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on facebook, they are taking down ones that tag the president.r, it is just overall not allowed. not allowed is very different than saying enforced against. a lot of these platforms -- we have gotten used to them saying something that is not allowed, when in reality, we can look with our own eyes and say this kind of content is very prevalent. emily: meantime, you and i have been covering the role of social media in society, the pitfalls for a decade. but you've got now netflix out with this hit documentary called withsocial dilemma," folks like tristan and tim that have gone a lot of people's attention. facebook has come out with an official statement in response to "the social dilemma," which is quite unusual given all the coverage facebook has received and how big a part of our lives it is. they said we should have conversations on the impact of social media on our lives, but it buries in substance and sensationalism. rather than giving a nuanced look at technology for the difficult and complex societal problems. what did you make of facebook'

but, you cannot put new ads up on facebook. can continue to promote ads that were already in the system. what we saw yesterday was the trump campaign in particular starting to kind of add a bunch of different promotions into the system that it looks like they are planning to use in the run-up to the election. there are some that say, election day is today. they uploaded that yesterday. clearly, they are hoping that they can keep that in the system and re-promote it next week. the question, is that allowed? will the company actually step in and say, you can't do this. clearly, a lot of people are asking about it. i would not be shocked if we heard something from them in the next when he four hours. 24 hours. emily: interesting. that could gog, live at any moment. we will continue to get updates from you i know throughout the week. coming up, the software industry boom over thea last year. one company, what they are doing to take on salesforce and adobe, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ out with earnings after the bell, beating revenue

worked with a stop hate for profit campaign which recently got 1200 advertisers to stop advertising on facebookly to protest rampant hate and disinformation on the site. i am no fan of big tech that have abused their workers and abused the privacy rights of their users. frankly, going after section 230 is not the right approach to the very real problems that we are seeing with online platforms, the privacy abuses we are seeing, the way they are extracting ad dollars from the field of journalism. instead of contributing to journalism, they are spreading massive disinformation about voting, the election and health and safety during the pandemic. i am no fan of the tech platforms. i think we need to look seriously at regulation to rein them in, hold them accountable, make sure they are not abusing their dominance and taking advantage of the american people. frankly, section 230 and dismantling section 230 is the wrong way to go. if i am the general counsel of twitter or facebook or social media platforms, and i see those protections are removed, the first thing i do is say, don't moderate content

the question is will it come back on facebook? group pop up in places. y have heard of parlor, a .ight-leaning social network it is possible you might see activity there. one of the small loopholes facebook left is they said if you are going to promote qanon from your individual account, that is allowed. it is not like believing in this conspiracy theory get to off, there will be believers on facebook. the question will be will they continue to have the influence they have if they can't meet as groups or buildup pages. emily: facebook is unveiling some new policies to its protocols on and after election nights. you have been briefed on some of these changes that facebook is going to implement. the company saying they will temporarily ban political ads when the polls close, they will forbid posts that threaten or intimidate voters and they will alert users if races have not yet been decided. tell us more about what facebook is telling you about these changes. it is linked to the idea that we are not going to have results on election nights. that is one of

and government officials post started back in 2017 on a chat group but they've surged this year on facebook instagram and twitter the q. and on phenomenon has been linked to violence such as reports of kidnapping and claims that corona virus is a hoax you chub says it's removed tens of thousands of videos and terminated hundreds of related channels in the last year but we must point out there are several republicans running for congress this year are also human on friendly always pleasure to have larry magid with us from palo alto california social media expert the c.e.o. of connect safely dot org larry is this something which will make a difference i always feel that when a social media company makes a move like this it's good but it's a bit of whack a mole going on as well. yeah welcome all of a good description but it is good because facebook is on record as acknowledging that this is a conspiracy theory group i mean frankly they are insane i just don't understand the argument and they can and have led to violence the other situation if they claim that hillary clinton was leading a ring

