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facebook has some individual issues we can discuss. >> where do you stand on the stock now, facebook specifically >> listen, i like the stock. i do think i could go on and on talking about the negative headlines this year, this week, over the past year or so but i think what's most important for investors about facebook is whether or not the negative headlines puts pressure on user growth, whether users flee the platform or advertisers flee the platform. i looked at data on monthly active users, not seeing people leaving in mass. for instagram and what's app, user growth is up. when you look at facebook in the fourth quarter, they're saying they're paying attention to negative headlines, but plan to increase the advertising budgets heading into fourth quarter, mainly because facebook is a hyper targeted platform. there's no other alternative they see that can match that >> moving on to apple, you were here november 1st. apple was at $222. you had a sell rating with price target of 165. last time i looked, it was 188 more than halfway to where your price target is, down 15%. at what p

>> listen, facebook received a lot of the attention, and facebook is the vehicle of choice for 2016 and zuckerberg and others when we first started raising these concerns dismissed that there was any there there, and obviously there was a lot of there there and more importantly with creating these fake accounts and i don't think you can take twitter off the handle, as well and i give jack dorsey credit and he's in recent months been more aggressive to work with us on policy solutions and the real disappointing company, as well has been google and google didn't even fend the senior leadership committee and as it becomes more and more evident, frankly, as more and more evidence comes out that the real place where fake accounts are manipulating a lot of the foreign activity, not just russian, but chinese, iranian and others have headed on the youtube platform where more lateralization goes on than frankly, facebook and so far google has been absent, but i think what these companies have fought for so long and both companies have glorified them and i don't want to underestimate the good the

facebook agreed. over the last several months, we have been in deep conversation back and forth as they pursued the civil rights audit. and to be sitting across the table with facebook may be pushing them around, everything from how they think about the election and voting rights and how voter suppression could be drummed up on their platform, to racial justice issues on their platform and hate speech, to have all of that sort of happen while at the same time they hired a firm that really sort of put out this anti-semitic and anti-black narrative, anti-semitic sort of narrative that this jewish billionaire controls the w world, that jews control the world is deeply troublesome. it has deep historical challenges. undermineo seeks to social movement. the idea that as a black civil rights organization founded in the aftermath of hurricane katrina when black people were literally on their roofs demanding the government do black readerstwo can together to build color of change them a force to channel the p

it was not facebook that came out with that but what has happened over the last several years is facebook, by virtue of the way it started to change the way it did business. instead of taking regular advertising for people looking for shoes or computer equipment, they started taking money for political ads. that is very similar to the way that peter keele came out publicly about his support of a political candidate. i do not think and this is all since citizens united. i do not think it is appropriate. in fact, it is illegal for facebook to have taken ads from a foreign power to support or in any way have a say on any sort of elections in the united states. it is not legal to do that. i do not know if they need a corporate governance guy on their or a government affairs understandseally how security laws work or if they need somebody to think about, are they making so much money from running political ads that they need to keep running political ads and running commentary from paid sources around political matters? i do not really think that is how facebook imagined itself. i am sure that

facebook has been wielding a sledgehammer. the worry is it might not be hitting quite the right places. for sure, time and time again i heard, group after group is being shut down, facebook is being very active here, they're really trying to close the industry down. but often, i don't think they've discriminated themselves between groups which are sharing fake news and other groups which are simply sharing perfectly legitimate forms of content which they want people to click on, which is frankly what lots of people do all over the place. do you think this is just an ongoing battle, and facebook closes down one method and these people just move to another, and it's this cat—and—mouse game that will go on and on and on? yes, i do. the most surprising thing for me was to find a surface sector economy for fake news merchants. as soon as you have that, as soon as you have specialists, you have programmers and coders, well, then you get innovation. and that means that the tools that are being sold in these groups are constantly

