the u. s. delegation by the way, was invited, but the united states had it was unable to attend because of logistical challenges . another similar in the event of moscow format, east plant, there is no dates yet, but we'll get isis have told us that they're ready. once the need arises, facebook's having to pay out $14000000.00 in a civil case over discrimination. the u. s. social media giants accused of giving preference to hiring foreign workers over americans. facebook, he is not about the law and must comply with our nations federal civil rights laws which prohibit discriminatory recruitment in hiring practices. of a tech giant gave certain positions may lead to a temporary visa holders. prosecutors are claimed that up to $2600.00 us work is lost out as a result. so facebook was find almost $5000000.00 and its paying out the $9000000.00 in compensation to victims. the lawsuit against the tech joint was followed last year by the u. s. justice department. back then, the trumpet, ministration p

social media giant facebook is having to pay out $14000000.00 in a civil case over discrimination. it was accused of giving preference to hiring foreign workers over americans. facebook. he is not above the law and must comply with all nations federal civil rights laws, which prohibit discriminatory recruitment in hiring practices. the tech giant gave certain positions mainly to temporary visa holders. prosecutors claim up to $2600.00 us workers, lost out as a result, facebook was find almost $5000000.00 for it and is paying out over $9000000.00 in compensation to the victims. the lawsuit against the tech giant was filed last year by the u. s. justice department. back then, the trump administration pushed the biggest tech companies to hire more americans for permanent positions, instead of temporary foreign workers. legal analysts, jennifer breeden explained to us why facebook in particular adopted that policy a stuck and some of these other companies will watch these immigrants. it's a way for a stuck to save money while also preventing maybe lawsuits for unfair or discriminatory

social media giant facebook has to shell out millions of dollars in a discrimination case after giving preference to hiring foreigners over american. ah, it's 5 pm and a beautiful autumn evening and the russian capital. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to our t international. now we start with breaking news from the united states where a navy base just north of washington has been put on lock down amid a bomb threat at around 9 am local time the base received a call about the explosive device located near or at one of the buildings there also been reports of an active shooter. the public's been asked to avoid the area with the facilities personnel requested to shelter in place, of course will bring you more details as they become available on that story. staff shortages, soaring cobit cases, and pressure on the national health service have all led to another crisis in the united kingdom. it's been reported that in parts of the country, patients are waiting for almost up to 50 hours to get a bed in accident and emergency units. in one case, a patient reportedly spent 47 hours in li

s. social media giant facebook has to shell out millions of dollars in a discrimination case.

the u. s . social media giants accused of giving preference to hiring foreign workers over americans. facebook is not about the law and must comply with our nations federal civil rights laws, which prohibit discriminatory recruitment in hiring practices. attack, john give certain positions mainly to temporary visa holders, and the prosecutors claimed that up to 2600. you at work is lost out. as a result, facebook was find almost $5000000.00 and his paying out walden, $9000000.00 in compensation to victims. the lawsuit against the tech giant was filed last year by the u. s. justice department. back then, the trumpet, ministration pushed the biggest tech companies to hire more americans for permanent positions. instead of temporary forum workers, legal atlas jennifer to master explain to his wife facebook in particular, adopted that policy. facebook and some of these other companies will watch these immigrants. it's a way to save money while also preventing maybe lawsuits for unfair or discriminat

s. senate committee hearing and say the social media giant needs to be regulated. francis hogan is a former facebook manager who says the company's aware of the harms it's platforms cost to uses, but has done nothing about it. i saw facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts between its own profit and our safety. facebook consistently resolve these conflicts in favor of its own profits. the result has been more division, more harm, more lies, more threats, and more combat. in some cases, this is this dangerous online talk has led to actual violence that harmed and even kills people. this is not simply a matter of certain social media. users being angry or unstable, are about one side being radicalized against the other. it is about facebook choosing to grow at all costs, becoming an almost trillion dollar company by buying its profits with our safety. the company intentionally hides vital information from the public, from the us government and from governments around the world. how again has leased thousands of internal facebook documents painting a picture of an orga

