beginning at 8:00 eastern on c-span3. now, producers of the pbs documentary "the facebook dilemma," talk about their investigation into the social media platform and its impact on global privacy and democracy. stanford university hosted this event. it's an hour and 25 minutes. >> so, tonight's symposium follows the mantra, think globally, act locally. sitting here in encina hall, we're five miles from one hacker way, the headquarters of facebook. this social media platform has great local impact. barrier students strive to intern there. alums build careers there and faculty offer the company both consulting insights and criticism. the decisions made by facebook in menlo park echo across the world, affecting the platform's more than 2 billion monthly active users. last october, pbs aired a two-hour documentary entitled, "the facebook dilemma," which investigated the company's impact on democracy across the globe. tonight, we're very fortunate to have three people involved in that reporting project to explore the story behind the story, including the particular challenges in covering a pow

is more important is some of the resignations we are seeing coming up on facebook. >> putting out a note on facebook saying that chris cox is deciding to leave the company. he has built out the first hr companies. he has trained a lot of people who currently work at facebook. he also mentioned burying -- burying the lead. chris daniels is also departing the company. he was running the business development team, among other things. joe: is the business week cover story this week. some turnover see of major positions within the executive branch. caroline: they will be integrating the backend of that and others.er they also got a new head of facebook app. so we have more people coming up. shares are moving lower after hours on this news. i know we cannot go deep into individual subjects, but the san francisco facebook is such a juggernaut in terms of the ecosystem there. privacy and the way it deals with harassment and if -- misinformation. >> as you described, i cannot go into specific details of the country. in general, i would say that any conversation that has to do with withcy, so

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up the big tech, some of these mergers. for example, facebook bought whatsapp, instagram. she talked about amazon and zappos. she has a list of deals she will take a closer look at. she's taking a look at some of the big trust busting cases in history. when these companies start to operate like a platform, like utility, and they are competing as part of that platform or with those platform participants, that is where she is also looking for some kind of way to separate out those businesses. for example, amazon. amazon is a case she keeps coming back to. that is a case where amazon has created this huge marketplace for millions of sellers to peddle their wares, and amazon is also a competitor. emily: amazon is selling its own batteries, baby wipes. tom: exactly. i just noticed she cited our colleague's story that he wrote about a couple of years ago that says once amazon sees your product is gaining traction, gaining popularity, amazon has a way of creating its own white labeled version of that and creates this competitive atmosphere for its marketplace participants. emily: talked abo

♪ emily: i am emily chang and this is "bloomberg technology." hundreds of millions of facebook passwords, visible to its employees. the social network admits to an egregious flaw dating all the way back to january. plus, amazon has been beta testing video apps on ios for months, the latest attempt to grab a bigger chunk of the $129 billion digital ad market dominated by google and facebook. lyft's ipo roadshow kicks off this week, as the ride-hailer gets ready for what could be the biggest u.s. public debut so far this year. we will discuss the prospects with some early investors. first, our top story. another day, another facebook controversy. the social network admits the passwords of hundreds of millions of facebook users were visible to employees at the company from as early as january. the login credentials stored in a non-encrypted, readable format that any facebook employee could read. facebook disclose the flaw after the security blog krebs on security reported on it based on a so-called internal source, and thursday facebook said the problem has been resolved and "to b

facebook page. asking for help because. they saw that they'd sin and they were obviously they didn't want to call. saw initially see a little tiny boy it was about two or three on the video with a man talking to him which i not say. and then he was hit him and punched him it was so him about and the newest stomping kicking on him and then not be so the video or call saul. l.f. if. absolutely nothing apart from a sickening feeling you've just you've seen some autonomy little boy. i mean you know you start from that. but they are. not just out of their hair the noise. you are so he can get out your ass is literally all you say and that's all you think about is a little why and why he's a in the way he's a named him and you have all the videos as i said i am i did initially and we received my message back saying it didn't violate. some conditions. as it is are. there left off wasn't made. no gray area but this is so interesting to the mob stuff yeah because it's so obvious he's still technically only on the go for all reporter asks another moderate so why he thinks some graphic content

