election forced facebook to delete our accounts but facebook listen could have refused facebook is so scared of being once again accused of helping the russians in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately deletes no counter had four million subscribers and two point five billion views no complaints against the video itself and the content on the whole were made by facebook but when c.n.n. called and said how can you that there's russians talk to our people facebook just deleted the account obviously the situation is going to get worse no one now is even trying to believe in any freedom or even talk about it it is an open geo political confrontation in which media space is loved by many and are made into real tools i don't know whether they were set up for this but that's exactly what's happening now. well r.t. has contacted a number of news freedom organizations we will of course let you know when they get back to us we've also spoken to a senior researcher from london metropolitan university's global policy institute he believes facebook is

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that facebook is silence in the far right is laughable what facebook is doing is saying if you peddle hate and lies about a community then action will be taken and that's what's been done when you read the facebook reasons for banning him they're drawn in very vague and under to kill a language which i think should make any defender of free speech very uncomfortable . it's sixty minutes past one of the afternoon this thursday thanks for watching out c international with your two did around the world i'm kevin now and when we come back after this break controversy sparks a made plans to sell a sports version of the hijab in france. warren buffett you know these doing the stock buybacks which is you know used to be illegal so recently that's completely fraudulent and yes no governance or oversight whatsoever you know he's a more than one of the biggest are the biggest shareholder of wells fargo for example during that period when they were engaged in serial criminality when they were engaged in absolute fraud and he's a party to that so here's a guy who given unlimited credit at zero pe

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percenter filmed this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under immense pressure from various forces to suppress this or that content based on political reasoning but do not succumb to censorship do not succumb to complying with various government funded outlets regardless of what government they're funded by to censor let your users decide what's good and what's bad. joining me now in the studio is ilya trying to to go through the story a little bit further high either. so what has actually brought mafeking media right into the spotlight all of this began with facebook revealing yes indeed the told was very emotional was they were revealing something that used to be a top secret c.n.n. shed light on the fact that a number of math media pages with posts of snappy videos on facebook have links to russia but what people watching these videos may not realize is that the russian government is paying for this soapbox wasted back then are three new facebook pages and all part of a growing brand o

election forced facebook to delete our accounts but facebook listen could have refused facebook is so scared of being once again accused of helping the russians in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately deletes knock out the had forty million subscribers and two point five billion views no complaints against the video itself and the content on the whole were made by facebook but when c.n.n. called and said how can you let those russians talk to our people facebook just deleted the account obviously the situation is going to get worse no one now is even trying to believe in any freedom we even talk about it because it is an open geo political confrontation in which media space is loved by many and are made into real to use i don't know whether they were set up for this that's exactly what's happening now. r.t. also contacted a number of news freedom organizations we will let you know when they get back to us that we also spoke to a senior researcher from london metropolitan university's global policy institute he believes facebook is clearly

facebook has responded by saying it has changed. roger mcnamee joins us for an interview you'll see first on "cbs this morning." good morning. >> john, it's great to be back. >> thank you for being here with us. wow, that is a condemnation. and it's -- mark zuckerberg's 50th anniversary. this is quite a presence he's getting. catastrophe. why? >> so john, we've all trusted technology for really good reasons for the last 50 or 60 years. every new piece of technology made our lives better. the problem is that facebook and google have taken advantage of that. they've created products that essentially prey on the weakest elements of our psychologist to create first habits and then addictions. and then they didn't take the steps to safeguard us from what bad actors could do. and so you've seen a really long list of bad things happening on facebook and google that were fundamentally because they let the users find all the problems. they don't do any preparation. and the real challenge we face now is that new generations of technology like

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serves no use a purpose well that's reassuring what has facebook said about this if anything well facebook have responded and they are saying that we require after developers to be clear with the use to be clear with the users about the information they are sharing with us. and we prohibit after developers from sending us sensitive dogs so we also take steps to detect and remove that should not be shared with us so that is basically the opposite of what this investigation has found now there is there is reason to believe that the practice violates european previously law there is an investigation going on already in new york looking into this and i guess in the meantime if you're worried about your privacy should maybe to be some of those if you fire or not use facebook as if that were an office and yeah like i thank you so much. and onward to sports here are the results from match day twenty three in the in this league so far byron munich edged out heritability in gladbach dropped points at home to wolfsburg minds to feed shaka freiburg thumbs augsburg and kicking off soon dose of the awf

