facebook is constantly nudging us to use facebook messenger more and more. that is their long-tererm strategy. the other part of their long-term strategy is mark zuckerberg wants to get into the chinese market. that is the one placace in the world he cannot do business effectively. he would love to take on wechat directly. here is the big difference. wechat, like every other application in china, answers to the people's republic of china. there is constant, full surveillance by the government. wechat cannot operate without that. facebook seems to be willing to negotiate on that point. if facebook became more like we it is very likely that it would have to cut very strong agreements around the world with governments around the world that would allow for maybe not chinese level of surveillance, but certainly a dangerous level of surveillance and licensing. again, we might not sweat that in the united states or western europe, where we still have some basic civil liberties come at least most of us do, but people in turkey, egypt, india should be very worried ab

we change facebook as much as facebook changes us. invented for the puppies and babies and for college kids to keep up with each other over their lives. that's how it was designed. it came when they showed up and decided to use it for very different purposes. one conspiracy theorists, one flat earth groups and by the way about a thousand flat earth groups unfazed doctrine to commence everybody the earth is flat. when those people show up that's not what facebook is designed for but it becomes shaped by those interventions. facebook is shaped by us as much as we are shaped by facebook. mark zuckerberg doesn't know what's come it didn't get us, didn't even get curious about us before he created a system that it quickly connect to billions of people too. he made a profound take by assuming we were all the sort of people who hang out with mark zuckerberg. though we all went to prep school and harvard in silicon valley. if we were that kind of people, even just a harvard people to be fairly usable. except for kissinger would like to kick h

we change facebook as much as facebook changes us. facebook was invented for the graduation photos and college kids to keep up with each other over their lives. that is how it was designed. the social shaping part came when the nazis showed up and used it for different purposes. when misogynist misogynists user different purposes. a by thby the way there were about a thousand groups on facebook trying to convince everybody the earth is flat. flat. that i doesn't was designed for for those interventions. it shaped by s. and mark doesn't know us and didn't even get curious about us before he created a system he quickly connected millions of people to. he made a profound mistake by assuming we were all sort of people who hang out with mark. if we were dot kind of people that would be useful, but that is iisn't the world. it is messier than that and angry and mean and that is what we have seen a. >> for years and years they have had production cases with the controls and interfaces are a. so you also feel like they are making a good-faith

facebook tries to explain its way out of what sounds like the next doctor's scandal involving banks. and the digital dumpster how it's them is unclogging city streets with smart bins. let's do business actually doing business with iran just got tricky. sanctions many multinationals do business with both the u.s. and ran for president or trump says it's either or. as european companies are in a tough bind washington says firms that do business with iran will be excluded from the u.s. market the e.u. has responded with legislation that bans european companies from complying with the sanctions brussels sent a clear signal. we believe that it is and it has to be up to. the europeans in this case to the side with home to trade with major corporations like air bus undying decided to quit operations in iran instead of risking sanctions themselves but medium sized companies cannot afford to give up the market and brussels is still hoping that washington won't proceed with sanctions on e.u. companies because it is the softness to the hope is that americans won't sanction european companies or

facebook tries to explain its way out of what sounds like the next dumbass scandal involving banks. and the digital dumpster how it's them is unclogging city streets with smart bins. let's do business actually doing business with iran just got tricky. many multinationals do business with both the u.s. and around the president or trump says it's either or. european companies are in a tough bind washington says firms that do business with iran will be excluded from the u.s. market the e.u. has responded with legislation that bans european companies from complying with the sanctions brussels sent a clear signal. we believe it is and it has to be up to. the europeans in this case to the side with whom to trade with major corporations like air bus undying already decided to quit operations in iran instead of risking sanctions themselves but medium sized companies cannot afford to give up the market and brussels is still hoping that washington won't proceed with sanctions on e.u. companies mechanism so if mr mollett hope is that americans want to sanction european companies or otherwise d

thanks for joining us franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts schooling fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. that the. us about them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian bots and trolls how many trolls does it take to win site of evolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook some stories never seem to die well this facebook slash twitter online police raid is an actual news story this week yeah you can take plenty of the earlier reports replay. the word russia with iran and get pretty much identical stuff all right speaking of facebook this time it bad six hundred twenty five pages traced to iran and an unknown number of pages linked to russia it just wouldn't work if russia didn't get mentioned and the reason for this verdict is we removed multiple pages groups and accounts for coordinated in authen

