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senator, you just heard nick clegg lay out some possible facebook features. you satisfied with what he wants to do, and what are the things congress should do right now? >> first off, i appreciate that he's willing to talk about things, but the time for action is now. for so long the social media companies have been saying, and the other tech platforms, trust us, we got this. look where we are now. the guy down the street tells me his mother-in-law won't get a vaccine because she read on social media that it would implant a microchip in her arm. we know that the majority of people that aren't getting vaccines read stuff on these platforms. we know about the violent content. we know about the kids who have been reading things and been exposed to accounts that are called eternally starving or i'm not perfect. >> what should we do? >> i think he missed that piece of it when he went through his very deliberate conversation with you, so let me give you the answers to this. if they're willing to sign on, i'm all with it. but so far we haven't seen that. one, we nee
senator, you just heard nick clegg lay out some possible facebook features. you satisfied with what he wants to do, and what are the things congress should do right now? >> first off, i appreciate that he's willing to talk about things, but the time for action is now. for so long the social media companies have been saying, and the other tech platforms, trust us, we got this. look where we are now. the guy down the street tells me his mother-in-law won't get a vaccine because she read on...
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without your help. >> joining me now is facebook's top spokesman, vice president of global affairs, nick clegg. mr. clegg, thanks so much for joining me. >> let's start with whistle-blower frances haugen's testimony to congress this week. she said instagram harms children. she detailed a lot of troubling findings from internal reports, including that almost one in five u.s. teenagers who use instagram say instagram makes them feel very or somewhat worse about themselves. is that acceptable to you? >> no, i don't think it should be acceptable to anyone if a teenager is in distress and feels more so when they use any form of communication. but, of course, what francis hougen was talking about, what that internal discussion paper was referring to is something i think everybody has known for a long time. external researchers have confirmed this for some time, which is for the overwhelming majority of teenagers, actually using instagram is a positive experience even when they're suffering from sleeplessness, anxiety, depression and so on, it either makes no difference or actually makes them feel be
without your help. >> joining me now is facebook's top spokesman, vice president of global affairs, nick clegg. mr. clegg, thanks so much for joining me. >> let's start with whistle-blower frances haugen's testimony to congress this week. she said instagram harms children. she detailed a lot of troubling findings from internal reports, including that almost one in five u.s. teenagers who use instagram say instagram makes them feel very or somewhat worse about themselves. is that...
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to their original defaults. >>> joining me now is facebook's vice president for global affairs, nick clegg" sir. >> morning. >> thank you. i want to get you to respond to that specific quote from ms. haugen. i also want to put something up that you wrote after her initial "60 minutes" appearance. she said this is also why the suggestion that is sometime made that the violent insurrection on january 6 would not have occurred if it weren't for social media is misleading. mature deck only sees hold elections all the time. germany election last week, without the disfiguring presence of violence. i understand why you wrote that sentence, mr. clegg, but why put in the safeguards before the election if you guys at facebook didn't think you had a role in potentially inciting folks? >> just to follow this very closely, what we did in the run-up to the election was pe put in -- obviously, it was an exceptional election happening at a time of a pandemic, obviously very stark polarization in this country, put in a number of exceptional measures. it's simply not true to say we lifted those measures imm
to their original defaults. >>> joining me now is facebook's vice president for global affairs, nick clegg" sir. >> morning. >> thank you. i want to get you to respond to that specific quote from ms. haugen. i also want to put something up that you wrote after her initial "60 minutes" appearance. she said this is also why the suggestion that is sometime made that the violent insurrection on january 6 would not have occurred if it weren't for social media is...
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the call for lawmakers to take action has never been louder but facebook vice president nick clegg remained defiant this morning talking to cnn's dana bash. >> we can't change human nature and you always compare yourself to others, particularly those to those who are more fortunate to yourself but what we can do is change products and that's what we're doing. if you remove the algorithms which is one of the central recommendations, the first thing that would happen is people would see more, not less hate speech, more not less information because these algorithms are designed precisely to work almost like giant spam filters. if our algorithms are so nefarious as some people suggest, why is it that it's precisely the systems that have succeeded to reduce the privileges of hate speech on our platforms to as little as 0.05%. >> the cow phoneder of elevation partners and an early investor in facebook and he has since become a vocal critics of the company with the book "zucked, waking up to the facebook catastrophe." pleasure to see you. >> pleasure to be here, fredericka. >> more than ten years
the call for lawmakers to take action has never been louder but facebook vice president nick clegg remained defiant this morning talking to cnn's dana bash. >> we can't change human nature and you always compare yourself to others, particularly those to those who are more fortunate to yourself but what we can do is change products and that's what we're doing. if you remove the algorithms which is one of the central recommendations, the first thing that would happen is people would see...
