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>> if donald trump implodes, it will be because of twitter. >> how will history remember the age of twitter and trump? >>> these are the collected tweets of donald j. trump, volume 1. we had them printed and bound as a physical reminder that his digital words are the sign of our times. and will be studied for centuries. these are his tweets since he declared his run for the 45th president of the united states. his ever-expanding new testament, if you will. but the genesis of this story begins tens of thousands of tweets ago. >> and here to present the top ten list of the celebri"celebri apprentice" donald trump. >> way back in 2009 when his tweet was a plug to make him watch david letterman. >> sell north dakota north dakota to the chinese. >> what's remarkable is on that day, only four people react to it. only four people react to what's arguably the most important influential social media account ever. >> number two, we're screwed. >> fitting because that tweet marked a real low point. he was coming out of bankruptcy again. "the apprentice" was in a deep ratings slump. and his father rai
>> if donald trump implodes, it will be because of twitter. >> how will history remember the age of twitter and trump? >>> these are the collected tweets of donald j. trump, volume 1. we had them printed and bound as a physical reminder that his digital words are the sign of our times. and will be studied for centuries. these are his tweets since he declared his run for the 45th president of the united states. his ever-expanding new testament, if you will. but the genesis...
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i'm on twitter but i think i can hear a lot of people that are not on twitter out there saying what's the big deal right this is just twitter just eleven minutes well if you thing. about it this is really the most important to most powerful social media account in the world the president has forty million followers a lot of experts say that this even helps him get elected and really every time the trump tweets this becomes news so this is a big deal ok but let's go back to the beginning how could a company that's massive like twitter a company that's been used regularly by the president of the united states have such lax security standards at this customer service employee can just deactivate the president account i mean this is the second big question here a lot of people are asking that this is a low level employee customer service how could he have x. into the access to the account of the president of the united states and well we reached out to twitter for comment on this they would not comment further but we are learning a little bit about what could have happened inside of twitt
i'm on twitter but i think i can hear a lot of people that are not on twitter out there saying what's the big deal right this is just twitter just eleven minutes well if you thing. about it this is really the most important to most powerful social media account in the world the president has forty million followers a lot of experts say that this even helps him get elected and really every time the trump tweets this becomes news so this is a big deal ok but let's go back to the beginning how...
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and-- >> twitter. >> hey, twitter, give amy a blue check mark.avid: hold on. >> hold on, first of all, the president has not been tweeted profanities in the way that roger stone did and i don't think that anyone supports that going on twitter, to be doing that. let me finish, jehmu. secondly-- >> and i wasn't-- >> and go ahead, amy. >> and president trump has been so reliant on twitter that it makes it easy for twitter-- i think that twitter social media more broadly does have a problem when it comes to democratic eggs expression the way that they want to guide viewpoints. google this their algorithms might push down conservatives. >> are there no conservative billionaires? because maybe they should band together and create their own platforms because if you find-- >> hold on. >> people either-- >> a great point. >> hold on. >> hold on, whoa, whoa, whoa, one second. jehmu, what's wrong with-- in fact, facebook has talked about this as a possibility. they have algorithms, as you know, that could spot whether somebody's a conservative or a liberal,
and-- >> twitter. >> hey, twitter, give amy a blue check mark.avid: hold on. >> hold on, first of all, the president has not been tweeted profanities in the way that roger stone did and i don't think that anyone supports that going on twitter, to be doing that. let me finish, jehmu. secondly-- >> and i wasn't-- >> and go ahead, amy. >> and president trump has been so reliant on twitter that it makes it easy for twitter-- i think that twitter social media more...
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but in contrast to facebook twitter has never found firm financial footing. the result since its i.p.o. in late two thousand and thirteen twitter shares have fallen from forty six us dollars at the debut to around twenty dollars now the problem the number of people who logged on to twitter was flat for years in the u.s. so far the company has dealt with that problem by ringing more revenue out of the same number of people by selling better targeted ads but since this summer the number of people logging on has decreased in the u.s. and other markets twitter hopes that expanding its character count will attract more users to the service but twitter's new strategy can be explained in less than the original one hundred forty characters more words more users more money. and it's time for us to. wraps up another business update but speaking of twitter you can check out business on that too you can also catch me on twitter at winter because i'll be taking full advantage of that new card to limit i'll be back with more tomorrow same time same place for me on the busi
but in contrast to facebook twitter has never found firm financial footing. the result since its i.p.o. in late two thousand and thirteen twitter shares have fallen from forty six us dollars at the debut to around twenty dollars now the problem the number of people who logged on to twitter was flat for years in the u.s. so far the company has dealt with that problem by ringing more revenue out of the same number of people by selling better targeted ads but since this summer the number of people...
