what is facebook's approach to solving local news? >> for me the "washington post" is local news because i grew up here and i read it and remember what it felt like to have local news when our high school team would be mentioned. that feeling of local news is so important. it's important to me. i have a lot of local news i care about. it is important to facebook. it's not just a little team that cares about news. facebook's core mission is community and building community. and local news is one of the most important ways you can actually build community. we've seen people come together around local news in a way that i think it would be devastating if it were somehow lost. the whole reason we're here is we know what peril it's in. it's also important for democracy. we have a responsibility and we've increasingly worked on our investments in helping build a stronger democracy. but the last reason is it's an unmet need. we just know we can be helpful. ic talk about some of the specifics. >> you're not handing money to publishers. there'

election on facebook so you have to believe it is an attractive target on facebook. emily: bloomberg is reporting that facebook is settling with the ftc does not include the ongoing investigations happening with the states and that in total, this whole ftc probe could cost facebook $5 billion. so, more than that $3 billion they are now setting aside. your reaction? $5 billion is a lot of money. debra: yes, it is. and to david's point earlier, there could be additional settlements in europe and other places outside the u.s. this is something facebook is going to be dealing with. over the course of this year and perhaps even into next year. we are going to be seeing a lot of changes in the way facebook will need to operate. that could potentially lead to changes in the way marketers use facebook. and the way people use facebook and the way facebook is perceived around the world. emily: amazon also reported first-quarter results with investors focusing on profit growth, advertising, and the cloud. here is some early reaction. after amazon posted earnings this week. >> w

and op ed by facebook founder mark site. burden is raising eyebrows the social media giants founder claims that there needs to be more control over social networks from governments around the world like a bird called for four different policy areas that governments should focus on harmful content election integrity privacy and data portability was october and did not call for predictably breaking up giant tech companies and that might make since joining me now to discuss facebook's future its role in the indian elections conservative commentator steve malzberg and our t.v. producer brant aboard guys thanks for being here. so steve i'll start with you you know zuckerberg sounds pretty self-serving i got to tell you he's calling for greater regulation because it sounds like what he's really saying is this it's easier to regulate one giant company like facebook than to control lots of smaller companies and that kind of sounds like the poster child for cronyism does it not. yet it kind of does and i'm not surprised you key phras

facebook never has. facebook could very, very easily start to face major legal problems too. there are certainly legal problems underway. none of them have resulted in massive fines yet. zuckerberg has begun to adopt this idea of this language of having a privacy-focused vision, which is nice. he better start delivering on it. if i can mention one thing that could happen, there is a possibility in the u.k. that new laws may begin to be imposed that no one under 18 can have any data gathered about them or be targeted in any way for digital advertising. if that happens, that is going to be a huge cost because these companies don't really have an ability to differentiate between who is above and below 18 in many cases, so there are very complex issues that wall street seems to be more or less disregarding. emily: europe has been out front on tech regulation and tech companies than the u.s. has thus far, but speaking to the privacy pivot, zuckerberg did mention that in the earnings release, saying they are focused on building out privacy focus visions. working collaboratively aro

on facebook the irish privacy regulators just today announcing that they are looking into facebook's potential violations canada's privacy commissioner hosting a press conference about its investigation today into facebook, what it calls the company's major shortcomings when it comes to privacy reform. the commissioner saying that regulators need stronger sanctioning power including the ability to levy meaningful fines on facebook. this comes as senator elizabeth warren tweeted about facebook saying fines like this won't stop them from breaking the law and violating our privacy again, it will take big structural change, #bringup big tech. zuckerberg has said he welcomes regulation and they are working with regulators all around the world, but worth noting he doesn't want anyone breaking up his company. back to you. >> julia, thank you. facebook of course key future this morning, certainly a positive response. let's stick with the name and bring in mark thand john thanks for being with us mark, i'll start with you. anything negative to say about the quarter? >> well, yeah, growth is s

