twitter after all. it's a good question. it's hard to take donald trump's twitter obsession seriously. when he says getting in the way getting in the way of war. i mean it's not as if there's a serious man behind. the trump who uses twitter so the trump who uses twitter. is. this sort of. egocentric narcissistic so whether or not he uses twitter i don't think it really makes any difference and still the same scene you're just thinking his staff members are worried because it would be better for the white house image that he laid off twitter that he would write less things that are hard for him to the image of the american president that i mean. you hear a lot of stories about the why of. how they're trying to control him i think he's the type of person who if he wants to do seventy well irrespective of the white house. and the white house stuff anyway it's very much divided in terms of personalities and ideologies so. my guess is the probably as much dispute amongst the white house. trumps use of twits.

grandson of twitter, the next gen. >> when he uses twitter to push policy or take credit for economicchanges that can catch even the military off guard or re-tweet memes of himself hitting hillary clinton with a golf ball, critics may howl. but he's not tweeting to them. he's playing straight to the base. and they love it. >> i love it. >> you know what it does? it leaves you out, and you don't like it because it leaves you out. >> you know, i think that is actually part of the appeal to many people that it's just raw, and it's out there. >> i think twitter is a great thing for him. i hope he continues to do it. i hope he continues to hit back at people who hit back at him. >> to me, i love his tweets. he can tweet every morning. i can't wait to wake up in the morning to see them. of being prescribed for over 10 years. humira works inside the body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to symptoms. in clinical trials, most adults taking humira were clear or almost clear and many saw 75% and even 90% clearance in just four months. humira can lower y

you can also contact us on twitter.heck out tick-tock by bloomberg, the first 24 hour global news network streaming online on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: google has until sunday to report how it is complying with the e.u.'s antitrust order. they pay penalties for antitrust practices. they said the auction ad space does not work because google wins most of the spots. they have to have a report about how they have given smaller competitors a fairer deal. four years after one of the largest leveraged -- dell is considering going public again. he spoke about the benefits of running a company back in 2016. >> a privately controlled company, your time horizon is very different. you reimagine your business, you think about your business in years and decades. reconceptualize how you are investing and what the real priorities are. by ourwe are joined reporter. previousl dell's stance that private is better is potentially changing. right now, dell is considering whether to list, do some other strategic move, or nothing a

no twitter user is above the twitter rules. as we action accounts on any given moment, we're looking whether they are trying to do satire, what they're trying to do hiram, even if it's not successful humor. and we also recognize that world leaders do have a special voice. and it is in the public interest for their constituents to hear from them. >> yeah, well i -- i don't think this was humor. and i don't think the result -- i think if you look at the -- what cnn reporters have said since this, there is more violence towards them there is more animosity towards them. i think you need to look at it in the whole context. and i would encourage all the companies at this table to take threats to journalists very seriously. i'm extremely concerned when any threats of violence-based reporting that the president finds disagreeable, with our president calling media outlets the enemy of the people. i think it's up to all of us to safeguard the first amendment. thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator udall. senator tester

at twitter.s found its way back. twitter lift in the stock today. got an extra filler from citroen which says there is a lot of growth in store for twitter. a lot of bullishness there. we have found no reason to substantiate the salesforce twitter speculation. we're going to stay on it and talk to everyone about it, but so far, not spending a lot of time researching. emily: you have been making calls. big questionnk the is what changed from two years ago? they walked away, the shareholders decided it was not a good place to put their money, and in a declining asset that was not part of its core business. two years later they address those concerns, and many people don't see it as a declining asset anymore. user growth is coming back. advertisers are coming back. they still have a big question around abuse and harassment. which arguably has gotten worse over the past year, especially over concerns of russian manipulation. there's no substantiated claims right now because twitter has no controlling