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the interesting thing, nick clegg said last week, it gives - clegg said last week, it gives people falseues of political polarisations in the united states, but he knows because he was deputy prime ministers here, if you put a story on the front page of the newspaper, it implies that message, and we know from the fbi investigations that there were millions of readers logging onto this stuff after the election, they were being directed to this stuff, they were organising on facebook, so it is not true, is it, that facebook had no role in what happened at the capitol building onjanuary six? i want to be clear that what happened on generally sixth, that responsibility lies with those who broke the law and entered the capital building and those who incited them —— january six. i also want to be clear that in the months leading up to the election and continuing until well afterjanuary continuing until well after january the 6th, continuing until well afterjanuary the 6th, we were working with law enforcement, we were working with election officials, to identify and remove content that contrib
the interesting thing, nick clegg said last week, it gives - clegg said last week, it gives people falseues of political polarisations in the united states, but he knows because he was deputy prime ministers here, if you put a story on the front page of the newspaper, it implies that message, and we know from the fbi investigations that there were millions of readers logging onto this stuff after the election, they were being directed to this stuff, they were organising on facebook, so it is...
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. >> do you think -- carole, nick clegg was on american television yesterday.big population on facebook that there's going to be some bad stuff. we try and regulate it internally as much as we can, but there's also an awful lot of good stuff. particularly when it came to teen gil girls, he said girls g depressed when they look at fashion magazines. and he said girls who have problems with their body image, it might exacerbate it. but girls also have a positive experience when they're on instagram as well is. congress going to want to have mark zuckerberg up and try to grill him, do you think? >> i think it's very possible. i'm not quite sure what we're going to get out of it. we've seen these sorts of performances. it's become more polished over time. it was very electrifying when mark zuckerberg first appeared. we saw repeatedly tech leaders brought before congress, but nothing actually happening. i mean -- and i think the nick clegg argument is sort of fascinating because it just shows facebook has run out of defenses. this is literally -- [ indiscernible ] >
. >> do you think -- carole, nick clegg was on american television yesterday.big population on facebook that there's going to be some bad stuff. we try and regulate it internally as much as we can, but there's also an awful lot of good stuff. particularly when it came to teen gil girls, he said girls g depressed when they look at fashion magazines. and he said girls who have problems with their body image, it might exacerbate it. but girls also have a positive experience when they're on...
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here is what nick clegg's statement said.uggestion that is sometimes made that the violent insurrection on january 6 would not have occurred if it was not for social media is so misleading. mature democracies in which social media use is widespread hold elections all the time. for example, germany's election last week without the disfiguring presence of violence. i was jarred by the phrase mature democracies. are we not? >> yes, yes. >> what is facebook trying to do? >> i think they're trying word games. i think he's excellent at it. they should give him a raise. he's saying they're primary. look at the individual words they use. this is typical of facebook. they've done it for decades now -- or a decade now where they use tiny words. no one is accusing them of being the primary reason for polarization. humanity has been awful for centuries now, that kind of thing. what they're doing is saying, we didn't cause hate. i don't think they did. what they're doing is amplifying and weaponizing it to an unprecedented degree. >> jeff
here is what nick clegg's statement said.uggestion that is sometimes made that the violent insurrection on january 6 would not have occurred if it was not for social media is so misleading. mature democracies in which social media use is widespread hold elections all the time. for example, germany's election last week without the disfiguring presence of violence. i was jarred by the phrase mature democracies. are we not? >> yes, yes. >> what is facebook trying to do? >> i...
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here to respond, facebook's vice president of global affairs nick clegg.is morning. that testimony struck a chord in congress and the country. rare bipartisan calls for action against facebook. will the revelations this week lead to any changes at all in the way facebook does business? >> well, we will, of course, seek to make ourselves ever more transparent so people can hold us to account. we understand that with success comes responsibility, comes criticism, comes scrutiny, comes responsibility, and that's why we're, you know, the first silicon valley company to set up an independent oversight board that independently adjudicates on these difficult content decisions. we're about to subject the data that we publish every 12 weeks on the content that we take down to independent audit. again, no one has done that before. we realize we need to be held to account. secondly, we of course are going to always work to do more to keep people safe on our platform. we have the third of the world's population on our platform. of course you see the good, the bad and
here to respond, facebook's vice president of global affairs nick clegg.is morning. that testimony struck a chord in congress and the country. rare bipartisan calls for action against facebook. will the revelations this week lead to any changes at all in the way facebook does business? >> well, we will, of course, seek to make ourselves ever more transparent so people can hold us to account. we understand that with success comes responsibility, comes criticism, comes scrutiny, comes...