in particular, we followed with great concern the kenosha guard page on facebook, that as we all know to make people were killed in kenosha, wisconsin, by paramilitary teenager. we are concerned about the juice of facebook event pages in particular, and our allies and muslim advocates have been lifting this concern up to facebook for over five years now. way that event pages are used to organize violent events, the way they are used to ask people to bring arms to protest outside of mosques, and i'm concerned frankly about how event pages will be used to call for arms outside of polling places. i think facebook is not prepared to take action. but i'm getting a bit off-topic. i have the course a lot to say about facebook, but back to the model policies themselves. these are the bare minimum, a baseline. it social media companies can adopt these principles and actually enforce them, we think that that would go a long way to rooting out hate and disinformation that's having a serious impact on women and people of color and, frankly, on all of us here in the united states, but also abroad.

run by celebrities and government officials started in 2017 and chat group and of surge this year on facebook instagram and twitter the q. and phenomenon has been linked to violence such as reports of kidnapping claims that the corona virus is a hoax you tube says it has removed tens of thousands of videos and terminated hundreds of related channels in the last year several republicans running for congress this year are q. and friendly. it is a social media expert and the c.e.o. of connect safely dot org he says is a threat facebook should have tackled long ago facebook is on record as acknowledging that this is a conspiracy theory group i mean frankly they are insane i just don't understand the arguments and they can and have led to violence the other situation is they

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facebook as a platform to organize and promote violence. will the committee clerk please bring up my second slide? on august 25 a militia group called kenosha guard created a facebook page entitled armed citizens to protect our lives and property encouraging armed individuals to go to kenosha and polk defend the city during a period of civil unrest following the police shooting of jacob blake. that evening a 17-year-old from illinois did just that and ended up killing two protesters and seriously injuring a third. commenters in this group wrote that they wanted to kill looters and writers and switch to real bullets and put a stop to these writing impetuous children. while facebook has had a policy in place banning militia groups this page remained in place. according to press reports facebook received more than 460 complaints about this page. your content moderator did not remove it sub's -- something you subsequently called and aberrational mistake. recently as you heard earlier the alleged plot to kidnap mission governor gretchen whitmer and the potential for intimidation or violence at voting loca

band of white supremacy, in particular we followed with great concern the osha guard event page on facebookll know people who were killed in kenosha by paramilitary teenager we are concerned about the use of facebook pages in particular. been lifting it up for over five years now the way that pages are used to organize violence events the way they are used to ask people to bring armed to protest outside of mosques. i am concerned frankly, about how event pages will be used to called for arms outside of polling places. i think facebook is not prepared to take action. but i'm getting a bit off-topic. i have of court a lot to say about facebook. but back to the model policies themselves, we think these are the bare minimum if social media companies that adopt these principles and enforce them with think that would go a long way to rooting out hate and disinformation. it's having a serious impact on women and people of color. and frankly on all of us here in the united states. but also abroad. this is not a call for government regulation. this is a call for the companies themselves to step up a

the world is hooked on facebook. >> versus what we are seeing with twitter here. dan, this stock has gone up 41% in the three months prior. do you throw in the towel? >> no. this stock rallied on the back of the snap chat and pintrest. i think they pulled an interesting trick. they used to report on thursday morning. and they decided to report in the middle of apple and amazon thinking they would get color. great service. i like jack dorsey, what they are trying to do there, but, remember, this is a company that might do $4 billion in sales nextyear when facebook may top $100 billion if they can't grab users, they are going to have to monetize more i saw a whole bunch the ads. i think baseball, football, maybe that's an abbreviated thing. i think if you get it past towards 40 it is worth >> for snap, they didn't include any sports in their guidance so the fact that there were abroef y abbreviated seasons helped them. guy, are the best days of twitter behind it? >> no. best days of twitter still are ahead. i think there are so many ways for twitter to go in the year

