that was, in part, happened ,ecause of facebook and others and the audience was on facebook, and facebook knew more about the users or the readers of the various publications or the audiences of television news organizations than they did themselves, and so the whole revenue model of journalism has been hugely affected by facebook. not know much about the details. it sounds like philanthropy. we probably do need more, and i do not know what the percentages from adme sharing revenue on facebook when it comes to articles. i know the washington post publishes on facebook. i do not know what percentage of every dollar of ad revenue is going to the post. know at first, it was minuscule compared to what facebook would take from it. that was their prerogative, but it was also hugely detrimental. this was a band-aid fix. we basically need to address the revenue problem in journalism. that is the important thing. and now for something completely different. why do we care about anti-democracy content, if that is the will of the users and is found on the platform? >> i think that is a really interes

now facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says his company plans to shift its focus to private messaging services in a post on his own profile page said the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible he said people increasingly want to connect privately in the digital equivalent often livingroom. audition report and shattered drink is with us and welcome jad i'm not quite sure what mark sokolich is trying to do can you explain what his plans so what's he up to so we know facebook really has a networking tool that can mix people all around the world and now mark zuckerberg kind of has he's authorized it on what we say in private to each other on the messaging services that facebook owns so platforms like whatsapp facebook and facebook messenger and instagram and he wants to make those compatible with each other as you say so if you write to me on whatsapp i'd be able to write back to you on facebook i'm missing and he wants to add a layer of security to these

which is why facebook is changing from the facebook has launched a high profile campaign to improve its image. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry. i started facebook i run it and i'm responsible for what happens here i understand why it's been hard for people to come to grips with all this but the incentives to do so now are really compelling and i just hope that as a consequence of this film that the tone of the debate becomes sharper more focused more persistent and that we stop accepting their excuses we stop accepting very sure incentives c.p.l. told is insuring all trainers and employees are always fully trained and up to date on facebook policy changes is critically important to us so we are investigating this matter as a priority and taking immediate steps with facebook this is included conducting extensive refresher training within the last week for all the train as we are one of the most heavily scrutinized companies in the world and that's right we have a lot of reach to people in many differe

so facebook issues are not going away. joe: i want to go back to the narrative that mark zuckerberg posted to facebook, that chris cuts had come to him a few years ago and talked about leaving. they both -- chris cox had come to him. it doesn't sing like the issues have gone away. years,ack to last few have they made progress in the last few years on fixing some of the core issues with the product, or how far along are they on that? emily: facebook will tell you we've hired thousands of people to double down on safety and security. they have reprioritize personal information, a throwback to what made people love facebook initially. but if the scandals continue to happen, we are continuing to see new developments, bad press, you mediaigations, different organizations uncovering things facebook has been doing wrong or ways that have been misleading users. it clearly hasn't gone away. the question is, has he been responsible for fixing any of these issues, or is he leaving because he has not been ever to fix these issues? cha

we were talking about facebook and this woman from mongolia is telling me their problem with facebook, which she described as -- described, is exactly the problem the ukrainians had on facebook. it had to do with a lot of people who were anti-democratic trying to suppress the pro-democracy voices by complaining en masse to facebook about something they were seeing that was hate speech. and facebook not having the capacity, because of the pinewood problem, to really know if it was hate speech or not. and buckling under the pressure of a lot of complaints. in mongolia, this woman described exactly that. it continues to expand and doesn't yet have the capacity -- one of the things we said, facebook did open up to some extent. i found the two most interesting things, they were the meetings. they let us sit in on two meetings. one was about content moderation. they now have slur lists for every country or they are developing them in every country they operate in. they recognize those lists change all the time, given the context of the slur. a slur today might not be a slur tomorrow. whoe a

i mean, the nbc has called for facebook -- naacp has called for facebook boy cotts. how -- boycotts. how much pressure was facebook under here? >> there's been increasing pressure on this coming from the naacp, fair housing groups, members of the senate of both parties. the aclu. and this is something that's been going on for quite some time now. a series of lawsuits, equal employment opportunity commission, charges. and it's prumbly something -- presumeably something the company is glad to put behind it. emily: ad targeting like putting up signs in neighborhoods has been, you know, common practice for decades. what makes this different? >> facebook has argued that there are situations where it's helpful to target ads to particular audiences. the point that scholars make is, if an ad is put in a magazine you don't read or a neighborhood you don't live in, you could at least incidentally come across it. but on the internet, if you're digitally red-lined out of it, so to speak, if the job is only posted there, it could be impossible for you to ever even nope know about