entirely up to facebook. and it started off in us colleges and then we launched in us high schools and a little bit in us corporations and since when we opened up the site actually last ember of sex. started exploding internationally when i first met zuck he was twenty two years old and from that moment forward for a period of about three years i was one of the people that he turned to for mentoring. venture capitalist roger mcnamee was woman facebook's early investments and a mentor to found among. he was absolutely convinced that connecting the world was possible and that that should be his mission we believe really deeply that if people are sharing more then the world will be a more open place where people can understand what's going on with the people around them and that's really what we want to get towards i was more proud of facebook than anything i've ever done in a thirty five or six your career. before i understood what was going. there for the group. for. the for. one of the most sensitive areas of facebook's content rulebook is the section on graphic violence just you know a

♪ emily: i'm emily chang in san francisco and this is "bloomberg technology." big exit at facebook. chris cox is leaving along with chris daniels, the head of whatsapp. what does it mean for the beleaguered social media giant? spotify's ceo says the company has suffered a big business impact from restrictions imposed by apple and it got more hostile hinting he is not excited about that change. emily: which is interesting that he and zuckerberg have been fairly well aligned over these years. sarah: facebook's history, chris cox's history at facebook in particular, has been about giving you what you want at social networks, develop new algorithms to give content that will make you like the product. this whole encrypted app messaging is not that world. it is a completely different challenge. it will be completely different problems associated with it. emily: so it is not necessarily clear if he is not aligned with this new mission or if he does not think he is the best person to do it. sarah: right. that many years that facebook is like 300 years. emily: let's talk about chris daniels

up so we don't actually own a car or not is there a meeting you know great facebook's rules state that no one under thirteen can have an account you have over the lot but i think they are the way to know this photo so yes so is the airline we ignore ok i will if you go see where you go. yes. so poker so you feel for them someone is holding you both milker. yet let people have what. i've been variously aldridge don't we just like it and i was going we don't know what the underage. facebook told us they only investigates a user's age if someone has reported them as being under age. much of the content reported to facebook's u.k. moderates is relates to hate speech so i'm sure they're playing. out right now to pay for the all how photo myspace or to write about what our personal opinions are. for movies one month zuckerberg appeared before the u.s. senate he was questioned on facebook's hate speech means our goal is to allow people to have as much expression as possible and i don't want anyone at our company to make any decisions based on the the political ideology of the content fac

also the remaining years and softer briggs answers within her own party. facebook has moved to ban expressions it's describing as a white set of ports and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on facebook and instagram is clear these concepts of deep feeling to organize hate groups and have no place in our services. the new rules will be implemented next week and arraigned as facebook says taking a stand against hate earlier this month for social media giant came under intense criticism for its role in the spread of content online as video of the christ church mosque massacres in new zealand was shared widely the government who live streamed his own deadly rampage also published a white nationalist manifesto but critics argue that facebook is your skirting around the issue of radicalism and discrimination. or to discuss facebook's new political commentator new york observer columnist andrew walker gentlemen welcome to the program sure you both agree that you hate speech needs to be stamped out no matter what quarters it comes from the question is where does proud

. priorities was facebook to slow to stop the spread of footage of shooting at mosques church. political views. i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow and so. what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things and this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadow. is the so-called occupation of its offices in the us as opposition members for control of buildings in washington. every year tuning in from right around the world this hour welcome to mosque international your company. our top story the republican. first and only leader. has resigned as president of the country after almost three decades with a correspondent for more. just thinking there's a whole suite a whole generation of never known any other leader but. there. was this is shock to them how did this come about. you have to understand that this is not just a random presidential resignation. you just said it is marking the end of a new year and just a few facts for you to support this idea not a sore thumb as above has announced his resignation after twenty nine just think ab

shocking announcement after nearly thirty years in power. varying priorities was facebook to slow to stop the spread of footage of friday's mass shooting at mosques in christ church but too swift to secretly silence accounts of political views it deems unsavory. i put certain stories about certain political issues. so. that's what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things and ban this kind of stuff that potentially. i learned thanks for choosing r.t. international news this hour on moscow right now six pm in washington d.c. that's where we're starting this president welcomes his brazilian counterpart to the white house for a wide ranging talks on tuesday with the details his r.t. america's. trump and maddow did focus a lot of their meeting on venezuela talking about the importance of them working together in order to bring down a president what are some other one power now it's important to note that brazil was one of the first country after the u.s. to your knowledge. claim president as the only legitimate leader of venice well now when trump and what's the matte