no twitter user is above the twitter rules. as we action accounts on any given moment, we are looking whether they are trying to do sa satire or humor, even if it is not successful. we also recognize that world leaders do have a special voice and it is in the public interest for their constituents to hear from them. >> i don't think this was humor. i don't think the result -- if you look at what cnn reporters have said since this, there is more violence towards them. there is more animosity towards them. i would encourage all the companies at this table to take threats to journalists very serious. i am concerned with our president calling u.s. media outlets the enemy of the people. it is up to all of us to safeguard the first amendment. >> thank you, senator udall. senator chester. >> thank you for having this hearing. i want to thank the witnesses today. i think we will start with you, mr. watts. can you tell me why, transparency, behind who is paying for political ads and issue-based ads is important? >> yes. i think the numb

how big a loss is this for twitter?eporter: they certainly delivers a blow for twitter, especially at the beginnings of their early turnaround strategy. they are finally starting to show some revenue and user growth. that being said, noto did put in place much of the structures they needed to start this turnaround, paring back some of the other parts of the business to focus on user engagement. some sources have also said this could provide a good opportunity for jackson's they have not always agreed on product division and this may the and , adjusting way for jack to pursue some other pass that had not been possible with noto. emily: jack dorsey tweeted "i'm happy for him and really proud of everything he's a compass that twitter. he's been a friend, partner, and mentor to me. he will always have my friendship and gratitude. thank you. we love you." let's talk about the real logistics here of the fact that they are not refilling this position, and what that means. reporter: i just got off the phone with a source. it is

we'll talk about that and more with dick costolo, former ceo of twitter.to have him back at post nine. welcome. >> thank you. >> a lot of news what is nodo's departure mean for twitter? >> well, look, listen, anthony's i think a fantastic executive. it's one of the reasons why i brought him into the company as cfo person and jack made him c.o.o. he's ready to lead a company so he'll be a great ceo, i think the important point is jack built a great bench over the last couple years. there was a bunch of news about departures in early 2015 and 2016, in the background jack was adding more people to the team, promoting people from within who are also fantastic leaders both the sales organization and the engineering and product organization, i think, have more than sufficient leadership than anthony will need. >> we should point out twitter got a pop just this morning when we were coming on. but we're back to 23.5 you can guess what people are speculating about would you be surprised to see a change in control in the next year >> i think, look, as you all know,

to live in the area really really appreciate your time with us please share your comments on our twitter facebook and youtube page just i hope to see you again same place same time here i was a part. of . what politicians do you should. be put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. want to be rich. to do like to be first that's what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. there soon. ecuador grant citizenship to wiki leaks chief julian assange street's been holed up in the country's embassy in london for more than five years. also this hour an undercover reporter just twitter by a certain undesirable uses and said this is political content that it doesn't like . president putin talks korea saying the only chance to persuade kim jong un to giving up his nukes would be through security guarantees. to r.t. international are watching live from moscow with me daniel hawkins rev you are tonight you're very welcome on the program. as you do in a song that has been granted citizenship by a quid or a

election but the channel did decline the offer an exclusive twitter offer was eventually declined by r t due to the excessive price tag and a lack of confidence on behalf of r t that this campaign would benefit the network . correspondent david miller with an interesting point you know this just so gets under my skin at this point because i'm sorry with the amount of money that the democrats republicans parties spent on this election in social media ad buys probably got far more influenced by something coming out of the hillary camp or the trump camp than some independent troll factory just basically by getting putting out click bait per click so they can get paid at the long run it's so absolute. ridiculous this propaganda this russian propaganda scare that they're seeing here it's like the war on christmas is about israel and to be it's like that we've been wrong with it again it goes back to that you get the feeling in the back of your mind are you guys just still looking for some kind of an excuse than like from here on out because now the big twenty eight what will happen twitte