at facebook headquarters. it's 11:00 a.m. on wall street and "squawk alley" is live. ♪ ♪ >>> good tuesday morning. welcome to "squawk alley." i'm carl quintanilla with mookie betts and jon fortt. major averages in the red across the board and what is turning out to be the worst month of the dow and s&p. it's much larger than boeing this time although dow session low was minus 237 and you can see we're 50 points above that level right now. >> coming into the hour, apple is higher by about a percent and disney as well. that's all the good news in the dow at this point. >> industrial, energy stocks seem to be leading everything lower right now. boeing a drag but also some of the big industrial names in part because of the imf coming out and lowering it's global growth forecast. you got disappointing numbers from pent air as well. >> we'll learn a lot more about that on friday. tech executives from facebook and google back on the hill today. this week marks a year since mark zuckerberg testified on the company's data practice

health sector with danielle shay she's the director operators over at simpler trading and once again facebook is under fire this time on the other side of the globe as a social media giant role in the indian election is now coming under scrutiny conservative t.v. and radio commentator steve molesworth and archie producer of bridgeable or dive into the details and tell us what this means for the world's largest democracy all that straight ahead but first let's do some headlines. let's start here a demean outlook for a fracturing world market in twenty one thousand so the world trade organization significantly downgrades their regular forecast on growth in global trade the latest trade in statistics outlook at lowers their expectations for global trade growth this year predicting two point six percent growth for twenty nineteen that's down from the previous forecast of three point seven. in a statement w t o director general referred to us of a toe he cited familiar international trade tensions for the revision by the same token the w t o set of problems resolution of those fights could remove

to changes in the way marketers use facebook, the way people use facebook and the way facebook's perceived around the world. this is a pretty momentous moment. bloomberg also reporting that facebook is close to a settlement. at least making some progress toward finding common ground on what exactly faced look did wrong. what is your take? is this going to be a one-time thing? or is this going to continue to happen? in general it is going to continue to happen because we have heard the rhetoric shift, but facebook got caught unawares by a huge range its system that it did not have the governance to prevent and it is now furiously backpedaling, trying to implement governance in areas of its business that did not have governance before. i think that there are many parts of it that are going to be extremely hard to fix. i would say the problems would continue. i still tip my hat to them for their execution of their business. on the other hand, they have to fix these problems. they do not have a choice. emily: david, thank you. debra, we will continue to follow facebook's earnings call as it ha

this was the beginning of google and less than a decade later facebook they would make a new promise to humanity what i think so interesting about google and facebook is they were founded at american universities as stanford universe. city you had two students larry page and sergey brin decide they wanted to create the ultimate search engine for the internet across the country you had in the case of facebook mark zuckerberg who was a student at harvard decided he wanted to create a social media platform basically to meet girls and to make friends and hence we got facebook you never think that you could build this company or anything like that right because i didn't just college students or i didn't matter just building stuff because we thought it was cool it was all about the promise it was all about the shiny future was all about the free flow of information but there was also a certain idealism behind it i think that a company like google we have the potential to make very big differences many big positive differences in the world and i think we also have an obligation as a consequ

don't require facebook to change the way it does is business and want impact facebook's profitability. regulators need to get involved but they do not need to take advice from mark zuckerberg. emily: what will fix the problem? sally: i think interoperability would be a big way to allow entry into competition, which the -- forings like example, verizon wireless phone can communicate with and at&t phone. allowing communication between networks could allow competition to open up. data portability will not do that. where will i take my data to? any to be where my friends are. that is my interoperability is a better solution. competitorspis for in a secure way is another proposal that has been made. the integration of whatsapp, instagram, and messenger that is planned should be prohibited by the ftc. and those deals should be online. -- unwound. there are questions about whether the ftc would have oversight of this marriage of the backend of facebook messenger, instagram, whatsapp. how are we expecting these investigations to play out? it will likely be years. right? be difficult to, -- ke