, facebook's ceo , who has spent his entire career pushing for open communication, said the future is going to be more private. in a blog post wednesday, he declared the company's future product development will be focused on encrypted communication as more users want to interact privately. he wrote "i believe the future of communication will switch to private, and corrupted services where people can be confident about what they say to each other to stay secure and their message and content will stick around forever. this is the future i hope we will bring about." this amid heightened scrutiny about facebook's data collection practices which are being probed by several governments around the world. joining us is activate ceo and sarah frier. facebook doesn't necessarily have the same -- good track record of keeping anything private. what you make of this distinct change in strategy? sarah: to your point, i think it is a little about increasing that trust with users around privacy, but in my opinion, a lot of it is about the facingntal problems -- facebook's public and private scrutiny. prog

hour, facebook's new mission, social network -- the social network says it is pivoting to more communication. plus, amazon is flexing its muscle in washington, stepping up lobbying efforts and spending a record amount of cash to get its d.c. agenda on track. and recharge. tesla making moves for its model three rollout by revamping its charger network if the infrastructure -- network. is the infrastructure in place to taken to the next level? it's no surprise mark zuckerberg is finding ways for the social network to change after the company was besieged by scandals and bad press. what is surprising is that he wants facebook to go from more open and public communication to much more private. zuckerberg says facebook will emphasize communications among smaller groups, and technology that keeps outsiders and facebook itself away from peering into what people are sending through its social network and the apps instagram, whatsapp, and messenger. one analyst says that sounds like snapchat. that analyst joins us now, rich greenfield, with bt edgy -- btig. sarah frier is also with us.

shooting in new zealand the country's prime minister's demanded answers from facebook over live streaming of the terror attack on two mosques in christ church that left fifty worshippers dead. i would call on our social media platforms of all variety to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that lead to these have been and that includes stars who pitched the messages in the aftermath. it needs to be down. for about seventeen minutes the gunman live streamed the massacre on facebook shortly after copies of the video appeared on other social media outlets the platforms did try to block the content but not before widespread public outrage over it. in the first twenty four hours that removed one point five million views of the attack globally which over one point two million were blocked at a player would we continue to work around the clock to remove violating content using a combination of technology and people clues no we are working vigilantly to remove any violent footage. facebook deleted the video after a warning from police authority said that the distribution of such conte

for facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says it will focus on private messages that even facebook will be able to see but will that help the platform chad past scandals and ward off government regulators. and china's far way goes on the offensive the tech company is challenging the u.s. law that limits its access to the american market for security reasons it says the law is unconstitutional. i'm sunni so it's got to thank you for joining us. the european union says it hopes venezuela will reconsider its decision to expel the german ambassador daniel cleena president nicolas maduro has accused cleena of interfering in venezuela's internal affairs after expressed support for opposition leader though she has said the ambassador should stay germany is one of several countries back in by those bid to oust muslim. lonely freedom says this lawmaker thanking germany his words applauded by deputies in venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly with. germany backs one quite venezuela's legitimate leader. it seems that's one reason the government of his rival nicolas maduro has told the ge

facebook has been criticized for allowing video to be spread of last week's month shooting in new zealand being too quick off the mark when dealing with political content it doesn't look like the country's prime minister has them under dancers from social media platforms or live stream. the terror attack on two mosque in christ church that left fifty worshippers that. i would call on our social media platforms of all variety to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that both lead to these have been and that includes stars who pitched the messages in the aftermath there's a lot of work that needs to be down. for and seventeen minutes the gunmen live stream the must occur on facebook shortly after really feeds of the video appeared on other social media outlets the platforms did try to block the content but not before widespread public eye creature. in the first twenty four hour was removed one point five million views of the attack globally of which over one point two million were blocked and upload we continue to work around the clock to remove violating content using a combinati

