host: what is facebook trying to do and why? guest: the simple answer is that they are trying to create a digital currency that people can use across borders and a digital currency means not necessarily a theirment currency, but own private currency that people can use and ship to one another in different parts of the world. the reason why they are doing this is a little bit complex --ause no one knows exactly they have explicitly said that they want to, and i am reading this because i think it is useful for the listeners to hear, to enable a simple, global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. there are some financial motives as well. host: as far as the current system, what would facebook's plan do that others do not? is planning to create this look currency and by doing so, have established a consortium of different kinds of larger, global technology companies and a couple of nonprofits. the global currency is called the libra currency and the consortium is called the libra association. throu

and facebook's culture. what would the remedies be if the ftc determines that there was an antitrust issue here? ashkan: right. i mean, there are many remedies. i know a lot of people thin jumd to things like breaking up the company permits certainly the topic of a political debate in the upcoming election, the 2020 election. the thing to think about is simply breaking up the company would do little if the other people that would build the technology are still at the company and in fact could just reproduce the functionality themselves. right? other remedies, for example, the german competition authority has -- one of the concerns of opposition restrict facebook from sharing data collected between whatsapp and another of their products like instagram or facebook messenger app. they also restrict the tracking of information from the web. the facebook like buttons and others, from being shared with other apps. we talked about it in light of this facebook privacy settlement that was announced a week or two ago.

ivohink with facebook ited. and essentiallt the way to think about mark zuckerberg is an idealist, and he believed -- [smith] you've known him for w -- [mcnamee] since he was 22. [smith] 13 years? you meet him in 2006 for the first time? [mcnamee] yeah, so i knew him at 22, and he was such an idealist. ie [mcnamee] yeah, so and he bd that connecting everyone in the world was so important that it justified ety action necessary tohere. and there is the aw. it's this notion that you're going to get problems as you did in myanmar, [smith] boy, you're comparing facebook to myanmar now. [mcnamee] well bea with me for a sec. so facebook is the only internet in myanmar, it's the only media there. and when the authorities used it to essentially int do hate speech against the a religious minority and at facebook, everybody went hey, you know, we didn't cause it, yes, 9,000 people died, 42,000 people are missing and presumed dead but that's just a cost of our growth. [smith] your point is that febook in that case was every

how facebook works today. there aren't developers making privacy -- sorry, making personality quizzes or games that operate on facebook anymore that used to be necessary. in order to bring in more users. but in this current world, facebook no longer wants that. in fact, it wants to keep its entire network that it built mostly for itself. emily: it's interest, sara, you just came out with a fascinating piece yesterday about how facebook contractors are listening to audio of its users talking over facebook messenger. yet today the story about facebook getting stronger. why don't the bad news stories seem to hurt facebook? more? than they do? >> i think the reason why the bad news stories done hurt facebook is because the enforcers aren't making facebook change its business practices. so when it got the fine and the fine was just a fraction of its annual revenue and was able to still keep doing what it's been doing, mining users' data in a way they don't expect, that's how it makes its billions of dollars. that's

you can't use facebook message or without facebook, right? or can you? >> i believe that you can. >> so they are to make separate and distinct. you know what percentage of people use messenger that don't use facebook? >> i do not have that data. be happy to follow up. >> reason i bring it up is when we talk the competition versus compline, complement in, how we use this, like i just ask you all those things because i've would know where to get it anything other than apple app store. i'm sure of the things exist but i don't know about them. i think there's a lot of us that are in that situation. and with that i just think as we are closing this i hope as we move forward these hearings become more focused, more single topic specific focus and i would just encourage everybody in the compass or testifying to be forthright with answers. the questions that are coming, i can joke but half the question that equated as did it of which i'm assuming you all with your vast resources and the company resources could do is look at it makes it a lot easier as we go forw