electionnitely uncertainty is going to be weighing on all tech companies that reported today. facebookas you mentioned, very much in the spotlight for reasons related to misinformation, disinformation, hate speech, negative sentiments, lots of not good things happening on the content front on facebook. and i do think advertisers need to worry about that, and many are worried about that. there have been a lot more discussions in boardrooms and marketing planning meetings that i have been aware of, where advertisers are asking themselves, how much should we support facebook knowing forward? is this a platform we want our brands to be a part of? they are having those discussions. they are asking those questions. but the interesting thing is, and i think this is why facebook is probably going to end up ok in the end, is because facebook works. it has been that way for quarter after quarter. facebook's audience and number of users is substantial, its ad targeting is incredible. advertisers, at the same time they tell me they are concerned about the atmosphere of facebook, they also say pret

so post your questions on facebook live. an update on the grass fire breaking out in south san francisco these are from sky max 7. that's the industrial city sign right next to highway 101. the flames creeping up the hillside. honesty, this video speaks for itself. the landmark sign with smoke surrounding it. you can see trying to make drops right now to get that fire under control. but the good news now fire officials say this is fully contained. it started before noon. at one point homes nearby were threatened but only a few had external damage. check out the latest right now on our website abc7news.com and also on the abc7news app. all right. we are always lucky to have him by our side as the coronavirus continue to make headlines. to break all of this down for us and get us some answers, special correspondent dr. patel joining us right now. hi there, my friend. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> let's start with how the bay area is doing when it comes to transmission rates. >> we're still doing ok. if you look at

cleared away over 15000 faces of gone in the past 11 weeks he says he wishes people would stop on facebook before it got think they're going on the streets. and that's all for me and the business team here in berlin for more check out our website r t w dot com slash business we're on facebook and twitter it is for me and james it's goodbye and take. it forward. confrontation between china and taiwan the superpower is threatening to invade its neighbor. how serious is it. how is china justifying its claims. richard longer analyzes the causes and dangers of the conflict in taiwan china's next target cusa. next on d w. in the light of climate change. for. what's in store. for the future in the. car or to make decisions to incite. counter. last time on taiwan china's next target taiwan's military forces training for a scenario they hope will never have a chinese invasion from across the sea. and. hope that. china sees the self-governing democratic island off its southeastern coast as a province of its own a place that must be brought under its control and here's the thing china's.

the spot for today we look at the efforts of one pressure group holding facebook to account of what the company itself is doing to clean house in the run up to election day if you're watching on the cheap you can send us your comments and questions from the life chat having part of today's conversation and you could waste tweet us put a straight. us democracy is at risk hold facebook to account that is the declaration of a new group for social media experts criticizing the company's content moderation policies as the u.s. election approaches the collective of activists journalists and academics calls itself the real facebook oversight board here's what one member of the group said at its launch of ain't. we demand comprehensive action to ensure that race cannot be weaponized to undermine the vote and with that american democracy ours is an emergency intervention are evident mr zuckerberg and facebook employees. now approach their 9 minute of the 11th hour in this democratic crisis and the time for excuses and political deals is. facebook's official oversight board announced

cases of a bunch of macedonia teens writing inflammatory headlines that get circular circulated on facebook by your crazy uncle so they wind up going to a page where they might accidentally click on a link to a discount pharmaceuticals i don't really know what twitter or facebook could have done what they have instead done is made a horrifying promise that they can regulate truth that is hard enough to do in a world that isn't politics where does information is part of the game. i've done you all know where this big scandal right now is that joe biden son hunts it buys in the fall from his lap top link to the new york post at twitter and facebook i've been actively blocking that story do you think that justified in doing that now of course to not justify it was an absolutely outrageous act i mean i mean as one of your other guests that i mean twitter and facebook did not do a saying when the. diversity. was circulating and that was a pack of lies so they showed a significant bias in going after the hunter biden disclosures and i've read the hunter biden emails and they strike me as perfectl