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>> it applies to twitter as well. >> applies to twitter. mr. walker? >> yes, sir. >> great. the prevalence of social media use among military members who spend so much time outside the country deployed away from friends away from family seems a likely target for foreign intelligence agencies who want to collect details on u.s. force movements, deployments, and other sensitive insights. do you monitor your platforms for indications that your users in the u.s. military are targeted any way? mr. stretch? ? >> senator, yes, and i would say that that -- that sort of -- that sort of security work really falls into the traditional cyber security work that we have long been focused on. we have had a threat intelligence team for years now that has been focused on tracking foreign actors. it's exactly that sort of tletd threat that we believe has historically been an area for focus for our adversaries and likely a area of focus for us on the defensive side. >> mr. edget. >> we have focused on that, and we are also focused on the other side and educating military how to use twitter and
>> it applies to twitter as well. >> applies to twitter. mr. walker? >> yes, sir. >> great. the prevalence of social media use among military members who spend so much time outside the country deployed away from friends away from family seems a likely target for foreign intelligence agencies who want to collect details on u.s. force movements, deployments, and other sensitive insights. do you monitor your platforms for indications that your users in the u.s. military are...
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. >>> president trump's twitter page suddenly going dark. how does twitter explain this tonight? that can take you out of the game for weeks, even if you're healthy. pneumococcal pneumonia is a potentially serious bacterial lung disease that in severe cases can lead to hospitalization. it may hit quickly, without warning, causing you to miss out on the things you enjoy most. prevnar 13® is not a treatment for pneumococcal pneumonia... it's a vaccine you can get to help protect against it. prevnar 13® is approved for adults to help prevent infections from 13 strains of the bacteria that cause pneumococcal pneumonia. you should not receive prevnar 13® if you have had a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine or its ingredients. if you have a weakened immune system, you may have a lower response to the vaccine. the most common side effects were pain, redness and swelling at the injection site, limited arm movement, fatigue, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, less appetite, vomiting, fever, chills, and rash. help protect yourself against pneumococcal pneumonia. ask your doctor or pha
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that are suspended by twitter? is there an indefinite status? >> once we suspend an account they are typically terminantly banned from the platform and do work to link the accounts with new accounts that may pop up. the more we investigate and build the web of information around the signals we are seeing from these accounts the better we get at linking the accounts and stopping them before they go on the platform. >> my time is expired. i will ask you to submit in writing for the record twitter's assessment of why independent assessments of the number of bots on twitter constantly are higher than the five percent that you have stated today. >> happy to provide that for the record and address it. >> i also want to demonstrate but we have had testimony before this committee from representative nato that fake and bot accounts on twitter are more in the 12% to 15%. vast number of research studies even if you assume ten percent you are talking 30 plus million potential accounts that can be misused and abused. this is an
that are suspended by twitter? is there an indefinite status? >> once we suspend an account they are typically terminantly banned from the platform and do work to link the accounts with new accounts that may pop up. the more we investigate and build the web of information around the signals we are seeing from these accounts the better we get at linking the accounts and stopping them before they go on the platform. >> my time is expired. i will ask you to submit in writing for the...
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earth following opinions twitter is accuse them specifically droning are wrong to wing views with new rules designed to extremism and hate speech. also ahead this hour russia. warns over the future of a chemical weapons investigation in syria. as washington's latest proposal. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known for who will based on reliable evidence came from. the house of cards. they remarkable story of survival we meet a three year old girl rescued from a plane crash in eastern russia that killed all of the six other people on. coming from moscow twenty four hours a day this is our to international my names you know neil welcome to the program twitter no longer just checks to see if you're a real person it's also not judge and jury views too it's all part of new guidelines being laid done by the social network it's resulted in a number of rubbish being stripped of their official status but not all of them. explains up until this week verification in the straits by eight. on twitter was a symbol that they use as account is genuine if you take the accou
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do you think it is too little too late for twitter, or can twitter get this problem under control?> it is a problem they should address. they should be more of -- be more aggressive in addressing it. i do not think it is too little too late. it is one of the most vital and important platforms in the world. it is literally the way to get information or your opinion about something out in a moment. it will be that way for years to come. get more aggressive now. emily: is it a matter of being more -- >> the word that is being used is transparent, what would also be helpful is for these organizations to provide contacts for why a certain decision was made. it is one thing to say, we made this decision because of this specific tweet. but then people might draw the wrong conclusions. it would be helpful, i get how hard this is, but it would be hopeful to say we made this decision about this content for these kinds of reasons. that might not solve all your problems or answer everybody's questions, but it will give people a better understanding of what is going on behind the scenes, and wh
do you think it is too little too late for twitter, or can twitter get this problem under control?> it is a problem they should address. they should be more of -- be more aggressive in addressing it. i do not think it is too little too late. it is one of the most vital and important platforms in the world. it is literally the way to get information or your opinion about something out in a moment. it will be that way for years to come. get more aggressive now. emily: is it a matter of being...