i don't use facebook. i can't bring myself to use it even though i feel since i'm researching this field i need to come to keep up with them. but i found as a revelation to come up, i just find that feel so bad faith to me. i find it uncomfortable to use it. i use duck duck go which is a privacy protecting site. i feel better about it but google has a lot of features that are hard to beat. i got slightly lost on the way here but google maps is sort of invaluable. like everyone i think i'm in this balance. part of the challenge of our times i think is developing a sense, as we have in other industries, about our consumption choices matter. i think that ten years ago most of us were just like facebook, google, amazon, these companies can do no wrong. here comes the future. i love it. and that is part of the way they became monopolies. it was sort of like, well, they are the best and why would you need an alternative to google? it's just so great. but i believe just like in other areas, eating or the kind of

party investigates the links between the us government and facebook and social media giant introduces its new general council which includes a legal advisor at the u.s. state department also to come. to cox and kill. the roots to shoot and kill. a prominent bodyguard from germany reveals how berlin's become unhappy sense of criminal ethnic clans and why it is so difficult to deal with the issue and she sees a nationwide day of mourning in following the weekend's bombing attacks you trust the scenes and i know of killed three hundred ten people. there just gone ten i am here in moscow you watching r.t. international questions are being raised over the growing links between facebook and the u.s. government that is the space social media giant announced it's hired the state department's legal advisor as its general counsel and vice president of communications according to the company's statement jennifer jennifer newstead poor . i received facebook's global legal functions she has already enjoyed a long career in the u.s. administration serving in the state and justice departments was al

messages during an election isn't facebook itself affecting the outcome of the election. i couldn't agree with you more especially in a country like india with three hundred million users and facebook is a big political tool probably a lot bigger than here in the united states and they make that decision as a site to decide here who's going to get bad and who is going to be able to stay who's going to be deemed to be hate speech and hateful but to what extent taking their side for a second there they've instituted ways of identifying the people who post these ads many of the removed ads in india's election for instance supposedly are linked to india's opposition congress and sums to the pakistani military and then they they falsely you know they portray themselves as somebody else so at least they're taking steps they say and we have to go on their word to identify these people who are lying and pull the ads out and you know if it's going to work i don't know but you're right when they're in charge of the candy store they get this they get to decide what's on the candy st

government and facebook as the social media giant introduces its new general counsel who is a legal adviser at the u.s. state department. for the monthly average of cults and kills if they have a good reason to kill. plus a famous bodyguard from germany it reveals how berlin has become an epicenter for criminal ethnic clans and why it's so difficult to deal with the issue. you're watching r t international bringing you in your live news update from our studio here in moscow where it's just turned three pm welcome to the program. we have breaking news this hour as anticipation is growing over the upcoming meeting between a lot of air putin and kim jong un and according to an r.t. source it will take place in the city of logical stalk and russia's far east this thursday moscow and pyongyang have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leader secret. talk following the preparations. on any other day you would see a beautiful bridge behind my shoulder but now it's all completely covered in fog in fact the whole city of light of all stock is covere

we start with facebook. it's continuing to grow — to make more money — and to attract more users despite ongoing concerns about privacy on its platforms. facebook says revenues were just over $15 billion in the three months to march, that's a jump of 26% on this time last year and better than wall street was expecting. it's benefiting from a surge in advertising spending on the platform, and a growth in instagram. but it's warning it could face a hit of up to $5 billion as it settles us investigations into its handling of users‘ data after the cambridge analytica scandal. it's already spent $3 billion in legal expenses this quarter. those privacy concerns clearly aren't putting people off facebook, the number of people using it at least once a month is 2.38 billion, up 8% on this time last year. more than 1.5 billion people log on every day. facebook shares slumped lastjuly when it reported disappointing revenue numbers and warned user growth was slowing. investors wiped $120 billion off its market val