chec out on twitter on weekdays. check out on twitter on weekdays.his is bloomberg. ♪ emily: we saw square jump on fridays trading session. it is at a street high of $64, reiterating its by on the stock and expecting more growth in payment volumes, and compared the company to amazon and its early days. although coca-cola was founded well over 100 years ago, technology plays a crucial role in the business giant. they are using technology to hold its place on top of the beverage market. we talked about the evolution of technology at the company. >> i actually think that places like shanghai and some parts of western europe are all cutting edge, along with some bits of the u.s. the u.s. in many respects -- it is advanced in places like shanghai and western europe as well. the penetration of e-commerce is even higher in some of those places that even the u.s. when you want to learn what is going on, i would be just as tempted to tell you to go to shanghai than to stay in new york. >> how do you market? you don't have that when you are on your app. >> no,

do not rely on one twitter feed. really brought in that knowledge to diverse news outlets and sources. >> i think it also shows how important it is for us to get to know each other. it gives even more ways of white -- why digital diplomacy is so important and accessible is largely free, so i think we need a better harness for those tools and how to incorporate them into our education system and use them in ways to further get to know each other so when we hear things, we can say, is that really true? rather than just eat it up. >> another question from the audience? >> my question is for karl. one, i appreciated the 2001 reference. i have seen the movie. i think it is spot on. my question is about the use of twitter and your polling data on the president's use of it. i wonder if an issue you are finding is one of content versus medium, but if it is the medium, what does it say about digital diplomacy? >> i am happy i reached at least one person. that said, that is excepting in and of itself. i think it is specificall

also this hour undercover reports suggest twitter. undesirable uses political content it doesn't like. and president putin talks korea saying. in the escalating crisis on the peninsula. they're welcome to our national life from the russian capital moscow wherever you are today thanks for joining us. has been granted citizenship by ecuador a country that has been hosting him and its embassy in london twenty twelve after he requested political asylum and explains what that we could mean for that we can exchange. unfortunately for julian assange continues to be quite complicated as this long winded saga continues if you remember the rumors were spread last night following him tweeting a picture of himself wearing a t. shirt with the ecuadorian national colors stirring lots and lots of rumors online and in the press about the possibility of him potentially having received ecuadorian citizenship now tonight we have got a confirmation of this here is what the ecuadorian foreign minister had to say. this naturalization was granted on the twe

people in the video are said to be twitter employees claim the. measures target right leaning content with more of these revelations all the social media giant has presented itself as politically neutral but project veritas seems to revealed otherwise according to several employees who've been caught on camera twitter regulates its content by controlling what its users can see on their feet now one of twitter's policy managers says that the company is currently developing a system that down ranks controversial users and another employee says twitter is trying to ban a certain way of talking online so it's going to. change the way you serve the things that. we've seen and you know. it's good to see them in the mindset of the way you twitter can also apparently dig into its users profiles and conversation history to figure out their political leanings and then determine whether or not they should be banned and another issue that came up was julian assange just twitter account and the fact that it was deleted without explanation a couple weeks ago bu

let me move to twitter. if i am and pronouncing it crack, okay, well is that a cajun thing, you tell me you're from new orleans. >> i am from new orleans. i'm a saints fan but my family is from argentina. >> very interesting. let me ask you about aggregate user data. there are analytics companies who purchase aggregate user data from debt and from including twitter, is that correct? >> yes for example, if i am an analytic company and i want to work for the nfl, for example, i would purchase aggregate user data from twitter and using keywords develop information that might be helpful to say the national football league. >> it depends on what it is you expand to use it or a lot of times it's most often used for the target advertising. >> so target advertising. okay. let me ask you this. is that same ability to purchase aggregate data available to federal law enforcement and is this available to federal antiterrorism agencies? >> it depends on the purpose of user data. we have rules about any entity regardless