doesn't like these problems neither does facebook or google when they have problems you've seen that the loss of google in the stock exchange for example they see this as a problem they have to deal with it but for them freedom liberty on twitter is for twitter the best thing for their uses so they had to they were under pressure from the european union in this case state they had to do something and they dedicated hundred twenty five thousand euro to the. countermeasures let's say to challenge the russian disinformation that's the terms used by the european commission when they have created this east. task force you know to fight against russian disinformation r.t. for example yet there's been such a backlash against this why do you think the research got people so wind up so angry if the experts underlined their aim was not to root out so-called russian bots. well this little n.-g. o. is very interesting and i suppose journalist real journalists will look into its links with the european commission the european union and especially a s for the people it's maybe not not clear for pe

what has facebook got to offer to box well from this statement that we've read from facebook so far it basically looks like they're attempting to partner with a lot of major financial institutions in the united states and kind of take some of their customer service. work that the banks do and tie it into facebook's core service basically they want what does that mean if i were if my bankers are out there so there's a transaction that i don't like and instead of going to my back i'm talking to facebook well to a certain extent yes i mean they don't want had to have access to all users transaction information instead they want users when they're looking for customer service in their banks to turn to facebook messenger their chat app they're hoping to load chat bot so little programs they can speak or actually talk on behalf of the bank into their messenger service and have users turn to them when they need customer service from their financial institutions so they're not the facebook is not after after all bank details to to predict you know all consumer behavior. and then right now they

facebook tries to explain its way out of what sounds like the next doctor scandal involving banks. and the digital dumpster how it's them is unclogging city streets with smog bins. let's do business actually doing business with iran just got tricky. many multinationals do business with both the u.s. and ran for president or trump says it's either or. european companies are in a tough bind washington says firms that do business with iran will be excluded from the u.s. market the e.u. has responded with legislation that bans european companies from complying with the sanctions brussels sent a clear signal. we believe that it is and it has to be up to. the europeans in this case to the side with home to trade with major corporations like their bus undying love decided to quit operations in iran instead of risking sanctions themselves but medium sized companies cannot afford to give up the market and brussels is still hoping that washington won't proceed with sanctions when e.u. companies mechanism softness to the hope is that americans won't sanction european companies or otherwise di

facebook tries to explain its way out of what sounds like the next data scandal involving banks. and the digital dumpster how it's them is unclogging city streets with smart bids. lets do business actually doing business with iran just got tricky. many multinationals do business with both the u.s. and around the president or trump says it's either or. european companies are in a tough bind washington says firms that do business with iran will be excluded from the u.s. market the e.u. has responded with legislation that bans european companies from complying with the sanctions brussels sent a clear signal. we believe that it is and it has to be up to. the europeans in this case to decide with whom to trade with major corporations like air bus undying decided to quit operations in iran instead of risking sanctions themselves but medium sized companies cannot afford to give up the market and brussels is still hoping that washington won't proceed with sanctions twenty you companies can is the softness the money the hope is that americans won't sanction european companies or otherwise

recent purposes scandals will users give facebook to have banking details. well that's a big question of course and if you look on the internet in the discussion platforms about this story the majority of people there are appalled about the idea to you know share your banking data with a company like facebook so obviously the banks are walking a very very fine line here but also they have to follow the trend at the trend goes tech the banks have to make sure not to lose too much of the payments business to the tech companies. for such a long time they have been trying to you know appeal to a younger crowd that's used to use their mobile devices for everything so the trend is in a inevitable collarbones in frankfurt thank you. the past months of brought record temperatures worldwide in europe and to germany as well this has many negative side effects farmers for example are struggling but then there are those who celebrate the weather profit from it wine makers for example expect an excellent vintage and some of already started the harvests. hot dry weather j

international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome our top story facebook recently launched a crusade against the spread of misinformation on fake news and it's not hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion and logged on. thanks for joining us million but franco with your latest is in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts spewing fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. not us at this by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian bots and trolls from an apparent russian troll factory how many trolls does it take to incite i've revolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook in all sessional networks russian trolls have been accused of infiltrating facebook well some story is never seem to die well this facebook slash twitter online police raid is