qanon had thrived on facebook.millions oeople believed in qanon on facebook according to some studies. this was a place where qanon sucked in people. people just hanoened upon a item and suddenly found themselv pulled into these groups. so far facebook has done a pretty wide purge. i think this will set qanon back. katty: if i was to go onto facebook now and wanted to find qanon pages, how difficult would it be? >> if you just typed in qanon, i as of yesterday morning, youve would ound flourishing groups with hundreds of thousands ofembers, people just sort ofg radicalize another. but now you would have to use a code word maybe. get a little more subtle. facebook says they are keeping an eye out for those as well. is has been a pretty wide ranging crackdown, th' strongest weve seen compared to something like twitter or youtube. katty: facebook has been reluctant to police some of its coent in the past. why is it doing this now? >>eb fk partially has been reluctant to be seen as being biased against conservatives, b

dot com or by following us on twitter and facebook on behalf of myself and our tanser national thanks for watching and hope you have a good day. hello and welcome to cross town where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the media environment is bleak if you disagree with the official narrative you're called a conspiracy theorist never mind many official narratives actually are conspiracy theories and is big tech and war with populous. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest george samueli in budapest he's an author and the you tube read the gavel and in moscow we're joined by dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor and knows me internet media projects are gentlemen go. some proof in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it i mean when i got an e-mail here in moscow as i said in my introduction if you disagree with the official narrative somehow you're a conspiracy theorist but over the last few years and particularly i have in mind russia gate ukraine gate even go further back with saddam and weapons of mass destruction

there's a lot of disinformation on youtube, facebook, instagram, or wrr. because the pandemic hit the united states in the way it did, there was not going to be this sort of leeway from political leaders on both sides of the aisle for not addressing it and so many of the efforts that platforms have made have been what i would consider pr moves in order to not get in trouble for ignoring this the same way. they continued to ignore other health misinformation issues. many platforms have rampant misinformation on reproductive issues. rampant miss and disinformation on the flu, which we're in a period of the year where we're dealing with a double issue with both flu and covid diagnose cease which are going to rise. i think, yes, we should laud some of the work that has been attempted. we should laud that attention to the issue but we shouldn't trick ourselves into thinking that this has been addressed in any real way or lasting way by the pl platforms. unlike with conspiracy theories with health information what we're left with is a void in public health commun

celebrities and government officials post started in 2017 on a chat group have surged this year on facebook instagram and twitter the q. and on phenomenon has been linked to violence such as reports of kidnappings and planes the corona virus is a hoax you tube says it's removed tens of thousands of videos and terminated hundreds of related channels in the last year larry mcgee that is a social media expert and the c.e.o. of connect safely dot org he says curan on is a threat facebook should have tackled a long time ago. facebook is on record as acknowledging that this is a conspiracy theory group i mean frankly that they are insane i just don't understand the argument and they can and have led to violence the other situation is they claim that hillary clinton was leading a ring of child molester that of a pizza restaurant in washington d.c. and somebody actually showed up with a rifle and started shooting fortunately i don't think anybody with injured nobody was killed but the point is that some of these followers are going to take actions into their own hands q not have been very dangerous

patel on facebook live, then come back on >>> we are back with our special correspondent, dr. alok patel. so earlier, before you joined, we talked with karla marinucci and john dennis, san francisco republican party, about the debate tonight and what kind of role covid, that topic, might play. i want to ask you the same thing, which is, as we watch the debate tonight, what covid considerations do you think we should keep in mind? not just covid, but health care in general. >> first off, when it comes to covid considerations, i think it's important that there's transparency about the protective measures being used at the debate. i've already heard reports about both vice president biden and president trump getting tested beforehand, the podiums are 12 feet apart, they're using plexiglass. i think that sends an important message to the american people that we're still taking it very seriously at the world stage and not putting anyone else at risk. in regards to covid, that topic in general in the debate, we absolutely need to talk about it. president trump was saying earlier at