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do you think it is too little too late for twitter, or can twitter get this problem under control?> it is a problem they should address. jack knows they need to address it, and they should be more aggressive in addressing it. the same was true when i was ceo. i do not think it is too little, too late. it is one of the most vital and important platforms in the world. it is literally the way to get information or your opinion about something out in a moment. and it will be that way for years to come. great, start now. get more aggressive now. emily: is it a matter of being more -- >> also, let me add one thing to that. the word that is used is "transparent." i think what would also be helpful is for these organizations to provide context for why a certain decision was made. it is one thing to just say, we made this decision because of this specific tweet. but then people might draw the wrong conclusions from that. it would be helpful -- i get how hard this is, believe me. you could spend all day doing it. but it would be helpful to say, we made this decision about this content for th
do you think it is too little too late for twitter, or can twitter get this problem under control?> it is a problem they should address. jack knows they need to address it, and they should be more aggressive in addressing it. the same was true when i was ceo. i do not think it is too little, too late. it is one of the most vital and important platforms in the world. it is literally the way to get information or your opinion about something out in a moment. and it will be that way for years...
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the problem the number of people who logged on to twitter was flat for years in the u.s. so far the company has dealt with that problem by ringing more revenue out of the same number of people by selling better targeted ads but since the summer the number of people logging on has decreased in the u.s. and other markets twitter hopes that expanding its character count will attract more users to the service but twitter's new strategy can be explained in less than the original one hundred forty characters more words more users more money germany's economy is in very good shape according to the n o annual report of the so-called sages of the economy that's an advisory panel to the government but last felt an economist and member of the panel wants the german economy could be on the road to overheating. but what we currently see is that we are running above capacity in a term economy if you have counter-cyclical economic policies this would finally trigger stronger price increases as we currently see the forecast inflationary to be at about one point eight percent next year co
the problem the number of people who logged on to twitter was flat for years in the u.s. so far the company has dealt with that problem by ringing more revenue out of the same number of people by selling better targeted ads but since the summer the number of people logging on has decreased in the u.s. and other markets twitter hopes that expanding its character count will attract more users to the service but twitter's new strategy can be explained in less than the original one hundred forty...
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emily: what changes in twitter are necessary? what changes should twitter do?> jack has made a pretty broad and abrupt statement of where they need more transparency political asset purchases. we will at those great steps. i said when i was ceo, we will be a lot more aggressive. emily: the ads are one thing but some people say they are not the real problem, it is the number of fake accounts, the number of people pretending to be somebody else. >> twitter said yesterday in the hearings that they think 5% on the platform are involved -- emily: do you agree with that? some people think it is a lot more. >> two things i would say that this. i trust the folks within the company if they are giving a number publicly and particularly in front of center and -- senate and house hearings. i suspect they believe that is the correct number. the thing you have to remember is that sometimes there are researchers that come out and say, it was higher than that and here is our data. they are going off some of these raw api feeds, looking at the tweets coming through these progra
emily: what changes in twitter are necessary? what changes should twitter do?> jack has made a pretty broad and abrupt statement of where they need more transparency political asset purchases. we will at those great steps. i said when i was ceo, we will be a lot more aggressive. emily: the ads are one thing but some people say they are not the real problem, it is the number of fake accounts, the number of people pretending to be somebody else. >> twitter said yesterday in the hearings...
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global news headlines verifying opinions twitter is accused of specifically drowning out right wing views with new rules designed to tackle extremism and hate speech. russia and america lock horns over the future of a chemical weapons investigation in syria as moscow vetoes washington's latest proposal to the un. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who. evidence came from it falls apart like a house of cards. also for you this hour a remarkable story of survival we meet a three year old girl rescued from a plane crash that killed six people in eastern russia. hello to you this friday the seventeenth of november one pm here in moscow and this is your world update this hour first the heavy policing from twitter which no longer just checks to see if you're a real person it's now judge and jury on views as well it's all part of new guidelines being laid down by the social network added resulted in a number of radical voices being stripped of their official status but not all of them as party boy he explains. up until this week verification illustrated by a
global news headlines verifying opinions twitter is accused of specifically drowning out right wing views with new rules designed to tackle extremism and hate speech. russia and america lock horns over the future of a chemical weapons investigation in syria as moscow vetoes washington's latest proposal to the un. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who. evidence came from it falls apart like a house of cards. also for you this hour a remarkable story of...
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the posts were removed only after twitter's c.e.o. was directly notified by a twitter user. that's the facts as i understand them. why was this false content allowed to remain in place? mr. edgett: my understanding is once we had user reports of the content we began to remove it as a legal voter suppression. and the interesting thing about the text to vote tweets that we shared with your staff was, there was a small amount of tweets relative to the size of the platform, but impressions of tweets, calling out those things as fake, were eight times as large. we had 10 times the amount of retweets calling those things out. senator feinstein: impressions -- i don't quite understand? mr. edgett: thank you for your question and so we are all on the same page. impression is the metric to determine whether or not a tweet has been in view on our product. potentially seen by a user. but the interesting thing about the text to vote tweets where we saw the saw the complete counternarrative, the twitter community seizing on them to let everyone know that they were fake. twitter did actio
the posts were removed only after twitter's c.e.o. was directly notified by a twitter user. that's the facts as i understand them. why was this false content allowed to remain in place? mr. edgett: my understanding is once we had user reports of the content we began to remove it as a legal voter suppression. and the interesting thing about the text to vote tweets that we shared with your staff was, there was a small amount of tweets relative to the size of the platform, but impressions of...
