disinformation to accredited users, those who are their fight by twitter or facebook or other social media platforms be hacked and spreading news that may not be true? >> guest: and and i talk about this and upcoming book, the hype machine, which is about how social media is instructing our world. it was ironic that at the exact moment that jack dorsey account on twitter was being hacked i was on television talking about the danger to democracy from digital manipulation. the issue here is that ramification for society that we may not even be thinking of. for instance, in 2013 syrian hackers hacked and ap news twitter handle and put out a tweet that said that barack obama had been injured in explosion, two explosions in the white house that day. what happened was that automated trading algorithms that trade on the sentiment in social media for in an automated fashion observing this sentiment and started selling stocks. that's big news, if the president has been injured in an explosion inside the white house. that's potentially very destabilizing. that created a a market crash which lost $140 billion

on social media platforms online. we have to be thinking about all of the potential platforms, each one of them has a different role to potentially play in this. them, one byny of one in my book. and i describe why they are important for these types of problems. >> when does the hype machine come out? >> fall of 2020. right before the election. of asinformation is part wider debate around election security that has been taking place on capitol hill since the 2016 election. quite a heated debate. beens of bills have floated on various aspects of election security including the sponsored byt senators warner and graham and that would basically mean that those who purchase ads on social media have to be transparent about who they are and why they are buying these advertisements. do you think a legislation like this or other legislation that congress can push through prior to 2020 will have a major impact? i think the honest ads act is a step in the right direction. i also think california is making steps in a similar and

on social media platforms online. we have to think about all the potential platforms, each has a different role to potentially play in this and i describe many of them one by one in my book and describe why they are important to these problems. >> host: when does the hype machine come out? >> it will be out 2020 in the september october right before the election. >> disinformation is a wider debate amongst election security that has been taking place on capitol hill since the 2016 election. quite a heated debate and there's been dozens of this floated on various aspects election security including the honest ads act sponsored by congressman and i would mean that those who buy ads on social media have to be transparent about who they are and why they buy the advertisements. to think pledges agent like this or any type of legislation that congress should push through prior to 2020 will have a major impact on this information efforts? >> guest: i do think so. i think the honest ads act is a step in the right direction and

social media usage among u.s. adults. therefore, social media remain viable platforms for reaching large portions of the u.s. population. second, there's a great deal of variation in how social media tools can be used to communicate with the public, both due to platform afordances or the setup of the platforms themselves, as well as to the preferences of different members of congress. third, there are crucial distinctions between communicating with constituents through the postal service and social media platforms. in particular, members have much less control over how their messages are delivered and to whom as well as less of an ability to monitor in retrospect how well these processes are working. fourth, ongoing efforts to make social media data available for outside research and analysis should therefore be an important concern for members of congress as access to social media data will be necessary to assess the functioning and impact of congressional communication efforts. it is to these third and fourth points i will address my remaining remarks. i begin with the consequences of the platform's business models. fi

of important trade-offs that need to be managed in pursuing any type of regulation of the social media platforms or the tech platforms in general. i will give you two examples. one is between privacy and election integrity. obviously we want to explore reasonable privacy legislation and i'm an advocate for privacy legislation and do think we need to have legislation how private an individual data is used and that is an important right that emanates from from the constitution but at the same time a broad sweeping illegitimate data retention makes it very difficult to audit what social platforms do to our democracy and society in general. we will want to be able to audit those things going forward. the legislation has to be designed in a way that protects individual privacy, perhaps through anonymize asian but also retains the ability to also secure transparency at the same time. another important trade-off is the trade-off between free speech and harmful speech and we certainly want to prevent the live streaming of mass murders or terrorist attacks on facebook but we also want to protect free spe

there has been no appreciable drop in social media usage among us adults. viable platforms reach large portions of the population. there is a great deal of variation in social media tools to communicate with the public. both due to platform avoidance and the platforms themselves as well as the preferences of different members of congress. third there are crucial distinctions between communicating with constituents through the u.s. postal service and social media platforms. they have less control over how messages are delivered and to whom. to make social media data available for outside research and analysis should therefore be an important concern for members of congress, access to social media data to assess the functioning and impact of efforts. i will address my remaining remarks. the consequences of business models, first, social media platforms generate revenue by selling advertisements which means messages from them as of congress to review the public, if you have an ad over which members have no control consider this equivalent to a franking policy that allows adver