had their had their page removed by facebook these are american citizens because facebook decided to they wanted to appease politicians and call it linked to russia they darkens back to recall the arab spring that was called the facebook revolution the people around the state barack was overthrown. with an error so the u.s. came back in a re-install to barack basically. along those lines this. so that was a clear indication that this whole democratization of communication and the democracy spreading from the lawyers of american entrepreneurial as i'm was fake news that was a fake story but i just focused for a second on it touched on it there. the facebook banning these anti-fascists so there were fastest there were neo nazis on facebook and then a group of merged to confront the nazis and facebook banned the nazis banned the anti nazis and then. maddog picked up the story as if somehow this is tied into russia right may stream media echoing a blatant miscarriage of speech in the name of a hoax call russia gate. i'm jealous still so good good if you want to comment on up to two point

interesting this gutsy move from facebook saying this app isn't facebook, it is onavo. we are watching everything you download on your phone, getting smarter because of that. henry, what do you think this reveals about the dynamic between apple and others versus android platform and what developers are going to be able to get away with. >> one, talk fake news apple has gotten it right. you look at apple news they have a very wide group of contributors to apple news, but it is apple editors saying you are a news organization of appropriate diligence, fact based. we want you in our news app. we are making a choice, are taking responsibility for that c other platforms say who are we to judge there's now controversy that there's censorship of conservative views, companies are koicoiling in horror at tha. we need to draw a distinction between taking stuff not fact based, pure make stuff up that happens to be conservative views and banning that from platforms, saying no, here are journalism companies that are fact based and diligent but have a conservative point of view they

that has really been part of the reason facebook is becoming facebook. taylor: you mentioned the weinstein clause, some new initiatives on a corporate governance perspective of boards starting to come in and limit them. maybe the first time in a while, limit the power. joel: that is why this is such a perfect cover for us. it really brings all of these themes together in a really coherent package. it is not just trees. there is a forest happening here. the other thing to keep in mind is we are talking about men. all of these examples are men at the top of companies. it might look a little different if they were a little more diversity. taylor: up next, the case for loosening mark zuckerberg's grip on facebook. julie: plus, why some investors are losing their appetite for the big technology stock. ♪ taylor: welcome to " "bloomberg -- welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i am taylor riggs. julie: and i am julie hyman. you can also find us online at businessweek.com and on our mobile app. taylor: in this week's business section, we continue our focus

it is not the next facebook. gary: no, but it was never the next facebook. the truth is, facebook is all encompassing, right with , instagram and who knows what mark and cheryl and the team are up to on their next m&a. they have got whatsapp, yes, it is not the next phase that -- facebook. i assume it is not priced on wall street in the same manner. i will say this, if you look very closely to moon pie, a small snack brand, if you look at what wendy's is doing, the business world is starting to understand how to use facebook to drive business. we are working with kraft heinz on miracle whip. it stuns me how much twitter is the backbone of driving sales at albertsons and walmart. so i will say that maybe the width of attention on twitter is not growing to a stock market's wants and needs, but the depth of attention in the platform, and the ways to maneuver in it, and its ad products, over the last three to four years i have been quite critical and not excited about twitter publicly, but i, no question, have seen over the last six to 12 months a resurgence dif

facebook's focus on customer service i mean facebook right now is kind of stagnating in the western world so they're trying to find new ways to kind of deepen the engagement their customers have they want the customers not just to post on information there but also to turn to facebook for different type of them services and while this is nestle a financial attack it's really kind of focusing in on the customer service options that they're hoping will increase in gauge meant among their user base why is facebook looking to deepen the user experience experience all the user engagement why do these are mean i don't know two billion people on facebook already well you're right there are two billion people on facebook but this is really kind of focusing on the western world so our north america and europe because well they have kind of reach market saturation i mean if you live where we live in central europe or in north america if you're the type of person to have a facebook account you already have one so they're using numbers aren't growing in the western world that's why in order to keep t

that has really been part of the reason facebook is becoming facebook. taylor: you mentioned the weinstein clause. you have poison pills. some new initiatives on a corporate governance perspective of boards starting to come in and limit them. maybe the first time in a while, limit the power. joel: that is why this is such a perfect cover for us. it really brings all of these themes together in a really coherent package. it is not just trees. there is a forest story happening here. the other thing to keep in mind is we are talking about men. all of these examples are men at the top of companies. it might look a little different if there was a little more diversity. taylor: up next, the case for loosening mark zuckerberg's grip on facebook. julie: plus, why some investors are losing their appetite for the big technology stocks. ♪ ♪ taylor: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i am taylor riggs. julie: and i am julie hyman. you can also find us online at businessweek.com and on our mobile app. taylor: in this week's business section, we continue ou