much you for i do so much thank you. next up facebook is facing sharp criticism for failing to prevent the live streaming of friday's mosque shootings in new zealand and the subsequent circulation of the footage the prime minister says social media sites need to do far more to tackle the spread of extremist content. i would call on our social media platforms of all variety to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that both lead to these have been and that includes stars who perpetuate their messages in the aftermath there is a lot of work that needs to be done. and for around seventeen minutes the gunman live streamed the massacre which left fifty people dead on facebook shortly after the video appeared on other social media sites as well the other platforms did try to block the content but reportedly it could still easily be found hours after the atrocity. in the first twenty four hour was removed one point five million views of the attack globally of which over one point two million were blocked and upload we continue to work around the clock to remove violating content usin

you so much for stopping by. coming up, social media platforms like facebook rely heavily on algorithms to stop the spread of extremist content. as we saw in new zealand, that doesn't always work. we dig into why, next. if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio, the bloomberg app, and on sirius xm in the u.s.. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> today, as we sit here, 97% -- 99% of the isis and al qaeda content we take down, systems flag it before a human sees it. proactively police and enforce safety across the community. emily: that right there is what mark zuckerberg told the senate judiciary committee in april of last year. this is what facebook newsroom tweeted the day after the new zealand mosque shootings that killed 50 people. "in the first 24 hours, we removed 1.5 million videos of the attack globally, of which 1.2 million were blocked at upload." to discuss, we have a professor of technology and digital business at the wharton school. he's also the author of a new book called "a human guide to machine learning: a look at how algorithms are shaping today." that mea

emily: i'm emily chang in san francisco and this is "bloomberg technology." big exit at facebook. chris cox is leaving along with chris daniels, the head of whatsapp. what does it mean for the beleaguered social media giant? spotify's ceo says the company has suffered a big business impact from restrictions imposed by apple and it got more hostile after apple launched its own music service. now it is weighing in. elon musk is in the spotlight once again. this time to unveil the model y crossover. we will discuss what you can expect. first to our top story. sudden departures of top facebook executives. ceo mark zuckerberg announced chris cox is leaving the company. zuckerberg made this statement which he shared with employees before it made it to the public. "for a few years, chris has been discussing with me his desire to do something else. he is one of the most talented people i no one has the potential to do anything he wants but after 2016, we both realized we had too much important work to do to improve our product for society, and he stayed to help us work through the issues

president of catholics. varying priorities was facebook to slow to stop the spread of footage of friday's match shooting in mosques in christ church. to secretly silence accounts of political views unsavory if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow so. that's what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate chateau ban in. the united states caracas with a new set of sanctions and venezuela's opposition reportedly takes control of diplomatic buildings in washington and new york. a live worldwide from international in moscow i'm calling bright welcome to news this hour first for you the brazilian president has made his first foreign trip since taking office to the united states tribal scenario is meeting with donald trump behind closed doors right now the u.s. president says that they'll discuss the possibility of brazil participating in a military operation in neighboring venezuela on monday an agreement was signed to allow in washing. until north rockets and satellites from braz

biggest voices the loudest voices the most influential voices to the corporations like facebook like twitter like any other social media network that is. vulnerable to boycotts or to pressure from say m s n b c with a big platform so if they're saying we don't like this guy wears a make america great again have a mag a hat he should not be allowed to speak to anybody else in the community certainly not on the you know the public airwaves that we feel we control if he feels like speaking maybe he can go to speakers corner somewhere over in london right will there be platforming in the us that's for sure and then they have the world's biggest prison population with over two million bigger than china and of course those people are working on slave wages so you have slavery in in the actual prisons and you have the platforming and you have this drift toward putting more and more the population into prison so it's you know i think china has a system of the casino where you can you don't have to be in an actual prison you can just be imprisoned by your mobile device and you can be trying t