usage among adults that means platform for reaching us populations second there is a great deal of variation how social media tools can communicate with the public to set up the platforms themselves as well as the preferences to different members of m congress third there are crucial distinctions u.s. postal service and social media platforms in particular members have much less control over how messages are delivered into who and in retrospect how well these are working ongoing efforts available for outside research and analysis should be an important concern for members of congress and access is necessary for the functioning iod impact of congressional communication efforts the third and fourth points i will address my remaining a marks beginning observations of the klatt platform business model first social media platform sell advertisements of messages from congress viewed by the public appear alongside of those that have no control this is a franking policy that allows advertisements to be allowed to be sent in the mail by congress also media is not geographically constrained although different by platf

you've noted that social media platforms need to thread the needle between securing data, but also making it more transparent. in the lead up to the elections, however social media platforms such as facebook and twitter done in addressing this vital balancing act? how are they prepared for 2020? guest: two things about that. number one is we don't know enough about what is happening internally to prepare for 2020. there has not been enough transparency, simply in terms of policy. forget releasing data. we don't really know what preparations are being made behind the scenes to prevent this kind of manipulation and to protect election integrity in 2020. but point never to is that it is -- but point number two is it is a difficult situation, but one that can be resolved. what i hear from facebook is the people who are responsible for giving data to social science one are working around the clock. they have a lot of people and resources dedicated to it, but they are having trouble doing it in a timely manner. that having been said, i will say i am aware of more people, for instance at google,

we manage our early forays into the social media age and i think it's quite likely that some of the past practices of allowing social media organizations and platforms to collect quite similar states around individuals will will face much much harder scrutiny in the future that's what is access to sensitive information if full trained and vetted employees only cannot really be trusted given what happened. no i don't think it can because as i say i think the problem is that they simply hold too much data on each of their uses that there's an ongoing debate about the extent to which is to say that it's like facebook google and adamant are recording even interactions between people when they're not using those applications so simple conversations between people when they happen to have their mobile phones on them and appear to be being recorded by a lot of these social media networks and if you combine all of that data and information and location interactions conversations and as i say it's a huge and potentially hugely dangerous tool in an ability to build a complete profile of of an individual or group of individuals track their movements track thei

chairman of the conservative think tank the group and he told us that the immense reach of social media platforms represents a serious threat to society. the extent to which twitter and other similar social media platforms collects such a wide range of data the power that these companies that deal with my state somehow this is the power of god it exceeds the power of most governments they are able to not only know intimate details about the uses laws but also predict their behaviors in often more efficient ways than the uses themselves can pick their behaviors and that obviously has a potential great district pm outcome in the future when these organizations operate with a political bias that they clearly don't i think that should be concern for all individuals that live in it free speech and free expression of democracy. riyadh has also been making headlines in another big story on thursday every video allegedly showing a so-called secret weapons delivery in yemen we'll have all the details on that and the possible implications a little later in the program. now u.s. democrats have failed to pus

it is quite serious and the authorities do need to talk of the social media platforms, because as longfe way to be smuggled into the united kingdom or across any other border by refrigerated truck or our truck, they will try it, and that is clearly with disastrous consequences as we have seen recently with many migrants dying stop once again, i love this story. as the parole, releasing this new podcast, who has helped couples get back into the lab zone. how does that help us in the workplace? —— esther perel. zone. how does that help us in the workplace? -- esther perel. there is a parallel between the relationship between a couple and the relationship in a workplace. and thatis relationship in a workplace. and that is because you are spending many, that is because you are spending any that is because you are spending many, many hours, as we often say to my team, we spend more time at work together than we do awake with our families at home. and therefore it is very important that that relationship works. so she is saying, there are issues in the workplace that i like couples, the sort

