying sorry is maybe not enough and that's why we'll continue to see them testifying. they're going to have to come up with answers and transparency especially as we approach

mark zuckerberg says the move aims to boost the well-being of users and he expects may now spend less time on the site. >> abc7 news was at the stanford shopping center where tesla's model 3 finally appear in a show room. many people put down a deposit for the car in 2016 but production has been slow. it will be the first opportunity for model 3 reservation holders and the public to sit in what tesla is calling the first mass market electric vehicle. >>> a bundle of joy has arrived for a mountain house family and it's a big bundle. the kempal family has welcomed quinntuplets. >> i call that a big bundle. three boys and two girls born at kaiser walnut creek to chad and amy. our parents at the bay area news group report the babies are tiny and some intubated to helphem breathe. they could go home in the next nine weeks or so. >> let's check in on the weather right now. some changes. noticeably more sun today. >> yeah, but is the fog coming back? >> yeah, it's here. eric and kristin, we'll show you fog in a moment. i want to show you something that will brighten your night. the sunset at

mark zuckerberg said i'm changing the goal i give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content to helping you have more meaningful social interactions. it comes amid criticism facebook can leave people feeling sad or isolated.>>> marin county beach endangered salmon were given a new lease on life. the years long project that was finally complete.>> reporter: this morning and marin county beach a coalition of federal state and local government agencies was private nonprofits returned to hundred adult salmon ready to spawn upstream in an effort to save them.>> they are listed as endangered by the state and federal government.>>>> reporter: back in 2015 at the height of the drought the salmon rescue and captive rearing project took a group of three and juvenile salmon that would have died and raise them in an army corps of engineers hatchery for three years. today they came back to their birthplace.>> this is one of our last hopes that these fish will be able to respond and repopulate the stream.>> reporter: the coalition restored a lot of the stream to a conditio

mark zuckerberg has been setting personal challenges in 2009.recently ran 365 miles, traveled across the country, and this year's job is to do better at running his company. facebook's job is to connect people around the world but in his latest post he acknowledges his company has caused divisions. facebook has a lot of work, he wrote, whether it's to protect our community from abuse and hate, defending interference by nation states or making sure time spent on facebook is time well spent. >> i don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy. >> reporter: mark zuckerberg spent much of 2017 was forced to backtrack. >> our teams have shut down thousands of facebook accounts. >> "new york times" technology frahad manjoo. >> he ak snojs that facebook may be too big and too power ulf. >> if you feed the beast, the beast will kill you. >> a statement made by vice president. >> you've created these platforms and now they are being misused and you have to be the ones to do something about it or we will. >> i think this could also be an effort