amidst heightened scrutiny of facebook's practices. michael wolff and sarah frier joined us to give their perspectives. >> there is a little bit about increasing that trust of users. but in my opinion, a lot of it is about the fundamental problems that are facing facebook today, the public scrutiny and government certainty over privacy. also, the problem with content moderation. if it is encrypted about facebook can't even see what people are saying, therefore does not have to fix it. of course, the zuckerberg frames all of this is something that users want, he says users really want communication. we are doing this because of their demands, but it is worth noting how it affects the perception problems. emily: can we trust facebook to make it more private. >> she talks like going from the digital town hall to the living room. the problem is i'm not sure if people do trust facebook. he is saying it because he recognizes this challenge. but in reality, what they're doing is talking about protecting the privacy of people in a broader conversation. not necessarily privacy versus faceboo

was facebook. spread of. shooting. church but to swift. political. theory. if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow and so. that's what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadow. government. occupation of its offices in the us. for control of. new york. around the clock across the world this is your international from the team and myself you know neal hello welcome top story the republic of first only leader. president of the country after almost three decades i'm joined in the studio by. shock knees i think it's safe to say eighteen million digesting this news right now . but first of all i have to say this is not. just a random presidential resignation resignation they say is the end of an era and just a couple of facts to support this idea. has announced his resignation after twenty nine years in power while serving his fifth term as president he has been the first and the only president of kazakhstan since its independence from the soviet union of course in one thousa

social media in spreading hate the suspect live streamed his attack on facebook the company remove the video shortly after the attack but not before it had been copied and shared by others this morning facebook revealed the scale of the videos reach writing on twitter that in the first twenty four hours it had it removed one point five million videos of the attack globally of which over one point two million were blocked that upload the companies that it's removing all edited versions of the video as well. w.'s digital reporter henchman lee is here in the studio with me to talk a bit more about this so thanks fran is that even possible for facebook to remove every single copy of this video i think this is not impossible but it is very difficult we know that facebook has been working around the clock to remove copies of the video so right now it has an internal database of the blocked video and so the system can automatically detect and remove copies of this attack media once it gets uploaded. so far so good however there is a big problem with the system it is flawed so if they used to

our top interviews from this week in tech. coming up, a criminal probe into facebook now includes a grand jury and an escalation of the investigation into its data sharing practices. we cover the growing list of controversies surrounding the social network. and both sides of the aisle are taking up the issue of breaking up big tech, but breaking up is hard to do. we'll talk about washington's new agenda. and our exclusive and wide-ranging conversation with former u.k. prime minister tony blair on the global tech landscape. first to our top story. the u.s. justice department has broadened its investigation into facebook to include a grand jury, signaling an escalation into the ongoing federal probes into the company's data sharing practices. plus, sudden departures of top facebook executives. mark zuckerberg has announced that the chief product officer chris cox is leaving the company. zuckerberg made the statement, which he shared with employees. "for a few years, chris has been discussing with me his desire to do something else. he is one of the most talented people i know, and he

headlines and news continues here on al-jazeera after inside facebook secrets of the social network sites in pennsylvania. facebook is all you believe the most powerful company in the world one point four billion people use it every day more than the population of any country on earth except china the story that you created represent the american dream you know that our mission at facebook is to help connect everyone in the world we take that responsibility very seriously but a series of recent scandals has exposed problems of the haunts of the social network ministers that coburg i think we all agree that what happened here was baguio knowledge it was a breach of trust and i just want to be clear that you're going to take early action in this film we go into a company with facebook's content moderation is to reveal how facebook decides what you can see that plan. it's good for you to refer to them so their birth for them go to school. so. it's pretty says with billions of pieces of combs and it's uploaded every day these decisions how far reaching consequences. of the woods on you

focus on private messages that even facebook will not be able to see will that help the platform should ask congress and board of government regulators. plus is really as harmless as its makers say and your court says officials must release studies on just how safe the controversial weed killer really is. i don't work and i'm honored that shima a pleasure to have your company. a german court has handed down prison sentences of between three and ten years to four men accused of operating a dark net platform for child sexual abuse images the platform was called elysium and it was one of the largest such websites worldwide investigators closed down in june two thousand and seventeen. it took prosecutors months to gather the evidence the four men were accused of setting up an operating and child pornography platform on the darkness and investigators said the men had managed the illegal pornographic content on the elysium network does not to be out of us of the material posted on elysium showed every kind of abuse imaginable of children and teenagers and i was playing on the victims i

