2012 Facebook News Today

Now its time for World Business report. Two billion friends, soaring profits and a big thumbs up from wall street. But how much bigger can facebook grow . Plus made in america. President trump hails a 10 billion taiwanese investment as proof hes making a difference. But one critic calls the deal a corporate welfare package. Welcome to World Business report. Im ben bland. Also coming up charged up samsungs on track for record annual profits as it puts the Exploding Phones scandal behind it. We st...

responsibility to monitor or basically moderate that content online. >> but james, the cable news environment, the internet environment was extreme well before 2016. lets go back to 2012. facebook played an oversized role in the reelection of barack obama in 2012. you didnt have the extremes there despite the fact you had cable news hosts back then saying that barack obama was a racist and wasnt even born in this country. so what happened in four years at facebook? >> i think a number of thin...

"wall street journal," facebook is coming under fire for allowing researchers to play with peoples emotions. the social network admits it manipulated the news feeds of more than a half million random users in 2012. facebook says it altered the number of positive and negative posts people saw in their feed and tracked any changes in tone in their posts. thats weird. >> i have to say -- >> really weird. >> out of all the privacy facebook thing, this is really kind of creepy. >> its beyond creepy. ...

lead analysts at morgan stanley, the main underwriter for the facebook ipo, received privileged information about the company, information that they didnt share with retail investors. finra, the financial industry regulation authority, regulatory authority, the u.s. senate banking committee, and the commonwealth of massachusetts have all announced probes into the matter, and that was quickly followed by a lawsuit filed by some investors against facebook and its ceo, mark zuckerberg, al...

from investors during the ipo process. now, specifically they are talking about forecasts that revenue would be lower in 2012. facebook tells cnn, by the way, that the lawsuit is without merit. ron is a former s.e.c. investment attorney. henry blodgett, ceo of business insider, a website. back in 2003 henry settled a civil securities charge with s.e.c. he was banned from the securities industry. hes a good friend of our show. henry, i say this because its relevant to our discussion. yo...

will on the streets. journalists get a look at the violence syria doesnt want you to see. it is amazing to me how this guy has been shot this many times. i mean, hes superman. i have been shot three times. my fingers have bullet holes. >> did you hear had a? part man, part terminator. shot three times in a robbery. a marine pulls out the bullets with his own hands. and now hes talking about it from his hospital bed on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is thursday,...