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Really hard for me to have a full assessment of that. the reality is, well, theres so many different forces in play. the organic posting that people did, the get out the vote campaigns that we ran, the pages that both candidates ran, the advertising that they did, im sure that all of that activity had some impact. >> also the bad actors. >> and the bad stuff. thats what im saying. i think its hard to fully assessment. >> reporter: hard to say, although i think a lot of folks who wonder when they...

Transparency regulation that i would love to see. >> what would regulating facebook even look like? >> i think its important to be clear from the start that this is truly an existential problem for the company. for a long time, there was this cliche that said if youre not paying for the product, youre the product. we all understood this, right? that doesnt matter when the product say weather app. a dating app or farmville. when the product is democracy, when the product is our shared sense of re...

Transparency tools that accomplish most of the things that are in all the bills that people are talking about today. >> mr. zuckerberg, heres the thing about that, those are regulations on advertisers. facebook would just be enforcing regulations rather than being subject to them itself. it is facebooks handling of data before it gets to advertisers that is under fire here. the "wall street journal" points out that facebooks data policies as recently as 2014 allowed tens of thousands of apps to ...

Find apps. youre going to click on apps, here at the top you see logged with feign, airbnb, 31 others. those are other apps im sharing my account with. >> youre given permission to do that. >> reporter: right. so airbnb they see my name, friend li, likes, they see that i like the beat with re medical burr. im not sure why. >> nbc live with halle jackson. whatever. >> reporter: that type of information can be used by those third-party apps and that is where that targeted advertisements come in an...

Wondering what your sense is wrong at these social media companies, facebook in particular. their first instinct has seemed not to be to disclose but to withhold information, not to be transparent. they here in the transparency business. what about that part of it. do you think the fundamentals of how they operate need to be examined now? >> these are brilliant companies and they started out as a place where everyone could exchange information, the marketplace of information but people didnt rea...

Federal government for misleading users about their privacy protections. as a result, facebook had to agree to a consent decree that barred it from making misrepresentations on its privacy practices. if the ftc takes a look at this and ultimately decides facebook violated that settlement, we could see a huge financial penalty, a huge fine against facebook. going back to something that scott said, its important to remember that there are some regulatory solutions to stuff like this, like in the c...

He also made comments about unfair standards the japanese allegedly apply on u.s. cars. and he said this. s in a quote its called the bowling ball test. do you know whats it. they take a bowling ball from 20 feet in the air and drop it on the hood of car if the hood dents it doesnt qualify. guess what the roof dented a little bit and they said no, this car doesnt qualify. its horrible. the way were treated. its horrible. it doesnt make any sense. but anyway, a trump aide tells josh dossey the "w...

Its horrible. it doesnt even really make sense. but anyway, a trump aide tells josh dossey the "washington post" the president tells this story frequently. where did he get that? it sounds like a commercial for some product. >> i dont know. you know, there have been advertisements for bedding. sometimes theyll drop a bowling ball on a bed or an egg. >> samsenite. someone told me as samsenite. >> the gorilla throwing the luggage around. i think that hes one of these people who, when the legend is...

Every video its placed online from advertisements and so people are saying well you tube needs to be be a bit more accountable for the content that it hosts and a good example of this was after the florida school shooting last month there was a video that trended very well accusing one of the teenage activists calling for gun control of being an actor you tube eventually took that down but not before that video got hundreds of thousands of clicks and shit is so i dont think it is going to start ...

Now the yields have been huge and nevertheless many keep calling the likes of bitcoin a scam the g twenty even saying they could risk financial stability now google says it is going to ban advertisements for crypto currency as well as related content including trading advice and cryptocurrency wallets the internet giant aims to bring the new policies into force in june the move follows a similar step by facebook earlier this year the social networking giant updated its ad policy in january to ba...