you see that all the time on twitter. to go to elements julie brought up, digital diplomacy will be with us and it is important, but shuman -- but it will never go away. all of these social tools are what you make of them. too often, they get away from us and take us into a bad direction. not to follow up, probably not a great follow-up to say a bad direction, but the presidents -- president's tweet, when we do polling, the public doesn't one tim to tweet and that comes -- doesn't want him to treat. -- to tweet. supporters, divide basically minorities and men say he should stop great it is an effective and isn't seen as furthering u.s. strategic goals. coming back to the human elements, that is why conferences are important, and at a young age, to meet people who are going to share same interest. i think you will find over time your lines will intertwine in and out of each other. you meet someone on twitter, you follow them, and the people who are here now, you end up interacting in unusual ways that you would not imagine

also undercover investigation does suggest that twitter is preventing users from seeing certain kinds of political content with a technique known as shadow banning. a top girls' school in britain decides it's time to stop labeling its people its girls with a controversial gender neutral policy we hear from some of the locals. like the morning welcome it's just going to eleven o'clock here in moscow you watching r.t. international now the u.s. army is planning some online maneuvers it's on the hunt for a software tool known as a box and they are designed to perform automated tasks on the internet but bots are often used to for militias purposes like sending spam messages the pentagon wants something far more sophisticated as we discovered on a u.s. government website it is looking for a tool to use in social media platforms which can understand different dialects phrasing and even in the military's also wanting its a i bought to translate between several languages including russian and farsi. and also be able to assess people's emotional responses to you to calculate how much sentiment

we can't verify if these are real twitter employees are not and if they are they definitely could be lying but regardless the whole issue is definitely something to investigate further yeah we reached out to twitter twitter responded to the allegations saying it's committed to enforcing its own rules with us and empowering every voice on the platform the group behind the revelations is going to mix reputation to worth bearing in mind critics say project fails to provide the video of its revelations of the time with some say the group's got a strong political agenda too we spoke direct to russell he's the executive director of project veritas he says he believes the group's methods justified. they don't know they're talking to a reporter so they're being honest they're not they're not talking to a c.n.n. reporter with a microphone says c.n.n. in front of you and giving talking points so what we do is we have a false name of class background story maybe for instance we might set up. a website for job seekers and try to recruit people from a certain company or force a certain company in

well the main thing is that the government isn't happy with that statement from twitter the statement from twisted said that just one percent of those thirty five thousand twitter bots that they had identified as sort of pushing for braggs it during the e.u. referendum campaign just one percent of those were registered in russia and this all started last year when questions were raised about whether or not russia had perhaps meddled in the e.u. referendum here that led of course to that decision for britain to leave the e.u. to resume a used a big foreign policy foreign policy speech late last year the mansion house beat to come down very hard on russia and although there was no proof this idea this theory that russia had meddled in the referendum somehow took hold and became very popular take. so there were no facts and there was no evidence nevertheless the government decided to launch a big inquiry into it late last year and they all asked the big social media platforms twitter facebook to provide evidence and the evidence that they initially provided the government said it wasn't

the trump who uses twitter so the trump who uses twitter . is. this sort of. egocentric narcissistic so whether or not he uses twitter i don't think it really makes any difference and still the same scene you're just thinking his staff members are worried because it would be better for the white house image that he laid off twitter that he would write less things that are hard for all to the image of the american friends and i mean. you hear a lot of stories about the why of. how they're trying to control him i think he's the type of person who if he wants to do seventy well irrespective of the white house. and the white house stuff anyway it's very.

about these twitter revelations. is twitter overstepping it well if they're sharing information with the federal government voluntarily i think i would think they would be overstepping however whenever you're ready as goes onto a website they agreed to the policies of that website and if you look through the per proxy policies of twitter it gives them the right to every bit of information you have opposed you deleted and they have the right to sell that information given away so we're giving away an awful lot to these companies when they come out and publicly say they want to be the public forum for free speech yet they're censoring free speech and they're slanting what free speech can or can't be heard and then there's a problem. u.s. army is looking for help to access and respond to foreign social media platforms with a system so sophisticated it can even understand and use slang the ad was posted on a site for federal contractors are to skim up and has more. now the ad was posted on the website of government oppor