that has really been part of the reason facebook is becoming facebook. taylor: you mentioned the weinstein clause, some new initiatives on a corporate governance perspective of boards starting to come in and limit them. maybe the first time in a while, limit the power. joel: that is why this is such a perfect cover for us. it really brings all of these themes together in a really coherent package. it is not just trees. there is a forest happening here. the other thing to keep in mind is we are talking about men. all of these examples are men at the top of companies. it might look a little different if they were a little more diversity. taylor: up next, the case for loosening mark zuckerberg's grip on facebook. julie: plus, why some investors are losing their appetite for the big technology stock. ♪ ♪ taylor: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i am taylor riggs. julie: and i am julie hyman. you can also find us online at businessweek.com and on our mobile app. taylor: in this week's business section, we continue our focus on the corporate key m

facebook has hundreds of pages groups. including. the. presidency is now looking increasingly precarious former associates were found guilty of numerous federal crimes. by dozens of protesters in the swedish capital. comes just weeks before sweden's general election in which the issue of immigration has taken. also we speak to. germany and then left the meeting. and it is time for the weekly international just off to on sunday for me here welcome to your top stories. so facebook is upping the ante in its crusade against fake news it's now banned hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for alleged allegedly trying to sway political opinion let's get some details on this now here's our correspondent in the apartment. thanks for joining us i believe that franco with your latest is in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts stealing fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by i

well last week facebook brought us the banning of controversial right wing icon alex jones and is in full wars a brand from the social media giant this week it appears that facebook is now swinging its ban stick to the other side of the alternative political spectrum with news that the left leaning south american news network teller sore has recently been suspended from its platform and fact this is now the second time this year tell us or has felt the wrath of facebook censorship game or to dissect is our to correspondent dan cohen welcome. always preserved so i would first go to layout for everybody how did this play out between facebook and tiller so what exactly happened here right will tell us or launched its english page and twenty four team basically to challenge corporate dominated media and provide a platform from for voices from the global south and it done exceptionally well it's. page had five hundred thousand likes and it was doing great coverage across latin america and monday evening around five forty eastern time its site facebook page in english was simply removed an

and i think facebook. was so terrified of the public relations consequences of being tied to this political story that they you know they turtled and now we have this very dangerous situation we're a month type media distributor is working hand in hand with the government and that would never happened you know three years ago people would have been up in arms about it but now here we are it's ok you know we're worried is this go you know because it's like all you see is this kind of condensing down you know ok we have like to google and facebook are now controlling free speech you know you see you know what's five companies now own all the media i mean it's just this complete condensing down is there do you think we're going to get past this is there hope do you think that we're going to break out of this of some point i don't know because what would what it will require is some kind of anti-monopoly like a you know and i trust action against these companies and i don't really see that on the horizon. i th

facebook gets help from the u.s. government and nato to track foreign meddling we find out what this means for free speech. that's for joining us you're watching international. israeli airstrikes have injured at least eighteen people in gaza that's according to local medics. i. i i one of the latest bombing raids a cultural center in gaza city was destroyed the i.d.f. lewinski operation after palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets into southern israel. there was. once a night an i.d.f. strike killed at least three people including a pregnant woman as well as an eighteen month old child a local journalist was present at the funeral. we are now and did it by left city in the middle of the gaza city where we are attending the funeral of we ness and bejan in us and by god were killed yesterday during the air strikes launch from gaza strip and that is a twenty three year old mother that was pregnant with a nine month baby i'm expecting him at any minute but yet is the one year and a half old baby as you see thousan

international all the latest headlines on the stories that have shaped the week but first facebook's upping the ante in his crusade against fake news it's gone on another banning spree in a bid to stamp out the phenomenon and thereby limit efforts to sway political opinion it explains. thanks for joining us milly playing with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts schooling fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. not us at the by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian bots and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook well this facebook slash twitter online police rate is an actual news story this week yeah you can take plenty of the earlier reports replace the word russia with iran and get pretty much identical stuff all right speaking of facebook

so facebook is upping the crusade against. hundreds of pages. to iran. for allegedly trying to sway political opinion as our correspondent. thanks for joining us franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts spewing fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. not the us of those by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian vaults and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook as well this facebook slash twitter online police raid is an actual news story this week yeah you can take plenty of the earlier reports replace the word russia with iran and get pretty much identical stuff all right speaking of facebook this time it bad six hundred twenty five pages traced to iran and an unknown number of pages linked to russia it j