google and facebook. if you are a consumer ultimately to resist is futile because amazon is able to reinvest hundred cents on the dollar in the consumer and have unparalleled fulfillment, selection and movies to amazon prime video. it's almost become impossible because amazon can look at a company to perform a jedi mind trick and can threaten to go into drugs or go into pharmaceutical and you see the sector shed tens of billions of dollars in shareholder value even before amazon has gone into that sector. if you tonight companies their mothers milk growth which is access to capital you can begin killing companies even before you go into the sector which in my mind they become too powerf powerful. so, these companies, in my view, two countries have not done anything wrong and it doesn't mean they're good or bad but means they are what they are and that is they have monopoly like power in the way oxygen to oxygenate the market place you need to go in and break them up just as teddy roosevelt did with the ra

that is a real change for facebook. this is a company that looks like this inevitable one or for the future. carol: we have this big story from the knee or times questioning where they are focusing on. how does this add another layer of problems? >> it seems that facebook's leadership team was one of the best in technology for a long time. months, therew have been questions about their , and the newad york times pointed out they have been more interested in obfuscating the truth then doing the right thing. there has been this leadership failure from the very beginning. failures were not as obvious until all of these problems started to come to a head. jason: another issue facing silicon valley and around the world is gender inequality. carol: they are trying to change that. there is a mission to empower women across the globe. this is through events around the world, including an annual summit in new york and the united nations. here is the ceo and founder. >> all the people that are part of our movement are really look

who use facebook. essentially in myanmar, facebook is the internet. so that's been a real challenge for us. but also we're really focusing on free press. aung san suu kyi has talked about democracitization of the country, has talked about the importance of the free press. when she first came to power, she said that she wanted to get prisoners of conscience released as quickly as possible. and we view our journalists in that category. they were reporting on a massacre of ten muslims in rakhine state. they had photographs both of the people about to be massacred and then photographs of them in a mass grave having been both hacked to death and shot to death. and that was why they were arrested. they were arrested to try to prevent us from running that story. and we went ahead and ran the story, and they ended up -- the government ended up recognizing that it was true and, in fact, arresting the people who were responsible as your report showed. so our view is it's in the interest of aung san suu kyi and i

facebook removes more. it really after the polls close, they come out and link these accounts more directly to the ira. they are still not definitively saying if this is coming from russia. we have found other election interference-type campaigns using accounts on facebook the last few months that are from iran and other domestic actors. so far they think this is russia but we are not sure yet. both sarah and, i have been in facebook's election war room where they have a team of people working across these potential threats. the familiar refrain is that actually, the most activity they saw was from within the united dates, not from outside the despite this revelation of accounts potentially connected to the ira how dangerous is that? how much of a threat is that? say,rst of all, i should there is additional information about the ira. the u.s. attorney fingered a conspiracy at the beginning -- just about one month ago, saying that there was a conspiracy to -- with about a $10 million a year budget to post on

is there a feeling among facebook and the staff that trust in facebook has plummeted? absolutely. it is a major concern and topic of conversation. we recognise both in our own actions and external events that we are not in a good place in terms of trust. you're watching tuesday in parliament, with me, alicia mccarthy. still to come, a tribute in the lords to former bletchley park code—brea ker lady trumpington who's died age 96. but before that, low cost clothing retailers have been challenged to explain how they manage to sell dresses and t—shirts for under a fiver. the environmental audit committee is investigating the so called fast fashion industry. mps are examining whether it's encouraging a throwaway attitude to clothes and profiting at the expense of under paid workers. primark is famous for its very cheap t—shirts. how can you justify selling t—shirts in your stores for as little as £2 or £3? and how can you be making a profit on those? primark said it was all about its business model. we do no advertising. you'll see no billboards, do no television advertising.