he harped on the idea that facebook errs on the side of speech, he would rather people decide for themselves the information they would like to believe than facebook make that decision for them. at the time, it seemed he was defending some controversial content moderation decisions facebook had made that angered people on the left, the democrats. it seemed he was deciding that facebook would not be the speech police. flashforward a year and that has changed. it ist know whether because there have been more pressure from the left to take down misinformation or if there is just so much misinformation out there that facebook has no choice but to act, but it has changed. twitter has been more aggressive from the beginning about saying they will take down information that is deemed to be misinformation from their platforms, from day one. but as we just saw with the hunter biden'situation can lead they ar not better than facebook or any other platform, they still have tough content moderation decisions to make every day and often they are in the public eye in backtracking on their own decisions. m

alleged business dealings they were essentially being asked why this article had been suppressed on facebook and on twitter here's how the questioning went to the f.b.i. contacts you say that you don't construe senator know about that story specifically nicholas i mean why did why did you straddle back there you alerted us of a need to be on heightened alert around a risk of can we go. around to release you from your making appointments you know just to be clear on this we didn't censor the content we flagged it for fact checkers to review and pending that review we temporarily constrained its distribution but. it's not up to us either to determine whether it's not. russian interference nor whether it's true we relied on some of your theories and started to research. now the article from the new york post seemed to indicate that hunter biden the son of joe biden was involved in some shady business dealings in ukraine and china and when that article was suppressed by facebook and twitter donald trump the u.s. president was furious media and then the big big tech desperately trying to cover up

two names that have been in focus the doj investigation into google and the expected ftc decision on facebook yet, not a whole lot of movement there, carl. and today, of course, we're seeing amazon as the only, you know, big tech names up about .3%. >> zoom is the number one leader on the s&p 500, kroger and amazon also helping to lead. sort of has a familiar ring to it >> it certainly does this notion, carl, this idea that if covid-19 infections are starting to pick up, you will see certain parts of the market that have faired better over the course of the past six months. maybe return to that leadership roll carl, we just crossed beneath the 3400 level 3399 the last trade. the level that some traders are watching entering today is 3408. that represents the 50-day average price for the s&p 500. and to put that more graphically speaking, look at a year to date chart of the s&p 500 what you're seeing is this area over the course of the last two months where things are kind of consolidating in this triangle zone right here. if we're seeing some movement, maybe there is some case to be made that

in a report in which they find facebook $100000000.00 they say that facebook like to journalist is one of your lists who is like you but it's the last week when are the really long launch the real facebook oversight board i had columns man coming out on twitter to troll me personally once using to pressing wineries about why our state our website had been taken down he came out to troll me about cambridge generally sikka which is the story i wrote and which facebook was fined $5000000000.00 for using people. and corporate reaction was to. a spokesman to go out on twitter and attack me personally now i now read and sexily and shrum and it makes me really wonder what is going on inside what its priorities are and what its relationship is with the current white house guess i didn't mention the face but wouldn't send a guest to sit alongside you but they did send a copy and paste it statement it did have a spelling error in it so they see the spelling i it's not me it's facebook alright so this is what they said they have done ready for the us elections so between march and september of th

we were focused on the facebook story earlier. trying to push back and clamp down on holocaust denial. we know that can often unfold and offer a lot of other questions as to why they are gatekeeping other areas. how does youtube balance that? mark: it is more complicated because google is supplying the economics. controversy was not necessarily because his videos exist on youtube. last summer, they removed him from their advertising program. in august, they were turned him -- they returned him. some employees and critics have been upset about that. ,oogle has taken a lot of heat pulling down a federal conservative website for some of it take comments. what google has, the dominant digital advertiser. they provide not only the platform, but a lot of the economic field. that is where it becomes much more complicated both for the company and any potential legislation. caroline: legislation going forward, there's going to be a hearing virtually on capitol hill. talk to us about what we can expect. mark: this is set for later this mont