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. >> reporter: despite nick clegg's appearances on multiple sunday morning shows saying facebook couldn't possibly know whether its algorithms pushed the popular thoughts, members of congress, both republicans and democrats, are having none of it. tuesday the senate commerce committee heard all they needed to hear from facebook's whistle-blower. in her testimony about how its own research showed it allegedly had a toxic effect on teen girls, stoked division and spread misinformation. senator amy klobuchar, who i've covered over the years, has been leading the charge on this issue going after big social media, calling for greater regulations and accountability. she is fed up and earlier she said on cnn congress is ready to act. >> i appreciate that he is willing to talk about things but i believe the time for conversation is done and a time for action is now they're saying, trust us. we've got this. the guy down the street said his mother-in-law won't get the vaccine because she read online it will implant a microchip in her arm. we know the majority of people who won't get the vaccine rea
. >> reporter: despite nick clegg's appearances on multiple sunday morning shows saying facebook couldn't possibly know whether its algorithms pushed the popular thoughts, members of congress, both republicans and democrats, are having none of it. tuesday the senate commerce committee heard all they needed to hear from facebook's whistle-blower. in her testimony about how its own research showed it allegedly had a toxic effect on teen girls, stoked division and spread misinformation....
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now it is nick clegg, the head of policy and communication, doing most of the talking.ome of their pr folks on twitter have been more aggressive in sharing the company message and even countering journalists and things. it feels like facebook is being more aggressive this time around in this crisis than they have been in previous issues. caroline: talk about what is next. frances haugen will go to the u.k., where the mp has been focused on these issues. the eu wants to speak with her as well. what next in terms of the story from your perspective? kurt: we have to keep an eye out for even more stories to come. we know frances has given thousands of documents, maybe tens of thousands of documents, to the journal, regulators, and she hinted in her testimony, she brought up some issues that were important including the january 6 riots in d.c. as issues she saw with facebook areas we haven't seen a lot of stories touching on that. i would have to imagine some of these documents contain things we haven't seen. this isn't necessarily the end of even the data dump in my opinion
now it is nick clegg, the head of policy and communication, doing most of the talking.ome of their pr folks on twitter have been more aggressive in sharing the company message and even countering journalists and things. it feels like facebook is being more aggressive this time around in this crisis than they have been in previous issues. caroline: talk about what is next. frances haugen will go to the u.k., where the mp has been focused on these issues. the eu wants to speak with her as well....
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shares are down 15% from an all-time high last month, and now facebook executive nick clegg appears toremaining defiant. he told our dana bash that he couldn't give a yes or no answer when asked if facebook's algorithms worked to the benefit of insurrectionists leading up to the january 6 insurrection. >> if our algorithms are as nefarious as some people suggest, why is it that it's proce precisely those systems that have reduced the prevalence of hate speech on our platforms to as little as 0.5%? >> correspondent brian stelter joins me now. good to see you, brian. look, facebook is no stranger to criticism to being in crisis mode, right? but i have never seen facebook be in damage control mode quite like i have seen this. why is that? why are you seeing this? >> i agree with you, i think it's because of the impact of facebook whistleblower francis hougen, because of how credible she is and how many documents she has provided to reporters in order to back up her claims. there has never been someone from inside the house making such a strong warning about facebook, and that's why the co
shares are down 15% from an all-time high last month, and now facebook executive nick clegg appears toremaining defiant. he told our dana bash that he couldn't give a yes or no answer when asked if facebook's algorithms worked to the benefit of insurrectionists leading up to the january 6 insurrection. >> if our algorithms are as nefarious as some people suggest, why is it that it's proce precisely those systems that have reduced the prevalence of hate speech on our platforms to as little...
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i interviewed nick clegg one of the top spokespeople for facebook and he advances the argument no social media platform is perfect but we are trying our best. here is a part of what clegg told me. >> this is a good example of the company doing what i hope people would expect we should do, not pretending that everything is perfect on social media. it isn't. researching where minority of instances, where it's not working out right for people and trying to fix it as much as we can on our own apps. >> most people have a good experience on facebook and instagram and for the people who don't, we're trying to improve that, fix that. the broader question though when there's a product so addictive that's warping our brains and minds that is used by billions of people, is it bigger than anyone can control, has the monster become too big for facebook to control? >> it's an important question. brian stelter, appreciate it as always. lisa banks is an employment whistle-blower attorney represented former capitol police chief and dr. rick bright. it's good to have you with us this morning. based on you
i interviewed nick clegg one of the top spokespeople for facebook and he advances the argument no social media platform is perfect but we are trying our best. here is a part of what clegg told me. >> this is a good example of the company doing what i hope people would expect we should do, not pretending that everything is perfect on social media. it isn't. researching where minority of instances, where it's not working out right for people and trying to fix it as much as we can on our own...