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> i was trained to interact with bots and trolls on twitter. i look the tweets up and i would have thought that person was an american. so that means they were making a lot of effort to disguise her identity. >> reporter: and influencing the american conversation online and off. jo ling kent, nbc news, new york. >>> so news on the economy tonight. the new job report shows employers added a healthy 261,000 jobs last month, bouncing back from the slowdown in september amid those hurricanes hitting the southeast. the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1%, the lowest in nearly 17 years. but the labor department says that's in part because many people stopped looking, meaning they're no longer counted as unemployed. >>> still ahead tonight, caught on camera. a deadly hit and run. the victim's car bursting into flames. now the search is on for the driver who fled the scene. >>> also the new iphone is here, but some thieves skipped the line. wait till you hear what they got away with. >>> we're back now with a hunt for a hit and run driver after a hor
> i was trained to interact with bots and trolls on twitter. i look the tweets up and i would have thought that person was an american. so that means they were making a lot of effort to disguise her identity. >> reporter: and influencing the american conversation online and off. jo ling kent, nbc news, new york. >>> so news on the economy tonight. the new job report shows employers added a healthy 261,000 jobs last month, bouncing back from the slowdown in september amid those...
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we want to have that connected the of over twitter. we have been tackling that problem for years and the challenges if we get better now shows we are committed every single day. >> my time is right now so perhaps we could have? answers. >> numbers should be aware there is a series of votes starting about seven minutes ago, two votes with two members left so we will wrap up some real ask unanimous consent be all members allows seven days to submit questions without objection so ordered. >> we are a free and open society but the opponents have the opposite view. with the press and individual quality of expression that we celebrate the you were at the intersection of this problem which is why you are here today so to restate the chairman's comments it for every complex problem there is a clear and simple and wrong answers we need to be very careful how we deal with this. but the public needs to understand so you are more than just a publisher. with the income from data mining and anyone else including their own government. and with their
we want to have that connected the of over twitter. we have been tackling that problem for years and the challenges if we get better now shows we are committed every single day. >> my time is right now so perhaps we could have? answers. >> numbers should be aware there is a series of votes starting about seven minutes ago, two votes with two members left so we will wrap up some real ask unanimous consent be all members allows seven days to submit questions without objection so...
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also the head of our twitter product, the twitter product that we all use, has taken responsibility for safety abuse and information quality on the platform, so i feel like that's directly related to your question. >> okay, but i would like you each to appreciate and everyone to appreciate that this is a very specific issue. with its own pathology, requiring great amount of resources because we are talking about state-sponsored activity. this is not about an individual conducting this activity and then you need to review it. so as it relates to state-sponsored information operations, i'm requesting that you name whoever is responsible now, but as we go forward, that you designate in your operation someone at the executive level who is responsible specifically for those types of operations. understanding that as we know now, there are governments that are willing to put incredible amount of resources into manipulating the american public. and it is beyond what you might need to review in terms of activity on your sites that involves issues of posting inappropriate images and things of th
also the head of our twitter product, the twitter product that we all use, has taken responsibility for safety abuse and information quality on the platform, so i feel like that's directly related to your question. >> okay, but i would like you each to appreciate and everyone to appreciate that this is a very specific issue. with its own pathology, requiring great amount of resources because we are talking about state-sponsored activity. this is not about an individual conducting this...
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porter to come the twitter crack down on. i. welcome you watching r.t. international this friday evening which just turned ten o'clock in moscow and our top story turkey is pulling its troops out of a nato exercise after president says he was branded an enemy in the alliance's internal messaging network an always defense minister has already apologized for the gaffe which further worsened relations between ankara and nato with more his poor asli well this is a perfect example of how small things can blow out that add to deteriorating relations in a powerful military alliance that happened during a nato training exercise in norway where a poster was unveiled of enemy countries and the last thing you would expect is for the name of the turkish president eduard to be on their poster bearing in mind that turkey is a key player in nato now the turkish president everyone has responded by saying he's pulling out the forty turkish soldiers who were participating in this exercise lot of it. there used an enemy chart in norway in that chart that was my name and ad
porter to come the twitter crack down on. i. welcome you watching r.t. international this friday evening which just turned ten o'clock in moscow and our top story turkey is pulling its troops out of a nato exercise after president says he was branded an enemy in the alliance's internal messaging network an always defense minister has already apologized for the gaffe which further worsened relations between ankara and nato with more his poor asli well this is a perfect example of how small...
