that facebook is dangerous. facebook hass never had to prov that their product is safe for children. and we need to put that through, like with pharmaceuticals a long time ago, we said it's not the obligation of the public to say this medicine is danger. it's the obligation of the producer to prove the medicine is safe. we have done that over and over again. this isd the right moment to as, to change that relationship with the public. >> and if i may just on that point, sorry, my screen seems to be switching off. my apologies. with regards to that point of addiction, have there been any studies from your awareness within facebook and within the documents you haveen seen where they havehe actually looked at where they canan increase addiction by the algorithm? >> i have not seen any documents that are as explicit as saying facebook is trying to make addiction worse, but i have seen documents where on one side, someone is saying the number of sessions per day that someone has, like the number of times they visit f

is facebook evil? >> i cannot -- i think there's a real thing of people, good people, facebook is over mumbling full of conscientious, kind, empathetic people, good people who are embedded in systems with bad incentives are led to bad actions. there's a real pattern of people who are willing to look the other way, are promoted more than people who raise alarms. >> we know where that leads in history, don't we? so could we compromise that is not evil, maybe that's a moralistic word, but the way that some of the outcomes of facebook's behavior is evil? >> i think it's negligence. >> malevolent? >> malevolent has implied content and i cannot stand to the hearts of men but at least there is a pattern of inadequacy that facebook is unwilling to acknowledge its own power pickett believes in a world of flatness which hides the difference like children are not adults, right? they believe in flatness and it won't accept the consequences of their actions. i think that is negligence and it is ignorance, but i can

so facebook warned of that. we also know facebook has some real concerns or should have real concerns about whether or not younger users are adding onto the services the way some of us elders have done. so i think there's other concerns that facebook may have. i think when it comes to the facebook files or the facebook papers, one of the employees said in the document, said they don't believe that history is going to look that kindly on facebook. i do believe that history is starting to happen now. history is happening now, but i think it's still going to be a little while before we see the long—term impact of the reaction to these papers. anyone in your we willjust have to sit back and see how the plot unfolds, but whilst that is the facebook�*s problems in the real world, they are also making big moves into an alternative world — the metaverse. this is a concept that it keeps cropping up, big tech keep telling us about the future — facebook have announced 10,000 newjobs working just on this. but, laure

facebook already knows who they are. this feature can alert you if someone else has uploaded a picture or video of you, even though they haven't tagged you. facebook was able to recognize you because it created more than a billion facial templates. this came from a facial recognition company in israel that facebook bought in 2012 for about $60 million. facebook is now saying it will no longer use this facial recognition system. so why now? facebook releasing a blog explaining the changes, the vp of artificial intelligence writes -- so bottom line, facebook is suddenly listening to the global community concerned about privacy issues. privacy issues were a concern last year and a concern the year before. but now facebook is actually doing something about it. facebook is under scrutiny as you know, after thousands of internal documents were leaked just last month by a whistleblower who happened to be a former facebook employee. joining us tonight, nathan sheer, an organizing director with the electronic frontier foundation

facebook network. this is the same tech that alerts users when photos they are in are uploaded, enabling them to tie their selves. does it signal a new stance for the company on privacy? we will discuss. all that in a moment. let's get a look at the markets. the relentless rally of stocks pushing benchmarks to the all-time high with investors bracing for a key decision from the fed. our ed ludlow is joining us now with more. what will detect play today? >> tech is the better performing group. i am focusing on the nasdaq 100. up for a seventh consecutive day, matching the gains we saw in june. but the strength wasn't universal. there were pockets and tech that did suffer on tuesday. the plot index down by around 1%. the biggest drop in around 10 days. we know there is a big federal reserve decision coming on wednesday, regardless of what the fed says or does. there's deception in the markets that rates will stay lower for longer and that will be good for stocks. u.s. 10 year yield a softer buy a couple

hello, it's been another bad week for facebook. on monday, the world's biggest news brands published a coordinated series of stories all based on whistle—blower frances haugen and her trove of leaked documents. so, how did haugen, a product manager, come to have such strong media and pr support? and has anything new been revealed this week? and whilst facebook might be facing difficulties in the real world, that hasn't stopped them investing heavily in an alternative reality future. so what exactly is the metaverse? and how soon before we're all living in it? well, joining me to discuss all of that is my panel of guests. nicola millard is a presenter, writer and principal innovation partner at bt. so nicola, what is a principal innovation partner and why does bt need one? good question, well, i used to be bt�*s futurologist and i got very tired of the crystal balljokes. i do have one, it doesn't work. but largely, my role, i'm part of bt�*s innovation team. so i'm here to innovate with and for our customers. very good, very g