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. >> facebook executives like nick clegg both say it's unfair to blame facebook for the insurrection?laming facebook for the entire thing. that's not what's happening here. you can't at the same time be facebook and try to take you responsibility and being very proud of all of the organizing work that you've helped black lives matter do or the occupy movement. or stand and lock. you can't take credit for all of that and then say, oh, that thing called the insurrection, we had nothing to do with that. >> reporter: another revelation from the documents, an internal memo including details of a facebook staffer setting up a test account to see what facebook's algorithms were recommending to users. 2019, a facebook employee sets up an account designed to look like a 41-year-old conservative mom live north carolina income. her name is carol smith. she likes a few pages. she likes trump. she likes fox news. but in a week, she's getting a qanon recommendation. i saw in there after three weeks there was actually a recommendation for a page that was the three percenters, the self-described mili
. >> facebook executives like nick clegg both say it's unfair to blame facebook for the insurrection?laming facebook for the entire thing. that's not what's happening here. you can't at the same time be facebook and try to take you responsibility and being very proud of all of the organizing work that you've helped black lives matter do or the occupy movement. or stand and lock. you can't take credit for all of that and then say, oh, that thing called the insurrection, we had nothing to...
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i'll speak to top facebook executive nick clegg and critic amy klobuchar, next. >>> plus, do your jobruggle to pass their priorities, democrats are feeling the pressure. one democrat on th
i'll speak to top facebook executive nick clegg and critic amy klobuchar, next. >>> plus, do your jobruggle to pass their priorities, democrats are feeling the pressure. one democrat on th
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. >> facebook executives like nick clegg will say it's unfair to blame facebook for the insurrection. say people are blaming facebook for the entire thing. that's not what's happening here. you can't at the same time be facebook and take responsibility and being very proud of all the organizing work that you've helped black lives matter do or occupy movement or standing rock. you can't take credit for all of that and then say, oh, that thing called the insurrection, we had nothing to do with it. >> reporter: another revelation, internal memos including a staffer setting up a test account to see what the algorithms were putting out to users. they set up an account designed to look like a 41-year-old conservative mom living in north carolina. her name is carol smith. she likes a few pages, she likes trump, she likes fox news, but in a week she's getting a qanon recommendation. i saw in there after three weeks there was a recommendation for a page that was the three percenters, the militia -- self-described militia involved in the insurrection. >> yeah. no. i believe, again, we've suspec
. >> facebook executives like nick clegg will say it's unfair to blame facebook for the insurrection. say people are blaming facebook for the entire thing. that's not what's happening here. you can't at the same time be facebook and take responsibility and being very proud of all the organizing work that you've helped black lives matter do or occupy movement or standing rock. you can't take credit for all of that and then say, oh, that thing called the insurrection, we had nothing to do...
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stories based on the documents began to publish, nick clegg wrote to colleagues warning them to prepare for more bad headlines and that at the heart of these stories is a prem chis is plainly false, that we fail to put people who use our service first. but an internal experiment the company ran in 2019 shows the potential harm caused by facebook's algorithm. a staffer set up a test toct look like a conservative mom living in north carolina. thect started by liking pages such as donald trump and fox news but within a few weeks, f facebook was recommend think qanon pages and one linked to the 3%er. >> these are like potato chips they feed to someone with a potato chip addiction. it's an addiction engine and profits the more it can manipulate us to consume what we want to consume most. >> it's not just politics the documents revealed for years the company struggled to crack down on how its platforms are used to promote human trafficking. cnn identifying multiple instagram accounts offering domestic workers for sale including photos and descriptions of women like age, weight and height. fac
stories based on the documents began to publish, nick clegg wrote to colleagues warning them to prepare for more bad headlines and that at the heart of these stories is a prem chis is plainly false, that we fail to put people who use our service first. but an internal experiment the company ran in 2019 shows the potential harm caused by facebook's algorithm. a staffer set up a test toct look like a conservative mom living in north carolina. thect started by liking pages such as donald trump and...
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here's what nick clegg, the vice president of internal affairs at facebook had too say. >> with a tweak to an algorithm somehow all the polarizing in u.s. politics would somehow disappear. >> what do you make of that? >> listen, no one debates that we have problems in our society. no one debates that there's hate in our society. we stipulate that. facebook is right about that. what they want to deny is that may facebook's technologies exacerbate, make it more possible for the dissemination of this hateful language that turns into hateful conduct. it's not just true here in the united states. it's also true as far away as burma, myanmar, where facebook is being used by generals in order to foment hatred against the rohingya and others. this is a problem that facebook just has had difficulty dealing with because they make money off of this kind of business model. and it just has to come to an end. yes, these problems existed before facebook. facebook makes them worse. and it's time for them to admit it. >> what is the one question? what is the one question you want to ask tomorrow? >> i w
here's what nick clegg, the vice president of internal affairs at facebook had too say. >> with a tweak to an algorithm somehow all the polarizing in u.s. politics would somehow disappear. >> what do you make of that? >> listen, no one debates that we have problems in our society. no one debates that there's hate in our society. we stipulate that. facebook is right about that. what they want to deny is that may facebook's technologies exacerbate, make it more possible for the...