state should be doing about companies like google and facebook. the department of housing and urban development versus facebook. why ben carson says the social network's ad platform is "just as discriminatory as slamming the door in someone's face." first to our top story. lyft compared to uber will be the first to hit the public market if all goes as planned. 2019, the yard so many highly anticipated tech companies plan to go public. among them, two stand out. a race best described as focused versus frenzied. frenzied being uber, engaging in rapid global expansion and retreat, food delivery, bike sharing, celfin driving cars and flying taxis. plus a decision bankers say good reach $120 billion. lyft on the other hand may be best described as focused. lyft grew out of cofounders logan green's and john zimmer's zimride, and focused solely on growth in the united states. going from less than a dozen cities in 2009 to 95% of the country in 2019. lyft claims it controls 39% of the u.s. ride-hailing market. it is just starting to go international, launching in toronto and ottawa city in

child abuse pornography platforms on the dark net. and a new future for facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says it will focus on private messages but even free spoke will not be able to see but critics are skeptical. that china goes on the offensive the tech company is challenging a u.s. law that limits its access to the american market for security reasons it says the law is unconstitutional. in a warm welcome to you. the european union has said it hopes that his venom would reconsider its decision to expel the german ambassador daniel cleena president nicolas maduro has accused embassador crean of interfering in venezuela's internal affairs often he expressed support for opposition leader one by bill why this is the german ambassador should stay on and has called on europe to tighten sanctions against the regime why there was speaking during ash wednesday mouse in caracas. this regime the disease power has no right to declare any one persona non-grata this is simply a threat and that's how it should be sane by the free world the german ambassador and his country have helped br

future for facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg says it will focus on private messages that even facebook will not be able to see but the critics are skeptical. i don't work and i'm on the. we start in germany where one of the ross cases of child sexual abuse on the silk or dark net has ended with a long jail sentences for the perpetrators a court has handed down prison sentences of up to ten years to four men accused of operating a platform. it was one of the largest such websites worldwide until investigators shut it down in june two thousand and seventeen. it took prosecutors months to gather the evidence the four men work used of setting up and operating a child pornography platform on the dark net investigators said the men had managed the illegal pornographic content on the elysium network was meant to be out of us of the material posted on elysium showed every kind of abuse imaginable of children and teenagers and i was played on the victims included newborns and babies the platform was discovered in twenty seventeen and immediately shut down the case made international he

hour, the facebook's new mission. the social network is about to get a lot less social. what is the motivation behind the move? plus, follow the money. spending a record amount of cash to get the zte agenda on track. and recharge, tesla making moves for its model three rollout by revamping the charger network. the infrastructure in place to take demand for the next level. first, no surprise mark zuckerberg is finding ways for the social network to change after the company was besieged by scandals and bad press. what is surprising, he wants facebook to go from more open and public too much more private. he says facebook will emphasize communication among smaller andps, temporary posts, technology that keeps outsiders and facebook itself. fromsk from peering in -- peering in two whatsapp and facebook messenger. now.greenfield joins us thompson, whonick had an extensive q&a with mark zuckerberg right after he published the piece. uckerberg on facebook's future and what scares him most." sarah, walk us through the reaction to this stunning post from mark zuckerberg. sarah: some critics

-- facebook and google are silencing conservative voices. take a listen to what he had to say tuesday. president trump: we have to do something. i tell you, i have many, many millions of followers on twitter. and it's different than it used to be. things are happening. it seems to be if they're conservatives or republicans or in a certain group, there's discrimination and big discrimination. i see it absolutely on twitter and facebook, which i have also, and others i see. emily: despite that, the president's 2020 re-election campaign is spending heavily on social media. research from bully pulpit shows that trump has spent close to double the amount of his democratic rivals when it comes to facebook and google apps. to discuss, we've got michael beach in washington. he's the c.e.o. of crossstream media, a digital marketing analytics firm. he's also a veteran of republican presidential ad campaigns. here in the studio we have tom. what's new about this latest attack from president trump? on social media? >> it comes at a time when one of his staffers was temporarily removed from facebo