we change facebook as much as facebook changes us. facebook was invented for the puppies and the babies and the graduation photos and college kids to keep up with each other over their lives. that is how it was designed. the social shaping part came when the nazis showed up and used for different purposes and misogynists decided to use it for different purposes, when conspiracy theorists, anti-vaccination campaigns and flat earth groups, there are thousands of flat earth groups on facebook trying to convince people the earth is flat. when those people show up that is not what facebook was designed for but facebook becomes shaped by those interventions. facebook is shaped by us as much as we are shaped by facebook. mark zuckerberg didn't get us, didn't even get curious about us. before he created a system he connected billions of people too. he made a mistake by assuming we were all sort of people who hang out with mark zuckerberg, we all went to harvard and silicon valley. if we were that kind of people, even just the harvard people f

well last week facebook brought us the banning of controversial right wing icon alex jones and is in full wars a brand from the social media giant this week it appears that facebook is now swinging its ban stick to the other side of the alternative political spectrum with news that the left leaning south american news network tell us soar has recently been suspended from its platform and fact this is now the second time this year tell us or has felt the wrath of facebook censorship game or to dissect is our to correspondent dan cohen welcome. always preserved so first going to lay out for everybody how did this play out between facebook and tiller so what exactly happened here right will tell us or launched its english page and twenty fourteen basically to challenge corporate dominated media and provide a platform from for voices from the global south and it done exceptionally well it's. page had five hundred thousand likes and it was doing great coverage across latin america and monday evening around five forty eastern time its site facebook page in english was simply removed and th

diamond and silk said their content was similarly blocked on facebook. >> facebook, along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence conservative voices such as ourselves by deliberately weaponizing our page with algorithms that repress our free speech. >> next it was youtube that limited their channels with no warning at all. this has happened to conservative commentators like ben shapiro, dave ruben. >> for my on the left, the view seems to become that if you can't beat them, prevent them from speaking. just look at what's happened on the conservative speakers on college campuses. and after liberal radio hosts flopped on air america -- remember them -- well, some democrats thought to revive the fairness doctrine to snuff out conservative talk radio. thankfully that went nowhere. but now they've moved onto the internet and squelching political speech there. a leaked proposal outlines a detailed plan to take over the internet by regulating digital platforms and purging content they deem harmful or inaccurate. in other words, information they don't like. th

erodes int facebook brand, where will people go? emily: you have been off facebook for a year. but you are more tech aware than most people. do most people know about this? >> they will. they will switch to instagram. there will be another three or four years of instagram playing loose and easy, then people will wake up to something else. i think the reality is we have to start monitoring these companies more closely now more than ever. looking five years from now, when video and visual internet is all around us, creating fake news and having fake information out there which looks like real information can actually have a much deeper impact. is morer eyes see effective than what headline you read. legislators now are worrying about the past two much, whereas we need to think about controlling these companies in the future. emily: what should the regulation look like? >> it should be all around that appeared how they use data, what to do with that data, having clarity around how they are using it, in language the average humans can understand, and also being able to just localiz

i absolutely love facebook. what russia did in 2016 was come and ride that wave and they'll probably be beyond their wildest dreams and we have to examine each one of those and i understand why government officials are very much concerned with the external meddling, but we as a society have to think about what is the polarization that's going on and how is our digital connectivity feeding into that and how are the business models amplified. >> they're huge questions with massive consequences. this rally that we've been talking about had 2,600 facebook users look into it with 600 clicking to attend. zaneb, thanks for joining us. that is it for us tonight. thanks for watching "amanpour on pbs" and please join us tomorrow night. ♪ >> national presentation of "beyond 100 days" is made possible by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. matt: very warmbbc news, broadcasting to our welcome to viewers in north america. my name is mike embley. our top stories. deadly gunfire from soldiers in

facebook watch goes global. but can it take on netflix, youtube and amazon in the booming business of video streaming? default fears return, as argentina tells the imf to speed up payment of a $50 billion loan, sending the peso to a new record low. and on the markets: asian stocks rise after more record highs for the s&p and nasdaq, as us economic growth is revised higher, and hopes grow for a succesful renegotiation of the north america free trade agreement. we start with facebook. it's already far and away the world's top social network, with two billion users. but can it take on youtube, netflix and amazon in the booming business of video streaming? today it rolls out its own streaming service, facebook watch, around the world. it's been up and running in the us for the past year but it's had a bit of a slow start. only around 14% of americans are using it at least once a week. it has funded a few original shows but most content providers aren't being paid upfront. instead they get a 55% share of the advertis