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nick clegg, the top spokesman for facebook, told me we're going to continue to do research to find if flaws i sthe flaws i platform. >> so we accept transparency. we accept criticism. we accept where the criticism is fair, that we need to act on it. one thing that is misleading is we commission research and then brush it under the carpet because we don't like the implications. because somehow we like to have bad and unpleasant content on our platform. of course we don't. we want to bear down on it. we're never going to eliminate it. i'm never going to promise, brian, there won't be a teenager who is dealing with other issues in their lives who won't have a good experience or social media. we can minimize it but not eliminate it. that's what we do. that's why we commission the research. we've always been very open about it. >> they say we'll continue doing this research. you know, you hear the way the executives minimize the problem of the platforms. young girls on facebook and instagram not having positive experiences. it can mean witnessing images that cause incredibly distress, ment
nick clegg, the top spokesman for facebook, told me we're going to continue to do research to find if flaws i sthe flaws i platform. >> so we accept transparency. we accept criticism. we accept where the criticism is fair, that we need to act on it. one thing that is misleading is we commission research and then brush it under the carpet because we don't like the implications. because somehow we like to have bad and unpleasant content on our platform. of course we don't. we want to bear...
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nick clegg the top executive made the argument that they've done a great job cracking down on hate speech, and down to 1 point something percent. because the platforms are so large and operate around the world and this outage today is an example of how this company is monster usually large. 2.5 hours to have facebook and what's app down is shocking. probably the biggest outage in the history. it is not you, it is happening in much of the world. so it is actually reinforcing the idea that people are addicted to these products. when instagram is down for hours, people feel that tug and they want to refresh and scroll and in a weird way, i'm sure it is a coincidence, but it is reinforcing some of the whistle-blower's points. >> isn't it good for everybody to have to detox. >> take this as a break. >> a two and a half hour detox. >> i'm feeling that addictive tug. >> well take note. >> all right. brian stelter, thank you. >>> so this whistle-blower also gave more details about an internal study on the facebook owned app instagram and the body issues it creates for young women and girls. >> on
nick clegg the top executive made the argument that they've done a great job cracking down on hate speech, and down to 1 point something percent. because the platforms are so large and operate around the world and this outage today is an example of how this company is monster usually large. 2.5 hours to have facebook and what's app down is shocking. probably the biggest outage in the history. it is not you, it is happening in much of the world. so it is actually reinforcing the idea that people...
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and vice president of global affairs of facebook nick clegg was on with my colleague brian stelter on offered a pre-buttal to the whistle-blower frances haugen. watch this. >> i think it would be too easy, surely, to suggest that with a tweak to an algorithm somehow all the disfiguring polarization in u.s. politics would suddenly evaporate. i think it ab sovlz people of asking themselves the harder questions about the historical, cultural, social and economic reasons that have led to the politics that we have in the u.s. today. >> so mike, listen, there are real issues out there our society needs to address. but how can facebook distance themselves when their platform according to this whistle-blower is essentially pouring gasoline on the fire? >> i mean, i think gasoline on the fire is the exact sort of metaphor i'd use. one excuse that facebook likes to cart out a lot of the time is we are a mirror to society, we don't tell people what to do, we don't sort of like -- we aren't the cause, the primary cause. but they don't really have a response to the idea that they're an accelerant.
and vice president of global affairs of facebook nick clegg was on with my colleague brian stelter on offered a pre-buttal to the whistle-blower frances haugen. watch this. >> i think it would be too easy, surely, to suggest that with a tweak to an algorithm somehow all the disfiguring polarization in u.s. politics would suddenly evaporate. i think it ab sovlz people of asking themselves the harder questions about the historical, cultural, social and economic reasons that have led to the...