reporter: another sign ohow powerful social-media platforms have become.nuala: british scientists are created a blueprint for bands and pop stars so they can perform live music without contributing to come change. -- climate change. they are using tour data donated by the group massive attack after the group said they wanted to find solutions to the climate cris. let's hear more from our environment reporter laura foster. >>♪ teardrop on the fire laura: since they broke out onto the global music scene in the 1990's, massive attack have sold the world.but after spending tie environmentacampaign group extinction rebellion, they have become more aware of the damage that live music can cause the planet. they could have decided to never tour ain, but instead wanted to help solve the problem by teaming up with scientists who will look at every aspect of their tournd help them reduce carbon essions to zero, or as close to zero as possible. >> whenever a celebrity wants to change, people line up to say this is hypocritical because they are part of a high-carbon se

esther crawford is the founder of a new social media platform.t any cost. i think that is one of the things that has to change in our industry, that you have to have an ethical framework and a value centric perspective of what the product does to the end user. what's interesting about esther is she has based the ethos behind the platform around her 14—year—old daughter. her rule is, what we are designing and what we're doing with our platform, would this be safe for my daughter to see and use? it is hard, honestly, for me to hear you talk about this because i feel like this is my industry and we are not doing enough for parents and families and kids to keep them safe on these platforms, and we should and there is really no excuse. if you could say to instagram's boss, if you could make one request, what would you say? i would say please make your decisions regarding safety on your platform while imagining your own child or grandchild sitting at the computer viewing that. i want them to put their mind there, i want them to feel like their child is

social media platforms. now we are in the midst of a public health crisis, the opioid epidemic which is claiming the lives of more than 60,000 americans a year. but facebook, the world's largest social media company only began tracking drug activity, drug postings on its platform last year. and within six months the firm identified 1.5 million posts selling drugs. that's 100 times more postings than the notorious dark website the silk road ever carried. study after study by acco members and others have shown widespread use of google, twitter, facebook, reddit, youtube to market and sell fentanyl, oxycodone, and other highly addictive deadly substances to u.s. consumers in direct violation of u.s. federal law. every major internet platform has a drug problem. why? because there is no law that holds tech firms responsible even when a child dies buying drugs on an internet platform. tech firms play an active role in spreading harm. the algorithms well intentioned to connect friends also help criminals and terro

tube people kids are so connected disconnected and so they're connected through some sort of social media platform and social norms change their perception of you know consequences they look at the 5 minutes of fame on a bullying video like they were going to get accolades but they don't look beyond the immediate 5 minutes they don't look beyond the consequences the consequences are real violence aggravated assault charges assault charges and those those charges can last and those consequences colossi the rest of your life and i tell these kids what you do on social media and what you put on social media can and will affect you long term there are many kids that are capable of the one college scholarships but as colleges look at their social media platforms and see these videos they don't want to get involved with the kids so somebody with incredible athletic ability academic ability might not even know why they weren't selected for a college these colleges are looking at social media you can have long term consequences right putting things like this out there michael daly known steered straight d

you have social media platforms involved and you have the military involved.about national security implications? >> we think that this is a joint global effort that will take everybody contributing to this. we alone cannot do alone. we are looking for a mutual platform to bring together the best research from academia and the best research from industry . we are partnered very closely with researchers and the technical university of munich in germany. and google has donated a good amount of data to the effort. we are trying to pull together a lot of different efforts and make it possible for people to easily consume this research. it is not just theological publications. -- theoretical publications. >> helping people to figure out what is real and what is not in the online world especially as we head to an important election. we appreciate your time, rob mr. meadows, president of the eye ai foundation. >>> photos into states are headed to the poll to pick a new governor. president trump was in kentucky to support the incumbent matt. he is hoping to use suppor

1/2 years after the 2016 election, and wetill do not have a single law in place governing social-media platforms. this is a tool that has a long history in russia. it goes back to the czarist time. ethe czars had secret pol that manipulated information and disinformation. the soviets did it in a masterful way. you can touch people in ways that have no rules of the road. do you really want to trust these platforms to simply self-police and not ve any responsibility to our government or, for that matter, to the amecan public? >> isn't that the case right now? >> it is absolutely the case. j bingo. yt got it. and that's why -- >> and you think that's a mistake. >> i think that is huge mistak i think ey've tried to get better. but shouldn't we have a right to know, for example, en we're reading a facebook post, whether it was generated by a human being or a bot? shouldn't we have a right to know the geographic origin? if it says, "i'm margaret from new york," but the post is originally from saint petersburg, shouldn't we have a right to know? shouldn't we have a right to know, from a basic privac st