the dinosaurs and facebook is coming under increasing scrutiny and it's not only in the united states they've also heard joins us to discuss plus we take a longer look at privacy issues around the world with international regulatory attorney miles edwards and later host of the big picture right here in r.t. america holland joins us to talk about generation is e and tells us about their decidedly different spending habits all that straight ahead but first we had a few headlines. big four accounting firm k p m g is the first of the four to say they will abandon client work which creates conflicts of interest for the company according to k p m g executives decision is an effort to remove even the perception of a possible conflict of interest k p m g has been particularly pronounced big blip on the regulatory radar in connection to their client giant u.k. construction firm karelian which collapsed due to what members of parliament called reckless behavior made possible in part due to accounting failures k p m g s move comes as regulators in the u.k. have been considering banning the big f

in the next hour facebook under fire again. could the social network, itself, be the one now threatening democracy? we'll discuss a bombshell "new york times" report. plus, uber moves one step closer to release morg data on sexual assault. our extended sitdown with uber's chief legal officer, tony west, one year into the job. and apple rebounding after hitting its longest losing streak in more than six months. why investors are questioning their faith in the iphone going into the crucial holiday season. first to our top story it is no secret faceback has been strug tolling keep up with fallout from its platform being used for election meddling spreading fake news and more. now a blockbuster "new york times" report alleges just how far the company has gone to protect itself under major scrutiny. specifically how c.e.o. mark zuckerberg and c.o.o. cheryl sandberg went on the offensive to fight back at facebook detractors including direct lobbying of lawmakers and going right after their opposition. even hiring a republican opposit

facebook got a tip from u.s. authorities about accounts that may be tied to russia's internet research agency. this is the same agency accused in february of trying to interfere in the 2016 election. facebook said it removed accounts with content that falsely county democrats and republicans were supposed to go on different days. now that midterm elections are over, we want to take stock of a threat as it stands. burning is now -- joining us now is sarah frier's. i want to start with you, lawrence. assess the integrity of the elections over the last 24 hours. how did we do? lawrence: there are two things we should be talking about. we saw this in 2016, there are at least two avenues where we have seen interference in our elections. one is with infrastructure and when it comes to the mechanics of the elections, things for most people looked pretty good yesterday. there were some notable glitches, but it looks like a normal election and i didn't see anything in terms of e-voting machines, they reporting on election

are they still the right people to be running facebook right now or is it time for them to step aside well one of the peculiarities of facebook is that it's the only public corporation that's large and is effectively controlled by one person and it's in a sense that's an oxymoron a public corporation should have a powerful board it should have power powerful shareholders and the fact that there isn't governance is the first issue that it's a one man shop is really really not ok it's not ok for the world it's not even in the spirit of capitalism i think it's really anti market it's anti-democratic so you should study the side and make it more democratic and capitalist i think it would be good for the world if he stepped aside but the point is that there's no mechanism for him to do so. yeah last year mark zuckerberg said facebook's mission is to give people the power to build a community and bring the world closer together given these recent revelations given your own research in this field do you buy that. well you know from my perspective having participated in the creation of the in

facebook, not the other applications, but facebook itself. there is 800 million people using marketplace. to me, i have never used the marketplace tab. i don't know anyone who uses the marketplace to have. they say there are 800 million people using that tab. whereighlighted cars, people are buying and selling cars. there are so many things facebook is doing better not alwaysg that are not obvious to someone in the u.s. i think there are places in the world like indonesia where facebook marketplace is the default way in which goods are bought and sold. there are some big differences globally, and i think you mentioned one of them, looking at imessage versus facebook messenger overseas. not all of that is apparent to a u.s. investor. as you look broadly over the next few years, facebook has a lot of different initiatives that are very early stages of monetization. they are just scratching the surface of messenger and whatsapp. facebook watch, the instagram video platform, theory -- very early stages. what you do see is tremendous engagement ac