the social media giant is an urgent threat to its uses and should be regulated. former product manager, frances halligan says the company's science hom, children stock division and wakened democracies. she, a claim to take giant is aware of this, but has done nothing about it. she had per tansy was following the testimony on capitol hill. frances, how can presented a damning picture of facebook as a company knowingly disseminating false information that could excite anger and hatred among uses negatively impact teenage mental health and even stroke ethnic violence. but goals? she says to increase the time uses spend on facebook and instagram, actively engaging with posts and then potentially being exposed to more advertising, which they would click on. this is how facebook makes its money. i saw facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts between its on prophets and our safety. facebook consistently resolve these conflicts in favor of its own prophets. the result has been more division, more harm, more lies, more threads, and more combat. in some cases, this is a, this dangerous online tal

s. congress that the social media giant is an urgent threat to which users former product manager, francis hogan, says the company should be regulated. but c, e o. mark zuckerberg says this research has been taken out of context. in a post on facebook, he wrote that pushing content only for profit is illogical because facebook makes money from ads. he said facebook's advertisers don't want their ads next to harmful content. and the tech companies don't set out to make people angry, more depressed. but francis hogan says sites owned by the company, han children, stock divisions, and we can democracies chicago tansy followed her testimony on capitol hill. frances, how can presented a damning picture of facebook as a company knowingly disseminating false information that could excite anger and hatred among uses negatively impact, teenager mental health and even stroke ethnic violence. but goals, she says to increase the time uses spend on facebook and instagram, actively engaging with posts and then potentially be exposed to more advertising, which they would click on. this is our facebook ma

s. senate committee that social media giant is a threat to uses around the world. she specified that facebook repeatedly prioritized profit over the safety of its uses. facebook and change is clearly not going to do so on its own. my theory that without action, divisive and extremist behaviors, we see today are only the beginning, what we saw me and mar and are now seen. and ethiopia are only opening chapters of a story. so terrifying. no one wants to read the under, but congress can change the rules the facebook plays by and stop the many harms. it is now causing the secretary of state antony blank in is in france to patch up ties after weeks of strained relations because of a cancelled submarine deal both sides of agreed. there is an opportunity to deepen corporation e leaders are meeting in slovenia to talk about the unions relationship with the u . s. and china also on the agenda is a proposal to set up an e u gas reserve for the block. and the economic collapse in afghanistan, venezuela has reopened its land border crossing with colombia after it was closed ne

s. senators call for tougher controls on facebook and all of our social media giants. but there are plenty of questions as well over how the government might use or abuse of control or t host. ben swollen breaks down how that aspect was approached by congressman what they're essentially saying is government needs to get involved and government needs to decide what content is allowed and not a lot on social media in order to make it the word they like to use. safe problem is, is that there are so many tens of millions of americans who do not believe that government is trying to keep them safe. but instead, trying to manipulate them and push political messages on to them should social media b, a public square where people are allowed to get up and speak and into voice their opinions and their worldviews and where rigorous debate can take place as he would have in a public square or is social media supposed to be contrived and controlled to the point where a few government entities and bureaucrats decide what is acceptable thought and acceptable belief. and i think that's

media giants operate and the power they've mast several major u. s. pharmacy chains have gone on trial over their role in the nation's opioid crisis. nearly half a 1000000 people died of opiate overdoses in the u. s. and the 20 years leading up to 2019, the pharmacies are accused of misrepresenting the risks of long term opioid use, and failing to properly monitor suspicious orders of these drugs. john henderson, reports from chicago. had one of chicago's black market drug bazaars tie can't escape opioids. are you doing in bad? real bad. he's woken up in an ambulance more than once. he's joined a rehabilitation program, but he can't help coming back for more. more rose robin real bad. so i leave you believe j. c. without any use again, he'd like to kick the habit with the draw of opioids is too strong. this block on chicago's west side is a fentanyl epicenter. last year, deaths by opioids went up 30 percent in illinois and 83 percent of those were due to fentenol. located mar, nell brown, says the fault lies with drug makers who dramatically underp