that was in part happened because of facebook and others that the audience was on facebook and facebook knew more about the users or the readers of various publications or the audiences of news -- television news organizations than those organizations knew themselves, and so the whole revenue model of journalism has been hugely affected by facebook. this sounds like fill -- i don't know much about the details, sounds like philanthropy when what we really do probably need more is -- and i don't know what the percentages are of income sharing from ad revenue on facebook when it comes to articles, say "the washington post" publishes on facebook, i don't know what percentage of every dollar of ad revenue is going to the "post." but i know at first it was minuscule compared to what facebook would take from it. that was their prerogative, but it was also hugely detrimental to the news industry. if this is a band-aid fix on something that had happened, we basically need to address the revenue problem in journalism. that's the important thing. >> can i offer something completely different? why

author of "the facebook effect." sarah covers facebook for us. i want you to stick around. we will come back to these issues later this hour. coming up, spotify says apple is tilting the playing field. now the eu wants to take a look. what this means for the future of streaming apps. that is next. you can check us out on the radio. listen on the bloomberg cap, bloomberg.com, and in the u.s. on sirius xm. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: audio streaming platform spotify has asked the eu to investigate apple for taking a 30% cut in the app store. e.u. competition commissioner told bloomberg's matt miller that they are going to do just that. >> you have a specific apple product, apple music, who is a direct competitor to spotify in their services. this is of course such a dual market situation that we take very seriously. if you are but the host and competitor, well then how do you behave when you yourself have gained some status in the market? >> as a gearhead, i think of things in carmaker terms or motorcycle terms. for me, i'm thinking, is this like if bmw were to offer motorc

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 are calling it a victory after all this criticism that zuckerberg has faced over privacy. now he says it's really important. but the difference is really going to be in what we see facebook do with this. it doesn't change the fact their advertising business is built on personal user data. not a lot changes about how facebook's business works. he didn't talk about the advertising implications in his post the other day. you've been very bullish on facebook. he says the newsfeed will remain, but this will make ad targeting harder. does that concern you? rich: it's honestly absurd. what is facebook right now? you spend a lot of time browsing f

it's a video still on facebook yeah. this video is used in facebook's training as an example of the kind of child abuse that should be marked as disturbing and left almost silent. if that's being used as an example for motivators of what is considered acceptable to say what is tolerated on facebook is is is is truly shocking this is just a haitian for why they allow. in or that a possible and occasion a rescue of victims of physical abuse we may not immediately remove this content from facebook it's perfectly possible for facebook to take down footage of child abuse and for that to be passed to the north or for copies of the tiriel to be retained if that will assist in a law enforcement in a police say investigation it's difficult to conclude why that material would need to stay on the site we know that for as long as that content command on a social media site then that exacerbates the trauma that children might feel not only has that child been subject to sustained physical abuse but unfortunately that child is being.

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 jus

for example, facebook bought whatsapp. facebook bought instagram. she talked about amazon and zappos. so she has got a list of deals that she would take a closer look at. and she is invoking at&t back in the 1980's, and some of the big trust busting cases in u.s. history. but she is also -- there is also a more nuanced argument, and that is where, when these companies start to operate like a platform, like a utility, and they are also competing as part of that platform or with those platform participants, that is where she also is looking for some kind of way to separate out those businesses. so, for example, amazon. amazon is the case that she keeps coming back to time and time again. that is the case where amazon has created this huge marketplace for millions of sellers to go and peddle their wares, but amazon is also a competitor in there. and she cited a story -- emily: right, amazon its selling -- is selling its own batteries, its own baby wipes. tom: exactly. and i noticed she cited our colleague spencer soper, a story he wrote about a couple

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 content is punishable by imprisonment the us media or legal analysts lionel and also counterterrorism expert jennifer braden whether tech giants should and could it quicker to block the video. i respectfully submit that when you show violence against human beings it's a form of pornography we have to as a society say no facebook you can do much better for kids for people who would see this not necessarily because it w

it's not something facebook wants to be into. i think that part of this is trying to get the western — the first world in general to coalesce a little bit. there is a risk right now of a splinter net. broadly speaking, facebook is never going to be able to achieve any kind of regulatory harmonisation between, say, the usa and china or russia, which are both fully trying to create their own independent internets. but as far as the first world goes — and, again, these are facebook‘s most lucrative markets — there are some potential. many, many countries have said that they want to copy gdpr, britain has said it wants to copy gdpr after brexit, and even in the usa, a lot of discussion around whatever privacy regime eventually emerges is looking at gdpr and saying, "why don't we do it like that?" now, in the end, is the way to really do this — and i'm sure facebook does not want this to happen — to just say that facebook is a media company and it needs to adhere to the rules that the traditional media countries have to ad