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nothing could be more important to me or to facebook. -- facebook." emily: she also called the tactics used against george ands of laurent -- a poor -- abhorent. bloomberg is reporting depressed route as employees try to grapple with what they read. this as investors call for zuckerberg to split his role as ceo and chair along with renewed calls from lawmakers to investigate legal ramifications of it all. judith acted all is michael -- heretokyle jensen dissected all is michael wolff and kyle jensen. at a higher level, how do you think these governance issues will play out here? leaders set top two aside for both being asleep at the wheel. michael: from a governance perspective, we have to remember facebook is a control company. mark zuckerberg controls the voting in the company and the board serves in his pleasure. i'm not sure they will play out differently. the bigger issue is the backlash from users, yes from shareholders, but even more importantly from advertisers. those are the people that can really vote. going back town, some of the original i

now a us firm, 643, has launched a legal action against facebook. 643 was hit ha rd action against facebook. 643 was hit hard when, in 2014, facebook, third—party access to users's friends data, precisely the avenue q jedlicka exploded. 643 had an app which searched out because of people in bikini, but is now redundant. as pa rt in bikini, but is now redundant. as part of the lawsuit in california, 643 obtained thousands of documents for facebook, some sensitive. now a select set of mps and britain have acquired those documents i had a hearing on tuesday which are representative of seven national parliaments will attend. these are serious and important issues. facebook has been slow to realise how serious it would take them, and other parliament around the world do, as well, and we are prepared to use all the powers we have to get to the truth. facebook say the complaint brought by 643 is complete without merit, and there is an ongoing case that document should not be published. however under parliamentary privilege, the committee says it reserves that right. for years, facebook committee

today on up front is it time to log off from an increasingly scandal plagued facebook last iconic tech pioneer jaron lanier and is the crown prince of saudi arabia really going to execute the country's most famous cleric. i made the house and we've all heard about the saudi crown prince is alleged involvement in the murder of a saudi journalist but what about the clerics and activists he's rounded up at home i'll speak to the son of imprisoned saudi shaykh someone out of but first with facebook in the news again for failing to grapple with russian meddling illegal data sharing and hate speech is it time to just log off the author of the recent book ten arguments for deleting your social media account right now certainly think so this week's headlines from new york all for virtual reality pioneer and iconic computer scientist jaron lanier. jaron lanier thanks for joining me from the new york times just published a bombshell report revealing that facebook knew about russian meddling in the u.s. elections failed to penalize then presidential candidate donald trump for posting racist conte

no facebook i'm sure you probably interacted with does any of that surprise you what's your reaction to this report. well. i'm not entirely surprised by the report of the some of the details are surprising and shocking i think from the facebook point of view and from zucker bricks point of view he is always in what he perceives as a life or death struggle either facebook controls the world or it dies he doesn't perceive any kind of in-between outcome and so therefore there's a kind of an ethic of anything at all is allowed because it's either survival or total domination or total death and so if you perceive this all or nothing world which i think is a false perception then you lose all sense of proportion obviously and given the crises plaguing facebook which you go back to the twenty sixteen us election and beyond all mark zuckerberg the chair and c.e.o. and sheryl sandberg the c.e.o. are they still the right people to be running facebook right now or is it time for them step aside well one of the peculiarities of facebook is that it's the only public corporation that's large and i

facebook in crisis. the critics are out in full force following recent reports of high level mismanagement at the social network. the board still has c.e.o. mark zuckerberg and cheryl sandbergs' backs. in a public statement last week the board said to suggest they knew about the russian interference or tried to prevent investigations into what happened is grossly unfair. in the last 18 months facebook with the full support of its board has invested heavily in more people and better technology to prevent misuse of its services including during election. we should note zuckerberg and sanders are members of the same board standing behind them. my next guest has long been sounding an alarm for a change n the structure at facebook. for years, julie, you've been clamoring for a change in the share structure given the power that zuckerberg himself holds. what do you think now? julie: well, i think they should have changed the share structure in 2015 when we first filed the shareholder resolution. you know, this