another sign of how powerful social media platforms have become. vivienne nunis, bbc news.earching for survivors of tuesday's earthquake, the worst in the country for years. at least 30 people are known to have died in the quake, magnitude 6.4. gareth barlow has more details. screaming frantically working by torchlight, rescuers dug with their bare hands to free a young boy trapped by rubble. his solitary cry an expression of the pain felt by albanians as they come to terms with the most powerful earthquake in decades. as after—shocks continue, teams from a dozen countries are working tirelessly, with special equipment and sniffer dogs, to find those still trapped in ruined buildings. we're waiting for the police and the rescue team to find... because i'm his friend, and his cousins are lost. and it's also a girl that is not found yet. she's young, and it was his... yeah, 20 years old, and we're waiting for the rescue team. whole families have perished in the disaster. for those who escaped, the fear of further tremors saw hundreds prepare to spend a second night sleeping i

another sign of how powerful social media platforms have become. vivienne nunis, bbc news.ng the news. two winter storms are affecting travellers in the united states jeopardising their enjoyment of forthcoming thanksgiving holiday. motorists were left stranded and thousands of flights delayed in oregon and california. heavy rain threatened flash floods from san diego to los angeles. protesters have again been out on the streets of the maltese capital valletta demanding the resignation of the prime ministerjoseph muscat over his handling of the murder of the investigative journalist, daphne ca ruana galizia. mr muscat has stood by his chief of staff, who has been questioned over the murder and who resigned this week. a three—day general strike is expected to begin across lebanon to push for the formation of a new government. it's the latest development in six weeks of protests sparked by deep discontent with the ruling elite over the ailing economy and corruption. the authorities in texas have ordered 60,000 residents, in four towns, to leave their homes after a series of e

to impose ethical guidelines on social media platforms. based basically within a 100 days and so she wants to keep. she wants to keep the social media platforms running but she also has to find a reasonable regulatory framework in which this can all operate effectively well i just feel like i feel like miles on the point that you know when we talk about this as and merging technology what we're looking at here though is that this is learning and it's grabbing all of our data and aggregating that into making them be able to sell more to us and things like that so i mean i understand what you're saying but does that still become a huge problem for them. it becomes an extraordinary lead large problem for them and if they want to expand in other areas it's all about data and so now we have a situation as i mentioned almost a year ago on this program regarding the g.d.p. are in the right to be forgotten and the european union and companies are still struggling with it currently we have the c c.p.a. which is a california privacy law which is what

another sign of how powerful social media platforms have become. —— will not be scared of. often involves a last minute trip the store. but this year in some parts of the country they'll do better picking up a snow shovel and some skis. colorado has been walloped by the white stuff with several flights cancelled. that storm is now moving east and causing trouble for holiday travellers. 33 states are under travel advisories. in new york a major concern is whether the usual massive balloons will fly in the annual macy's thanksgiving parade. laura trevelyn has been finding out more. will 0laf fly tomorrow? that's the burning question here in new york city. never mind the impeachment inquiry into president trump. will the giant inflatables which are a feature of the thanksgiving day parade be allowed off the ground, or will that storm system coming in from the midwest ground them? now, here is why it's important. because actually, back in 1997, felix the cat, one of the big balloons, injured four people when it banged into a street lamp. so there are very, very strict rules gov

getting into the finance industry concerns lingering over the lack of regulation for these social media platforms continue and some even wonder if personal information including political beliefs are even gender will impact someone's finances r.t. correspondent atocha suite takes a look at what the new trends are in the works for these companies. google announces it will begin offering checking accounts next year then moe will be launching a credit card in 2020 while facebook is launching a new payment system after companies build on their libor project but with ventures like the apple cart already seen harsh scrutiny it'll be interesting to see where the market goes some tech giants have already entered into the finance industry google is make. in the boldest move yet set for checking accounts to consumers next year called cash the project will be financed through citigroup and the stanford federal credit union but concerns are circulating as silicon valley leaders like apple and facebook have already encountered issues in the banking world this as consumers a worry about just how much personal