it's the latest sign of the tide. turning on social media giants a decade after they were hail for helping bring apart. the arb spray u. s. republicans claim double standards as a marina's court martial for slamming the by the administration humbling of the afghanistan, polite, 2 years after another officer was praised for standing up to the trumpet, ministration on france threatened to cut power supplies to the united kingdom, amid a post that breaks it ran over fishing ah, just after 3 in the afternoon here in moscow this wednesday october, the 6th. great to have your company today. my name is unit o'neill. we begin with some breaking news. the natural gas price in europe has surged to an all time record. it's now 6 times higher than it was in spring. it's about the continent on course for a major energy crunch with households facing soaring costs over the winter season or europe correspond, peter oliver joined us live now in the program to tell us more about her. peter, indeed it's not winter issue, isn't it just around the corner? this is not the news. people perhaps, already strugglin

it is the latest sign of a tide turning on social media giants a decade after they were hailed for bringing about the arab spring. or the u. s. republicans cry double standards as a marine is court martial, cuz slamming the biden administration's handling of the afghan pull out.

media giant is an urgent threat to its uses and should be regulated. she says the company's sides hom, children's stroke division and weaken democracy's u. s. president joe biden has spoken to his chinese counterpart about tensions with taiwan. he says she's in ping has promised to abide by what's described as the taiwan agreement. this comes after a record number of chinese aircraft entered the islands a defense on, ty, ones, defense ministry says 148 chinese war plains had breached the area since friday, begging views the island as part of its territory. but ty pay sees it as an independent country. a bar bard. i want to, we are, with official say, was almost 12 hours before damaged pipeline. that caused a large oil leak in water of southern california was investigated. the coast guard says he didn't have enough evidence of the issue on was hindered by darkness and a lack of technology. they're investigating if the damage was caused by a ship's anchor. well than 500000 late as of oil has leaked into the ocean and is now washing up on beaches. we've d

media giant is now herself under scrutiny. protect say her close ties to the democrats show. she's pushing their agenda for online center shit. u. s. hall additions call for new sanctions against russia over the north stream to pipeline acute.

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u. s. hall additions call for new sanctions against russia over the north stream to pipeline accusing moscow of manipulating the natural gas market. just days after vladimir putin pledge to boost supplies to europe and the european parliament passed as a nun binding resolution seeking to abandon police use of facial recognition software in public places with m e. peace, healing it and major re guests that make the issue. this is good news. you're being criminals on saturday, so it'll be abused like crazy. there's a great saying and law enforcement that when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. ah, just now if you're falling from the evening here in moscow this friday, october the 8th, welcome to the news r and r t. my name's union o'neill. we begin with sour, with breaking news coming to us from afghanistan. dozens of people have reportedly been kill and an explosion of a shia mosque in the country's northern city. of couldn't dues, you may find the upcoming images of the aftermat

the social media giant is an urgent threat to its users and should be regulated. venezuela has reopened its land border with columbia for the 1st time in almost 3 years. it was closed by president nicholas maduro and 2019 after he claimed and each shipment was part of a u. s. back plot to overthrow his government. official say it was almost 12 hours before a damaged pipeline was investigated. after oil seeped into waters of southern california, the trying to find out of the damage was caused by a ship's anchor. here. a total of more than $700000.00 people of no died in the united states from covered 19 the washington national cathedral told its well $700.00 times to mark the fatalities. the number of deaths this year has already surpassed 2020. only 330000 children were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of the french catholic church over 70 years. as the finding of an independent commission, which also says the church showed cruel indifference to the victims. there was the headlines. we'll be back in half an hour. good bye. how many nukes is too many new comerica has in many ways dri