firm facebook employed republican opposition research firm to discredit activists protesters in part linking them to the liberal finance george soros it also tapped his business relationships lobbying it's your civil rights group to cause some criticism of the company's anti semitic yeah blame it on george soros the liberal billionaire known for splashing money on liberal causes now he's certainly no fan of facebook do you didn't get that moment that is not. new word. to protect society accused of consciousness is. dead didn't mean to a man as. decent i don't know that but here's the irony when it came out that facebook was accusing soros of being the master manipulator behind the protesters soros then accused of facebook of anti-semitism you know they're also aware that much of this hateful and blatantly false. semitic information is spread via facebook the notion that your company you'll direction actively engaged in the same behavior is frankly astonishing to me zuckerberg says that he's got nothing to do with the soros claims the p.r. firm was hired without his permission now the

so there we go next facebook supremum ugh zuckerberg is under pressure from the firm's investors who wanted to step aside as chairman their patience is starting to with it in with him following a series of scandals of late over the past year which have plagued the social media behavior facebook is behaving like it's a special snowflake it's not it is a company and companies need to have a separation of church and c.e.o. that concentration of power creates a lot of defensiveness within the company it's an exercise in hyden that there is a problem rather than admit in that there is a problem and set in their old map to fixing it. so the latest headline grabbing scandal to hit facebook a run in with billionaire philanthropist george soros as caleb maupin explains things are not going well for mark zuckerberg he's been involved at facebook in a wave of scandals involving privacy violations and data leaks and now protesters are outraged. at facebook our mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together more than two billion people come to our platf

you look at what is going on with brands like facebook, facebook is the new cigarette, it is addictive, it is not good for you, there are people who are trying to get you to use it that you don't understand what is going on. the government needs to step. in the government needs to know what is happening. and we had a child scream that cues me to say facebook for kid, they are using the techniques and technologies that they use to attract you to attract your children. the government has to step in. that's the cue for the government. >> what should the government do? >> i think this is the role of government, to protect us. nand times of severe change. and you know, they did that with the cigarette industry. they need to do that with the nedg -- technology industry. >> cigarettes, a strong comparison. >> it is a right comparison. >> cigarettes kill you. >> this is the right comparison that we can see that facebook can have very serious effects on society, the same way that cigarettes can. and i've been saying this, i think i said it at the world economic forum in davos in january for the

like seventy plus percent of the district distribution of news in this country is either facebook or google so if you have a government. group meeting with facebook to decide what news to distribute and what not that's essentially like a you know a government run censorship program and we've never had anything even close to that except in wartime in this country and this is this is it's an extraordinary development and so mad i got to ask you know that was an august before this you know eight hundred plus i purged took place did the reality of what we feared and what we were talking about in august live up to the expectation. yeah i think so i think it's i think that's starting we've already seen sort of across the board. the deletions of sites the completely span the political spectrum you've seen far right people removed you seen libertarians it's like police the police copwatch. the freethought project then you've seen pro-democratic sites like reverb press and liberal america and blue state daily they've they've all been removed from facebook so this is not a right versus left th

a couple times folks mentioned companies that go beyond twitter and facebook. and policies go beyond twitter and facebook and google reaching deeper into what we might call the stack of the internet. the internet service providers, verizons, comcasts of the world, at&ts, broadband providers that the bottom and a company like facebook or edge provider at the top of the stack. a lot of services in between those two in these policies don't reach all the way down the stack but do reach deeper than facebook, twitter and providers like that and paypal and strike, companies as well that provide a range of other activities. why did you think it was important to go deeper into the stack in this way? >> ultimately the reasoning goes back to how white supremacist and others use the web. they are very clever. these are not ignorant people when it comes to accessing every kind of technology platform they can get their hands on. they tend to be early doctors. people don't realize the first tape site went online in 1995, storm front and there was because they understood the o