was the scapegoat at the same time a british newspaper is reporting that some facebook shareholders may have been complicit in the data harvesting and the buck doesn't stop there either the federal government is now investigating how zuckerberg treats client privacy. to see deeks very seriously recent bruce reports raises substantial concerns to both the privacy broke to sophie's book it's been a year since the biggest privacy scandal in social media but at least facebook scott in a round of censoring alternative media donald quarter r.t. . ok another story that we're closely following today the french armed forces minister the trump administration for putting pressure on washington's nato allies to buy u.s. made weapons she sees the integrity of the military grouping should not be dictated by america's financial interests. the alliance should be unconditional. otherwise it's not in the lines. nato solidarity close it's called article five not article if thirty five while in the statement that you just heard the french defense minister was referring to u.s. combat aircraft which is

and 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

gennie: we're always going at facebook to do better by facebook and privacy. we are asking specifically for different protections on whatsapp and facebook about user control and choice about the own number privacy. we don't have to look far to see phone numbers are not safe on facebook. they are not left where you put them. facebook has already messed that up with two-factor authentication. it is very important that is cleared up and those safeguards are put in place before we can trust facebook will do the right thing with merged messengers. emily: facebook actually had a strong earnings report last quarter. what are we expecting this quarter, aside from a lot of questions from analysts? jitendra: pricing will be the biggest uncertainty. last quarter, a lot of questions about pricing. as they transition to stories, the ad volume opens up but that helps them at a lower pricing. moving away from newsfeed is not a small thing. this year will be a transition year and we see risk and pricing continues to be the topic. emily: jitendra and gennie gebhart, you will h

he says facebook's deserve executives take facebook into that era who are excited about the change. so he is saying he is not excited. emily: let's talk about chris daniels, head of whatsapp leaving. zuckerberg said he is not filling chris coxe's -- cox's position, but other services, tell us about chris daniels. >> chris daniels was formerly head of internet.org, zuckerberg's personal project try to get more people on the internet. sort of connected to whatsapp in that it was very international, but running a messaging product is a different deal. we don't know exactly why he left, but it is a very difficult time for whatsapp. they're facing all of the scrutiny around the world. there have been whatsapp lynchings in india of all of this information -- misinformation that has spread that is encrypted and so facebook cannot do much about it. that would be a very difficult job to do. emily: david kirkpatrick is joining us now from new york. you wrote the book on facebook, i'm sure you interviewed chris cox several times. what do you make that he is no leaving? >> i agree with everythi

exactly will this app was doing which should have known facebook desperately needed to scapegoat and alex was the scapegoat at the same time a british newspaper is reporting that some facebook shareholders may have been complicit in the data harvesting and the buck doesn't stop there either the federal government is now investigating how zuckerberg treats client privacy. to see deeks very seriously recent press reports raises substantial concerns to both the privacy broke this is sophie's book it's been a year since the biggest privacy scandal in social media but at least facebook's gotten a round of censoring alternative media donald quarter r.t. . that's the way took so far first to say thanks for watching your next r t international update follows max and stacey the latest advisory. join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. seemed wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to shape out just a consequence of. engagement because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apa

morgan and goldman sachs but i want to turn to facebook and compare it to what facebook is doing facebook filed a patent for quote civil political debate form facebook has applied to patent a system where people would comment on laws that might affect them then have that feedback worked into a formal political proposal creating a way for people to quote meaningfully engage in civil discourse online the concept would build on facebook's earlier attempts at promoting civic engagement and it sounds similar to other existing crowdsource democracy tools but facebook's vast scale could put tremendous weight behind any kind of private political form they already have their reputation scores you could be de platform so it's more again it's a it's a corporate private business was shareholders it's not government ron and so if you get shut out from if you get pulled from the political system it's not the government doing it it's facebook and their shareholders. right you know i suppose all developed wolf packs of gangs kind of roaming the streets and tipped them off in terms of which homes are bein