join the conversation on facebook, on twitter and on instagram. in santa clara, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> certainly the conversation a lot of folks are having. marin county looking to move into the less restrictive covid monitoring tier this week. right now it is in the red tier, but they would like to increase capacity in certain businesses so they can move to the orange tier. now the state is set to make some of those announcements today. >>> san francisco remains the only county in the bay area to be in the state's yellow tier. nonessential offices will be allowed to reopen at 25% capacity today. also gyms will be allowed to increase their indoor capacity to 25%. so many of us have turned to just going outside, long walks, rides, whatever it takes to get a little exercise. we're always concerned about the air quality, kari. >> yeah, we're looking at much better air quality. we'll just have to monitor it for today, and we're still dealing with this high fire danger and this red flag warning especially for our east bay hills and north

we email, we put them on twitter, we put them on facebook. we have partnerships with on the ground news organizations. we also partner with facebook. this is been a interesting program where we fact check content on facebook and then eat our fact checked back into facebook. facebook enabled this program. so than people who are not looking for fact checking content come across something that is false and the get a little note that says this content has been fact checked by third-party fact checkers, and those people are coming to us. we are also putting our fact check information under platforms like whatsapp. we have and a light on what's at right now program called back chat ever doing things on tiktok. we're trying to reach people wherever they are. one of the downsides is the audience is highly fragmented. you can't just do one thing and expect everybody is going to see it anymore. it's been a long time since that's the case but it is really not true enough. >> and you, let me ask have you had a conversation about a partnership with fox new

robert costa -- we're on television, robert do you get it? thank you. facebook and twitter normally getting heat for acting too slowly, right? this time they may have moved too fast, blocking a controversial story about former vice president biden on their sites. now top republicans are slamming those two companies. they're claiming that the platforms are interfering with the election it all stems from an unsubstantiated report in the "new york post" that revolves around e-mails allegedly sent between joe biden's son hunter and ukrainian energy officials nbc news hasn't verified any of it but senator ted cruz told cnbc's "power lunch" earlier today that he thinks twitter went too far >> we've been seeing big tech get more and more aggressive on censoring and silencing voices they disagree with that being said, the last 24 hours marked a dramatic escalation and they've crossed a new line >> well, now senate republicans are looking to subpoena twitter boss jack dorsey and potentially facebook ceo mark zuckerberg it all comes as those companies try to fix the mista

the issue about the message on facebook, youtube. it was factored into the record about whether they got a wrong. it is clearly something that has created a whole snowball effect. >> playing a role in everyday life. >> indeed. >> we will continue to cover stories for the rest of the program. something from chili, a national monument, you can see images in july -- something from chile, a national monument, you can see the images in july. >> evangelization and looting at the center of this protest. this monument is in the epicenter of the protest and it was tainted read during demonstrations on friday. it is apparently a symbol of the blood spilled. this saturday, the cleaning of the statue was carried out at dawn. the monument was restored to its original colors. during the violent protests yesterday, it was repainted read and finally, this morning, for the second time in three days, they restored the monument once again. lots of back-and-forth here by calling this the monument. this is considered chile's most important business later

one of the ways you do that is with facebook groups. mr. zuckerberg, in 2017. you announced a goal of one billion users joining facebook groups. unfortunately these foreign pages have become breeding grounds for hate, echo chambers of misinformation an venues for coordination of violence. facebook is not only failing to take the pages down, it is actively spreading these pages and helping these groups recruitment efforts. facebook's own internal research found 64% of all extremist groups joined are due to facebook's recommendation tools. mr. zuckerberg, will you commit to stopping all group recommendations on your platform until you u.s. election results are certified, yes or no? >> senator, we have taken the step of stopping recommendations and groups for, for all political content or social issue groups as a precaution for this. >> just to chairfy one thing, the vast, vast majority of groups and communities people are a part of are not extremist organizations or even political. they're interest based and communities i think are quite helpful and healthy for pe