facebook and whatsapp. it is the story is that comes out that are the outliers. that is the gun lobby defence. comes out that are the outliers. that is the gun lobby defencem comes out that are the outliers. that is the gun lobby defence. it is not, that is not true. what we are saying is we are understanding the problem, we are grappling with the problem, we are grappling with the problem, it is not a one—day process or even probably six months. we are sitting here out of a genuine desire to make an impact. when are the three companies trying to battle solutions for all of us to solve this problem. i work very closely with the head of news integrity at facebook and we have done training is together. last week, all the companies were together in the united states ahead of the election working together on these very issues. in the united states they we re issues. in the united states they were murmuring about this. i'm going to go back to the audience, i asked ifa to go back to the audience, i asked if a s

speak for facebook. for facebook as as a whole, or facebook india. i can do either. in india we do. in india we have recently made a new hire which we are announcing in a while. we have a committee of product policy... a committee. yes, because it is a multi—faceted problem. you have a head of finance, you have a head of sales, why, when you started by saying you are taking this seriously, why do you not have a head that is looking specifically at attacking the problem of fake news? because we need to look at this from all angles within the organisation. you can say that of sales or marketing, finance, any of those departments. specifically to the issue of misinformation, it is a multifaceted problem that requires product engineers as well as people who understand the policy and ecosystem who can talk and collaborate together. can i respond to that question? 0ur number one objective at twitter, that applies to the entire company, product, engineering, policy, everyone, is the health of the public conversation. you don't have somebody at board level... answer me another question th

the average wage on facebook is greater than $200,000. when you have 24000 people with a lot of investors putting in $100 billion you have extraordinary wealth creation and it's a great place to work they have a lot of resources. it is very agile. i would argue crisis management has been pretty poor with their recent actions but by all accounts i'm sure it's a great place to work but the key is when we have this conversation is it good for the country or good for the planet? >> host: you also write facebook may be the most successful thing in the history of mankind. >> sure. if it is a man-made thing that we invented and would not be produced organically i would argue facebook newsfeed is the most thing in history has been adopted by two.2 billion people that is more than capitalism, communism than coca-cola, it's difficult to find maybe with the exception of google any other man-made thing that has had that sort of usage or adoption. even the number of people who started the church of facebook it is greater than christianity. maybe socce

being on facebook for too long as far as i can see so far there's been no concrete answer from facebook as to how they're going to show that this doesn't happen again and for it to have been out there for days while this whole gruesome process was completed. seems you know it is the same story something that should take much more responsibility for and spend more of the profits are not actually making sure the platform is safe and is no abuse to the sake of human trafficking. an american restaurant chain has fund itself being dragged through a viral video maelstrom for a mother to refuse to serve a group of black men unless they prepaid for their food. boss is a mexican grill with disciplinary action until new information of merged was kill up and explain. what we had to do you never have money when you come in we. know. the reason lawsuit one of the customers said it was racist he said she's asking me for prove who income is if i'm getting a loan the apparently racist manager was fired this is to pull a statement regarding what happened to the simple restaurant the manager full these g

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of facebook shares. we're out there as facebook investors talking to other investors, markets to make the case of why it is time to have an independent board chair. that kind of public involvement is really critical. emily: some analysts have echoed your call. take a listen to this from brian weaver. >> there are massive managerial and cultural problems with the company, and i don't think -- they have not acknowledged that problem at the top of the company. they have not begun a top to bottom review of the company in terms of what they stand for culturally, ethnically, morally. emily: other analysts have recommended bringing in another experienced leader from the outside that people know. what did you think of that idea and who could that be? jonas: i certainly think there should be more independent leadership brought into the board of directors. who it should be? i hesitate playing the game of naming names but i think we know what kind of person we need to have in the chair role. it needs to be someone

referring to the fact that it's thanksgiving and you know what a lot of those fangs shares you know the facebook alphabet netflix google well they have a lot to be thankful for of course their stock prices aren't doing so well so the shareholders might not be thankful but the companies themselves have a lot to be thankful for in that how well they can play the american people thanks to having. one of the two parties in a two party system and sort of all about the lay of power be basically cover for them so we saw amazon in that spectacle. of them pretending that they were looking for h q two and getting two hundred thirty cities across america and some in canada to give them all sorts of you know proprietary information that nobody has access to about like how many people live there what sort of income they have how many people are in the house all sorts of information like that. where it was always going to be jeff bezos determining where he was going to be closest to power financial power in new york city and political power in d.c. and in particular next to the pentagon and the cia so you kno