for example facebook bought , whatsapp. facebook bought instagram. she talked about amazon. she has a list of deals that she would take a closer look at. and she is invoking at&t back in the 1980's, some of the big trust busting cases in u.s. history. but there is also a more nuanced argument, and that is where when these companies start to operate like a platform, like utility, and they are also competing as a part of that platform, as platform participants, that is where she also is looking for some kind of way to separate out those businesses. for example, amazon. amazon is the case she keeps coming back to. amazon has created a huge marketplace for millions of sellers to peddle their wares, but amazon is also a competitor in there. amazon at selling its own batteries, its own baby wipes. todd: exactly. and i noticed she cited our colleague spencer. once amazon sees your product is starting to gain traction on its platform, gaining popularity, amazon has a way of creating its own white label version of that, and creates this competitive atmosphere for its marketplace part

emily: can we trust facebook to make facebook more try that -- more private? >> zuckerberg wants to go from the digital town hall to the digital home. he says this because he recognizes this trust challenge, but in reality, they are talking about detecting the privacy of people in a broader conversation, but not necessarily the privacy versus facebook. facebook is ultimately in the advertising business. emily: you will still be giving all of your information to facebook. michael: the battleground will be around messaging. if you look at facebook and trolls between messenger, whatsapp, and instagram, they control the messaging -- majority of the messaging around the world. that doesn't mean people worried about privacy are not going to go to other platforms like telegram and signal. let's not forget we chat, which will dominate other parts that don't have the others in china. these are merely defensive actions, and users will be skeptical. emily: sarah, talk about what he said. he said services would be opt in, and if you want your messages to disappear, maybe

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

all right so the prime minister of new zealand says she intends to talk to facebook about this there are many others there are saying these social media platforms have to be accountable but how is it possible to make them accountable i guess my answer to this will be pressure more pressure from the government more pressure from the consumer legislations have to be in place we have an example actually from germany it's about hate speech so we know that it's a big problem globally and facebook's that it did everything to combat hate speech problem people weren't seeing any changes and so in germany there was this hate speech law and it's been passed and then so rapidly facebook just hired all of a sudden it hired a lot of moderate just and it also deployed new technology to combat this problem so that's an example of how pressure could actually change a company's stands. and so we have to make facebook to prioritize that to prioritize to fight of spread of terrorists terrorism or extremist concerns and thoughts well so i guess is a question of investment investing in actual human being

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 matter we're talking about focusing on their meeting on venezuela he

caught facebook off guard. last week they settled several lawsuits with the aclu, the fair housing alliance, saying they will overhaul their ad platform so advertisers of employment would not be able to do this micro-targeting on the basis of areas like gender and sex. hud is arguing that does not go far enough and are charging facebook still allows these discriminatory ads to exist. they allege there is the ability for advertisers to target where they live based on drawing a redline around areas. alleging facebook uses online and off-line data to figure out with machine learning what these characteristics of these people are based on these protected groups, like the basis of race, even if they are not e groups. emily: facebook says it has taken significant steps to prevent a determinationd. last year we eliminated options that could have been misused. we will continue working with civil rights experts on these issues. by the way, facebook couple weeks ago changed a bunch of their atd targeting practices becaus

top story -- facebook. we told you about the company usually -- losing its chief product officer and the head of whatsapp, but those are not the company's only concerns today. of the company's data practices is expanding. the justice department is subpoenaing companies facebook had partnerships with. joining us to discuss, david kirkpatrick back with us. we also have deborah also williamson and with me in the studio, sarah frier, who covers facebook. let's start with this federal investigation into facebook. that facebook allowed companies to see data about me and my friends that i did not give those companies permission to access, correct? >> yes. this is part of the broader probe into facebook practices, and they are joining this large municipalitiesnt , entities like the european commissioneron probing into facebook's practices right now trying to figure out what is going on. an escalationy is of a doj/fbi probe we have known about for a few months, but it seems like this is getting serious. emily: it se

do you think that facebook can really do much to stop this from happening when facebook cannot really remove every single copy if that's. it is not impossible but it will be very difficult we know that facebook has been working around the clock to remove copies of that video and it has an internal database of the video and the system can automatically detect and remove. it gets uploaded again so far so good however there's a big problem with the system because it's still flowing so if you use or makes changes to that video let's say by adding a mock the system could be tricked and so that you say waiting theoretically stupid . so it's really difficult to completely wipe off a video once it's been recorded and times and the life streaming really has a lot of potential risks or risks. and concerning this new zealand's prime minister has spoken to facebook's chief operating officer let's have a listen. i've had contact. from shero same big i haven't spoken to her directly but she has reached out and acknowledgement of what has occurred here in new zealand and this is an issue that i will

