he was big on the facebook team back in the day. is a moment for him to come out and speak within facebook, they're probably worried they are using it opportunistically. emily: do you think within facebook at the moment they are questioning this issue? oh, no, what did we create? selina: absolutely. this is essential to mark zuckerberg's evolution. over the course of the year, he change the company's mission statement. instead of connecting the world -- connecting the world is not necessarily get you to be in good for the world. in he wants to create bonds the community, do something good for the world. he has done a lot oof stuff on the side. this company is thinking about what kind of role they can have in the world long-term. that said, these are all very difficult decisions. do you take down the fake news page? do you let it up and derank it? do you flag it as disputed? these are very hard questions they would have to consider. not just take news, but harassment. fake accounts. these are all things -- maybe even having bigger im

the u.s. election. that doesn't look very true. because facebook is a global company and it was ground zero for this putin/duterte playbook long before the election. there was a whole scandal in that country, the philippines, over fake news and bots and the election which was, wait for it, held in may 2016, long before ours. and a lot of this goes back to 2015 when facebook first partnered with the filipino government over a project facebook had called internet.org. zuckerberg's plan to connect everyone in the world and that includes poor countries so they can be online. >> our goal with internet.org is to help everyone connect. internet.org is a partnership between governments, mobile operators, local entrepreneurs and companies like facebook. everyone is welcome to join. we'll work anyone who wants to join us. >> he's not kidding. they will work anyone. and i'll explain. after their initial launch, the 2016 philippine election was around the corner and there were all kinds of candidates who wanted help use go the platform and facebook did what it

so since last weekend the facebook and instagram accounts of the head of russia's chechnya region ram there of have been unavailable that's smaller than just regular offline status isn't the pages were blocked it was big news in russia and chechnya since mr could tear off is a really big fan of social media it's a bit like donald trump and twitter on a smaller scale but the total of four million subscribers that's something it's more than china's population could arabs instagram became one of the main if not the number one new source in the region the reasons for taking the chechen president offline were first unclear but it's easy to start drawing conclusions given the bad followed us sanctions so quickly and there you have it a few days later facebook admits it if you read the network's terms of use you'll find it rather difficult to interpret the rules on banning people but the question is why have the pages of russian companies for instance mostly hardware producers which are also under sanctions not all so been blocked so after all facebook seems to be quite vulnerable to pressur

the trump campaign's digital director also says that facebook helped them to win the race so facebook now lets you get to places we took opportunities and i think the other side did their stuff a bit inside our office what we were doing inside the meeting teachers so use a platform. germany's rising anti immigration party the a f d actually had meetings with the facebook team which was happy to offer them electoral advice doesn't this all sound a lot like election meddling you know that things supposedly done by evil russians who purchased ads and american lines i don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy that's not what we stand for so facebook is just completely square and bipartisan and that's why it has a special team that helps politicians to win elections that makes sense right i think social media the people that run it are very biased according to their own political beliefs and i think that that's very very dangerous and it's a shame and that's why i dedicated for a long time that concern because usually conservatives in this country are the victims of it i th

the. facebook blocks the head of russia's chechen republic often here piers on the latest list of u.s. sanctions. also this hour he's identify a large network of women spreading islamic states the online but officials warning that the wives of. fighters are now more effective at spreading the group's message of hate. thousands of documents relating to controversial episodes in british history have gone missing the country's national archives claims that civil servants have simply misplaced them. from moscow you're watching them live with me. today thanks so much for joining us on the program we start with breaking news coming from the russian northern city of st petersburg where an explosion has rocked a supermarket in the north of the city emergency services say four people have sought medical attention and hospital the surrounding area has been put on lockdown and the building was immediately evacuated russia's investigative committee says it's not currently treating the incident as terror related we'll update you on this a developing story throughout the program as more news comes i

adult version well that's the thing that kids as young as six don't use facebook perhaps on that border age of you know ten eleven or twelve the sign of age for adult facebook sort of speak is thirteen years old so it is a little odd now if you see the pictures that we're showing there those are actors i mean we don't know if kids are actually going to enjoy this six years old i mean why can't they just go out and play football that's what i don't understand but anyway it's a problem market for facebook these thirteen year olds getting them encouraged to use this service rather than for example snapchat so basically facebook is trying to sort of used to it. so that when they reach that thirteen year old age that they recognize facebook and they say oh yeah i know that one of us and for facebook well i mean they get to harvest this audience that they can then report to thirteen years old it sounds really sinister but that's what facebook wants in the end they want data they want people signing up to their platform and contributing information. now kids date or six to twelve ye