emily: and worries about facebook as well. julie verhage, thanks so much for bringing us up to date. mark zuckerberg is once again speaking out for his coo. here's what he had to say on cnn. >> sheryl sandberg is an important part of this company and is leading the efforts to address the biggest issues we have. she has been an important partner for me for 10 years. i'm really proud of the work we have done together. i hope we work together for decades more to come. emily: to talk more about the continued issues with facebook, we have sarah frier. the interview on cnn, zuckerberg really did not go much further than what he has already said. what was your big takeaway? sarah: i think the big takeaway here is that sheryl, for the first time, is being hit a lee from this article. in the past few months, you and i have discussed where has she been in the public conversation, is she doing more behind the scenes work, where does sheryl fit into all of this. we have heard a lot of calls for mark zuckerberg to step down but it has not

liz: a new facebook face plant. facebook got a lot of applause a couple months ago for its new war room to battle propaganda, fake news and problematic political ads. but facebook has already lost its first battle. business insider reporting that they successfully ran two fake political ads on facebook. and they even listed it as paid for by cambridge analytica. that's the defunct political consultantsy that got facebook into a lot of trouble. vince, what do you make of this new problem? >> facebook got brow beaten into submission because they get blamed for donald trump winning. one of the many reasons donald trump supposedly won is that facebook was unfairly manipulated in a way that allowed him to win. facebook became instead a forum for open communication now has a team of orwellian censors. and they are not great at their jobs. they allowed ads to get through by isis and mike pence. but they stopped the ones that said hillary clinton. liz: social media is meant to shape what we think and what we read. do you th

are they still the right people to be running facebook right now or is it time for them to step aside well one of the peculiarities of facebook is that it's the only public corporation that's large and is effectively controlled by one person and it in a sense that's an oxymoron a public corporation should have a powerful board it should have power powerful shareholders and the fact that there isn't governance is the first issue that it's a one man shop is really really not ok it's not ok for the world it's not even in the spirit of capitalism i think it's really anti market it's anti-democratic so you should study the side and make it more democratic and capitalist i think it would be good for the world if he stepped aside but the point is that there's no mechanism for him to do so. yeah last year mark zuckerberg said facebook's mission is to give people the power to build a community and bring the world closer together given these recent revelations given your own research in this field do you buy that. well you know from my perspective having participated in the creation of the inte

facebook as well well it's become a bit a battle between politicians and the social media giant facebook has faced a lot of criticism this year for using algorithms that may have prioritized misleading news and misinformation in people's feeds the start of a happened apparently during the u.s. presidential election in twenty sixteen now in march it was reported that cambridge and that's a car british political consulting firm harvested data from millions of uses and much of that scandal resulted in many wondering how much would they use facebook prompting some to leave the site altogether now severed by the pew research center note that how americans are changing their relationship with facebook and the research shows that young adults between eighteen and twenty nine have cut back the time they spend on facebook fifty four percent say they have adjusted their privacy settings in the past twelve months and most notably forty four percent of younger uses that aged eighteen to twenty nine said that they deleted the facebook app from their phone in the past year and that's nearly four times

it's called facebook portal and this is one of the newest items created by facebook at the smart display it's meant to compete with amazon and google there's a built in camera here you can make video calls with your friends and the camera automatically tracks your movements and follows you around the room so if that is. creepy enough the privacy policy here according to facebook the portal collects information about your chats like how long you call and how often and uses that information then to target you with ads on facebook and instagram so again maybe something most consumers would know if i look at the product and some of the others they do seem to me to be very convenient for hands free talking with family things like that do customers really care in other words are they willing to put convenience over some the security issue and that's the question i think there is like there's a growing amount of awareness about data privacy especially after all the relevation is with facebook this year but i think you nailed it is really a decision ok july value convenience more or privacy more