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but they are up against facebook, really instagram -- which is part of facebook -- and facebook has invested so much money in burying snap, and i just don't see a long-term success path for snap here. when you look at the facebook earnings, what you're seeing is a company that is the most important platform for advertisers. advertisers have to go there. but the other thing you see is because, as nielsen reports, the time on the site is declining for users, facebook's having to load more and more advertisements into everyone's news feed, and the result is very soon we're going to run out of space to put ads, and facebook's going to have a much, much tougher set of comparisons going forward. maria: yeah. i mean, there were other things too. when you saw the twitter number, first people thought they were strong numbers, and then we thought the number of users was do do -- was a disappointment. >> twitter's situation is that they dominate the media industry, politics and entertainment. but as a business, it's always been touch and go. they've really never had the kind of focused monetization str

and adding to the pressure on the social media platform british lawmakers accuse facebook of not trading in political advertising and leaving people open to online data breaches. a senior french military officer could be set to face punishment after the pens a damning critique of the u.s. led coalition's campaign against islamic state in syria. very warm welcome to you watching r.t. international with me. our top story a billion based media company has hit our facebook accusing the platform of unprecedented censorship that's after they suspended a number of moffitt media's pages which produces online shows and which c.n.n. is accusing of a deliberate attempt to hide ties to russia one of those shows is in the now viewed over two and a half billion times on the social networking platform a producer and presenter think films this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in pressure from various forces to suppress this or that content based on political reasoning but do not succumb to censorship do not succumb to complying with various government funde

facebook have played in delivering audiences. publishers both have algorithms that they are constantly changing without warning and publishers will see their tank overnight without any ability to respond to it the problem is that when you rely on facebook as your distribution mechanism when facebook changes you really are at their mercy the idea and it seemed sound at the time was let's maximize our strategies our editorial strategies and advertising strategies to appeal to younger viewers slash readers and do it primarily on facebook but as facebook decided to change how it operates it has a bad news in general and it has hurt these companies that had built up their business practices to pander to facebook. even when news outlets clear the algorithmic curdles and find there's the issue of how the tech giants the cash the ad revenue take facebook before getting to a news article you scroll through your nice feet and the first wave of ads placed by facebook you'll eventually reach the article and the news outlets add but advertise

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facebook suspends the pages of several highly successful r.t. linked news projects without warning we find out what could be behind the move. and british lawmakers accuse facebook of failing to regulate political advertising and leaving people open to online data breaches. a senior french military officer writes a damning critique of the u.s. led coalition's campaign against islamic state in syria. by broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right now a berlin based media company has hit out at facebook accusing the platform of unprecedented censorship that is after they suspended a number of media pages which produces online shows and which c.n.n. is accusing of a deliberate attempt to hide ties to russia one of those shows is in the now viewed over two and a half billion times on the social network and producer ad and presenter at magic filmed this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in then pressure from var

the goal with the whole world on facebook and we all live in facebook. >> and the facebook we all live in has never seen a year like 2018. >> facebook took a major hit on wall street today losing over 40 billion dollars in market value after the revelations that cambridge analytica, a company tied to the trump campaign allegedly collected data from tens of millions of facebook profiles, all in the run up to the 2016 election. >> facebook was exposed for how it allowed cambridge analytica, a political consulting firm linked to the trump campaign, to harvest data of tens of millions of americans to an alleged effort to sway their votes. >> people were livid because they felt their personal information was used to power donald trump's campaign. >> but cambridge analytica turned out to be just the beginning. msnbc contributor nicholas spent a year probing how facebook deploys data. >> the fact that this company could get all that data actually was just an illustration of the bigger problem, which is that all of these platforms are basically trafficking in your data. and most people have no