facebook, had a pretty striking tweet, saying i can't believe facebook didn't pay for more if the ftc ordered amazon to help consumers make money. bezos would leap across the table with a $10 billion check and a massive grin. what does he mean by that? that: he means basically this is a valuable asset and facebook is no longer able to share so it's good to have this rule in place. facebook of five or seven years ago that resulted in cambridge analytica, that's no longer how it works today. they are no longer making personality quizzes and games that operate on facebook, that used to be necessary to bring in more users. but in this current world, facebook no longer wants that. facebook mostly once that to keep their entire network for itself. emily: you just came out with a fascinating piece yesterday about how facebook contractors are listening to audio of users talking over facebook messenger and today, the story about facebook only getting stronger. sally, i'm wondering why don't these bad news stories hurt facebook more than they do? sally: i think the reason why the bad news stori

facebook, had a pretty striking tweet, saying i can't believe facebook didn't pay more for this, if the ftc ordered amazon to help consumers make money. bezos would leap across the table with a $10 billion check and a massive grin. what does he mean by that? sarah: he means basically that this is a valuable asset and facebook is no longer able to share so it's good to have this rule in place. facebook of five or seven years ago that resulted in cambridge analytica, that's no longer how it works today. they are no longer making personality quizzes and games that operate on facebook, that used to be necessary to bring in more users. but in this current world, facebook no longer wants that. facebook mostly wants to keep that network for itself. emily: you just came out with a fascinating piece yesterday about how facebook contractors are listening to audio of users talking over facebook messenger and today, the story about facebook only getting stronger. sally, i'm wondering why don't these bad news stories hurt facebook more than they do? sally: i think the reason why the bad news stories

of users talking over facebook messenger and today, the story about facebook only getting stronger. why don't these bad news stories hurt facebook more? sally: i think the reason why the bad news stories don't hurt facebook is because the enforcers are not making a change its business practices. and it was the fine just a fraction of its annual revenue and it is able to keep doing what it is doing, mining users data in a way they do not expect, that settlement was a win for facebook. enforcer makes them change their business processes -- practices, they will not be effective. emily: what is your view of how this investigation will play out , as well as a potential investigation into amazon? charlotte: it is hard to predict. we don't have access to the nonpublic document they are reviewing at the ftc, but we should not expect it will lead to huge changes. the track record is not strong antitrust is a narrow and difficult area of the law. our hope is that there will be a new agency with new regulatory powers in addition to antitrust, and that is how we will address the power that face

however, there is a subset of facebook users who use the transcription service on their facebook messenger chance. memof i send you a voice company would have the option to transcribe that memo. facebook has done, in order to make sure that the ai is transcribing that correctly, they have also sent those clips to hundreds of outside contractors who are listening to these people's conversations and judging the human transcription against the ai. emily: it is also not just to determine accuracy but also if they are violating standards. sarah: it is unclear about why but facebook says yes, they have doing this. they put in the same bucket as what google and apple and amazon have to in trying to use human -- have done in trying to use humans to make the ai more functional. if you ask facebook to transcribe your messages, you probably aren't thinking there is a person transcribing these. it is kind of the same if you have this message on your phone -- have a voice message on your phone that gets transcribed automatically. it is obviously from a bot, and they are trying to make that higher-quali

the word used to describe the different into mary's and facebook -- intermediaries and facebook's own description, it literally takes the words used to describe etf's. if you call it an etf or a security like a stock or bond, do the rules in place speak to this? that is something congress is trying to grapple with. host: mark in hollywood, florida. go ahead. caller: good morning. sayingn to what you are and i've been telling friends and family for a decade that the world is going to be moving towards centralized electronic money. there are a lot of risks in this as well. for example, you are not going to have any anonymity anymore. everything is going to be electronic. it's going to be centralized eventually. this sounds like a world currency, which i'm not in favor of. anytime you consolidate power and the currency into a global currency, which is what everything is being pushed to, there's some negatives to that for the people. if you get that one centralized sudden -- is all of a there is a term that has power corrupts and ultimate power corrupts ultimately -- you run into problems

how facebook works today. in his current world, facebook third-partynts the apps or quizzes. it wants to keep what it has built mostly for itself. emily: you just came out with a fascinating piece yesterday about how facebook contractors are listening to audio of users talking over facebook messenger, and yet, today, the story about facebook only getting stronger. i'm wondering, why don't these bad news stories seem to hurt facebook more than they do? >> i think the reason why the bad news stories don't hurt facebook is because the enforcers are not making facebook changes business practices. when they got the fine and it was just a fraction of annual revenue and it was able to keep doing what it has been doing -- mining user data in a way they do not expect, and that is how it makes billions of dollars -- that is why that settlement was a win for facebook. until an enforcer makes them actually change their business practices in a way that affects profitability, their stocks will not be affected. emily: what i