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. >>> this just in, a new memo from nick clegg, top executive at facebook saying, hey, staffers, brace for more bad headlines in the coming days. that is because the facebook papers we were talking about, disclosures coming from frances haug's's document dump that reporters are combing through and we're going to see more of those stories in the coming days. >>> another perspective, let me bring in suzanne nossel, ceo of the oversight board and ceo of fan america. great to see you. >> great to be here. >> for folks who don't know what it is, what is it you all do on the board? >> sure. facebook decided roughly two years ago that they wanted to bring in outside expertise to oversee their content decisions. they didn't want to bear the full weight of responsibility for big questions like should donald trump be allowed on the platform? i think they're very ambivalent about regulation. a lot of people think the creation of the board was an effort to fend off regulation. so what they decided to do was assemble a group of experts from around the world. there are about 20 of us so far. people
. >>> this just in, a new memo from nick clegg, top executive at facebook saying, hey, staffers, brace for more bad headlines in the coming days. that is because the facebook papers we were talking about, disclosures coming from frances haug's's document dump that reporters are combing through and we're going to see more of those stories in the coming days. >>> another perspective, let me bring in suzanne nossel, ceo of the oversight board and ceo of fan america. great to see...
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over the weekend, nick clegg warned the staff saying, we're going to see more, as he called them, bad headlines, and suggested this was because the media was jealous, essentially, of facebook's success. so they're no longer engaging on these issues when we're going through their own documents and research. they're, instead, attacking the media. >> coming from internal documents and testimony from people who worked at the company, including frances haugen. what else has she been saying, donie? >> yesterday, haugen pinpointed a very good point. facebook is available in 100 languages, more than that. centrally in 100 languages around the world. facebook does not have support staff, content moderators, who can look for hate speech and harassment, especially in countries like india,ethiopia, e there are conflicts and various issues. they're dropping the ball, and facebook's researchers are pointing that out to them. listen to what haugen had to say in london yesterday. >> good actors, good publishers are publishing all the content they can do, but bad actors have an incentive to play the a
over the weekend, nick clegg warned the staff saying, we're going to see more, as he called them, bad headlines, and suggested this was because the media was jealous, essentially, of facebook's success. so they're no longer engaging on these issues when we're going through their own documents and research. they're, instead, attacking the media. >> coming from internal documents and testimony from people who worked at the company, including frances haugen. what else has she been saying,...
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nick clegg, the former deputy prime minister of the united kingdom posted internally warning his colleagueso come and he sort of pointed out, if you see in the statement, that the top down control of the information on the head in the past public disclosure is largely curated by established gate keepers who decide what people could read, see and digest and this is empowering for individuals but destructive for those who hanker after the top down control of the past, especially if they are finding a transition to the online world a struggle for their own business. what he's not so subtly saying that the journalist interest in a lot of this is partially being encouraged because we're jealous of facebook. >> that is the -- that is not -- that sounds to me like a tone deaf response after an insurrection and human traffics are found. that is not jealousy. we don't want that on our platforms. just pointing out. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >>> okay. new reports about the assistant director on alec baldwin's film "rust" and a history of safety complaints against him. the possible l
nick clegg, the former deputy prime minister of the united kingdom posted internally warning his colleagueso come and he sort of pointed out, if you see in the statement, that the top down control of the information on the head in the past public disclosure is largely curated by established gate keepers who decide what people could read, see and digest and this is empowering for individuals but destructive for those who hanker after the top down control of the past, especially if they are...
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the call for lawmakers to take action has never been louder but facebook vice president nick clegg remainedrticularly those to those who ar
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plus, george goes one-on-one with top facebook executive nick clegg following that explosive whistle-blower hearing. >>> and it's that time of the morning now when we turn it over to rob marciano with the weather. rob, the weather is not behaving. i'm seeing a lot of imaes there. >> gio, it's everybody's favorite time in the morning. you got a lot to learn. good morning, guys. we do have a lot of rain that fell across parts of north carolina. unfortunately, got about 5 inches of rain, record rainfall in this area, trees down as well, flooded roadways. 23 people rescued from homes because of the high water. more rain coming today. because of this low. we don't know it's going to be a named storm, it's bringing in the rainfall, the wind as well. we've seen the breezy conditions up and down the east coast. d.c. to atlantic city. will probably see the most rain today. we saw some rain yesterday, also across eastern south dakota, not only rainfall but severe weather, a couple dozen reports of severe weather. two tornadoes reported here and the front that's caused that is going to drift down to t
plus, george goes one-on-one with top facebook executive nick clegg following that explosive whistle-blower hearing. >>> and it's that time of the morning now when we turn it over to rob marciano with the weather. rob, the weather is not behaving. i'm seeing a lot of imaes there. >> gio, it's everybody's favorite time in the morning. you got a lot to learn. good morning, guys. we do have a lot of rain that fell across parts of north carolina. unfortunately, got about 5 inches of...
