fox business's jo ling kept and veronica daguerre join me now. jo ling, what do you think?interesting case. facebook had data scientists and had them for a long time. they had them for a reason. they have been conducting studies like this. this is no surprise. what is interesting the data scientist who conducted the study in 2012 apologized and for the wording in that. melissa: does he still work there? >> as far as we know no changes have occurred. they altered the algorithm to do this. a lot of major tech leadersmarck this is to be expected. if you agree to terms of service you put information into something. a lost ethicists -- melissa: this is crazy. battling left and right, veronica. they're creepy. is person happier and put happy posts and if it is negative do they put negative posts. they're trying to manipulate your behavior by doing something to your page. it is creepy. >> it seems creepy to me. it is legal but is it ethical? that is the whole question. there are not as many teens on facebook as they used to be. some teenagers, very impressionable watching this, ge

let's bring in veronica daguerre and tech expert. shelly. what do you think, shelly? >> twitter has a road map unclear. they have a user growth strategy that is unclear. basically a little bit of the emperor's new clothes. melissa: yeah. >> because of that we have a fall guy but i'm not 100% sure this will solve the problem. melissa: let's outline why he is fall guy. he sold 300 shares of the stock. he sold about $10 million worth of stock or made a profit of $10 million at a time when the chief executive dick costollo, everyone, lockup expired. do not sell. sends the wrong signal. the guy is like, get to get out. he took the profit. do you believe that -- >> was untop popular move with employees and rest of management. that did not do him any favors. responsibilities were shifting to other managers before. that happens. maybe that spurred some of this on. the fact that twitter still needs to figure out a growth strategy, they haven't done that they have users but users who aren't using it. that is the problem. they don't have the active users. >> they have a real pro

here now, fox business's charlie gasparino along with veronica daguerre and former cbo director dougoltz-eakin. doug, i let you go first because you're on the road there. consumer sentiment rising higher today. the consumer is what was missing from the gdp report. consumer spending was very weak. that is one reason we saw the big contraction of the does this mean things are about to get better? >> i don't think so. if you look inside the numbers, they're happier about what is going on right now but not more confident about the future. if you look at monthly data, the seen past two months, first two months of second quarter, real declines in personal consumption expenditures there is not a lot to suggest that the households will pick up the economy and carry it. melissa: charlie i laugh at consumer sentiment numbers. it is asking people what they will do. not what they're actually doing. how you are feeling. >> what they might do in the future maybe, possibly. i would just say this. i think the negative gdp print was somewhat of an aberration. i don't think we're in a recession. melis