election forced facebook to delete our accounts but facebook listen could have refused facebook is so scared of been once again accused of helping the russians in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately deletes knock out the had forty million subscribers and two point five billion views no complaints against the video itself and the content on the whole were made by facebook but when c.n.n. called you said how can you let those russians talk to our people we spoke just deleted the account obviously the situation is going to get worse no one now is even trying to believe in any freedom or even talk about it it is an open geo political confrontation in which media spaces and loved by many are made into real to you so i don't know whether they were set up for this that's exactly what's happening now. i can tell you our requests are coming for a number of press freedom organizations or get response but from then we'll let you know what they say we also spoke to a senior research of from london metropolitan university's global policy institute ab

facebook suspends the pages of several highly successful t.v. news projects without warning we go over the rules and check what may be behind the move. and adding to the pressure on the social media platform british lawmakers accuse facebook of not reigning in political life the ties it and leaving people open to online data breaches. a senior french military officer could be set to face punishment and the damning critique of the u.s. led coalition's campaign against islamic state in syria. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me the care and our top story this hour a burlington base to be suspended a number of mass media's pages which produces online shows which c.n.n. is accusing of a deliberate attempt to hide ties to russia one of those shows that is in the now viewed over two and a half billion times on the social networking platform a producer and presenter filmed this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in pressure from various forces to suppress this or that conten

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facebook pages of several highly successful art. projects without warning we find out what could be behind the move. from british lawmakers accuse facebook failing to regulate. and leaving people open to online data breaches. urges military to rise up against president maduro and says the u.s. is keeping all options on the table. the u.s. led campaign against islamic state in syria. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is. certainly glad to have you with us. based media company has hit out at facebook accusing the platform of unprecedented censorship that is after they suspended a number of media's pages which produces online shows and which c.n.n. is accusing of a deliberate attempt to hide ties to russia one of those shows is in the now viewed over two and a half billion times on the social network a producer and a presenter filmed this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in then pressure from various forces to suppress this or that content based on political reas

to delete our accounts but facebook listen could have refused facebook is so scared of being once again accused of helping the russians out in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately deletes knock out there have only and subscribers of two point five million viewers no complaints against the video itself and the content on the whole were made by the boss when he and i'm quoting here said how can you let those russians to it to our people as these pictures deleted the account which obviously the situation is going to get worse than no one now is even trying to believe in any freedom all we can talk about it was like it is an open and geo political confrontation in which media space is loved by many and made into real to use of i don't know whether they were set up for this is not exactly what's happening now. there's a great margarita simonyan meantime he's also requested comment for a number of press freedom organizations if we get a thing about from him we will let you know we also spoke to said george. he's a phrase from the london metropoli

facebook suspends the pages of several highly successful news projects without warning we go over the rules and check what may be behind the move. and adding to the pressure on the social media platform british lawmakers accuse facebook of not reigning in political advertising and leaving people open to online data breaches. senior french military officer could be set to face punishment after he pens a damning critique of the u.s. led coalition's campaign against islamic state in syria. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me. now our top story this hour berlin based media company has hit out at facebook accusing the platform of unprecedented censorship now softer they suspended a number of mass media's pages which produces online shows which c.n.n. is accusing of deliberate attempts to hide ties to russia one of the shows is in the now viewed over two and a half billion times on the social networking platform a producer and presenter at moffitt films this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under. pressure from vario

founder of facebook. an online social directory. >> smile. >> you're asking a lot of me. >> built in a college dorm room. >> when we first launched, we were hoping for 500 people. >> a digital world of 2 billion plus. >> we blinked and facebook became a part of the fabric of society. >> the arab spring online and on facebook. >> but things got complicated. >> it was one of the first privacy scares. >> the site under fire. >> the era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end. >> sharing private data. >> the largest security breach in facebook history. >> manipulated by foreign governments. >> details about the extent of facebook's role in russia's election interference. >> used to spread hate and lies. >> fake news. >> leading questions about the platform. >> you have users asking maybe i should dloet it. >> what does it truly mean to connect the world? >> our mission has really always been to connect the world. >> we can connect the whole world. >> there's always a catch 22 whenever you're givi