what does facebook actually use? facial recognition technology for essentially for tagging and photos and videos, that's primarily what they use it for. now they make a true statement where they say that facial recognition is best used on devices. like for instance, when you open up your iphone, right? you use facial recognition to do that, but it's not communicating with an external server. so they're correct in, in making that state. and i think that's, that's true. but the reality is, is look, facebook just earlier this year was hit with a massive lawsuit and a judge rule. they have to pay $650000000.00 for violating illinois biometric law because of the fact that people didn't know that their data was being captured. and this facial recognition was being stored in violated privacy in the state of illinois. that's pretty significant. $650000000.00 is a lot of money. but i think the bigger issue here is that facebook doesn't necessarily have a need for this moving forward. and again, as i keep saying, i believe tha

what does facebook actually use? facial recognition technology for essentially for tagging and photos. and videos, that's primarily what they use it for. now they make a true statement where they say that facial recognition ai is best used on devices like for instance, when you open up your iphone, right? you use facial net recognition to do that, but it's not communicating with an external server. so they're correct in making that state. and i think that's, that's true. but the reality is, is look, facebook just earlier this year was hit with a massive lawsuit and a judge rule. they have to pay $650000000.00 for violating illinois biometric law because of the fact that people didn't know that their data was being captured. and this facial recognition was being stored so violated privacy in the state of illinois. that's pretty significant. $650000000.00 is a lot of money. but i think the bigger issue here is that facebook doesn't necessarily have a need for this moving forward. and again, as i keep saying, i believe

some folks say, you know, we don't like facebook. we think facebook is harming society. but folks are undecided -- many folks are undecided where the harm comes from. is it how people are using the platform or facebook themselves? >> lynette, how aware is facebook -- the numbers are overwhelming. how aware is it that there's so much resentment for the social media giant now? >> oh, i don't know how aware facebook is because they seem to keep launching products that invade more and more into our personal space. the company just changed its name to meta. it wants to create a completely different reality where people can work and interact with each other. facebook isn't that great at this reality. so i don't understand why they think they should create another one. people don't, i think, understand how much control facebook has over the algorithms, how much they have over what they're served. i think some users think maybe it's my network. maybe i'm associated with a bunch of nut jobs who post crazy stuff. they don't realize, as "the wall street journal" reported maybe two

what does facebook actually use? facial recognition technology for essentially for tagging and photos and videos, that's primarily what they use it for. now they make a true statement where they say that facial recognition is best used on devices. like, for instance, when you open up your iphone, right, you use facial net recognition to do that, but it's not communicating with an external server. so they're correct in, in making that state. and i think that's the, that's true. but the reality is, is look, facebook just earlier this year was hit with a massive lawsuit and a judge rule. they have to pay $650000000.00 for violating illinois biometric law because of the fact that people didn't know that their data was being captured. and this facial recognition was being stored to violated privacy in the state of illinois. that's pretty significant. $650000000.00 is a lot of money. but i think the bigger issue here is that facebook doesn't necessarily have a need for this moving forward. and again, as i keep saying, i be

>> what do you think facebook thought when you filed this suit initially? >> probably underestimated me, which i welcome at any time >> what did you think when you filed the suit >> i thought that they should buckle up >> reporter: a busy mom and personal injury attorney, a few years ago she started being asked to represent teens who had been sold for sex. >> it didn't matter where the client was from the one thing that they all shared was the role of social media or technology in their trafficking case >> connecting them to the trafficker >> without a doubt. >> reporter: mcadams sued facebook on behalf of jane doe >> when did you get on facebook >> i would say about 13 >> we agreed not to show her full face when she was 16, an older man sent a friend request >> when i was younger it was about who had the most friends, so it's, like, anybody who would send you a request, just add them >> reporter: he said she could make $2,000 a week modeling. after a fight with her mom, she met him. >> he took my phone so i couldn't run away. i didn't know where i was. >>

the facebook network. this is the same tech that alerts users when photos they are in are uploaded, enabling them to tag themselves. does it signal a new stance for the newly named company on privacy? we will discuss. all that in a moment. first let's get a look at the markets. the relentless rally of stocks pushing major u.s. benchmarks to their all-time highs, with investors bracing for a key decision from the fed. our ed ludlow is joining us now with more. what role with -- will tech play today? ed: tech is the better performing group. i am focusing on the nasdaq 100. up for a seventh consecutive day, matching the gains we saw in june. but the strength wasn't universal. there were pockets of tech that did suffer on tuesday. namely make a cap tech stocks. -- mega cap tech stocks. one company down by around 1%. the biggest drop in around 10 days. we know there is a big federal reserve decision coming on wednesday, regardless of what the fed says or does. there is a perception in the market that rates will