speech it's about how to deal with massive amounts of false and misleading political speech on social media platforms and by answer to that is the only solution is that social media companies don't do bans of all speech they don't allow all speech they have to be arbiters through fact checking that's that's the only solution while picking up on that just isn't a facebook suspended free account linked to russian interference that we're involved in and trying to influence fight as an african countries so i mean and that is definitely an ongoing trend that we say sorry ed picked it up and that. i think there is something slightly patronize ing about about this approach that big brother knows best and people as clever as we think they are and although i accept that there are some studies i sometimes doubt the conclusions and the way the studies are being conducted and who's been paying for those studies and for that research into thinking in democracy at least we have to give people the credit they deserve we cannot possibly place an organisation such as facebook or any other corporate body to make decis

another sign of how powerful social media platforms have become. vivienne nunis, bbc news.membering the australian writer and broadcaster clive james, who has died at the age of 80. president kennedy was shot down and died almost immediately. the murder ofjohn kennedy is a disaster for the whole free world. he caught the imagination of the world, the first of a new generation of leaders. margaret thatcher is resigning as leader of the conservative party and prime minister. before leaving number 10 to see the queen, she told her cabinet, "it's a funny old world." angela merkel is germany's first woman chancellor, easily securing the majority she needed. attempts to fly a hot—air balloon had to be abandoned after a few minutes, but nobody seemed to mind very much. as one local comic put it, "it's not hot air we need, it's hard cash." cuba has declared nine days of mourning following the death of fidel castro at the age of 90. castro developed close ties with the soviet union in the 19605. it was an alliance that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war with the cuban mis

one of the most popular social media platforms in the world faces scrutiny in the u.s. now over national security concerns because it's owned by a chinese tech giant. good morning live from the r.t. will be sent here in moscow just turned 18 am here now my name is kevin owen here is a 30 minute update thanks for watching 1st of this tuesday it straight to syria where a u.s. military convoy has been attacked by turkish backed militants according to russia's ministry of defense seems it came under a tillery fire from the group known as the free syrian army the turn of tell tale in the northeast of the country the pentagon confirmed the attack took place 2 saying that the patrol was on arms are harmed rather it comes amid a partial withdrawal of american troops from northern syria and the relocation of some forces to neighboring iraq saw the 1st confrontation between the u.s. and the militants over the past few weeks washington's envoy to syria claims the f.s.a. have committed war crimes during turkey's offensive in northern syria. turkish supported. opposition in oppositi

twitter says no to political advertising the social media platform imposes a ban on the head of next year's u.s. presidential election but how will this be enforced and what does encourage all stifle political debate this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm the star of the attack now social media has transformed the way we debate politics and no one knows that more than the president of the united states donald trump who often uses twitter to announce new policies attack opponents and even retreat what many consider to be misleading information and over the years facebook twitter and you tube have been criticized for allowing political hate speech and misinformation to flourish on their platforms now with just a year to go before the u.s. presidential election twista is banning all political advertising around the wild for next month while some democratic candidates welcome to the move president trump's campaign manager called it a very dumb decision intended to silence conservatives on twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey says this isn't about free expression this is about p

think about the city governments and to protect the security of social media platforms well you know it's says a lot about how far the saudi regime is willing to go to stifle any voices of dissent even anonymous twitter users and it's kind of chilling hala when you consider that this is a government that is willing to carry out a brutal murder of a prominent journalist jamal khashoggi on in a foreign country in the in a saudi consul then how much more exposed are ordinary saudi subjects who might have something to say that would be construed as criticism it's chilling to think and again of course it also raises questions about the security and the seriousness and the the gaps in security at the social media platforms and the way that they're being used not only for political propaganda as we've seen but now to keep tabs on dissidents and possibly to carry out reprisals against them rob rannells their life is in the sun just thank you very much indeed. those most still to come on the news are getting some police officers in chile are under the lens for their conduct during anti-govern

social media platforms and by answer to that is the only solution is that social media companies don't do bans of all speech they don't allow all speech they have to be arbiters through fact checking that's that's the only solution while picking up on that just isn't a facebook suspended 3 accounts linked to russian interference that we're involved in and trying to influence by it as an african countries so i mean that is definitely an ongoing trend that we say sorry i had picked these to jump in the. i think there is something slightly patronize ing about about this approach that big brother knows best and people as clever as we think they are and although i accept that there are some studies i sometimes doubt the conclusions and the weight of studies are being conducted and who's been paying for those studies and for that research into thinking in democracy at least we have to give people the credit they deserve we cannot possibly place an organisation such as facebook or any other corporate body to make decisions for the people i trust the people and i think that we all have a lot o