not necessarily privacy versus facebook. facebook is ultimately in the advertising business. emily: you are still giving them all of your information. >> the battleground will be around messaging. you look at facebook controls between messenger whatsapp and instagram, they control the majority of messaging around the world. that is not mean that people concerned about privacy are not going to go to other platforms let's not forget, we checked, which dominates, does not have to stay in china. some of the things he is doing is purely defensive end users are going to be very skeptical. emily: talk about what he said. that services would be often -- opt in. how is this going to look or feel different for a user? >> think about the position they are in. they are being scrutinized by governments around the world who say they do not give users choice. zuckerberg has always thought that if we give people choice, they probably would pick an on advertising supported network aired they would pick to post publicly. a lot of this won't be as big of an impact as we think. an an impact as w

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amazon, apple, facebook. what the last 10 years has shown is that european regulators can go after big tech companies and can extract large fines and get support without getting major pushback from consumers in europe. >> you have applauded the eu decision. what does google changing its practices in this area mean for your business? >> thank you for having me. this isould say is that something we welcome and consumers have welcomed, but it is not going to change an awful lot in the marketplace. google has been given a cease-and-desist order which says stop doing what you have been doing and they stopped doing it in 2016. but in these two-sided markets, it is tipton google's favor. wey will come out of this, just pay the tax for taking over another market. we asked with a commissioner to go further into force google to put right the wrongs it has done to this market like it has done in shopping and an android. >> what would putting right the wrongs mean? to your point, google controlled 70% of this particular

if they use a finds a piece of content they think is inappropriate they can reduce it to facebook. the moderates who will then decide whether almost it breaks the platforms rules that were good for a few people who referred to them so their birth was over them gorgeous or. so for us it's pretty good says. each of these reports is called a ticket and the tickets build up in the queue most of the moderates is one of three after three and a half weeks of training all reports and was now working through his own queue of tickets. while we were filming on the cover. was cool to fool the u.s. senate and accused of not doing enough to protect facebook's uses we want to hear more without delay about what facebook and other companies plan to do to take greater responsibility for what happens on their platforms. it's not enough to just build tools we need to make sure that they're used for good or in the last year we've basically doubled the number of people doing security and content review we're going to have more than twenty thousand people working on security and content review by the end

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 help

this morning different priorities it was facebook to slow to stop the spread of video of last friday's mass shooting. but. to deal with political views. if i put certain stories about certain political issues i can shout all bad so. that's what my concern is when we continue to ban these kinds of things can they end this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadows. the venezuelan government announces the so-called occupation of its offices in the us up to diplomats from the opposition vie for control of the. under russian traitor accused of money laundering appeals for release from custody in greece after being held for more than nineteen months. how many of these are you know hundreds straight. a day. and still no answer. to. their life they are to networks international h.q. here in moscow is kevin always with me this morning bring you this world news update we choose the morning is going well reviewed soon didn't run the world first the facebook spring criticized video to be spread of awful shooting up mass shooting in new zealand last week while being quick of the market

meantime, shares of facebook down more than 2%. and we're joined by mark may senior analyst at citi but laura martin, the lead analyst behind the downgrade. laura, let me start with you since your note is the note of the day. negative network effects you think are at work. explain to viewers what that means. >> okay. so there's certain fundamental down sides at facebook now, headline risk from new zealand over the weekend, more regulatory risk that you just alluded to, and also we have risk in strategic pivot which caused two of the top five people at facebook to leave last week but that's all made worse by something called a belief network effect which is both multiplier effect to the up side and now multiplier effect to the down side. belief network effect says the more people that believe something, the more likely you can get the next person to believe it and just the fact that we're getting the down grades is another way to point as well as 11 executive departures in 18 months, those are data points suggesting that the belief