all of this so facebook said eliminate to 7 pages 3 facebook groups and 5 accounts involved in the campaign and the 2 to also said that it deleted 936 accounts and in the press release is also said it would bend state backed media from from oh think tweets after they placed ads suggesting the protests were sponsored by western interests and were becoming violent. so even though many of these polls that we're seeing they were not necessarily fake news but instead they are really focusing on the father of the protests and they never talk about the root the muscles of protests and so this social media platforms they have to make clear that they don't want to be part of any government's propaganda campaign we're talking about facebook and twitter and as far as far as my understanding goes these are banned in china you can't really access them in china right facebook and twitter officially blocked inside china and so people there instead they would use their own social media surfaces like we chat oh wait all. the content on these social media platforms they're actually very tight control but the

facebook steps up the fight against fake news in africa but what are its chances of winning. and he transform struggling b.w. in 12 global powerhouse ted non-theists aged 18 to. 40. i've been physical and let's do business a case of corporate greed over human lives a us court has ordered from a judge johnson and johnson to pay over half a $1000000000.00 for an opioid crisis that's ravaged the state of oklahoma the judge blamed aggressive and misleading marketing the company's share price rose investors were expecting a high of fine. gael boxes some austin is one of 6000 oklahomans believed to have died from an opioid overdose since the start of the millennium a promising american footballer he died in his prime. was living near the nightmare at prescription drug abuse. now the 1st of thousands of lawsuits aimed at holding manufacturers and distributors to account has made it through trial cleveland county district judge thought bald man said prosecutors had proven johnson and johnson helped create a public nuisance that would take decades to repair. just walkmen affirmed our

and facebook's culture. what would the remedies be if the ftc determines that there was an antitrust issue here? ashkan: right. i mean, there are many remedies. i know a lot of people jumped to things like breaking up the company. certainly the topic of a political debate in the upcoming election, the 2020 election. the thing to think about is simply breaking up the company would do little if the other people that would build the technology are still at the company and in fact could just reproduce the functionality themselves. right? other remedies, for example, the german competition authority has -- one of the concerns of opposition restrict facebook from sharing data collected between whatsapp and another of their products like instagram or facebook messenger app. they also restrict the tracking of information from the web. the facebook like buttons and others, from being shared with other apps. we talked about it in light of this facebook privacy settlement that was announced a week or two ago. but there

facebook was effectively the signal. it's the thing that told us we could no longer trust technology the way we had for fifty years before this. [smith] right, so let's stipulate that this book, while focused on facebook, also calls out google. this. [mcnamee] yes, very much s whi [smith] it callsebook, als out other actors.. this. regular presences in all of our lives, [smith] we don't thinknted. about the potential dangers of our association to those things, but y e book is really largelout facebook. [mcnamee] it is. [smith] and the bill of particulars, the bill of chaes against facebook that you levy is pretty long. they surveil our evy action online. they monetize our privacy, they foster hate speech, they damage the public health, they undercut our democracy and all of it wrapped under this idea which i e ve, of productizing nsumer which is us. amee] yes. [smith] they've turned us into a product. [mcnamee] into basically a digital avatar. a data avatar, andso in tht us into a product. they say in advertising, hey, y

we contacted facebook and facebook restored the video. we are currently in a dispute with google over the video, same video from youtube. youtube is clerk currently blocking that video because they say it violates you to hate speech policy. we try to resolve his directly with the company. you have taken a a different course and they decided to sue. >> host: have you been blocked or censored centered? >> guest: nothing that i've seen, no. i would like to point out that just this week we have an example of somebody on the far left that is now saying they have been blocked and censored. you have tulsi gabbard who is running for president is claiming has sued google claiming censorship as well. there are a lot of examples from both the left and the right about this perception of broad-based censorship or suppression, and it's important we point out those examples on the left. i do think conservatives tend to be a little outer on this issue because there's been a long-standing perception that in the conventional media that conservative voices