facebook under fire yet again. why a former employee is going public with claims that the company has a racism problem. but first, president trump has been on the warpath over gm's thousands of jobs and shut down five factories in the united states am a floating the idea of new tariffs, tweeting -- this after he threatened to cut gm subsidies, including those on electric vehicles. we saw tesla's shares jumped tuesday. joining us to does all of this, .avid welsh and celine marcy david, i want to start with you. what do you make of this? not just the tax credit issue, but the tariffs issue and the uncertainty? what does it mean for gm and other automakers? david: trump was not clear on what he meant by ringback the chicken tax. if you were to put that on cars, does that punish g.m. somehow? only if he would redo nafta and he has already reached an agreement with canada and mexico on a differently named nafta but it is still very much like the nafta that companies have lived with. gm brings in about a million vehicles

you look at what is going on with brands like facebook, facebook is the new cigarette, it is addictive, it is not good for you, there are people who are trying to get you to use it that you don't understand what is going on. the government needs to step. in the government needs to know what is happening. and we had a child scream that cues me to say facebook for kid, they are using the techniques and technologies that they use to attract you to attract your children. the government has to step in. that's the cue for the government. >> what should the government do? >> i think this is the role of government, to protect us. nand times of severe change. and you know, they did that with the cigarette industry. they need to do that with the -- technology industry. >> cigarettes, a strong comparison. >> it is a right comparison. >> cigarettes kill you. >> this is the right comparison that we can see that facebook can have very serious effects on society, the same way that cigarettes can. and i've been saying this, i think i said it at the world economic forum in davos in january for the firs

. >>> and it's a similar story for facebook. that stock today fell more than 5.5% to its lowest level since february of last year. it's now down about 13% since the start of november and abouts 38%ce its most recent peak in july. and today there were new reports of a more aggressive style by ceo mark zuckerberg and increased tensions between him and chief operating officer sharyl sandberg. julia boorsti takes aook at the growing list of challenges oocing facebook. >> reporter: fac may have avoided manipulation around the recent mid term elections, but the negative headlines moun the latest this weekend about conflict in the company's highest ranks. facebook faces five major challenges, first blocking fake news and preventing manipulation, which has been driving everything from violence in myanmar to attempted voter suppression. second, the platform continues to gird against data hacks and breaches. as recently as thursday evening instagram told millions of users a security flaw could have inadvertently exposed their passwords. t

. >> facebook c.o.o. sheryl sandberg denying theeports of mismanagement at the company, writing on her facebook panl, to suggest that westeren't inte in knowing the truth or we wanted to hide what we knew or that we tried to prevent investigions is simply untrue. but sator mark warner says he is disappointed with facebook's management. >> what they said is, yeah we want to workutith you when we get to specifics there is not been a lot of give on the side. wild e notion that t wild west days of no regulation at all,rdo g rails, just ka can no longer exist. >> senator warr is isn't the only one calling for regulation. floor senators klobuchar, olummen that you will, corns and hirono wrote the department of justices urging expanded instigation into facebook and cambridge analytica.ac salging thatook took steps to undermine efforts to hold them resp sible, including hiring partisan political consultants to spread eosinformation aboute criticizing facebook. definers the d.c. based theunications firm to which s

being on facebook for too long as far as i can see so far there's been no concrete answer from facebook as to how they're going to show that this doesn't happen again and for it to have been out there for days while this whole gruesome process was completed. seems you know it's a mystery something that should take much more responsibility for and spend more of the profits are not actually making sure the platform is safe and is no abuse to the sake of human trafficking. how guilty are they guilty in the u.s. almost three in ten of those exonerated by d.n.a. tests previously confessed but why the interrogation deals. issue and it's next.