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A little bit so far. 9:31. up triple digits. nice to see. internal documents out of facebook the company has sought to not make public. the confidential files may provide evidence of blatant disregard for user privacy. what does it mean for you? greg palkot is live in london with more. >> some important information emerging this morning on this very important story. pressure building on facebook on this side of the atlantic. a committee of the u.k. parliament investigating facebook and consumer ...

Google searchs, they think it doesnt -- whether youre in a hotel in des moines or whether youre hanging upside down in your bondage dunn jan? poughkeepsie, when you enter the search results everything is the same. as this lady mario has explained, theyre capable of targeting election content, specifically to certain voting groups. so this isnt like, you know, rock the vote or public attempts to get out the vote. this is where the worlds most powerful company is using data mining to channel elect...

You are in a hotel in des moines or whether you are hanging upside down in your bondage dungeon in poughkeepsie, when you enter the search results, everything is the same. as this lady has explained, they are actually capable of targeting election content specifically to search and voting groups. so this isnt like, you know, rock the vote or public attempts to get outhe the vote. this is where the worlds most powerful company is using data mining to channel election, intro partisan election info...

Questionable. >> yes. the thing is, once obama won, they became complacent a little bit. so after that they formed the ofa and when they did that they really kind of split up everything. in doing so they really got themselves behind. significantly behind in the republican national committee got ahead. >> martha: what about the charge that it was fake news and nefarious data mining? >> i dont think its fake news. fake news and data mining? the democrats were definitely behind us. whe did is build...

It again the ten year treasury a yield moving across the psychologically important three percent mark so that old saw it did cause some pressure here on wall street debt becomes more expensive and there is this debate going on if sooner or later the u.s. actually might face some cooling of economic growth. and investors bid up the price of facebook in after hours trading and results just out after the closing bell which showed that the first quarter profit was up sixty three percent to five bill...

Clinton telling the audience the election was, quote, devastating. house minority leader nancy pelosi taking game and the rich even though she is actually the most wealthy woman in congress. nancy pelosi channeling martin luther king jr. to attack the balanced-budget amendment. >> peter moricci never intended a group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth while others live in abject poverty. >> pelosi had a net worth of the $43 million in 2016. facebook ceo speaking of someone else r...

Hill in washington for us tonight michelle thank you very much. well facebook have started notifying its users whether their personal data was shared with that data mining company cambridge analytics says eighty seven million people were affected worldwide most of them in the u.s. thats a lot of people that are a little. cold as it is here from our social media desk i havent received a notification from facebook but i was looking just before we went on the air all of a sudden all of these people...

Cogans, why didnt facebook ban cambridge in 2015? why did you wait? >> senator, thats a great question. cambridge analytica wasnt using our services in 2015 as far as we can tell. this is clearly one of the question, i asked our team as soon as we learned about this is why did we wait until we found out about the reports last month to ban them? its because as of the time that we learned about their activity in 2015, they werent an advertiser, they werent running pages so we actually had nothing ...

Question. cambridge analytica wasnt using our services in 2015 as far as we can tell. one of the questions i asked our team as soon as i learned about this. why did we wait until we found out about the reports last month to ban them? its as of the time we learned about their activity in 2015. they werent an advertiser and werent running pages. we actually had nothing to ban. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator feinstein. now senator hatch. >> this the most intense public...

Why did you wait? >> senator, thats a great question. cambridge analytica wasnt using our services in 2015 as far as we can tell. so this is clearly one of the questions that i asked our team sloons i learned about this. why did we wait until we found out about the reports last month to ban them? its because as of the time we learned about their activity in 2015, they werent an advertiser. they werent running pages. so we actually had nothing to ban. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> ...