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anthony fauci, senator amy klobuchar and nick clegg, all starting at 9:00 a.m. right here on cnn. >> got a great lineup there. >>> still ahead, terrifying moments on board for passengers on an american eagle flight after an ethe rattic passenger forced pilots to make an emergency landing. >>> and despite promising signs in the fight against covid, health officials are still making a full-court press, asking people to get vaccinated. and pfizer wants to hear if it's vaccine is going to be approved for kids. could getting them vaccinated be a game changer? we'll be right back. and the provitamin b5 formula is gentle on skin. with secret, outlast anything! no sweat. secret. ♪ all strength. no sweat. ♪ as a dj, i know all about customization. that's why i love liberty mutual. they customize my car insurance, so i only pay for what i need. how about a throwback? you got it. ♪ liberty, liberty - liberty, liberty ♪ uh, i'll settle for something i can dance to. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ ♪ ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪
anthony fauci, senator amy klobuchar and nick clegg, all starting at 9:00 a.m. right here on cnn. >> got a great lineup there. >>> still ahead, terrifying moments on board for passengers on an american eagle flight after an ethe rattic passenger forced pilots to make an emergency landing. >>> and despite promising signs in the fight against covid, health officials are still making a full-court press, asking people to get vaccinated. and pfizer wants to hear if it's...
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but listen to facebook's nick clegg.ed for creating a new digital regulatory agency to regulate trade-offs. much like the federal communications commission overseas telecoms and media. we proposed ways to reform section 230 of the communications decency act, requiring platforms to remove harmful, legal content. and require companies like facebook to demonstrate they comply with best practices for countering illegal content to earn the law's protection. i mean, what do you say to lawmakers? facebook says they are asking for this regulation. caller: well, what i say is the same thing senator lee said. host: which is? caller: senator lee is bringing to the attention and senator cruz was bringing to the attention the facts that all these technology, the ai that is copying the face recognition of these children using these apps, the voice recognition, and then it is being recorded, all that data is being recorded overseas in the hands of whom? of whom? host: i want to show you another moment from the hearing. this is wyoming
but listen to facebook's nick clegg.ed for creating a new digital regulatory agency to regulate trade-offs. much like the federal communications commission overseas telecoms and media. we proposed ways to reform section 230 of the communications decency act, requiring platforms to remove harmful, legal content. and require companies like facebook to demonstrate they comply with best practices for countering illegal content to earn the law's protection. i mean, what do you say to lawmakers?...
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here's facebook's communication director nick clegg responding to that claim in an interview with cnno suggest with a tweak to an algorithm somehow all of the disfiguring, polarisation in us politics was suddenly evaporate. i think it absolves people of asking them the harder questions about the historical, cultural, social, economic reasons that have led to the politics that we have in the us today. 77,000 new infections in the latest period. being an average of 34,160 new cases per day in the last week. 33 deaths were reported in the last 24 hour period, that is people who died within 28 days of a positive covid test although some data has been delayed. it means on average 111 deaths were announced every day in the past week. the latest figures on those being treated in hospital and percentage of people vaccinated have not been made available yet to us, we will bring them to you as and when we get them. scientists in a new study have successfully treated a patient with severe depression by using a so called "pacemakerfor the brain". the surgically implanted device tapped into the sp
here's facebook's communication director nick clegg responding to that claim in an interview with cnno suggest with a tweak to an algorithm somehow all of the disfiguring, polarisation in us politics was suddenly evaporate. i think it absolves people of asking them the harder questions about the historical, cultural, social, economic reasons that have led to the politics that we have in the us today. 77,000 new infections in the latest period. being an average of 34,160 new cases per day in the...
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. >> that was facebook's vp for global affairs, nick clegg who made the rounds on the sunday shows.ens using its platforms. facebook shares lower this morning, down more than 10% in the past they've just clicked above the flat line there. there are green, down about 15% from the high. joining us is oppenheimer's jason helstein to talk about this change. good to speak with you this morning. the dual questions here are, one, what does it mean that facebook is implicitly acknowledging they may have an issue here that might, you know, bring further attention from regulators in terms of the effect of the platforms on teens? what might it mean perhaps for engagement and, therefore, the stickiness and targeting of ads? >> sure. so first, let's start out generally what we think about is facebook is trying to get in front of this. i always like to think when you're in situations, usually it's a cover-up that gets you in trouble. i think facebook has been trying to be transparent. i think what's ironic is, can you regulate one company when it comes to teenage or children's usage? if you look
. >> that was facebook's vp for global affairs, nick clegg who made the rounds on the sunday shows.ens using its platforms. facebook shares lower this morning, down more than 10% in the past they've just clicked above the flat line there. there are green, down about 15% from the high. joining us is oppenheimer's jason helstein to talk about this change. good to speak with you this morning. the dual questions here are, one, what does it mean that facebook is implicitly acknowledging they...