what exactly does the facebook politics team and do? h: just like facebook does with celebrities or sports stars, this team trains politicians on how to best use the platform, teaching them about live video how to build a base of , followers all of those tactics leaders andwhen the up running for office and get elected, facebook continues to have a close relationship with them and continues to help them. sometimes they turn it into a campaign advertising relationship. emily: this is no matter what their politics. you talk about being associated with some political leaders associated with extrajudicial murders. sarah: absolutely. dutere was one of them. they have worked closely with modi, and with the far right party in germany the scottish , national party. this is something that facebook just does, broad-based across all kinds of political parties. they do draw the line at very strong extremists. they do not work with the far right for example. this is something that is looking very concerning today because we are seeing facebook's infl

the content. somebody wants to go to facebook to join pizza gate they can. hat is under the first amendment protections with information sharing. but if you are serving it up that is a proactive action and this is where it can get into another area where the platforms are making design decisions. >> so on twitter the decision that some follow just as an example to make this concrete. then to have eight profile pictures by default so you could opt out for a while. to say i don't want people in my feed. that was possible for a while. if you can opt out of the eggs why can't you opt out of others? because they have sophisticated machine learning mechanisms in place to automatically recognize so why don't they give you the opportunity to take a box? probably because they would cut down the active user base significantly. >> that notion versus opt in or opt out. outside of the digital world of organ donation. if you decide not to put dissipate or making them check the box. i was scrolling and there was something that said turn off low-quality accounts so they have

under the agreement, facebook users will be able to upload songs of the universal label and share usinggh facebook instagram, and the art technology. joining us from l.a., lucas shaw. lucas: four , they have great ambitions in video. in recent years, any video that is included a song, say you are at your wedding and you dance to that video gets taken down because you do not have the right to use that song and facebook does not have the right to host videos using that song. it has been a source of frustration for users and facebook. this solves that problem for them and in the long, give them the potential to -- improves their relationship with the music business so that it could get the right to professional video in the future. for the music business, it has been irritating for them to have videos violating copyright on facebook. it helps them establish facebook as a competitor to you to. -- two youtube. emily: do you expect we will see a deal this with other record labels? lucas: yes. facebook has been talking with sony and warner for several months. i do not know if they will announc

all the points to make you the first relates to the program from facebook that you foregrounded in your introduction purports to i don't want people feeling suicidal and he wants a great move in the right direction but balancing that priorities we have to be aware of what happened to microsoft with terry system which was fielded in the u.k. and had to be taken down because it turned into a racist homophobic ranting child which is causing reputational damage to microsoft so the engineers took the program down and tried to rip it loose on the internet again and exactly the same thing happened so my concern with the facebook algorithms is that because in my opinion these computers don't understand the meaning of the bits they so adroitly manipulate that it will be very difficult for them to avoid being gamed in the same way that the microsoft tell you system is going and one can imagine especially with the with the specter of mental health the people who might. and then we subpoena school or college which is trying getting facebook's detection of mental also this i will risk in such a way

the i.d.f. sees itself as in a precarious position. facebook claims it helps the scottish national party when a landslide victory in scotland and the u.k. general election in twenty fifteen the social media giant created a special unit to help politicians connect with a wider audience facebook is currently under pressure of allegations it helped russia to meddle in the us election can have more pain has the details when it all started facebook was fun and innocent was a place to share your holiday snaps and keep up with friends but then it got political facebook is even boasting about the fact that it helped the scottish national party to win sweeping victories in the u.k. general elections of two thousand and fifteen campaign is across the political spectrum now recognize the using facebook and facebook parents in particular made it to montreal difference to the final election result at this point little did we know but six team that helps you in victories for its clients right now the director of the team is katie harben a former republican p

finally, we had chamath on this morning, talked a lot about the facebook model, the degree to which heth is now vulnerable to massaging because of the profit motive in that company take a listen. >> the reality is now, i can take money and use that through all these social media systems that exist to hundreds of millions of people and convince all of joe's friends and everybody like him of my opinion in very subtle and small ways, and he can do the same to me we can do that about vaccines. we can do that about gay rights, about bathroom laws, about roy moore. and so i think the question we have to ask ourselves is, how do we live in a world where this is now possible >> facebook did release a statement responding to chamath, they say in part chamath has not been at facebook for over six years, when he was at facebook we were focused on building new social media experiences and growing facebook around the world. facebook was a different company back then and as we've grown we've realized how our responsibilities have grown, too. we take our role very seriously and are working hard to im