facebook said. >>you cannot use the social media platform to sell but that is not stopping gun sellers and buyers from connecting on the site anyway, here's how it works a gun sellers post a picture of a gun box oregon case at a price. it is far higher than his should cost the seller invites a private message from interested buyers to find out of the case for the box includes a weapon or ammunition or other items that are prohibited for sale by facebook washington correspondent martha wright reports on efforts by facebook to close that loophole. >>you can find almost anything on facebook marketplace where private sellers list all sorts of items from cars to cripps but facebook says you cannot sell a gun in the marketplace and users have found a loophole a gun case of over a $1000. and when it clicked on the description. it indicated private message me for details. well that was a sign that there was somathing more on that gun case steve del bianco resident of net choice as facebook allows licensed g

your data still retains by facebook and at any time facebook might. decide to reactivate your account with older historical data that. the founder of media freedoms has found herself accused of restricting them so after the bodyguard of c.n.n. paul ryan forcibly prevented another journalist from filming her speech. it is a sad day. in efforts to discredit me you now have security. and you say the white house should pay for it and here. they started up. a security guard assaulted me in a hotel after stealing our camera. we're not. so sure put that down so that. this rhymes remarks was then interrupted by a visit from the mystery man who i later learned is named joel morris and works as a security guard for miss ryan mr morris proceeded to unplug my camera grab the tripod that was connected to and steal the entire thing. to sky. i tried to get away from the perpetrator but within seconds he began to sell to me without provocation in the lobby and continued his assault as he full screen out the building. notice is the same a pariah new says. encourages v

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facebook, had a pretty striking tweet, saying i can't believe facebook didn't pay more for this if the , ftc ordered amazon to help consumers make money. bezos would leap across the table with a $10 billion check and a massive grin. what does he mean by that? sarah: he means basically that this is a valuable asset and facebook is no longer able to share so it's good to have this rule in place. facebook of five or seven years ago that resulted in cambridge analytica, that's no longer how it works today. they are no longer making personality quizzes and games that operate on facebook, that used to be necessary to bring in more users. but in this current world, facebook no longer wants that. s tobook mostly once -- want keep that network for itself. emily: you just came out with a fascinating piece yesterday about how facebook contractors are listening to audio of users talking over facebook messenger and today, the story about facebook only getting stronger. sally, i'm wondering why don't these bad news stories hurt facebook more than they do? sally: i think the reason why the bad news s

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your data still retains by facebook and at any time facebook might. decide to reactivate your account with all the historical data that so there's no way out social media expert here cohen thank you so much for joining us on the program today. the italian prime minister just happy conti has resigned after a year of tensions within italy's ruling coalition he had been threatened with a vote of no confidence by the country's interior minister and both lashed out at each other in parliament. freedom is not about having a master but about not having a must or i don't want italy to be enslaved by any one go to administer the minister of the interior did by promoting this government crisis you have taken on a great responsibility before the country you announced this crisis asking for full powers to govern the country you approach worries me. now condé has been asked to stay on as a part of a caretaker cabinet and there are also talks of a new governing coalition being formed but if that doesn't happen the president could dissolve parliament and force base

they could come out there and say yes, we stand behind facebook, but facebook gets all the recognition for being innovative and creating this. there is a little bit of tension going on behind the scenes. >> it is interesting from three angles. i think the first angle, from facebook's point of view, it shows the extent -- moving into payments is something they have talked about for a long time. this is a very ambitious move and signals where they want to go. the second thing is that it shows that alternative currencies have come to stay. this is no longer something for the future. facebook has planted a flag and is being the leading market. but they are not going in alone. not only do they have to deal with the concerns of governments, but they have to deal with those governments' own central banks. they are coming together to figure out if they should be trading their own alternative currency. then they are going up against technology companies coming up with their own version. we have invested in one called token x. that has been very successful. it is going to be a very crowded world

account your data still retains by facebook and at any time facebook might. decide to reactivate your account with all the historical data that. a prominent defender of media freedoms as found herself accused of restricting them that's often the bodyguard of c.n.n. april ryan forcibly prevented another journalist from filming her speech. it is a sad day. when. a u.s. president does not stand by the constitution the 1st amendment freedom of the press there's been efforts to silence me in the briefing room they have been efforts to discredit me and you now have security. and you say the white house should pay for it i'm here because they started they started up. security guards so to be in a hotel lobby after stealing our camera i never they when i thought i was i think i did it all cheer but that now i. miss ryan's remarks well then interrupted by a visit from the mystery man who i later learned is named joe morris and works as a security guard for miss ryan mr morris proceeded to unplug my camera grab the tripod it was connected to and steal the entire thing.