emily: facebook has pushed back hard, or i should say meta, on this idea presented in the facebook files, against multiple narratives the facebook files have advanced. take a listen to this. >> what we are seeing right now is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company, and it does not in any way reflect the company that i know and that i am passionate about and that i love working about. emily: what is your reaction to that given the many concerns that you have already expressed? yael: i think part of what is at the core of that argument is the idea there are people at facebook doing good things, and that is true. for the three years i have been speaking since leaving the company, i have always talked about how much good the company can do and how many passionate people work there. but it completely glosses over all the actual harmful things, which is something we need to grapple with and government needs to handle. so i understand her point about saying that might not be what she recognizes, but at the end of the day, there is now --

the onus is on the united states, the country that is the host of facebook, where facebook was born, to put some bumpers on this bowling alley and make sure that facebook is moving in the right direction when it comes to democracy, public safety, and the state of our world and climate. >> valid point, cecelia, that the first amendment does speak about government regulation of speech and religion, not of private company regulation of speech and religion. but the impetus still remains -- belongs to facebook. we have not seen any reason why what facebook would do it. does all the bad press, does the testimony, does the new information, the new information we heard in congressional testimony and the last month is probably not new to the two of you. but it is new to a lot of americans to hear it. >> yeah, you know, during the hearing when facebook's whistle-blower from facebook frances haugen testified in front of the senate, a lot of lawmakers called it a big temperature moment as though this was a major pivotal turn. i have been following these hearings for quite some time. mark zuckerb

and the truth is facebook is a huge company. this is not about a lack of resources in a company like facebook. why do you think they're allocating so little attention to languages outside of english. i mean, what is the danger that poses when only 9% of users are getting 87% of the spending on this kind of fact checking? >> the simple answer is they haven't been forced. they haven't been held accountable, right? in germany they passed a law required 3,000 content moderators be located in germany. i'm not saying we need much a law but we do absent more accountability. i think the danger here is there are very targeted efforts to disrupt democracy, to undermine our basic rights to vote. and facebook has not done enough to protect us here in the united states but abroad as well. the un found that facebook played a contributing role in the genocide in myanmar. that does have a lot to do with facebook's underinvestment in language. so the threats here are many. it is a threat to our democracy. it is a threat to public health and safe

and the truth is facebook is a huge company. this is not about a lack of resources in a company like facebook. why do you think they are allocating so little attention to languages outside of english? i mean, what is the danger that poses with only 9% of users are getting 87% of the spending on this kind of fact-checking? >> the simple answer they is they haven't been forced or held accountable, right? in germany they passed a law that required 3,000 content moderators be located in germany. i'm not saying we need such a law, but we do absent more accountability. i think the danger here is that there are very targeted efforts to disrupt democracy, to undermine our basic rights to vote. and facebook has not done enough to protect us here in the united states, but abroad as well. the u.n. found that facebook played a contributing role in the genocide in myanmar. that does have a lot to do with facebook's underinvestment across language. so the threats here are many. it's a threat to our democracy, it's a threat to public health an

s. market only makes up 10 percent of facebook's business. how was facebook responded to these stories because they had to know that they were coming. they did the actually tweeted before the newspapers released their investigations and they said that many of these dr. and so being mischaracterized and that it's all part of a gotcha campaign that's on the back of news that france is. how good is getting a lot of backing from some heavy hitters, including peer on the other founder of e bay, is a well learn an outspoken critic of the expanding powers of big tech. so yes, they are elements of a gotcha campaign. but that does not mean that the consortium hasn't exposed some bad practices, more bad practices at facebook. ok, thanks me. cast your mind back to 2015. the height of europe's refugee in flux, when more than a 1000000 migrants tried to reach the continent by c, the global news media were positioned around the mediterranean filing stories from various borders, sometimes from boats. when the numbers dropped, most of the journalists moved o

emily: facebook has pushed back hard, or i should say meta, on this idea presented any facebook files, pushed back hard against multiple narratives the facebook files, quote unquote, have advanced. i spoke to face back -- >> what we are seeing right now is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company and it does not in any way reflect the company that i now and that i am passionate about and that i love working about. emily: what is your reaction to that, given the many concerns that you have already expressed? yael: of course. i think part of what is at the core of that argument is this idea that there are good people at facebook and they are doing good things. all that is true. even i for the three years i have spoken since leaving the company is how much good the company can do and how much passionate people work there. but it glosses over all the actual harmful things which is something we need to grapple with and government needs to handle. so i understand her point about saying that may not be what she recognizes, but at the en