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>> so twitter, they recognize they're about 25, 22 the number of twitter accounts they found were linked with the internet research agency purchasing advertisements on the platform, and also twitter has had a very strong working relationship with russia today, rt through the campaign, selling them ad and now they've terminated their relationship in the wake of everything that's been going on. so, twitter had to kind of stand up there and say we kicked rt off our platform and also introducing ad transparency initiatives. you can see who is buying ads on twitter. they got some pretty tough lines of questioning as well do you wt to explain google. >> going came in knowing their platform is not as exposed to these issues as facebook and twitter. so, they essentially said that. they put some distance right away between themselves and facebook and twitter, and i think that continues throughout. i even think rt was absolutely -- the point for twitter, where they got hit again and again and again if think a lot of people came away from the hearings having heard 80% about facebook. what one that
>> so twitter, they recognize they're about 25, 22 the number of twitter accounts they found were linked with the internet research agency purchasing advertisements on the platform, and also twitter has had a very strong working relationship with russia today, rt through the campaign, selling them ad and now they've terminated their relationship in the wake of everything that's been going on. so, twitter had to kind of stand up there and say we kicked rt off our platform and also...
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says that twitter user is using these languages. they're able to fit more thought into a shorter tweet because of the nature of these languages so that's one interesting point about it for those of us who do get two hundred eighty characters how is this going to change the essence of tweeting well twitter itself says that it probably won't change very much because it referred to this trial again saying that actually most users in the trial they stuck within this the old character limit so only a small amount of tweets actually ended up being more than one hundred forty characters but. you know we have to wait and see now that this change is being rolled out to the whole platform. you know maybe it's going to have a different effect and we must note that one of the most powerful twitter users in the world if not the most powerful donald trump the u.s. president he's already been making use of this new one hundred new two hundred eighty character limit so you know thinking that his tweet can one of his tweets can have an impact on glo
says that twitter user is using these languages. they're able to fit more thought into a shorter tweet because of the nature of these languages so that's one interesting point about it for those of us who do get two hundred eighty characters how is this going to change the essence of tweeting well twitter itself says that it probably won't change very much because it referred to this trial again saying that actually most users in the trial they stuck within this the old character limit so only...
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we want to catch that all over twitter. having malicious actors on twitter is a bad experience for our users. the been tackling the problem for years. as we get better, the actors get better. it's a game of cat and mouse. we are committed to making sure were removing them from the platform. >> i have the same. >> member should be aware there's been a series of votes started seven minutes ago, to members are left in will move through those and rough up. at this time i ask consent that all members be allowed for seven days to submit questions to the witnesses. >> thank you for being here, strikes me that the united states is operating at a tremendous disadvantage. we are free and open society, we respect the privacy rights opponents, have the opposite view. they view information as a tool of warfare while denying their own citizens access to these freedoms, and individual thought expression that we celebrate. you're at the intersection of this problem which brings us to why you're here today. the chairman's comments he starte
we want to catch that all over twitter. having malicious actors on twitter is a bad experience for our users. the been tackling the problem for years. as we get better, the actors get better. it's a game of cat and mouse. we are committed to making sure were removing them from the platform. >> i have the same. >> member should be aware there's been a series of votes started seven minutes ago, to members are left in will move through those and rough up. at this time i ask consent...
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twitter com that's right the u.s. president was cut off from his favorite full of communication for a full eleven minutes on. social media as well has been investigating both welcome what happened that's what everyone is trying to figure out what happened twitter's explanation for why the president's account was deactivated as you can see here behind us has been evolving throughout the day and they first blamed this basically on human error take a look at their first official statement came from twitter when this went down and here's what they rowed they said that essentially this was a human error by a twitter employee ok well a little bit later twitter changed its story in another official statement and here it is and they write through our investigation we've learned that this was done by a twitter customer support employee who did this on the employees last day we are conducting a full internal review imagine that's a pretty good way to make your way out the door if you plan on quitting a company we still don't kn
twitter com that's right the u.s. president was cut off from his favorite full of communication for a full eleven minutes on. social media as well has been investigating both welcome what happened that's what everyone is trying to figure out what happened twitter's explanation for why the president's account was deactivated as you can see here behind us has been evolving throughout the day and they first blamed this basically on human error take a look at their first official statement came...
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this hour's headlines stories twitter removes it's a blue tick tick ation from a number of far right public figures in an effort to tackle extremism on hate speech but questions are raised about how the measure is being applied. to russia and america lock horns in the un security council over the extension of an investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria. rebellion in the ranks one hundred former allies of the french president launch a victrola cats not against a centrist movement saying it has no respect for democracy. live around the world from our teach queue in moscow welcome to the program you know neal with you this news hour we'll get to those headlines stories in just a moment but we want to begin with some breaking news for you a helicopter a plane believed to be a light being involved in a made collision in the english county of booking i'm sure which is around eighty kilometers northwest of london there is no word on casualties the moment all the emergency services are present at the scene including a drone over the fallen wreckage trying to see what is on the
this hour's headlines stories twitter removes it's a blue tick tick ation from a number of far right public figures in an effort to tackle extremism on hate speech but questions are raised about how the measure is being applied. to russia and america lock horns in the un security council over the extension of an investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria. rebellion in the ranks one hundred former allies of the french president launch a victrola cats not against a centrist movement...