take a listen here to it yet the safety twitter.ased on results, you are not where you need to be for us to be reassured that your securing -- you are securing our policies. vote and our adversaries are participating in your platform, how can we know that you are going to get this right before the midterms? said itts part, twitter is going to be verified candidates in the upcoming midterm elections. the bottom line from lawmakers is that this is not enough. going over the problems with moderation, what are some longer-term solutions? would be a constructive way to keep these videos off the site and to keep these bots from wreaking havoc? few issues. a you can prevent videos from the uploaded once they have been mark and flagged as problematic. there's technology that exist that can flag it to a database and prevent uploads. the bond video that we see resurfacing -- if that happened flagged to a database, and technology can be used to prevent uploads as a post that scanning it and finding it once it is already up there, that would pr

now if you've ever felt that perhaps you're being ignored on twitter it could actually be down to the social network centering you apparently without your knowledge because an undercover investigation by anti-corruption campaign group project veritas has revealed that there is a practice known as shadow ban it. one. shot is. that someone. you. know what she should. think that they want to get on to well you know what according to you project parents asked a shadow band just the content of a particular user with that knowing the user continues to post on the platform to their followers but the tweets wouldn't pay anywhere else on twitter people in the video who are said to be twitter employees do claim to these measures of targeting right leaning content to smear a calm and small ball the social media giant has presented itself as politically neutral but project veritas seems to revealed otherwise according to several employees who've been caught on camera twitter regulates its content by controlling what its users can see on their feet now one of twitter's policy managers says that th

now if you've ever felt that you are being ignored on twitter it could be down to the social networks entering you without your knowledge an undercover investigation by anticorruption campaign group project there it's us has revealed there is a practice known as shadow banning. if you shot. someone. you. know what she should. just think that you want to punch it well you know. what according to the shadow ban hides the content of the particular user that the moaning the use it continues to post on the platform to their followers but the tweets wouldn't appear anywhere else on twitter people in the video who are said to be twitter employees claim these messages target right leaning content with more now his say miracle while the social media giant has presented itself as politically neutral but project veritas seems to revealed otherwise according to several employees who've been caught on camera twitter regulates its content by controlling what its users can see on their feet now one of twitter's policy managers says that the company is currently developing a system that down ranks co

international twitter is preparing a brand new tool to alert users about russian trolls more on that so if they show a break. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to be rich. if you're going to be the first this is what before you the boy can't be good. i'm interested in the lawyers in the. first. i don't think that any country can push a button and get rid of trade this is far too important to be farmers to political backlash money is a very fungible thing and i think it will be very quick before people find ways around it because as i say it but it may be damaging in my credit that but the idea that you could do anything nearly even if something is very unlikely. welcome back social media giants twitter facebook and you tube have again been grilled over alleged russian interference in the u.s. presidential election i'm assuming that none of you have any doubt that the russians meddled in our two thousand sixteen election and attacked our democracy any question you know it's only the latest u.s. senate tearing the t

. >> twitter has a lot to prove.hey have to string along a lot of quarters for institutional investors to buy stock >> there's a history of people leaving twitter that didn't play out in terms of what's gone on with the share price in both directions adam bain is probably one of the best people that worked there. people were heartbroken when he left he had had done a great job. he was gone and people said, that's the guy i was betting on to turn the revenue products higher you had early founders like ev walking away so you have always had this litany of people that within twitter and outside of twitter, they said, it's not going to work without that guy. so maybe that's the case with thi. >> you have never had to make as big of a bet on jack alone as you're going to have to make today because there's always been the bane, the noto and this is a statement really that jack is going to be there noto wanted to be a ceo. he wasn't going to be ceo there, so he left >> what impact does that have on square because i have bee