analytical data gate if one person if you joined the asp i would not just see your facebook profile i would see all of the facebook profiles of everybody that you're friends with and people had no idea that it was being taken in this way you know that was one massive gate but i'll remind you of something else the a bomb it seemed had a solution in place a facebook application more than one million a bomb about because you signed up for the app gave the campaign permission to look at their facebook friends lists in an instant the campaign had to wait see the hidden young vote just a little democrat trick to get hold of some user data for political gain before the two thousand and twelve vote you never heard about it because pretty much no one cared those were the days no hash tag collusion media fallout news anchors didn't go on about a twenty four seven and some people in charge at facebook were just real fans of mr obama facebook was surprised to enable to psych out the whole social graph butt. they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing they allowed us to do

and i think facebook. was so terrified of the public relations consequences of being tied to this political story that they you know they turtled and now we have this very dangerous situation we're. money type media distributor is working and with the government and that would never happened you know with three years ago people would have been up in arms about it but now here we are. you know we're worried as. this is go i mean you know because it's like all you see is this kind of condensing down you know ok we have like to give google and facebook are now controlling free speech you know you see you know what's five companies now only all the media i mean it's just this complete condensing down is there do you think we're going to get past this is there hope do you think that we're going to break out of this of some point i don't know because what would what it would require is some kind of anti-monopoly like a you know and i trust action against these companies and i don't really see that on the horizon

facebook ceo mark zuckerberg described facebook's finding in a call with reporters. mr. zuckerberg: we believe these campaigns and accounts -- were from two separate campaigns. first, was from iran including from ties in the state-owned media. second, a set of activity the u.s. government and others have publicly linked to russian military intelligence services. we have been investigating some of these campaigns for months now, which highlights the tension in removing bad actors quickly and improving defenses overtime. emily: for more, let's go to washington where our bloomberg tech cybersecurity reporter is standing by. jordan, let's talk about the facebook issue. what you make of the fact that iran has potentially been implicated here in broader plans to meddle in u.s. politics? >> the big takeaway here is that this is a good sign that these organizations, facebook and taking active measures and the steps to eliminate these kinds of disinformation accounts. the fact that iran wants to get involved into the election season is not a great sign. what it shows is that we a

plus facebook bandsmen mars army leaders after a damning u.n. record use social media giant removes eighteen accounts link to me in mars military and admits it was too slow in the leading races and the written job posts. and when drinking tea is one of the few pleasures left in life we visit a family in iran already hard hit by a bad economy and now also by u.s. sanctions. i'm brian thomas. so much for being with us in the german city of camden police are investigating a number of people after a night that saw several thousand taking to the streets to protest immigration they were met by about a thousand counter-demonstrators the two sides were kept apart by hundreds of riot police concerns over further violence has now prompted germany's interior minister to provide additional police support to the eastern state of saxony. violence again encampments on monday as far right demonstrators faced off with counter protesters. a call by a right wing group attracted as many as two thousand far right protesters and around one thousand counter-demonstrat

facebook they shut down the page for a local d.c. based anti-fascist group the headline shouted to the american public that it was the russians but the activists were not russians ok your thoughts yes this was one of the few facebook pages organizing a counter protest to the upcoming neo nazi unite the right march all of the pages that were shut down by facebook most of which average between zero and seven followers clearly a threat this must be putin's thirteen dimensional chess to like out match the u.s. by attracting zero followers all of them were left wing liberal sites and some of them may have been fake this one was real and as i said at the beach when russia gate really exploded into the open and i said this very publicly it will blow that back on the left yet there's a point there's a point so when you go out there and you start censoring folks you know it now they can know where to stop and now it's blowing back it's all coming on the chickens are coming back and now it's like a just a madhouse of such a ship ok what is the