not the only one also, facebook wanted to not be called facebook anymore for many other reasons. but metaverse seems to be the focus now. long facebook, the valuation i think is attractive. i give mark zuckerberg the benefit of the doubt on being a steward of capital but as to the valuations, i feel like a lot of metaverse is starting to get priced in and we're very, very early in the metaverse. so i feel, you know, i agree with dan, which is an unusual position, but i feel like a lot of good things are priced in already. >> i think karen brings up an interesting point in terms of looking at the metaverse in terms of the different parts of how to get at that trade and there is the picks and shovels aspect, dan. i'm wondering if at this point in time given that the metaverse is in relatively early stages, if that's the way to go, if one were to trade the metaverse. >> yeah, i think there's a lot of existing computing, you know, processes that are going to be definitely beneficial to a move toward the internet. it's going to be reliant on new hardware that hasn't actually been crea

whether it's from facebook and others. i hope this is the next thing that happens after the mobile internet. we will make sure for example all space vr today runs applications on oculus. we will continue to make sure some of our best applications, platform work, mesh applications, anyone who builds using mesh can run using those applications on oculus and hollow lens. that is going to be our goal.

a facebook whistleblower who testified to the u. s. congress about the social networks alleged unethical practices has repeated the performance in brussels, imprinted bums of the european parliament. she told him that the tech giant needs regulating facebook cannot remain the judge. jury prosecutor and witness revelations are confirming that we have reached some kind of a high point peak, where the fundamental rights of users are at stake. the digital services act that is now before this parliament has the potential to be a global gold standard. so could you maybe and give us a, your suggestions on how we could make a libel or accountable, at least for choir in that a name should be associated with every change would actually radically change the culture of facebook. because to day people hide behind that unified friend, and it means that no one stands up for what's right because no one will ever have it traced back to them. or the bill that she described as a gold standard is the digital services act. it could be adopted next year.

so, yes, facebook tried to change the narrative is that working? >> i don't think so. i mean, except for the fact that we're talking about metaverse right now. >> we are. >> facebook spent all this time talking about metaverse and what is there is to go buy right now? what product was released this week there isn't one. the greatest product is something sold byp apple, the airpods. sold 2 to 3 million oculous last year apple sold 110 million airpods last year. they're augmented reality and listen to what is going on around you and listen to your own music or podcast or audio books on top of that it doesn't make any sense for facebook to be doing this and i think ultimately it will backlash because the more we talk about the metaverse and the more we point out this is just a way for them to try to detract us from the fact that right now they can't stop 14-year-old girls from bullying each other into eating disorders on their own platform so why should we believe they will do a better job with a new technology >> i'm having a hard time knowing what to do here because i'd

how big a win is landing facebook, or i should say meta, as a customer? lisa: it's great to be here with you. i would say it was a big day for amd. we had, we talked about a range of things today in our data center. we talked about new products in terms of our new cpu product and gpu products as well as the fact that 10 of the largest hyper scalars including meta are using amd. we are excited about it. i think it just goes to say a little bit about sort of our long-term focus on the data center and wanting to make sure we are working and partnering with the most important companies in the world. emily: this now means they -- as you say you are working with so many of these hyper scalars, including not just meta but microsoft and amazon and google. give us more color on what it has taken to win over these big customers and cut into market share of your competitors. lisa: this has been our focus over the last four or five years, really to build up the capabilities in the datacenter. we see the data center as one of the most exciting, if not the most excitin

what does facebook actually use? facial recognition technology for essentially for tagging and photos and videos, that's primarily what they use it for. now they make a true statement where they say that facial recognition ai is best used on devices . like for instance, when you open up your iphone, right? you use facial net recognition to do that, but it's not communicating with an external server. so they're correct in, in making that state. and i think that's the, that's true. but the reality is, is look, facebook just earlier this year was hit with a massive lawsuit and a judge rule. they had to pay $650000000.00 for violating illinois biometric law because of the fact that people didn't know that their data was being captured. and this facial recognition was being stored to violated privacy in the state of illinois. that's pretty significant. $650000000.00 is a lot of money. but i think the bigger issue here is that facebook doesn't necessarily have a need for this moving forward. and again, as i keep saying, i