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hours because i didn't think it was that new part of the accusations nor particularly illegal but nick cleggn this topic but do you think that facebook has led to a more divisive society >> i would draw that into question actually, too certainly the interconnection of the world promoted by the internet and smartphones and the easy access of information is something that the world has never soon before and facebook as a cause of that is relatively farfetched or the sole cause by the idea that facebook has an obligation to figure out how it doesn't contribute to that is a very real thing to embrace i would like to see that going forward from the company >> i don't think anyone's saying that they're the cause of it - >> there are a number of people saying they're the cause of it and a thing that i think the people at the company sort of recoil at is that the presentation of incredible connective technology that can be powerful and positive for the world is the negatives of it are -- turned into the sole discussion in the mainstream media is something that the company i think properly recoils at
hours because i didn't think it was that new part of the accusations nor particularly illegal but nick cleggn this topic but do you think that facebook has led to a more divisive society >> i would draw that into question actually, too certainly the interconnection of the world promoted by the internet and smartphones and the easy access of information is something that the world has never soon before and facebook as a cause of that is relatively farfetched or the sole cause by the idea...
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having had the research and failed to act, we have then seen a pr campaign, mark zuckerberg and nick cleggthey are going to act with more transparency, with more openness, and really beat much more child—centred. and really beat much more child-centred.— and really beat much more child-centred. , �* ., , ., ~ child-centred. andy burrows, thank ou ve child-centred. andy burrows, thank you very much, _ child-centred. andy burrows, thank you very much, in — child-centred. andy burrows, thank you very much, in charge _ child-centred. andy burrows, thank you very much, in charge of- child-centred. andy burrows, thank you very much, in charge of child i you very much, in charge of child safety initiatives online the nspcc. the rules on the number of deliveries which overseas hgv drivers can make in the uk are to be relaxed, to try to ease the pressure on supply chains. the government hopes the move will help prevent shortages in the run—up to the festive season. but instead of getting caught up in a pre—christmas shopping spree, perhaps we should all think about other options — more green shoppi
having had the research and failed to act, we have then seen a pr campaign, mark zuckerberg and nick cleggthey are going to act with more transparency, with more openness, and really beat much more child—centred. and really beat much more child-centred.— and really beat much more child-centred. , �* ., , ., ~ child-centred. andy burrows, thank ou ve child-centred. andy burrows, thank you very much, _ child-centred. andy burrows, thank you very much, in — child-centred. andy burrows,...
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here is not clegg responding in a claim on cnn. nickea that it can be explained by social media is ludicrous. responsibility for the violence on january 6, the insurrection that day, lies squarely with the people who inflicted the violence and those who encoaged them. it would be too easy to suggest that with a tweak to an algorithm, somehow all the disfiguring polarization in u.s. politics would evaporate. think itbsolves people of asking themselves harder questions about the historical cultural, social, and economic reasons that have led to the politics we have in the u.s. today. ross: sam is a senior tech reporter for "the wall street journal," and one of the reporters who worked on the facebook files leak. i asked about the handling of misinformation. same: facebook does deserve credit for hiring a team of researchers that are really looking into harms the platform might cause. we have reviewed thousands of documents showing thousands -- the in-depth research they do. the question that raises, however, or our phrasing -- what action
here is not clegg responding in a claim on cnn. nickea that it can be explained by social media is ludicrous. responsibility for the violence on january 6, the insurrection that day, lies squarely with the people who inflicted the violence and those who encoaged them. it would be too easy to suggest that with a tweak to an algorithm, somehow all the disfiguring polarization in u.s. politics would evaporate. think itbsolves people of asking themselves harder questions about the historical...
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with me now is mike clegg, vice president of global affairs at facebook, so the top spokesman and alongside mark zuckerberg dealing with the compound issues that have been on the news. nick, thank you for coming open the program. i suspect you're here to preprebut the story on "60 minutes." i know you will say that facebook is not the primary cause but are you willing to acknowledge facebook is a contributor, it's pouring gasoline on the fire in front of us? >> obviously for a platform that has, what, almost a third of the world's population on us and social media is what it says on the tin, it's social, people sk expouzing their views and feelings worldwide. our j.b. is amplify the good, and that's what this is all about. but the study you showed earlier showed some teens, if they're feeling bad about themselves already, dealing with sleep anxiety, body issues, for some of them some of time going on social media can make them not feel great about themselves because they're comparing themselves to others. i think in many ways, parents of teens or indeed any teens that might be watching this program, that's not wholly surprising. it's what we always said, external researc
with me now is mike clegg, vice president of global affairs at facebook, so the top spokesman and alongside mark zuckerberg dealing with the compound issues that have been on the news. nick, thank you for coming open the program. i suspect you're here to preprebut the story on "60 minutes." i know you will say that facebook is not the primary cause but are you willing to acknowledge facebook is a contributor, it's pouring gasoline on the fire in front of us? >> obviously for a...