facebook relies on nato and u.s. funded experts to tackle foreign influence on its platform we take a look at how this affects freedom of speech online. thanks for joining us this is r.t. international eighteen people have been injured after the gansa city cultural center was hit in an exchange of fire between israel and palestine that's according to palestinian sources. i earlier the israeli military carried out a series of strikes on the gaza strip on wednesday night in response to palestinian missile attacks against israeli territory. one of the i.d.f. strikes killed at least three people including a young pregnant woman as well as an eighteen month old child local journalist was present at the funeral. we are now we did it by left city in the middle of the gaza city where we are attending the funeral of we now somebody on us and began work killed yesterday during the airstrikes launch from gaza strip and that's a plus three year old mother that was pregnant with a nine month baby i'm expecting him at any minute b

it is not the next facebook. gary: it was never the next facebook. the truth is, facebook is all encompassing with instagram and who knows what mark and cheryl and the team are up to on their next m&a. the next facebook, i assume it is not priced on wall street in the same manner. if you look very closely to moon pie, a small snack brand, if you look at what wendy's is doing, the business world is starting to understand how to use facebook to drive business. we are working with kraft heinz on miracle whip. twitter is how much the backbone of driving sales at albertsons and walmart. i will say that maybe the with th oftention -- wid attention on twitter is not growing to the stock market's wants and needs, but the ways to maneuver in it and it's at three to over the last four years i have been critical and not excited about twitter question,but i, no have seen over the last six to 12 months seen a resurgence different from the trump effect in just how much attention is in the platform. when you have attention, you have the ultimate currency. it will b

it's closed more than thirty accounts and pages on facebook and instagram. the company says these efforts were more sophisticated than previous. dave lee reports from san francisco. for once, facebook appears to be on the front foot when it is dealing with its misinformation problem. it says it has discovered co—ordinated in authentic behaviour. the activity involved almost 10,000 facebook posts and 150 pieces of advertising. it was designed not to back a certain candidate that simply make americans angry. facebook said 30 real—world events such as protest we re real—world events such as protest were organised by the malicious actors. 0ne were organised by the malicious actors. one was due to take place in washington later this month. 600 people indicated they would attend. though the techniques used closely resembles those seen in the run—up to the 2016 election, facebook stopped short of blaming russia for this latest campaign. it says whoever it was to greater caring coupling —— covering their tracks but it did find overlap between the newly d

as far as facebook facebook's made a series of higher lows and you might be surprised and it's trapped underneath the moving averages and you might be pleasantly surprised if you're a long holder, yes, it could go either way, but it seems as though it's front loaded and coiled to spring actually on these events and not sell off >> still ahead, how would you like to get long shares of amazon for less than $20 seems crazy and mike has a way to do it and he'll show you how later in the show. i'm melissa lee. you're watching "fast money" on cnbc, first in business worldwide. here's what else is coming up on fast. >> a number of dead stocks are heating up we'll give you the names and tell you if the traders are buying plus, video game stocks have tumbled. ♪ >> but one of our traders thinks it might be time to hit the reset button on one of them and he'll give you the name when "fast money" returns your healthcare business. of so that if she has a heart problem & the staff needs to know, they will & they'll drop everything can you take a look at her vitals? & share the data with other spec

thanks for joining us franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts spewing fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. that this by. them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian balls and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of so-called russian took over twitter and facebook some stories never seem to die well this facebook slash twitter online police raid is an actual news story this week yeah you can take plenty of the earlier reports replace the word rush with iran and get pretty much identical stuff all right speaking of facebook this. i made bad six hundred twenty five pages traced to iran and an unknown number of pages linked to russia it just wouldn't work if russia didn't get mentioned and the reason for this verdict is we removed multiple pages groups and accounts for coordinated in authentic behavior

a very public critic of facebook compared facebook to philip morris in terms of facebook's negative impact on the world. what about concerns about fake news? what about online hate? what about concerns about our privacy? gary: there is a stunning non-conversation about taking on some sense of responsibility, meaning sure, but choosing cnn or fox or msnbc has as many dynamics as what you are seeing in your feed, and more importantly what you are choosing to consume as real. i mean, to me the thought that facebook is any different than twitter or instagram, which obviously they own, or websites or a million different ways we consume, is kind of laughable and silly. i mean, visa and target and the american government itself has had breaches of information far more dramatic. so i understand the concept, but i think making a jump from philip morris, which systematically spent lobbying dollars and tried to pay off politicians for four to five decades to suppress information, is an awfully big jump. emily: what about profitability versus privacy? will one always trump the other and can we actuall