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business facebook says it's not the only company that has done this it is not i mean facebook is now the 5th big tech company that has been forced to really come clean on this so we have amazon we have google with apple we have microsoft along with facebook in amazon's case employers were listening to voice recordings through the alexa smart speaker system in all of these cases cases the companies had not told people that a human being was listening to their converse. all those companies now now that it's been revealed have said they've stopped doing it those who are concerned what can they do the sure fire way to make sure no company is listening to your audio is of course to turn off your smartphones microphone and that could be done in the settings will just show you quickly how that can be accomplished both an apple and an android you essentially want to go your phone's settings football for the microphone access in any app that asks for it so facebook or messenger but in the end say i mean companies just need to get it look people don't want to their conversations their audio be

however, there is a subset of facebook users who use the transcription service on their facebook messenger chats. say if i send you a voice memo, you would have the option to transcribe that memo. what facebook has done, in order to make sure that the ai is transcribing that correctly, they have also sent those clips to these hundreds of outside contractors who are listening to these people's conversations and judging their human transcriptions against the ai. emily: it is also not just to determine the actually -- determine the act receipt of the accuracy, but also if they are violating standards. sarah: it is unclear about why , but facebook says yes, they have been doing this. they confirmed our scoop, but they put in the same bucket as what google and apple and amazon have done in trying to use humans to make the ai more functional. when you ask facebook to transcribe your messages, you probably are not expecting there is an actual person looking at these messages and trying to transcribe them. this is done autonomously, but these are your private conversations. it is kind of the same

google microsoft facebook. all of them. with algorithms and that one more than just uses all customers will these businesses would generate is. they need us to like them for them to be indispensable because the more that we use them the more data we produce in the midst of a great race the dot and big tech companies are on the chase. for the past 3 years academics nichol dri analysts have been investigating a phenomenon they call data colonialism. while the scales in context may have changed they say colonialism same underlying functions of empire building extraction and appropriation remain the new langue grab going on there's not land that's being grabbed it's us it's human life the acquisition the construction of data valuable data to corporate use out of the flow of our lives that's the lag right going on and that's why the workload is the only work that does justice to that let's think for instance of all the and use her license agreements or the terms of use that we read whenever we sign up for a new social media plat

they could come out there and say yes, we stand behind facebook, but facebook gets all the recognition for being innovative and creating this. so there is a little bit of , tension going on behind the scenes. >> it is interesting from three angles. i think the first angle, from facebook's point of view, it shows the extent -- there ambitions lie beyond in a post privacy world, lunching assets. moving into payments is something they have talked about for a long time. this is a very ambitious move and signals where they want to go. the second thing is that it shows that alternative currencies have come to stay. this is no longer something for the future. facebook has planted a flag and is being the leading market. but they are not going in alone. not only do they have to deal with the concerns of governments, but they have to deal with those governments' own central banks. they are coming together to as we speakthey are coming together to figure out if they outould they be figuring their own alternative currency. then they are going up against technology companies coming up with their ow

we could not find it anymore, we contacted facebook, and facebook restore the video. we are currently in a dispute with google over the same videos removal from youtube. they are blocking that video because they say it violates youtube's hate speech policy. robert: have you been blocked -- peter: have you been blocked or censored? patrick: nothing that i have seen. just this week, we have an example of somebody on the far left saying that they have been blocked or censored. you have tulsi gabbard who is claiming, suing google, claiming censorship. there are a lot of examples from the left and the right about this perception of broad-based censorship or suppression and it is important that we point out those examples on the left, but i do think conservatives tend to be a little louder on this issue because there has been this long-standing issue that in the conventional media that conservative voices have not been heard, so they are vigilant about these rings. cases whereenty of they said they violated community standard or terms of service and have been taken down fro