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you can have anonymous accounts on twitter. you can have multiple accounts on twitter.real name required. so the more accounts there are on twitter, the better twitter looks on the market, so they're hiding a lot of automated activity on their site. >> woodruff: so timothy wu, in other words, it's easier on some of these platt fort pierces than on others, namely on twitter than on facebook, to get propaganda apps? >> i'm not sure i entirely agree with that. i think they both have similar incentives in the sense that they are both based on advertising models. in fact, facebook is more of an advertising market share, so they both have driven by the demand to have news, to have things shared, you know to, increase their share of attention. and they're both extremely automated. so i think there are a lot of similarity, some differences, but a lot of similarities. they both structurally are vulnerable to foreign propaganda in a way that broadcasting or newspapers are not. i think that's the maybe -- main issue here. >> drew: so thomas rid, after today's testimony and based o
you can have anonymous accounts on twitter. you can have multiple accounts on twitter.real name required. so the more accounts there are on twitter, the better twitter looks on the market, so they're hiding a lot of automated activity on their site. >> woodruff: so timothy wu, in other words, it's easier on some of these platt fort pierces than on others, namely on twitter than on facebook, to get propaganda apps? >> i'm not sure i entirely agree with that. i think they both have...
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verifying opinions new twitter rules see some conservative comments and views banned from the platform. the new f.b.i. report on the rise of hate crime in the united states suggests donald trump's election victory is to blame we look at whether that reason gives the full picture also this hour. a remarkable story of survival three year old girls rescued from a plane crash that killed six people in eastern russia. friday morning welcome to news from r.t. international first off for you this hour investigations into chemical weapons incidents in syria have stalled russia's vetoed a draft u.s. resolution at the u.n. on extending the work of a joint probe into a deadly chemical incident in syria earlier this year. russia has acted to obstruct these investigations russia is being blamed for everything as usual russia has helped to bury the truth allegedly trying to disparage our country russia has played games with the new aggression is not playing games you are trying to play games with us russia wants a mechanism but not an independent one would use to protest against this great and unpro
verifying opinions new twitter rules see some conservative comments and views banned from the platform. the new f.b.i. report on the rise of hate crime in the united states suggests donald trump's election victory is to blame we look at whether that reason gives the full picture also this hour. a remarkable story of survival three year old girls rescued from a plane crash that killed six people in eastern russia. friday morning welcome to news from r.t. international first off for you this hour...
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twitter. mr. edgett: the same goes for twitter. mr. salgado: we certainly support the goals of the legislation and would like to work through the nuances to make it work for all of us. senator klobuchar: just to clarify where you are trying to take pocket and make some changes, there won't be an outside enforcer of those policies, it would be you, is that true? not you personally but your company? ok. can someone answer? mr. stretch: that's correct. senator klobuchar: and also no one has said yet they will include issue ads, right, and that's what we heard from mr. stretch, 90% of the russian paid political ads and somehow the radio in deep river falls, minnesota, is able to find what an issue ad is under the guidelines because i hope your company can do that because the way our election works, campaigns are able to see each other's ads and also the journalists and the public are able to see the ads. so that has been a stumbling block so far. is this a problem you won't be able to figure out those rules like tv, broadcast and radio? an
twitter. mr. edgett: the same goes for twitter. mr. salgado: we certainly support the goals of the legislation and would like to work through the nuances to make it work for all of us. senator klobuchar: just to clarify where you are trying to take pocket and make some changes, there won't be an outside enforcer of those policies, it would be you, is that true? not you personally but your company? ok. can someone answer? mr. stretch: that's correct. senator klobuchar: and also no one has said...
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twitter removes a blue tick verification from a number of far right public figures in an effort to tackle extremism and hate speech but questions are raised over how the punitive measure is being applied. warns over the future of a chemical weapons investigation in syria scofield's washington's latest proposal to the. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who. evidence came from. the house of. the remarkable story of survival we meet a three year old girl rescued from a plane crash in eastern russia that killed the six other people on. from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to our international my names you know neal good to have your company our top story this hour a number of twitter accounts belonging to far right figures have been stripped of their verified status the network sais it is changing its guidelines over concerns the blue badge is seen as a sign of endorsement but critics say the measure is not being consistently applied to reports. up until this week verification illustrated by a blue tick on twitter was a symbol that
twitter removes a blue tick verification from a number of far right public figures in an effort to tackle extremism and hate speech but questions are raised over how the punitive measure is being applied. warns over the future of a chemical weapons investigation in syria scofield's washington's latest proposal to the. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who. evidence came from. the house of. the remarkable story of survival we meet a three year old girl...