the social media giant is an urgent threat to its users and should be regulated. ah, a total of more than $700000.00 people died in the united states from covered 19, the washington national cathedral is told its bel $700.00 times to mark the fatalities. the number of deaths this year has already surprised the total for 2020 u. s. coast guard says it was almost 12 hours before the damage pipeline was investigated. after oil seeped into waters off southern california, the coast guard says it didn't have enough evidence of the problem and the darkness and a lack of technology didn't help. it's trying to find out of the damage was caused by a ship's anchor. nearly 330000 children were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of the french catholic church over 70 years. at the finding of an independent commission, which also says the church showed cruel indifference to victims. pope frances has expressed great sorrow for those who been hurt. there was the headlines. the news continues here on al jazeera after the listening post. good bye. of so, but it was the iraqis, it

's on the social media giant failure to protect the public from this really harmful content. now it's been a pretty long testimony indeed, and it's been very explosive to, with all sorts of allegations regarding safety incentive, censorship, cloth, of course, algorithms and the power to really just don't people's news feeds on social media and also the content flow, of course, as well now, all of what she says have a pattern of negligence. now, one of the stand out quotes from the testimony today is that the platform is undoubtedly making hate was. so of course, she was taken to the parliamentary committee here in the westminster who is scrutinizing the proposal for the online safety bill. it's a landmark piece of legislation that could really set the tone for social media regulation across the world. now for us, how can a former employee of facebook says now is the time to act and facebook's encryption, which are essentially ambitions to make the site less transparent, will actually make it easier for the actors to strike. now that could be on one end of the scale espionage

but former product manager, francis hogan, told lawmakers and capitol hill that the social media giant is an urgent threat to its uses and should be regulated. she says the company sites hom, children state division and we can democracies. so the head heron al jazeera mourn revelations of widespread sexual abuse. the french catholic church spending more than 70 is tough times ahead. for many, we look at how an economic crisis is starting to hook big businesses in afghanistan . ah, with hi again, good to see here is your weather story for australia, morgan, it's asia as well. so hang tight 1st. we've got a frontal system moving across southern parts of australia, but it does not nudge into sidney. as here. temperature is going to be at 30 degrees on thursday, baskin in the heat, and the sun give you a wider look right now. another system impacting southern areas of western australia, but perth, looking good with a height $21.00 degrees, weather alerts in play for the top end of the south island for some heavy rain. here also, as we look between auckland and gives ben, we've got a batch

the social media giant is an urgent threat to its uses and should be regulated. the number of people who have died of coven 19 in the u. s. so far this year is higher than the total recorded for all of last year. have be more than $700000.00 deaths in the united states, in total. but tens of millions of americans still refuse to get vaccinated. the u. s. coast guard says it was 10 hours before a damaged pipeline was investigated after oil seats into california borders, trying to determine if the rupture that spilled 570000 liters of oil was caused by ships anchor or not. european union ads of governments and leaders from western balkan countries. a gathering for discussions in slovenia. the plenary talks will focus on e. u. investment in the balkans and on cove 19 recovery. european leaders are also expected to discuss white issues, including afghanistan, china, and european energy prices jumpstart headlines. more news coming up here. officer i often so i story, i've talked to al jazeera, we always get what gives you hope that it is going to be peace because the

ah, thank you for joining as we begin with breaking news and social media giant facebook and nearly all of its platforms are experiencing an outage, cutting communications to billions of people around the world. facebook, instagram and the messaging service whatsapp have been hit by the outages. internet uses are taking to other forms of social to report their frustration. whatsapp is the world's most popular messaging app and reports more than 3000000000 monthly uses. facebook which owns instagram, and what sob says it's aware, some people are having trouble accessing the services. we'll have more on this breaking news story in a little while moving on to other world news now and a un investigation says all sides in libya's conflicts have committed violations that may include war crimes. it details, accounts of murder, torture enslavement and rape. libby has been in conflict since the death of its formerly demo market are feed 2011 with rival administrations fighting for power. claudia gazande e is international crisis group senior analyst for libya. she says investigative panel will h

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