two thousand and sixteen presidential election twitter is stepping up its efforts to expose what it's called russia's propaganda machine recently the social media giant began sending emails to those who quote might have followed read tweeted or liked suspected russian propaganda accounts during the presidential campaign twitter estimates that six hundred seventy seven thousand users for into that category and its message sent to uses the social media platform encourage them to learn more about the nature of the russian propaganda efforts we can now speak live to one of those people who was contacted by twitter to young political comedian joins me on the line tim this must have been quite an experience i just wonder how you feel about being picked out like this do you feel as if somehow you did something wrong well listen i'm i'm here to complain to be completely honest with you because if you guys are over there re tweeting people so much and there's all these bad accounts where my re tweets i just really want the russian people to reach week me more if that's if that's such a true th

twitter.his is bloomberg. emily: microsoft has acquired a company to help build launch and grow cloud gains. terms of the deal were not hosts some ofyfab the biggest companies that use its services. bring itsis ready to empire under one puppy traded roof, to create a structure to help to companies to manage a massive debt load. bloombergs alex barinka broke the story and drop -- joins me now. you have been working the phones all day and you had news that they were interested in a number of different options, explain what is on the table right now. is toseems the end game bring this company public, and this tech empire into one corporate structure, and you will remember that that is not dell, but there is , emc owns the majority stake in vmware, 80%. the rest of that is publicly traded, so this option to get public will look like a vmware takeover of dell. still use the stock to take over dow and become a public company through that acquisition and become the parent company with vmware lance fr

an undercover investigation should jest that twitter is preventing users from seeing certain kinds of political content through a technique only a shadow banning and a top girls' school in britain decides it's time to stop labeling people is girls with a controversial gender neutral policy we hear from some of the local. so they welcome you watching r.t. international this friday morning which just gone ten o'clock in moscow now the u.s. army is looking to acquire software which can automatically analyze and post messages on social media the military wants a system that can communicate with different audiences in multiple languages with more details now his kind of. the ad was posted on the website of government opportunities and it calls for people to work at the request of the u.s. army intelligence and security command and the task they're asking for would be the creation of software that can read social media posts and determine and distinguish the positive from the negative now they're looking for the software to go from there and create replies in the same tone as the original n

to suspend president trump's twitter account. they have been projecting phrases on twitter's headquarters calling ceo jack dorsey complicit in what they claim is the president's dangerous threats. >> twitter is where he is most unhinged. it's where he talks to constituents. it's his bull horn. >> reporter: he is accused of endangering the world and violating the rules by not banning president trump. but a twitter spokesman told the business insider that the tweet doesn't violate its rules because it's not a specific threat. dorsey has previously defended the decision not to censor president trump saying his tweets are newsworthy and important for political transparency. others think there are ulterior motives. >> they are handing this man a bull horn to create the news that then brings people to their site and that's unethical as well. >> reporter: the protest starts at 5:30 tonight here on market street in san francisco. anne makovec, kpix 5. >> while president trump is sending messages via twitter, north and south korea have a

amid pressure from capitol hill twitter is exploring how to notify its users that they saw a russian propaganda during the two thousand and sixteen election the director of public policy for twitter did not elaborate how twitter would do that or if the company would alert users who solved weeks from russian accounts or only those targeted with ads also the question remains of twitter would seek to impose a notification towards r t after recently the company has been banned from sponsoring tweets on the site and after sharp criticism that it has failed to respond to lawmakers demands twitter's announcement does come amid pressure from capitol hill urging the company to do more to battle allegedly russian this information twitter failed to meet a deadline to answer questions sent from members of congress and previously reported that it found roughly two thousand seven hundred accounts tied to the i r s a and also ran a number of and during the two thousand and sixteen election purchased by r t and democratic senator richard blumenthal has been a sharp critic of all social media concern