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i'm on twitter a fan he's on twitter but i think a lot of people out there if they're not on twitter they're wondering what's the big deal i mean it's only eleven minutes it's just a twitter account but this really is one of the world's most important social media accounts he has forty million followers there are some say this even helps him get elected and really every time the president tweets it becomes news so this was a big deal and twitter's a huge company a major social media platform how is it that one. an employee was able to deactivate is account it's mystifying i mean this was a customer service employee how did he or she get access to the president of the united states twitter account we asked twitter that question they did not want to comment further but we are getting some clues from some former twitter employees take a look at this this is coming from buzz feed news that's a u.s. news source and they actually interviewed an anonymous former twitter worker and this person said that a lot of employees there have the ability to suspend a user's account and hundreds can de
i'm on twitter a fan he's on twitter but i think a lot of people out there if they're not on twitter they're wondering what's the big deal i mean it's only eleven minutes it's just a twitter account but this really is one of the world's most important social media accounts he has forty million followers there are some say this even helps him get elected and really every time the president tweets it becomes news so this was a big deal and twitter's a huge company a major social media platform...
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>> guest: so twitter, you know, they recognize that they're about 2572, was that the number of twitteraccounts that they found were linked with the internet research agency purchased advertisements on that platform. and also twitter had a very strong working relationship with russia today, rt, throughout the campaign selling them ads, and now they've terminated their relationship in the wake of everything that's been going on. so twitter had to kind of stand up there and say we've kicked rt off our platform, and we're also introducing ad transparency initiatives. you'll be able to see who's buying ads on twitter. and they got some pretty tough lines of questioning as well. and do you want to explain what happened with google? [laughter] >> guest: google was in a situation where they came in knowing their platform is not as exposed as facebook and twitter. so they essentially said that. they put some distance right away between themselves and facebook and twitter. and i think that continued throughout. you know, and i even think rt was absolutely a weak point for twitter, an area where
>> guest: so twitter, you know, they recognize that they're about 2572, was that the number of twitteraccounts that they found were linked with the internet research agency purchased advertisements on that platform. and also twitter had a very strong working relationship with russia today, rt, throughout the campaign selling them ads, and now they've terminated their relationship in the wake of everything that's been going on. so twitter had to kind of stand up there and say we've kicked...
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it's double the pleasure or perhaps pain for a twitter user as the company expands its character count plus. six songs this is just being locked inside this tin can behind me and they weren't becoming out for seventeen days on reach islands in moscow russia keep watching to find out what all this has to do with deep space travel. united states is calling on the un to act against iran over the firing of rockets from yemen and to saudi arabia on saturday a below. missiles launched towards riyadh's international airport from territory held by iran backed with the rebels in yemen a saudi led military alliance has been fighting since march two thousand and fifteen saudi arabia which is a u.s. ally accuses tehran of supplying the weapon used on saturday it was intercepted before reaching its target u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says she has encouraged the united nations and international partners to take necessary action to hold the iranian regime accountable for these violations saudi arabia is also taking aim at iran over its influence in lebanon riyadh is at odds with the lebane
it's double the pleasure or perhaps pain for a twitter user as the company expands its character count plus. six songs this is just being locked inside this tin can behind me and they weren't becoming out for seventeen days on reach islands in moscow russia keep watching to find out what all this has to do with deep space travel. united states is calling on the un to act against iran over the firing of rockets from yemen and to saudi arabia on saturday a below. missiles launched towards...
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the tweets that twitter hid, nearly 50% with the hashtag dnc leak and 25% of #podesta emails.tty obvious that there was some shenanigans on the part of twitter. >> it's interesting at the time twitter denied that there was any wrongdoing, they claimed that they did not hide any tweets but twitter followers they responded, created enough backlash and the same hash tags that appeared 20 minutes later. senator ted cruz said yesterday, whether they reflect the biases of some of the people who are in leadership and some of the people who work for them. heather: yeah, it was really remarkable. we can pull this up. this is what twitter's general counsel had to say, the first day of testimony, slightly 4% of tweets containing podesta emails came from accounts with potential links to russia with respect to #dnc leak, roughly 2% were from potentially russian linked accounts. and it's just interesting because you had the democrats accusing republicans of russia collusion and now we have, you know, what appears to be twitter taking it on themselves to support democrats in this. >> it's re
the tweets that twitter hid, nearly 50% with the hashtag dnc leak and 25% of #podesta emails.tty obvious that there was some shenanigans on the part of twitter. >> it's interesting at the time twitter denied that there was any wrongdoing, they claimed that they did not hide any tweets but twitter followers they responded, created enough backlash and the same hash tags that appeared 20 minutes later. senator ted cruz said yesterday, whether they reflect the biases of some of the people who...