susan li on facebook. what will we see on facebook? susan: profit miss. 88 cents. called for $1.63 which is down from earnings and profits year-over-year. from 2018. beat on revenues to 15.8 billion. something closer to 15. 14.98 billion to be exact. as you see we're up in after-hours. active users this is pretty significant here because monthly active users we were looking something close to 3.274. we got 3.28 billion for fontly active users. daily active users a beat, 1.95 billion. the estimate we got, 1.96 billion. they continue to grow their platforms. that is pretty significant for social media site and company like facebook. guys? connell: that number, you think, susan that is comparable, 88 cents versus -- susan: 85 cents. that is comparable what we see now. a miss on the bottom line because margins came down a lot. 22%, a little over 20%, compared to 40% a year ago. as facebook has told us, telustrated to the markets we'll spend more to monitor sites to make sure there is no violent content, no harrassment. we've been expecting this. that is probably hittin

this is what makes facebook a surveillance monster show facebook does not have users facebook has used people have facebook uses i'm not one of them i have never had a facebook account and i'm never going to. face spies on people even who don't have a cat ok let me ask you this why should people be worried about data that the social networks collects about them i mean that the data i use is a bulk with it the amount of it is so huge you can't really do anything with it it's not really personalized is it that's not true that's not true facebook personalizes people and makes that data available for manipulating them and it can discover things that people may not wish to have generally known to businesses such as if they're pregnant or if they're gay you know in some countries in the world you can get killed if the state figures out that you're gay. facebook is used to carry out. a nation of racial discrimination in job offers and housing and so it can hurt people in lots of ways and this is not to mention the fact that the u.s. government can collect all of that data at any time and find

adults in america spend about 17% of their time on facebook. that is about one-fifth less than two years earlier, according to pivotal research. facebook will be regulated by governments in europe and likely here as well. roger mcnamee's new book "zucked," which just came out, discusses using antitrust laws to actually break facebook into pieces. facebook will probably experience the hobbling of its business swagger that microsoft experienced 20 years ago. i understand now, some people now are embarrassed to work there. it will be harder to track and retain talent, and this will create opportunities for new entrants. so we have an opportunity today through our choices to select and shape the news platforms of tomorrow. there is apple news, an aggregation service which already reaches 90 million readers every month. flipboard quietly chugs along. it has 145 million readers a month. reddit last year had 330 million monthly users, putting it above at or above the level of twitter. interestingly, in the case of reddit, it is human moderation rather

questions being raised over the growing links between facebook and the u.s. government as the social media giant announced that the u.s. state department's legal advisor as its general counsel and vice president of communications the company says that jennifer newstead will oversee facebook's global legal functions you stead has had a long career in u.s. government service with both the state and justice departments she was part of the team that drafted the controversial patriot act expanding government surveillance powers following the nine eleven attacks. the new appointment comes amid unprecedented pressure on facebook to tackle the spread of misinformation and fake news on its platform that is used on a fix a closer look at the firm's fact checking and fears over its trustworthiness. for the past two years facebook has been trying to convince the public it is taking a stand against fake news the program has been battered by controversies from criticism over how it's implemented to claims the impact it makes is little to none so how does facebook fact chec

facebook this morning. it's defending itself against accusations of political bias an article posted monday on the tech news site gizmodo said facebook workers suppressed conservative leaning news stories in its trending section and that creates a terrible dynamic when it comes to the consumption of information and news because it leads us to only see the world in a very very small and narrow way it makes us easier to control and easier to be manipulate. the. i think what's so troubling about google and facebook is you don't know what you don't know and while the internet provides a lot of openness in the sense that you have access to all this information the fact of the matter is you have basically two gatekeepers facebook and google which control what we have access to news organizations have to be prepared that their home pages are less important people are using. they're using twitter as their own those. are their portals world of information google and facebook started out as internet companies and it