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i personally went to facebook headquarters in 2015 and told them that facebook was going to be regulated in rwanda. we went back with a long list of detailed products and policy recommendations of things they needed to do and that was in 2017 before it later transpired. so i think everybody else knows the rest of the story and i think for us the counterpoint versus germany where for years we could barely find a burmese speaking person, contractor or otherwise. whereass in germany they have regulation and over a thousand content moderators and hate speech and violence is coming down with a face massive fines. they maybe have global platforms but we definitely have multiple peers or global citizens. rules are a plane t plain folksn germany like the kind of environment a facebook user in germangermany enjoys is complety different from a user in myanmar. we need to regulate the limits even when you keep civil society engagement and quite technical product recommendations like the limitations of that and frankly it is a sobering. >> it was a great last question and i will add to it you do wri

facebook. even now, we don't know exactly what is being spread. my sense is that can we qualitatively or quantitatively say what exactly happened? probably not, but we can say that we are in a different landscape in which you have organized actors working to spread disinformation. nationstates have a lot of resources. we also see places like the politically incorrect 4chan and 8chan that are putting out disinformation for fun. and we have an infrastructure that facilitates that. so we are in a different landscape. even russia does it. it is a democratic tactic. ginny: a good question is what is the goal? if the goal is sowing chaos, we can agree that that was one of the goals. i think it was successful. if that was the metric by which you were measuring, whether they had other goals in mind and whether the election changed or not is a different topic, but i think the big goal of sowing chaos and confusion, changing the conversation, i think we can all agree they succeeded on that one. kate: jes

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well it's true facebook seems to constantly be stepping in these privacy methods and it had one after another after another and that find the mentioned record $5000000000.00 followed other fines and other issues over the year if but this particular situation is one as you mention that plague not just facebook but amazon google and even apple which prides itself on privacy because all of these companies are trying to verify the accuracy of their artificial intelligence speech interpretations and other ai features by comparing what the machine does to how a human might use it so i think their intentions may have been ok in this situation but the fact that contractor if people around the world are listening to what you and i might be thinking or in on a facebook message situation if it be unacceptable and i've heard story that some of these contractors that the very personal conversations even intimate that you ation faith and that's just not acceptable so one wonders how facebook is going to get out of this because there is a political dimension to getting out of this difficulty and the

free basics is just one of facebook's many initiatives across africa. facebook's latest push here in kenya is called express why 5 companies teamed up with local internet service providers to install why 5 hotspots like here in the mass i town of to get on the outskirts of my neighborhood. jerry nimble c.e.o. is a hairdresser who signed up as of into facebook's express wife and he gets a commission on every dot a bundle he sells his customers say they look like they do his 1st book because even myself i use it i'm a friend of the bunch of people that you brought. compared to other networks you get a 501100 in business for free yeah. and you finally. yes they do they find it cheaper to fund it and then the doctors don't express why fly has been an undeniable success here it is made web access cheap of the people living in undeserved locations when there are so many people living i don't want to connect at the. however for those studying the activities of facebook and other big tech companies in kenya it's impossible to ignore the huge potential for data

but will facebook really learn its lesson? we talk about it with a dissenting ftc commissioner who says the fine is not enough. and if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio. listen on the bloomberg app, bloomberg.com, and in the u.s. on sirius xm. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: last week, the u.s. federal trade commission formally announced the details of it $5 billion settlement with facebook for years of privacy violations by the network. as part of the settlement, facebook must submit to oversight from an independent committee as well as new privacy certifications and assessments. but while the fine was the largest ever imposed by the ftc, many lawmakers and privacy groups are arguing the company got off too easy. i talked to u.s. ftc commissioner rebecca kelly slaughter, voted against the settlement. rebecca: i voted against the settlement because when you look at the terms taken as a whole, not just the fine, but also the injunctive relief, i was not convinced it would do enough to change facebook's behavior a