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use of twitter.it to that of president i gift for had a gifta to that of president i gift for had a gift a little more personality. he rounded his style of presidency using the doors to a little more personality. he rounded his style of presidency you look at donald trump, we have someone who is keen to get his opinions out to develop his personality a little bit more. where is if you look at donald trump, we have someone who is keen to get his opinions uses a very divisive tactics such as harsh words and often really quite violent imagery. soa often really quite violent imagery. so a completely different style between the two of and certainly doesn't appear to be a filter does seems to be quite spontaneous. yes, andi seems to be quite spontaneous. yes, and i think that's part of his urgency to get his point across quickly. he wants to get, without fa ct quickly. he wants to get, without fact checking, his opinions out there and uses a lot of negative wording. i kind of mrtrump in there and uses a lo
use of twitter.it to that of president i gift for had a gifta to that of president i gift for had a gift a little more personality. he rounded his style of presidency using the doors to a little more personality. he rounded his style of presidency you look at donald trump, we have someone who is keen to get his opinions out to develop his personality a little bit more. where is if you look at donald trump, we have someone who is keen to get his opinions uses a very divisive tactics such as...
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saying twitter is a specifically drawn right wing views with new rules. and hate speech. over the future of a chemical weapons investigation in syria. as washington's latest proposal to the un. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and. evidence came from. a remarkable story of survival three year old girl rescued from a plane crash that killed six people in eastern. just after six am in atlanta eight pm in seoul two in the afternoon right here in moscow this friday november the seventeenth welcome to r.t. international our top story twitter no longer just checks to see if you're a real person it's also not judge and jury on views two it's all part of the new guidelines being laid down by the social network and it's resulted in a number of radical voices being stripped of their official status but not all of them. explain. up until this week verification illustrated by a blue tick on twitter was a symbol that a user's account is genuine so if you take the account hair don't all trump the blue tit care to notice that yes these really are the words of the u.s. pre
saying twitter is a specifically drawn right wing views with new rules. and hate speech. over the future of a chemical weapons investigation in syria. as washington's latest proposal to the un. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and. evidence came from. a remarkable story of survival three year old girl rescued from a plane crash that killed six people in eastern. just after six am in atlanta eight pm in seoul two in the afternoon right here in moscow this friday november the...
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the twitter employee who deactivated president trump's twitter has come forward.on, if you want to believe it, next. (avo) when you have type 2 diabetes, you manage your a1c, but you also have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. non-insulin victoza® lowers a1c, and now reduces cardiovascular risk. victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill. (avo) and for people with type 2 diabetes treating cardiovascular disease, victoza® is now approved to lower the...
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presentador: en este aÑo vaya que donald trump ha utilizado twitter. tweets diarios. Éste fue el primero que subiÓ cuando supo que era presidente. recordaremos el famoso " nocaut a la cadena cnn", quÉ me dicen de este otro?con esta palabra desconocida, los memes inundaron las redes sociales. ahora hay que recordar que tiene dos cuentas. esta que vemos aquÍ que es la oficial y la personal . si comparamos ambas. vemos que la cantidad de seguidores en la personal es prÁcticamente el doble. antes de las elecciones presidenciales su cuenta personal tenÍa 13 millones, hoy supera al papa francisco convirtiÉndose asÍ en el líder mundial mÁs seguido en twitter . lo curioso es que a pesar de la cantidad de gente que lo sigue, Él sÓlo le da seguimiento para cinco personas. la mayorÍa familiares ggente que trabaja en fox news. al principio de este aÑos la compaÑÍa twitter reconociÓ que trump impulsÓ la plataforma de tres cientos 28 millones de usuarios mensuales a 330. twitter perderÍa 2.000.000.000 $ en valor comercial simplemente si trump dejase de twittear. si
presentador: en este aÑo vaya que donald trump ha utilizado twitter. tweets diarios. Éste fue el primero que subiÓ cuando supo que era presidente. recordaremos el famoso " nocaut a la cadena cnn", quÉ me dicen de este otro?con esta palabra desconocida, los memes inundaron las redes sociales. ahora hay que recordar que tiene dos cuentas. esta que vemos aquÍ que es la oficial y la personal . si comparamos ambas. vemos que la cantidad de seguidores en la personal es prÁcticamente...
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heather: here is what twitter has to say about it.eview of verification accounts whose behavior does not fall within new guidelines, we will continue to review and take action as we work towards a new program that we are proud of. and patrice, i know you had the issue as well, it's ironic, will be interesting to see as they move towards this policy who they choose to do this to and who they choose who not to. >> they removed check marks from a couple of people on the alt-right, so to speak, and they've actually even deactivated the account of white supremacists. the question is how would they treat those on the far left, those who have antifa accounts, what the difference is they are going to start taking into account offline activities or off-twitter activities, if you're somebody who is saying inciting violence or engaging in behavior that's inconsistent in another space, you can lose that verification. doesn't mean you'll lose twitter account but endorsement. whether they like it or not, that's a little bit dangerous, who is decidi
heather: here is what twitter has to say about it.eview of verification accounts whose behavior does not fall within new guidelines, we will continue to review and take action as we work towards a new program that we are proud of. and patrice, i know you had the issue as well, it's ironic, will be interesting to see as they move towards this policy who they choose to do this to and who they choose who not to. >> they removed check marks from a couple of people on the alt-right, so to...