that was before the search engine left the country. facebooknd twitter were blocked by the government, and a thriving chinese tech scene sprang up in the void. running a billion-dollar fund to invest in the next generation. joining me today on "bloomberg studio 1.0," sinovation ventures ceo kai-fu lee. you came to the u.s. in 1973. you were 12 years old and moved to tennessee. tell me about what must have been culture shock in that moment. kai-fu: i did not speak a word of english, but the people were extremely friendly, that southern hospitality. i made a lot of friends. in class i was totally lost. they were teaching in front and i was reading my chinese books. emily: somehow you caught up because you went to columbia, phd at carnegie mellon. you were working on speech recognition, of all things, which now four decades later is the forefront of new technology. kai-fu: also artificial intelligence, machine learning. it was an exciting age when there is so much unknown and so much naÏve optimism, but it is gratifying to see finally all of that

so the facebook fight against fake news has resulted in a boomerang effect we hear the sites big trying to red flag articles that contain false information but forbidding fruit takes the sweetest says jacqueline explains . facebook sees itself on the frontlines of the fight against fake news there's a huge amount of misinformation out there on the internet it's a problem we've been working hard on at facebook and we're committed to fighting it after all people want to see accurate information and so did we. that battle heated up in december two thousand and sixteen when facebook teamed up with fact checkers to flag stories it determined to contain so-called disputed content but when you're on the social media titans forced to admit not only is the method ineffective it may actually inspire the opposite of the desired reaction academic research on correcting misinformation has shown that putting a strong image like a red flag next to an article may actually entrenched deeply held beliefs the opposite of fact to what we intended apparently a fake news label actually makes people more inte

we posted this on the facebook and the twitter pages so you can share this. and help find someone who may know her. that is the latest. back to you. michelle: thank you. also developing is a change in the weather. it is about to get cold. alison: it could feel like single digi. weather alert day today. chief meteorologist bill kelly with the forecast. number one priority i guess is to make sure the kids are bundled up in the morning. bill: yeah, or if you can take them to school and sit in the car with them in the heat. it will be very cool. we are talking about the single digits. the radar doesn't look impressive but we are watching this to the west and it is 68 nearby. there are problems. we have a lot of snow coming down on the freeway. a little going to be slow and go in that area. for us, you look outside. okay. 45 in d.c. winchester 34. this is how it breaks down. the temperatures overall is weather story. we drop rapidly. 7:00 we are at 37. freezing by 8:00 to 9:00. down to the mid-20's. when you account for the feels like temperatures with the winds,

the halftime report." i'm scott wapner facebook face-off. t stock surging 50% this year and one of tech's top performers, how much is really left in that rally one closely followed media firm openly asking the question today is it time to get out? with us for the hour is joe terranova, stephanie link, jon and pete najarian and courtney gibson is here, the president of loop capital and the head of u.s. equities strategy joins us as well from jpmorgan. somebody's p

in the u.k. facebook and twitter could face sanctions if they don't help a parliamentary investigation into alleged russian interference in the brig said but the head of the so-called fake news inquiry m.p. damian collins has now given the social media giants almost three weeks to hand over all the information his request it. they need to be able to tell us what they can do about it and what we need to be able to do is say to the companies we recognize that you are best placed to meet with so what is going on your insights but if you fail to police the search effectively and deal with highly problematic contant then it has to be some sort of sanction against you damian collins the chair of the department of culture media and sports select committee in the u.k. parliament he's leading this investigation into so-called alleged russian interference in the e.u. referendum and he's really slammed these tech giants the social media giant saying that they aren't handing over enough information and that the infor

cineworld plans to sell shares and take on more debt to fund the deal. facebookp which is specifically aimed at children. the new service is starting in the united states and parents will have control over who their children message and what they see. facebook says the data it gathers won‘t be used by the main facebook app, which those under 13 are not supposed to use. we are asking you about this in terms of our twitter question, how young is too young for social media? the online retail giant amazon has finally launched in australia after weeks of speculation about exactly when it would do so. australia‘s online shopping market is already worth more than us $15 billion and is expected to grow by 50% in the next five years. canada‘s prime ministerjustin trudeau is in beijing. he‘s due to meet president xi jinping in the next few hours and trade is expected to be top of the agenda. leisha santorelli is in singapore. trade is actually turning out of the... we are not sure where she is, better late than never! so what can we expect from these talks?” better late th