but the facebook of today, the facebook of the future, is not the same company. so when regulators think about how to fix the current problem of this company with tremendous power over our society and how we think and what kind of information we get and who we connect with that facebook is , not the one sharing data with third parties. it is not the one relying on people to make personality quizzes. in fact, it is just trying to become a self-sufficient network of its own making and combine its messaging app so they have this network to work with. it is a very different company. it'll be interesting to see if regulators start to think about the future of what they are looking at. jason: up next, the next stage in legal cannabis cultivating returns. this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ jason: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i am jason kelly. join us every day on the radio from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 wall p.m. street time. and catch up on our daily show, listen and subscribe to our podcast. and find us online at businessweek.com. turning to a story you ca

but all of this so facebook said eliminate to 7 pages 3 facebook groups and 5 accounts involved in the campaign and the 2 to also said that it deleted 936 accounts and in the press release it also said it would bend state backed media from from oh think traits after they placed ads suggesting the protests were sponsored by western interests and were becoming violent. so even though many of these polls that we're seeing they were not necessarily fake news but instead they are really focusing on the father nature of their protests and they never talk about the routine miles of protests and so this social media platforms they have to make clear that they don't want to be part of any government's propaganda campaign we're talking about facebook and twitter and as far as far as my understanding goes these are banned in china you can't really legally access them in china right facebook and twitter they are officially blocked inside china and so people there instead they would use their own social media surfaces like we chat oh wait all. the content on these social media platforms they're act

well, this is kind of facebook's markup session and you describe people in the facebook, and led my monica pickart who was a law school student of mine and i hope i taught -- facebook people from around the world are very earnestly trying to decide what should be taken down and what should be left up. so maybe you want to describe that a little more immediately but that has to be part of this. right? as long as the companies are there. who else needs to be in the rooms or should we displace that conversation from those rooms entirely? >> so, there is this facebook what monica call this minilegislative forum, minilegislature and i our perception, the public perception generally, around the companies is they're making seat of the pants kinds of decisions. it's an ad hockery, but the throughout of the matter is they are incredit by bureaucracyized institutions. they rules that are -- >> they're all lawyers. >> a lot of lawyers. their content policy team, particularly at facebook which probably agrees the most bureaucracyized of. the of all but they are basically making the rules? they're eval

account your data still retains by facebook and at any time facebook might. decide to reactivate your account with all the historical data that. a prominent defender of media freedoms has found herself accused of restricting them that's after the bodyguard of c.n.n. april ryan forcibly prevented another journalist from filming her speech. it is a sad day. when a u.s. president does not stand back the constitution the 1st amendment freedom of press there's been efforts to silence me in the briefing room they have been efforts to discredit me you now have security. and you say the white house should pay for it i'm here because they started they started up. a proof security guards so to be in a hotel looking after stealing our camera. whatever it was. when i thought i was i like it here put that down like. this right his remarks were then interrupted by a visit from the mystery man why lisa is named joey morris and works as a security guard for mr ryan mr morris proceeded to unplug my camera grab the trunk lid was connected to and still be in time to say. i. fee

account your data still retains by facebook and at any time facebook might. decide to reactivate your account with all the historical data that. defender of media freedoms has found itself accused of restricting them to the bodyguard of c.n.n. paul ryan forcibly prevented another journalist from filming her speech. but. it is a sad day. when. a u.s. president does not stand by the constitution the 1st amendment freedom of the press there's been efforts to silence me in the briefing room they have been efforts to discredit me you now have security. and you say the white house should pay for it i'm here because they started they started up. a security guard assaulted me in a hotel lobby after stealing our camera. whatever they want i thought i was thinking. that i did it all cheer put that down by. this ryan's remarks well then interrupted by a visit from the mystery man who i later learned is named joe morris and works as a security guard for miss ryan mr morris proceeded to unplug my camera grab the tripod that was connected to and steal the entire thing. so

page that's facebook dot com full with slash a.j. it's a story you can also join the conversation on twitter a 100 is inside story from me. the whole team here in doha by for that. i. bogost. a unique story about a french syrian family who traded that peaceful lives in europe for revolution in syria marking 2 years since the start of myanmar military campaign that's forced hundreds of thousands of range of muslims into exile musicians shaking up stereotypes of africa a powerful new witness documentary from ghana another bid to preserve multi-lateralism within a group of the 7 most advanced economies will cohesion prevail over the challenges for the g. 7 faces drawing on a decade of al-jazeera documentaries rewind revisits the archive to find out how the story moved on august. i've been looking at your instagram account and reading. this is a dialogue when donald trump announce his candidacy for president carol after that everyone has a voice the best chance the democrats have to beat donald trump is to nominate an exciting inspiratio