facebook says it doesn't know. but on capitol hill they are reporting to russia him one republican vowing more sanctions. >> that has everything but the kitchen siveng in it. it will be the sanctions bill from hell. >> reporter: congress recently grilled mark zucker burg over facebook's handing of russia interference in 2016. >> unfortunately the process isn't per fevenlg i am committed to doing that. >> i think facebook wants to do that to restore confidence with investors. >> reporter: the white house says president trump is aware of this latest disinformation campaign and they applaud the actions facebook is taking. >> thanks, to peter alexander for that report. >>> let's go to washington. a reporter is joining us. talk about the effect just 98 days or so i believe now. >> reporter: yes, this is interesting. what we saw in terms of the effectiveness of these russian tactics was these pages would attempt to imitator mirror the talking.and act as a bait and switch. for instance, black lives matter in 2016. they wo

facebook has removed nearly three dozen accounts and pages. it has not publicly identified russia as behind this campaign. in a moment we will hear from our technology correspondent dave lee. but first, here is what the director of homeland security said about russia's role in the 2016 presidential election. our democracy itself is in the crosshairs. let me take just a moment to touch on this, because i think it's very important to do so. two years ago, as we all know, a foreign power launched a brazen, multifaceted influence campaign to undermine public faith in our democratic process and to distort our presidential election. that campaign was multifaceted. it involved cyber espionage, leaks of stolen data, cyber intrusions into voter registration systems, online propaganda, and more. let me be clear — our intelligence community has it right. it was the russians. we know that, they know that, it was directed at the highest levels, and we cannot and will not allow that to happen again. facebook released a bunch of information about this issu

well last week facebook brought us the banning of controversial right wing icon alex jones and is in full wars a brand from the social media giant this week it appears that facebook is now swinging its ban stick to the other side of the alternative political spectrum with news that the left leaning south american news network tell us soar has recently been suspended from its platform and fact this is now the second time this year tell us or has felt the wrath of facebook censorship game or to dissect is our to correspondent dan cohen welcome. always preserved so i would first go to lay out for everybody how did this play out between facebook and tiller so what exactly happened here right will tell us or launched its english page and twenty fourteen basically to challenge corporate dominated media and provide a platform from for voices from the global south and it done exceptionally well it's. page had five hundred thousand likes and it was doing great coverage across latin america and monday evening around five forty eastern time its site facebook page in english was simply removed a

-- youtube, or facebook. that would be a pretty real threat, but it is not clear that's what the white house has in mind. emily: so you go as far as to say trump's claim is bogus, you say trump is run on the facts. why? shira: i think there are legitimate concerns by all political stripes that google and facebook both have bias in their algorithms, the computer systems that determine what 10 blue links we see highest on google, what posts we see at the top of our news feed on facebook. bias ison't think the evident in news results about him. what he is reacting to, legitimate news stories from outlets like cnn he doesn't like, that he calls biased, that i would call useful pieces of information. emily: this comes ahead of next week, facebook and twitter at least testifying in washington. coo sheryl sandberg will be there, twitter ceo jack dorsey. google offered to send its top legal person, and congress said that's not good enough, but google hasn't offered anybody else. is that a mistake? shira: it is a mist

of online privacy company crypto hippi outlines the ethical implications of facebook's policies. i think it's political pressure i think it really comes down to that they are putting themselves in the position of mediating human relationships which is first of all a very unhealthy thing to do and it's something that they really are grossly. incompetent to do and users primarily will not know what is being done to them and they will be manipulated or sorts of ways we don't know what kind of ways talk of donald trump's possible impeachment took center stage in the u.s. media this week amid a scandal over two of his former associates can he be impeached with this i think the beginning has to be set and mark right now and wolf we're in a watergate moment but there is i think a lot for the president to fear there's talk of impeachment comes after trump's ex campaign chairman paul monophysites was found guilty of numerous fraud charges and his acts lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to presidential campaign finance violations allegedly paying hush money to trump's mistresses has lande

facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian vaults and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook well this facebook slash twitter online police rate is an actual news story this week yeah you can take plenty of the earlier reports replace the word russia with iran and get pretty much identical stuff all right speaking of facebook this time it bad six hundred twenty five pages traced to iran and an unknown number of pages linked to russia it just wouldn't work if russia didn't get mentioned and the reason for this verdict is we removed multiple pages groups and accounts for coordinated in offensive behavior on facebook and instagram what kind of sin is this in authentic behavior let's hear from zax people they use similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing we ban this kind of behavior because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make on facebook. the issue of trusting wot pops out at you