facebook has unveiled a new logo to distinguish the corporate parent from its apps including its social media platform a new branding will be stamped on offering secluding what's up messenger and instagram the move comes with facebook under scrutiny from regulators over how it policy contains. one of her 3 parachutes failed to open during a crucial test of boeing's c s t 100 star line or even so boeing to clear to the test a success this is tim is designed to propel the crew to safety in an emergency the star will ferry astronauts to and from the international space station. program. cabin crew union u f o has called for a 2 day strike at lufthansa starting this thursday the union said all flights starting in germany will be affected the airline has condemned to the walkouts and is considering legal action to prevent it. apple has committed 2 and a half $1000000000.00 to tackle california's housing crisis the take john says it wants to help community members like teachers and firefighters to access of fordable are committed ation but critics say the problem of skyrocketing rents is one the company its

as more breathless by the minorities and now there was a lot of talk about the impact of social the media platforms social media and traditional media we just heard about in your report that how they have that in the campaign tell us more about that. welcome back our social media is being watched very closely and even after the easter sunday blast the group was actually shut down for close to 10 days because there were concerns that he had speech and provocation to weiland world being spread on social media the media itself over here is very partisan it's clearly picking sides but what's also interesting to notice any past efforts to control of regulate private media have received a very strong pushback and this is for the reason that the government also has a history of crushing dissent of the presidential candidate good but says brother my him the larger parks are has been accused of crushing the center very strongly during the storm and journalists have also faced lash back and have disappeared so this is why than we do is very protective orbits are all but however critics have pointed out that

the social media platform tiktok, which is chinese—owned, has apologised to an american teenager whoent of muslims. what are the stories making headlines in the media around the world ? the times reports on a new yougov poll that shows boris johnson is on course to secure a 68—seat majority at next month's election. guardian the guardian leads on the release of uncensored documents which, according tojeremy corbyn, prove that the nhs is on the table in trade talks with the us, despite denials from the conservatives. the new president of the european central bank, christine lagarde, is pushing for climate change to be part of a strategic review of the bank's purpose, the ft reports. the paper says ms lagarde believes global warming should be a "mission critical" priority. president trump has signed democracy legislation backing protesters in hong kong despite angry objections from china is on the front page of the new york times. we have of course mentioned this story. variety are reporting that star wars actorjohn boyega has admitted that he was the one that left a top secret script

to speak to the american people and they're going to be not commenting their trip on their social media platforms as well so we can all follow in their in their journey fredricka thank you so much. now 2 big cookie monster and the rest of the sesame street to cast who have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the show that made international stars sesame street was a revolution in children's t.v. when it debuted in 1969 today there are 10 different regional productions of a famous neighborhood children and more than 150 countries. big bird's been a big star for 50 years now and to mark sesame street's 50th anniversary new york decided to light up the empire state building in green and yellow to pay tribute to one of the world's most successful shows. i think the secret is we started with these universal values that every kid deserves respect opportunity kindness all with a little bit of fun and combine those universal values the fact that you have to constantly innovate in change one with the culture and with the kids need to believe the view sesame street represented a revolutionary developm

for example in social media platforms like you tube and facebook they harvest anti-vaccination content they have been told to pressure to try and get rid of it in germany 500 people roughly have been 500 measles cases this year and i guess for the health ministry that's 500 cases too many well the health ministry calling this bill quote child protection yet not everyone in germany is supporting i mean why is. this bill had months of debate and one of the main criticisms is parents should not be told or forced to vaccinate their kids they you know people arguing they should be allowed to choose and the greens were one of the fiercest critics of the bill they support vaccination but they kind of they said yes we shouldn't force parents to vaccinate they should be educated a lot of health professionals said no this is kind of the right way to go the greens pointed out though that there is quite a big vaccination gap among adults and apparently in the cases that have been. same in germany there were more cases of measles in 20 to 24 year olds than in 5 to 9 year old so they're saying more