headline stories russia's foreign minister a harsh words for a facebook claiming the social network is attempting. to respond to the company's decision to suspend the several. projects the head of the international federation of journalists. or the german chancellor. suggesting the kremlin. may change also ahead this hour. the u.s. . warning. consequences if they don't. trouble president. welcome to our team international from moscow every hour of the day my names you know. our top story. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has said he views facebook's recent suspension of several are. being part of a broader campaign to clamp down on russian news outlets. yes without a doubt i think this is another example of the suppression of russian media and of freedom of speech it's very sad speaking to the press this tuesday russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov common to listen to facebook's suspension of several r.t. affiliates it counts including in the now page which originally was a show aired by r.t. and as you heard the minister called the situation and no other example of internati

is facebook page doesn't do it al-jazeera as facebook page doesn't do it it's just not standard industry practice to disclose your funding on facebook you can't help but feel for the food think media i know many of them they work to make quality stuff funny videos serious videos investigations the poor the sauls into their work only because the side the winds the thesis censors personally i'm surprisingly calm because i've spent in the now was a project that i created from scratch it's in the now because many of these in now way like this is my baby. i spent the last four and a half five years of my life growing this channel. the last year trying to build the team young professionals that really want to make good important contacts. so it's pretty big for me in terms of the broader picture it's huge oh it's huge all right the crime it appears was being too russian and this now seemingly is a crime enough to get your bad and the result questioned whether facebook should have the power to decide what people see and hear i mean the theory beyond the incident was if more people wanted to see

is facebook page doesn't do it al-jazeera facebook page doesn't do it it's just not standard industry practice to disclose your funding on facebook you can't help but feel for the food my think media i know many of them they work to make quality stuff funny videos serious videos investigations the poor the sauls into their work only because the side the winds the thesis censors personally i'm surprisingly calm because i've spent in the now was a project that i created from scratch it's in the now because my aims and he's in now way like this is my baby. i spent the last four and a half five years of my life growing this channel. last year trying to build the team young professionals that really want to make good important contacts. so it's pretty big for me in terms of the broader picture it's huge oh it's huge all right their crime it appears was being too russian and this now seemingly is a crime enough to get your bad and the rich are question whether facebook should have that be something that they should be allowed to see it of the when you do internet searches the things that co

roger: also last week, facebook kicked off propublica from doing an audit of facebook's website -- they were just making sure facebook was doing a complete job -- they stop letting them to do that. also, last week, snopes gave up working with facebook and said they are impossible to work with. i would suggest that facebook is not making progress in a material way. and there are real issues that affect facebook and others, related to say smart speakers, smart radio devices come with what televisions, smart cards, which suggests the problems we have today with privacy are tiny compared to what are coming when you put alexa-based devices into your house. emily: roger, i sat down with sheryl sandberg last week and asked, why should anyone trust facebook, or trust her? listen to what she had to say. >> it has been a challenging time for facebook. we need to earn back people's trust with the steps we take. we have changed our profitability because we want to take the hard steps to protect people on the platform. and you see what happens with elections come up midterms around the world, accoun

if that is not enough, what should facebook be doing, and if facebook isn't doing it, what should users or the government be doing? roger: here is the way i think about the problem. i have studied this for three years, to try to understand why this stuff happens on facebook . remember, i am still a shareholder. this was one of the crowning achievements of a long, long career. i am proud of facebook and it bothers me that this is not going well. it is obviously not in my economic interest to be a critic. i am convinced that the business model is the problem. it is the problem at facebook. it is a problem at google. they essentially have an advertising business model that depends on monopolizing the attention and manipulating the attention of the user. in order to do that, the algorithms are tuned to focus on emotional things that trigger outrage, trigger fear, or tickle people with rewards of some kind. and when you are doing that for long enough, people first develop a habit, then they develop an addiction. and once they develop an addiction, they are vulnerable to manipulation by bad a

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thank you for the analysis on facebook. we thank you. coming up, the biggest take away of the amazon earnings results. the earnings call is underway. the cfo weighing in on the company's performance. >> we feel good about the growth in the quarter. q4 was a great quarter for customers. retail, a lot of strength in the retail part of the business. preparing, planning, and executing on the corner -- quarter. a very strong growth rate. continuing to deliver for customers. ♪ asthere is much uncertainty to what the impact of the government role changes are going to have on the e-commerce sector. we remain committed to complying with laws and regulations and we will, but we are evaluating the situation. the main issue and concern is trying to impact the concern to customers and sellers in india. caroline: the amazon ceo -- cfo discussing the quarter. what for your key takeaways? >> if you look at the quarter, everything was fine. obviously, the profit shows that they are managing cost. they are worried about wages obviously, thehampering exp