and of course, facebook. what would you like to say to those people who helped through along the way? >> thank you from the bottom of our hearts for believing and understanding, and taking the time that most people don't do. it's like a dream come few through for us. because it's what we've always been hoping for. >> yeah, somebody to help us. that's why we just want to live and move forward. you know? it's gone, it's the pass. move on. better days. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> you had the good cop, you have the bad cop. and the polygraph. it felt like "law & order". >> the fire broke out before dawn. in the daylight, they found the's mother of two young children dead. >> she lived a very courageous life. she was very bold in the things she did. >> but after the smoke cleared, a mystery lingered. >> we knew she did not die in that fire, she died before the fire. >> who do y

within a matter of years in facebook gets its way. a lot of us could be spending much of our lives looking something like this. i think of hiring 10000 people in europe to create a meta us for the non nods out there. i'll let the actual poly explain. the max of us is basically the matrix you create digital avatars of yourself like me, and then you put on your v r had set and away you go. you can walk around a virtual world and interact with people in real time. so doing things like shopping and dancing and studying together in a virtual space, the real world may struggle to compete. facebook founder and ceo mock stuck, a bug says that the met to verse is just the natural progression from the 2 d internet to the 3. the ones that are not buying to monopolize the massive us, it is far too late for that. the idea is that users will slip seamlessly from one virtual world into another. so instead of flying from paris to new york, for example, you digitally teleport yourself from facebook met us to google's, or apple's one. i'm a little you,

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of course we're calling facebook metta. talking about the context of microsoft and christiana amon making it clear that they have been putting their chips into these devices that all 50 devices, whether it's a.r. or v.r. headsets, whether for consumers or for enterprise include their chips. and that this is going to be huge growth driver for them in addition to, of course, smart phones and autos so carl, i think it's kind of exciting to think about how this could be an accelerator for a number of companies, not just the ones like facebook and microsoft who have been out there talking about wanting to create this software and hardware but also the component makers as well >> yeah. absolutely i mean, think there is still that lingering risk of insourcing of course we saw it classically with apple and intel's business. and this morning vw, julia, talking about the long-term need to insource chips because they just don't want to make that a third-party issue and be so reliant once the supply chain gets squirrely so there will b

he was talking about this before facebook changed its name. so much has changed in the past couple weeks. a new name for facebook, obviously making this big bet, you have microsoft making its big bet on the meta-verse. do you see this as a world where one or two companies will own it, or will it be bigger than that? matthew: it will be so much larger than that. we can look at the internet as an example. the digital economy is assumed to be roughly 18%-20% of the world economy, $87 trillion. the truth is, the big five tech companies historically, facebook changed its name, was 10% of that. it depended on different developers, semiconductors, net working and infrastructure companies. the meta-verse will be similar. emily: can facebook build a competitive platform that younger users want to join and be part of? can they get beyond these reputational issues and trust issues? matthew: can they? certainly. this company is spending more on this area than anyone else on earth. the founder is in control with extraordinary conviction and re-billion mont

you can see that from the facebook leaks that have been occurring. the problem here is that most of the people who said let's rake these companies up, the breaking them up is not going to solve the problem. it is really an incentive issue for what they're trying to do. in defense of these companies, the greatest export of america are our people and values through these companies. when google shows up in an arab country or a developing country, it brings american values, american liberal values in the treatment of employees to a place that doesn't have it. be careful not to kill the whole thing. emily: we are going to get to facebook, but i want to start with google. you shared that when you first met henry kissinger, he said he was worried that google would destroy the world. eric: he said it was a threat to humanity. emily: now that you have left google, do you believe that google is a threat to humanity today? eric: i do not, and i did not agree with him at the time. his concern is that a private company run by the best of people is not where such

facebook and zuckerberg wanted be caught instagram via facebook or with facebook. now facebook's can be dropped from that brand messenger and whatsapp hateful content eye towards the elections. 7 week document dump basically showing that facebook causing harm teenagers. this is facebook's way of saying ceo mark zuckerberg s lie to congress. i want to go to congress on a ceo facebook. so you'll facebook killed become the facebook, see matter of a ceo and will never see him in front of congress again. and it's all about the young people in the apps that the use of just don't want to be embarrassed by using facebook. >> and just so then just to be clear, we were not getting rid of the name. facebook. we're just getting. we're just adding a new umbrella parent company that zuckerberg is going to be heading up facebook is still there's a social media platform, right underneath all of that. >> yeah, we're getting new video at prom after surgery them at matter reported numbers today. 1st quarter of 2020 tale i hate it. but google set a precedent with alphabet. googl is ev