denuclearization of the korean peninsula. and facebook is accused of censoring conservative voices as a whistleblower reveals how the social network suppresses content and limits exposure. in the course of doing my duties i noticed other things that were going on i would see it here are several different conservative pages. are broadcasting live. glad to have you with us. in the un security council with both russia and the us bringing forward draft resolutions on the venezuela crisis however both proposals failed to pass. the can use them with a. finally we have reached the culmination of the american orchestrated double standards show over venezuela we look forward to genuinely free and fair elections and to a government that reflects the will and aspirations of the venezuelan people so you wouldn't go so money at the today's vote is an excellent example of why the veto rule is necessary for protecting the peace and people's right to determine their future today it was made very clear that irresponsible use of the veto actually makes the council a threat to peace and security of ogle's

time as mps debate alternatives to her deal on monday. and facebook chief mark zuckerberg asks for government help in controlling internet content. hello and welcome. in the couple of hours, the israeli army says it's targetted a number of hamas military posts after five rockets were fired from gaza into israel. it comes after palestinian authorities said four protestors died on the border earlier on saturday. they were taking part in demonstrations to mark one year since weekly protests began about the declared right of return of palestinian refugees to homes that are now in israel. our middle east correspondent tom bateman has been to the border. a warning, his report does contain distressing images. he throws a rock. an israeli sniperfires back — a bullet to the leg. another palestinian joins the thousands with wounds from a year of protests at gaza's boundary fence. week after week, they have come back here. baharand burhan got engaged after meeting at the protest last year. we palestinians have the right to live. we here in gaza, we are oppressed people. we want to live our

facebook to church but to swift to secretly silence icons of political views it deems on slavery. if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow bad so that's what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that only going to compel shadow. also coming up on the program the government announces this so-called occupation of its offices in the us as opposition members for control of diplomatic buildings in washington. a russian bitcoin trader accused of money laundering appeals for released from custody after being held for more than one. how many days are you in the hunger strike. eighty today. and still no answer. so it's. just four in the afternoon here in moscow this tuesday march the nineteen hello and welcome to our to international i mean in our top story facebook is facing sharp criticism for failing to prevent the live streaming of friday's mosque shootings in new zealand and the subsequent circulation of the footage the country's prime minister just sent to our turn said media sites need to do far more to tackle the

globally, act locally. sitting here, we are five miles from the headquarters of facebook. this social media platform has great local impact. bay area students strive to in turn there, faculty offer the company both consulting insights and criticism. the decisions made by facebook echo across the world, affecting the platform's more than 2 billion monthly active users. last october, pbs aired a two hour documentary that investigated the company's impact on democracies across the globe. tonight, we are proud to have three people involved in that reporting project to explore the story behind the story, including the particular challenges in covering a powerful social media platform. after brief introductions, we will turn to a panel discussion about how the facebook dilemma came to be and what takeaways these journalists have from their experiences and putting together the documentary. we provided audience members with notecards. as questions occur, please feel free to write them down. they will be collected and forwarded to me so that, for the last half of the panel, we can focus on questions

a new future for facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says the company will focus on private messages that even facebook won't be able to see but will that help the platform shed past scandals and ward off government regulators. i'm sorry so misconduct thank you for joining us chinese tech giant far away is suing the u.s. for limiting its access to the american market for telecom equipment while way is challenging a u.s. law that labels the company a security risk and bars federal agencies from buying its telecom products always legal challenge comes at a critical point for trade negotiations between the u.s. and china. for years while way has sought to reassure the world of two things that it is not under the control of the chinese government and that it doesn't spike on consumers. a shift in tone from defense to accusation the us government has a long. way. it has helped our servers and this story are you merits and this source told allegations of the american government interference and theft of corporate secrets while ways message to the united states we can play the blame game tw

martin international different for sure it was facebook too slow to stop the spread of video of last friday's match shooting at a judge but too swift to secretly silence accounts of political views it deems unsavory. if i put certain stories about serving a political issue i am shadow bad so. what my concern is when they continue to pan these kinds of things to ban this kind of stuff that's only going to pecial a shadow. over the swelling government announces the so-called occupation of its offices in the us after diplomats from the opposition vie for control of the consulate. and a russian trader accused of money laundering appeals for released from custody greece also being held there for more than nineteen months without. comment and these are you in the hunger strike. it's news to eighty today. and and still no answer. to. it. there good morning life marty networks international h.q. here in moscow is kevin zero in with me for this next half hour with our world news update very good morning for me and the rest of the team first of facebook's been criticized for allowing video to