plus, more frustration for facebook. european regulators are already probing the social network's libra digital currency on top of scrutiny here at home in the name of antitrust. we've got the details. can we hack it? several states voiced concerns over the security of their electronic voting systems ahead of the 2020 elections. we will talk to the man who successfully showed the world that voting machines could be hacked 15 years ago. but first to our top story, president trump defending his china trade stands, saying that while u.s. is not ready to make a deal with china just yet, somebody had to take them on. pres. trump: when you look at china, china has had the worst year they have had in 27 years. they want to make a deal with us. i can tell you i'm not ready to make a deal. unless they are ready to make the right kind of deal, i not am ready to make a deal. i am doing this whether it is good or bad for your statement about, will we fall into a recession for two months? the fact is somebody has to take china on. my

facebook gets ready for 2020. it updates rules for playing adams, but will it be enough to make a difference? and north carolina's fight against vvaping. ey halt e signature sales to teens. first to our top story. remember friday when trump here by ordered u.s. companies out of china. well, if india gets its way, it may welcome apple with open arms. the indian government eased foreign investment rules in a number of sectors, including manufacturing and retail, a move officials hope will attract companies like ale. they hope to start online sales in india within months, and alle and foxcon have been laying the ground work for manufacturing in india. to discuss in los angeles, we have mark, who covers apple for us, and david kill patrick. tell us exactly what india is doing here and what it might mean for a company like apple? >> so there have been plenty of reasons why apple has not been very successful in india with some having under a 1% or 2% phone market share. one of those reasons is they have had a hard time

facebook. even now, we don't know exactly what is being spread. my sense is that can we qualitatively or quantitatively say what exactly happened? probably not, but we can say that we are in a different landscape in which you have organized actors working to spread disinformation. nationstates have a lot of resources. also see places like the politically increct 4chan and 8chan that are putting out disinformation for fun. and we have an infrastructure that facilitates that. so we are in a different landscape. even russia does it. it is a democratic tactic. ginny: a good question is what is the goal? if the goal is sowing chaos, we can agree that that was one of the goals. i think it was successful. if that was the metric by which you were measuring, whether they had other goals in mind and whether the election changed or not is a different topic, but i think the big goal of sowing chaos and confusion, changing the conversation, i think we can all agree they succeeded on that on kate: jessica, w

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. -- ftc and facebook. why the tech clash is only making the social network stronger. this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ from the 5am wakers, to the 6am sleepers. everyone uses their phone differently and in different places. that's why xfinity mobile created a wireless network that auto connects you to millions of secure wifi hot spots. and the best lte everywhere else. xfinity mobile is a different kind of wireless network designed to save you money. save up to $400 a year on your wireless bill. plus get $250 back when you buy an eligible phone. click, call or visit a store today. jason: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." still ahead, last month's $5 billion settlement with the ftc may make facebook even stronger, plus, premium, personalized weed. but first up, technology. american chipmakers found themselves in the crosshairs of the trade war and one is thriving. >> that one is amd. it has been a rivalry between amd and intel. amd is in white, up 600% in the last five years. the gains in in

you have the fcc investigating facebook over antitrust. you have state attorneys general looking into big tech as well, and facebook decides to unveil libra. do you think they made a major miscalculation in trying to do this now? >> i think they have to do it. if they didn't do it now, somebody else would do it. i think the scale of their ambition is very high. they cannot control some of those timings, but i also think with what's going on in the privacy world, frankly, some of the big manufacturers and browsers have done is to control the ability of people to bid on ads. they have to. what we are seeing is a shift from the tradition over the last 10 years of selling access to people for advertisers. and if they don't move into this area, the revenue streams they have relied on will go away. emily: when the eu says they are concerned about anticompetitive behavior in regards to cryptocurrency, what are they actually worried about given libra doesn't even exist? sarah: they are worried about facebook being this massive global power. we hav