is politically discriminating but it's really how you act on facebook that gets you in trouble not your ideology. turkey's foreign minister is criticizing international efforts to end the conflict between as the jan in armenia. says diplomacy has failed to resolve the decades old conflict over the region of no god no cattle bark or nato says ankara should pressure its ally as a very jaan to deescalate bernard smith reports from goddess in armenia. amidst the burning wreckage of a bombardment of stepan aka the largest city in the goanna karabakh evidence says on the city international cluster bombs explode in the air scattering hundreds of smaller bombs indiscriminately more than 100 countries have banned them but not as a by john or armenia. civilians in the going back in azerbaijan they've been caught in the middle of 10 days of fighting between the 2 sides here in armenia displaced people from karabakh a picking up donated food. dug up maybe we just heard the air raid siren took the children and left now we're here with 2 families 10 people 8 children livi

lou: -- i don't know what they're called to determine what we will see and won't see on facebook, andt-wing, prominently left wing. it's just really -- let me read to the audience this statement from facebook's policy communications director. i love that. andy stone -- [laughter] if we could put that up, please. >> right. lou: while i will intentional lu not link to the new york post, he says i think rather augustly -- [laughter] i want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact-checked by facebook's third party fact-checking partners. in the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform. now, what do you suppose that means, reducing its distribution? a little bit? a lot? to whom? what is -- t just stunning, the arrogance and, frankly, the absurdity of what they're doing. not to mention -- >> well, absolutely, lou -- lou: -- nefarious result. 30 seconds, sara. >> it is nefarious. they are limiting the distribution of ideas and thought and actual facts, and they are controlling the flow of information. and this is very dangerous, it's very dangerous because they wo

for twitter on facebook expose article on democrat joe biden. by. they take negative posts down almost before they even go up trying to protect them trying to protect but this is election interference in the attempt to rig an election which is what we're seeing here by monopolies unprecedented in american history. terminally ill children is said to become illegal in the government there is banking new rules too and. children will feel pressure. to allow people to kill them. that is the. kind of cases of patients who are suffering so much suffering. by. wherever you're tuning in from across the world welcome to our to international my names you know neal. the coronavirus is once again tightening its grip on europe france spain and the united kingdom are set. new infection records on a daily basis far exceeding those seen during the initial wave however when it comes to tackling the health crisis it seems political unity is in short supply or your correspondent peter all for delves further into the. cases of coronavirus sky rockets across europe e.u.

facebook. the new york post itself when it attempted to put out its story was blocked on twitter or facebook. e new york post has the fourth largest circulation of any newspaper in this country. have we seen active censorship of a major press publication with serious allegations of corruption of one of two candidates for president. >> the folks at newsweek have this story about the impact of twitter and facebook on the thing the senator just referencing grade while twitter's actions have little impact on the reach of the story , data shows facebook's suppression of the article caused to reach roughly half the of the atlantic story and new york times story on the president's tax returns data. impact of social media on politics, political discourse. supporter of trump, marshall, texas. caller: good morning. results of the hyper political -- politicalization by social media. i hope you let me bring up one victim and that would be steve scully. i know c-span doesn't want to address it because they are involved in it. i have to say, i'm a long time listener and caller. i watched c-span religiously.

make you think they could have been saying anything we'll never know because that's gone when it's on facebook said is interesting thanks but they're not giving up. this digital strategy for the trump campaign was focused on the last few weeks. on november the 8th 2016 against all odds trump took wisconsin 523000 votes michigan 511000 pennsylvania 543000. in total 77000 votes in these 3 key states kerry trying to victory when he was 3000000 votes behind over the entire country. the digital targeting strategy had proved effective we can see that approximately 70000 voters made the decision for everyone else because they were the ones in the districts that ended up deciding to really i think this highlights as well our electoral college system is a vulnerability that if software and data allows the most important voters to be easily. found it and. diminishing the vote of everyone else effectively. politics and democracy was the next industry to fall we knew that technology interrupted newspapers and journalism and music and it was like actually harry we've been talking all this time about how gr