. >> how the government uses facebook to spread disinformation. with time running out who will speak for these forgotten people? this special edition of "nightline," "the unwanted," will be right back. >>> this is a special edition of "nightline," "the unwanted." >> as dawn breaks we see them. ghostly figures in the distance, on the side of the road. fleeing brutal repression in myanmar. seeking safety and shelter on the shores of neighboring bangladesh. it's a heartbreaking scene. barefoot, starving, and shell shocked. a group of 50 rohingya walking slowly. they have just arrived. exhaustion and fear etched on their faces. you came across the water? >> translator: we started at 2:00 in the morning and we just arrived. >> reporter: they carry with them all that they have left. in just a few bags. these are the faces of the unwanted. the rohingya are considered one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. united nations says these muslims are victims of textbook ethnic cleansing. perpetrated by the buddhist myanmar military. cell phone video

social network and the merging of this data into uses facebook accounts were not convinced the users have given their effect of consent to facebook's data tracking and merging of data into their facebook account well it also comes facebook's been accused of being overly intrusive after introducing new facial recognition software that can recognize a person's face even if they haven't been tagged in a picture it's worth noting this investigation is ongoing here in germany by the competition watchdog they say they are looking into how data is obtained but they're more looking into the fact that facebook seems to sit by and what should observe our lives and interests and then gets information that way for facebook's part they say that the federal cartel office have misrepresented them by saying that they dominate the social media remit here in germany as far as facebook a concerned there are alternatives that are met if there wasn't alternatives only then would they be dominating it's put across what we are seeing and what we have seen already is sharing data with a t

then took a few people who have died in the facebook page states that on their birth the blue bag -- of a birthday people write to them. now it is metaphorical. but there were these ways to create this narrative about ourselves. but then we can construct with social media how we remember after week on. >> to sum up what is the art of death? as somebody in their rates but in the end the tuesday that as the part of life. the living the best life that we can. >> host: edwidge danticat bader their cultural differences with the mysticism of death. >> guest: absolutely. because we lived in a culture. to outsource. ended may o lifetime. but when i went to bed we went to having all of that. so every culture has its own visualizing. and then what we believe happened. >> one of my favorite parts is your mother under her breath during - - room during. >> in saying until death do us part. i said that was beautiful shoes and i wish is telling him that. [laughter] so that was that way. >> host: how often?. >> as often as they will have me. it is about the cycle of life and de

the fainthearted. stories full of us on facebook and twitter here in. moscow is kevin i'm saying goodbye for tonight but tomorrow then all kids is here for the next six hours late something thousand when they happen a good evening. about your sudden passing. i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last turn. to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i cut so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each bet. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like that it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with the death of this one to. speak to now because there are no other takers. the same that mainstream media has met its maker. here's what people have been saying about rejected in that it was your decision to pull on awesome well the only show i go out

summer is a fine for facebook but what we're hearing from the main competition watchdog here in germany is they're going to tell facebook they need to change the way they go about doing things when it comes to their users personal data and social media giants are also in the spotlight in the u.k. where lawmakers have slammed their failure to crack down on hate speech one m.p. was particularly tough on a twitter official for not deleting an anti semitic tweet that wheat is still up on your platform why is it i don't know the answers that question. what is it that we have to do to get you to take it down we are constantly looking at these policies looking at these processes i will take that away and i will come back to you with a definitive answer as to why it is still there social media giants have been facing growing pressure to combat hateful and abusive behavior online in response to it or has recently introduced new policies that target accounts calling for violence but the platform has been accused of being selective over who decides to purg

look at the social network join facebook has finished its investigation into alleged russian meddling during the breaks it votes artie's laura smith told me the details earlier. but did it russia meddled in the break that referendum is something that's really getting traction here over the last month in particular there's been headlines comments by politicians a speech by the reason may actually last month accusing russia of undermining british democracy the us media in particular has gone to town with headlines like signs of russian meddling in bret's that referendum they've talked about rising alarm they've mentioned new evidence even what they're talking about is thoughts and trolls and in particular paid for advertising on social media and now the evidence is in so findings from an investigation that was requested by two different bodies the electoral commission and a government select committee they asked facebook to look into activities by russian accounts and therefore ascertain the level of meddling in the referendum now you must be dying to know what they come up with so i'll

