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Made mistakes that is what facebook boss mark zuckerberg said in response to the data scandal involving his company and data mining firm cambridge analytic up in a statement on his facebook profiles luxembourg apologized and promised users a new feature to turn off third party apps which cambridge analytical allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an innocent personality quiz and ended up with a fifty million facebook profiles being used to sway elections. now the question i...

Cleveland. >> sandra: thats an amazing story. you can see the babys only a few months old. >> bill: well done. no training for that a lot. well done. >> sandra: thank you to those officers. breaking news, mark zuckerberg speaking out for the first time after everything. apologizing for the user data scandal rocking the social media giant. admitting it was a major breach of trust and vowing to do better after it was discovered a data mining firm was tied to the trump campaign harvested the pers...

To hire cambridge analytica in the news, information provided by that organization. i wonder what your take is now on all of this information were finding out about the fact that 50 million facebook users may have had had data in the hands of cambridge and everything thats happened since. >> i think its important with that, we used cambridge analytica only for data mining and analytics and it was clear and explicit in the contract we used that all of the information we received and they gathered...

Active measures investigation weve seen the power of social media and the data mining used by the platforms, large social media platforms how it can be used and abused. i think its important we come in and sort that out. i hope well hear from all the social media platforms including mr. zuckerberg. >> bill: many calling on mark zuckerberg to testify on the hill after a firm collected data on 50 million facebook users and the social media giant calling it a violation of policy. i want to bring in...

It was up front and very clear about what you were signing up for as a user. the cambridge analytica app was not. it said it was for academic use. you know, you were going to provide this data, it was going to scrape your friends, for academic use. and it wasnt. it was to put in the hands of a very conservative billionaire in steve bannon who wanted to reshape american culture, political culture. i think theres an important difference there. i think on facebooks end, what cambridge analytica was...

Asking to look into this. facebook executives are at the white house talking about cyber bullying with melania trump. will there be congressional or white house action here? >> it is hard to heis hard to t. this is a murky area. americans really enjoy social network platforms. i got on facebook and i check things. people are posting all things and it is hyper political as you know. there are a couple of things here. first of all, data mining has always been part of the american business experien...

Cambridge analytica was doing apart from the deception, what they were doing, the data mining, was completely okay. it was completely legitimate. facebook allowed that up through 20 train and then 2015. how many other data sets like this are out there? how many are better and deeper? cambridge analytica did this quickly and relatively cheaply for under $1 million. there were other people doing this for a lot longer. and its certainly a question were asking, what else is out there? you know, face...

Before donald trump had even announced, despite they deny that. >> first, it is a grand tradition of tech gurus. and i think they have quite a record of having exaggerated its own role. the question is, there shady, creamy? yes. facebook is a shady creepy data mining. we do need to find out if it crossed the lines. reporting that the zlik graphic data did not end up being used because the rnc data was far better. a lot of this feels like people getting mad that this shady data mining benefited t...

As president trump congratulates vladimir putin for a win that was frankly never in doubt. late news on two different stories causing major headaches in the west wing. we are learning more details about the data mining by a if i recall hired by the trump campaign. and the legal battles waged by three different women of the presidents behavior before taking office. news broke that adult film actress stormy daniels, it was apparently verified by a lie detector test in 2011. the president and danie...

The lifting up of perhaps liberal or democratic, depending on their ideological persuasion. this tape and everything people find compelling and interesting because it sort of the back story to what you suspected and what you thought was going on having that untoward influence. it is a compelling story. people do care about it. i think its a larger picture, something that needs to be examined because they are doing all of this data mining and getting all the personal information that venice very ...