facebook's world is all about facebook. all the stories in the last few weeks tell you again and again and again that facebook has only one incentive, to look out for facebook user. users are just pawns. emily: you deleted your facebook, but still use instagram. om: once or twice a month. emily: do you think instagram or whatsapp can be the hope for facebook, the future? om: i see what is happening at instagram, and they are becoming more facebook-like, so it is only a matter of time before i delete that account. emily: all right. om, if you could predict where facebook is next year, what do you predict? om: right here. we are all complaining about their actions. they are still making money. we should do something about it. emily: i should correct myself earlier, jennifer newstead is credited with writing parts of the patriot act, not john pinette. it will be interesting to see how both new hires work out for facebook. obviously, we have seen a lot of executive turnover. two new players on the chessboard. true ventures part

so i don't think facebook is really succeeded on the merits. i think facebook succeeded by accumulating enormous amounts of data and by buying up its greatest competitors, and i think it could stand a little more competition. so i don't think this is a simple story of just companies winning on their merits. i think we have, there's been too much of a sort of free pass on antitrust law for some of the tech companies, and it's time to take a serious look and horse them to face the same can of rules that apply to other companies. >> host: and amazon and google also bought several companies between them, correct? >> guest: yes, that's right. if i'm not mistaken, facebook has 73 acquisitions unchalleng unchallenged, but if i'm not -- amazon has over 90. they bought diapers.com which at one point was a series competitor, also that you company, zap bows, if i get the name right. they have a whole bunch of acquisitions as well. google has over 200 acquisitions. the case is little harder, i'll be straight with you, on amazon and google. i think they als

so facebook sort of has a-- something of an image problem. do you feel that that has led inside to a siege mentality? and i'm thinking of things like the headlines we saw earlier this year about efforts to investigate whether george soros had an incentive for attacki attacking? >> there's so much in there. i think to your question whether there's a siege mentality, you know, it may be surprising, there isn't. and i think there's so many people at facebook who went to the company, you know, like audrey said, in the bay area, a lot of idealistic people who went there because they wanted to help connect the world. i went there to learn a lot about the news industry, but also because my whole life has been dedicated to helping people get the news and information they want and need. there's so many things that we should have done differently in recent years and that i know we're working hard to fix. and it's not to downplay the mistakes. the last few years, things we could have changed, but the people i work with, anyway, are so committed to doing

what facebook has done is changed how people consume news. pay, it is fine, but what i would really appreciate is stopping what i think is disingenuous appreciation of local news. they trained people to use their products because people were opting in to get my news. that's how they wanted to receive it. it was convenient. to throw up our arms and say, this is hard, gosh, russians gosh, white supremacists, is i think intellectually lazy and has done more to hurt this country then anything else in media over the last generation. [applause] >> the last question is for all of you. sarah, what makes you hopeful about the future of local news? directlye ability to impact people in a profound and way, that sustainable can really change and benefit people's lives. i tell our newsroom, our job is to earn new readers and save the world. i won't be the last editor of the sen. scott: chronicle. -- san francisco chronicle. it's important for all of us in the industry to do a better job evangelizing what we do and how we save the world every day. greta: i

facebook's ties to the u.s. government to question the top state department official will have more in the story after the break. the housing crisis was the result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times and the like goldman sachs was. clients and they were engaged in massive fraud again. timothy geithner it is friends and now they go of that controlled demolition of the housing market is that all the housing is concentrated in a few as like blackstone as a gift from their friends of the central banks and the result is medieval doesn't. seem wrong. just don't hold. anything. yet to shape out these days becomes active. and engaged equals betrayal. many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back berlin has become home to some of the biggest criminal clans in the world that's according to one of the city's most famous bodyguards. michael korda is a world kick boxing champion and while he claims to favor multiculturalism he's worried current migration policie

investigates the links between the us government and facebook as a social media giant introduces its general counsel a legal advisor at the u.s. state department. is using its. culture and if they have it they're ready to shoot you a high profile german bodyguard reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the clans making berlin a hotbed of ethnic crime. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h two in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. anticipation is growing over the upcoming talks between bottom of putin and kim jong un the kremlin has confirmed they will take place in the city of let us talk in russia's forty s. this thursday moscow n.p.n. yang have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leaders secret. lot of us talk following the preparations. on any other day you would see a beautiful bridge behind my shoulder but now it's all completely covered in fog in fact the whole city of vladivostok is covered in fog which is i guess a perfect display a perfect reflection of all the secrecy surrounding the summi