attorneys general to discuss whether google and facebook were suppressing conservative views. now we know that a smaller group of those state officials have begun looking into possible antitrust or consumer protection violations. this comes at a time when presidential hopefuls like senator elizabeth warren are calling for a breakup of big tex firms. a rallying cry that is even reached across the aisle the texas senator ted cruz retraining her criticisms of facebook, saying "first time i've ever retweeted elizabeth warren, but she is right. big has way too much power to silence free speech." to discuss, i spoke with ken paxton on monday. ♪ >> we have serious concerns about both of those issues you've talked about, with antitrust, the power and the wealth of those companies, we have a history of looking at those issues in writing up companies that are too big and we also have concerns about privacy, the lack of transparency in how they collect information and how they use the information. consumers are not being paid for this. do are also vulnerable populations that are getting their data

sessions called a meeting of state attorneys general to discuss whether google and facebook were suppressing conservative views. smaller group of officials have begun looking into possible antitrust or consumer protection violations by google. this comes at a time when presidential hopefuls are calling for a breakup a big tech firms. a rallying cry that is even reach across the aisle, with texas senator retreating -- reach weeding the criticisms, saying it is the first time i've ever retweeted elizabeth warren, but she is right. to discuss, i spoke with texas attorney general ken paxton on monday. ken: we have serious concerns about both of those issues. with antitrust, the power and wealth of these companies. we have a history of looking at those issues and breaking up companies that are too big. we also have concerned about privacy. of transparency in how they collect and use this information, consumers are not being paid for this, and they are a vulnerable -- there are multiple populations like children getting their data gathered and we have no protections for them. emily: go

. facebook, something is happening with those groups of folks that are running facebook and google and twitter. i do think we have to get to the bottom of it. david: president doubling down on social media by slamming facebook after the social media giant apologized for temporarily blocking the president's social directors account. >> and alleges a conservative bias. is this just the tip of the iceberg for the tech giants this is bulls and bears, i am david asman, joining me morgan, robert wolf, kevin kelly and john layfield, but first hillary vaughn with latest to congressman nunes lawsuit against twitter. reporter: this $250 million lawsuit is just the first of many, congressman nunes said he will sue every social media giant he thinks is biased again conservative. -- against conservatives. >> we're go after twitter first, they are the main proliferate or, they spread fake news. the case that i'm making this was an orchestrated effort, people were targeting me. reporter: nunes said that twitter let anonymous user troll him with fake news and fake claims about him, and did nothing abo

facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says his company plans to shift its focus to private messaging services and a post on his own profile page and he said that the company would act encrypt conversations on more of its messaging devices and make them compatible with each other he said people increasingly want to connect privately in the digital equivalent of a living room. d.w. digital reporter john would read could tell us what welcome so that this post went on to say that. previously focused conversations would become more important than open social networks so explain to us what that means what. really means is that he has realized that the market for messaging so private messaging services is growing and it's growing at a race that's faster than his traditional business which is being an advertising business and a social network and so he rather than being interested in. communicating publicly through facebook he's more interested now in the private messages that we send to each other messages on his platforms that he owns like whatsapp and facebook messenger and instagram's di

to the pro-choice cause but you won't want to move because when we get back facebook is under fire yet again this time for leaving users' passwords on encrypted leaving them totally exposed to theft conservative commentator steve malzberg joins us to discuss and we'll learn what the company is seeking to do to avert some pretty pretty pretty bad problems plus lauren fix the car coach is back to talk about a hell of a day for one day and a major announcement by general motors this afternoon as we go to break here the numbers of the closing bell really rough day for stocks also in the u.s. worst day since january third by the way we'll be back in a while. during the great depression almost remember that it was most of my family were working. there with us and it was you know much we. subjective listen today but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engineer elections manufacture c