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Cignet warned that profits will be light next year. the company blames hurricanes and weak sales for a challenging quarter. cignet is also going to shudder stores in 2018. the stock dropped 30% on that news. thats its worst day in 25 years. meantime, facebook is under fire yet again for allowing discriminatory ad targeting. in a new report, they were able to purchase dozens of ads for home rentals that excluded specific groups including african americans, jews and spanish speakers. the ad plac...

Tech. tech stocks rose yesterday. overall tech is up 38% this year. megawhitman is stepping down as ceo of hp. she will remain on the companys board. current president and 20-year hp vetd r veteran will take over. her departure reduces the number of women leaving s&p companies to just 5. kay, jared and zales warned that profits will be light next year. cignet will also shudder 125 stores in 2018. its stock dropped 30% on this news. and facebook is under fire yet again for allowing discrimi...

Have the tweet. he says facebook was always antitrump. the networks were antitrump, hence fake news, new yo"new yor times" apologized and "washington post" were antitrump. collusion? >> facebook is pro facebook. they want you to spend more time on facebook. and thats why this ad targeting is an issue because its not going to stop in 2016. it didnt. its not going to stop now. were going to continue to see various countries, interest groups, use ad targeting on a personal way to reach individuals ...

Interference in our campaign at some point donald trump has to stop worrying whether or not this affects legitimacy of his election and worry whether or not it affects our democracy, and major implications. how he think about protecting our elections. one hand, we all know facebooks secret sauce, ad targeting. getting people to change their minds. what shoes you buy and in this case, who you vote for, for president. the russians found a new way to influence the election like hacking john podesta...

And what the special counsel can do is take all of this, factor it in to his ongoing investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. election and this is where things get really important, the question about whether or not any of the campaigns own ad targeting was used by these russian patrols for their own ad targeting via facebook. a lot of questions here, a lot of unknowns, but all of that material is now in the hands of the special counsel and he can use that in his investigation going forwa...

In france. we know theyre intervening in germany as well. this is a tactic of 21st century of cyber misinformation and misinformation campaigns. >> with me now, antonio martinez, a former facebook executive who worked on the ad targeting and wrote mark zuckerberg was being disingenuous when in the wake of trumps unexpected victory. is facebook doing enough to deal with this and are they putting their profits above their role in being fair as a utility in our democracy? >> i think the short answe...

Endorses donald trump made the rounds despite being false. mark zuckerberg said it was a pretty crazy idea that facebook helped donald trump win. thats gotten flashback from renegade facebook employees who formed a task force to battle fake news. whats crazy is for zuckerberg to come out and dismiss it like that when he knows and those of us at the company know that fake news ran wild on our platform during the entire season. yesterday facebook declared a policy that fake news sites arent allowe...

Us at the company know that fake news ran wild on our platform during the entire season. yesterday facebook declared a policy that fake news sites arent allowed on its advertising network saying our team will closely vet all prospective publishers to ensure compliance. zuckerberg wrote over the weekend, i believe we must be extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves. joining me now, former facebook employee antonio garcia martinez, facebooks first product manager for ad target...

Himself hauling in the most money of any actor 7 r5 million. he can thank iron man three making 50 million off of that one film. >> wow. >> good for him, though. verizon launching a brand you in rewards program. you have to give to get. lori rossman from trothman join. >> always a catch. you are probably paying a small fortune a month for wireless service. now you can get a little bit back for it. but theres a catch. verizon wireless rolling out a nationwide loyalty program for the 1 million sub...

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