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 immunity because opposed the united states w

in the end, is the way to really do this, and i'm sure facebook does not wa nt this, and i'm sure facebook does not want this to happen, facebook is a media company and it needs to adhere to the rules that the traditional media countries have to adhere to when it comes to content? that is another important bit of content that is another important bit of co nte nt for that is another important bit of content for what mark zuckerberg is talking about. he talks about hate speech and controlling harmful content. he is proposing self—regulation in which all editions celtic companies what they had to do and that companies do it. rather than tech companies being directly responsible. that would entail the repeal of safe harbour laws which basically say tech companies are like phone companies are not responsible for what you say over the phone. there is clearly a strong case for that. i would say that comes with huge risks as well because what it would do is incentivise all the tech companies, google and facebook, to be more sincere. if they are sued for everything you say to them, then we would

and facebook fans white nationalist and white separatists for facebook and instagram the move comeses two weeks after far rightxtremistss to come down fifty people at two mosques in using and first venezuela has stripped internationally recognized data one quite -- over the right to hold public office for fifteen years. what is the general said that there were irregularities i in quite those perersonal financec? your position later in speaker of congress has led. isn't nicolas maduro and he has the backing of some fifty countries including the united states our correspondent on the herrera has the latest from caracas. people over the weekend it's something that we learned but it's not something that it's actually surprising an event as well as because i'm let's not forget that a mother who does all. already started an investigation i'm against one white goal and this was the first day try to ban him from leave the country i now they're taking this next step this action bececause of course we're not seen a more more extreme action. i guess one white doll we really don't know why the go

emily: facebook is going through a lot of changes. we just talked about ad targeting on housing and credit to. -- credit ads. mark zuckerberg said they will shift more towards private communications. how much revenue do you think this will drive, instagram commerce, will drive for the facebook company? sarah: it is hard to say because it is so early but what is important to keep in mind that facebook's legacy business, the news feed and advertising will run in the newsfeed is not going to grow much more from here. it is already so saturated in all these big advertising markets around the world. so the company is invested in figuring out their next business models. e-commerce is something they mentioned on the earnings call as like a big priority for the future alongside things happening in messaging which may be harder to monetize. so i think this is one of the few bright spots they have that is maybe more proven than some of the other things they are trying like cryptocurrency and encrypted messaging. emily: let's talk about the less

on facebook hundreds of thousands of times. facebook was unable to stop it 300,000 times from being posted. what role do you think the state should have in these issues? mr. paxton: we are talking first amendment. free speech is dangerous. it allows people to talk about all kinds of things we might not like personally, but i think free speech ought to be very broad and very protected. it is something the founders listed first. religious expression being something else that was protected. i think we have to be very careful at obviously government limiting speech, but if businesses are going to limit speech, they have to be transparent about what they are doing. they need not to falsely advertise that this is free speech when they are controlling content. emily: all right, lots of issues to discuss. texas attorney general ken paxton, thank you so much for joining us. we will follow your actions and see what happens. meantime, president trump took to twitter over the weekend to criticize google specifically, saying "google is help

alex did not lie alex was not to for all its alex did not deceive them this was not a scam facebook knew exactly will this app was doing was should have known facebook desperately needed to scapegoat and alex was the scapegoat at the same time a british newspaper is reporting that some facebook shareholders may have been complicit in the data harvesting and the buck doesn't stop there either the federal government is now investigating how zuckerberg treats client privacy you have to see deeks very seriously recent bruce rupie which raises substantial concerns to both the privacy broke this is so. it's been a year since the biggest. privacy scandal and social media but at least facebook's gotten a round of censoring alternative media donald quarter r.t. . for other worlds one of those where the government announced what it called the seizure of its diplomatic buildings in the united states for opposition representatives started to take control of the caracas has called it an illegal and forceful occupation after washington recognized celtic led interim president. but as when it broke

facebook is accused of censoring conservative voices as a whistleblower reveals the social network. to limit exposure. in the course of doing my duties i noticed other things that were going on accounts i would see it appear on several different conservative pages. for broadcasting live. this is our. attentions have been high 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 with us mind we reached the combination of the american workers treated double standards show over. we look forward to genuinely free and fair elections. and to a government that reflects the will and aspirations of the venezuelan people who wouldn't go also one year the year 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 some peace and security. opposed to the united states will pursue all avenues to increase humani

of whether facebook deserves scrutiny as well? ken: we are looking at companies like facebook and google, not just limited to those two. it is any of these giant companies that are dominating the marketplace and potentially harming consumers and causing consumers to be in a position where all of this data is controlled by one or two companies and the consumer does not have access, don't get paid, and they don't know how it is being used. emily: do you think consumers should be paid for their data? ken: it should be looked at, is incredibly valuable information when you know so much about every consumer and are selling that information. there ought to be at least some greater transparency and the consumer realizes what they are turning over. emily: looking at google and facebook and others, is it fair to say you are also looking at amazon and apple, and microsoft? ken: we are just beginning, we don't have specific copies we have targeted, but we're looking at a broad range of companies and trying to determine are they involved in v