fingers pointed at russia 1st and then iran and china later on and all the while congress has been spurring on the assault your companies announced a series of successful disruptions that resulted in the removal of pages groups and accounts my instinct is to applaud the diligence some of your security teams and credit you with taking the problem very seriously social media giants might find it easy to declare war on an authentic activity it thinks might be going on abroad but when they know that their own government is itself using underhanded tactics to advance its agenda who knows if the same standards will apply. whistleblower and form a cia officer john kiriakou says the new policies could prove to social media companies this is an old trick used by local police departments to infiltrate protest groups to see what opponents of the police are doing is something that's been adopted now as a harassment technique by immigration services here this is american exceptionalism isn't it it's ok for the united states because we're the good guys it's not ok for anybody else because they're not the

fingers pointed at russia 1st and then iran and china later on and all the while congress has been spurring on the assault your companies announced a series of successful disruptions that resulted in the removal of pages groups and accounts my instinct is to applaud the village and some of your security teams and credit you with taking the problem very seriously social media giants might find it easy to declare war on an authentic activity it thinks might be going on abroad but when they know that their own government is itself using underhanded tactics to advance its agenda who knows if the same standards will apply. we've asked facebook and twitter for their reaction to the development no comment. they'll turn to for germany party or if d. is celebrating the immigration euro skeptics came 2nd in state elections in brandenburg and saxony significantly increasing their influence in those parliaments. it becomes one of the party's biggest victories harbor its next steps are not clear the ruling christian democrats have already confirmed they won't work with the f.t. but the outcome will beco

kind of distain for rules and decorum a lot of our politicians actually have when they get into that spurs issue of powers like no by security guards person. well that yeah i mean it's just a very strange. thing because it's i mean it's it's such a long.

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fingers pointed at russia 1st and then iran and china later on and all the while congress has been spurring on the assault your companies announced a series of successful disruptions. that resulted in the removal of pages groups and accounts my instinct is to applaud the diligence of your security team to credit you with taking the problem very seriously social media giants might find it easy to declare war on an authentic activity it thinks might be going on abroad but when they know that their own government is itself using underhanded tactics to advance its agenda who knows if the same standards will apply we've asked facebook and twitter for their reaction to the development no comment yet. for a 2nd day a vigil for the victims of the most deadly terror attack in modern russian history is being held 334 were killed mostly children during the siege and was 1000 people were taken hostage at a school in the north a cent in town of beslan warning you may find some of the following report upsetting. most hostages were kept in this room the sports hall beslan is a small town a close knit comm

fingers pointed at russia 1st and then iran and china later on and all the while congress has been spurring on the assault your companies announced a series of successful disruptions. the resulted in the removal of pages groups and accounts my instinct is to applaud the village and some of your security teams and credit you with taking the problem very seriously social media giants might find it easy to declare war on an authentic activity it thinks might be going on abroad but when they know that their own government is itself using underhanded tactics to advance its agenda who knows if the same standards will apply or we have asked facebook on twitter for their reaction to the developments no comment from them though as yet. so that's some reaction instead from the whistleblower former cia officer john kiriakou kindly joins me on the line not supposed to join this this move that we're talking about here do you think it's an effective won't will immigration services actually capsules people have been a bit careless by using such techniques do you think. you know certainly not then this is