you would try and differentiate yourself from facebook, it's not enough to say we are different. i want to give you the opportunity to tell parents why they should be less fearful and scared of snapchat, tiktok and youtube. >> senator, thank you for the opportunity. again, i think it is very important to understand snapchat is a very different platform. it was created by our founders to be an antidote to social media. our founders saw, very early on, what social media can do to yourself esteem, to your feeling that you have to perform would be perfect for the world at all times. snapchat was a decidedly different platform that was private. [inaudible] could actually talk to the friends they have in real life. you weren't being judged on your [inaudible] your posts weren't intend to resemble a real life conversation. it really strengthens relationships. for parents who may not be sure of snapchat, i would tell them, get on snapchat understand what your children are doing. we are making it easier for parents, three parental controls, to understand how, indeed, their children can be

guest: facebook itself seems to have plateaued, and average use on facebook seems to be declining. it depends on the survey you check, but an average facebook user spends about 30 minutes or 32 minutes or something along those lines online on facebook. a lot of that ends up being ends up being messenger. some of it ends up being through the news feed itself. but for the most part, people would be spending half an hour each day on facebook. facebook itself, the traditional -- i think it is called blue or big blue -- the traditional blue, in the united states, has largely plateaued, and the real growth we have been seeing is an instagram. i believe it was last month that instagram effectively surpassed, or is suspected to surpassed, facebook as far as total ad revenue is concerned. instagram will continue to grow, but not as big and strong as other companies are expected as well. the big change here is obviously tiktok but snap as well. those companies, you know, the user group facebook cares about which is the 18 to 29 group. even though facebook and instagram are obviously very, yo

what do you think about facebook endings it facial recognition program. weigh in now on our platforms on nbc bay area and we will share the responses on the 7:00 newscast and we will talk with privacy experts around concerns about facial recognition software. >> more firefighters are suffering injuries on the job and the fire chief believes long back-to-back overtime shifts are the culprit. the department grappling with a staffing shortage and that mandatory overtime is taking a toll on firefighters. >> over the halloween weekend the oakland fire department tweeted this. a cute picture of a little boy in his firefighter costume. the caption include an inside joke is that half joking reading due to staffing shortages any child dressed as a firefighter will be required to fill a shift. the innocent between highlighted how desperately the department needed more firefighters. >> in the month of july i think i worked 27 24-hour shifts. it is really remarkable how under staffed that we are and how many gaps are being filled by forced overtime. >> reporter: staf

the company's new direction is the way to go. facebook is one of the most used technology products in the history of the world. it's an iconic social media brand. every time i hope we are seen as a meta verse company, and i want to anchor our work and our identity on what we're building towards. facebook changed his name to meta is so exciting. i've already forgotten that we just learned, they knew women were being sex traffic on the platform and did nothing. facebook is now meta, our new logo is a rubber band because our morals are elastic. oh, and we stretch the truth. it doesn't matter what you call it, they're still selling our data. while the new name was unveiled alongside plans to build a so called met averse an online virtual world where people can play video games work and communicate the amount. now it's meant pushed up the newly mind meadows stock price, about $1.00 and a half percent. and pondering how this new cyberspace universe might be implemented here is not one, but to probably book us. within a matter of years, if facebook gets its way, a lot of us could be spending

and ridiculing the new name with facebook. sorry, mehta boss, mark zuckerberg, face front and center in many a doctored pic. zuckerberg though is optimistic. the company's new direction is the way to go. facebook is one of the most used technology products in the history of the world. it's an iconic social media brand. over time, i hope we are seen as a met averse company. and i want to anchor our work and our identity on what we're building towards facebook, changing his name to mets. it is so exciting. i've already forgotten that we just learned the new women. we've been sex topics on the platform and did nothing. facebook is now meta, our new logo is a rubber band because our morals are elastic. oh, and we stretch the truth. it doesn't matter what you call it. there are still 7 are data. the new name was unveiled alongside plans to build a so called meta verse, an online virtual world, where people can play video games, work and communicate. the announcement pushed up the newly minted metas stock, priced by one and a half p

within a matter of years in facebook gets its way. a lot of us could be spending much of our lives looking something like this. i think of hiring 10000 people in europe to create a matter of us for the non nods out there. i'll let the actual poly explain. the matter of us is basically the matrix you create digital avatars of yourself like me, and then you put on your v r had set and away you go. you can walk around a virtual world and interact with people in real time. so doing things like shopping and dancing and studying together in a virtual space, the real world may struggle to compete. facebook founder and ceo mark stuck a bug, says that the met of us is just the natural progression from the 2 d internet to the 3 d one talk about it's not buying to monopolize the matter of us . it is far too late for that. the idea is that uses will slip seamlessly from one virtual world into another. so instead of flying from paris to new york, for example, you digitally teleport yourself from facebook match of us to google's or apple's one. i'm