must be treated equally on the internet highway small websites haven't had to compete with the likes of facebook you tube or netflix until now everyone's been treated the same basically but the net neutrality overhaul means providers could begin charging websites and online services for their data volumes which could lead to preferential treatment meaning a fast lane and slow lane for internet traffic well new startups without the resources of big companies would feel the pain and be knocked out of the race altogether that it brings olt in fewer choices for consumers and the major corporations would simply pass on the added costs to customers in other words streaming movies or music could be set to get more expensive the move is part of u.s. president donald trump's push to undo barack obama's work and scale back regulation in several economic sectors. net neutrality rules banned internet providers from giving preferential treatment to certain websites after the f.c.c. vote that seems to be a thing of the past. the ending of net neutrality has been met with fury by millions of internet users bot

he was big on the facebook growth team back in the day. or him to come out and speak, and within facebook they are probably worried he is using it a little opportunistically. emily: now for something out of this world. astronauts on the space station normally have to wait for movies to come out in theaters on earth. but they are getting one notable exception. disney has arranged a special "star wars: the last jedi" at the same time it appears in theaters. that does it for this version of the best of "bloomberg technology." you can tune in each day. 5:00 p.m. in new york, 2:00 p.m. in san francisco. and remember, all episodes of "bloomberg technology" are livestreaming on twitter. check us out. that is all for now. this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlett: coming up on "bloomberg best," the stories that shaped the week in business around the world. bitcoin makes its debut on wall street. an electoral upset could make a big impact in washington. >> this is a thin republican majority in the senate. scarlett: congress plows ahead on tax overhaul. two medi

the video is still posted on the facebook page has over 11 shares and comments both for and against itess sites promote smoking weed. >> i want to say, all of the customers 2:00, you po, i will say majority of the customers do. but i do believe that new jersey is going to be marijuana use. he says ail is trying to do is reach the targeted audience and add business is up. allison gormly reporting for "chasing news." >> thank, allison. ok. bring back the a plus panel to break down. i will start with you. ok. the video is kind of physician? i president i don't think is racists. why not have a conversation between medical marijuana and recreational use? >> is it together? >> well, it is something that we do need to as a state. we need look at the regulations that allow for suspension of that and we need to really weigh in on recreational use and not something that can help in anyway rather it can cause. as murs, we see problem with legal recreational mr shore we yes shall i do. i is a long term detriment to society when we continue in that matter. >> you have been at the to minorityying th

he was big on the facebook growth team back in the day. im to come out and speak, within facebook they are probably worried he is using it a little opportunistically. emily: now for something out of this world. astronauts on the space station normally have to wait for movies and the enters on earth. but they are getting one notable exception. disney has arranged a special screening of "star wars: the last jedi" at the same time it premieres in theaters. that does it for this version of the best of "bloomberg technology." you can tune in each day. 5:00 p.m. in new york, 2:00 p.m. in san francisco. and remember, all episodes of "bloomberg technology" are livestreaming on twitter. check us out. @technology. that is all for now. this is bloomberg. ♪ announcer: "brilliant ideas," powered by hyundai motor. ♪ narrator: from enchanting miniature sculptures to large-scale models, takahiro iwasaki is a masterful japanese artist whose defining style is subverting traditional forms of architecture.

it may be the case that congress should not regulate facebook in the end. but i think it is a dangerous way to think because this is a new world we are in. if facebook has a monopoly, in the sense that people got to use it if they want to communicate in certain ways and other forums and platforms kind of fall away, then mark zuckerberg decides. with all the problems of the political process, i would rather have the political process based on the democratic principles, decide what we can say on facebook, not mark zuckerberg. on the other hand what the rules , should be, i think it is too soon to impose rules. it is too hard to know how this is going to work out. we can observe what is going on in europe where there has been some effort to regulate internet platforms. that might be a disaster, it might work. you do not know until you see what happens. the thing that you are mentioning, it is a matter of principle. we should discuss the possibility that cherished incitement that in the old days, we would feel it is protected by the first amendment, it is not a