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on the facebook is accused of centering conservative voices as a whistleblower reveals how the social network content limits exposure. would see it appear on several different conservative pages like maybe this is an independent person is mainstream thing maybe independent figures on the left are experiencing the same kind of blue state. but i didn't see. french sporting goods retailer is forced to drop. in. received violent threats we get reaction. so if she wants to wear it it's shari's it's not an act of secularism i will not go so far as to say. it's very and . they have to cancel. twenty four seven news live from moscow this is r t international your company. our top story there were high hopes. but both donald trump and kim jong come away empty handed from their much anticipated second summit the talks ending earlier than expected with the u.s. president blaming north korea's the mantra for lifting sanctions for the figure to cut it came as a surprise to many after the optimism shown by both leaders before the talks. the first summit was a great success and i think this one hope

filmed this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in men's pressure from various forces to suppress this or that content based on political reasoning but do not succumb to censorship do not succumb to complying with various government funded outfits regardless of what government they're funded by to censor let your users decide what's good and what's bad earlier my colleagues you know neal and discussed why i'm african media is under such scrutiny. it began with c.n.n. shedding light on the fact that a number of media pages with posts of snappy videos have links to russia but what people watching these videos may not realize is that the russian government is paying for this soap box wasted that them are three new facebook pages and all part of a growing brand of russian backed influence campaigns runs for pages they are indeed very popular with billions of views as their creators are saying but it wasn't indicated on the pages themselves where their money came from and so just

if you think the things are going to appear on facebook, don't use facebook. you don't have to use facebook. i live for 45, 50 years without using facebook. i did okay. now i'm done. >> you know, that whole cave thing with the fires was fine. who needs the light bulb and internal heating. there is a point at which these things become public utilities. and people are going to use the. things like utilities and everyone needs to use applications, smartphones, device to navigate our lives. part of the problem is people are only now waking up to what many people have known is that all of these business models depend on the free use of our data. and in return we get services, conveniences and we can get targeted advertisin advertisingl which is bad. but i don't think you can just say anymore, oh, you don't have to use these in that you could have said at&t in the 1950s. you don't have to use a telephone. you could walk across the street and have a personal conversation with somebody. >> i think you're going to. >> let me jump in real quick. what exactly are the app

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this was what facebook told c.n.n. and i said as i've said for now we can only judge from what they're telling us the team behind this is spending pages told us that they had received no warnings or no messages that were giving us the right for them for the right for an appeal but the appeal has already been sent so we'll see what's going to happen there and by the way there have been no issues with the you tube and twitter accounts of these pages so the crux here then is that what will the complaints or the allegation is there was enough information on these web pages on facebook the that said that it had some sort of russian connection but that it would have been asked for exactly you're right the problem is the absence of disclaimers but here again facebook for some reason decided to sort this issue out specifically asked after the investigative report on c.n.n. came out and here's a bit of that. we didn't violate any of facebook's policies whatsoever none of our content promotes disinformation or fake news yet c.n.

continuing to damage facebook's reputation or is that not what's happening. well there was really interesting to see for the past couple of months that besides all the scandals on controversies facebook had a record quarter and neither did the users shy away nor the advertising clients and to wall street reacted in a very positive fashion the stock was up by almost eleven percent here in the thursday as session after the c.e.o. mark zuckerberg past summer hinted that to actually deal with all those it shows was cambridge on a live ticker and other scandals and he mentioned that it might become costly to change some of the company's doings but obviously that heads so far no impact at all at the profit stream of facebook facebook staying strong there now it's also the last trading day of what's been a very eventful month on the markets so you know what stood out for you well it was quite amazing to see what's happened in the past couple of weeks and just remember especially in early december when stocks tanked and then fed chairman powell hinted that the federa