it will be tough to track facebook on this. they say they're dropping facial recognition which has been the bane of privacy experts. >> reporter: for her, social media has been a love/hate relationship. >> surveillance. security cameras everywhere. >> reporter: so facebook announcing it will shut downity facial recognition system. >> i would be skeptical that they'd actually do it, you know. because i feel like it's embedded m so many different aspects and features of the website. >> reporter: ask privacy advocates, and they'll tell you facial recognition has long been one of the worst parts of how we've been tracked online. it's the way sites like facebook recognize our faces and our friends' faces so we can tag each other. but it says it will no longer tag us automatically. good news say local ethicists. >> they are making a decision to try protect people. >> reporter: but. >> i think what they're doing is playing games with wording. >> reporter: she's skeptical that facebook is really giving up all that personal data. >> are

what facebook files clearly show is facebook new better, doing things they claimed they were doing and their products were harmful. this is big corporate america not at its best, it is within the province of the court to order governance changes at facebook now that it has been established. >> meta-responded with a statement that is about merit and we defend ourselves vigorously. play devils advocate, the other point that could be made is people who use facebook know that it can be dangerous because we see on full display. we see how toxic the facebook can be, are they hiding the behavior? >> when they tell everybody it is not toxic and don't worry and we will do instagram kids which they abandoned, taking measures to get rid of the trolls was all those things are untrue. we are being reassured by them that it is okay. as far as their statement, that sounds like every person on the other side of any lawsuit, criminal or civil i ever filed including the day i went. >> it is an interesting case. thank you for joining us this morning and explaining it. political factors website dedicated

he is weaning himself off of facebook. >> the less information facebook it's, and sort of wants to grab from us, i think it is fine. just as a large corporation, i am not super aligned with their business decisions. some of it is not super ethical. >> reporter: as you saw, some of the changes are already taking place, and they will start phasing it out over the next few weeks. live in menlo park, kiet do, kpix 5. >>> to the coronavirus now, children across the bay area will soon be able to roll up their sleeves for a covid-19 shot . this after pfizer's vaccine received final approval from the cdc's director. joining us live right now is infectious disease expert was santa clara valley medical center. thank you so much for joining us this evening. the cdc making it official now, there is still a bit of convincing to do for some skeptical parents. what are you telling them? >> great question. this is an exciting time for us, because we have been waiting for this approval for a while now. what i would tell parents is that the covid-19 vaccine was studied quite robustly. children of differe

news that was a former facebook employee. francis. how going initially took history to the wall street journal, where she need thousands of internal documents to the paper. how going is now made those documents available to a consortium of more than a dozen news outlets including the new york times and washington post in the us and european outlets like lamond in france and torch. as i turn in germany and what kind of stories are we seeing as a result? well, much more detail, pretty damning detail that facebook is well aware of its problems with misinformation and hate speech in the us, but even more so outside of the us in non english speaking countries and it's doing very little to prevent it going back to india in 2001, 900, just before the general election. the documents show that facebook employees set up a dummy account to test user experience that that account was quickly flooded with no competing could be flooded with pro moody propaganda and anti muslim hate speech . as you know, richard india is seeing an alarming r

behind it, and i see adoption and usage of these oculus devices that facebook has. so i'm intrigued by the opportunity. it's a big bet, and it may be more sizeable and i'm totally comfortable with, and facebook should be trying to help this option value, so yeah, i'm along for the ride of it and the core business is one of the strongest you can find in tech >> the digital advertising business >> mark, i want to ask you and go back to uber a little bit i know you've been misunderstood and you've been bullish on the stock for a while and he's a real operator and he's applying the playbook that he has through growth through acquisitions and uber you say the market opportunity is large and he's competing against founders in the space. i wonder if you think with uber with him at the helm is in the best position to capitalize on that opportunity >> you're asking the right question the track record's pretty clear that the best wealth creation is found with tech companies and my hedge here that i've known and tracked them for 20 years and i think he did a reasonably good jo