are to investigate the links between the us government and facebook as the social media giant introduces its new general counsel a legal adviser at the u.s. state department. is using if they have them. if they have that they're ready to shoot at you. and a high profile german bodyguard reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the clans making berlin a hotbed of crime. you're watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned five pm welcome to the program. breaking news this hour as anticipation is growing over the upcoming talks between vladimir putin and kim jong un the kremlin has confirmed they will take place in the city of lot of us stuck in russia's far east this thursday moscow n.p.r. have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leader secret. isn't a lot of us stuck following the preparations. on any other day you would see a beautiful bridge behind my shoulder but now it's all completely covered in fog in fact the whole city of light of all stock is covered in. fog which is i guess a p

i don't think facebook has succeeded on the merit. i think facebook succeeded by accumulating in lawrence amounts of data and by buying the greatest competitors. i think you could stand a little more competition and i don't think this is a simple story of companies winning on merits. i think we have -- there been too much of a free pass on the antitrust law for some of the tech companies and is time to take a serious look and force them to face the same rules that apply to other companies. >> amazon and google have also bought several companies between them correct? >> yes, that's right. facebook has 73 acquisitions unchallenged. amazon has over 90. the about their competitor. the shoe company samples and they have a whole bunch of apparition as well. google has over 200 acquisitions. i think the case is a little harbor. amazon and google they also make a product that seems superior to the competitors but overall my messages we need to have an economy where the big companies play by the same rules of the little ones. facebook a partic

emily: facebook c.o.o. saying there are half a billion people using stories daily saying there is value for businesses on instagram and facebook. when it comes to stories, the additional opportunities, she says, is big. jitendra: so next two quarters they'll keep transitioning but more things coming online. ecommerce is a big avenue. fourth quarter, if they end up merging these platforms, messenger, they will have more across the board. basically they could take those stories and drive growth ahead of expectations. so fourth quarter is looking good. next two quarters will be gradual transition that they have been managing for the last two quarters. emily: facebook on the call getting questions about this big f.t.c. fine. take a listen to what the c.f.o. just had to say. >> to the ongoing settlement discussions that we're having with the f.t.c., this matter is not resolved so the actual amount of payment remains uncertain. however, we're estimating this range of loss be $3 billion to $5 billion. can't really

facebook put its best foot forward. the social network shifts its emphasis to private communication. we will speak to the vice president of facebook messenger. fears that advertisers are away fromrom spending the search giant. apple shares rising in after-hours trading, up nearly 5% on the company's second-quarter earnings report as it continues to transition to a services company,. revenue reached a high of $11.5 billion. apple is launching a plethora of new services, like streaming video, video games, improved news subscription. the biggest revenue driver remains the iphone, which saw the man stabilize -- saw demand stabilize. for more on these results, i want to bring in an analyst. so interested by these numbers. share price saw big movement after hours. they are giving us a bigger dividend of share buybacks. these are still falling revenues, falling earnings per share, falling iphone sales. julie: it sounds like another boring quarter for apple. i think it is the same news every quarter. more seriously, the things

amazon, facebook, google, and so forth. but frankly if you look a little more carefully, you look at industries like the airline industry, if you look at cable television, if you look at more obscure industries like fertilizer, more and more global and american industries are dominated either by a single mon op list or an olfwarky of three or four, sometimes five players. and we are in the period of concentration which is unprecedented since the last guilded age. and that's one of the motivations for me in writing this book was to explore the fact that we are back in some ways from where we came. >> in your book the curse of bigness you write that we are four decades into major political and an economic experiment. what do you mean by that? guilded age, irst as a reaction to the first guilded age, i should say, driven by men like louis brand yice theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, other figures, the united states adopted the policy of breaking the largest companies into pieces, the anti-trust movement and the anti-trust la