as we say to be a community of then don't adopt this view was of process as if you twitter is so good to power that you must go riots to dominate it why would there be to be unsettled communities yuki's so. in order to overthrow a regime it does take popular discontent and popular mobilization but it also requires actors with in the leadership of the regime who feel that the regime is no longer serving the national interest you need people in the military or the bureaucracy or both who are willing to see the regime change otherwise they would be able to put down a popular revolt but did not have support at higher level. welcome back drug related crimes are becoming so bad on parts of the paris metro train drivers are reportedly refusing to stop at certain stations on this is all according to a union that represents the metro bus network in the french capital on the shell of davis he went underground to investigate. for most parisians the metro is a staple of life with its winding tunnels and lines that stretch across the city it's often the easiest way to get from a to b. but down in

this twitter account.w if that's true, but i wonder sometimes. >> it is an interesting question. it goes back to the night we were all in washington for i guess it was the night of the alabama election where secretary tillerson made the speech in which he seemed to indicate the u.s. policy was reversing itself and he was willing to sit down and talk with north korea one on one, could be about anything, the size of the table he said. i mean, i remember when we were announcing this, because it was breaking news, we were cautious in saying, look, we don't know if this is actually white house policy or is this just a government which is not all on the same page. and gordon, it does seem like that was a -- an outlier comment. >> yes. i mean, the administration's had a real problem with message discipline. and it looked like they actually ghot problem under control when you had secretary mattis, secretary tillerson with that oped in "the wall street journal." that actually looked like they were getting things so

these are all policy changes that if twitter wants to take action on, they can.hey're different numbers on the percentages of how many accounts are bots. they said 5%. i have seen higher numbers quoted. who really knows? the bottom line is they can really crackdown on it if they wanted to. the other problem is transparency. tech companies have not been as transparent and terms of how they are removing content and the numbers. it is great to hear how many has been taking down in a week, but if it is going up in a faster rate -- that is not really a sustainable solution. more transparency, several account authentication measures, and lastly, more resources can be devoted to this issue. these are huge companies with a lot of money, and if the public is aggravated enough by these issues, and there's enough pressure, you are going to see this hurt their bottom line. should be smart this is for them to put more dollars in these problems to back up the rhetoric. emily: this is a continuation of the hearings from last year, what is next? >> they still have to update them

it's always twitter. for me there's been a natural division and what i've seen, the personal down facebook and the professional sizes friendly for twitter. but as i think about it, something always comes to mind. there's been a lot of positivity about digital diplomacy. it will stick with us. offer a little different take and people are in public opinion don't often think highly of social media. everyone has the idea that yes there's a big effect of your out there but as far as affecting the vote, that's not exactly been shown in a number of countries where it hasn't carried over. the thing i think about a lot, if you seen the movie a space odyssey getting a lot of play flux on guessing maybe a little too old for this crowd, but in the beginning there's a scene called the dawn of man. he's kind of idling around with it playing it around and he starts to hit things and break things and then he realizes that this bone can be a tool and as he's doing it he's smashing things and envisioning all of the things

election but the channel did decline the offer an exclusive twitter offer was eventually declined by r t due to the excessive price tag and a lack of confidence on behalf of r t that this campaign would benefit the network . correspondent david miller with interesting point you know this just so gets under my skin at this point because i'm sorry with the amount of money that the democrats republicans party spent on this election in social media ad buys probably got far more influenced by something coming out of the hillary camp or the trump camp than some independent troll factory just basically by getting putting out click bait per click so they can to pit the longer it's so absolute. ridiculous this propaganda this russian propaganda scare that they're seeing here it's like the war on christmas is about israel and to be exploited we've been wrong with it again it goes back to that you get that feeling in the back of your mind are you guys just still looking for some kind of an excuse than like from here on out because now the big twenty eight what will happen twitter users so stupi

where twitter and facebook are facing sanctions after m.p.'s that said that they failed to thoroughly investigate how russia supposedly swayed the brig's it vote 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 the best place to monitor what is going on on your own site and to get the balance right in taking action against it but also safeguarding the privacy of users so the only trace of russia the companies were able to find were three ads are worth less than a dollar however the idea that maybe russia didn't influence the election is apparently off the table so who exactly polices the internet is it government or is it the social. idea companies or is it the government through social media companies that's all very unclear at the moment. let's talk more about this with david perkins radio talk show host and political commentator glad to have you with us. so this blocked twitter account evidence that the new german law against online hate speech is w