if facebook gets it, weigh a lot of us can be spending much of all. i'm looking something like this is hiring $10000.00 people to create a match of us for the low nods out there. i'll let virtual poly explain to make of us is basically the make tricks. you create digital avatars of yourself like me, and then you put on your v headset and away you go. you can walk around a virtual world and interact with people in real time. they're doing things like shopping and dancing and studying together in a virtual space. the real world may struggle to compete. facebook founder and ceo mock sucker bug says that the match of us is just saying that kill progression from the to the internet to the 3 the one to talk about not buying, to monopolize the matter of us. it is far too late for that. the idea is that users will slip seamlessly from one virtual world into another. so instead of flying from paris to new york, for example, you'd digital e teleport yourself from facebook, smack of us to google's, or apple's one. i'm sure you boom, as quaking in your booth at t

there's a generation of tech companies out there facebook, amazon, google who think they're hardware companies because they make a bunch of hardware they subsidize with other businesses and amazon was trying to dig at apple saying, oh, we like to make money when people use our stuff. we don't want to charge a lot. it's good apple can charge a lot for its hardware people like it and that's why the stock price is so high isn't it kind of weird that there are all these companies acting like they're going to be hardware companies wheni don't know if they ever made a great piece of hardware. >> i totally agree with you, john i think the difference here is that they had acquired a great hardware company or the start of a great hardware company in oculous. so, in the oculous space, in the headset space, really no one is doing what facebook or meta has been doing the headset is superior, yes, the cost is also superior. it's not as expensive as a high end playstation headset. that has allowed meta to get into this consumer space again, come back to this question, what are we doing with the he

protesters call out facebook, accusing the social media platform of allowing hate speech against muslims. the 11 o'clock news on ktvu. fox news starts now. hello again, everyone. i'm julie julie haener, and i'm mike mibach in tonight for frank somerville. protesters say they hope today's event will convince the company to take action. the protest, they protested, rather outside the company's headquarters in menlo park. demonstrators also held rallies in seattle chicago, charlotte and other cities across the country. ktvu is elissa harrington reports. best book fairs bust, protesters rallied outside the meta headquarters in menlo park, calling out facebook, accusing the social media giant of inciting violence against muslims in india. basically we're trying to bring awareness to the masses here about what facebook has been doing. in india get technically promoting hate and david ali said social media has pitted religions against each other, he said. neighbors are turning on neighbors and facebook has played a large role in politics and real world violence. these organizations are. openly

. >> yes, would facebook tried to split off instagram from facebook or whatsapp. the company has been increasingly intertwining the services for functionality, but also behind the scenes. this virtual reality business is different. it really depends on how much these companies decide to interlock those services makes that proposition harder or easier. emily: the big question is, will regulators forced their hand? >> they could. we are not there yet. facebook is in a battle with the federal trade commission over its acquisitions of instagram and whatsapp. the agency said the company acted anti-competitively and has sought to unwind those mergers. we had stayed pressure on that level for facebook. google is facing a lawsuit from the justice department over its search business. we reported not too long ago that the doj is looking into its advertising business, so the more that drumbeat increases for these tech companies, the more pressure they are under to make that move and essentially spin off their businesses. emily: ok. thank you for your viewpoint. meantime, mor

facebook already been scaling back its use of facial recognition. they say after introducing it more than a decade ago. >> still ahead, for the second time in a matter of months. reverend jesse jackson has been admitted to the hospital of the civil rights icon a happe the walnut creek city council will consider banning the sale of flavored tobacco and e-cigarettes. >> if passed businesses would have 5 months before the law is enforced. earlier this year contra costa county restricted the sale of flavored tobacco in unincorporated parts of the county. >> in national news opening statements got under way in the murder trial of kyle rittenhouse in kenosha, wisconsin. prosecutors say rittenhouse instigated the confrontation that led him to shoot 3 people last year, killing 2 of them. but the defense is arguing the teenager was acting in self-defense. rittenhouse is charged with killing 2 men and injuring a 3rd job. this was last summer during a protest over the police shooting of jacob blake. if convicted, he could get life in prison. reverend jesse jac

that is how are you different from facebook? i mentioned at the very start of the hearing that you would try to differentiate yourself from facebook. it is not enough to say that we are different. i want to give you the opportunity to tell parents why they should be less fearful and scared of snapchat, tiktok and youtube. >> thank you for the opportunity. i think it is very important to understand snapchat is a very different platform. it was created by our founders to be an antidote to social media. our founders saw very early on what traditional social media can do to your self-esteem, to your feeling that you have to perform or be perfect for the world at all times. snapchat was a decidedly different platform that was private, safe where people could come and actually talk to the friends they have been real-life. you are not being judged on your perfect posts. they were not intended to be ephemeral the way of real-life conversation is ephemeral. it really strengthens relationships. for parents who may not be sure of snapchat,