i don't think facebook has merits.ucceeded on the i think facebook succeeded by accumulating enormous amounts of buying up its greatest competitors. little it could stand a more competition. so i don't think this is a simple story of just companies merits.on their i think we have a -- there's a sort of freef pass on the anti-trust law for some of the tech companies. take a seriouso look and force them to face the same kind of rules that apply to companies. >> and amazon and google have also bought several companies between them, correct? >> yes, that's right. if i'm not mistaken, facebook 73 acquisitions unchallenged. if -- amazon has over 90. they bought diapers.com, which a seriousnt was competitor. also the shoe company, zappos, if i've got the name right. they've got a whole bunch of acquisitions as well. google has over 200 acquisitions. i think the case is a little hardeharder -- i'm be straight h straight with you, on amazon and google. i think they also make a product superior to many of their competitors. but overall, my message is that to have an economy where companies play

marriage -- facebook message, instagram. how are we expecting these investigations to play out? because, it will likely be years, right? selina: it can be difficult to keep up with a number of global investigations going on. and that's what stage of the process they are at. they are looking into unwinding parts of facebook. that will be complex and drawn out. many experts say that integrating the back end actually makes it harder for regulators to be able to separate the data. there is also concern that section 230 may be under pressure. this is the law that exempts these social platforms for being liable for the content on their platforms. if that was rolled back, it could have a really big impact on facebook. but we are already seeing other governments move ahead with regulation even as the u.s. stalls. we just reported for instance that singapore is coming out with new laws that would hold companies like facebook liable for false information and force them to take them down and show the corrections are making. emily: are

government and facebook is the social media giant introduces its new general council which includes a legal advisor at the u.s. state department also to come up. with ready to cut and kill if they haven't gone the route to shoot and kill a famous bodyguard from germany reveals how berlin has become an epi center for criminal ethnic clans and why it is so difficult to deal with the issue plus the death toll from sri lanka's sunday forming attacks climbs to three hundred ten the country's government trying to prevent the spread of false information over the atrocity by temporarily blocking social media. hello they're just gone eleven am here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now questions are being raised over the growing links between facebook and the us government that is the social media giant announced it's hired the state department's legal advisor as its general counsel and vice president of communications according to the company's statement jennifer knew stead will oversee facebook's global legal functions she has already enjoyed a long career in the u.s. administrati

now. >> we continue to watch facebook shares, high for the year, $177.96. we're about a buck away from that and we said they continue to do better overall. >> facebook if you go back to last year, the highway what, about $220 you have some head room but it's a stubborn bid for the overall market and these kinds of stocks are emblematic of the fact people just want exposure to the big, obvious stuff >> a couple days now, it's hard-pressed to get far away from the flatline. >> it has. >> is that because we're waiting buy nary outcomes? >> the jobs and that has to end. we will see where it ends up >> jobs report tomorrow and next week we get some of the earnings. >> and look for tesla in court obviously and president and vice premier. let's get to the judge carl, thanks, scott wapner we're on high watch, stocks trying to edge closer to new territory. is it time to believe a china deal is close? what would that really mean to the larally if one is? it's 12:00 noon and this is the halftime report. >>> market mover, a pivotal day in the trade deal with the u.s. a

facebook's data. facebook says the documents were cherry picked from a court case involving a little known start-up writing, the sets of documents by design tells only one side of the story and omits important context. we still stand by the platform changes we made in 2014, 2015. facebook has made a greater push to address privacy issues, like the data of 87 million users that was improperly shared with political consulting firm cambridge analytica. it put zuckerberg on the hot seat on capitol hill. >> it was my mistake and i'm sorry. i started facebook, i run it and at the end of the day i'm responsible for what happens here. >> reporter: still, some say facebook's past attempts to trade and sell user data raise more questions. >>> the opening bell there of the new york stock exchange right now the dow is up 39 points and a lot of investors are talking these days. stock rate is higher today as corporate earning season kicks into full gear. now that april 15th is in the rear view, we're getting insigh