the user uses twitter or facebook or google or whomever for free so you're not the client you're not the customer you're the product and they are selling you and your personal information to whomever gives them money or whatever in recompense for it. twelve activists in the california city of alcohol in may now face jail after they were caught trying to feed homeless people in a park according to current legislation it's actually illegal to share food in public places. we're going to love you know we're. going to you know we are going to go. to. the public food sharing in oklahoma was introduced back you know tobar of last year it was a precaution against an outbreak of infectious appetite to say the penalty for breaking the law to a thousand dollar fine even a six month jail. we talked to the activists who were caught by the police they claim the legislation was the opposite effect of what it's meant to do. homeless people who were there were very things fall that we were standing up and they were very upset that the mayor in the city council members could pass such a heartless ordi

senate hearing that the three social media giants have participated in this time around twitter also announced it was preparing a tool it's to warn users of russian trolls the idea has already sparked concern though over just how trolls would be identified with more amounts here's are these done on hawkins. this time they've been grilled at a u.s. senate committee session about dealing with terrorist content and other dangerous materials a letter that i wrote calling these companies to individual inform all users who are exposed to false misleading and inflammatory post generated by russian agents we will be working to identify and inform individually the users who may have been exposed to the ira accounts during the election now facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian bots and trolls from an apparent russian troll factory named the internet research agency which so division and mistrust back in twenty sixteen furner if you buy the russian election meddling narrative but it doesn't stop there now it seems twitter is going down the same road we don't

bloomberg tech is live streaming on twitter. check us out. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> google is investing in a chinese game streaming service. the startup is a mobile center platform with 90 million registered users. majorresents the second investment since largely risk -- withdrawing from the country. since then it has attempted to launch live streaming services for gamers via youtube. founder -- cofounder -- you will remember that calendar previously boasted he never sold any uber shares. now he will offload about 29% of his stake for a profit of about $1.9 billion. david kirkpatrick is still with us and eric newcomer who broke this story. why is he selling so much? >> he's not fit ceo anymore so i think the insistence that everything is going to be great, it's not his job to sell that message to the same extent. this is when he is going to be a cash billionaire for the first time, so i think there is a budget to diversifying your wealth a little bit and making sure all of your money isn't in uber. 2019,ipo isn't until late that's a long time

if nobody is retreating you on twitter and that could be because the social network is censoring you by imposing a so-called shadow ban the move has come to light in the latest undercover investigation by project ready to us one. shot. that someone. should. know what she should. think that they want to. know what's. the group of behind the revelations has a mixed reputation it has been accused of getting information into infiltrating organizations under false pretenses project very tight has also been criticized for heavily editing material to deliver its point the group's founder james o'keefe is a conservative political activist and some say he has a strong political agenda samir khan has more on the revelations. well the social media giant has presented itself as politically neutral but project veritas seems to revealed otherwise according to several employees who've been caught on camera twitter regulates its content by controlling what its users can see on their feet now one of twitter's policy managers says that the company is currently developing a system that down ranks contr

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now if you feel your twitter account isn't getting the attention it deserves it could be dial into the social network censoring you without your knowledge an undercover investigation by anti corruption group project veritas as revealed there is a practice known as shadow bombing. one. shot is. that someone. thank you so she know what she should. think that you know once you hit well you don't see it so let's flash to all that i had according to project for time says shadow hides the content of a particular user the user continues to post on the platform to their followers but the tweets don't appear elsewhere on twitter people in the video who are said to be current and former twitter employees claim these measures target right leaning counted so your account has more and what's been revealed by the social media giant has presented itself as politically neutral but project veritas seems to revealed otherwise according to several employees who've been caught on camera twitter regulates its content by controlling what its users can see on their feet now one of twitter's policy managers s