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Her name was trending. it had to do, i think, with buzzfeed coming out with -- calling it the worst tweet ever. what did you make of this whole event? >> the whole thing really kind of horrified me. i have to say. the whole idea of mob justice taking matters into its own hand and making justines tweet the object of global ridicule is deeply disturbing to me, i have to say. and i really think its social media at its worst. social medias a wonderful tool. it has changed the way we communicate and ...

Good or bad, its that the world is good or bad. the internet is just everything. a reflection of society. >> what i was surprised about, i understand buzz feed plugged into social conversation. i was surprised "the new york times" while still in flight felt the need to do a story on this and they had something in there like she didnt respond to comment. she was on this flight to capetown. she wasnt going to comment. i think news organizations are caught between -- we dont want to ignore whats go...

0 it doesnt have a strip. it has a chip within it. every time you use it, you also have to use a pin. >> according to the federal reserve, credit fraud in england plummeted 34% after they implemented chip and pin cards. in france, fraud from in-person cards fell 34%. this holiday season millions of american shoppers might have been the target. target put out a letter saying in the case of this hack, p.i.n. numbers on the debit cards werent affected. say the cvv data obtained was not what was obt...

Sources"" and money tech, laurie segal. we all read them and are on social media. you read them and feel for these people. ryan, to you, first. walk me through the blogs, they grab the story and run with they will. >> we want them to be true. >> right. >> we forget the first rule, trust and verify. check it out first. there is a industry with websites in the business of finding these things and blowing them up. i dont want to pick on any specific ones, but buzz feed does it and "huffington post"...

Tend to control the narrative. >> lauren, one of the big challenges in a job like this would be interviewing victims of sexual assault and gender based violence, featuring their stories in ways that dont retraumatize them. how do you do that particularly here in america were very careful about naming victims of sexual assault and gender based violence. how do you cover these stories in ways that reveal problems without retraumatizing the victims? >> right. you know, i certainly have come across ...

Readers. you know, men have empathy for violence against women. it involves their family members and their community members and its time to include men in this conversation as well and its a great chance at buzzfeed to do that. >> we only have a little bit of time here. one thing that some activists on these issues here is that western media and westerners dont understand the cultures in places like africa or india where this might be a problem. can you give a quick answer on how this will be c...

Apparently he forgot the party of the tea party story where you dump the product in the harbor before the cops show up. folks, personally i hate to lose a congressman so fiscally conservative that im sure he snorted his blow through a $1 bill. >> time now for the sideshow. that was stephen colbert on trey radel. i guess theres a first for everything. but as it turns out radels also the first congressman to be known as a hip pop conservative. in an article he wrote for buzzfeed. he credits his lo...

Members of congress uphold the law, not break them. >> is it true hes a republican that voted for drug testing for food recipients on a bill that passed this september? that would seem hypocritical. >> it is drew. congressman radel did support that. its an amendment to the farm bill to allow states to give drug tests to applicants and after his arrest, he finds himself under attack for having one standard for himself and another standard for americans who need food stamps. nancy pelosi said it c...

Nevertheless, nancy pelosi wasted no time claiming republican hypocrisy exists in this interview about buzzfeed. >> its really interesting right soon on the heels that date, on the heels of the republicans voting to make sure everybody that had access to food stamps was drug tested, its just is like what? to get food stamps you have to be drug tested? and so i hope that it will humanize, shall we say, their thinking. >> nbcs pete williams was in court and he joins us now from our washington bure...

Been clearer about this issue once they realized who this group was and what was going on. his office spoke with buzzfeed about the whole kerfuffle last week. buzzfeed broke the story. lester fetter there did. the statement from mark kirks office was very blunt and very direct. quote, senator kirk does not affiliate with groups that discriminate. well, the specific group that does discriminate here, which senator kirk uninvited from the capitol, they were very, very angry about him uninviting hi...